Official 2011 year in review

[AZ402]

I found a buck for Dink to MorM if he ever gets to the AZ OTC archery deer hunt.

 

[Mudranger1]

whitetail with my bow

 

[BillyGoat]

Just an ordinary brookie, but caught in some spectacular backcountry (Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness)

 

[Mudranger1]

from the elk seasons...no elk (1 missed)

 

[TLC]

first buck of the year.

 

[Oak]

See that green bush with the dead sticks on the left side of the photo?

Walked down the hill past the first shed and look what was behind that bush....

 

[TLC]

doesn't happen very often. first one came in, stood there. not for long. second one came in looking for the first one. it stood there even less time.

crappy picture, but it was raining outside. photo from inside the pole barn.

 

[fishing4sanity]

BillyGoat, great pics especially that last one, WOW.
Wyoming, but only got him with the camera, wrong side of the fence buck.

 

[Lawnboy]

My first Dall sheep

 

[Ultrahunter]

2011 Idaho Muley #1

 

[leadingedge]

Pre-season scouting

It was hot and dry, deer were scarce but found a few. This guy was photogenic.

 

[onpoint]

Nice photo with dad Lawnboy. We were camped at Lizard Lakes some years back and your dad packed us in a great supper of steaks and corn on the cob....roasted over the fire in the dark with talk of grizzly bears and cutthroats. It was a good time.

 

[dustinf]

2011 started out good for me. My first deer with my flintlock, January 21. Lost the pics when I upgraded my phone over the summer.

Fall of 2011 was personally bad, all the way around. Ended up only hunting 10 days, down from 48 in 2010. Hunted half a day of archery bear season, and missed the rest of bear all together.

What time I did have hunting I spent hunting a specific deer, I actually passed on 2 legal whitetail bucks. I've never done that before, and hopefully I will never do that again. There was a buck shredding 8-10" trees nightly around my stand area. Every morning daylight would expose him giving me the middle finger by shredding another tree in the area. Never caught a glimpse of him.

My season ended early, and I never had a chance to hunt him in the peak of the rut. Such is life. I'll fill the freezer by the end of the month but that will be in 2012's year in review.

Long winded, but that's my first post here...

The pic with the rub is sideways, and I have no idea why that is happening.

 

[Lawnboy]

Nice photo with dad Lawnboy. We were camped at Lizard Lakes some years back and your dad packed us in a great supper of steaks and corn on the cob....roasted over the fire in the dark with talk of grizzly bears and cutthroats. It was a good time.

That sounds like a great time. I'm not sure I'd sleep well at Lizard lakes with steak on my breath either. I do miss the fishing up there.

 

[Dinkshooter]

^ Onpoint and LB Fail

 

[mtmiller]

Nice photo with dad Lawnboy. We were camped at Lizard Lakes some years back and your dad packed us in a great supper of steaks and corn on the cob....roasted over the fire in the dark with talk of grizzly bears and cutthroats. It was a good time.

That sounds like a great time. I'm not sure I'd sleep well at Lizard lakes with steak on my breath either. I do miss the fishing up there.

See the rules lickbags.

 

[onpoint]

Rules for lickbags?? Seems contradictory. Oops, I believe I just broke the rules again.....

 

[Lawnboy]

See the rules lickbags.

Sorry I forgot about the library rules

A picture of my dad,my son, and a lickbag.

 

[AZ402]

^ Onpoint and LB Fail

See the rules lickbags.

Island Buffalo.

 

[jabber]

2011 starteed out good winning these in the BAYED

Unfortunately, it never got cold enough on any of my hunts this year to try them out.