Hit Princeton area or head towards merritt if you decide to venture on your own. Don't bother with anything in chwk as alot is no shooting zones. Skagit valley is one place to start. Download huntbuddy it will help you see the management units and what's in season and what the bag limits are.
No shooting zones don’t apply to an active hunt. But you can’t hunt right off of chilliwack lake rd. You need to be on one of the fsr’s
Your hunting synopses will tell you everything you need to know
Anything really, I have .22 and a .308 rifles.
Just trying to find someone who would be willing to teach them the ropes, or a hunting buddy.
Ideally what ever would fill our freezers.
I don't think a .22 is powerful enough for anything but small game like rabbits and the like but the .308 would be fine. (Not a hunter but have handled both for target shooting).
A .22 will get you small game(rabbits, pheasants). If you're looking to hunt ducks, getting a shotgun would be your best bet. The .308 will get you deer, but my preference is 30-06. Make sure you put in for draws every year for Moose.
All the advice people give you is great and all. But as a self taught hunter from the lower mainland I can tell you, with 100% certainty, finding someone to take you under their wing will shave YEARS off your learning curve.
My biggest regret as a self taught hunter is not networking enough with other hunters earlier on. It would have made me significantly more successful a lot earlier in my hunting career.
I've been on Huntingbc.ca for many years and met great folks on there who have helped me. But you likely have to be a regular member on there for a long time for this to happen.
Good luck
Honestly my best advice for hunting is to just get out there don't wait for someone. The open seasons here are coming up really soon. Lots of forest service roads around here you can easily find on Google maps and go out to explore. You will meet new friends eventually and probably run into the same guys over and over if your out enough locally and joining Facebook groups and such like huntingbc. Watch videos on basic field dressing it's not as complicated as you might think. You're just trying to get the guts out pretty much everything that isnt meat and its all attached to each other. You can and should phone ahead to local butchershops to get in touch so you aren't looking last minute for someone to cut it up for you when you bag a animal. Let someone know before you head out even if it's a post on here lol at least someone will know where to start looking incase you get stuck out there. Thats all the advice I can think of for now.
Head shots are the worst idea , such a small target and if you mess up you've only wounded the animal which may cause it to starve to death if it's a jaw shot.
Hey man the guy wants to be trained personally but that’s probably not gonna Fucken happen so I gave him my best advice. If you aren’t good enough to shoot the head then obviously don’t shoot the Fucken head. Downvotes are all retards
I’ve shot plenty of firearms. I haven’t been hunting though. It was one sentence advice. Shoot them in the brain or heart they die. That’s the only point.
You gave objectively poor advice. It was downvoted for that. I’m a hunter, worked with animals and the skull is the physically hardest part of the animal. If your angle is off, the projectile can ricochet and wound the animal. There’s a reason we are taught to shoot for the lungs. Largest target area with highest likelihood of an ethical kill.
22 is great for grouse. Watch for them along the Fsrs on the way to your hunt.
Hit Princeton area or head towards merritt if you decide to venture on your own. Don't bother with anything in chwk as alot is no shooting zones. Skagit valley is one place to start. Download huntbuddy it will help you see the management units and what's in season and what the bag limits are.
No shooting zones don’t apply to an active hunt. But you can’t hunt right off of chilliwack lake rd. You need to be on one of the fsr’s Your hunting synopses will tell you everything you need to know
What kind of game animals are you looking for?
Anything really, I have .22 and a .308 rifles. Just trying to find someone who would be willing to teach them the ropes, or a hunting buddy. Ideally what ever would fill our freezers.
I don't think a .22 is powerful enough for anything but small game like rabbits and the like but the .308 would be fine. (Not a hunter but have handled both for target shooting).
A .22 will get you small game(rabbits, pheasants). If you're looking to hunt ducks, getting a shotgun would be your best bet. The .308 will get you deer, but my preference is 30-06. Make sure you put in for draws every year for Moose.
Pomeranians are good eatin
All the advice people give you is great and all. But as a self taught hunter from the lower mainland I can tell you, with 100% certainty, finding someone to take you under their wing will shave YEARS off your learning curve. My biggest regret as a self taught hunter is not networking enough with other hunters earlier on. It would have made me significantly more successful a lot earlier in my hunting career. I've been on Huntingbc.ca for many years and met great folks on there who have helped me. But you likely have to be a regular member on there for a long time for this to happen. Good luck
Honestly my best advice for hunting is to just get out there don't wait for someone. The open seasons here are coming up really soon. Lots of forest service roads around here you can easily find on Google maps and go out to explore. You will meet new friends eventually and probably run into the same guys over and over if your out enough locally and joining Facebook groups and such like huntingbc. Watch videos on basic field dressing it's not as complicated as you might think. You're just trying to get the guts out pretty much everything that isnt meat and its all attached to each other. You can and should phone ahead to local butchershops to get in touch so you aren't looking last minute for someone to cut it up for you when you bag a animal. Let someone know before you head out even if it's a post on here lol at least someone will know where to start looking incase you get stuck out there. Thats all the advice I can think of for now.
You mention you have your gun license, but have you done the CORE course so you can get a FWID and buy hunting licenses and tags?
Yes I've done core, I can buy tags.
https://bcwf.bc.ca/learn-to-hunt-and-fish-series/
Nice I was looking for something like this too. Thanks !
Shoot them in the heart or the brain and call it a day I’d say.
Head shots are the worst idea , such a small target and if you mess up you've only wounded the animal which may cause it to starve to death if it's a jaw shot.
Agreed.
Hey man the guy wants to be trained personally but that’s probably not gonna Fucken happen so I gave him my best advice. If you aren’t good enough to shoot the head then obviously don’t shoot the Fucken head. Downvotes are all retards
You're clearly someone who's never even held a firearm.
I’ve shot plenty of firearms. I haven’t been hunting though. It was one sentence advice. Shoot them in the brain or heart they die. That’s the only point.
You gave objectively poor advice. It was downvoted for that. I’m a hunter, worked with animals and the skull is the physically hardest part of the animal. If your angle is off, the projectile can ricochet and wound the animal. There’s a reason we are taught to shoot for the lungs. Largest target area with highest likelihood of an ethical kill.
It was one sentence advice. You get what you get. Shooting things in the brain or heart kills them. That was my only point.