umos
06-16-2020, 04:17 PM
Long time lurker, first time poster, so....
Q: Is Google male or female?
A: Female, because it doesn't let you finish a sentence before making a suggestion.
It sucks to ask for advice without yet having contributed anything to HBC, but you need to start somewhere I guess.
A bit about me. I have basically no hunting experience, but I am a pretty competent person. I moved to Canada a few years ago and for the past three seasons I have been heading out solo trying to bag a moose. I know this is ambitious/stupid, but I am loving it.
The last two years I headed up the east side of the Rockies from Chetwynd, driving in then hiking out to spots that looked interesting on google earth (max 1km from road). I came across a small wet mineral lick last year. It is about 6-10ft by 40ft, about 1500m elevation, and has a pretty decent trail network coming to it, mostly from higher up the mountains. There is no ATV access, tree stands or other signs of hunters, and the road accessing the site seems to get about one truck every day or two during the any bull (while I was there anyway). I camped beside the lick the one night (I now realize this was stupid), and a moose came out just after nightfall next to my tent before getting spooked and running off.
I am pretty time constrained (young kids at home), and I am trying to decide between heading back to this spot this year, or instead heading further north to explore new ground in 7B. I guess I am asking if a mineral lick without hunting pressure is a great find for the any bull or antler restricted rut, or not really. It seems like it is to me, but there is this paper that has some data on mineral lick use in the MK, and they find only 11 male moose in 246 hours of observing wet licks. So maybe wet licks actually aren't great for moose, and aren't worth waiting for? http://web.unbc.ca/~parker/MKReports/FINAL%20LICK%20REPORT%20revised.pdf
What do people think? Any help would be appreciated, as I don't really have hunting mates to bounce this question off, or experience to draw off.
Thanks
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7977&stc=1
Q: Is Google male or female?
A: Female, because it doesn't let you finish a sentence before making a suggestion.
It sucks to ask for advice without yet having contributed anything to HBC, but you need to start somewhere I guess.
A bit about me. I have basically no hunting experience, but I am a pretty competent person. I moved to Canada a few years ago and for the past three seasons I have been heading out solo trying to bag a moose. I know this is ambitious/stupid, but I am loving it.
The last two years I headed up the east side of the Rockies from Chetwynd, driving in then hiking out to spots that looked interesting on google earth (max 1km from road). I came across a small wet mineral lick last year. It is about 6-10ft by 40ft, about 1500m elevation, and has a pretty decent trail network coming to it, mostly from higher up the mountains. There is no ATV access, tree stands or other signs of hunters, and the road accessing the site seems to get about one truck every day or two during the any bull (while I was there anyway). I camped beside the lick the one night (I now realize this was stupid), and a moose came out just after nightfall next to my tent before getting spooked and running off.
I am pretty time constrained (young kids at home), and I am trying to decide between heading back to this spot this year, or instead heading further north to explore new ground in 7B. I guess I am asking if a mineral lick without hunting pressure is a great find for the any bull or antler restricted rut, or not really. It seems like it is to me, but there is this paper that has some data on mineral lick use in the MK, and they find only 11 male moose in 246 hours of observing wet licks. So maybe wet licks actually aren't great for moose, and aren't worth waiting for? http://web.unbc.ca/~parker/MKReports/FINAL%20LICK%20REPORT%20revised.pdf
What do people think? Any help would be appreciated, as I don't really have hunting mates to bounce this question off, or experience to draw off.
Thanks
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=7977&stc=1