Anywhere someone go in Alberta with a little of luck (with or without the best guide) your chances to tag a Boone and Crockett buck are excellent. Don’t forget that Canadian Prairies are among the top places to harvest a B&C.

The difference from where you hunted that nice buck (508), the half south part of Alberta and the north half part of Alberta is:
- Higher hunting pressure causing deer to move more during night, one or two hour after sunrise and before sun set. Sure there are buck activities during the day but don’t tell me (that apply to many stats) that deer don’t recognize hunting pressure and change their daily activities. The south part of Alberta has a higher hunting presser than the north part.
- The most common way to hunt deer in the south part is quite simple but not all hunters and outfitters hunt that way. People a place at the end of a farm field between a piece (patch, or natural forest). Hunters wait for deer to cross the field. With that type hunting strategy you have higher chances of killing a buck during the rut when buck tend to lower their own security. At that time buck are thinking to reproduce the species than the security of their live.
- The number of deer is higher in farm area because all the farm fields produce extra food for the deer. Some thing the forest (I’m talking here forests that are minimum 15 miles away from the last farm field) can’t have.

Both Farm field areas and forest in the Canadian prairies offers excellent hunt wherever someone goes.

Best of luck to every hunter and specially the one coming hunting in Canada.


Mik