OUT of DOORS with BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1.800.893.5777 HUNT & RELEASE? During the Christmas season, while listening to the CBC’s special programming, I heard an episode featuring two hunters from northern Ontario who had begun their own version of Hunt & Release. Simply they would shoot an animal with a tranquilizer– […]
THE BEAR CENSUS Once upon a time I reported that in North Hastings there was one bear per square km – or words to that effect. A quick reader responded that he’d like to sign them up on his electorate list and run for office. Presumeably the Bear Party. Not only did I […]
A VERY COLD CASE SOME BACKGROUND To date I have written over 1000 columns in The Bancroft Times called the Times Traveller. My source is the paper’s archives. Some have credited me with an imagination more vivid than real. I don’t make it up. In 2004 I wrote about a provincial Game Warden that went […]
D. (Bud) Foxton as told to Barney Moorhouse by Warrant Officer (retired) Tiny Barnett A strapping 6’ 5”, 250 pound 17 year old, Tiny Barnett (formally Wallace, James, Allison, Scobie) and George Dixon (Bud) Foxton, both belonged to F-86 Sabre Fighter Squadron 427. Barnett was an Air Weapons Tech, Foxton a Flying Officer. 427, a.k.a. […]
THE BANCROFT RETRIEVER TRIALS As a youngster, going to the Sportsman Show in Toronto was always a highlight. It officially signaled the end of winter and aroused my anticipation of heading north for the summer. The Golden Whistle Retriever Trials were my favourite. Trainers were decked out in white – so their charges could better […]
THE RECOSKIE ELK Chris Recoskie, the seal holder plus Garry Voldock and Eric Visneskie are all from Round Lake. Sly Recoskie, the shooter, hails from Pembroke. They have been hunting moose and deer for many seasons – perhaps 25 years. Staying at Round Lake they would waken at 4:00 a.m. for their commute for the […]
HYDRO POLES AT RISK? When Alan Leedy returned from his moose hunt he asked if I would be interested in doing a story about marauding bears attacking hydro poles. He had noticed the chewed poles, taken some photos and asked a local resident who told him that Hydro had investigated and yes, bears were the […]
THE ELK HUNT Rich Boulanger and his buddies Pat Law, Derrick Martin and Kyle Best, all from Chalk River, were among the few to take a cow elk to a check station. One group from Stoney Creek called me to say that they had successfully shot a cow elk hunting Elson Ruddy’s farm while staying […]
HORNE’S LONG DISTANCE ELK Robin Horne had a bull tag and he was hunting solo in Wildlife Management Unit 61, Harvest Area 6 in the Lingham Lake vicinity. Horne, from Brighton, has been hunting since he was 11. First it was “bird hunting and at 15 he began to hunt moose.” He stayed in Tweed […]
A YOUNG BULL I first met Perry Sararas, Todd and Justin Young at Dave Park’s farm during the opening day of the elk hunt. Terry Young was also a member but had just gone through an untimely knee operation and so was out of action – at least temporarily. “When they called and said they […]
