I thought I would share this hunt as it was a great time! My son did the research and found high draw odds on a youth pronghorn hunt. He is a master at 12 yrs old at navigating the State website and picking his hunts. This year he put in for 3 different species and got drawn for all 3.
We had...
I bought a badlands Supeday pack back cerca 2006. Just last year (2023) I passed that pack down to my son. (12 yrs) he rode on the back of a motorcycle with the pack strapped down to the rack and smelled a burning fabric. Sure enough the exhaust on the bike had melted the side pouch to the pack...
I went and did it again today. In the late hours of the evening last night I was browsing the internet and I found a deal on a gun that I didn’t need. It came at a price that I just couldn’t pass up and now it sits in my safe and I am obsessing over it.
It’s a Weatherby Mark V chambered in 300...
The one and only controlled tag for antlered elk I ever pulled for the State of Idaho was in unit 18. After the hunt I concluded: all my over the counter general season bulls are larger than any animal I saw on this hunt. If I have 100% success on larger bulls every year hunting general season...
I have shot bears on the opener and I have seen bears the last week of season. Many of your bears will stay denned up in April. June, you will start to battle the summer weather,
Hey Phil,
The pdf was a little hard to download, but I get the gist of what you are looking for. I have only hunted units 20a, 39,19a,19,28,25 and 23 for bear. We get bears most years. All the terrain is pretty steep. 39 is a hot spot for bears.
Not to open a different bag of chips, but mule deer really is my bread and butter and it’s October. I was going to create a post delivery thread but, I thought I would share that my Son and I already got to sneak out and go do a little hunting for bear and deer. We got on a bear but just...
She held off all the way til Oct 1. Elk hunt was missed… :(
baby boy is healthy and growing like a weed.
In hind sight I could have killed my bull and been back in time.