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First and foremost for me is legal, here in BC that means 4 points on one side excluding eyeguards. After that I’ll only pass if our freezer is full.

If it’s a new area finding the trailhead(if one exists), the best way in, water/camping spot(maybe stash some firewood),glassing areas, just learn the lay of the land. Of course look for deer and sign. If it’s a known spot I’ll cut firewood and just have a wander about. I really like to have the...

I just wanted to say thank you to Eastmans for being such a great magazine and forum. I always pick up the magazine every time I see it out on the newsstand. I was just informed today that I won the Vortex Range finding Binoculars, I'm thrilled. I've always thought a range finder would be an...

I really needed an alpine fix, it was a very stressful and hectic spring with little time to get out and hike the mountains around here. I wouldn't have time for an overnighter but I could get out for a day before we leave next week for holidays. I had been trying for a couple of years to get...

My daughter wants to start backpack hunting with me so I've arranged with one of her friends' father( he likes to backpack but isn't a hunter) to go with us on a couple of weekend hunts. My wife isn't so worried when it's just me but when I'm taking one of her babies into the mountains with no...

Eleven days into our spring season, fourth morning of hunting so far and had this mature tom come into my set up at 6:30am. I got in there and set up before 5am and had the first hens cross the opening 15min later but I didn't hear this guy until 6am, and it took almost exactly 1/2 an hour to...

Just thought I'd share one of my most memorable and rewarding hunts I've ever had. Likely ever. Both my daughters' have been coming to the range with me since they were 5 and 7 years of age. They both enjoy shooting and quickly became very good shots with my .22lr and my .17HMR. Since a fairly...

Kootenay white tailed deer. November 17th 2018, s.eastern B.C., Canada. I just wrote up the story so you'll find it not too far away from this thread.

Many of you reading this will not associate white tailed deer hunting and mountains, most will think of dark cedar swamps, or hardwood forests and cornfields. Where I hunt for this most sought after north american game animal are the Selkirk and Purcell mountains of south eastern British...

Not exactly in a pack but on a pack cart under my pack.

It was kind of one of those spur of the moment ideas, I decided on Wednesday to take Friday off and head up into my favourite road closure with my backpack and towing my game cart. I'd spend two nights and three days chasing mule deer. Six am finds me headed out of town for the hour's drive to...

I'll get the hunting tale written in the next few days but here's my 2018 mountain mule deer. Not a monster but I got him on a solo hike in camping trip, my favourite road closure.

One and a half hour's drive, two hour hike in, 2200m, 10cm+ snow. Spent three days, two nights chasing tracks. Watched some moose feeding in the alpine ponds, followed a couple of groups of mule deer until dark without getting a glimpse. It was an adventure, fog, ice storms, snow, driving rain...

My youngest daughter(15) and I got out for opening day of youth season here in BC, Canada. We headed north up Kootenay Lake to the area I shot my mule deer last year. We left the truck at 6:30am heading NNE up the mountain across a logging block on an old skid trail, the wind was perfect...

Headed out Sunday into some new country to look for mule deer and do some fly fishing for cutthroat trout. Hiking book I have shows some really good highcountry mule deer habitat along with decent fishing so it really can't go wrong. It's only a 4km (2.6 miles) hike into the lake and it looks...

And a couple more from the Kootenay Rockies.

A couple of pictures taken on back pack hunting trips in the Kootenay Rockies, BC, Canada

Mule deer hunting in the mountains has become one of my passions over the past 6 years or so. The hunt for a mature mule deer buck has led me to some of the most beautiful places this region of British Columbia has to offer. With a friend and on my own I've back packed and camped in the high...

Finally after a three year dry spell shot this jake yesterday around noon after a long morning of hiking and calling all over the mountain. Spent the early part of the morning mid-mountain and while lots of droppings were evident no gobbles or birds to be had. So after a couple of other short...

A quality set of dedicated hunting outer wear would be nice to have on my alpine back pack hunting adventures here in British Columbia. I would love to give the Kryptek jacket and pants a try.