Started in the mid 1970's in southern Manitoba. Ducks and geese on the menu with an occasional crack at huns, sharptails and ruffies, depending on what we felt like doing. Rarely further than 2 hours from Winnipeg.
Moved around a fair bit because of work...further west into Alberta for a while and lots of time in Ontario....Toronto mostly but not exclusively. Hunting is tougher there....mostly private land in southern Ontario. Typically went back to Manitoba for a good week or two every fall. Moved back to Manitoba in 2000 and reminded myself how much better I liked hunting the great plains. By that time I had setters and began to shift my hunting focus to upland, despite buying 250 acres at Delta Marsh. Also started traveling further afield. South and North Dakota a few times....Saskatchewan, Northern Ontario. Then moved back to Ontario in 2009.
Concluded I like to travel to hunt. I like the adventure....going new places.....finding new kinds of quarry. I'll shoot a few canned hunts at clubs here in Ontario each fall. But I live for the road trip. Had an ambitious one planned for this fall....damn close to a month.....but put it off until next year because of covid. Intend to get to Newfoundland to hunt ptarmigan in the next year or two. Want to hunt chukar on the eastern slopes before I get too old and at 62, that's coming fast. Need to hunt quail in the southwest still.
Lots of fun and adventure still to be had. It's all good. A golden age/prime time??? The one I'm living in!
