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well we drew again the same tags we have had for the past three years,the first year we went we had five tags and all tagged out, last year we killed one buck outta five (106 inch) and this year we killed 2 outta five. me and my father had the whole hunt off so we were ready just to relax and have fun but get some meat. we were going to look for good bucks first but were not going to go home empty handed. my dad was first up, i really wanted him to get a nice buck, but the first day proved to be nothing but hunters every where. the game and fish have almost ruined the quality of some hunts with the amount of permits they out out. i cant prove it but i think with our gps radios we had people following us after my buddy spotted some bucks and the hunt was on until the mountain side that had no one on it unloaded with a hail of gun fire on two of the bucks. right over our heads. anyways me and my father took the high hike up at four in the morning to get awaway from every one and right at first light i spotted his buck. he was bedded at 300 yards and my dad made a great shot and kept the buck bedded for easy retrieval. its his biggest white tail to date so he was happy. thats why he put the burnt charcoal from the tree he shot off on his face, he said he had his game face on after he shot the buck:laugh4: the next morning we made the hike again and i spotted a nice buck with a couple spikes and i couldnt resist. i said before the hunt all i wanted was a unique stalk and a hard stalk on a nice buck and i would take him. well two hours of stalking i found myself above the buck at fifty yards the only problem is we had lost him in the stalk and the slippery thing got away without being seen. three hours later we found him bedded and put another great stalk on. we did the cliff hanger on the a huge bluff 90 yards above him. when he rose up from his bed i made the shot and it was over. i shot him with a hornady sst bullet and the blood trail in the 25 yards he went was incredible. it was a short but great hunt. aint nothing better then getting outta town with your dad and having a successful hunt that started off bad. we both have bull tags at the same time in november and we cant wait to do it all again. thx and enjoy

the rifle was a rifle my dad had won at a national turkey federation banquet. savage 270, after he shot his buck i thought i would have some fun and use it as well, sweet lil gun. as far as the load and bullet all i know is they were the hornady sst. i have some for my 338 that i will use for my bull hunt this year, sweet bullets

My girlfriend Brittany drew a good bull tag and a muley tag this year, and had her jacked all year long as she prepared. We bought her a remington 308 and set it up with a vortex 3.5-10 x 50 scope, with bipod. She practiced all summer long shooting and waiting for the fun to start. The time could not come fast enough for her! As we prepared for what we thought would be an interesting hunt, we had confusion thinking her deer hunt and elk hunt started on the same day. I dont know how we did this but we did, three weeks before her elk hunt, and one week before i headed south for my whitetail hunt we found out we had messed up. Her deer hunt started the same day as my whitetail but went for one week longer then my whitetail. Now the pressure was on. So I took off for my whitetail hunt with my father and was preparing to be gone for the whole hunt. Then I would come back on the last day to get Brit and take her out for the last four days of her deer hunt. Well we got our whitetails on saturday and mine on sunday, post that story on another section later today. so with two days before she could get off work me and my father hit the woods in a higher elevation and a different species in mind. We located an area on Tuesday that seem to hold alot of deer, more then we were used to for muleys. As the sun dropped we glassed a big ol bear feeding on some pears, now with the new distraction (bear season is still open in this area) we couldnt make our mind up on to have her chase the bear or chase deer, not a bad problem to have! Wednesday we took to sleep in and prepare for her first day of her hunt. Opening day turned up no bear, but we saw fifteen bucks with the bigger ones out of our range with not enough time to reach them. For her first deer tag she wanted a nice buck and didnt mind holding out. She had an opportunity at a 3x3 but elected to pass and felt she ws not comfortable with that shot, so we let the buck move on. Late Thursday evening I spotted two really nice bucks on a flat below us, but like all the other big ones they were outta reach and we were outta time. With the first day over her confidence was down, she thought she had made a mistake passing that deer and was worried it would haunt her. Day two Brittany, my father, my cousin, and my self all made the long long drive into our area. My father went to his knob to glass as the rest of us headed down a ridge to get above the bucks from the evening before. We walked into the area in the dark, and set up and awaited the sun to come up. Thirty minutes into glassing a look back across to see if i could come up with the big bear and not more then 100 yards from where he was I glass horns! I get everyones attention and out steps a great looking 3x4, still trying to finish the velvet off his antlers. We make a quick game plan, and we are off! Me and Brittany take about and hour and half to get across and up the canyon the buck is now laying. My heart knew we were getting close because it started pounding harder and harder as we neared the rock we would try and shoot from. We get out on the rock and all we can see is brush below us but we now the buck is close. Now here we are sitting trying to figure our next move, do we throw a rock and get him to stand or do we wait him out. I sat behind Britt patiently glassing for any sign of an ear or antler tip, nothing! As I wanted her to get the best opportunity at this buck the stress levels began to rise fast. Twenty long minutes later we are sitting there and im going over scenarios with her incase he is to run or do something un expected. As we are talking i look down and there he stands, 100 yards and is looking up hill with just his neck and head showing. I point the buck out and Britt gets on him instantly and says are you ready! I tell her YES!! and to hold on his neck and squeeze, BOOM! That buck never stepped or moved, she put him straight back in his bed and we almost jumped off the rock cliff in excitment!! The out come exceeded what she wanted, she wanted to get her first deer but wanted to make it a fun hunt with a good buck. She got everything she asked for and for all of us to be there and enjoy her first buck was an awesome experience that we wont forget. To make the hunt a little more interesting and almost alot harder, after the shot and about thirty minutes passing. We get done to the buck and start enjoying what just happened when I look down the canyon only to see that big bear moving down the canyon fairly fast. I grab Britts rifle and take a rest, he was at four hundred yards but with me trying to stop him he would never stop to give a shot. So we let him go another day but we will be out soon looking for him. This hunt turned out to be a great success and to make it better her bull hunt starts this friday and we will be back at it in the woods for her first elk, bull elk!! Enjoy! Brittany Britt and me My father, Britt and my cousin Hopefully her elk hunt will be next! wish her luck

yes its a lever action, if people are interested i will post pictures. i just was seeing if anyone would be interested. thx

i have a brand new model 9410 shotgun laying around, i have no use for it and wondered if anyone on here did. if so you can contact me at 9288997237 or applineman@gmail.com thx

i got an old bow i fixed up for bowfishing that i wanna sell. i got enough bowfishing stuff. i got this one set up with ams bowfishing products, includes, ams arrow rest, ams pro retriever with line, also have an old sight on it with one pin. i just fixed this up for extra and i dont need it. all the ams gear is brand new. the bow is an old browning, its set at fifty five pounds i think. looking for 180$, the gear alone is around 110$. email if interested, thx email is applineman@gmail.com

this past weekend i me and brit finally took a break from shed hunting and prowling around, to run down to the lake. my cousin introduced me into shooting talapia and man did we have fun. it was hard to adapt to and those things are jumpy. we finally figured them out and i whacked five of them. these things taste alot better then carp also!! had a blast here is my stringer. enjoy

headed to bartlet this weekend going to do some fishing all weekend. anyone been here lately? just wondering what the weather, wind and everything has the fish up to. gonna do some night fishing and what not. just wondering, not many reports from there pon here or the game and fish. thx

i have been trying all over the place to find polaris rims for a couple spares. several of us are looking but they are pretty dang hard to find. let me of any or some tips to find some. thx

well we headed out sunday morning looking for some more sheds. me britney my dad and my dog mailey all jumoed in the ranger and bout froze our butts off!! as soon as we left the truck i found the first shed, a nice brownie!! dad followed up with the next brownie. i had walked through to meet him and some how missed it. makes you wonder how many you walk by and never see. britneys first brownie was right along the road we drove in on and we never saw it till she was walking back to the ranger. from here i spotted one more small brown, i could just see the pedicle as we walked by, i was on my phone with my mom and looked over and could see the pedicle shining!! after this my dad spotted four horns across the way so i proceeded to hike down and across to pick em up. we found nine total four brown and five whites. beside the wind and snow and rain it was a good trip. enjoy mine my dads britneys find the horn

I need some input or help on finding a youth rifle, caliber 270. Just having a hard time finding youth rifles that could be used for deer and elk. Thanks for any help. OK I guess I didn't write this how I intended to. Thanks for the input, I know what caliber and have ideas on which one we will get. I need help on finding where to buy the rifle. Or what stores even sell youth models so u can go check them out. Thx

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went out this last sunday for a ride in our elk unit. me and my dad drew bull tags this year, dunno how i pulled it off being that i had this tag last year. sorry for those who didnt want to hear that , anyways we got out and made a ride through some area that we hiunt in looking for sheds that people may have missed. all the big browns are gone, couple quads probably had a good time running off country picking up horns, the elk sign was every where. they really wintered here this year so i can imagine how many they picked up. but anyways they missed two small five points that have just recently shed! thank you, plus a set i had spotted during my elk hunt was still there, and for a reason, but i was crazy enough to get em! enjoy britney with a horn we missed last year but had picked oone up right by it, somehow missed this one

well once i finally convinced britney to get one of them left over tags we started scoutin. i had never hunted this unit but as the pictures show we had no problems finding the pigs beofre the hunt. that all changed once the hunt started, we struggled bad. we hunted for three days and never saw a pig, until the last couple hours of our last day. we hiked in the rain and covered many miles while turning no pigs up. as we were coming to and end to tje hunt we crossed a creek, i stopped and by chance spotted what looked to be an old pig track. so i parked and walked up the creek about twenty yards and indeed they were old pig tracks, but that previous day had been raining so they could only be so old. i decided that we could just walk the creek in hopes of kicking something up. as we started the hike the wind shifted so we climbed to the top in case of them being in front of us, and what a good move. once on top we spotted the herd of about twenty pigs. we put about a twenty minute stalk on them and had one cross over to our side of the canyon to where she was able to get a fifteen yard shot and out her first pig down. tons of fun and very rewarding after all the work we had put in to this hunt to get her first animal under her belt. enjoy first scouting day preparing for her hunt having some fun second trip scouting the final day

well i had the day off and got to go down and see what the carp were doing, i love bow fishing. i had totally forgot the recent weather would have the water all turned up but it ended up not being too bad. we shot about twenty or twenty five fish. had a ton of fun, good way too pass the time waiting on them horns to fall!!!!! here are some pictures enjoy!

went out this morning to look at an area we like to shed hunt and saw some good things. 33 total bulls from one vantage point, one complete shed bull, and two with only one horn with fresh looking pedicles. as tempting as it was to run down there and gather them up (if they were laying there) we pulled out waiting for more to hit the dirt. did glass up this dead bull down below us, nice and stinky. through out the day we found two dead elk and one deer, tough winter or something, here are some pictures enjoy

i have a huge commercial, two door stand up and on wheels fridge i need to get rid of. i got ahold of it for other reasons but those fell through iand i have no use for it. stainless steel and its in great shape. 1500 obo they go for like 4 grand new. 9288997237 is my cell, let me know if you have any questions

i usually doo use the same bow but this year i bought a new one so i could use my old bow just for fishing. the bow she is using is one i bought from ams bowfishing website. come set up ready to shoot and is very adjustable, works realy nice. the water is pretty murky right now and you would have a heck of a time wading in the water trying to sneak up on them, the visability is too tough. but hopefully it ll will settle soon.

sorry i forgot to say that i posted this for a friend, he asked me to put it up and put his number. feel free to call him, sorry thanks

1987 suzuki samari runs great, needs a little work. used for some hunts this year and was great, hate to get rid of it but need to. 2000 obo cell phone 9287134329

good luck on getting them to wait. my hope is the roads stay wet enough that there is no access with quads and vehicles and that will allow them to drop their horns with no distractions. where i go the roads are pretty muddy and hopefully this storm coming will keep them that way and allow enough time. hopefully

ha ha ha thats funny

no kidding onm the date, after reading that post and tellin my father about it yesterday here i go posting on here and finally noticed that my date is wrong to. oops easy mistake, thx

well once i finally convinced brittnay to get one of them left over tags we started scoutin. i had never hunted this unit but as the pictures show we had no problems finding the pigs beofre the hunt. that all changed once the hunt started, we struggled bad. we hunted for three days and never saw a pig, until the last couple hours of our last day. we hiked in the rain and covered many miles while turning no pigs up. as we were coming to and end to tje hunt we crossed a creek, i stopped and by chance spotted what looked to be an old pig track. so i parked and walked up the creek about twenty yards and indeed they were old pig tracks, but that previous day had been raining so they could only be so old. i decided that we could just walk the creek in hopes of kicking something up. as we started the hike the wind shifted so we climbed to the top in case of them being in front of us, and what a good move. once on top we spotted the herd of about twenty pigs. we put about a twenty minute stalk on them and had one cross over to our side of the canyon to where she was able to get a fifteen yard shot and out her first pig down. tons of fun and very rewarding after all the work we had put in to this hunt to get her first animal under her belt. enjoy first scouting day preparing for her hunt having some fun second trip scouting the final day

good eye!! ya it was a 22 mag