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Hey Mr Sutton, There ain't that many words in the Dictionary. Hahaha. Oo. I'll have to wait until this pm to read and comment. Thanks for the time and effort. It 's great to see these replies and all the pictures. Keep them coming gang. .
Hey Mr Sutton, There ain't that many words in the Dictionary. Hahaha. Oo. I'll have to wait until this pm to read and comment. Thanks for the time and effort. It 's great to see these replies and all the pictures. Keep them coming gang. .
radar doctor--you got that right and also the TDR has established a 10,000 word limit which I exceeded--that's why it's two pages---no more stories from me for awhile--that was too much plus you guys will be glad after you decipher my mumble jumble attempt to scribble down what happened---chris
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CSutton 7, WOW when do you find the time that it must take to do all this. It was a great story( Stories) Ha. Thanks ,really, they were good and the Bear and all the others thanks again. I hope we have more to come. I intend to have some stuff and pictures but it may be a week before i get it on here. Going duck hunting in the morning here in north central kansas. Bill
CSutton 7, WOW when do you find the time that it must take to do all this. It was a great story( Stories) Ha. Thanks ,really, they were good and the Bear and all the others thanks again. I hope we have more to come. I intend to have some stuff and pictures but it may be a week before i get it on here. Going duck hunting in the morning here in north central kansas. Bill
Hunting Pictures
Jim Deeming (if the spelling is right) showed me some great pictures of a Elk hunt and i don't remember his TDR handle but will try to get him on here and share with you guy's. I did a mallard hunt today traveled about 100 miles round trip fired 1 shot , No ducks. I did stop by Fish and Game and bought my Dodge Ram Permit to use the Ramps to unload the Boat. While in there i noted that i don't have to have a Hunting or fishing license this year as i turned 65. That was a great feeling. I also noticed about 30,000 snow geese and 2000 Canada's. 5000 Mallards. All in the refuge at North Central Kansas Lovewell lake. Oo. Oo. What do you think of that???
Jim Deeming (if the spelling is right) showed me some great pictures of a Elk hunt and i don't remember his TDR handle but will try to get him on here and share with you guy's. I did a mallard hunt today traveled about 100 miles round trip fired 1 shot , No ducks. I did stop by Fish and Game and bought my Dodge Ram Permit to use the Ramps to unload the Boat. While in there i noted that i don't have to have a Hunting or fishing license this year as i turned 65. That was a great feeling. I also noticed about 30,000 snow geese and 2000 Canada's. 5000 Mallards. All in the refuge at North Central Kansas Lovewell lake. Oo. Oo. What do you think of that???
There's a few good pictures on my friend Troy's website... deadduck.net and me and my truck are in a couple of them. You'll have to forgive him for driving a powerchoke, but he's a darn good hunter.
If you look at the Antelope 2000 hunt link, you'll see me with both our antelope in the back of my truck. It was two days old in that picture. I left the dealership and went straight out for that trip. I always figured getting antelope blood in the back of that truck on day two was a pretty good break-in program.
Jim
If you look at the Antelope 2000 hunt link, you'll see me with both our antelope in the back of my truck. It was two days old in that picture. I left the dealership and went straight out for that trip. I always figured getting antelope blood in the back of that truck on day two was a pretty good break-in program.
Jim
3 Days in Mayoworth Wyoming
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As the picture shows I was still living in PA when it was took.
I was also set up to hunt long range and was competeing at 1000 yards in Williamsport PA at the time.
My Antelope was killed with one shot at around 500 yards and my mule deer was killed at a military rangefinder measured 950 yards. At the shot on the mule deer my brother said dust flew right over his back, but before I got another round in the rifle he fell over dead. The bullet had gone through the deer and made the dust fly, making the shot look high.
#adAs the picture shows I was still living in PA when it was took.
I was also set up to hunt long range and was competeing at 1000 yards in Williamsport PA at the time.
My Antelope was killed with one shot at around 500 yards and my mule deer was killed at a military rangefinder measured 950 yards. At the shot on the mule deer my brother said dust flew right over his back, but before I got another round in the rifle he fell over dead. The bullet had gone through the deer and made the dust fly, making the shot look high.
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Hunting LOPE
GOOD Picture WYO JIM, I can relate to your country. I started hunting Lope in 1964 in Upton, Wyo. Got my first Lope there o n a ranch 7 miles south of Upton. Had that Buck mounted in NEW Cassel. Shot him wit a 243 cal Pre 64 Model 70 Winchester. at 150 yds on a trott. A few years later I went wit 14 other guy's from Breckenridge , Mo and we hunted Near Rawlins, Nothe of Sinclair on the North Plate, River. We took Jeeps made camp on the River below the Seminoe Dam. We then drove back thru Rawlins on up to Bairoil wyo. We all got Lope on The 5th day out. I got a lot of kidding for coming out there with a 243 rife when all the rest had 270's and 30-06's. On the last day out one of the guy' we called (Duck) Every body has a Nick Name from Missouri,Had shot 8 boxed of 30-06 throough his brand new Browing. He was afraid that he looked bad in front of the others and didn't want to go home with no Lope so he ask me one evening if i would get him a Lope I said yes i would try. Some of the others guy's just laugh and teased me calling me the little POP Gun. . (243) . I hadden't got mine yet but had plenty of time. I just said to them that you guy's with your elephant gun's just watch the old man tomorrow. So Got out some of my 85 grain Boattail's i had loaded up a few months back ,I had been poping Whisle Pigs with them 2 weeks before. I knew they were on the target if i could just hold still and allow for any wind. Well I boasted a bit that the next Buck we saw would go down and it would be shot in the Head and that would be Duck's Lope. We poped over a small hill in the jeeps the next morning and there was a lone Buck standing about 275 yds at a watering tank. I checked the Wind as i was getting out of the jeep and it was about 5 mph out of the North. I got down on one Knee and put the cross hairs right on the top of his Head and pulled the gun to the right just a bit to allow for the wind. I touched it off and the Lope Dropped stright down and never knew what hit Him, I knew that i had made a lucky hit. When we got down there the Lopes Right eye was missing. Later on that day i took mine at around 300 yds after i never got kidded about the 243 Pop Gun again... Oo.
GOOD Picture WYO JIM, I can relate to your country. I started hunting Lope in 1964 in Upton, Wyo. Got my first Lope there o n a ranch 7 miles south of Upton. Had that Buck mounted in NEW Cassel. Shot him wit a 243 cal Pre 64 Model 70 Winchester. at 150 yds on a trott. A few years later I went wit 14 other guy's from Breckenridge , Mo and we hunted Near Rawlins, Nothe of Sinclair on the North Plate, River. We took Jeeps made camp on the River below the Seminoe Dam. We then drove back thru Rawlins on up to Bairoil wyo. We all got Lope on The 5th day out. I got a lot of kidding for coming out there with a 243 rife when all the rest had 270's and 30-06's. On the last day out one of the guy' we called (Duck) Every body has a Nick Name from Missouri,Had shot 8 boxed of 30-06 throough his brand new Browing. He was afraid that he looked bad in front of the others and didn't want to go home with no Lope so he ask me one evening if i would get him a Lope I said yes i would try. Some of the others guy's just laugh and teased me calling me the little POP Gun. . (243) . I hadden't got mine yet but had plenty of time. I just said to them that you guy's with your elephant gun's just watch the old man tomorrow. So Got out some of my 85 grain Boattail's i had loaded up a few months back ,I had been poping Whisle Pigs with them 2 weeks before. I knew they were on the target if i could just hold still and allow for any wind. Well I boasted a bit that the next Buck we saw would go down and it would be shot in the Head and that would be Duck's Lope. We poped over a small hill in the jeeps the next morning and there was a lone Buck standing about 275 yds at a watering tank. I checked the Wind as i was getting out of the jeep and it was about 5 mph out of the North. I got down on one Knee and put the cross hairs right on the top of his Head and pulled the gun to the right just a bit to allow for the wind. I touched it off and the Lope Dropped stright down and never knew what hit Him, I knew that i had made a lucky hit. When we got down there the Lopes Right eye was missing. Later on that day i took mine at around 300 yds after i never got kidded about the 243 Pop Gun again... Oo.
Grizzly bear
In 1998 we were out hunting from our camp which is
110 trail miles in from the highway. My son had shot a caribou in
the late afternoon and we took my buggy out to pick it up.
We had finished gutting and skinning it and we were getting it
ready to load it and I noticed that one of the rear springs on my
buggy had lost a center bolt. We decided that we would leave the
caribou hanging off the front of my buggy and come back the next
day and fix the spring and retrieve the caribou. We gathered up
our gear and hiked back to catch a ride with my better half and
her nephew back to camp. Since the rigs are only 2 seaters my
son and I stood in the bed hanging on to the rack on the back of
the cab while she drove us back to camp. The ride back was
pretty uneventful until we were only 100 yards away. We have a
set of meat poles across a creek from our camp and there at the
bottom of our meat poles was a grizzly bear eyeballing our meat.
All of the rifles were in the cab so I jumped down and hollered to
get my rifle. The bear, in the meantime, wasn't in a big hurry to
get out of the country and was leaving at a walk. I got my rifle
handed to me and I ran up on top of the ridge where our camp
is located and right at the bottom was the bear, it had turned
around and was headed back toward the meat poles and wasn't
even looking my way. One shot with a 300 gr Swift A-frame bullet
out of a Remington 700 Classic in . 375 H&H and I broke its back
from about 25 feet away.
The bear was radio collared and I ended up with a history from
fish and game on the bear.
The area that I hunt in has so many grizzly bears that they set
the limit at one bear a year instead of the normal limit of one
brown/grizzly every four years like most of the rest of the state.
Gus
In 1998 we were out hunting from our camp which is
110 trail miles in from the highway. My son had shot a caribou in
the late afternoon and we took my buggy out to pick it up.
We had finished gutting and skinning it and we were getting it
ready to load it and I noticed that one of the rear springs on my
buggy had lost a center bolt. We decided that we would leave the
caribou hanging off the front of my buggy and come back the next
day and fix the spring and retrieve the caribou. We gathered up
our gear and hiked back to catch a ride with my better half and
her nephew back to camp. Since the rigs are only 2 seaters my
son and I stood in the bed hanging on to the rack on the back of
the cab while she drove us back to camp. The ride back was
pretty uneventful until we were only 100 yards away. We have a
set of meat poles across a creek from our camp and there at the
bottom of our meat poles was a grizzly bear eyeballing our meat.
All of the rifles were in the cab so I jumped down and hollered to
get my rifle. The bear, in the meantime, wasn't in a big hurry to
get out of the country and was leaving at a walk. I got my rifle
handed to me and I ran up on top of the ridge where our camp
is located and right at the bottom was the bear, it had turned
around and was headed back toward the meat poles and wasn't
even looking my way. One shot with a 300 gr Swift A-frame bullet
out of a Remington 700 Classic in . 375 H&H and I broke its back
from about 25 feet away.
The bear was radio collared and I ended up with a history from
fish and game on the bear.
The area that I hunt in has so many grizzly bears that they set
the limit at one bear a year instead of the normal limit of one
brown/grizzly every four years like most of the rest of the state.
Gus
Deep Snow Elk
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This is my son Roy. I had a Montana moose tag and we had took a ride on the horses to kill a small bull I had passed on several times. About when we got where the moose hung out I spotted 2 nice bull elk. I had killed my elk and I asked Roy if he had his elk tag with him. He said he did but he hadn't brought a gun.
I stepped off my horse, handed him my gun and said they are about 300 yards and it is sighted in at 300 yards. I held the horses, he laid down in the snow and put a 140 grain 264 bullet through this ones front shoulders. It never took another step.
It was getting dark so we gutted it out and left it to skid out tomorrow.
#ad
There had been no snow at the trail head when he shot the elk, but by the time we got there to go after the elk it was snowing hard.
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By the time we got to the area the elk was in the snow was up to the horses bellies. (continued)
#adThis is my son Roy. I had a Montana moose tag and we had took a ride on the horses to kill a small bull I had passed on several times. About when we got where the moose hung out I spotted 2 nice bull elk. I had killed my elk and I asked Roy if he had his elk tag with him. He said he did but he hadn't brought a gun.
I stepped off my horse, handed him my gun and said they are about 300 yards and it is sighted in at 300 yards. I held the horses, he laid down in the snow and put a 140 grain 264 bullet through this ones front shoulders. It never took another step.
It was getting dark so we gutted it out and left it to skid out tomorrow.
#adThere had been no snow at the trail head when he shot the elk, but by the time we got there to go after the elk it was snowing hard.
#adBy the time we got to the area the elk was in the snow was up to the horses bellies. (continued)
Deep Snow Elk
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It took some time, but we finally found it. This is all that was showing.
#ad
We cut it in two. Roy skidded half and I skidded half. The snow wasn't too deep after we got down off of that mountain.
Did we go back after the little moose? No, the day we skidded the elk out was the last day of the season. And besides, with two mature bull elk we had all of the meat we could use.
#adIt took some time, but we finally found it. This is all that was showing.
#adWe cut it in two. Roy skidded half and I skidded half. The snow wasn't too deep after we got down off of that mountain.
Did we go back after the little moose? No, the day we skidded the elk out was the last day of the season. And besides, with two mature bull elk we had all of the meat we could use.
I'll have to work on getting my Africa and Alaska pictures posted. 4 of us went to Alaska last year with two boats to go moose hunting. The boat trip was suppose to be around 400 miles one way. Well needless to say we all but sunk one boat at around 270miles. The welded seem blew out of the right side while I was driving it (not my boat). Luckily we got the nose beached and tied off before the back of it sunk. It was a really steep bank where we crashed. Talk about an adrenaline rush when your driving a boat with 2+ feet of water in it and the motor is spitting and sputtering in 40 feet of water. Needless to say we ended up getting two moose out of 4. Both were in the 60" range too. Am I going back... . HE!! yes. Cant let the Yukon kick my butt.
Good stories and pictures guys. Hopefully this will be one of the longest running threads to date.
Nathan
Good stories and pictures guys. Hopefully this will be one of the longest running threads to date.
Nathan
More coming
Just want to say these a re great articles and i enjoy ALL of them. I have been sick with a bad head Cold going around here in Kansas. Can't Hear a darn thing. Both ears are Roaring. Try to watch the Football games yesterday . Its not fun if you can't hear it. Anyway i'll be back on here with some more stuff. I know you guy's have more so would you cheer up a old man and put more stories on Thanks Bill Matthes in North Central Kansas. . Oo. Oo.
Just want to say these a re great articles and i enjoy ALL of them. I have been sick with a bad head Cold going around here in Kansas. Can't Hear a darn thing. Both ears are Roaring. Try to watch the Football games yesterday . Its not fun if you can't hear it. Anyway i'll be back on here with some more stuff. I know you guy's have more so would you cheer up a old man and put more stories on Thanks Bill Matthes in North Central Kansas. . Oo. Oo.
Well, I like to call myself a die-hard hunter, but I pale in comparison to some of you guys - makes me very envious to see some of these photos and hear the stories!
My Grandfather started me out by taking me deer hunting when I was 8 (got to carry my own . 410 Single Shot with slugs), although the area we hunted had pretty much been hunted out (has been closed to deer hunting for many years since). We also did some squirrel and rabbit hunting. I never saw a deer until several years later - probably 10 or 11 years old. My Grandfather passed away (from a firearms accident - loaded rifle fell . . . ) when I was 12. That same year, I got my first 12 gauge, a Mossberg pump. Hunted by myself and with friends since. My dad has gotten back into hunting in the last 10 years - mostly quail, pheasant, etc, and it's nice to have family to share the experience with again. But everytime I go hunting, I remember my Grandfather and thank him again for sharing this wonderful heritage with me.
Now I hunt as much as possible (not near as much as I'd like). I am looking for a new deer lease (that's about the only way to hunt in TX without being shot at by other hunters). I love duck hunting too, but I moved here from NE Arkansas (where the hunting is awesome, mallards and woodies everywhere, flooded timber, etc. ). And the ducks here on the coast taste BAD (like fish) - I don't like to kill what I don't eat, excepting varmints and out of control feral hogs.
Another member, 243, recently conned me and got me into reloading - so after about $1000 spent on that stuff (not to mention the new rifle, mainly for target shooting), I'm addicted. It's as bad as BOMB'itis. Gotta have the best of everything to be as accurate as possible, right??? My wife's gonna leave me or kill me one of these days . . . I have about 15 guns (blackpowder, . 22's, and pistols included), all in my gunsafe, next to my reloading bench - the rest of the room is full of hunting gear (waders, boots, jackets, gadgets, etc. ), a desk and computer to check out TDR and all of the hunting and shooting websites, and stacks of hunting and gun magazines and catalogs.
So now I hunt/have hunted deer, ducks, geese, quail, pheasant, doves, squirrel, hogs, rabbits. I hunt with bows, blackpowder, and reloaded ammo. I just joined a private range and plan to shoot at least 3-4 times a month. I will hunt just about anything if I have the opportunity - I really want to hunt Elk, Mulies, and Antelope some day.
Oh yeah, I like to fish too, but only when hunting season is closed!
Thanks to everyone else for sharing their stories - very pleasurable reading.
My Grandfather started me out by taking me deer hunting when I was 8 (got to carry my own . 410 Single Shot with slugs), although the area we hunted had pretty much been hunted out (has been closed to deer hunting for many years since). We also did some squirrel and rabbit hunting. I never saw a deer until several years later - probably 10 or 11 years old. My Grandfather passed away (from a firearms accident - loaded rifle fell . . . ) when I was 12. That same year, I got my first 12 gauge, a Mossberg pump. Hunted by myself and with friends since. My dad has gotten back into hunting in the last 10 years - mostly quail, pheasant, etc, and it's nice to have family to share the experience with again. But everytime I go hunting, I remember my Grandfather and thank him again for sharing this wonderful heritage with me.
Now I hunt as much as possible (not near as much as I'd like). I am looking for a new deer lease (that's about the only way to hunt in TX without being shot at by other hunters). I love duck hunting too, but I moved here from NE Arkansas (where the hunting is awesome, mallards and woodies everywhere, flooded timber, etc. ). And the ducks here on the coast taste BAD (like fish) - I don't like to kill what I don't eat, excepting varmints and out of control feral hogs.
Another member, 243, recently conned me and got me into reloading - so after about $1000 spent on that stuff (not to mention the new rifle, mainly for target shooting), I'm addicted. It's as bad as BOMB'itis. Gotta have the best of everything to be as accurate as possible, right??? My wife's gonna leave me or kill me one of these days . . . I have about 15 guns (blackpowder, . 22's, and pistols included), all in my gunsafe, next to my reloading bench - the rest of the room is full of hunting gear (waders, boots, jackets, gadgets, etc. ), a desk and computer to check out TDR and all of the hunting and shooting websites, and stacks of hunting and gun magazines and catalogs.
So now I hunt/have hunted deer, ducks, geese, quail, pheasant, doves, squirrel, hogs, rabbits. I hunt with bows, blackpowder, and reloaded ammo. I just joined a private range and plan to shoot at least 3-4 times a month. I will hunt just about anything if I have the opportunity - I really want to hunt Elk, Mulies, and Antelope some day.
Oh yeah, I like to fish too, but only when hunting season is closed!
Thanks to everyone else for sharing their stories - very pleasurable reading.
Articles
JUMBO JET NICE BEAR, Would you tell me where in Ak your from I was raised in Missouri. Tell us the story about the hunt? I love the gentleman's story about his Gram pa starting him out with a 4. 10 Slug . (Sounds like your REAR ENDS( Ha ) I started my Oldest Son With a double Barrel Cork Pop Gun and a Lab Dog. Before he was old enough to get his hunter safety course When Dad went out Bird Hunting, He was allowed to carry a BB gun . This is when he learned to cross fences, point the barrel down and other words Safety. When he got his Permit Probably 7-8 yrs. He was allowed to carry his Granddads Double barrel Stevens 4. 10. At about 12 yrs dad moved him up to a Over and under 12 Ga. He was 5 Ft 11 and 145 lbs and right then i figured it was time for son to Pack the Duck Decoy's... Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Your turn CSutton 7777. .
JUMBO JET NICE BEAR, Would you tell me where in Ak your from I was raised in Missouri. Tell us the story about the hunt? I love the gentleman's story about his Gram pa starting him out with a 4. 10 Slug . (Sounds like your REAR ENDS( Ha ) I started my Oldest Son With a double Barrel Cork Pop Gun and a Lab Dog. Before he was old enough to get his hunter safety course When Dad went out Bird Hunting, He was allowed to carry a BB gun . This is when he learned to cross fences, point the barrel down and other words Safety. When he got his Permit Probably 7-8 yrs. He was allowed to carry his Granddads Double barrel Stevens 4. 10. At about 12 yrs dad moved him up to a Over and under 12 Ga. He was 5 Ft 11 and 145 lbs and right then i figured it was time for son to Pack the Duck Decoy's... Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo. Your turn CSutton 7777. .
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