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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #45 on: December 03, 2012, 04:38:33 PM »
I am glad you had a successful great adventure.   I wasn't trying to be bleak when we chatted.  The reallity is, its a lot harder than one might think it should be.   Good job working for your hunt.

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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #46 on: December 03, 2012, 04:52:52 PM »
 :tup: :tup: Way cool!

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Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #47 on: December 03, 2012, 05:35:57 PM »
Bone, I'm glad you were realistic. I would've been extremely disappointed if I had gone into the hunt thinking I would see 40-50 deer a day and shoot a 170" buck. It turned out to be much more of a positive experience with a lot lower standards and expectations. Now I know better for what I will encounter in the future when I draw this again.

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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #48 on: December 03, 2012, 05:45:52 PM »
Great write up stickbuck and nice buck!
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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #49 on: December 03, 2012, 07:44:51 PM »
Congrats on your buck.  It is a tough hunt.  I had the tag two years ago and hunted hard the whole trip to shoot a buck that is almost identical to the one you shot.  Way to stick with it.  He will eat great. :cue:
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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #50 on: December 03, 2012, 07:49:18 PM »
Bone, I'm glad you were realistic. I would've been extremely disappointed if I had gone into the hunt thinking I would see 40-50 deer a day and shoot a 170" buck. It turned out to be much more of a positive experience with a lot lower standards and expectations. Now I know better for what I will encounter in the future when I draw this again.

People don't get what the wolves have done.   Its not propaganda.  Its not Fitkin story time.   They have decimated that unit and continue to do so.   I literally grew up in everyone of those photos you posted.   Imagine me without kids or a wife.  Where do you think I was?   its really sad as you can't imagine how it was back in the day.   Sky knows.   

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« Reply #51 on: December 03, 2012, 08:04:11 PM »
Bone, I'm glad you were realistic. I would've been extremely disappointed if I had gone into the hunt thinking I would see 40-50 deer a day and shoot a 170" buck. It turned out to be much more of a positive experience with a lot lower standards and expectations. Now I know better for what I will encounter in the future when I draw this again.

People don't get what the wolves have done.   Its not propaganda.  Its not Fitkin story time.   They have decimated that unit and continue to do so.   I literally grew up in everyone of those photos you posted.   Imagine me without kids or a wife.  Where do you think I was?   its really sad as you can't imagine how it was back in the day.   Sky knows.

You are right when you say that people don't understand what the wolves have done. I met a wolf tracker while out hunting one day in that unit. He was spreading poor information thinking I didn't know any different especially when he told me how the wolves in the area I was in only kill one deer every 10-14 days and that the wolves are not the reason for the deer decline. What a joke it was to here his so called facts spewing from his mouth.

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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #52 on: December 03, 2012, 08:08:30 PM »
Just like Bone says it's ridiculous how the deer numbers have changed over the years. I have hunted this unit since I was a kid. There was a time when it was nothing to go out and see 30 deer in the evening and that was just in September while glassing a hillside. It really is a shame to see how far downhill it has gone. Fitkin has his own agenda and telling the true story isn't one of them.
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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #53 on: December 03, 2012, 08:29:38 PM »
Nice buck you really earned that buck! I laugh at the game people when you ask about deer number's and they say the unit's are at there "carrying capacity" yet like said when I was a kid we would go for drives and see 50 or 60 a night now if when I go for a drive I'm really excited to see 10 or 12 :bash: but that's all the land can handle as far as they're concerned. :dunno:

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Re: Stickbuck's Late Alta Muzzy Thread
« Reply #54 on: December 03, 2012, 09:46:37 PM »
Bone, I'm glad you were realistic. I would've been extremely disappointed if I had gone into the hunt thinking I would see 40-50 deer a day and shoot a 170" buck. It turned out to be much more of a positive experience with a lot lower standards and expectations. Now I know better for what I will encounter in the future when I draw this again.



People don't get what the wolves have done.   Its not propaganda.  Its not Fitkin story time.   They have decimated that unit and continue to do so.   I literally grew up in everyone of those photos you posted.   Imagine me without kids or a wife.  Where do you think I was?   its really sad as you can't imagine how it was back in the day.   Sky knows.

You are right when you say that people don't understand what the wolves have done. I met a wolf tracker while out hunting one day in that unit. He was spreading poor information thinking I didn't know any different especially when he told me how the wolves in the area I was in only kill one deer every 10-14 days and that the wolves are not the reason for the deer decline. What a joke it was to here his so called facts spewing from his mouth.

You saw those guys too...I never stopped and talked to them but passed their truck in the dark the 1st 2 mornings. Saw them the weekend before while scouting too. Congrats again on a hard earned buck.

 


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