Author Topic: Looking good!!!!! (Read 2118 times)

TCubed · « **on:** Oct 21, 2012, 01:11 PM »

The weather outside is starting to look good!!! Hopefully we can get some cold temps before all the snow flies and can get some good ice out there!

Jim F · « **Reply #1 on:** Oct 21, 2012, 09:41 PM »

"Like"

SeisMec · « **Reply #2 on:** Oct 21, 2012, 11:37 PM »

Hate to go off topic but I'm 8000 miles away at work. Get anything with horns?

TCubed · « **Reply #3 on:** Oct 22, 2012, 09:43 PM »

haven't even gotten a chance to get out yet $:-\$
Where the heck are you working???

Cornbread · « **Reply #4 on:** Oct 22, 2012, 11:09 PM »

Been out and got things with feathers but nothing with horns yet. Been seeing tons of does, only one buck and he was little so he got released to grow another year or six

Haven't seen any elk cow or bull at all. Actually haven't seen any elk up here around my place since archery season started up. If it keeps snowing like this though it will start pushing them down nearer to my place.

SeisMec · « **Reply #5 on:** Oct 23, 2012, 01:58 AM »

I'm actually only about 6700 mile away, I'm currently on a ship in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Plenty of water here but not allowed to fish.

Wife put on that it was only 26F this morning and this afternoon it started snowing!!!

Cornbread · « **Reply #6 on:** Oct 23, 2012, 11:40 AM »

Yep we got about two inches of wet melty snow here last night near Thompson Falls. It is melting away now though. I hope it snows again today and tonight, the more the better.

SeisMec · « **Reply #7 on:** Oct 23, 2012, 11:59 PM »

Thanks for the report guys!!!

Bullelk34 · « **Reply #8 on:** Oct 30, 2012, 08:48 PM »

Only horns so far for us, the wife strikes first again.....

missoulafish · « **Reply #9 on:** Nov 01, 2012, 08:47 AM »

Good pic!

gonehunting97 · « **Reply #10 on:** Nov 01, 2012, 09:32 PM »

Got my first p&y goat opening day and video'd the hunt was awesome!!

BackCountry Kyle · « **Reply #11 on:** Nov 01, 2012, 11:04 PM »

Very Nice!

HVFD14 · « **Reply #12 on:** Nov 02, 2012, 04:05 PM »

Tagged out and waiting for ice now. My first P&Y buck. Rough green score was 134 1/2. My best bull so far too, decent 6x6.

MTangler · « **Reply #13 on:** Nov 04, 2012, 12:08 AM »

Nice one! What is p&y?

MTA

icemanwoody · « **Reply #14 on:** Nov 04, 2012, 12:57 AM »

Pope & young its a club like boone and crockett where they hold records for north american big game, but its bow harvested animals.

addicted to ice fishing · « **Reply #15 on:** Nov 04, 2012, 04:51 AM »

Congrats to all of you on your successful hunts!

dingaling · « **Reply #16 on:** Nov 05, 2012, 08:58 PM »

Just watched the news and they are saying single digit lows for this weekend. Time to get ready!

gonehunting97 · « **Reply #17 on:** Nov 07, 2012, 08:19 PM »

Hunting season has been good to me this year, bagged my best buck sunday

Cornbread · « **Reply #18 on:** Nov 07, 2012, 09:39 PM »

Quote from: gonehunting97 on Nov 07, 2012, 08:19 PM

Hunting season has been good to me this year, bagged my best buck sunday

Great buck!

Question for you, how much de-boned meat weight wise do you get off a mule deer that size? We don't have many of them over where I live so I have not had the chance to shoot one. We have lots of white tails but not nearly as many mule deer.

gonehunting97 · « **Reply #19 on:** Nov 08, 2012, 08:02 AM »

This buck was lung shot and no meat ruined, I got approx 50 lbs of meat. I soak my deer then hang dry before cutting which causes a little extra trimming but it cools fast in these warmer temps. My wife shot a similar buck on saturday and we only ended up with 25 lbs of meat but it had a few extra holes from the ole .300

trappermike82 · « **Reply #20 on:** Nov 08, 2012, 11:55 PM »

That's a pretty sweet buck. You score him yet? Nothing like deep forks on a mulie to get a guy excited.

gonehunting97 · « **Reply #21 on:** Nov 09, 2012, 07:59 AM »

the muley green scored 171 7/8 B&C and the goat made the P&y books at 70 2/8. Pretty sweet year for me. Gonna take my dad out tomorrow and hopefully get him a 4 point buck or better(he has never shot bigger than 3pt) I still thelooking for a cow for the freezer but the way this weather has been its been tough, hopefully the cold and snow will get em movin!!

JayHelfrich · « **Reply #22 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 01:50 AM »

Well we got our season off to a good start with a 3 day hunt to a family members ranch in the Smith River Valley. The first evening my son was able to kill his first deer a nice little whitetail doe. He missed her on the first shot but she walked back to us after running out in to the field. He took her with his new Savage 7mm-08 at 150 yards on the second shot at the first live animal he's pulled the trigger on.

Josh, his doe, and new rifle.

We let her lay out in the field and I snuck back down the river bank and took my own doe that went over to see why her friend laid down for a nap. My Winchester Model 70 Black Shadow in 300 Win Mag made another one shot kill @ 200+ yards. My rifle is lovingly called "my b!+ch" by my wife and friends because every year it's still right on when go sight in and with the plane jane Remington Core-Lokt 180 grain rounds it shoots (for me) under an inch at 225 yards (my zero). I have taken deer and elk at over 400 yards with an off the shelf rifle, scope, and standard factory ammunition.

We hunted for bucks the next day with my son getting first dibs. My wife got a couple of shots trying to fill her doe tag but the wind was blowing pretty good and the area we were hunting had been pressured quite a bit by other family members so running shots were the standard. She was just happy to get the scope on them and pull the trigger. Taking high pressure shots has been her Nemesis for years and I think she is over coming it. Frustrated at missing or not pulling the trigger she was still smiling. We were unable to find any quality whitetail bucks or really impressive mule deer until the early evening. On our way to the field where Josh and I took our does, My wife's cousin's husband Shane had me stop to glass a rim rock ridge. We spotted a muley buck that looked heavy and tall so we made a stalk. We got to with in 50 yards of him before he jumped up. Josh made a great shot at him, missing right over his back. I was proud that he got the deer in the scope and got the shot off. The deer was not as lucky when Shane pulled the trigger. He had an advantage though as he had been shooting coyotes all day that we had been spotting on the ridges and in the coulee's and was on his game. We drug him down the hill to the truck and made our way to the doe field right at last light. We weren't able to get any "easy" shots this night. My wife made a long shot (for her) on a doe and shot right (more on this later) and was down on herself but after a hot shower and then a good dinner and a couple of drinks with our family she was ready to try again the next day.

Sunday we tried for elk but know there were lots of deer where we were headed so it was a multi species day. No elk showed their faces but there were multiple chances for mule deer for my son. He got to do lots of shooting but wasn't able to connect on any bucks. With my wife's cousin making lunch for us, we made our way back to the ranch. After relaxing and now with full bellies, we headed back to the doe field for one last shot at filling Susie's doe tag before we had to go home. We got to the field and there were already deer out feeding. Susie and I tried to make a stalk on some does feeding out of sight in a little roll in the field but deer in another part of the blew out and took all of the deer in the field out with them. We made a plan for Susie and I to sit by the pivot point and for the rest of the party to walk back to the truck so the deer thought that we gave up and left. Our plan worked as deer feed to within 175 yards of us. As the deer were walking in to range I had her practice dry firing on the doe she chose to take. Susie decided to use my 300 since she could use the Harris bi-pod to sit up and shoot. She said she was always off the deer when the trigger broke. I watched her as she made a dry fire shot and noticed some thing that would really change her shooting. She was pulling on the trigger too high causing the rifle to torque to the right when the trigger broke. I showed here how she needed to get on the trigger so she was making a lateral squeeze on the trigger. After we made these changes she said not only was the trigger easier to squeeze but the sight picture didn't move when she broke the trigger. With new found confidence, she loaded a 180 Remington into the chamber and got ready to make her shot. When the trigger broke this time, the doe dropped with a great shoulder shot.

After cleaning her deer and antelope for the last 5 years, I told her it was time to learn how to gut a deer. She agreed to give it a try and got bloody!

My wife can now gut her own deer! We even had wife's cousin's 5 year old daughter out in the field. She loved hunting with her daddy, Josh, me, and "auntie" Susie.

We had a great weekend with our family and will be back for an end of the season hunt. This one will be in the snow since they have 24" of fresh powder in their yard from the storm! I hope the elk are moving in to the low lands and we can get both Susie and Josh their first elk!

Jay

PerchAssault · « **Reply #23 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 08:40 AM »

GREAT job Family "H". Thanks for sharing Jay.

Mike

Chris338378 · « **Reply #24 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 08:43 AM »

Gonehunting97, that's a great buck, congratulations!

JayHelfrich, congratulations to your Son, great job!

slabfisher12 · « **Reply #25 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 12:06 PM »

i got a three point opening weekend

Old Man Winter · « **Reply #26 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 01:40 PM »

Shot a bull on Friday. Not a big one, but I do love those huge backstraps!

Old Man Winter · « **Reply #27 on:** Nov 11, 2012, 01:41 PM »

Now time for fishing / pheasants!

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