Despite the AlbertaRELM website giving us all some trouble this past weekend, the results are in and online for the 2008 Alberta Hunting Draws.
How many of us are happy? Personally, I'm still waiting on the results for the Archery Antelope, which is the one I was most excited for. I also did not get quite a few, but those were long shots. Anyone out there get bison?
It should be a good season. I'm
Heritage. Tradition. These are words that pop up a lot when we, as sportsmen, discuss hunting, shooting and fishing. Our fathers hunted, our grandfathers hunted and our great-grandfathers? Well, they probably did, but for most Canadians who don’t identify as First Nations, this is where our heritage starts to get confusing. After all, the heritage of our great-grandfathers, or at least, our
Europeans have been doing it for years — and even here in Canada it has caught on in some regions. Manitobans can do it year-round.
I'm talking about hunting wild boars. Actually, to be correct, hunting "feral hogs." They're not wild because they're not native — most are escaped domestic boars from failed boar farms the Feds encouraged in the 1980s. But that's what they're not.
What they are is a