Hunting for hares and grouse is just as popular as hunting for elk. More than 168,000 permits were sold for each of these collection activities last year.
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The beauty of small game hunting is that it requires little preparation, requires little effort compared to deer hunting, and you don’t necessarily have to have a lot of experience or knowledge. The Nimrod can decide on the spot to try his luck in a place where this is allowed and relax about getting his share.
At the root
Purchasing your firearms, crossbows, bows and slings small game license costs just $22.90. The great thing is that a youth can go small game hunting with a regular license accompanied by an adult, be it a parent, spouse or other adult. It is therefore a perfect event to initiate a future follower.
You can go to free territory, to an outfitter, to the premises of a state-owned company, to an individual who has given you the necessary permits or to one of the 63 ZECs in the province of La Belle.
If you choose a ZEC, it will cost you a maximum of $30.43 per day or $173.06 per year. A young person under 17 years of age accompanied by an adult can hunt there for free.
Jérôme Barbeau, biologist of the Zec network, was kind enough to point out to the journal’s readers the best locations to thwart any animals that are attacked in the small-scale hunt, as it is often called.
Rushing capercaillie
According to data collected over the last three years, the ZECs that have achieved the best results for this type of hunting are: Bas-Saint-Laurent (Bas-Saint-Laurent), Maison-de-Pierre (Laurentides), Chapeau-de – Paille (Mauricie), Gros-Brochet (Mauricie), Forestville (Côte-Nord), Rivière-Blanche (Capitale-Nationale), Wessonneau (Mauricie), Batiscan-Neilson (Capitale-Nationale), Bras-Coupé Désert (Outaouais) and Petawaga (Laurentides).
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SHOES SHOES BUNNY
As for the most common small forest animals, the best ZECs are: Gros-Brochet (Mauricie), Matimek (Côte-Nord), Chauvin (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean), Des Martres (Capitale-Nationale), Bas-Saint-Laurent (Bas-Saint-Laurent), Forestville (Côte-Nord), Lac-au-Sable (Capitale-Nationale), Rivière-aux-Rats (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean), Rivière-Blanche (Capitale-Nationale). ) and Onatchiway (Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean).
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CANADIAN CEREAL HICK
These wild chickens, cousins of partridges, are common in the mountainous regions of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean such as Onatchiway, Rivière-aux-Rats, Martin-Valin, Des Passes and La Lièvre, but also occur in large numbers Quantities ahead of figures in the Gros-Brochet (Mauricie), Normandie (Laurentides), Capitachouane (Abitibi-Témiscamingue), Chapeau-de-Paille (Mauricie) and Forestville (Côte-Nord) regions.
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