I thought it might be good to have a thread where you can post your favourite hunting pictures. I'll go first:


This is the last moose that I was able to hunt with my 88 year old grandfather. He had hunted the area for 45 years and its an area we still go to this day. That was a very special trip as I video'd him walking around the old cabin site telling stories.



There is nothing really special about this deer itself, but the day we got this one was 3 days after my youngest was born. Mama needed a break and whitetail season had just started so I took the other two kids more to get out of the house. My son spotted this deer in a field and knowing that I wasn't likely to get out much that season I closed the deal. It was the first hunt with my daughter along and a great memory.

Let's see your pictures and hear your stories!


SS

My father when he was 91 and me with my first buffalo....

My daughter's first deer at age 9.


My daughters first buck and last two deer completing a hat trick in one day.

Here are a couple of mine! Elk

Some of my favorites...

Each post only holds six photos so here's 6 good ones..

10 foot Kodiak Booner...



Last year's Ca. Blacktail...



My son's archery Ca. Blacktail from last year...



Ca. Coyotes.



My son's New Mexico Muzzleloader 6x6 bull..



My son with another Ca. Blacktail from a few years back...

Pronghorn with the flinter. I hunted in this manner for 25 years straight, only got skunked once. Too old now.

I salute you sir. Heck of an accomplishment.

Six more pretty good ones...

My Archery Bull...



One of my son's best Ca. Blacktails...



My Son's 7x7 Wyoming Muley...




My son with another good Ca. Blackie...



My son with a very nice Ca. Blacktail...




One of my Alaskan Caribou...





I'll share more later...

That is a good record. I did the same with mule deer and a cap lock, but not quite of a good success rate. (and only 15 years with black powder only)

Kudos, Salmonella- celebrating the kids more so than yourself.

1860's George Daw 12 gauge...

Karen's first elk ... the first of many, I might add.

This is a photo of PURE HAPPINESS

Blessings,

Steve

My son and I with our handgun antelope. He had been getting frustrated with several blown stalks. When we shot this buck he yelled "you got him!" I think we were both surprised.



We'd just shot a cow elk here and he gotten cold so he sat by the fire while I took care of the elk.

That's a good Dad! They're only so tough at that age.

Great pics all. Keep them coming!

SS

Always hard because I'm not a shutter bug - hate cameras.

My son's first - youth season. He's not one for emotion at all about anything but he was very happy on this.



I include this because I try and take a week off for deer season. A lot of times family is up there etc but I typically get one good night in the shack to myself. This was that night a few years ago. Just always liked it.



And then finally - the view of our humble shack from my rack. Not fancy but built by my uncle and father 30+ years ago and has kept us dry and warm since. Initial cost of less than a used 4 wheeler in it.

My little guy and my Dad. I was about my son's age when I first started tagging along with my Dad and uncles.



First time duck hunting.

This is so precious, in fact, priceless. Thanks.

First pheasant with Finn the wonder pup.



Axis hunting with my brother in Texas.



One of the first campfire pig hunts in TN - missed some of the names



Family deer camp in KY


Another trip to Texas with Jorge, me, Zeke and Hatari

My daughter and I tagged out the same morning. What a memory.



Dad and I in South Dakota. He loved upland game hunting more than big game hunting. He was a heck of a wing shooter.

My stepson with my Buck from last fall.








Same buck "tailgate picture"


Thanks for sharing your pictures everyone.

Old School Boar .250-3000 99 savage

Great Pic

We'd just shot a cow elk here and he gotten cold so he sat by the fire while I took care of the elk.

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Awesome pic, hang that one on the wall

Last buck I took with dad before he passed.



I like this one a lot, just short of a Booner

Les actually is a real person!

Cheesy and I after a spell of bad weather


Son-in-Law with a Wyoming Antelope


our favorite kind of hunting


Some success


an enjoyable afternoon with an old timer

My son with a East Texas buck taken with his '06 pre 64 Fwt



Another East Texas buck taken with his 270 Mountain Rifle


the 3 little pigs meet my 270 pre 64



Texas Hill Country 10 point and a '06 pre 64 Fwt

I really like that last picture 1911a1 Classy

My grandson Connor's first bow kill Kansas buck:

Conbuck2 by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Daughter Shellie's nice Louisiana buck:

Shellie8pt by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Son Brandon's Kansas bowkill buck:

Branbuck by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

My last years Kansas buck:

KanBuc1 by Rick Mulhern, on Flickr

Thanks 7mmMato!
All the pics here are great I really enjoy threads like this.

After breakfast SD roosters last winter.

The Mrs in the garage with her first rooster.

Yours truly with one the most redneck pictures I've ever been in.

Harleys from Afognak. 3 drakes and one hen with the first three shots I ever put through a borrowed shotgun. Guess it fit okay.

Fox from Afognak

Wife's Kodiak island buck.

Wife's bear

Kodiak fox

Kodiak buck. Same 99 as the fox

Sister in laws first big game critter

Oldest son and I back in 2010. Hopefully a reenactment of this event again this October.

my wife's 2014 missouri whitetail

Here are a few more from Texas,
First is an Axis I took this past May

An old photo from of my best Muley to date. Taken in 1983 near Chimney Rock, Colorado.

Photo of my daughter with a small buck she killed on a very cold day in December 2008.

My son with a very nice 10Pt off the same farm near San Angelo,Texas.

And my son a few years later with a very nice Scimitar horned Oryx from South Texas.

Another Axis pic

A few more. First is a nice oryx from Dec 2013

Photo of a giant Axis that I never got permission to hunt!

A nice morning of Dove hunting

Another nice Axis from about 2010

My wife and I after a successful Blackbuck hunt on Valentines day 2013.... (Lucky Girl)

Great pics all. Really enjoy the ones with the kids. My son is six and wants to go with me this fall. Can't wait!

I do enjoy seeing all these great hunting photo's. Photo's from a couple of Arkansas duck hunts with two of my best buddies couple of years ago and bird hunting in the NC Sandhills.

Typical day of deer hunting in northern Maine.




My oldest sons first bird. He is now 25.



Dragging one out of the swamp.



The tried and true stomp and pull cleaning method.



Deer camp.

I love the Nilgai photo!!!!
On my hit list.........

One of my favorites

Whitetail 198lb (dressed) buck in Pittsburg, NH.

Toss up

That big axis on the left...the one you said you didn't get permission to hunt...he looks to be 38" wide...maybe even 40". Damn...! He's a monster. Heavy horned, decent brows, really good caudal tines. What a super axis buck he is...!

First time I took my oldest hunting with me. He was 2...


Last year with his first deer. He was 7. He played a football game that morning and shot the doe that evening. Great day!


My first mule deer, Idaho 2005.


My first bull elk, Idaho 2014.


Last hunt ever with Dad, Wyoming 2007.

Son's first bird





Me..

Still #3 bird on books in CA

Nice buck.

Did you hunt on the indian land near Chimney rock? Dad and I hunted out of the Chimney rock Campground in ~2008, got 2 ok deer but saw several with horns like yours but mostly on the res. land south of the access road to Chimney rock itself.

It was the year Oprah mentioned the Hot pools at the big town east of Chimney rock, I guess the locals were overwhelmed with Oprah lovers that fall.

My son's first deer when he was 11.



His 10 point about 3 years ago.



A nice one I took a couple of years ago.



This was a muzzle loader kill. Shot the buck and the yote ran to me and hung around long enough for me to reload.



I just couldn't bring myself to shoot this guy. He must have been sent from god.

My sons first deer at age 5.



Last Year






Bob.

Yes I've got several other photos of him I'll post tonight if anyones intrested. He looks awesome from every angle. Baker

Prince William Sound 2014





Back in Alabama



My sons buck 2010



North Texas Rios



Bob.

I was NNE of town about 15 miles as the crow flys. Beautiful area, I was slipping up on a raghorn bull with 3 cows when I bumped that buck out of his bed. He hesitated before crossing a small rise about 160-170 yards from me and I was able to make the shot.

That's the octagon barrel on a favorite custom 30-06. I passed on those does.

One of my favorites.

2008 Me, Dad and my 610 lb NH cow moose.
Mischief out road hunting in Pittsburg, NH

An under rated bird dog and bird gun

Me, Dad's dog, his Browning Sweet 16 and two Pittsburg, NH partridge

Mischief the north woods scratcher

Awesome photos....keep them coming!!

These threads are what keep me coming back.

Six more keepers...

Northern California Trophy Blacktail Country, painful...



Wyoming...



Central Oregon...



Across the street...



Yeah, it ain't huntin' but it's one of my all time favorites...



Coyote Country..

My son with a couple of Reds, a Fallow and a few other miscellaneous victims.

This doe lived around my house for about 3 years or so. Eventually she got hit by a car. They say it's bad mo-jo to kill a pie-bald. I'd hate to be the person that wacked her.

Here are a few more photos of a giant Axis I photographed in September 2013. The buck was in a 1100 acre pasture of live oak, Cypress and Juniper. I contacted the land owner to ask about an oppertunity to hunt this buck. First thing he said was that he dosen't care for hunting and I wouldn't be able to find him again anyway as he had only seen him twice in the last 3 years. Beautiful animal and I was lucky to have my camera with me that day! Hunting with a camera is still hunting I guess!!!











This last one is blurry but it's worth posting. Later Taters, Elk

First day of archery 2 years ago...the Camo Killa's:

Colorado elk hunting, no bear tag!


My only bull elk, killed in the basin on the other side of the mesa in the first picture.


A cold morning in elk camp.


Buffalo, WY last year. Bighorn mountains in the background.


My first bear, killed 26 years after my first bear hunt.


My trophy of a lifetime.

I can see why this would be a fave. ;-{>8

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Beautiful moment in time

Is that last photo the Warner Wilderness?

Two Good Friends... weaslesRus and my old dog, Rocky

I'll only ever get one....here he is.....

Utah Desert Bighorn Sheep.........9/28/13.......

Tikka Swede......scores 142".....7.5 yrs old

a few good va. bucks





first bear i killed on the farm

Ms Scarlet's grandson nailing down a quail at 6 weeks




...and granddaughter on the same covey...