Public land nemesis

[Non-resident Hunter]

Wow what a thread here! Awesome buck man!

 

[brownbear932008]

That is one neck of a find. The replica idea is an awesome thing.....

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

So two or three years ago I got this buck on camera 3 times in the heat of the rut and I didn't think much of it because it was the rut and bucks travel thru all the time. I never seen him again and figured he was harvested or living elsewhere. He was a solid 170ish buck when I got pics of him. But he definitely wasn't gone cause his sheds were found yesterday in the same area as chiefs sheds. Rough scored 230 inches. Pretty bonkers that there is two 200+ inch whitetails running around the same area on public land. Where the heck do they hide and why the hell can't I ever find these damn sheds.

 

[stk]

I’ve been hunting the wrong places

 

[Dunning Kruger]

99.9% of us have been hunting the wrong places

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I’ve been hunting the wrong places

Me to apparently! Haha

 

[antlerradar]

Me to apparently! Haha

Right place, wrong time.

 

[CoffeeGoat]

I think the critters must have access to my calendar, when I'm not hunting I see everything, the moment the season starts it's a ghost town. I'm going to start scheduling "first elk season" in July.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I think the critters must have access to my calendar, when I'm not hunting I see everything, the moment the season starts it's a ghost town. I'm going to start scheduling "first elk season" in July.

Hacked into our Google calenders.

 

[JT88]

@Hilljackoutlaw those matching G2s are pretty cool. So, which one you gonna shoot this fall?

 

[BT_NVhunter]

@Hilljackoutlaw those matching G2s are pretty cool. So, which one you gonna shoot this fall?

That’s an easy answer whichever one steps out first lol

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

@Hilljackoutlaw those matching G2s are pretty cool. So, which one you gonna shoot this fall?

Hmmm.... lol

 

[JT88]

Hmmm.... lol

You'll get it done man! I think people often underestimate big whitetails. They turn into ghosts after about age 4, true creatures of the night. One of those bucks will make a mistake eventually. I hope you can capitalize and bring one down, I'm rooting for you man

 

[MNElkNut]

Hilljack, getting both the finders together was brilliant!!! JLS was close, but it wasnt "2 go out and one came back", it was "3 met and 2 bodies will never be found"!

Pretty cool that everyone is playing nice in the sandbox over some unbelievable sheds! i gotta believe there are a few people that would be a little snarly.

Oh, and by the way, there are going to be some unhappy Hunttalkers if you don't get one of them next year. Just sayin'. If that adds a little pressure, so be it!!! Don't let us down.

 

[JT88]

I took this buck in 2015. To my knowledge, no one had ever seen him on the hoof until I glassed him up from about a mile away. My brother and I moved in and I was able to connect. Pretty awesome memories from that day. He has 27" main beams. My brother took a buck three years prior that was also a ghost, although we had one shed from the previous year we had never seen him. I love the challenge of hunting mature whitetail bucks. Once you know they're out there, they'll haunt you. You know they must be in the area but they just seem to vanish

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

I'm around 80% sure this is chief and if it is he looks like about the oldest frailest deer in Idaho. Gonna be interesting to see what he looks like come end of August. But I fear his days are windng down fast. Makes me pretty sad.

 

[Cheesehead]

I'm around 80% sure this is chief and if it is he looks like about the oldest frailest deer in Idaho. Gonna be interesting to see what he looks like come end of August. But I fear his days are windng down fast. Makes me pretty sad.

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Hang in there Chief!!

 

[Pucky Freak]

I'm around 80% sure this is chief and if it is he looks like about the oldest frailest deer in Idaho. Gonna be interesting to see what he looks like come end of August. But I fear his days are windng down fast. Makes me pretty sad.

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Thoughts on hunting season? Let him die of old age? I suspect he just saw his last winter.

 

[shrapnel]

You need to look close at these 2 elk. The one on the right was killed on public ground several years ago. The elk on the left is the same bull, just the year before. When they were taking the bull out, they found the sheds not 1/2 mile from where she killed that bull, It does make Boone and Crockett...

 

[MNElkNut]

Why do you think that is Chief?