In regards to the browtine, somehow I didn't bother to take a picture of the tree with the antler in it. But you can see where the browtine is broke off in the photo. It really is in there. We looked around for it on the ground for a while and gave up. My buddy that helped me quarter him is...
In regards to the browtine, somehow I didn't bother to take a picture of the tree with the antler in it. But you can see where the browtine is broke off in the photo. It really is in there. We looked around for it on the ground for a while and gave up. My buddy that helped me quarter him is...
It took me more than a few tries, but I finally killed my first bull elk.
We were hunting in a drop camp up around Meeker. We went in just under six miles on horses, but were probably right around 2 miles from the closest 4x4 road. Friday night before season, bulls were bugling everywhere...
It took me more than a few tries, but I finally killed my first bull elk.
We were hunting in a drop camp up around Meeker. We went in just under six miles on horses, but were probably right around 2 miles from the closest 4x4 road. Friday night before season, bulls were bugling everywhere...
If you need many, you can quickly add up to enough money to buy one of the topo software programs and print them yourself. Maptech Terrain Navigator is hard to beat.
Another little secret - anybody with a lick of sense down here doesn't waste their money on the specialty hunting seed products you see advertised. We personally have wheat fields - nothing else. Which we either have cattle grazing on at the same time the deer or there or bale for hay later in...
OK, I've somewhat wound up on a middle ground on this one. Take the high fences out of the equation (which I despise), there isn't any difference in hunting whitetails over a feeder than there is a food plot. You might disagree with both, but the vast majority of whitetails taken throughout...
I can't necessarily put it in words, but there is a big difference (to me) in hunting an elk on Vermejo or one of the similar large western ranches and in shooting one behind a high fence in Texas or anywhere else. That elk has no chance of escape behind a high fence. Somehow that is the line...
The archery deer mentioned in that link was killed less than an hour away from my house ina county that has never allowed gun hunting. He was killed on Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. They have a very restricted hunter access program.
The guy that killed him is a taxidermist about 5...
Buzz:
Are you saying ranchers in Wyoming do have the right to shoot a wolf that is caught in the act of trying to kill livestock? I was not aware that they could.
Forgive me, but I must snicker a little when you argue about public comments on an EIS being the dominant, valid reason to...
I'll be clear about my biases upfront. My family depends on the cattle business and I also work as an environmental scientist for a private engineering firm. We manage to make quite a bit of money with a cow/calf operation on land we own and lease (for a lot more than public land costs). On...
Wow. This one got a little hot. A little moderation on both sides would be nice.
1. Buzz is right. Grazing leases on western land is a lot cheaper than private land. No reason not to charge a little more to fund some of things not getting done - like a little more oversight of oil and gas...
I've driven about 76 miles each way every day for 13 years. About to move a little bit further away - right at 95 miles. I travel quite a bit and have a lot of flexibility as to what time I show up and leave.
I don't mind the long commute as it allows me to plan out my day, get some stuff...
Talk to the BLM office in Buffalo. There is quite a bit of BLM land in that region. We had C tags last year. Wound up hunting on private land, but had scouted out some public. There is a big chunk of BLM up north of Gillette off of 59 called the Burnt Hollow Management Area. It is foot...
Talk to the BLM office in Buffalo. There is quite a bit of BLM land in that region. We had C tags last year. Wound up hunting on private land, but had scouted out some public. There is a big chunk of BLM up north of Gillette off of 59 called the Burnt Hollow Management Area. It is foot...
DeerKing
I just wish people would leave it alone so that we might get to see his photography work again soon. He takes the coolest deer photos in the prettiest country I've ever seen.
"Average" Bear
I killed a 5 1/2 foot "average" or below average bear in the Bighorns in 1993. It was my first western big game animal. Stretched on my bedroom wall, my rug takes up most of the wall and looks pretty darned good.
I bet yours will too.
It took my best friend about four tries...
I don't like the price increases for points, but I will pay them. I've only got one for sheep, but I'm going to stick with it for a while to see if people start bailing out or dying off. I wish I had been in on the front end of the sheep points like we get to be on elk/deer. I wouldn't be...