In the Atlantic Provinces of Canada there's plenty to shoot on the hoof---deer, moose and caribou---and plenty of land, mostly public. If I had the time I'd be gunning with my doubles every day. (I've nearly given up on big game because it seems easy compared to the wing.)
We shared our Canadian Thanksgiving last night with my American buddies from Alabama who put up all the woodcock and ruffed grouse they wanted in New Brunswick, our neighbouring province, and then came home to splendid fly-fishing of salmon on the Margaree and rainbows in the Middle River of Cape Breton.
This is all wild birds; preserves and game farms are not common around here. Hunting is good with lots of land and relatively little hunting pressure. Rarely is there another hunter within a kilometre or two, in the blind or the forest, even on weekends. I think of it as a sort of blessing.
Rifle exclusively CZ Brno circa 1948 7 X 57 for serious hunting; doubles: the American classics of which I'm pretty sentimental, and SKB, Francotte, Sauer, A & N because of their fit, condition and provenance. It's kind of heaven when I think of what I started with on blacks and sea ducks 70 years ago.
Last edited by King Brown; 10/11/09 09:23 PM.
