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Hard Knocks
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Just coming off the mountains and finally got service. What a week! Season started last Saturday and ended yesterday evening. I lucked out with this stud, biggest buck I’ve ever killed.
That's a beauty, and it looks like you're in great country too. Congrats man!
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Right outside Gypsum, CO in the White River National Forest.
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We had the best deer season in 20+ years this year at our ranch in Southern Humboldt county California, we harvested 6 Blacktail bucks and the smallest was a 3x4
My son took the honor of the biggest with a 6x4
Here's my 4x4
My cousin's 4x4
His son's 4x4
And my other cousin's son's 4x4
Meat in the drying room
Our ranch
My son took the honor of the biggest with a 6x4
Here's my 4x4
My cousin's 4x4
His son's 4x4
And my other cousin's son's 4x4
Meat in the drying room
Our ranch
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Nice work, gents!
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Any luck this weekend?
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I had to take care of some house stuff yesterday. I got up here to the in laws at 5am this morning. Haven’t seen chit.
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cursed winds during prime rutting. can't get the southeast side and not bump deer from the neighboring landowner and all around good guy's property. forecasted to lay down a bit starting Tuesday. filled one antlered tag in black powder but want to see how the 280 hipster improved does on a gnarly eastern whitetail.
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There are some nice deer here. Thanks for posting pics and congrats to all who scored. 
Hard Knocks
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Envious! Man those are all nice blacktail, and that top one is a dandy. Congrats!
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My hunting buddy's whitetail that he got today. An acceptable 4x4 in my opinion.
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I got to get into Utah for a bull hunt here recently. I drew a really good tag and it was a stellar hunt. We saw several hundred head of elk in a few days and more bulls than cows.
Got there a couple days early and started spotting elk right off.....
Found the bull I wanted to kill the first day. That's a picture of him just above. Sorry for the image quality, most of these are taken with my cell through a spotting scope from several miles away. I need a phoneskope I guess. Anyway I wish I had a better picture of him, but you can at least see the size of his body, just a hog. More scope pics......
Every time we found a herd there were branch antlered bulls in it. We had bulls like the one below in front of us regularly. If I'd been at home on an open ground hunt I wouldn't have let ones like him walk. You can see the back and tips of one of his buddies up behind him.
I had the big bull I wanted in front of me opening morning, but there were two raghorn bulls blocking him. They finally moved a little and left a small shooting lane into his vitals, but the range was great enough that I couldn't guarantee I wouldn't get some drift into the other bull and so I held off. He was just inside the cedars like a big bull would be, and they were in the open between us. We waited for a clear shot for four or fivelifetimes minutes before he finally turned his butt to me and walked out of my life.
The second morning we were sitting back on the same spot before light. It was about an hour walk to get to where we wanted to be if you made sure you were doing it right, and it was butt cold waiting. When light started breaking we had elk filing past to their bedding area, and it was just bull after bull. I let the bull I ended up killing walk this morning, trying to find the big bull again. Two of my hunting buddies were watching from a couple of miles away throught he spotting scope and told me later the big bull walked past us, but just over the roll of the terrain where we couldn't see him from our set-up. They were about to have a coming apart wondering why I didn't shoot until they saw how the land lay. We backed out and kept an eye on the area to see if someone would bust them out of their bedding area, but even though there were several other hunters, no one had found these elk until that evening.......
Morning of day three, we were back on our overlook with bulls filing past us, and then we've got two guys coming up through the bottom. No way could you approach those elk that way and hope for anything but a jump shot, and I knew the gig was up. We let nine bulls pass us and I pulled the trigger on bull #10, the second best one that I had a chance to get lead into, and the best one there that morning, and I am thrilled to be able to take him home.
I feel very blessed to have gotten to make this hunt, and am so thankful for those guys who helped me. No way would I have had the quality hunt I did without their help. Best of luck to those of us still looking to fill tags and freezers this year and cheers from Idaho.
Dave
Got there a couple days early and started spotting elk right off.....
Found the bull I wanted to kill the first day. That's a picture of him just above. Sorry for the image quality, most of these are taken with my cell through a spotting scope from several miles away. I need a phoneskope I guess. Anyway I wish I had a better picture of him, but you can at least see the size of his body, just a hog. More scope pics......
Every time we found a herd there were branch antlered bulls in it. We had bulls like the one below in front of us regularly. If I'd been at home on an open ground hunt I wouldn't have let ones like him walk. You can see the back and tips of one of his buddies up behind him.
I had the big bull I wanted in front of me opening morning, but there were two raghorn bulls blocking him. They finally moved a little and left a small shooting lane into his vitals, but the range was great enough that I couldn't guarantee I wouldn't get some drift into the other bull and so I held off. He was just inside the cedars like a big bull would be, and they were in the open between us. We waited for a clear shot for four or five
The second morning we were sitting back on the same spot before light. It was about an hour walk to get to where we wanted to be if you made sure you were doing it right, and it was butt cold waiting. When light started breaking we had elk filing past to their bedding area, and it was just bull after bull. I let the bull I ended up killing walk this morning, trying to find the big bull again. Two of my hunting buddies were watching from a couple of miles away throught he spotting scope and told me later the big bull walked past us, but just over the roll of the terrain where we couldn't see him from our set-up. They were about to have a coming apart wondering why I didn't shoot until they saw how the land lay. We backed out and kept an eye on the area to see if someone would bust them out of their bedding area, but even though there were several other hunters, no one had found these elk until that evening.......
Morning of day three, we were back on our overlook with bulls filing past us, and then we've got two guys coming up through the bottom. No way could you approach those elk that way and hope for anything but a jump shot, and I knew the gig was up. We let nine bulls pass us and I pulled the trigger on bull #10, the second best one that I had a chance to get lead into, and the best one there that morning, and I am thrilled to be able to take him home.
I feel very blessed to have gotten to make this hunt, and am so thankful for those guys who helped me. No way would I have had the quality hunt I did without their help. Best of luck to those of us still looking to fill tags and freezers this year and cheers from Idaho.
Dave
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Congrats
Hard Knocks
! Heckuva bull man! What are you shooting?
Hard Knocks
! Heckuva bull man! What are you shooting?
Hard Knocks
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Congrats
Thanks Mark. It's a 6.5 PRC build. NOT my choice for big bulls but shoots just stupid good and I knew I might be stretching out the barrel in big country. I stayed out of the shoulder and in the ribs and it did great pushing 156 grain EOLs. I believe I will go ahead and do a 30 cal or 33 cal build in a similar setup tho, just in case the stars ever align again.
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