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A Good Outfitter: For Varmint Shooting In Alberta
Published: June - 2001
Increasing numbers of big game hunters are taking up varmint shooting. And the reason's simple: Varmint shooting offers high-volume, no-limit, no-season shooting that provides the best possible practice in field marksmanship. Not only does it force you to deal with problems of range estimation, heat mirage, crosswinds, and acute angles of elevation and depression, but it provides an opportunity for the ambitious gunner to try all the new precision long-range shooting equipment that has been developed recently - things like laser rangefinders, high-magnification scopes, refined bedding techniques and ultra-accurate barrels and bullets.
The big problem with varmint shooting today is gaining access to places with sufficient populations of animals. You used to be able to find all the shooting you wanted on public land and easily do it on your own. Not so any more. Nowadays, most serious varmint shooters engage the services of outfitters who lease prime tracts of private land, or at least do the hard work of finding willing owners of private land.
In previous issues, I've filed reports on a number of varmint outfitters. The outfitter I want to tell you about this month is Cameron Jensen of International Flyway Outfitters. You'll need to tuck Jensen's contact details in your hunt-planning file for next year, because he operates in the vast grasslands of Alberta, where the grass gets too high for shooting after about June 15. Typically, the season here runs from about April 1 to June 1 in wet years, and April 1 to June 15 in dry years.
The varmints on tap with Jensen are gophers, which thrive in his part of Alberta. He's been offering shoots here for five years. Shooters typically fire between 200 and 500-plus rounds a day.
Jensen has a close working relationship with about a dozen large ranche........(continued)
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