2019 Hunt photos and stories

[sniper7]

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.

[Frac]

My daughter dragging out her first ever deer. Apprentice season doe last weekend (out of state).





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[hunterhawk]

Nice pictures guys and gals and congrats!
Here is mine..

[Gman]

Nice pictures guys and gals and congrats!
Here is mine..

I hope your luck improves!

[def90]

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]

Right side was perfect. But the left side went wild. You can see it's out at the base.

[Hummer]

My daughter dragging out her first ever deer. Apprentice season doe last weekend (out of state).

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.

[Frac]

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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[TRnCO]

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.
IMG_0116 by Tim Richard, on Flickr

[Irving]

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.