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[JoMo]

Mine is of the first bull I shot after losing my pops. Up to that season, he and I were always together for elk hunting since I can remember. I know he brings me good luck, as I have been fortunate to go five for five since then.

 

[bigdonniebrasco]

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Mine's a picture of me and my dad fishing in the sierras when i was maybe 3 or 4 years old. this was while he was still a monster of a man before he got crohn's disease.

Several things about this picture make it really touching! Great shot, and like was said earlier, you sure look happy!

 

[bigdonniebrasco]

My avatar is the only whitetail buck I've ever killed. Last Nov, with a bow.

 

[1_pointer]

Altai Ibex from the Altai mountain in Mongolia. I was asked to be the keynote speaker for the 2012 Annual Mine Closure & Reclamation Conference in Mongolia. Seeing that the conference was also during ibex season really got me excited. Ibex hunting was a bucket list item for me that I didn't think I would get to do. Even with a last minute discounted tag it still really strapped us financially, but we made it work. It was a different feeling knowing how much the family was sacrificing to let me go. I wasn't coming home without one even if it killed me. The Altai mountain are a very hard place to hunt and I was the only person in camp to get one. I shot him at about 5:30 PM. After butchering and trophy prep we left the kill site around 7:30 PM. We made it back to the jeeps around 2:00 AM in temps well below freezing. It was a brutal hike out and was in terrible shape have not time to train. The trophy isn't a monster, but it represents so many things and a lot of memories.

The year before I went the guys from Eastmans went and swore they would never go back. Their episode is on Youtube. We flew into the same remote airport and, I believe, hunted the same mountain range.

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That is awesome!!

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Mine is a selfie with my 1st Roosevelt Shed found in a clearcut in 2015 on my 1st Blacktail hunt, sporting my 1st beard , my divorce became final in DEC 2014, a 1st as well, later in Feb 2015 I made the decision to go full redneck and not shave or cut my hair till the end of my hunting season that year at the end of November , and it's was a year of 1st for me , as later after this pic , I got my 1st Blacktail buck then a month later to the day, I got my 1st Elk, spent my whole marriage and young adult life all clean cut......hard to imagine, but it's the same dude, one looks like a banker the other , fresh outta jail... Ha Ha Ha.. life its amazing

 

[OriginalOscar]

OregonChris, I do like that suit. Sounds like 2015 was quite a year. Soli Deo Gloria is a good foundation for life.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

OregonChris, I do like that suit. Sounds like 2015 was quite a year. Soli Deo Gloria is a good foundation for life.

build your house upon the rock, its not a matter of if the storm will come, but when my foundation is forever

 

[genesis273]

Mine was taken on the second afternoon of my first DIY elk hunt. I was one happy guy!

 

[Murray]

Mine is from my 2017 hunting season. My second buck of the season. I had a good year harvesting 2 bucks and 2 does.

 

[utahminer]

This was a pretty cool thread idea by Dukes, so I thought I would see if I can resurrect it.

 

[Zach]

My first pronghorn.

 

[SherpaPhil]

A dall sheep in Eastern Alaska. Two day hike in to a walk-in only area. The trip about killed us, but one of my best memories.

 

[prhunter]

My first elk. Colorado 2015