Ck1990
07-01-2023, 10:58 PM
Hello HBC community,
You’ve all got great perspectives, wonderful advice and for the most part represent exactly the kind of folks I’d want to spend time in a moose camp or out in the backcountry with. Hunting and being in the outdoors is one of my greatest passions and I can’t stomach one more season of being limited to truck hunting or another hunt that turns into a piss up cause the meat cache is still empty on day 3. The vast majority of hunts with my regular partners over the last 15 years have devolved into those experiences and I’ve come to realize that I’m not gonna change them, so it’s time to change the game.
That all being said, I’ve drawn authorizations for a goat in 6-8A and a moose in 6-6. These hunts are likely to be solo outings. Not my ideal situation for the goat hunt cause it pays to have a buddy in the backcountry, but it is what it is and I’ll bring a SPOT or other communicator. Wondering if anyone on the forum has experience hunting off the Kispiox river or RR access into mount Thomlinson in early/mid August. Current plan is to backpack through the timber/creek bottom into one of the drainages most easily accessible from the Babine slide forest service road, then spike from there. glass em up and head up the mountain. I’ve got the gear, a reasonable amount of backcountry and general hunting know-how and experience as well as good fitness and well practiced marksmanship. My intention is to take the 375 ruger up with a couple different loads, a heavy, bushwhacking predator deterrent (can o spray as well of course) as well as a 250gr load I can poke out to real distance if it’s called for.
Side note, I find goats are damn tough to sex. Any gnarly old goat hunters out there have a tried and true process they’re willing to share?
many thanks in advance, hope to see some of you out there
C
You’ve all got great perspectives, wonderful advice and for the most part represent exactly the kind of folks I’d want to spend time in a moose camp or out in the backcountry with. Hunting and being in the outdoors is one of my greatest passions and I can’t stomach one more season of being limited to truck hunting or another hunt that turns into a piss up cause the meat cache is still empty on day 3. The vast majority of hunts with my regular partners over the last 15 years have devolved into those experiences and I’ve come to realize that I’m not gonna change them, so it’s time to change the game.
That all being said, I’ve drawn authorizations for a goat in 6-8A and a moose in 6-6. These hunts are likely to be solo outings. Not my ideal situation for the goat hunt cause it pays to have a buddy in the backcountry, but it is what it is and I’ll bring a SPOT or other communicator. Wondering if anyone on the forum has experience hunting off the Kispiox river or RR access into mount Thomlinson in early/mid August. Current plan is to backpack through the timber/creek bottom into one of the drainages most easily accessible from the Babine slide forest service road, then spike from there. glass em up and head up the mountain. I’ve got the gear, a reasonable amount of backcountry and general hunting know-how and experience as well as good fitness and well practiced marksmanship. My intention is to take the 375 ruger up with a couple different loads, a heavy, bushwhacking predator deterrent (can o spray as well of course) as well as a 250gr load I can poke out to real distance if it’s called for.
Side note, I find goats are damn tough to sex. Any gnarly old goat hunters out there have a tried and true process they’re willing to share?
many thanks in advance, hope to see some of you out there
C