First Big Game Animals

[Red Rabbit]

Let's see some photos of your first big game animal for each specie.

[bowhuntaz1]

My first was a muley doe out of the deserts of Yuma. It was the last year you could take an archery doe. I lost the pic when I moved to Mesa.

First and only elk to date.

First squrriel-zilla

[Red Rabbit]

First Eastern Whitetail buck that was not a spike. Mathis, TX about 1984.

 

First Antelope. Unit 52 NM, 1985.

 

First Coues Whitetail, AZ unit 29, Skeleton Canyon.

 

First Bull Elk, AZ unit 9, 1992

 

First Turkey, AZ unit 9 fall hunt.

 

First Mule Deer, UT, Panguitch Lake.

 

First Bear, San Carlos Apache, unit B

 

First Sitka Blacktail, Kodiak Island, AK

 

 

[WFGinNM]

Cool Topic, I'm going to have to break out the archived photo albums and do some "Redneck Scanning" with the digital camera.

 

--Bill

[Browning'sCustomMeat]

Doug, that deer from Texas has a BEAutiful coat.

[WOODSAZ]

Awesome Doug! I think taking the time to get some really good qaulity field photo is worth it! Those look like some great memories. I think Ill have to dig through my parents photos this weekend. Great topic!

 

Jay

[mr.smith]

Sweet Pics! Looking more like Gray Rabbit in that last pic Doug.

[Red Rabbit]

Sweet Pics! Looking more like Gray Rabbit in that last pic Doug.

 

Yeah, had to leave the Grecian Formula behind on that trip because of airline baggage weight concerns.

[youngbuck]

like the sitka pic doug. Ive always thought they were pretty neat critters.

 

Anyways here is my very first big game animal in 1996. I was 10yo, cow @ 100 yards w/ the .243 Ill have to scounge up my first muley, coues and javy pics.

 

 

Oh and my first bull in '08 I have on PB too

 

 

and my first coues that wasnt a spike

[Browning'sCustomMeat]

Sweet Pics! Looking more like Gray Rabbit in that last pic Doug.

 

Yeah, had to leave the Grecian Formula behind on that trip because of airline baggage weight concerns.

 

Doug, at what age did you start hunting?

[.270]

bill quimby's first was a young triceritops that him and his cousin grog killed with rocks. they took a photo but it was one o' them fred flinstone cameras with the woodpecker in it and it came out fuzzy because of a bad negative. Lark.

[Red Rabbit]

Doug, at what age did you start hunting?

 

I did not start hunting until after college and I moved to south Texas in the fall of 1980. Prior the that I only fished.

[Red Rabbit]

Youngbuck,

Nice pair of elk for firsts.

[savagman]

First big game animal - first Javi

 

 

First Mule deer

 

 

First and only Elk - still hoping for a bull tag...