I just heard a rumour that there would be no more muzzleloader seasons in AB, can anyone confirm this?

Have a call into SRD, as usual, helpful, friendly staff.

Hope to hear back today one way or the other.  Fingers crossed!

I for one will not be too happy if this is true I love to hunt with my muzzle loader.  Mostly do the late season elk hunts and deer culls.  Where I hunt with my muzzle loader only does and cows there is not season for bulls or bucks last count of elk in Calgary bow zone was around 1300 well 1299 now hehehe  .  Give it a try Justin see how much permission you get to even get on

Justin I am sorry I just don't see where the numbers are that low,, They may be down from a couple years back but you have to know that there were just to many it was not good for the herds at all. Now after a couple hard winters (excluding this one) the numbers are down a bit. Personally I see it as a good thing. Mother nature looks after herself just fine. What would you rather have deer being slaughtered in culls or a steady strong herd. I for one do not see where the numbers are down that critical. I work on the drilling rigs and as a result I travel this province extensively and I live for the time being in the south,, personally don't see a big change in numbers. A couple weeks ago I actually had a week off from work, the boy and I spent a couple afternoons doing some yote hunting south around the Manyberries country. I shit you not that in those 2 evenings driving home between Med Hat and Manyberries we counted easily over 100 muly a few bands of decent bucks, still with horn and one band of 5 bucks I kid you not with not 1 buck under 150 and the largest pushing well into the 80's. I have spent the winter between Drumheller, Elk Point and now Wainwright,, where are the numbers critically down ?? Again yes they are down from 3 and 4 years ago but good they have to be.
We get a couple hard winters with deep snow and lose a few older mature deer and everybody is in a tither, relax after a winter like this one and hopefully not a bad one ahead we will see those older deer make it and keep growing. This doesn't mean that we couldn't go for a few changes yes we could. Like you said lets start with making it a little more difficult for out of province people, heck shut it down for muly and big northern whitetail as well for over the counter tags, lower the number of outfitter tags as well. I don't believe it would hurt the outfitters revenue, it would only make the tags that much more valuable. Heck if someone can afford to spend $5000.00 on a hunt they can afford $8000.00. if they can't so be it. We should definitely be cutting back there before we cut back on residents. As well I have said it before and will say it again. There should be a little more descrpepancy for all these newcomers and transient workers as well in our province. With all the new workers coming here I think there should be a mandatory min of a 5 year wait to be considered a resident as well they should be made to pay into a wildlife fund for those 5 years waiting time in order to show they are contributing. Not just coming here and raping the benefits of what we have built over the years.

Good discussion though,, kind of going off track but that's just the way it happens.

I don't have a pre cwd reg book, so if that goes through, does that mean NO m/l season in the province except Wainwright?  That's the only one I remember.

I mean dedicated m/l season.