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[1_pointer]

The Unit is living the life!! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

My tracks from walking out the previous night. I think they were mocking me.
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[el unit]

The Unit is living the life!! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

My tracks from walking out the previous night. I think they were mocking me.
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That's the story of my hunting life 98% of the time. Too late or too early. Good picture!

 

[jryoung]

Spotted house cat 2007

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Badass, is that your serval? We use to have a savannah.

 

[1_pointer]

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[BigHornRam]

21st century caveman.

 

[el unit]

Badass, is that your serval? We use to have a savannah.

It was an former roommate's Serval cat. It's daily diet was raw chicken (bones and all) and avocados. Not easy to take to a vet in it's last days as 1) no one but the owner could touch it and 2) she had no legal papers for it.

 

[el unit]

Our dog's best bud in Red Lodge, Nick.

 

[BrentD]

Meet Gus.

You might sense a theme.

 

[MThuntr]

One of my favorite spots at a certain lake in some mountains somewhere in the lower 48. Lots of shenanigans that weekend with the three ladies I hiked up with.

 

[el unit]

Silver Bullet at 10:30 am. A celebratory boost for the hike in to retrieve the rest of that critter on the mountainside.

 

[1_pointer]

Our dog's best bud in Red Lodge, Nick.

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A whole lot of awesome in that picture!

Sometimes I plant stuff to hide stuff. Tall stuff planted to keep folks from seeing the deer behind there.
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BrentD-
Hank and I will be back in IA for some roosters next year!
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[BigHornRam]

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One of my favorite spots at a certain lake in some mountains somewhere in the lower 48. Lots of shenanigans that weekend with the three ladies I hiked up with.

Any pictures of the shenanigans?

 

[BrentD]

BrentD-
Hank and I will be back in IA for some roosters next year!

I hope you had good hunting in whatever part of the state you hunted this year. With luck, maybe next year will be better. For Gus and I, it was tough hunting for sure, but we worked really hard and got more than our share. We hunted mostly in Green County. We should have spent more time further north and also done a little more prospecting to the Southeast.

 

[1_pointer]

It was good enough. We don't really have wild pheasants here, so I enjoyed getting Hank on some wild birds. It was just his second hunting season. We were East of you a bit and hunted mostly between Hwy 30 and I80. We had a more productive (bird numbers wise) trip to Nodak the year before, but Iowa is close enough I can make a long weekend of it. Hoping to do that at least 2X next year.

From NoDak
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[onpoint]

It was good enough. We don't really have wild pheasants here, so I enjoyed getting Hank on some wild birds. It was just his second hunting season. We were East of you a bit and hunted mostly between Hwy 30 and I80. We had a more productive (bird numbers wise) trip to Nodak the year before, but Iowa is close enough I can make a long weekend of it. Hoping to do that at least 2X next year.

From NoDak
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That is one of the 2'nd coolest dogs I've ever seen

 

[BrentD]

1_pointer,

If you drop a little south next year, you may run into some decent numbers of quail. They have been on the upswing the last two years at least.

Next year, who knows where the best spots will be? It will be fun finding out.

 

[1_pointer]

Thanks for the tip! May have to give that a whirl.

Hank's not picking with what we hunt...
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[BrentD]

In the fall of 2016, Gus retrieved his first Turkey. He was mighty proud of that one.

Looks like Hank will be ready for a little bit of anything.

 

[el unit]

Always on my mind.

 

[el unit]

Will we find him in 2018?