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The Big Game seasons have been underway for a while. The 1st rifle deer and elk season begins tomorrow so here's a chance to share your photos and stories whether you bring home the groceries or just tag soup and good memories. I'll start with my pronghorn hunt last weekend.
I hunted public land in Northwest Colorado where I've taken several pronghorn in the past. There's never been large herds, only small groups and individuals, and the success rate continues to fall there. I actually got skunked for the first time there in 2016--there were very few animals on the small area of public land. So, I went this year with guarded optimism.
On opening morning I was in the field when hunters started pouring in. I saw only one pronghorn at 3/4 mile, a buck by it's behavior, on the other side of the hunters from me. It didn't take long for that guy to vamoose onto private ground closed to hunting. While most hunters were staying on or close to the road I hiked deep into the back 40 of the property. From a good vantage I glassed the area but didn't see a single pronghorn anywhere within five miles, not even on the private ranches that used to hold herds. By mid morning I decided to head back to the truck and probably hang it up. I didn't walk a hundred yards when I looked below to see the horns of a bedded buck about 75 yards below me. He was in a little swale looking away and over a big dry lake. l stalked closer for a broadside shot and took him right there. It was a true Hail Mary!
One shot, 62 yards sitting, 7mm-08 with 120 gr. Barnes Vor-Tex (ttsx).
The area is walk-in only and my truck was 2 miles away. I hiked to the truck and moved to a mile from the animal and hiked back in to drag the buck out on a sled. It was a tough haul as much of it was up hill, but easier than dragging the carcass or carrying it out. I wanted to keep the head, hide and rib/spine whole.
I think I was incredibly lucky. I didn't see that any of 25-30 hunters in the area took an animal. Personally, I think CPW should close the area to hunting for a few years to let the herd repopulate. I doubt that I'll apply there again next year.
P.S.: Pronghorn steak is delicious!
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whitewalrus
10-11-2019, 16:55
Good job, always best to get away from where everyone else is going...not many get too far from the road for big game in general, but its even worse for pronghorn from what I seen. Most think you should be able to spot them from the road to see if its even worth your time.
Awesome! This year was my second year of hunting though I kind of consider it my first as last year I was only out 3 days and had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Learned a lot and hope to apply what I learned and be successful next year. After having spent 9 days in the woods this year I have to hand it to the guys that get it done on public land.
I also got an antelope down on opening day.
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The steaks ARE excellent. We've eaten the heart, both tenderloins, and some of the neck. I've always just dropped animals off at the processor in the past, not to mention split them with 3-4 other people. This year I decided to try and process the meat myself. It was a lot of work but we're very satisfied.
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Seems a lot smaller all cut up.
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Tomorrow I'm going out to scout for my third big game season this year. I'm taking my .22lr because a lot of species have opened up for small game. So, is it really scouting, or just more hunting?
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henpecked
10-12-2019, 07:35
Savannah got her first bull.
150 yards with a 30 06 in southern Wyoming.
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henpecked
10-12-2019, 07:39
Cousin was in southern Missouri last week.
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Savannah got her first bull.
150 yards with a 30 06 in southern Wyoming.
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That's a beauty of a bull. Lots of mass in those bases. Would make a fine mount.
Just a PSA to get your heads tested prior to consuming! CWD has jumped to elk, antelope, even moose now. In deer populations it exceeds 20% in NW Colorado.
In labs they have successfully infected monkeys with it (physically placing the prions into spinal fluid). It's the only contagious CJD related disease - and it seems highly likely it can at some point make the jump to people if it hasn't already. The only "good" news is that if you don't eat a significant amount of nerve tissue, the incubation period would be expected to be quite long if it makes the jump - possibly 20 - 40+ years based on Kuru. Because of that fact, you cannot say "well if it could'a, it would'a" because:
a) high likelihood of misdiagnosis and
b) it hasn't been around that long.
The bad news, if it ever infects people, its a prion (protein), not a virus or bacteria. No currently used sanitation methods protect against prions, so surgical instruments etc. would infect other people for a long time to come, as well as simple saliva (the only contagious CJD....) with much shorter incubation times.
It has even jumped the ocean thanks to shipment of hay - deer saliva transited that far and infected caribou in Norway. They exterminated the whole herd and pretty much salted the earth, since it can still be "infectious" in nature over a decade later.
So, PSA to not brush it off as no big deal - be careful and get your heads tested. Better to be safe....
Back to regularly scheduled programming, congrats on the takes gentlemen. Fine animals.
What do you do if your head tests positive? There has been zero evidence of it jumping to humans, and to say "if it hasn't already," is a pretty big exaggeration.
Also, this is the picture thread. Not the place for CWD alarmism.
Shot a nice pronghorn buck last week with the help of my 8 year old son. He was a trooper hiking around and crawling for quite a ways to get close enough as my range finder died and I didn’t have a backup battery so we had to make sure it was close enough for a ethical shot. I’m comfortable with my rifle to 500 yards and when that battery died I knew I needed to be sub 200 to feel confident about my judgement on distance.
After a nice stalk we got to roughly 150 yards on a bedded speed goat I had found glassing and figured out the best approach point. Got set up on the bipod and dropped him.
I deboned it on a tarp and processed it when I got home. Delicious tenderloins for dinner and the backstraps for steaks. The rest went into all sausage and brat products! Going to have some of that this week.
My daughter dragging out her first ever deer. Apprentice season doe last weekend (out of state).
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hunterhawk
10-13-2019, 22:27
Nice pictures guys and gals and congrats!
Here is mine..
Nice pictures guys and gals and congrats!
Here is mine..
I hope your luck improves!
Savannah got her first bull.
150 yards with a 30 06 in southern Wyoming.
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Is it just the photo angle or are the pedicles on that thing out of alignment? Interesting set of antlers.
henpecked
10-14-2019, 18:52
Right side was perfect. But the left side went wild. You can see it's out at the base.
My daughter dragging out her first ever deer. Apprentice season doe last weekend (out of state).
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Congratulations to father and daughter. I hope it was a good experience for her. From field to plate is more than an adventure, it's an education beyond what most kids will ever gain.
Congratulations to father and daughter. I hope it was a good experience for her. From field to plate is more than an adventure, it's an education beyond what most kids will ever gain.
Thanks! She handled it well. She saw 8 or more does that morning and this one held still long enough and presented the right shot opportunity. She was pretty stoic through the whole kill and field dressing. She had help from me, but she handled it better than a grown man did last year (a friend of mine).
She has been hunting for a couple years now, but she had not made her first kill yet. In a way, that was a good thing. We hunted WYO for deer last year and saw deer but didn?t have any in range on the land we could hunt. That really made her determined to keep trying. I hope because she worked hard for it that she will continue to have the drive to hunt.
We are hunting 2nd rifle in Colorado starting this weekend. She has buck, bull, and cow tags. I?m hoping she sees something again. I?m not a great elk hunter but there is always hope!
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I finally caught up with a buck yesterday evening. I'd had a couple of good stalk opportunities but, man, those suckers don't miss much weather it be a little noise or a little movement at the wrong time, they just don't miss much. I had gotten snuck in on this buck and 3 of his compadres several days ago, but I was only able to get with in 50 yards and ran out of cover. I sat there for nearly an hour hoping one of them would get up and feed into range, but no dice. Eventually the wind swirled and one of them caught a wiff and came looking for me, and then caught a good wiff and away they all went.
On another stalk, I had a good stiff wind and had gotten slithered into about 40 yards when I guess I made a little too much noise and one of them came looking for me. Unfortunately I was laying flat on the ground and no way to get into position for a shot. So, once again, one buck saved them all. Don't think this buck was in that group though.
But finally last night, I was just simply in the right spot at the right time and this buck strolled into my range. When he got to 28 yards, I finally had a clear shot. He was up hill from me and at the shot he bolted up over the hill in a S.W. direction and I quickly ran up the small hill hoping that I might see where he headed, maybe even see him fall. But, nope no such luck. So I called the landowner and told him I had shot one and might need a hand finding and loading him. Well, it was about 5:30p when I shot and by dark we had no buck found. The landowner called it a night and told me if I needed a hand, to let him know. Well I didn't have a good blood trail, although I had recovered my arrow and did have enough blood to lead me in a general direction. I felt really good about the shot so I was confident I had a dead deer some where near, and it wasn't going to be particularly cold so I really wanted to locate the deer before morning. So after a few hours of grid searching I finally went back to the blood trail. I was bound and determined to find a few more spots of blood, thinking if I could just find a bit more that he'd surely start to really flow some blood. Well, I finally found enough blood that I could see that the buck was starting to swing a circle so I decided to go look back in the direction we/he'd came from. I ended up finding him about 60 yards N.E. of where he was when I shot. He had made a full 360 degree circle. If I hadn't run up the hill looking for him after the shot, I most likely would've seen him drop as he came back by the scene of the shot. What a relieve. I was really starting to double think my shot placement. Speaking of shot placement. What I didn't take into account was the fact that he was quartering to me, much more then I had realized. So although my arrow entry looked to be on the mark, the angle took my arrow through one lung and back through the liver. In this pic. you can see the blood that looks like it's right in front of the hip, but it wasn't as bad as it looks in this pic. He probably ran near 250 yards but died 60 yards from the shot.
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That's a good looking buck. As is everything else posted so far.
Once my wife found out that I'm only likely to draw an antelope tag every two years, she was immediately onboard with us talking our 12 year-old into getting her hunter safety so our number of tags can double.
Congrats TRnCo. Great story, great ending and great Buck!
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Filet of tag this year on Colorado elk this year. Hoping for better luck with the Wyoming tag. Beautiful country but we ran out of time to chase the cows at the necessary elevation.
What do you do if your head tests positive? There has been zero evidence of it jumping to humans, and to say "if it hasn't already," is a pretty big exaggeration.
Also, this is the picture thread. Not the place for CWD alarmism.
Answer: Obv. don't consume until results come back. And yeah, I recognize it's a picture thread. Response is to emphasize the importance of the subject, because there are too many hunters that don't dig into it, and don't test, because there's nobody that tested positive in the news yet.
It's not alarmism,. Like all knee-jerk reactions, yours is typical of all entrenched positions and why it takes extra effort to get other hunters to understand the importance of testing. YOU CAN'T COOK IT OUT. The prions outlast 1,000+ degrees F. Or ten years in the sun. Or... anything. They aren't pathogens.
And no, "if it hasn't already" is factually accurate. Related diseases have a 20-40 year incubation in the same circumstance. They've proven it can infect monkeys. If you go can go cervidate to primate, that's such a huge leap that the difference between chimp and human is splitting hairs. Sure, there's no documented case of a human with CWD, but ever known a family to send their loved on'es head to be tested for it ? If it makes the jump, we won't know for a decade...or two, or more, as CJD - variant is the generic human name for essentially the same condition - which about 80% of human fatalities are unattributed cases of even now, e.g. they don't know how they came across the prions. And there's no prevention, vaccines, treatment or medicine by that point. It moves fast once it's active, terminal. But, why bother making educated decisions when you can just make biased assumptions!
Back to topic. Sorry for the hijack and nice pics folks. Just trying to get people out of their box to do their own research.
hunterhawk
10-17-2019, 21:55
TrnCO congrats! Thats a nice bow buck or any buck for that matter. Did you get that guy by your house?
RockChalker
10-18-2019, 17:00
350 yards across a deep steep canyon
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TrnCO congrats! Thats a nice bow buck or any buck for that matter. Did you get that guy by your house?
Not too far away, on a gracious neighbors place.
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Awesome! Looks like you got him set up with some great gear to boot! Congrats!
I finally caught up with a buck yesterday evening. I'd had a couple of good stalk opportunities but, man, those suckers don't miss much weather it be a little noise or a little movement at the wrong time, they just don't miss much. I had gotten snuck in on this buck and 3 of his compadres several days ago, but I was only able to get with in 50 yards and ran out of cover. I sat there for nearly an hour hoping one of them would get up and feed into range, but no dice. Eventually the wind swirled and one of them caught a wiff and came looking for me, and then caught a good wiff and away they all went.
On another stalk, I had a good stiff wind and had gotten slithered into about 40 yards when I guess I made a little too much noise and one of them came looking for me. Unfortunately I was laying flat on the ground and no way to get into position for a shot. So, once again, one buck saved them all. Don't think this buck was in that group though.
But finally last night, I was just simply in the right spot at the right time and this buck strolled into my range. When he got to 28 yards, I finally had a clear shot. He was up hill from me and at the shot he bolted up over the hill in a S.W. direction and I quickly ran up the small hill hoping that I might see where he headed, maybe even see him fall. But, nope no such luck. So I called the landowner and told him I had shot one and might need a hand finding and loading him. Well, it was about 5:30p when I shot and by dark we had no buck found. The landowner called it a night and told me if I needed a hand, to let him know. Well I didn't have a good blood trail, although I had recovered my arrow and did have enough blood to lead me in a general direction. I felt really good about the shot so I was confident I had a dead deer some where near, and it wasn't going to be particularly cold so I really wanted to locate the deer before morning. So after a few hours of grid searching I finally went back to the blood trail. I was bound and determined to find a few more spots of blood, thinking if I could just find a bit more that he'd surely start to really flow some blood. Well, I finally found enough blood that I could see that the buck was starting to swing a circle so I decided to go look back in the direction we/he'd came from. I ended up finding him about 60 yards N.E. of where he was when I shot. He had made a full 360 degree circle. If I hadn't run up the hill looking for him after the shot, I most likely would've seen him drop as he came back by the scene of the shot. What a relieve. I was really starting to double think my shot placement. Speaking of shot placement. What I didn't take into account was the fact that he was quartering to me, much more then I had realized. So although my arrow entry looked to be on the mark, the angle took my arrow through one lung and back through the liver. In this pic. you can see the blood that looks like it's right in front of the hip, but it wasn't as bad as it looks in this pic. He probably ran near 250 yards but died 60 yards from the shot.
Congrats TR!
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Great job, Cody!
Well, I've managed to fill one of eight tags I've had this year. Disappointed, but at least I spent some time in the field, gave the state a lot of money, and picked up other people's trash. Silver linings.
yankeefan98121
11-03-2019, 22:33
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My sons first buck and I was also lucky enough to tag a buck that same morning on 11/2
yankeefan98121
11-03-2019, 22:42
We still have 5 more tags to fill, will update if that happens
Nice! Congrats to both of you. Papa must be proud. ;-)
yankeefan98121
11-04-2019, 22:54
Thanks everyone!
Papa is VERY proud!
Whelp, I had a “funny” feeling about the buck he took not being legal so we called the game warden and that funny feeling was correct. A legal buck has to have a min 5”, this however did not fit the criteria. I got the ticket, $140, plus 5 points vs my game record. So the warden was totally cool since we called it in. He gives me the ticket and 5 point reduction BUT since we called it in, he re-issues my son’s buck tag. Fuckin A cotton!!
yankeefan98121
11-04-2019, 22:56
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This one was a no doubt?er.
Thanks everyone!
Papa is VERY proud!
Whelp, I had a “funny” feeling about the buck he took not being legal so we called the game warden and that funny feeling was correct. A legal buck has to have a min 5”, this however did not fit the criteria. I got the ticket, $140, plus 5 points vs my game record. So the warden was totally cool since we called it in. He gives me the ticket and 5 point reduction BUT since we called it in, he re-issues my son’s buck tag. Fuckin A cotton!!
Ouch! Yeah sounds similar to the elk antler restrictions that say one side must have at least 4 points.. unless a brow tine is over 5 inches or something like that. Hard to judge a 5 inch brow tine. Good for you for self reporting, game wardens are usually pretty easy on people that do, it can be an honest mistake.
I wasn't aware of the "5" rule" on mule deer bucks. Good to know. And congrats to your son for getting it done, and to you as well on a nice buck.
BUT, what I never have understood is why the game wardens write a ticket for wrong doing, confiscate the animal, and then re-issue another tag. This isn't the first time I've heard of this being done. BUT, why not let the hunter keep the first animal along with a ticket. Just doesn't make sense in my mind.
newracer
11-05-2019, 09:13
I wasn't aware of the "5" rule" on mule deer bucks. Good to know. And congrats to your son for getting it done, and to you as well on a nice buck.
BUT, what I never have understood is why the game wardens write a ticket for wrong doing, confiscate the animal, and then re-issue another tag. This isn't the first time I've heard of this being done. BUT, why not let the hunter keep the first animal along with a ticket. Just doesn't make sense in my mind.
CPW officers have to eat too.
I don't quite understand, it sure looks like the first buck had at least 5" on one side, did it not? If not, then the ticket has to be issued. Since your son was licensed for a legal buck and didn't harvest one with the first kill, he was still entitled to take a legal buck, thus the reissue. You did right of course by signing and detaching the first tag, and declaring the error.
Without a reissue of a license, hunters might be incentivized to take an animal that didn't legally qualify, and simply pay a fine for the meat. That doesn't work for the purpose of ensuring only legal take.
Congrats on your son's second deer. He's a very nice buck.
I'm glad everything worked out. Sounds like your boy has a solid role model that takes responsibility and does the right thing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the officer recognized that in the re-issuance of your son's tag.
Congrats on the 2nd buck!
whitewalrus
11-05-2019, 19:30
I wasn't aware of the "5" rule" on mule deer bucks. Good to know. And congrats to your son for getting it done, and to you as well on a nice buck.
BUT, what I never have understood is why the game wardens write a ticket for wrong doing, confiscate the animal, and then re-issue another tag. This isn't the first time I've heard of this being done. BUT, why not let the hunter keep the first animal along with a ticket. Just doesn't make sense in my mind.
From the big game brochure -
BUCK (ANTLERED): A male animal with antlers at least 5inches long. There are no antler-point restrictions for deer.
DOE (ANTLERLESS):A female animal with no antlers. Antlerless can also mean a young male with antlersless than 5 inches.
EITHER SEX: A legal buck or doe
You can shoot the small bucks with a doe tag, same with elk, pronghorn and moose.
I know not every unit is the same requirements for elk. Are there different requirements for deer in different areas?
whitewalrus
11-05-2019, 20:31
I know not every unit is the same requirements for elk. Are there different requirements for deer in different areas?
I am not aware of any restrictions other than the Whitetail only tags, which has the same sex restrictions, just that it must be a whitetail. The antler point restriction in certain units is only an elk thing.
yankeefan98121
11-05-2019, 22:40
I don't quite understand, it sure looks like the first buck had at least 5" on one side, did it not? If not, then the ticket has to be issued. Since your son was licensed for a legal buck and didn't harvest one with the first kill, he was still entitled to take a legal buck, thus the reissue. You did right of course by signing and detaching the first tag, and declaring the error.
Without a reissue of a license, hunters might be incentivized to take an animal that didn't legally qualify, and simply pay a fine for the meat. That doesn't work for the purpose of ensuring only legal take.
Congrats on your son's second deer. He's a very nice buck.
So, the photos look like it might have been, shit even naked eye it looked like it was a legal buck but wasn’t.
Yes, the ticket has to be issued, meat taken and head confiscated from what I was told.
I’m not sure about the entitlement, I just thought the officer was being cool, could be wrong. Either way, we were both happy with the reissue.
Thanks! He’s proven to be a pretty good shot unlike his old man heh
yankeefan98121
11-05-2019, 22:43
I know not every unit is the same requirements for elk. Are there different requirements for deer in different areas?
I’m not aware of those, if any, different requirements for mule deer in different gmu’s. Guess I need to do a little more research
yankeefan98121
11-05-2019, 23:02
I'm glad everything worked out. Sounds like your boy has a solid role model that takes responsibility and does the right thing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the officer recognized that in the re-issuance of your son's tag.
Congrats on the 2nd buck!
Thank you! I know the look on his face when the game warden deemed hire first ever kill illegal and I’ll never forget it. He knew going in it would be up to the call if the officer though and it wouldn’t have been a surprise, just disappointment that we (I mostly, since I made the “ok” shot call) would have to just see what the officer said. Doing the right thing is not always easy..... It all worked out in the end with that 4x buck and his eyes the size of dinner plates when we walked up to it.
He can always say that he’s taken TWO bucks in a hunting season before hahaha
Regardless of the $140 fine and however the re-issue off the tag worked out, we still killed bucks on the same day. On the same day his first ever kill and his kill shots took only 1. That will forever live in our minds
I think the wildlife officer made the right call giving you the ticket and point dock; as I could see that experience turning him away from hunting in the future.
Judging off the pictures and a rough estimate on head the antlers really appear to be at least 5”.
What were the measurements he took? Any chance he mistakenly issued a ticked based on elk regulations and not deer?
yankeefan98121
11-07-2019, 21:57
Got home this morning. Now the real work begins since we process our meat at home
Trigger Time 23
11-08-2019, 10:08
Those antlers appear to easily exceed the 5". Very surprising they do not meet the minimum.
yankeefan98121
11-08-2019, 21:07
Those antlers appear to easily exceed the 5". Very surprising they do not meet the minimum.
I honestly felt the same way while watching the whole thing go down. Leaning one way or the other I’m not going to argue with whom ever gave me the ticket. The officer said he will issue another tag and I was happy with that knowing we were on some deer.
henpecked
11-09-2019, 08:19
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All I had was a elk tag
I saw two monster bucks driving through canterberry this morning. Some early morning walker scared them up out of the open space.
Antelope blade roast cooked in the slow cooker. The preparation is kind of like a Korean BBQ style (I think, I've not had much Korean BBQ) over ginger rice with honey/citrus kind of salad. It's very tasty and a fantastic use of game meat.
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Those antlers appear to easily exceed the 5". Very surprising they do not meet the minimum.
I wondered about that also. My advice to my daughter was that the antlers had to be longer than the ears. This makes me wonder a little. Did they measure the antlers along the curved length, or a straight line from the base to the tip? I'm not planning on straddling the line, but now I'm really curious.
thedave1164
11-26-2019, 12:53
79383
All I had was a elk tag
He looks like he is self identifying as an elk to me
hunterhawk
11-26-2019, 21:52
Hmmm those definitely look at least 5 inches to me...i think mistakes were made.. just not sure by one or both. Congrats on the legal deer or both!
ACE2GOOD
11-27-2019, 11:43
No one having much luck this year? All I got is a story. First bow hunting experience and was out for 5 days. We finally got on some bucks Saturday late morning. Setup for them the next morning and text book they crossed right in front of us at 25 yards, decent 4x4 whity. Pretty sure I hit the shoulder blade since his front leg was back when he stopped and we never found him. He fell over twice before splitting off. Looked like he fell one more time down the blood trail, arrow fell out about 20 yards later and the blood trail disappeared 30 yards later. Never found him. First big game animal I have ever lost since I have always used my 7mag rifle growing up. Tough pill to swallow and still think about it everyday.
barney fife
12-01-2019, 22:12
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Daughter scored on a local hunt, she did everything except gut it. Evening hunt and we had the primal cuts in the fridge by 2100. She gets buck fever worse than any of my kids which tells me she will probably hunt forever. I forgot my shooting sticks so she had to shoot off my shoulder. Awesome year!
newracer
12-01-2019, 22:49
Awesome!
chuckchili
12-02-2019, 19:39
Very cool. Congrats to her.
That’s awesome congrats to you both!
Elk tenderloin... where’s the drooling Homer Simpson meme?
Must be really proud barneyfife. My daughter looks similar in age. She loves game meat, and would help (begrudgingly like a teen girl) with every part; but I don't know if I could convince her to kill anything.
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