First off- IM BACK! I had basically turned into a lurker as I couldn’t get logged on. Don’t know the rhyme or reason (thought maybe Randy gave me the boot after drawing AZ) but I got it all figured out and reset now.
Secondly- I would hardly say I “puffed up” about drawing. I was extremely...
Look, you guys may very well be correct, and maybe I'm living in the "hot spot" of where this antler point restriction is working. I can't beat science. I'm just one guy with an opinion that may be wrong. The only boots on the ground FACT I have, is that the age structure and number of bucks...
While I respect their findings, I'm living in an area where "hopefully seeing a two point for the table" was the verbiage...to now people seeing, shooting, and missing mature bucks. Tales of 200" deer are being told and whether they're true or not it doesn't matter. Mature bucks are being seen...
I regularly break the "don't pass on the first day..." law. It's more rewarding for me to hunt all season for what I want, and then to settle on a smaller animal than it is for me to shoot one that's a "thinker" and have the "what ifs looming over my head. I like HUNTING! :)
I figured I would chime in on this one.
This will be my second year hunting Eastern Montana. Last year myself and my Montana resident buddy hunted it and loved the place. He moved there 10 years ago to play football at Carroll College and never left. Since his graduation we've slowly figured...
Awesome job!! It feels nice when somebody, ANYBODY, wins a battle with these lying fools! Drives me nuts.
I started hunting eastern Wyoming for whitetail and antelope just before the "onx era". It made me into one hell of a map reader, but it's amazing how many spots I hunted that extend...
I don't think that's off base at all. Northern units have bigger bulls (most of the time), less roads, and thus horseman.
Southern units have more roads, access points, and are closer for most folks to hunt.
...I did my best to record some hunts this year. I'm proud of them as I feel they are entertaining! I did a day by day series in good ol Montana and then a tough Utah mountain hunt. All public Land, and there's a kill in every episode!
It was a great year. I did something I'd been wanting to...
If I were a nonresident I would be putting in for the general elk tag in Wyoming. Plenty of places to choose from, lots of different season dates, etc. Trophy bulls are hard to find, but generally elk are not.
They look at everyone's first choice first, before moving onto second choice. You will never draw that tag second choice unless the first choice quota is not met (which will never happen again). If you want the tag you've got to do it first choice.
Thank you guys.
As for AZ, well it was tough! The first couple days of the season were just flat off the charts. I had never heard so much bugling in my entire life! It was CONSTANT bugling in the pre-dawn darkness and then for the first few hours of daylight. Getting torn between sitting up on...
Thank you guys. It will be awful hard to top that HUNT! I worked for it and then experienced some truly epic stuff!
Paul, that one time I called this bull in in 2014 and missed him was the one and only time and it was a lot of luck. I literally followed a lone, yearling cow up the mountain...
So in 2015 I arrowed what I thought was the bull of my lifetime. You can find that story here, and he's the bull in my avatar, for now, and landed me on the cover of "Elk Hunter Magazine" last fall.
https://onyourownadventures.com/hunttalk/showthread.php?265305-The-Bull-of-my-Lifetime/page1...