2017 Hunts
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Ammo Smith
- Feb 27, 2006
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Hoping my right shoulder surgery and my left knee surgery all get healed up enough that I can get out after spring black bear here in Montana. I've not been out coyote or wolf hunting because if I slip and take a spill there's a good chance I could re-damage my rotator cuff and I sure don't want to do that surgery all over again so I'm being patient. Spring will come soon enough although it was -20 degrees Fahrenheit this morning at my house as I was leaving for work. Might try and do some spring Turkey hunting too if I have time.
Would love to draw that bighorn sheep tag this fall after plenty of years of trying, maybe a moose tag as well! Who knows maybe I'll get really lucky. I'll put in for bison also and I'm sure I'll put in for a special mule deer and elk tag for some real quality areas. If I don't draw the deer or elk I can always hunt on my general tag. I always purchase the Sportsmans license so it allows me to hunt deer (mule and whitetail), elk, bear (spring & fall), upland birds, and fishing.
Would really like to get that .280 Ackley out there again and use it some more. I want to play with the Accubonds in it now to see how it likes them. Loves the Partitions so we shall see.
David
Would love to draw that bighorn sheep tag this fall after plenty of years of trying, maybe a moose tag as well! Who knows maybe I'll get really lucky. I'll put in for bison also and I'm sure I'll put in for a special mule deer and elk tag for some real quality areas. If I don't draw the deer or elk I can always hunt on my general tag. I always purchase the Sportsmans license so it allows me to hunt deer (mule and whitetail), elk, bear (spring & fall), upland birds, and fishing.
Would really like to get that .280 Ackley out there again and use it some more. I want to play with the Accubonds in it now to see how it likes them. Loves the Partitions so we shall see.
David
I really want to take my dad prairie dog hunting this spring if I can. He is getting old enough, and lazy enough, that he doesn't want to do any big hunts anymore so it would be fun to take him after some prairie dogs. He really wants to go to Argentina after doves but that is a little more than I want to spend anytime soon when places like Alaska and New Zealand are calling to me (BC too but I need my future brother in-law to tie the knot and then 3 years later I can go hunting with him. He is the only one on my wife's side of the family that gets a hunting license every year). Maybe if times are good the next few years I'll find a way to get my dad down there. 3, 4, or even 5 days of dove and duck slaying would be pretty fun.
D21ALASKA
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Hoping for the draw to come through so I can get my wife on her first caribou this fall. Also want all the other goat/sheep/moose/bison tags I put in for myself to come through as well......but we'll see. If not it'll just be bear/moose around the house for me and maybe a trip for blacktail to Kodiak or POW.
salmonchaser
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- Dec 13, 2013
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Blacktail on POW, and black bear is a great hunt. Shoot I guess it was 25 years ago, holy cow. The silver fishing was great as well.
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elkhunternm
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- Jan 10, 2017
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Going to put in for deer,cow elk and javelina here in New Mexico.
35 Whelen
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Fish have been biting like crazy right here in front of our place! So been having fun with them since Christmas.
Just getting started with winter coyote and that runs thru April, have a hunter that wants to hunt Black Bear in NB this spring, so will get to do some Atlantic Salmon fishing while I am there. My neighbor invited me to Northern Saskatchewan for big Whiteys, so couple of Canadian
Hunts. A friend that lives in Idaho claims he wants me to
Help him this year in Elk camp, and I love hunting out there, so that's a 35 Whelen trip!
Of course we are nearly fully booked again, for the month
Of October, with our English Setters! Grouse & Woodcock will get a hurry up from us everyday in October.
I usually do a couple of moose hunts in September, but have to wait and see who draws a tag! And have the usual Fellas back every year for bears n deer, some are still alive that hunted with my father in the 1950s! So we should be able to get the barrel warmed ☝.
Pride of the fleet: Tamarack.
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Happy hunters
Just getting started with winter coyote and that runs thru April, have a hunter that wants to hunt Black Bear in NB this spring, so will get to do some Atlantic Salmon fishing while I am there. My neighbor invited me to Northern Saskatchewan for big Whiteys, so couple of Canadian
Hunts. A friend that lives in Idaho claims he wants me to
Help him this year in Elk camp, and I love hunting out there, so that's a 35 Whelen trip!
Of course we are nearly fully booked again, for the month
Of October, with our English Setters! Grouse & Woodcock will get a hurry up from us everyday in October.
I usually do a couple of moose hunts in September, but have to wait and see who draws a tag! And have the usual Fellas back every year for bears n deer, some are still alive that hunted with my father in the 1950s! So we should be able to get the barrel warmed ☝.
Pride of the fleet: Tamarack.
Shaved steak n cheddar subs.
Happy hunters
I had a big 2016, so 2017 is going to be pretty slow :wink:. I am hoping for regular Elk along with late Bull Moose.
Will be doing more Pheasant this coming fall & I will be giving Whitetail a more concerted effort if this winter does not take its toll.
Blessings,
Dan
Will be doing more Pheasant this coming fall & I will be giving Whitetail a more concerted effort if this winter does not take its toll.
Blessings,
Dan
Hoping to draw for elk this year in Wyoming. We are going to have to try a new area, just across the highway from where we have hunted. Point creep has been staying ahead of us in the unit we used to hunt and we are tired of building points. It will be similar hunting just unfamiliar territory, maybe a little rougher. If we don't draw for the elk we might try to cash in our antelope points instead. Next year will be the AK moose hunt so whichever we don't draw we will have 2 more points for in 2019 when we get to planning another trip.
Past that it's just coyotes and whitetail around home, hopefully a bobcat will come to a call at some point too.
Past that it's just coyotes and whitetail around home, hopefully a bobcat will come to a call at some point too.
Already applied for a cow tag in Wyoming, we also are relocating to another unit. Which after a day long windshield survey looks like a great spot. A little tougher country, which will probably reduce my odds a little but, I will be going in, and scouting a few days early I have the draw odds on several Nevada late season hunts on the desk in front of me now. And I want to go back to Oregon and, am always fearful of not drawing a tag there. They don't offer many non-resident second season tags. Oregon will always have a special place in my heart, because my dad and I hunted there for many years. And now Scotty and others go with me, making new memories.
Archery deer in my back yard if one can call that hunting.
Archery deer in my back yard if one can call that hunting.
DrMike
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- Nov 8, 2006
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Congratulations, Keith! Great opportunity for you. What's your "go to" shotgun and load for turkey?
elkhunternm
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Not going to put in for cow elk. So,instead,will try for an NM antelope tag.
Guy Miner
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elkhunternm":1ppjwaim said:
Good luck!
elkhunternm
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Thanks Guy Miner,I'm going to need a lot of luck! :lol:
salmonchaser
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mcseal2":9uimv0wd said:
Where will you be hunting in Alaska?
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Where will you be hunting in Alaska?
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Hunting with Papa Bear outfitter, flying out of Bethel. He basically is a transporter that scouts an area the way I understand it. We will rent camp and an inflatable boat from him, bring own food and other gear. He drops us off for 10 days in an area he has scouted and we hunt on our own. We can take 100lbs/man of food and gear not counting camp.
Any advice is welcome, I've never moose hunted before.
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Hunting with Papa Bear outfitter, flying out of Bethel. He basically is a transporter that scouts an area the way I understand it. We will rent camp and an inflatable boat from him, bring own food and other gear. He drops us off for 10 days in an area he has scouted and we hunt on our own. We can take 100lbs/man of food and gear not counting camp.
Any advice is welcome, I've never moose hunted before.
