The question was.....what should a person due to thank a land owner for letting you hunt? I can answer with what worked for me.
Don't wait until the next hunt season to ask permission. Tell him you would like to do some work on the ranch in exchange for the right to hunt. If travel distance is...
Great idea for those that save the "kill cases".
How small can you engrave?
I reload my "kill cases" but have a baby food jar of my "kill bullets" taken from animals since I started hunting in the 50's. Most I can remember the animal. Not much room to engrave but worth a try.
Great story, congrats on the hunt.
Note: It is safer to pack your antlers tines down, just think what could happen if you were walking in a gully..........
Yep Dave, more camps and rigs there than ever before. Five big horse trailers left at the saddle, five from OOS. Washington, Missouri, two from Minnesota and a Ca plate.
I was up on the "lookout" this morning and watched all the road hunters driving around, never heard a shot fired all morning...
Opening day here for elk and I rode by a 50" or less trailhead while checking cows. There were six rigs with SxS or ATV trailers all from OOS, one Minnesota, two Wisconsin, one Nebraska and two California. That area was only hunted by a few locals before a big write up in an outdoor magazine a...
Buy a wolf tag (and fill it) help save our big game animals! You can also use your deer or elk tag on a wolf. If you have no tag be aware that some get the lockjaw disease that follows mistaking a wolf for a coyote.
Camo helps keep a person hid from other hunters.
I have stalked and taken lots of game wearing a faded blue work shirt and Levi's using skills and not relying on camo.
Good luck in getting away from people! When you are there take note of those from your state with the same idea as you.
Tip......hunt the steepest roughest looking country you have ever seen for the best chance at a good bull. If you swear you will never hunt that spot again you are in elk country.
Dutch Miller's bar in Knights Landing, the ceiling is FULL of up-side down deer antlers.
( 50+ years since I was there LBM aka Chris from Orygun ) :LOL:
Still hunt just over the down wind side of a ridge perpendicular to the prevailing wind. Take baby steps, keep eyes looking ahead and to crest of ridge, but most of all concentrate on the surrounding scents. I have taken lots of game using my nose to locate game. Catch them bedded and looking...
I remember Foster's having a real variety way back in the 50's, must be more there now.
Another thing I remember in my long ago travels was a stuffed white bull elk, but to where it is/was is gone from my noodle, anyone know?