Let's see pictures of the Fire's members success!

How about a javelina to kick it off?

Ruger #1 in .222

Can't post pix of 'illegal' game.


Seasons haven't opened here yet. Anxiously awaiting.

Jerry

ingwe Thats what I am talking about! Nice

Jerry we can wait for your photo's once it's legal hunting season there!

Here is my first Montana Bull, September 5th 2020 Solo DIY Public Land.

Hell of a bull congrats!

S A W E E T.
Good looking bull.

Very nice Bull!

Is that a woolly Montana Javelina?

Jesus...nice work!

No, but he was a big one...that had been eating well...


I'm still waiting for the Great Migration of Wooly Javelina to migrate back down from the north....

Sweet! Is that WY? I have been on a few nice Pronghorn but haven't been able to close the deal yet.

Ya, WY.
I have very little time for antelope this year so I choose a hunt with an early start date and took the first 12 inch buck I saw. He may not even be that big. I never measured him. I just wanted the meat.

Can't eat Horns my friend!

Posted elsewhere about it, but my 9 year olds first deer shot yesterday.

Awesome! Congratulations

That young man's smile says it all! Well done sir.

AWESOME. Best way I know of to kick off the hunting season !


Jerry

Great stuff MCH !! Well done.

Nothing open here, but waterfowl & black bear yet.

Well, that's not true, archery deer opened last week, but I won't get after anything till things cool down.

Roll on October !

LOVE it !

Well done.

Super cool

Nice - what scope is that?

Thanks...

Awesome bull, congrats!

What’s in the background? Looks to be a cow decoy maybe laying on the ground? Maybe I’m seeing something, not sure.

Jerry that's a Hawke Endurance 2x7 with illum. reticle. Excellent eye relief, which is what I need on the #1

https://ultimatepredatorgear.com

My 11yo niece got it done off range!

Awesome!!! She sure has a Big Smiley Face.

Thanks Tom - I'll check that one out. I also need all the eye relief I can get and have been limiting myself to 1-4 and 1.5-5 straight tube scopes on No. 1s for that reason.

Muzzleloader bull

Bow season came in last Friday. Saturday afternoon my son gave it a try and he was only in the tree for an hour on his first hunt of the year.

Great bull and buck! Congrats!

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Muzzleloader bull

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SHAZAAM Andy ! NICE


Jerry

Darn nice critters everyone, thanks for sharing.

This will be my most exciting hunting season yet, my 10 year old daughter has a cow tag and 2 deer tags, this will be her first year hunting. I am SO excited. Seasons don't open until October 10

exbiologist that's a beauty and hunting an old burn. Should be plenty more of them to hunt in the future.

Awesome Bull exbiologist congratulations

Nice Buck StoneCutter congratulations

Congratulations on the bull!!

How recent was the fire??

Thanks guys, Fire was 2012 I believe. Was a great bedding area on the east side of a mountain but they seem to still use it heavily despite no shade

I apologize if I'm wrong,but something about that pic looks Photoshoped............hope i'm wrong.

How do you photoshop shadows? Photo looks 100% legit to me. Envy is an ugly emotion!

Really !!!! EX has posted here for years-----It ain't photo shopped. ExBio-- The bull is nice but you're kind of homely !!

Well, you're wrong, so you got what you were hoping for!


Exbio is a stand up guy.

Very nice bull, gemsbok,

And bucks and javelina;

Nice job young man!

Looks like a photo from a newer iPhone. They take crazy good pictures. I still have a 6.

Been in the mountains with some good buddies. Tougher due to predator issues but we managed some bucks. Big country bucks.

E with a big bodied Sitka.

Dang! That thing is a hoss. Nice buck.

What a toad.

Pretty typical of a fat covered mature alpine buck. Once they get off the top they are lean by the end of the rut. Pretty good eats for the critters up on the peaks tho.

The AZ guys I was with sure could glass with their 12x50 swaro el binos. Some impressive glass.

Nice!!

What a toad.
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Ain't that the truth ! ! !

Jerry

NOPE !

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I like his (ex's) HAIRY right arm !!


Shadows Don't lie.


Jerry

Thanks guys. No not photoshopped, might be seeming off because the bull is pretty stiff after finding him the next day.

I got more pics but he looked biggest in that first one and the shadows weren’t on my face

Homely my ass! 🤪

iPhone 8 Plus. Took quite a few to find some good ones. I don’t miss the old film camera days

Awesome Buck

Man lucky! I don’t have any friends to go hunting with... it’s been oh 15yrs since I harvested anything.. I’m thankful for the campfire..

Calvin;
Top of the morning to you sir, I hope the weekend was a good one and this finds you and yours well.

While I'm always reluctant to single out anyone on a thread such as this - and may I interject congratulations to all successful hunters! - I'm somewhat gob smacked at the size of that Sitka!

The one I killed on Haida Gwai was maybe - maybe - a third of that one. Actually the Columbia Blacktail I got on the Gulf Islands was nowhere near that for size either.

That thing is in the class of the bigger Blacktails from up in Pemberton country.

Anyways thanks for sharing the photo of the hunt as I've learned something now sir as I didn't know they could get that size.

Thanks again and again hearty congratulations to all the successful hunters this fall. Good luck to you all on your remaining hunts.

Dwayne

ExBio-----You married up---way about you pay grade!

Utah pronghorn. Was fun hunting country I knew from working there 10yrs ago. Not very big, but the population is a pittance compared to what I remember...

DSCN2868 by .com/photos/150924633@N06/]Tyler Staggs, on [bleep]

CONGRATS


Jerry

Great bull and pics! Grats

That’ll work point. Grats

Good grief. Looks like he was hitting the all-you-can-eat buffet every day of the week.

I think it has to do with the close proximity of the camera to the elk and lens size. No one hunting really wants to lug a dedicated camera with a much wider lens around and most pics are probably taken just fitting the animal or its rack in the picture frame. If the pic had been taken from further back, the effect would probably be lessened.

Congrats to the successful hunters!

I think it has more to do with the missing G3 on his right, which makes that beam look crazy long, especially when closer to the camera. Very cool elk, congrats!

That's a respectable pronghorn. Nice.

Congratulations

Saaaaaright !!

Figured it was about time for you to post a few pics.

Congrats to all the successful hunters. Not sure how some of you do it in that heat though. When it's in the 60's here for the beginning of bow season that is too hot for me.

Not mine but my sons first archery Antelope this year in Utah.

Alaska moose I got last week on opening day (Sept 15). Limited quota area (draw) with about 1% odds of drawing. I've drawn it twice in the past 3 years. .264 Win Mag with 140 Partitions scooting along about 3,050 fps. Could have taken my Whelen but I used that on my last moose. 80 yd shot from about 35 feet up in a spruce tree. My buddy called him right in early in the morning. Shot at 6:30 - all meat packed back to camp (5 trip for each of us, 400 yds to the river) by 5:30 pm. 110# hind quarters. Probably a 3.5 or 4.5 y.o. moose. Only one horn as he busted the other off fighting - would have loved to seen the moose that kicked his butt.

Nice work

FAN TAM TASTIC !!

A few more photos from the moose trip:

L, cow call?

Combo of sloshing in a puddle, raking on some alders and bull grunts. This one responded within about 5 minutes. Prolly walked 1/2 mile straight to us, grunting the entire way. Pretty fun, but my buddy got kind of nervous when the thing got real close. I picked up him about 150 yards away.

Funny thing was we both climbed the same tree the nite prior to the opener. The commotion of that and breaking some limbs for sight and shooting lanes brought a young bull (30" ?) right into us. He stayed there about 1/2 hr trying to figure out what was going on.

J - not a drop of rain the entire trip.


Also, they added two subsistence tags to this year's quota for Berners Bay. Heard two guys from Thorne Bay scored them. No idea whether they were successful - any word on your end?

Damn nice pile of groceries. 👍

I didn’t hear anything. Might need to put in next year.


Thanks. We are heading in about 9 days for our moose hunt. Low odds on kuiu but it’s our yearly tradition.

AK folk, how does ADGF decide if a moose is legal in a 50-inch minimum (for example) area, when one side is busted off? Double the existing side? Just curious, cuz I'd want to shoot him ...

ANY bull tag. He was 50" +

Brought the antlers and lower jaw section (required) to ADF&G. On the hunt report card, they have a place for how wide. I told the tech he could estimate it pretty easy. He wasn't interested. The only data they collected was that it had one right-side brow tine. They will age it from the teeth - which is probably the most important data to them.

I think they still have to be 50". So, pretty tough to do on a one-horner. If it were "double the big side", you'd see a lot more one-sided moose, after the fact...

We saw two different bulls with horn issues this year. One was a 3 point (barely), and thus not a legal spike/fork. Other was about this size of MM's, but he got shot as his little side formed a spike. Didn't get shot by us, and don't know what F&G would do with it.

A general question, not about your bull.

Maybe they want one-horned bulls to walk. Unless of course, the one horn meets minimum Now that'd be cool!

Colorado Muzzy Bull

Nice Bill, I start on the 3rd for musket Roosevelts.

That's a decent bull. A muzzy elk is on my bucket list for sure. I've got a few CO elk points - what unit did you hunt?. Musket looks like an Omega. What bullet/powder did you use? and did you upgrade your iron sights? I have an Omega and definately want to put a peep sight on it.

Unit 13 which is part of unit 11. 3 points should get you a tag. My load was a 350 gr Federal BOR Lock over 110 gr of BH 209. I put an EABCO sight on mine. If you do that you may want to put a lower front sight on. I ran out of vertical adjustment on the peep trying to raise point of impact.

I had read quite a few good reports on terminal performance of this bullet but they seem a little soft to me. I hit the bull a little lower and further back than I wanted. Caught the back of one lung and destroyed the liver but the bullet didn't exit. It was flattened out under the hide on the offside. I'm not sure if it even hit a rib. I definitely wouldn't try to shoot through the shoulder with it.

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You look younger than I feel.
I'm glad you're able to hunt, kill, & retrieve (however) a bull.

N I C E
Congrats


Jerry

Thanks Jerry! I'm 63 and hopefully have a few more elk hunts left in me . I was hunting with an outfitter and we loaded the bull into the back of a Ranger and drove him back to camp. I don't have many friends who can afford to hunt out west at this point and I'm not real anxious to try and get an elk out on my own at my age.


Here's a pic of the EABCO Aperture sight. As you can see the peep is at the top of the adjustment range. I thought I'd drop a set of rings on the base and mount my scope but with the peep that high it would hit the tube on my scope with medium rings. I'm just going to reinstall my old base to keep the scope nice and low.

Yep - I've got the exact same setup and, like you, found I needed a different front sight and that my scope would hit the aperture. Not exactly how EABCO markets it.

Colorado has the best MZ seasons of all the states that I apply for. NV has a few rut hunts, but they are awfully hard to draw.

I'll probably roll with a Thor bullet when I go elk hunting in CO.

Bill

I'm 70 and yes, I could make the hunt. However there's no way I could PACK out an Elk that size or Moose.

At 63, I could have. I have 3 health issues that limit my packing abilities. Torn knee being the most painful.

IF you pay for my 'outfitter with a truck', I'd go IF I had to borrow the $$$.

Congrats Again.

Jerry

Muskeg,

I'd say it depends on what bullet you're shooting. EABCO does offer a lower front sight for $20 that I'm going to buy in case I use the peep again. I was also going to go with Thor bullets. I went through the whole thing with the sizing pack ended up shooting 300 gr Ballistic Tip .501's. Even though they seem to be the right size they're still tough to load. I picked up the Federal BOR Lock's at Cabela's while getting more powder. They were much more consistent than the Thor's so I decided to use them.

Jerry, I had a torn meniscus in my left knee but an arthroscopy fixed it up before I retired. My son is going with me somewhere next year. We'll figure that out this fall/winter. Thanks!

Congrats, Bill_N!

I use the same EABCO rear aperture on my CVA Accura V2. I really like it. I also had to install a Williams fire sight front sight as it is quite a bit lower than the CVA factory sight. I killed my Co. cow at 142 yards with my home cast and powder coated Lee REAL 320 gr. bullets. They shoot awesome out of my rifle when combined with Blackhorn 209 powder.



I had 2 tags and was able to take her calf at 184 yards.







My good buddy was also able to hang his tag on a real nice 6 point. He shoots an Accura with a SeeAll open sight and 300 gr. Thor's.



It was a very Hot, dry, dusty and tough hunt but we were able to fill out. Public land DYI hunt. 2 of the tags came off the leftover list.

Good to see some tags getting filled.

Todd

Great shooting Todd! How was the penetration with your home cast bullets and the Thor?

We didn’t capture a single bullet. 3 shots, 3 dead elk. My buddy killed his bull at 25 yards with the Thor. Complete pass through with awesome terminal performance.

Todd

My antelope buck for 2020. Nothing big, but it was a fun stalk. 1 shot with my old M1 and down he went. 237 yards, which is not hard to do with a good M1, but I had hoped to get real close like I have the last few years. He saw me, stood up from his bed in the sage and faced me trying to see what I was. So I was not getting any closer. I had to either let him go (almost did) or take the shot, but I have not been paid in a while and money is a bit tight so I though I better end the season so I didn't have to buy gas to drive over there again. I didn't get a tag for any area close to my home and had to drive about 110 miles to get to the area I drew. Maybe I should have let him go because the paycheck came today, but I didn't know it at the time (3 days ago ---- on Tuesday)

M1 2020 Buck 2 by Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

My wife and I just finished eating his heart for dinner, which I missed. I tried to heart shoot him, but the bullet entered about 3" to the left of center and missed the heart. Didn't matter, and he fell instantly as the bullet went clear through him lengthwise.

S

Fun & Meat. You can’t eat ‘horns’.
Glad it came together PLUS you got paid !!!

Where’s the downside ?

Jerry

3 Xs....... you sux !

I can’t even start yet.

Congrats
Congrats.
Congrats

Jerry

Nice hunting all. Really love the elk. Good luck judman.

Some awesome pictures getting posted up. Congratulations to all.

Damn dude you better buy some lottery tickets! Congrats, Again!!!

2020 KS early season

Hope I get a shot at one this weekend with my bow.

Nice work !!

That is a fat old buck.

Nice buck 👍

Good work buddy, love the ol m 1. 👍

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/galleries/15283590


Tagged out on mule deer opening weekend.




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Congrats Pharm.

Nice work!!!

Nice work! All shot wiith a Tikka, I presume?

Thanks for the congrats. My son joined me for the first time in 7 years (he discovered girls and later, beer in the interim) so it was particularly enjoyable for me.

And yes, all Tikkas!




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Pat..you're getting so good at this that your animals have learned to show up already tagged!

Haha, right...;)

It got dark while I was gutting him, and I glanced up the hill, and saw my lighted nock glowing in the dark, about 50 yards from where he fell, telling me I had to slow down and find the broken shaft inside the cavity before it drew blood on me. And I did...;)

Looks that way, don't it ? !!


Fantastic there Scenar, Congrats


Jerry

Tough year here in So. Idaho. More out of state hunters than elk. Finally connected on this little 5x5 Sunday afternoon of the last weekend. Not exactly what most people would consider typical elk country, but this little guy was laying in the shade of a big rock along with 7 cows and calves. That is the 'out hole' in the pic. At the shot he was quartering away. Arrow caught him behind the last rib and came out mid opposite shoulder as seen in pic. Bull went about 25 yards and dropped dead. 52 yard shot with my old Hoyt Charger 60# bow and Whackem 100gr 3 blade broadheads on Easton Bloodline arrows. ~ 380gr @ 275 fps. Felt more like mule deer hunting and stalking than elk, but they are where you find them.

Nice!

Congratulations!!!!!

Congratulations!!!!

Congratulations!!!!

Tough way to kill an elk -- congrats!

Nice work bud. Your gettin quite the collection of 400” bulls!! Grats

A lot of nice game posted n this thread.

Cast and blast weekend. Only had one antelope doe license this year so we dragged the boat out too and had a ball after 30 minutes of hunting.

Dang buddy! Now that’s the way to do it!

Yes, Indeed !

I'm Locked & Loaded but I can't start till Sat. week, the 17th.
I have a distant relative & also a neighbor 1/4 mi. away. We were talking this AM about how many deer we ARE seeing.

I told him today.....If you don't help me reduce the number of Doe s, I'm going to fill my pond up. LOL

Congrats to ALLY'ALL !!

I am R E A D Y but waiting.

Jerry

Great fishing trip there ex. Good family time. Grats

Here's a Colorado goat:

NICE !

Congrats

Jerry

Bryan---nice antelope----Bob

Nice day right there!

not sure anyone can top that pic

calvin great buck

bounty fest wow what caliber for the pronghorn

Good lookin' goat!

A friend shot this wide blacktail along the Sacramento river farmland a few days ago. I'm told the buck was standing there looking at him from about 130 yards out. Girlfriend said she couldn't make that shot so he aimed at it's nose. Custom made 270, dunno the rest of the details.

Rosie bull

Nice Bull Congratulations too bad you cheated!

😂😂gfy

Jealousy is ugly!!! 👍

Looks like a goodern Jud. Musket?

Ya man

That's right Jud.......beautiful bull. Congrats!

I have zero to be jealous of. But you are right you are ugly.

Are you 12? Not so ugly I gotta fuuck gooks... hint

Nice, congrats.

Congrats to all.

Way to go Judman, very nice bull.

I am finally seeing the pictures. Simply awesome! Congratulations!

Very nice buck! Congratulations. Great picture too!

You are such a classy guy! Am I 12? Do you read the nonsense you write? But hey keep following me around like a lost puppy. I am flattered that you can't get me out of your mind.Hang a picture of your hog for us! I seen that thing pretty scary. HINT

Alan, go tend to your yard sale in the classifieds.😂😂

Xoxoxo the pig faced gooks are waiting, if only cause a white woman wouldn’t put up with ya

I see you can't spell. But I appreciate the effort from a retard.

I know about "lost puppies". I have TWO and I'm Locked & Loaded for them. I have given EACH one his own puppy name.

It gets tiring when they stick their noses where they DON'T belong and they DON'T know what they're talking about!!!!

Just waiting puppy dogs.

My name is JWALL and I said THAT. Ask S head, I do what I promise !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi I seen an old post of yours that you work on lever guns? I have a win94 that I would be interested in a rebarrel. Not sure if you do that or not?

LMAO, I don't have the time to name them. Life's too short to waste on them.

4 Oct 20 Wyoming
338-378 Bee 150 yds

25 Sep 20 Wyoming 28 Nosler 701 yards.

Awesome Congratulations

Nice Goat, congratulations

Don't be humble.

Great buck and nice shooting.

[quote=Fotis]4 Oct 20 Wyoming
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Show Off !

Just wait till I get a pic of WT that I kill with my

8 mini mini Rem Mag !!

That’ll show you ! harrrump !!

Congrats on the Lope too


Jerry

Jack rabbits that's analogous PLUS!!!!!!

Jack rabbits that's analogous PLUS!!!!!!
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Any Jack rabbits this size ?



OR This..



Mine's bigger than yours !!!


Friendly Gouging !!

Jerry

BIG deer there Jerry.....nice!

Thanks JG, the problem is the big ones don't come around often enuff.

For EVERYONE..... those bucks were not killed in 2020. I posted them 'gouging' Fotis.
I've posted them before but I used them in FUN today.

The first one was 2007....a very fond memory. I jumped him in a cutover bedded with a doe. Shot him on the run and
he flipped and landed ON HIS BACK, belly and feet UP. I didn't think to take a pic at the time, WISH I had. That was 3 yrs before I joined here.

The second was 2008.... FIRST deer I shot AT with my Black Shadow 300 WM.

This Season doesn't start till Saturday, Muzzleloader only.

THIS year I'm looking for one or BOTH of these bucks.




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This guy was in Doe Only season last Oct modern gun. I bleated and he stopped mid step. I had a 7 Mag in hand but only took his pic. He's still in the area and has been seen.




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This guy was at my place Oct. 6 -- 2020 -- This year

I'd be happy to kill either one and ecstatic to get both.

Jerry

That is a beast dude!

My first muley.

CONGRATS man !

I'd be happy with him !!

Jerry

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Any Jack rabbits this size ?




Mine's bigger than yours !!!

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That is a beast dude!

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Thank You and he was. 194# on scale as seen.

I was a member of a big club. I did NOT want anyone to know where I killed him. I dragged him to side of the road and
BACKED my 4x4 into the ditch...tailgate down SO I could pull him into it.
GOT THE HECK GONE quick. grin

Jerry

That boy hit the gym and did some roids for sure! LOL

Dang you guys are lucky!!!!! I haven’t shot anything oh in 20yrs i think... be kind of cool if one of you guys could take me hunting..

Can you take me hunting??

79

I've taken a lot of guys & kids hunting -- that I know. I'd be glad to take you IF we had a chance to get acquainted.

Beside, it's a LONG way from Alaska to Arkansas. Surely someone close to you could. Good Luck

Jerry

Can you cook?

Or have any other special skills?

Just karate and deadly with some ninja stars

I’m going to admit it, I have no friends.. my wife says one day I will meet some buds.. I can only hope ..

Now, BACK to Regular Program Publication: -> 2020 B G Success PIX (photos)



[quote=eaglemountainman]My first muley.

Previous Pic...




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Saw him again this AM 7;15

Less Zoom... same time as previous





Something asymmetrical on bottom of His R main beam ?

Season starts TOMORROW

Jerry

Potential Freezer Fodder

Just now... 6:50 PM CDST
1 behind dark deer in center = 6 Total



Season In The Morning !!

Nice bull Judman! Hard to get big rosie. Looks like he made it off the green into the rough before falling. Well played! LOL.

Allllllright there SLM. Way to Go.

Congrats


Jerry

Damn nice bear SLM!

Heck ya!

Very nice pard. 👍🤘

Good lookin' bear, SLM!

I knew you had it in you SLiM...Good bear!

I thought Sam Elliot. That’s not redassery either, as I’m a fan

I've got a bit of a man crush on 'ol Sam
(Not Sam O, you weirdos).

Nice bear!!!

Oldest got her first elk


Thanks to the suppressor and the herd not knowing what was going on I was able to tag out too



I knew two elk was going to be a lot of work before the shooting started and I wasn’t wrong but they’re in the freezer now.

It's a long way from a wall hanger but it's one of the biggest forkies I've shot.

Nimrod

Congrats to BOTH of you.

However, tell her she CAN’T kill an Elk wearing
improper & NON camo clothes.

LOL

Jerry

FAAR OUT !!

Rock Chuck

Man I wouldn’t shoot him before.....

the firing pin could hit the primer.

GRIN


Jerry

Excellent!!!!

Congratulations

Congratulations to all. Some cool critters being taken.

Rock Chuck I’m a little jealous that a great forky. I’m headed to Idaho on Wednesday to hunt for 10 days.

Several years ago we had a horrendous winter that devastated the fawn crop. They've been slowly rebuilding and this year we're seeing a lot of good young bucks. Last winter was mild and they wintered very well. This one was rolling in fat to the point of obesity and has very nice antlers for a forky. It's been dry all summer but they've had plenty of feed.

I was up there last weekend when you guys got a little rain and snow in the high country. Didn’t see a lot of deer but wasn’t really looking. At least not in unit 45 where I was. I’d shoot that forky in a heartbeat in an open unit. Congratulations

There's a skiff of snow above 9k. We had about 1/4" of rain Tues night in the mountains. It cooled things off and made hunting a lot quieter but didn't do much for wetting the soil.
We have cow tags in units 45 and 52. It opens Nov 1. Were you scouting up there?

I was visiting family and doing a little shooting. Rock be careful on that hunt. I did it last year. Trucks got shot and people got shot at. I hunted the last week and saw one elk. I even had two private ranches I could hunt but the elk were gone. We did find some on the last day and got permission from the land owner but couldn’t make it in because of the deep snow.

Good luck to you.

It certainly wasn't our 1st choice for a hunt but we didn't draw. I'm very familiar with what those roads can be like when there's been some rain. While it's a big unit, they've issued too many tags for 1 hunt. It's nuts.

March hunt for hogs in Tx.. Old boar taken with 30-06 and 220 Core loks!!

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Hey 'Sam', Congrats.

LOOK at them cutters ! Wow.

Glad you're still at it.


Jerry

My wife's buck.. taken with my old .22-250 and Sierra 63 gr soft point!!!

I only had doe tags for antelope... This one was taken with my old .270 and 140 gr. Sierra HPBT!!

This one was taken with my newest 06 & 155 Lapuas!!

My oldest step daughter hunted antelope for the first time this year!! One shot from my old .270 and 140 gr. Sierra HPBTs dropped in on the spot..

My youngest step daughter is a great rifle shot, but never hunted big game... One shot from my old .25-06 and a 100 gr. Sierra did the trick..

nice

Good stuff Wyo’, Congrats to everyone.

My son got his first deer on Saturday morning. He’s so pumped you can’t believe it. He worked his butt off this summer helping around the farm, he’s been practicing on pigs and shooting a pellet rifle for a couple of years, and he put in a lot of time making sure he was ready. I’m super proud of him.

WCH

Y'all are knockin em dead!
Great.


Jerry

Dandy!!

Congrats!

Fat buck taken with the 7mm Rem Mag, Ruger Number One.

Guy

That rifle though...

Woo hoo! I backpacked a bear out of the AZ mtns this year too! Good times!

[quote=Oklahomahunter]My son got his first deer on Saturday morning. He’s so pumped you can’t believe it. He worked his butt off this summer helping around the farm, he’s been practicing on pigs and shooting a pellet rifle for a couple of years, and he put in a lot of time making sure he was ready. I’m super proud of him.

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Congrats to the young MAN !!

He’s ruined now for sho !!!

Jerry

[quote=Cascade]

Fat buck taken with the 7mm Rem Mag, Ruger Number One.

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Hey! Nice !!

I’d trade you a Savage for that ‘old’ Ruger.

I don’t have 1 but I’d buy a Savage to trade.
LOL

Jerry

Nah, I'm kinda fond of the Ruger.

Guy

That's what I'm talking about Fella !

Well done Slim !

Great Stuff WCH !!!

Killin machine, this bloke.

SEE WHAT I MEAN !

Stone cold KILLA !

My first bull Colorado

WOW!

Nice pig WCH!!

Saturday night, I had a big 9 point get past me. This weekend muzzle loader comes into play. So maybe he'll show himself again. An hour later I had this doe show up. 10 yards. It's my first deer this year. We're required to kill at least 2 does before we can take our second buck. So I've got one of them out of the way.

That'll work.

Go Getem !

Jerry

I’ll let him know you guys cheered him on. I bet all the kids at school today are tired of hearing his story.

Thanks!

Right below the house. Public land.
There was a guy from North Carolina in my ladder stand when I got to it.
He thought I packed it in and set it up for him, I guess.
About an hour later this showed up.
.260 Tikka, 200 yds.

Allllright. Very Nice. Congrats


Jerry

Nice!

Dandy, Grats

Nice choppahs on that hammer!! Grats

Oh, forgot, Taken with a Leupold!

Doesn’t get better than that.

Congrats to all, beats the hell out of looking at target pics.

Nice buck - congrats! I don't use ladder stands on public land for that reason.

Filling the freezer again.

Ain't nuttin rong with that !!

I would if given the chance.

Jerry

Wifey got one while out with a girlfriend today and I was working. No boys involved. 68 yards offhand

Ditto. Congrats!

Thanks! It’s all he can talk about and I don’t blame him.

LOL

Thats a keeper

[quote=exbiologist]Wifey got one while out with a girlfriend today and I was working. No boys involved. 68 yards offhand



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Congrats

I’d say both are keepers !!! grin

I'm envious of you westerners and your big bucks

this is about as big as they get here in the south.

25-06 and 75gr barnes x

So . . . What's wrong with that ^ ^ one?
I personally think too many people get caught
up with antler size these days and lose sight
of the hunting experience. I've yet to have a
buck mounted since I've been hunting
The memory and the bags of meat in the freezer
is what's important to me

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5 hunters, 5 sambar. July 2020 boat camp, North East Victoria, Australia

IWG

First, Let me SAY WELCOME to the 'fire'. I see that was your 5th post.
seriously-- grin > At a Glance my mind said, "INGWE" ?? then looked close - GRIN

Second, Sorry but your link to photos does NOT work for me. I tried several Xs and all I get is
"error 404" Google not found.

Maybe I'm doing something RONG, I dunno. lol


Jerry

Couple of general season Wyoming elk.

Neat looking bull, congrats to all.

Congrats Scotty

Y'all are doing what I've dreamed of & tried to get a permit for, for 21 years.
I can do the hunt but my health issues won't allow me to pack one out.

Keep It Going
Ya Hoo

Jerry

Nice work brother, great trip!! Grats

Thanks JMan and others.

It’s the damned best when I can hunt with my brother and show him the loonyness of hunting elk. The Old Goat with cow has taught me a ton through the years as well. It’s pretty danged special to pass it along.

Plus my brother is 22 years younger than me, so I like abusing his strong back!

Excellent!!

perfect shot placement on that cow.

The Old Goat got to christen his new 280 with a 160 Accubond.... I think he feels 10 years younger going from a 10+ lb 300 Win to the 7lb 280... Makes a big difference when you're hoofing it all day long.

That's Great for him. (happy icon)

Don't tell him that ALL 300s DON'T weigh 10+ lbs.
There are other rifles not that heavy. Obviously the 280 worked ! Amazing ain't it !

Jerry

Oh yeah, hard to beat the 270/280 really. The 280 is pretty darned good with the bullets available to it nowadays. The 270 ain’t never a slouch.

Orygun Blacktail.
He popped up in a thicket and all I could see was his head and antlers.
Shot him just under the chin. Ranged him at 69 yards after the fact.
I love hunting these guys, but boy can it be humbling.........


Kimber Hunter 6.5 CM. Hornaday 129 IL.

S A L U T E'

Atta boy.

Jerry

Sorry for exhuming your posting but I like it a lot to see that open sight guns can be used effectively up to 200 yards and more on big game. When was your Garand made? What kind of ammo did you use? Factory, handload?

Hell yeah! AWESOME bull! Congrats! Great picture!

Buddy Dan kilt a nice eastern CO whitetail right at dusk yesterday on the ranch. My tag isn't until late plains season. Hope I can even find one then.....

Very Nice

Love the mass.

Good Luck on your tag.

Jerry

My first elk. Got him on a DIY hunt in CO with my dad and long time hunting friends. It was a special experience.

👍 nice! A bigger first bull than my little spike, that’s for sure.
What did ya whack him with?

I hit him in the neck with my Winchester Extreme Weather 300 WSM. A herd of at least 5 snuck up behind me so close I could have almost killed him with a spear! Seriously, it was like 30 yards.

ALLLLLLRIGHT !!

Jerry

GAP 6.5 SAUM, 135gr Atip

Those Horns look big to my inexperienced
goat eye. Tall to say the least.

Congrat

Jerry

scenarshooter: Have you ever tried the 7 SAUM?

Went on my first mule deer hunt. Picked what I thought was the best unit for a non-res with 2-pts and went after it solo. Had a blast, passed up lots of forkies in several days of hunting, then the snow hit and everything changed. Saw this fella while heading down to the truck. Spent the morning hiking and glassing in earnest. Finally finished grinding/packaging meat yesterday. Some good eats, for sure. 270 with 129 LRX, the streamlined profile definitely aided on the 40 yd shot 😉

Congrats, man!

Nice!

Allllright there Tom.

Good on ya.

Jerry

Myself and 2 buddies drew NM elk tags. We had a great time.

Looks like a great hunt

Congratulations Great first bull. Here is to many more to come.

Congratulations as always putting up exceptional animals.

Congratulations nice Buck

Thats excellent for your first mule deer!

I got drawn out for a tag on a refuge here in OK this year. Since I’d taken 2 bucks with my bow this is the only way I could hunt anything antlered in OK for the rest of the season. I spoke to the ranger who gave me some very vague tips but decided that I may be willing to hint a little harder than most of the folks that come here. He told me about a spot that you had to do some real walking to get to, but it was secluded and no one really hunted there. Well, I packed for an all day sit but at 10:00, and after watching about 10 deer, this big 8 point rolled by at about 30 yards. I was hunting on the ground and a little button bucks that had been right next to me saw me move to get on the bigger buck. He huffed and that locked big boy up. As soon as he started trying to sneak around a clomp of trees I have him one in the shoulder. He was quartering to me so I knew he should be good, but he reared up on took off so I levered another round into the 30-30 and gave him a shot of insurance. He went down hard as that one took out the other shoulder.

I was extremely pleased and surprised at the quality of bucks I’d managed to take, but then it sunk in that there’s no access and I’d have a long pack out. I used the gutless method and got all the meat off and laid on a poncho I’d packed in case of rain. Then stuffed it all in my backpack, attached everything else I initially brought, and headed out. The pack was far past overloaded, but I didn’t want to make 2 trips. The rough estimate was 130 pounds for the pack.

I finally made it back to the truck and got the meat on ice. Made a few calls, and cleaned up the parking area as it looked like someone decided to turn it into a dumping ground. I had a hell of a good time and I’m planning on applying to bring my son on a youth hunt here next year. I’ll be applying for me, too.

Sounds like a great hunt. Nice buck!

I really enjoy this thread and sharing with our fellow hunters.

Congrats

Great Hunt

Thnx for sharing

Jerry

Sorry about the pic quality guys. They’re really good, but to attach them I had to knock the quality way back.

Thanks for the kind words also. It was a great challenge and hunt.

2020 Oregon Blacktail. Short writeup on the Savage forum

https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/15395373/1

Damn that is a great Blacktail. Congratulations

Awesome buck, Fireball.

October moose hunt to NFLD.

love them speed goats and there good eating

she's a keeper and so is the buck!

Those are huge animals.

Paul,

That guy'll eat very nicely !!

Congrats that's a nice Buck

Congrats that should fill the freezer.

We haven't had a bad meal yet off it yet. My wife is a bit fussy about some game meats, but she loves this moose.

We cooked a big pile of short rib stew last week. They were awesome!

That moose looks delicious

My wife was away yesterday, so I fired up a pot roast for those of us left to fend for ourselves.

Yeah Supercub that’s looks alright!

HEY Cub !!

IF I missed this earlier I don’t know how ??
G R E A T man. Happy for ya.

Indeed even the young ones are BEEG. grin.

Jerry

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Man U doin summin right !!
FAR out !!

Jerry

Hey Guys, all y’all :

If I missed any of ‘youins’ (lol). It wasn’t on purpose.
I’m glad to see hunting seasons are rollin.

My “real” deer hunting starts Sat. but our wx is supposed to warm up. I’m reved up and waiting.

CONGRATS all.


Jerry

I'm a little late to the party, but here's my moose from Labor Day weekend (opening weekend) this year. I wish I would have taken more time to take better pictures in the field.

SHAZAAM !!

Nice pix anyway. Were U alone? If so, how’d ya get him out ?

Jerry

I’m pretty confident that if I’d been single when I spent the summer I did in Alaska I’d have never left. Wife to be drug me home with her. Congrats on that moose

I've been to the Yukon twice. It's not Alaska but it's close.

I noticed that most of the non-native folks I met (including my host) where from away. They came to visit, they loved it, they stayed. I tried to be one of those that stayed but it wasn't meant to be. <sigh> God had other plans for my life.

Nice!

Well done...

Yes, we need some details on that please. That's a hell of a moose.

Bam! Solo hunt, 5 minutes to dark. Best I can do for photos. But I think I am done for the year unless we go to Kansas.

Awesome!

My youngest blasted her first squirrel today

Mines bigger this year, but she shot one bigger than this in the same spot a few years ago. Very competitive at home.

Cool! Is that an Abert’s?

It is indeed

Nice buck:)

I’ve always wanted one of those. We have them here in our Ponderosa country. But the season opens so late, you can’t realistically access them.

Gotcha, bummer. We’re big fans of them

I told you 'earlier' in this thread that "they were both keepers" ( buck & her) compliment!

I'd like and enjoy that competition - hope you do too.

Jerry

[quote=exbiologist]Bam! Solo hunt, 5 minutes to dark. Best I can do for photos. But I think I am done for the year unless we go to Kansas.

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So VERY NICE, what's NOT to like. GOOD rack, love dark color of rack & hide. Fantastic evening pic, Could NOT
have framed a better background !!!

OH ! btw - Kansas isn't that far away ! GRIN

Jerry

Well, the Kansas land is 12 hours from home. Hadn’t been hunted legally in 100 years. She inherited it two years ago, chalk up another in the keeper column

HERE ! YEAA ! HEAR ! YEAA !

No, I was not alone. There were four of us in our group. My friend, Clint, was with me when I shot this one. We took the first load of meat out, and met the other two at lunch. The four of us had the whole thing cleaned up by supper time.

I put the whole story in the handgun forum a while back. I hesitated posting the story, originally, because it wasn't exactly textbook. This moose required a little more horsepower to get it ready for the freezer, as you'll soon see.

We spotted the moose below us, 140 yards out, according to the rangefinder. It was an easy, rested shot with my .300 Win mag. The first shot punched through both lungs. The moose reacted at the shot, but he wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere. After the initial reaction, he didn't really seem to be all that phased, and it bothered me that he was still on his feet. Clint watched the moose through his binocular as the bullet hit, "you hit him hard!"

I shot again, a high shoulder shot this time, and he dropped. I remember taking my first moose with a high shoulder shot, so I was satisfied that this moose dropped the same way, but after 20-30 seconds, he got back up again! I sent the third round directly on the shoulder, this time, and dropped him again. "That took a lot!" I remember thinking to myself, "How did I ever kill one of these things with a 7-08?"

From our vantage point on the hill, my Clint watched him as I gathered my pack with the knives and game bags. After about 5 min, I headed down the hill to find him, and Clint stayed up top to guide me to him. I left my rifle at the top of the hill, but I took my 10mm with me in a chest holster. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Walking in on him, I heard the moose before I saw him. He was on the ground, behind a couple of trees, and facing away from me. He was slumped over and had very labored breathing, but he wasn't quite dead yet. I wanted to keep the skull intact, so that antler measurements could confirm that he was legal. I figured I'd shoot him at the base of his skull to finish him off. Again, it made sense at the time.

After my 10mm barked, he perked right up, and as he was swinging his head around to look at me, I shot him in the neck twice more -- before he stood up! I saw the bullets hit him, right at the neck/head junction, and he just stood up like it was nothing! I was only 10-15 feet away from this guy, and he's now on his feet! I've got to say, moose look a whole lot bigger at stomping distance! I triple-tapped him in the chest, and he went down again. He fell and rolled on his side. His antlers got tangled in a the brush, so he couldn't move his head very well. I quickly moved forward and put one more round in the back of his neck, from an arm's length away. He immediately tensed up from the CNS hit. A few more kicks from his hind legs, and he was down for good.

Then the adrenaline kicked in! What the hell just happened? Was this the toughest moose ever, or just lousy shooting on my part? I don't really know, but a moose is a big enough animal for both, I suppose.

When we gutted and butchered him, we found both lungs were effectively tore up and his chest was full of pooled blood. He also had several broken ribs, a clipped vertebrae, two bullet holes through his shoulder blade, and four pistol rounds in his neck. How he kept getting up, is beyond me.

The antlers measured 54-inches.

We found a 168gr T-TSX from the .300 Win Mag (3300fps with RL-26). It went through the shoulder and came to rest on the far-side shoulder blade, just above the ball and socket joint. It lost a couple of petals, but still retained 85% of its original weight.






I also recovered a 200gr XTP from the near side lung. It broke a rib going in, but didn't penetrate very far. These were handloads, by the way: 12.5gr of AA#9 under the 200gr XTP. I think I'll use FMJs or solids from now on.




Will the 10mm work on moose? Yeah, I guess it did. When this guy stood up, though, I would have felt a lot better with a rifle in my hands.

I forgot to add...

We had to pack the meat about 150 yards, uphill, of course, to get to the 'wheelers. We used frame packs, and the hind quarters were heavy enough you needed help lifting the pack. You couldn't do it by yourself. We all tried, and laughed at each others' failures to lift the pack. What are friends for, after all?

So, two guys lifted the pack as high as they could get it, and the third guy crawled into the shoulder straps from below. Once you stood up, it was manageable, not any fun, but manageable. We took lots of breaks going up that stupid hill!

The next day, we found another 4-wheeler route that would have taken us to within 25 yards of the kill site. Figures...

Enjoying this thread Good to read about other peoples fall hunts.

Thnx Dan for the backstory and pix. Glad you had help.
'alternate' trail... as you said, "figures"

Jerry

nice buck!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats on the Moose! That's quite a story!!

Trophy sized squirrel! Good for her!

Nice buck! Congrats!

Looking good!

Young wolf that we sort of lucked into

Nice. Great photo.

Great pics. Thanks for sharing.

265yd head shot 200lb black bear. 358 Win loaded with TAC and 180gr Barnes TTSX.

Thanks, Dinny

Montana pronghorn. Spotted him about 1 mile away bedded with a group of does. The winds were really ripping 50 to 60 mph so stalking easing. About a hundred yard shot as he was bedded down looking at me.



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A lot of golden eagles in the area. You can see them in the thermals while glassing






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Nice!!

Well done!

And it looks as if you were able to complete the job without a snowmobile! (grin)

X 2

Jerry

That's a nice haul

Awesome congratulations that's a nice Buck. I ate tag soup on the Lopers!

That's the way to stack em! Well done.

Awesome pics and nice job ribka

I posted this pic in the 2020 deer thread too, but what's another repeat?

Last day Montana mule deer. Not my biggest by any stretch, but that's OK. I really did think he was 4-5 inches wider than he really is...a smaller body than usual makes antler size deceiving. That's OK though. I'm perfectly happy with him.
.223 Rem at about 100 yards.

Good stuff, congrats to all.

Nice work everyone!!

Dang Greg, save some huge deer for the rest of us. Nice work man

Greg

Fantastic Season !

Man, you need a pacifier.................to SUCK on!

Congrats

Jerry

Sheesh, talk about tall !!


Jerry

That Greg is a GAME-HOG! LOL

Thank Greg for coming in and ruining the party. again. lol


Great deer

I harvested my mule deer on opening day with one high shoulder shot at 100 yards. This is my first animal with the 7x57 in 175 RNSP in a Winchester 70 XTR with Swarovski 3-9x36.

Yessiree Bub, that'll do nicely
Well done. Congrats

Jerry

Nice!

Nice!

Very nice

Congrats

Thanks! Congrats to everyone on the campfire who was successful.

How about a Sika? .275 Rigby

Very nice Tom. You're liking that Rigby, for good reason, huh? Congrats.

Congrats ingwe!

Ive shot a few sitka deer when I lived in Maryland.That is a toad. And sitka deer are outstanding table fare

I will second that motion...if anything I like them a tad better than even Axis.

The hamburger is especially good, and makes the best burgers ever....

The Good The Bad and The Ugly of my hunt last week. The scull was hung up in the top wire of a fence. The whole skeleton was hanging by the top wire.

That brings back memories of my childhood in MI.

Thanks, Dinny

What are the details on that rifle/scope?

Thanks, RS

Oh hell yes bud! Freaking great buck...

25-06 on a stiller predator action. I bought the scope Used it’s a used painted10x42 PMII

Greg, the big one still walks. If only I had been more patient!

Nice! Too bad about the dead-head.

Look! one arrow missed. It's in the roof of the car.


Jerry

mazda 6 club

My son and I had a fun afternoon.

Looks like a good time!

Good job!

Is that a bull in the background?

It’s her boyfriend, we cock blocked him in a bad way. Poor guy came back three times hoping she would get back up.

Such a tease....

Good stuff.

That's how we used to roll back in the early 80's,
Not with a Prius mind you ,but in the truck with the gate down.

Got this guy yesterday. Been passing on dinks and having bad luck last couple of years. Finally things came together for me. 120ish yards, 200 gr partition from 06. TX heart shot, went in and destroyed left hip, made soup of the intestines in the ass end, somehow avoided all other organs except one lung as it crossed diagonally through the body and came to rest after breaking a rib (4th back from the front). Bang fugking flop. Surprised it didn't exit, this was the first time I killed anything with that load.





I really dig the dark horns.

Taken Nov 25th.



Public land in TX. 200 yards. Neck shot. 7mm Mag with a hand-loaded 160 gr Nosler.

Nice buck Gruff!!!!

Nice buck gruff! What’s up with the white claws? Thought you were a High life man.

Thanks Hazen!



Thanks! Was, till I developed a gluten sensitivity. No more beers for Gruff.

Good stuff ‘Gruff, congrats.

Congrats all.

Way to Go Gruff.

LIKE !!

Jerry

Nothing fancy or special. Just meat for the freezer.

Gruff, you're a handsome "ass shooter" !

No comment on the white claw.

Well done mate.

Makin meat is where it's at !

Nothing better than a freezer full.

I dunno...I think the Monster 2 point is special! I always wanted to shoot one of those!

SEXY BEAST!

Are those some sort of royalty insignia on his shoulders?

He's a big forky for sure. The top right tine is 13" long.

That is a specimen Sika congratulations.

Great Buck! Keep hammering those song dogs. Congratulations

Awesome great way to make memories. Congratulations

Nice congratulations! I have been passing up bucks too, looks like I'll be eating tag soup.

Can't eat horns! Congratulations

[quote=Rock Chuck]Nothing fancy or special. Just meat for the freezer.




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At'll do just fine. I'd shoot a Cow E as well. LOTS a meat.

Congrats

Jerry

Region

Ya think that kid had a good time?


That's the way to bring em up.

Jerry

Thanks gents!



Thank you, though ass shooter and white claw might get a few odd looks when used together for the low brow types



aw shucks. You guys know how to lift a guy's spirits!

Tons of great pics on here in this thread. Makes for a good time perusing.

Very nice

Savage 99-A 250-3000 Speer HotCor 87 gr on top of 34.5 gr H4895

Wow, with a 99, no less. That will be a great memory for sure.

Wow. Awesome buck Roundoak! Cool rifle as well.

"Bang fugking flop"

Nice buck, man!

That means extry phuuucking dead!!

Nice buck.

Posted our family hunt with pics on the CF but this is my best Mule to date......308, 130gr TTSX at 175 yds.

Stud there!

Congrats.

F F

That's a D A N D Y !! He can decorate my wall anytime.

Don't have them kind round here !! grin

Jerry

my bowhunting buddy has had a good year....

Nice Mulie!

Congratulations that's a great buck! Mass all around.

Nice buck congratulations

Hell yes he has!

[quote=huntsman22]my bowhunting buddy has had a good year....





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Almost Speechless !! uh Wow, uh Dang, uh Sheesh, uh JEALOUS.

Great Work

Jerry

Green light & red dot specials behind my house. Oldest and I walked back to a stand I have there and pulled down a good sow for some freezer filler. Been just boars so far this year. Little guys came back at dark, so I lined them up and lit them up. We can now do that year-round in LA. Blue box Federal .308 150s work just fine.

Local guy makes great pineapple and pepperjack smoked link sausage, and the kids have been waiting on it.

Heres another product of Green Kill light/Red Dot of Doom with my .222

I put my heart and soul into killing this guy's pack leader this year, and today was my last chance. I have a personal vendetta and history with the Alpha male of this pack...He's a steer and a horse killer and distinctively dark colored, with that blunt nosed "look" mature males get. The pic is blurry but based on this guy's track size, I believe this is a younger wolf and not the one I really have been chasing. MFWP got involved (and maybe USDA), but were unsuccessful in totally ridding this pack.

I had the Alpha at 40 yards a few years ago while turkey hunting, and called both him and another into range of a friend of mine in 2018, when the "other" got whacked. I never saw them that day and purposefully had the guy I was with sit 3-400 yards downwind of where I was calling. I've caught glimpses of what I suspect was him (the Alpha) a few more times the last couple of years. I wouldn't doubt I have seen this guy in the picture, but can't confirm that. I did not get any pics of my nemesis nor actually see him this year...but saw his distinctive tracks so I am positive he is still alive.

In 2015 I messed up big time with a black member of his pack at 200 yards...couldn't positively ID it from a bear until it got into the trees.




Until next year......

What state are you in? Here in Idaho, most of the wolf seasons are open year round. Of course any wolf season is better than no season.

That pack is behind my mom's place in western Montana...where I have hunted since a teenager. The season is open until March 15 but I no longer live there (here). I come back to hunt it every year and am flying out at 7:30 tomorrow morning. I told my niece I'd take her out for a whitetail this evening, else I'd still be trying for him.

Now THATS a good season!

Thanks! My Wyoming elk hunt was a bust which was disappointing.... But that's the way it goes. Did get the kid a couple bucks which was awesome. One cow elk tag to go.

Congrats Andy - looks like you had another successful season. All fine animals really like that blacktail - nice buck!!

Thanks! I was hunting her out of a tree stand and had a bomber blacktail come it at 40 yards behind the stand. Apparently he caught me moving because when I finally noticed him we were already in a staring contest.... He decided it was time to leave before the kid could get on him. Sneaky bastards.

S H A Z A A M !!

Way to Go.

Jerry

Congrats all, looks like a great year aheider.

A wolf is on the bucket list Tiny.

Awesome JPro! That sausage sounds really good.

I would say that you have had a great season! Congratulations

Love that blacktail!

I've been fortunate enough to hunt Montana for around 12 seasons now, but have never taken a whitetail out there before this season. Fell in love with mule deer hunting my first trip out there, and have been fortunate to take a few nice bucks along the way. I was watching a meadow with several smaller bucks and does/yearlings when I happened to glance behind me. Noticed a big body out at about 600 yards. The closer he got, the more interested I got, but I still didn't know what he truly was. Luckily for me, he starting bumping does and closed to 250 yards with about 20 minutes of light left. Took the shot, and could not have been more pleased when I walked up to him.

6x7. NULA 280ai, with 160gr Partition. You never know what Montana will gift you!

That’s a hoss!

Salute YOU first '. Thanks for your service!!!!!!

Yes Sir that's a hoss, no doubt. Glad 4 U

Jerry

Awesome Buck congratulations

Very nice! Great buck!

That's a bruiser, man!

Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen. I’ll miss Montana next year, as I’m finally checking one off the bucket list and doing a DIY drop in Alaska moose with a great friend. But, I’m already booked in Montana for 2022.

That’s a great whitetail congratulations. Proof that no matter what the species there’re are dandy’s to be found.

Thats a nice buck. Congrats!

Most excellent USMC2602 and Thanks for your service!

Just another year of typical pubic land hunting, nothing fancy.

Started out in January of 2020 with a late Wyoming cow for me:



Helped a good friend from Laramie with this elk:



General season WY elk for myself and 3 buddies...all of us shot elk.

Found this bull and since my buddy had never shot a bull, and I've killed a ton of them:



I shot this cow a couple days later, one of my other buddies shot a spike about an hour earlier too:



My other friend with his cow, all of us tagged out:



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:







And one for the table:

Having hunted elk a lot, I particularly like the youngish cow that fell near the road....

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.