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Post by Bobcat on Sept 12, 2003 9:53:20 GMT -5
Help get us all in the mood........how about posting some of your favorite pics and stories from past hunts? Last year I got to hunt pronghorn antelope in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. I got this buck after stalking him up a hill. He had a harem of about 15 does. I managed to get within about 120 yards and took him with my 7mm-08 using 139 gr. SST's.  |
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Post by GonHuntin on Sept 14, 2003 15:41:58 GMT -5
This is the best buck I took last year......I killed him in November with my crossbow......I got in my stand at 3:30, had a small buck chase two does in about 10 minutes later......they stopped about 30 yards from the stand.....I passed on the buck and smaller doe, couldn't quite get a shot at the larger doe.....they took off again so I got out my "can" call and tried it, hoping I'd get them to come back......nothing, so I hit the rattle bag and the grunt call and this buck came in behind me.....I waited for him to clear a limb and found a hole to shoot through, I shot him at about 20 yards.....I saw the arrow go past him but couldn't tell if I had hit him or if the arrow had been deflected.....I waited 5 minutes then I HAD to know.....I got out of the stand, located the arrow which had a small amount of blood on it.......decided to look for blood and found the first few drops.......I decided to go another 10 or 15 yards then wait a few minutes, but I found lots of lung blood and decided to go a bit further.......another 20 yards and I could see him down another 50 or so yards away.....not bad for a 20 minute hunt!!!  #nosmileys |
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Post by captkb on Sept 14, 2003 22:11:59 GMT -5
I don't have a picture downloaded, but I have to tell the story. Last yr me and two of my buddies were fortunate enough to draw combo tags in Montana. Our first yr to put in for the tags and we hit. After a couple of days of nothing we managed to find a ranch that offered some awesome hunting for mule deer and whitetails. The elk had moved thru already so we focused on the mulies. This ranch has to be one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen in my entire life. Some of you might have seen the place on tv, as it is where they filmed the movie "The Horse Whisper". We have all heard of ranches that claims to have plenty of good deer to hunt, but I have yet to see ANY place come close to what we saw there. In the evenings the mule deer would come down out of the mountains to the hay fields to feed. I am not talking about 15-20 but more like 150 to 200 and then that many whitetails. You couldn't hunt the hay fields unless you was bow hunting but you could hunt the areas outside of them. The hwy divided the place and the first evening I hunted on the north side of the hwy and managed to take a fair 5x5 mulie. I shot him at 50 yds with my 7mm mag. The next evening one of my buddies hunts the exact same spot and shoots a 3x3 mulie with his .300 win mag at 15 yds. The bucks we took were no trophy book animals but getting to hunt that ranch and seeing that many deer in one sitting was just awesome. There was a time that the deer had traffic blocked for 15 minutes as they crossed the hwy. Heres the best part of all - hunting this ranch cost us $0.00. The lady that owns this ranch does not believe in charging people to hunt their land. Aside from being able to hunt this place the landowner showed us around and pointed out several of the different things they used in the film and then she pulled out her photo album and showed us all the pictures she had of her and Robert Redford and all the other actors/actresses. This is definately a hunt I will never forget.
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Post by kellyg on Sept 16, 2003 21:43:38 GMT -5
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Dale
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Post by Dale on Sept 17, 2003 20:34:07 GMT -5
Here are a couple of after the hunt pics of a Kansas Whitetail hunt we did in Jan. of this year. We go up there every Jan for their doe only season when the tags are only 10.50 for residents or non-residents. The land owner is having a major problem with the deer eating his crops and can't wait for us to come hunt every year. This year we took my brother-in-law on his first ever deer hunt and needless to say we now have a new hunting companion. We took most of the pictures of him because it was his first hunt and because he wanted to take back pictures to show his buddies at work. They always tell him stories of going out and sitting in a stand all day and not even seeing a deer or hunting for a week and maybe getting one deer. On this trip we took 8 deer in about a 4 day period. The land owner has a wheat field surrounded on two sides by a thick dense tree line and has pasture on two other sides. Many times we will park in the pasture an hour before light or about 2 hours before dark and walk about a half to three quarters of a mile in and set in front of hay bales and wait for the deer to come out and feed. One morning is was VERY windy so we figured that they would be in a certain draw bedded down in a bunch of trees. We waited until about a hour after sunlight and parked and walked about 15 minutes to the trees....split up, two on one side, two on the other side. Tree line was about 50 yards wide. Within about 5 minutes walking 3 deer popped out on our side and bang, bang, bang, we were on our way back in for coffee with 3 deer in the pickup. My brother-in-law couldn't wait to tell all his buddies how we ate breakfast, went out for 20 minutes and got 3 deer, went in for coffee and hung the deer so we could get ready to go out again that afternoon.  We are getting much better at taking pictures. The year before we didn't even take any pictures. This year we took a few. Next year we are taking a lot. I am not in any of these because, as always, I am taking the pictures. So here is one with my brother and brother-in-law and then one so he could show his buddies and ask why they need all of the special camo hunting clothes, because he sure didn't. ;D   |
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Post by jdickey on Sept 18, 2003 10:52:07 GMT -5
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Post by Bobcat on Sept 18, 2003 11:16:11 GMT -5
.......tastes pretty good too! ;D
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Post by ICMCumin on Sept 18, 2003 16:18:57 GMT -5
[/img][/quote] By the time the normal hunter finishes describing him to his friends, it will be the size of a moose!!!!! |
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Post by jdickey on Sept 18, 2003 16:19:09 GMT -5
;DYep ... nuthin better than CORN FED RABBIT   |
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Post by jdickey on Sept 24, 2003 21:25:00 GMT -5
;D O.K. Bobcat... here it is again! This was my first elk taken 2 years ago in N.M. near Jim Smith Peak in western N.M. It was a 6X6 and scored 321 B&C, shot during the last of the muzzleload season at 142 yds. .50 Cal 209 CVA, with 300 gr. Barnes Xpress. It was shot at 11:15AM and we got out of the cnyon at 5:45PM! Made for a long but joyous day and 450lbs. of elk meat!  |
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Post by kellyg on Sept 27, 2003 7:08:07 GMT -5
NICE elk!! Now thats a pile of meat!  |
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Post by Bobcat on Sept 27, 2003 9:35:26 GMT -5
Not TOO bad for a first elk!!! That is a "lifetime" critter!  Congrats!! Bob |
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Post by jdickey on Sept 27, 2003 15:12:08 GMT -5
;D Thanks again guys... I found out one thing for sure, it doesn't matter how good in shape you think you are... when you start trudging up and down those mountains at 9000 feet, you don't know if you're gonna pass out or puke! We're working on a NewFoundland caribou hunt for next year. Got a brother-in-law up there that's been trying to get me to come up! He says lots of big herds and lots of big bulls!  |
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