Looking for info on Hunting in Ontario

[Mr. .45-70]

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm looking for some public hunting areas in Ontario. Preferrably large wilderness areas away from the rest of the hunting crowd. I've done some preliminary searching on the web at the Ontario M.N.R. web site, but I couldn't find anything on Public Land. Any info is greatly appreciated!

[TerryM]

There are millions of acres of public land! What do you want to hunt? If moose or bear you need to go through an outfitter. If whitetail deer you likely have more deer in New York.

[Yellow Dog]

NorthWest OntarioPosted a pic of the one I got this year It is posted under Halloween Buck 2004 in the deerhunting forum. Hope this helps

[Mr. .45-70]

Awesome buck Yellow dog! That's just the type of buck I'm looking for. I've taken a couple of decent bucks here in the Adirondacks of New York that score in the 120's, but I believe strongly that my odds of getting something above 150 are better in Canada. Thinks for the info.

[Adrian J Hare]

45 , alot of Americans tend to get miss lead about Canada. Most of the major deer areas for size is Out west. Ontario has some pockets of good deer and does hold some size in these different areas. On a average in Ontario most hunters tend to take 100 - 130 Class deer. There area areas that hold a larger class bucks and Northern Ontario is one and Ottawa area is another. Manitulian Island has numbers and a small percentage of larger class Bucks aswell.

Most of Southern Ontario is Controlled hunts that is not open for Non Res. and is only Bow,Shotgun and Muzz'ys. You have to look into areas North of NorthBay for any chance at hunting deer in Ontario. Although Southern Ontario will take the odd time a large Class Buck the average is low and about the same as the norhtern end of NY onbly with lower numbers then you have...BT

[Mr. .45-70]

Thanks for the follow up Adrian. Sounds like Northern Ontario is where I'll start refining my search. I'm not to concerned about seeing a lot of deer. We are used to that type of hunting in the Adirondacks where deer densities tend to be low. I even went 13 straight days hunting this past season without seeing so much as a tail. Most of the guys I hunt with would be happy with a buck approaching 130. Around here, most hunters will hunt a lifetime and maybe get one crack at a buck of that class. I would have to say that in my area the average is well below 100.

[Yellow Dog]

45,
Adrian has a good point I saw 2 deer in a week of hunting (While sitting). The one I shot 13 pt and a spike horn. The area I hunt can only be described as THICK farther North is a little more open. I live in Marquette MI (Michigan's U.P) and the chances of getting a buck older than 3 1/2 is tough. We get ALOT of snow up here and our herd has not recovered from several bad winters. I'm sure you are familiar with snow if you hunt northern NY. As stated in my earlier post I would give up my MI season to hunt Ontario cuz you have at least, with a little luck, a chance at a trophy. My 2004 buck was aged at 6 1/2 and grossed 162

[OntElk]

.45, I hunted the first few years around Northern Ont. North Bay area specifically. Very tough hunting but some real huge big timber deer for sure. The problem is not public land up there but rather public land that isn't heavily hunted by established gangs. I have family, friends and business up north so let me know the area you're thinking of and I can maybe comment on wether you might run into trouble from crowds.

[gopher slayer]

thers place here in alberta me and my friend so and watch teh deer at. its a bow hunting zone only and man i have never seen such big bucks and soo many of them. but its hard to get access because teh people thtat tend to live around there arnt hunters and dont want people on their land. its down by spruce medows.