Cadomin

sheepguide · #1 05-06-2009, 07:43 PM

Just looking for any info on boundaries and trails in the Cadomin area as i am planning a sheep hunt there for the last week or two of the season. Will be using horses so any horse trail info would be great.

Grizzly Adams · #2 05-06-2009, 08:23 PM

Check with Forestry. Reg might even have them at the store, as well. They have a Forest Land Use Zones map, Hinton / Coal Branch, that shows all the trails and who can use which.
Grizz

sheepguide · #3 05-06-2009, 08:44 PM

thanks i already talked to Reg and he has to order me one and im gunna check with the hinton forestry. Have you hunted ther Grizz

Grizzly Adams · #4 05-06-2009, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by sheepguide

thanks i already talked to Reg and he has to order me one and im gunna check with the hinton forestry. Have you hunted ther Grizz

No, but I have about a 12 priority for 437. Hopefully, the Swine flu, will up my odds.

Sounds like a pretty busy place though, but then where isn't nowadays.
Grizz

sheepguide · #5 05-06-2009, 09:40 PM

i normaly hunt the clearwater and ram area and have taken two rams but would like to get a booner so i figure i have as good as chance of getting a ram there as anyone else. Plus ill have been guiding stone sheep hunters for two months so i should be able to beet most guys up the hill.

Swagger · #6 05-08-2009, 11:07 AM

sheepguide,

I see you are form Caroline....me too.

Send me a PM if you want. I have hunted Cadomin a bit. I might be able to help you out.

depopulator · #7 05-08-2009, 05:14 PM

See you there....

deerslayer · #8 05-11-2009, 08:03 PM

Sheep guide, try getting back into harloquin (spelling?), always a ram taken there on opening day, it's a ways in but if you have horses it is just a few hours, also pick pass, and if you get on top of Toma you can ride all the way to Ruby, or go up the Gregg corridor, theres a spot were you can glass 4 or 5 basins, horses are faster than a guy on foot, I spotted 3 rams off the reclaim , 10 minutes to late, some fellows on horse back beat us in, they each got a ram. If you got the time prospect is ussally good.I checked with the Alberta goverment about the mines marking the boundry, intresting thing , as the mine expands to new leases, the old leases are reverted back to the public,for example if they apply for 500 acres , they have to turn over 500 back, I chased this for a while, but ran out of spare time , my young family is taking up more of my time, just to let you and everybody else I havn't been to cadomin for a few years so things might have changed, I am part of the "top priority heap" for the Red cape draw, hope to get drawn before I need a walker to get up the mountain , good luck.

Elko · #9 05-11-2009, 09:12 PM

Well the red cap is good but no guarantee of killing a sheep. I was drawn the year before it went from full curl, and that year no-one shot a ram. I looked at over 50 rams, one might have been a sqeuker, but was not willing to to take him. It was a nice hunt, there is more country there than you would think to look for rams, but to do it all again, probably would still get drawn and try.
How is prospect these days. I hung out there years before it became popular, and long before the mine went back into Mountain Park, it is sure not the same the last time i went back.

Not to mention the amount of ******s that make it there for opening day, one year 28 shots at one ram! Scary. Nice country though with a lot of history.

Is the old german cabins still visible on thistle creek was it. I know the old cabin on the south esk was burned by forestry years ago, dam shame to.

sheepguide · #10 05-11-2009, 09:15 PM

i herd they used to kill some big rams on the south esk

deerslayer · #11 05-11-2009, 09:25 PM

Elko, where did you hunt on the red cape, can't beleive you didn't get a ram.

Elko · #12 05-11-2009, 09:33 PM

Well we hunted around the lake east of town, farmers valley, up in mountain park, the gap, Red cap and the ridge towards Grave flats tower. We covered some country, and I think the final count was 56 rams in total we looked at. Just a bad year, no full curl rams there. Partly due to a large kill before Sept from Small Boys camp. That was the deciding factor in dropping the full curl regulation.
Of the 9 tags in both seasons no rams were killed. And I know 2 of the tag holders really hunted hard. Some of the tag holders may not have even hunted, but for sure 5 of us did that I knew or heard of.
But hey thats huntin, if it was a turkey shoot no one would sheep hunt.

Well unless one lived there when it was possible to drive up to the cn tower, wait a bit and shoot a booner from the truck window. But that is going back a few years.