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I was practicing with my recurve many,many moons ago.
My wife axed me to move my rig as the horse trailer was some distance directly behind the arrow target.
Well I didn’t move it, and I did shoot completely over the target.
I harvested a 235/85 R16 that day!
"Shoot low sheriff, I think he's riding a shetland!" B. Wills
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I was practicing with my recurve many,many moons ago.
My wife axed me to move my rig as the horse trailer was some distance directly behind the arrow target.
Well I didn’t move it, and I did shoot completely over the target.
I harvested a 235/85 R16 that day! that tire with the arrow will haunt you forever wives have a tendency to remind us.
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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I was practicing with my recurve many,many moons ago.
My wife axed me to move my rig as the horse trailer was some distance directly behind the arrow target.
Well I didn’t move it, and I did shoot completely over the target.
I harvested a 235/85 R16 that day! Maybe deserves a place in the record book.
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Any bull over 270 I think is a decent bull. Id probably hold out for 300 or more on a good private land hunt. Ive taken 3 bulls over 300 and still very happy shooting a cow or rag horn. Ill take the first good legal animal. All about the meat
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If my wife ever axes me and I live, she will be going to jail.
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Yeppers the tire deal should be in the book of bone headed deals I have pulled, problem it would be a very big book.
I think the easiest way to see if a bull ( six point) is legit is to look at the back two tines. If they spread out bigger than your palms joined together spread apart by at least double then it’s a good six point. Really good ones have whale tales in the back.
When they are blowing snot on my punk azz screaming around they all look like a trophy to me.
Rifle hunting makes it easier to “score” the beast.
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Every elk is a good elk, regardless of how it’s killed...
Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
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300 is the magic number for me, and it’s a lot bigger than almost anyone thinks.
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This^^^^ Especially on public land in states with OTC tags.....
I am basically an "any elk is a good elk" hunter anymore, but have been lucky enough to kill a few 6x6s in places from Arizona to British Columbia.
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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The only way to kill big bulls is to be willing to let mediocre walk...something I am not prepared to do at this point in my life. Deer, yes...Elk, no.
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The only way to kill big bulls is to be willing to let mediocre walk...something I am not prepared to do at this point in my life. Deer, yes...Elk, no. Another way of saying “I don’t kill any elk at all.”
I was thinking the other day how much I used to hate Bill Clinton. He was freaking George Washington compared to what they are now.
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Here is my best bull. He was taken after 18 days of hunting in 2015, but over 20 years of pursuing elk with a traditional bows and rifles over 5 different states. Y'all can guess the score if you want, But he was measured by an ex P&Y scorer. It is not an official score, as I would never enter anything in a "book" I'm guessing 320-330. Have a very similar one that I think the taxidermist said 330 (really tall and wide). Not sure if that was a guess by the taxidermist or if he measured. I've never put a tape on anything I've shot. Really nice elk. Especially for a bow kill.
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Spot on 324 and change, not that numbers made that hunt. Having my 17yo son right behind me when I shot was the true trophy experience.
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This isn't anyone's biggest but it's one of the weirdest. His whole skull was deformed. He looked like he'd been butting heads with a truck.
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