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Having hunted elk a lot, I particularly like the youngish cow that fell near the road.... That makes 3 of us...
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Lastly, filled out the balance of the season this last week with a friend from Utah. He's hunted elk with me quite a bit over the last 10 years or so, we always get it done. Shot these two out of the same herd last Wednesday, my friends elk: Mine: Rounded out the season yesterday with this cow, my 77th elk and last tag for 2020: Another look:
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Dang it Buzz! Great year.
Do you have a walk-in freezer at your place? That’s a bunch of meat on the hook.
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[quote=BuzzH]Just another year of typical pubic land hunting, nothing fancy. My Dad drew a breaks bull tag and a b-tag for a cow in Montana so hit the road to help him in early November. Worked out right fair, good to see Dad still hunting elk at 75: x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x FIRST things FIRST !! HAT'S OFF !!! to your DAD and YOU !! it's FANTASTIC that He still hunts AT 75 ****. AND that You get to hunt with him. CONGRATS to HIM on the bull and I love the MASS !! I just turned 71 and AM having the best season of MY life - started deer hunting in 1972, NO missed season. My Dad died in '98 so it's been a LONG time since I got to hunt with him. ** GUYS Don't take things for granted ** "Another typical year of public land hunting...." - SHAZAAM ! I'm so jealous The best word I can think of for ALL of Y'ALL is SupercalifragilisticexpialidoutiousI bow to your excellence !! Jerry
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Next up "guiding" my nephews in Montana. Youngest nephew first, shot this whitetail buck at 120 yards with my late grandfathers .243 and 100 grain nosler solid base bullets: While walking up this deer we cut 7 sets of elk tracks. I loaded the deer in my pack and decided to track the elk for a while...an hour and a half later we caught up to them. My nephew got a good rest and shot one of the cows, his first elk, from 362 yards with the same .243 and 100 grain solid base bullets. Not a bad couple hours of hunting for a 13 year old: Oldest nephew got a few days off school so... Found this buck which he shot with his 7-08 at 383 yards with a 120 grain ballistic tip...excellent shot and his best whitetail so far: Took a day off from guiding my nephews, on my birthday, found this buck in a place I've hunted for 40 years with a rifle in my hand. Nephew filled his b-tag on the last day: Took off to hunt a friends place in Illinois after that, had a chance at a really good buck but had a little trouble with my muzzleloader. So on the last day of the hunt with a few minutes of legal light left, shot this buck. First time I've hunted that far east...by several hundred miles. I saw enough that I'll be going back...for sure. Great season, BuzzH!
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Awesome pictures Buzz! What a season!
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the good eating kind! on my earlier pic of the buck with the broken antler, just noticing it, I don't consider myself a trophy hunter, but the bucks with the bigger horns tend to have more meat attached to them.
Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
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PAYPAL, sucks and I will never use them again. I recommend you do the same.
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I didn't know which forum or topic to stick this in, but it is a "success" of sorts I guess, being that it caught something big (170 pounds of pure, ripped muscle and testosterone) in 2020. It was a first for me and luckily I uh...uh...easily pulled out.......of a #5 coil spring set for what I am guessing was wolf and caught me right on the heel. It was set in the middle of a packed snowmachine trail. I've had bird and lion dogs get caught, but never been myself. Critters travel trails like this to conserve energy instead of tromping through 2-3 feet of snow, so I shouldn't be surprised that someone set this right where they did. I tried resetting it for the guy but figured I didn't need to scent up the area anymore than I already had, and I didn't have any wax paper or other antifreeze on me.
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I didn't know which forum or topic to stick this in, but it is a "success" of sorts I guess, being that it caught something big (170 pounds of pure muscle and testosterone) in 2020. It was a first for me and luckily I uh...uh...easily pulled out.......of a #5 coil spring set for what I am guessing was wolf and caught me right on the heel. It was set in the middle of a packed snowmachine trail. I've had bird and lion dogs get caught, but never been myself. Critters travel trails like this to conserve energy instead of tromping through 2-3 feet of snow, so I shouldn't be surprised that someone set this right where they did. I tried resetting it for the guy but figured I didn't need to scent up the area anymore than I already had, and I didn't have any wax paper or other antifreeze on me. Well it looks like someone finally accomplished what scads of wily women couldn't. Glad to see you escaped.
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Catch me, or allow me to pull out? One I never allow. The other depends on my mood.
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Catch me, or allow me to pull out? One I never allow. The other depends on my mood.
Where are your snowshoes to keep you from falling in?
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Two hours into my cow season I was able to take this cow at 175yds with my Weatherby Vanguard .300Wby using 180grn TTSX’s
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