MT college life

[JEL]

This made me reminisce a bit about my own college days.

My youngest boy is a freshman in college and lives in the dorm. He and a buddy were out bow hunting antelope and his bud was successful. I asked him what they did with the antelope. He said they boned it in the dorm parking lot, cooked and ate the back straps and found enough dorm fridges to cool the rest before they cut and package it for the freezer (if it lasts that long as they do have access to a kitchenette and plenty of willing eaters).

Living the dream he is.

 

[onpoint]

This made me reminisce a bit about my own college days.

My youngest boy is a freshman in college and lives in the dorm. He and a buddy were out bow hunting antelope and his bud was successful. I asked him what they did with the antelope. He said they boned it in the dorm parking lot, cooked and ate the back straps and found enough dorm fridges to cool the rest before they cut and package it for the freezer (if it lasts that long as they do have access to a kitchenette and plenty of willing eaters).

Living the dream he is.

Reminiscing college days....

late October 1987, buddy had access to Grosfield's place - east side of the Crazies. Montana actually had a mule deer population back then. Twins were in the series.
I had an Econ test looming.
Day before the test, I hunted and then watched the series that night.
Had a muley and watched the Twinkies lose that night.
Also got a F on a test.
Oh well, hunting Muley's and the World Series was great - Econ class was a waste of my time anyway (seems I forgot I was paying for it, never was an intelligent college student)....

He is living the dream, as was I.....

I looked back at the series, the Twins actually won that night. So it was doubly worth the F....

 

[Schaaf]

He most certainly is!

I'll never forget the looks I got when we set out in my geology class to map an area for a week and I showed up with my rifle and pack. No way was I gonna miss a chance at a spring bear.

 

[Nemont]

Lived in married student housing in Bozeman from 1992-1994. Our downstairs neighbors were from Bangladesh and strict vegans, good people but not into meat. They called the police on me and my other neighbor for setting up tables outside and processing four deer one Sunday. Campus police show up and have a pretty good chat with us about where we were hunting and what the prospects for getting our tags filled were for that season, how the Cats were doing and wishing us luck.

Those were the days.

Nemont

 

[Southern Elk]

In college I drove a van between campuses shuttling professors who taught night classes at a satellite campus. One night on the way home I hit a small 10 point whitetail (5x5 for you westerners) just outside of town in the university van. I wasn't going very fast when I hit him, so the meat was still good. I hurried back to campus, dropped the professors off, hopped in my truck and went back and picked the deer up.

 

[NoWiser]

I started college in 2002 in western Wisconsin. My first semester I got one of my physical ed electives out of the way by taking "Bowhunting." We shot the 3D course every Friday morning and then hunted each Friday once season opened to fulfill the credit. For my second phy ed elective I took Scuba Diving and got certified. More than once I had a deer hanging in the tree in front of my house right in town to skin and butcher. It wasn't an uncommon sight. Damn I miss college!!

 

[dcopas78]

My buddy Aaron and I were in the same degree program at college so we had all of the same classes together. Sometimes we would have 4-6 hour breaks during the middle of the day before evening classes. We took full advantage of that break - from hunting to fishing to hiking. We used to fish at a dam not too far from the school on the Ohio River. Man did we ever stink up a classroom when we came to evening classes smelling like one of the crews from "Deadliest Catch" It sure was a blast though and no better way to relieve the stress of midterms and finals. It probably didn't help us score any points with the girls though.

 

[Tkaldahl2000]

When my high school students tell me I need to assign less work because it is supposed to be the best time of their life I inform them that they are getting confused with what college is supposed to be. Thanks to the plasma center I always had about $20 in my pocket when the weekend hit (I didn't drink so that went quite a ways in 1990). It was the most freedom with the least amount of responsibility I have ever experienced. In 17 years I will be able to compare retirement to it.

 

[zachthebowhunter]

Make sure you tell him to take classes a bit serious! That could be the reason I have been at Montana Tech for so long! Every fall I spend as much time as I can in the middle of the week hunting. Mid-week afternoon hunts are now my favorite times to hunt! I am really not looking forward to graduating next december and having to get a real job... Really cuts into my hunting time.

 

[antlerradar]

I was never one to cut class during collage when I was at MSU in the early 90's but in 91 I had a late season Gardiner bull tag. I think I missed 3 of the first 5 sessions of a 300 level Shakespeare class. It was a small class and after I returned form the hunt the prof took me aside and told me that if I wasn't going to come to class that I should drop as he didn't want me in the class. I told him not to worry but there are some priority's that come first. I think the profs name was Trout. Good class, hands down the best English class I ever took. I learned a lot and got an A.
The elk hunt did cost me in a different class. Missed a few questions on a test that I would not have if I had been in class. Those few questions I missed dropped me to a B. Only 300 or better level class I got a B in. Got a nice six point so it was worth it.

 

[RobG]

You had me until Shakespear . I tried hunting Gardiner in 91 during the regular season while I was in grad school. It was nuts. I remember all the elk were in town to avoid getting shot, and one big bull was eating hay out of a pickup with a dead elk in it. Wish they had college budget cameras back then. . If I shot anything it would have been quite an adventure getting it back in my 2 door '63 Nova. Mostly I missed the first week of spring quarter every year because we always got a powder dump.

 

[Straight Arrow]

I have a photo somewhere of elk grazing in front of a motel in Gardiner framed by the antlers of the my bull in the back of the pickup, same era.
'Had to pass up a nice bull early in the morning standing along side the road on private property (Bill Hoppe's place I think).

 

[antlerradar]

Rob. Spelling has never been a strength of mine. Couldn't back in collage and am worse now.
91 was not the best year to have a late season tag. The early snow cold brought most of the elk out of the park during regular season and a lot of then made the migration through Yankee Jim in the back of a pickup. I went back in the spring to shed hunt and there was dead elk everywhere.
Used Hoppe's horses to get my elk out. He and his wife could not have been nicer to me but that was before wolves turned him very bitter.

 

[RobG]

Rob. Spelling has never been a strength of mine. Couldn't back in collage and am worse now.
91 was not the best year to have a late season tag. The early snow cold brought most of the elk out of the park during regular season and a lot of then made the migration through Yankee Jim in the back of a pickup. I went back in the spring to shed hunt and there was dead elk everywhere.
Used Hoppe's horses to get my elk out. He and his wife could not have been nicer to me but that was before wolves turned him very bitter.

Hell, I didn't even know you spelled it wrong, it just wasn't my thing at that time. I remember when we crawled onto the roof and shot arrows into a target in the back yard. Must have torn up the roof pretty good. Oh wait, that was those dumbazz students I rented to a few years ago! The "brightness" of most students hasn't changed. It's only a matter of time before one skins a deer in the living room because the garage was too cold.

 

[1_pointer]

That is living the life! I lived in a fraternity house and was about the only one in the house that hunted. I somehow woke up early enough one Saturday to hit the squirrel woods. Came home with a handful of bushy tails. I strung them up on the basketball goal out back and started cleaning them. It wasn't long before I had an audience. Wasn't long after that I had volunteers wanting to learn how to do it. That afternoon I got a many a knock at the door to see the squirrels soaking in the fridge. Pretty sure I didn't eat a piece of that meat as when I fried it up that evening it became great bartering stock!

 

[Bulldog0156]

I was not a good student from an attendance standpoint, my priorities lay elsewhere. I had a nice 16.5 foot boat that spent a lot of time on the river chasing big walleyes, salmon, and steelhead in the fall. I remember the professional walleye tour was in town for a tournament one week during college. Went out a day after they finished up the tourney to a spot I don't think any of them fished. Trolling downstream in a current moving 3 mph we hooked up on enough big fish in a couple hours to have been top-5 in the 2 day tournament. That's still the best day I've had for catching big walleyes. I think the smallest was 4 pounds and the largest caught was around 9 with a couple tanks coming undone partway up. I have many fond memories of college.

 

[huntin24/7]

I remember all the skipping classes to sneak out early to go ice fishing, and missing the morning classes for waterfowl hunting. Cleaning birds and filtering fish in the form room or parking lot. We would smuggle beer into our room in our chest waders. I lived in coed, and some friends lived in the guys form. We would walk across campus with our shotguns and shells in the open to meet up to go hunting. This was only 15 years ago, but you could get by with a lot in small town North Dakota junior college back then.

 

[huntin24/7]

Filleting

 

[JEL]

The fun continues! My son got this buck yesterday afternoon. It is also currently residing in several dorm fridges.

 

[onpoint]

The fun continues! View attachment 62958

I'm not sure if that counts unless you missed classes or bombed a test for that one........
congrats.