Taking your game
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billbam":3k5qq93d said:
A few years back, I got up early, sat in my tree stand before light and didn't see a thing.
My wife told me there were 5-6 does in the backyard being harassed by a nice 8 pt!
She thought it was funny....
JD338
Not to many years ago my girlfriend, now wife helped my pack out a 5 point bull elk. This was a nasty hike mostly "up" and I mean up about 1800 feet then across a gully then at last to the elk. I loaded her very light and we got the bull down out of there in two trips. Two seperate days. On the way home on the highway there were two hunters off of the road dressing out a branch antlered bull as we came driving by. I am still to this day taking grief for that hunt. Can we have another catagory of "from the road while drinking coffee in the truck", just kidding . :grin:
Side note, those back yard pictures looks similar to mine except I have less trees to get in the way of the arrow!!!
Side note, those back yard pictures looks similar to mine except I have less trees to get in the way of the arrow!!!
JD338":tkiwe1c0 said:
LOL That happened to me this fall. I went to a stand on our ranch about 3/4 of a mile from our house for an evening sit. My wife didn't go out that night as she was messing around with putting a new program on her computer. She went to get a cup of coffee and there was a nice buck pushing a doe around in the backyard.
I asked her why she didn't shoot it and she said she was laughing and thinking about me being our on stand with a good one in the backyard and when it finally hit her, "Gee I should shoot that buck.", he had disappeared with the doe by the time she went and got her rifle.- Thread starter
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In this state during shotgun or muzzleloader seasons, it dependeds on where you hunt. State land is usually pretty crowded to be walking around unless it is late in the season. I think most of us like be be on foot, its more exciting. Also, its not boring. Even during bowseason, i like to get about. I have several spots which I have on the ground where i can tuck myself in to watch a couple of trails. What i'll do is hunt to a certain time at the first spot, then move to the next spot. I'll do this to about 10:00 if i'm not going to stay all day. By doing this you also scout, picking up the hot trails. I have set up others and assisted them getting their deer by doing this. I had done this with a friends father, trying to get him his first bow deer. Everytime something goes wrong for him. I had the deer patterned knowing they crossed at a certain time. We set up, here come the deer. He tries to draw, they picked up on the movement. Had him in ground bind, arrow falls of bow with buck 10 yards away. I could go on but I ve tried real hard and he never did get his deer.
I have another property where the rule is tree stands only, no walking. If I had a choice, I'd rather be on foot.
I have another property where the rule is tree stands only, no walking. If I had a choice, I'd rather be on foot.
Guy Miner
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Long range. Short range. Whatever!
I enjoy hunting. Over just the past few years I've taken game from about 20 or 30 yards out to 400 yards. Range is just one factor. I appreciate a challenging hunt, no matter if the range turns out to be short or long. Sometimes I also really appreciate an easier hunt! :grin:
Regards, Guy
I enjoy hunting. Over just the past few years I've taken game from about 20 or 30 yards out to 400 yards. Range is just one factor. I appreciate a challenging hunt, no matter if the range turns out to be short or long. Sometimes I also really appreciate an easier hunt! :grin:
Regards, Guy
Greg Nolan
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Hey! you left out the most effective and common method. Run over on highway :lol:
Guy Miner
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Effective. Common. And Very Expensive! :shock:
A young gal I know hammered a cougar, while driving her Mercury Cougar... Not far from here, she was on her way home from work.
A young gal I know hammered a cougar, while driving her Mercury Cougar... Not far from here, she was on her way home from work.
Greg Nolan
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DrMike
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+1
When we lived in Jasper, the elk lived in the townsite. One of my fondest memories was eating at the dining room table and watching the mating rituals of a bull that had pushed his harem into the fence that set off our back yard from a neighbour's yard and a playground. There was fencing or housing on three sides, and he had corralled his harem there. My grandchildren thought that grandpa was the greatest because he forced them elk into their backyard ... that is, until they discovered they couldn't go out to play.
Guy Miner
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Most folks don't know about Prairie Creek Redwoods, or the big elk there. I did, and took my wife and young sons camping there long ago. Great hiking area, and who the heck would figure that elk could be seen walking on a beach? Amazing. Some mighty big bulls in that herd as well.
Guy
Guy
DrMike
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Guy,
It looks and sounds like a great place to visit. Are these Tule elk?
It looks and sounds like a great place to visit. Are these Tule elk?
Here in eastern Canada the woods are very thick and I have taken a couple bucks that I could have killed with a pole axe, one was so close I had to line it up by looking down the side of the barrel, just hair in my scope. He was chasing a doe and didn't even see me. Another was a tad farther but still hair in my scope, it was a cool hunt, I may bore you with that story sometime. :roll: Both were 7 pointers by the way.
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No blinds here except antelope with a pistol or bow by a watering hole.
