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Transportation Montreal to Schefferville and return
Transportation Schefferville to camp and return
Airport taxes
100 pds of luggage on the way in (system 1)
70 pds of luggage on the way in (system 2-3)
Boxes of meat & one whole set of antlers (or 2 split set of antlers) on the way out
Cold storage in Montreal & in Schefferville
Customers met in Schefferville
Lodging in Schefferville (if needed)
6 days of activities
Fully equipped camps
Boat, motor, gas
Map of the territory, life jackets & radio communication with the base
Well ventilated meat shed
Options: hunting and fishing activities (bear, birds and trout in
season)
Mobility within the legal and natural limitations explained in
MOBILITY section. |
The federal and provincial taxes
Fishing and hunting licenses
Lodging in Montreal
Meals in Montreal & Schefferville
Drink & gratuities
Fishing and hunting licenses are available in Schefferville and
at camp.
Caribou (2 tags)
Black bear
Small game
Six hunting areas have been carefully selected for that system.
Each area has a lodging capacity of 12 hunters but we reserve only
6 per area. This means that you have automatically 5 back up areas
in case of change in the migration. These 6 camps are equipped with
confortable wall tents, oil heating, a fully equipped kitchen and
3 boats and motors for guide and clients. There is also a well ventilated
meat shed. System 1 is a housekeeping facility. Although food is
not included, we can provide you with that service at a low cost.
The hunters have to come with their hunting skills and have to participate
in all aspect of the trip : Loading and unloading the planes, to
driving boats and butcher, carry and cape their animals. The camp
man is there to help, maintain security and make sure that the law
is respected. He will assist you but he can not guide 6 or 12 hunters
at the same time.
This system provides some of the advantages of both system 1 and
system 3 at a reasonable rate for those who want to rough it on
the field but like to relax at the end of their hunting day. Just
like system 1, there is one guide for 6 hunters, so the same rules
apply for your involvement on the field. We provide the cook and
you don't have to think about buying the food, we do it all. We
could call it, roughing it the easy way.
This is our fully guided camp. Over there, our staff does all the
work. The only thing you have to do is hunt. The camp holds a maximum
of 6 hunters. There is one guide for 2 hunters and our cook will
prepare a full breakfast every morning, sandwiches and cake for
lunch and a nice dinner every evening. Your guide will take care
of transportation, butchering, carrying, caping, boxing, etc.
If you complete your hunt rapidly, several options are offered to
you: bear & bird hunting and fishing (in season). These options
are free and included in the package. All you have to do is buy
the licenses that are available in Schefferville or in camp. Concerning
the fishing options, we strongly suggest that you practice cath
and release. The ecosystems of the North are very delicate. The
fish that you will catch are very old ( a 12-pound lake trout is
a 20-year-old fish). By releasing them properly, you make sure that
the population of fish is not only stable but also grows in size
and in numbers. Please take note that you can also keep a few for
a good meal: these fish are purely delicious.
Hunting is a sport that is often regulated by natural phenomenons
that are out of our control. Hunters have to accept the fact that
they need some skills to practice their sport and that even with
the greatest of skills and the best of equipment, Mother Nature
can react in a way that can make their trip more or less productive.
Everyone knows that hunting is not a precise science. It involves
some risks. This is why we call it a sport. To reduce the amount
of risk involved and to guarantee you a better chance of success,
Norpaq has set up a huge structure: more than 40 areas to choose
from. It is illegal, in Northen Quebec, to send hunters in an area
and just make them shoot on animals. On the other hand it is perfectly
legal to send the hunters in an area that you control. Norpaq's
strategy is to use it's best and most produstive territories at
the time of your trip and to offer you a real hunt instead of series
of potential transfers in unknown and unorganized areas.
The weather conditions of the North do not permit us to respect
schedules all the time. It is therefore possible that you might
lose some time of a package on the way in or gain some extra days
on the way out. Norpaq Adventures do not take any responsibility
on these natural phenomenons over which it has no control.
Even with the best systems and the best planning, caribou sometimes
react in a way that forces us to transfer our hunters to another
hunting area during their trip. In a situation like this, hunters
have to accept that they might be placed in a camp that offers fewer
services than what they have paid for.
One third of the total amount of the trip is required to confirm
your reservation. This deposit is non-refundable but can be transferred
to another person or to the next year if we are advised at least
2 months prior to your trip.
We will offer you an establishment with a quality of services well known among travellers.
Here is an example of a typical schedule:
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| Day 1 : |
Montreal - Schefferville
- camp
1/2 day of activity |
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| Day 2-3-4-5-6 : |
days of fishing and/or
hunting |
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| Day 7 : |
1/2 day of activity
and return to Schefferville and Montreal (weather permitting) |
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All our trips are organized from Montreal. You will be flown into
Schefferville and back by a charter airplane chosen for its reliability
and its capacity to provide you with the best service and make sure
you do not have to go through all the potencial inconveniences of
regular commercial flights. In Montreal, our representatives will
be there to meet with you and take care of all the departure logistics
(information, luggage, registration and weighing, etc...) just to
make sure that your experience starts the right way (in season -
August and September).
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KILLING TRIP VS. FAIR CHASE HUNT
1- Pope & Young Club
To be entered into Pope & Young Club Records, the animal must meet minimum
scoring requirements and must be taken in complete compliance with the controlling
game laws and the Rules of Fair Chase.
The term "Fair Chase" shall not include the taking of animals
under the following conditions:
1- Helpless in a trap, deep snow or water, or on ice.
2- From any power vehicle or power boat.
3- While confined behind fences as on game farms, etc.
4- By "Jacklighting" or shining at night.
5- By the use of tranquilizers or poisons.
6- By the use of any power vehicles or power boat for herding or
driving animals, including the use of aircraft to land alongside or to communicate
with or direct a hunter on the ground.
7- By the use of electronic devices for attracting, locating or pursuing
game, or guiding the hunter to such game, or by use of a bow or arrow to
which any electronic device is attached.
8- Any other condition considered by the Board of Directors as unsportsmanlike.
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2- Boone and Crockett Club
FAIR CHASE , as defined by Boone and Crockett Club, is the ethical, sportsmanlike,
and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild native North American
big game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an improper advantage
over such animals.
HUNTER ETHICS
Fundamental to all hunting is the concept of conservation of natural resources.
Hunting in today's world involves the regulated harvest of individual animals
in a manner that conserves, protects and perpetuates the hunted population.
The hunter engages in a one-to-one relationship with the quarry and his
or her hunting should be guided by a hierarchy of ethics related to hunting
which includes the following tenets:
1- Obey all applicable laws and regulations.
2- Respect the customs of the locale where the hunting occurs.
3- Exercise a personal code of behaviour that reflects favorably
on your abilities and sensibilities as a hunter.
4- Attain and maintain the skills necessary to make the kill as certain
and quick as possible.
5- Behave in a way that will bring no dishonor to either the hunter,
the hunted, or the environment.
6- Recognize that these tenets are intended to enhance the hunter's
experience of the relationship between predator and prey, which is one of
the most fundamental relationships of humans and their environment.
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3- JIM POSEWITZ
WHAT IS FAIR IN FAIR CHASE ?
Jim Posewitz, a leading authority on hunting ethics and author of the book
Beyond Fair Chase, describes fair chase as "a balance that allows hunters
to occasionally succeed while animals generally avoid being taken."
In this view, the kill is the exception and escape is the rule. Simply put,
a chase is fair if the animal has a reasonable chance of escaping the pursuit
unharmed. If the animal has little or no chance, the chase is not fair.
Fair chase demands a balance of power between hunter and hunted: the hunter's
ability to track, pursue, and acquire an animal must not be greater than
the animal's abilities to elude capture or death.
Fair chase is, ultimately, an expression of the desire to limit the discretionary
power of the hunter so that sport hunting will remain enjoyable, challenging,
and true to its original character.
For the modern sport hunter with all the advantages of modern technology
at his or her disposal, a fair chase ethic imposes a voluntary limitation
on the means the hunter may employ to achieve an end. Fair chase is not
about the fairness of the kill (the end) but about the fairness of the chase
(the means). In fair chase hunting, not only do the means justify the end,
by the means are the end: the chase is the hunt. And a fair chase hunter
earns the privilege to take an animal's life by mastering the skills of
the hunt.
By Thomas Baymeister - From the Montana FWP website.
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4- NORPAQ ADVENTURES
Norpaq Adventures will do all the necessary efforts to accomplish its obligations
as an outfitter in the full respect of the Quebec laws on fishing, hunting
and environmental protection and also of the code of ethics regulating fishing
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