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Back on the mule deer theme..

Dave;
Thanks for the border obelisk marker shot, it brings back a few good memories for me.

Hopefully this finds you and yours doing well - including the 75 mile away member?

Hopefully it's OK that I quickly share that memory with you all here.

Years ago my late father in law was out hunting with me - well he'd love to ride along but wasn't packing.

Anyway we were on the sage and antelope brush covered mountains west of the border towns of Osoyoos, BC and Oroville, WA and were poking along some old cow feeding 4x4 trail when I got out to glass for a bit.

As I was glassing the fence line that we were um - quite a bit south of by that point.....I saw one of the obelisk markers - on the fence line....that we were quite a bit south of!!

Even back then in those pre 9-11 days the US Border Patrol would be out a fair bit and were known to be less than charitable with BC hunters who'd crossed "a fair bit south of the medicine line".

Without further adieu then, we chucked the binos back on the seat of the old Toyota 4x4 I drove back then and beat a hasty retreat back to the north.

We figured out on the way back into BC that when we crossed an open cattle guard along a 4 strand barbed wire fence that the fence which we'd taken as just another grazing lease drift fence was in fact the medicine line.

This is a small valley north of that spot, but for our purposes this morning, the country looks similar enough that we can get the idea of where the crime took place.


There, I feel better for having come clean to unknowingly been illegally hunting in WA after all these years.

All the best to you and your fine family Dave. Thanks for the photos and thanks to the rest who have shared in this wonderful thread.

Dwayne

Mighty nice pics, PP. Keep it up.

That's pretty funny Dwayne!

Darn, sure do miss Utah Lefty and his Photos that he used to post on threads like these. We are truly at a loss by his absence as he was and is talented Photographer.

Beautiful bucks there, Mr. Pine. Where do you find them like that?

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Vairboy, I live in Area 21 in Colorado most of the year.. Area 21 is a trophy mule deer area. It usually takes about 12 or 13 years to draw a mulie here. So it's pretty easy picking,for pictures.. Directly to the north is Area 10 and that's trophy elk territory.

For something different, how about birds?













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My cabin "neighbors"



Same neighbors mugging me for granola bars in warmer weather

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UhOh...

Be Vewy Vewy Qwiet....

D'oh!

Now, that is one interesting shot (my neck has a crook in it now, too; thanks for that ).

Hmm. Black bear, exit wound on right? Maybe high shoulder, bad wheel? I'm pretty sure it ain't a squirrel, but then we city-raised boys ain't exactly Daniel Boones...

Coyote!

He came into my calling from behind me. I caught the movement too late, and as we were out on the high desert I misjudged the range and nailed him low in the front shoulder.

I figured he was 175-200 ish. He was closer to 250 yards out. I ended up tracking him for miles.





He went down hill for a bit. Then the blood trail got thin,down to little specks every once in a while. He was three legging it, but making better time than I was.

Eventually,after a couple of good tracks up some high basins, I figured I had tracked long enough, wasting half a morning's hunt trying to finish him off. I just hate to see even a song dog suffer though.

Nort Wisconsin Huntin' Shack in October.


Dang, we love dose Packers!


Thanksgiving Panhandle Mulie.


December Panhandle Whitetail.

Porkypine, where have you been all this time?