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To prevent any bad feelings....it's just a bad time. Son entered Yukon without having to open the gun case, after speaking French to the Canadian customs officer (where he was very well received - big difference from BC-Washington State border when he went north)!

But headed south, he wasn't supposed to enter any business establishments. A lot of Canadians were very curious about the rig and the kayaks on the truck, etc., and extremely hospitable...a lot more were suspicious and paranoid (sort of like New York). So he drove 18 hours a day and slept one night in the truck, 2500 miles in two days.

He crossed into USA again without having to open the gun case. He commented that ordinarily the drive is so beautiful you'd stop to enjoy it. This cannon-ball run, though, was not fun because of Covid - not because of Canadians.

That's it. If you contemplate a drive north...that's what you'll face today.

Craig, I can well remember the days when it was hellos and smiles in both directions. Sad someone felt it needed to change.

Gene, I�m embarking on a 2500 mile trip next week.....my home in Ontario to the centre of BC. I�m interested to find out how I�ll be treated along the way. I suspect it�s not only Americans being viewed with suspicion these days. More importantly. I�ll have a couple of my favourite SxS with me and am looking forward to the stops along the way. Ruffed grouse, sharp tail, huns, pheasant, quail and chukar.

Sounds like a great trip, James. What kind of quail will you find?

SRH

Stan, I will be after California quail. Those I have seen out west before. There are theoretically also Mountain quail but I�ve never run into any.

It�s a bit of a dry run this year. Heading to some old haunts and some new spots. But it�s a very long way there and back that really deserves about a month. I had started to plan it for this year then COVID hit. I�ll be taking 10 days one way, departing this coming Tuesday.

Just recently I came across the opportunity to move an SUV to my hunting trip�s final destination, expenses paid including a flight home. The owner, a friend, is cool with my plans. Too late in the year for waterfowl, but upland will be just fine. And I�m really using it as an opportunity to scout the new spots I want on my itinerary next year.

Really great sounding adventure cback. I had also thought, what quail, but get after 'em. I don't have any idea of typical weather, but is it potentially a bit late to start something like this in November? Is there a risk of getting shut down due to weather or dogs having a tougher time if there's stretches of deeper snow? Don't mind me, just wondering out loud, be safe out on the road and have nothing but a great time.

Those are good questions Craig. And yes, there is always those possibilities, particularly in November. Good friends were in Alberta for a week last year or the year before and got shut down by a blizzard. So it's always possible. But....where the quail are is a bit of a micro climate in a large mountain valley that extends about 100 miles long and up to 50 miles wide. Temps are significantly moderated there and it's a pretty dry and sunny climate anyway. So while it can snow, I'm expecting temps in the 25 to 40 degree range when I am there.

If it pans out and I go next year on the 3 to 4 week adventure I hope to, I would leave in the last week of September to do my best to catch the best weather and line up with the various game seasons in the various jurisdictions.

The Canada border closure has screwed up my unbroken 27 year string of October duck/gamebird hunting trips to Saskatchewan. I don't have too many more years in me to make up a lost year. Our group has even bought a house in one of those dried up little railroad towns up there. We freelance mostly, but use a guide sometimes for fishing in the summer.

I recently read an article to the effect that Canada has experienced over 31 billion in lost revenue from sportsmen who are locked out this year. Cry me a river.

While I certainly accept Canada's right to protect itself from the plague, I have a nasty suspicion that the closure has more to do with politics and the animosity between our leaders...Geo

Same number of years a Canadian based team hasn�t won the Stanley Cup.
This is the year Toronto?

I wonder if Sean likes that Nova Scotian rat. You know...


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George, I share that same nasty suspicion.

Your son was permitted to pass through Canadian Customs without opening his gun case, and you're whining about the treatment he got??? You act as though he was threatened or forced to drive 2500 miles in two days. Clearly, he wasn't. The few citizens and Customs officials that were paranoid or gave him a hard time were probably something like you.

You really need some help Argo44. You are clearly an anal-retentive paranoid narcissist. And why are you always starting these weird off-topic Threads that have absolutely nothing to do with double guns? Oh, I keep forgetting that you think the world revolves around you.

OK nutbar, have another sad little melt-down.