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From another lifetime..









41 years later we meet again in Wyoming thanks to Keith [eh76]







Our journey finally comes to an end..These last two really get me as Jim and I share a very special bond..

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I would get Buck Fever like you would have never seen with that deer.

outstanding...

Speechless...

Dang,must be dust in the air.

Thanks for sharing FlyboyFlem.

No offense intended, but the second picture looks like one that got a guy busted a couple of years ago. I guess he asked the game warden that had checked him to take a picture. When the guy hoisted up his trophy, one of the "antlers" unscrewed a bit and twisted around. He had a set of sheds he put lag screws in. Shot a doe and screwed the antlers onto her.

Bob

ETA: Don't try this at home!

Love it, Woody...

Yep. Couple of the 'good guys'.. Woody put me up ( and put up with me) on a trip back east last year, and Jim paid me the best compliment I have ever had in my life....

Awesome.

Bobcape,no offense taken.

Back in the late 70's a cousin killed a spike,my Dad and Uncle found some bigger antlers and put them on the little deer. Every vehicle that drove by looked then screeched to a halt and stared at the deer. Then a game warden drove by and did the same thing,but,he drove off just shaking his head.

ingwe;
I don't often say this for a number of good reasons, but regarding your mulie photo, I may - just may - know how you feel.

Against my better judgement I laid down and took a prone shot at this grand old buck. I say against my better judgement as he knew we were there and everything about his body said he was going to run....so my lung shot ended up not being one and I'm sure not proud of myself that I shot when I did.

Anyway ingwe, I hit this fellow and he headed down into the most impossibly steep canyon one can still walk down - two hours down - and then when we finally killed him it started to snow buckets on us.

We took the back legs up on the first trip back, went back down to civilization to get some teenage reinforcements to help pack and down we went again to get the rest of him before the coyotes did.

So the photo is before I'm about to cut him up with a flashlight in my teeth and walk two hours up a snow slick canyon in the dark.


Oh, including the 4 leg bones that we left in and boned the rest out, there was 144lb of meat we took off of him, so for an Okanagan buck he was a good size.

Anyway I keep his rack up on the wall to remind me that sometimes I don't always make good decisions in life.

All the best to you and yours this week ingwe.

Dwayne

Dwayne, odd you mention that...my buck was dressed by flashlight between my teeth!

When mini-maglites came out I grabbed one, and later their rubber coated clones.Dude tried to sell me one of those and I immediately put it in my mouth ( I dressed a lot of deer that way...) and it tasted AWFUL...I declined to buy it because of the taste and he looked at me like I was crazy.


How about another good mule deer...this time Ingwewife, and we got to dress this one in the light...an honest 30 inches...

Fire on my buddy's place.


Kirkwood Ranch in Hell's Canyon.


Sockeye swim up the Columbia, Snake and Salmon Rivers 900 miles to reach this. Hence, the name.



Bout time for this again....

ingwe;
Please congratulate ingwewife on that buck!

I've been chasing mulies since '81 and have never killed one that wide.

My goodness do I hear you on the Mini-Maglites!

I've carried a little Pelican for years because it didn't taste as bad as the Mini-Maglites. That aluminum in my teeth was more than I could deal with.

When they invented headlamps I was first in line to buy one.

Here's my widest so far - a bit of a spaghetti rack and nowhere near even 24" inside - but as the girls were with me it made for a grand hunt.


I've got his hide tanned and rolled up to give to one or both the girls if they ever want to make something out of buckskin.

Again all the best to you and yours in the upcoming week ingwe.

Dwayne

These pics aren't random... they tell a narrative of the history of my relationship with my kids, at least in part. Haven't got any skiing pics uploaded to Photobucket yet, so only 3 seasons are represented here. But anyway, since the rancorous split with my ex-wife in April, I've relied heavily on my kids for moral support, and they have been super. The good times we've shared in the outdoors over the years has been a precious link for us.

Kids with their first "trouts", Edson Alberta, ca 1987.



Youngest daughter with her first migrant Chinook salmon (Lake Michigan, Kewaunee River, WI), in her senior year of high school.



Son & me on a 1988 pheasant hunt.




My dad and my son on a pheasant hunt some years later.




Elder daughter "learning how to fight with a rifle", as she puts it...




Kids in upper Elbow River valley, ca 1993.




One of my favorite high mountain lakes in the Alberta Rockies, ca. 1985.

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Same lake, with daughters, July 2012.

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Is that last one Lake Louise?

My back yard hosted my sisters wedding 2 weeks ago






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Dwayne and Ingwe and others:

Swing by your local vendor of Chinese goods (Canadian Tire or Wal-Mart) and pick up some bicycle handlebar tape for the metal flashlights.

The tape not only keeps the aluminum taste out of your mouth, but it is better to bite on and you won't chip your teeth.

Best of all, it is insulating! I had the idea for my full-size 6 D-cell Maglite when I was in Manitoba and it was below -40F -40C. The aluminum Maglit was sucking the heat from my hands even with good gloves. A double layer of bicycle handle bar tape means you can hang onto the flashlite (even using gloves) for MUCH longer at these temperatures.

Bicycle handle bar tape is much better than electrical tape which will soon be a sticky mess. Bike tape won't do this.

And now, back to a great thread!

Here is a couple of pictures (not mine, sadly) of the Swedish mountains a few hours drive from me. Norway is on the other side...





John

No, it's Rawson Lake, in the Kananaskis

Night fishing steelhead at the Confluence of Snake and Clearwater Rivers.



Your tax dollars at work....Garfield County Wa.



Oregon Coast.



Little deep.