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I am considering taking my wife on a moose hunt to BC. I am looking for a good honest hunt with good accommodations.

Can anyone recommend an outfitter in southern or Central BC? Or maybe even Alberta?

Budget?

I was hoping for less than 10K. Not interested in getting the biggest moose or I would go to AK or the Yukon for 20K plus. Most important for me is a quality hunting experience with a chance at a mature bull

Copper River Outfitters. Out of Smithers good people nice cabins.

Both huntin or the wife tagging along for the trip?

Wife will be tagging along

Do yourself a favor, shoot our member her, RBO a pm. I’m booked with him already. Thank me later. Good luck pard

We went in 2019.
I can give you a name of an outfit that I regret using.
Spent 10 days driving up and down the road bitching about local hunters.
We were outside Prince George.

Wow man.... What outfit? Thanks

I don’t even want to go look in my emails to see what the outfitters name was.
I was a fourth to a dad and his two sons. Oldest son is a good friend of mine.
We drove two days to get there and then drove the roads for moose and bear, all the while listening to guides complain about the locals just driving the roads. 13 hour days in truck.
It was very expensive road hunting.

Then how are others going to know who they should avoid?

People would appreciate some details.

That was my way of thinking.

Batnuni
Reading the emails still makes my blood boil.

elkrazy;
Good morning to you sir, I hope that this second Sunday in October finds you and yours well.

If you're inclined, there's a stickied thread, second down from the top in this section which has a bunch of information for traveling hunters coming into Canada. We've done our best to update it as different information has become available and will continue to do so.

Obviously with the beer flu there's been no non-resident hunters coming in this year and as mentioned when we get some links to what will be required to cross the medicine line once more we'll add it.

That all addressed then, I'll once more suggest a couple things, the first of which is to get some references from hunters who did not kill game with the outfitter. Should the outfitter suggests to you that they have 100% success rate, I'd be disinclined to take that statement as fact.

Before answering this I attempted to find a study showing the provincial success rate for moose hunts and will continue after, but if I was to guess and please note it would be only an educated one, I'd suggest that resident hunters are less than 20% successful on moose harvest.

There's lots and lots of reasons for that - BUT - among them is a series of back to back tough winters, non existent predator control policy in BC, year round and unregulated First Nations harvest which will vary from band to band as to the impact on populations and habitat access and condition.

While I'm loathe to paint too grim a picture for you or for the wildlife itself, most of the residents are cognizant that certain game populations have declined significantly from even a decade back. It may be overstating the case to say moose are in crisis, but no one I've heard in the discussion thinks they're doing just fine either.

Please know we - that is to say resident hunter wildlife groups as well as the guide outfitters association is working on addressing the situation, but that's as honest an accounting as I can give as of today.

None of the above means that any visiting hunter cannot book a hunt, come up here and kill the buck/bull/ram of their dreams as pre beer flu some did, but absolutely it does pay to do one's homework and listen as much to what folks do not say as to what they do.

Hopefully that made some sense and was useful to you or someone out there in the ether spaces today.

All the best to you and yours and good luck on your remaining hunts this fall.

Dwayne

Don’t blame ya. $10,000 to drive around and hear someone biitch, damn man. Sucks there’s folks out there like that

Thanks for all the good advice! Much appreciated

It will cost more than $10k but a trip with Stone Mountain Safaris is just an incredible wilderness experience. I did elk and moose in 2008 with them and was supposed chase goat, elk and moose this year that, of course, has been moved to next year.