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I will get to go this year,I'm looking forward to it.
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My hunting partner from West Va's... 187 Pigeon Lake buck was shot around 4:30...his 190 from Barrhead was at 10 ...his choice of scopes is a German Zeiss Diavari 3x9x36..... both were mid November hunts...
"To pick a rifle and bullet for use on game by muzzle energy alone is, at best, foolish...and can be dangerous to your own health..." Bill Steigers, April 23, 1980
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I should add that I'm not condemning the use of the best optics, use/used them myself - just thought it was worth mentioning.
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I have found that around lunchtime (10:30-14:00) is about the BEST time to kill yourself a big northern buck.
Biggest buck I have ever seen alive was a 190-195 typical that was out in a field with a 160 class deer at about 9:45 in the morning. Dang rut does wonderful things!
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My 160 buck was shot early in the morning barely dawn, I had only been in the stand a few minutes and I noticed him walking outside my stand so close I feared he was going to hear me breathing before I could get a shot.
A lesser but still good looking whitetail south of Battle river was taken about 1:00 pm and an Alberta mule deer in the same area was taken about 9:00 am.
Yep have to be on the ready from dawn till dusk.
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OU: ...they move anytime they want to........When you kill them at 2 in the afternoon it can piss you off if you spent big bucks for a great "lowlight" scope.....  Bob, this is why I chuckle when I hear someone say "you NEED a S&B for those last few minutes of light when hunting AB or SK".....I've taken 9 Canadian whitetails - eight were taken betwixed 11am and 2pm.  Scott I know....I know....but what the hell, I know if I go back this year I'm taking the ugly 7 mag with the Schmidt.....I may not need it,but then again.....I might! I still love that scope! 
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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Bob...your sooo right...there is no place like Alberta
I don't always venture out into the sub-freezing darkness, but when I do, it is deer hunting season, and I carry a Remington. Stay hungry my friends.
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I seem to remember a super heavy rack in a photo of a buck from this unit in the newspaper you get with the regulations.
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Bob...your sooo right...there is no place like Alberta oldguns; Up there ANYTHING can walk out.....which adds to the excitement. Did I tell you about the guy who got his rifle sling wrapped in the buck's antlers? While it was alive???????Pretty funny story......
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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I seem to remember a super heavy rack in a photo of a buck from this unit in the newspaper you get with the regulations. Have no problems believing that.Some big mule and whitetail deer live in that country.
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What about a guy who's content to shoot a 140 class? Would Alberta be a good place to hunt? Don't get me wrong, I want big too but it would be hard for me to pass up a 140.
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Alberta would be real expensive for a 140. There are quite a few places you could go for a 140 that cost half as much, or even less.
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Alberta would be real expensive for a 140. There are quite a few places you could go for a 140 that cost half as much, or even less. Yep.
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A 140 is considered a dink to most Alberta outfits.
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Bob...there is a video called I beleive "The Monarches of Alberta"..where a dead deer runs off with the guys rifle/sling wrapped around its atlers..I hunted with the guide of the hunter..Shane Hanson out of Iron River Alberta..Hope to see you in Canada this year.
I don't always venture out into the sub-freezing darkness, but when I do, it is deer hunting season, and I carry a Remington. Stay hungry my friends.
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A 140 is considered a dink to most Alberta outfits. 7STW- There are a lot of decent bucks that get passed because the headgear looks smallish on the massive frames of those whitetails. Put some of that headgear on a smallish strain of whitetail and he'd have trouble keeping his head up. 
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oldguns: Happened with my outfitter,one of his hunters, up around Peace River....pretty funny!
The 280 Remington is overbore.
The 7 Rem Mag is over bore.
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A 140 is considered a dink to most Alberta outfits. 7STW- There are a lot of decent bucks that get passed because the headgear looks smallish on the massive frames of those whitetails. Put some of that headgear on a smallish strain of whitetail and he'd have trouble keeping his head up. Yup I agree
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Bob...your sooo right...there is no place like Alberta Except Saskatchewan.
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