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Alberta whitetail deer hunt yields high success on big bucks |
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| This outfit has an excellent record of producing big whitetails since the two partners who run the company began taking hunters in 2003.
Except for one year when weather was exceptionally warm, hunter success has been 100 percent, and the average buck is usually 155 to 158 with the bigger bucks each year usually netting large enough to make Boone and Crockett.
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162 3/8
This trophy was taken during a hunt that was filmed for TV: 183 B&C. |
13 bucks with only one buck scoring less than 150 Boone and Crockett points. The two biggest scored 231 non-typical and 183 typical. In 2006 the average size dropped because a small buck was shot by accident when it switched places with a big buck while traveling behind cover. In 2007 the size shot up with several monsters being killed, including a 175 6/8, 183 and 186. Those were bucks were taken during a hunt that was being filmed for a TV show and nobody took any still pictures. Below are photos of the racks. The 2008 hunt was the outfit's toughest so far because of unusually warm weather. The average buck was in the 150s, but a Hunts.Net member, Ed Chaney of Tennessee, did not score even though he saw two bucks that he thought would make the all-time Boone and Crockett record book. Click here for Ed's report. The outfitter hunts in two ways. Customers who prefer to hunt from blinds are placed in pre-scouted locations, usually over cut blocks. Customers who prefer to cover country are driven through logging country, where they can glass cut blocks or act as standers in small drives. "It used to be that we hardly ever saw whitetails in this area," the outfitter said. "But now we see tons of whitetails, and some great bucks, and we seldom see a mule deer where we hunt whitetails. The hunt price includes accommodations in a nice log cabin. Meals are served at a lodge. Hunting takes place just north of Hinton. Airport pickup at Edmonton is included.
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Outfitter report on 2010 hunt: "We had a great season. Our average buck scored 158 inches. That's up from our normal average by two or three inches. The biggest was 177 inches. That was with a bow.
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