PRELIM #2: Best Stories - Talkies 2022

[Hunting Wife]

Due to popular demand, here’s a second installment of stories to be considered. Poll closes January 6, you get three votes.

Let the reading continue…

A story of shenanigans in Nebraska @Stocker

Nebraska “slam” attempt

I’ve never done a live hunt, mostly because I ramble incoherently, have horrible grammar/spelling, and I’m basically the Bill Dance blooper reel of hunting. While discussing my luck drawing a bull elk tag on the same year I had enough points to draw a muzzleloader antelope tag (elk are bonus...

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An ensemble cast the likes of which we may never see again, and one of the most anticipated hunts in Hunt Talk history @JohnCushman

DAV moose hunt...WOOHOO!!!!!

I got the call of a lifetime yesterday morning. I was selected for a DAV moose hunt in Idaho this fall. I can't thank Bryan (@brymoore) for setting me up with IWF and getting me sponsored into this. I am so excited and nervous at the same time. The biggest thing I've killed was a couple of cow...

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A memorial of Grandma and a big bull @Hopzone Freak

Esther

Grandma Esther lived to be 97 years old, outliving all her children and was quite a great person for all those years. Esther's Obituary I have a goal to have a great elk hunting season - and to figure out if I prefer archery or rifle. I enjoy both - but will probably have to pick one or the...

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The juxtaposition of hunting in an urban landscape @wllm

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“my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum… I seemed to have reached a new world, so wild a place…far away from human society...

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Semi-live epic of cool animals in cool places @SCliving Outdoors

BC Mountain Goat - Semi Live Hunt

In 12 days I leave to head up to BC to chase mountain goats. I'm really excited. I booked this hunt over 2 years ago. I try to save up and every 2 years or so go on a "special" that is really difficult or impossible to do diy. I know mtn goat is very possible to do diy, but I also understand the...

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Not your average live hunt by @BirdManMike

Hope dies last.

Feeling emo. Might delete later. Two seasons ago, my falcon migrated. Our anatum peregrines spend their winter in Mexico and Central America. Sometimes, falconry birds, especially in their first season, get this urge and there is no stopping them. This season was particularly bad -- I...

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[Nick87]

Thanks for adding these @Hunting Wife.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Thanks for adding these @Hunting Wife.

Apologies to all the nominees for the crappy implementation this time around.

 

[Deleted member 52098]

Oh man… @Stocker and @JohnCushman in the same division?! Either one of these could take the overall title. Both are filled with so many laughs.

 

[Dave N]

Oh man… @Stocker and @JohnCushman in the same division?! Either one of these could take the overall title. Both are filled with so many laughs.

Nothing says comedy more than parking someone else's ride on top of a rock!

 

[seeth07]

Guess I suck at story telling. Better luck next year!

 

[Deleted member 52098]

Guess I suck at story telling. Better luck next year!

All of us who didn’t get picked

 

[WildWill]

All of us who didn’t get picked

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[Gerald Martin]

All of us who didn’t get picked

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Can’t get this scene out of my mind.

 

[jlong17]

Definitely had some great stories this year which helped time pass in between hunts. Tough to pick just one....and now that everyone is a "Freak", I don't even know what to think anymore. It's like being a new guy all over again.

 

[Stocker]

Guess I suck at story telling. Better luck next year!

You just need to write with structure and coherency that I did.

Or drink and post nonsense that gets piled onto by some of the other low life’s on hunttalk.

 

[Khunter]

You just need to write with structure and coherency that I did.

Or drink and post nonsense that gets piled onto by some of the other low life’s on hunttalk.

LOL, I get the appeal for stokers thread. and gave it a vote but I had to quit trying to enjoy it and stopped following a few weeks ago. Guess I am more in the vein of keeping it focused more on the hunt activity itself.

 

[Irrelevant]

If your story didn't get picked fishing for compliments isn't going to help. Write better. Take better pictures. Read other threads and learn from them. Find your voice and refine it. Not everyone will be @theat but that doesn't mean you can't tell a good story.

 

[Derek44]

If your story didn't get picked fishing for compliments isn't going to help. Write better. Take better pictures. Read other threads and learn from them. Find your voice and refine it. Not everyone will be @theat but that doesn't mean you can't tell a good story.

Exactly. Or realize that it is a for fun, silly thing that @Hunting Wife does and I couldn’t imagine even trying to keep track of all the threads. Probably just got overlooked. Better luck next year I suppose. Idk. Begging for validation is a very annoying trait. Good work HW. Thanks for bringing attention to the threads you did. Some I never finished because they would get buried while I was doing more important things than hunt talk….. Like Life .

 

[rtraverdavis]

If your story didn't get picked fishing for compliments isn't going to help. Write better. Take better pictures. Read other threads and learn from them. Find your voice and refine it. Not everyone will be @theat but that doesn't mean you can't tell a good story.

Sounds like nothing but opinionated bs to me…

 

[np307]

Thanks for bringing attention to the threads you did. Some I never finished because they would get buried while I was doing more important things than hunt talk….. Like Life .

Thats why I like the talkies, always some good stories I missed through the year.

 

[WildWill]

Reading all these awesome write ups makes me wanna up my game. My new years hunt talk resolution is to do a couple of longer well put together write ups. I love the Talkies gives you a chance to catch up on missed threads and recap favorites. Thanks @Hunting Wife for the work you put into them.

 

[Irrelevant]

Sounds like nothing but opinionated bs to me…

Touchè ass.

 

[Dave N]

Yep, loved some of these threads. Helps me enjoy places and things that I have or haven't been to or done. I can't contribute much but a few comments here and there. The Alaska trip thread brought me back to my many trips there and the sights I saw. Some of the guys here sure can tell a story!

 

[BirdManMike]

Can I forfeit and give all my votes (that were surely mis clicks by people in the booze) to @theat?

Thanks for the nod, @Hunting Wife.