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Owe Trust me... I'm trying... My 2 Brothers, Niece made me look bad this year.... 11 pt'r & turkey with bow.... 3 ten pointers with shotgun (one had 18 3/4" inside measurement)

... I got 2x coyotes, and saw my first female bobcat in the wild.

I saw the buck I wanted twice... but with bow (rut) he ran past my stand... and other time was 168 yards with branches in way during shotgun season. We call this deer the "Brow-tine Buck"... his Brow tines are as big as his g1's.. and he's a huge ten! I want to call him "Sky Scraper". His rack is way past his ears; guessing maybe 165-175 class at least?! He's still hiding on my Dad's property.. I will find him and he will go on the wall! :P

Both my Brother's have made the Iowa Top 10 Deer records and recieved arm patches from the state... 191 & 183 class.. also had a 8-pt 161 that you could put a beach ball in his rack and would go thru! They rub it in all the time.. maybe this year I'll go do a little extra scouting :P
 
Sounds like you're in the game. Your persistence will pay off. :thumbup:

My dad's got a saying, don't ask me where it came from, "You can't get 'em by sittin' around eating popcorn." He usually reserves that for those rainy, miserable days when I glance over at him with the look, like what the heck are we doing out here today??!! :) He takes a lot of critters just out of sheer refusal to quit.

If you guys are putting some stuff in the books, man that's awesome. My dad has one mountain lion in B&C, I've hunted them my whole life and have three that are 1/16" shy. I was able to take a bear that would go pretty well into the Idaho books at 20-1/8" but would only make the 3-year B&C book and I'm not bothering unless it will go into the all-time. If you've got the time to post pictures we'd love to see them.
 
I went horseback riding today... found some entire heads with pointy things sticking out of them....

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Holy cow, that buck on the right is awesome. Well, they both are, but especially that one, it's fully matured and look how it carries the mass all the way out. Two in one trip, huh? Nice find.

I've got a couple I should take a shot of, a big muley that someone hit with a shot across the nose and couldn't retrieve, and a whitetail killed by a lion, both big mature deer.

That's really cool man. Thanks for the picture.
 
I ran out this morning and snapped a few pictures of the bucks I mentioned above





Found the whitetail on a hunting trip in North Idaho. My hunting buddy came into camp and told me about finding a scattered-out kill that was fresh. He brought part of a leg back and it was plain by the size of the hoof that it was a big deer. I quizzed him about it some and he said things were scattered out and fought over, he couldn't make sense of what had happened, but he had looked hard for the head and couldn't find it. I asked him if he could find it again and he said he could, so off we went.

When we got to the kill site, you could readily see where the buck had been taken down. There was patchy snow and the ground was soft in the thick dog hair new growth. It was a pretty good struggle, and you could see how the buck had really kicked and tore up the ground where he was down. And there were a lot of tore up, freshly scarred trees that he had kicked the bark hard enough to hit wood. All of this was low to the ground, struggling while on his side, and I knew right then a cat had him down and he was flailing trying to get loose.

I started up the back trail and it was pretty plain by the marks in the earth how the lion had hit him, knocked him off his feet, but the buck had got his legs under him and taken the cat about 50 yards with the lion hanging off the left side of his neck. He couldn't get loose and finally went down with a hundred pounds of cat attached to his neck. I say a hundred pounds because the lion tracks just looked like an average sized female, and they don't get much more than a hundred pounds or so.

My buddy had spent all morning searching up the back trail for the head, just not experienced enough to read the sign. I headed down the main trail, still tracking, and he said man I've been all over down there, too. I told him that I'd still like to look, and he said he was going to start circling out as he had already been there. Well I still had sign to follow, so I just started tracking it out, step by step, and in about a hundred yards found what was left of front end and head of the buck. It was 2-3 days old kill, and the lion had pretty much given it up and the coyotes had got to fighting over it and drug the head off. I whistled my buddy over, and said there he is, grab him and let's go. He muttered a couple of expletives, and said no, it's yours, I looked all morning and had given up on it.




The muledeer buck I found just busting brush, trying to push some elk for those on stand. Of course you hit the thickest stuff you can find, and I found him in a draw with the front end still held up by some of the thick brush and the bones of the back end kind of draped down toward the ground. I really wish I had a picture of it just the way I found it, but I was hunting, not picture taking, and had left the camera in camp. He had been there at least a year, and you can see where the squirrels and porcupines had gnawed on him some.




Looking at his skull, he must have been injured when he was very young, as the whole skull is kind of lopsided and developed a funky eyeguard away from the main beam. Look how much lower his left antler sits where it comes out of the skull.





Anyway, exracr just got me amped up by finding those heads so I thought I would share.

Cheers

 
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Trout season is underway in WI and I'm desperate to get out. Here is one from a couple years ago from CO.

 
I've never gotten to go trout fishing. I need to try my hands on a fly rod too. Looks like a very interesting contraption. :) thanks for sharing that picture. Good looking rainbow.
 
Thanks Texas! They were fun to find :)

Jon, like TT said, that is a beautiful rainbow. Love the bright colors on that one.
 
It was a beautiful fish and a beautiful morning that day. That fish came out of the Gunnison River. I wish to get back to Colorado one of years
 
Live updates from the trout stream! 28 minutes till first cast!



The moon is so bright i didnt need my headlamp to get to my spot!
 
Well the 'ole 5.1 strikes again! Pops and I both hit the limit and threw a handfull back!

 
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