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Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« on: January 05, 2009, 08:04:10 PM »
 I'm having mine with some Chunky Chicken...... :chuckle:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 08:26:20 PM »
Yep. I ate 2 deer tags. 1 elk tag and a bear tag.....worst year of my life.   :'( :'( >:(
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 08:31:32 PM »
Every one in my group is eating tag soup this year.  But then I was not here for deer season, only elk.  That is all changed now...  got to show these young uns how to find a blacktail buck one more time I guess.   :chuckle:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 08:33:18 PM »
Well I traded a deer and elk tag for a moose so its not so bad ;)
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 08:37:13 PM »
I prefer a little more spicier soup Dman. :chuckle:
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 08:50:32 PM »
All is lost for me in 08'. Idaho elk tag, deer, bear, and a late season elk tag.  :'( I had to buy a 1/2 beef. The wife said, you mean we have to eat beef this year >:( (not good)
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 09:01:40 PM »
multi season deer tag soup for me...(didnt get time to hit the late hunts)

oh well...I dont mind donating I guess... :chuckle:

Oh, and my second bear tag...

and my elk tag...lol...
« Last Edit: January 07, 2009, 10:52:31 AM by saylean »

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 09:06:15 PM »
If I sat down and ate all my tags this year it would be a full meal. :bash:    Wa deer, Id deer, Wa bear, Id bear, Wa elk.
 I can say I'm satisfired though, I passed up critters with every tag but the elk. I was holding out for really good bucks and it just didn't happen. Passed up 5 bucks 3x4 or better in Idaho, dinks.... The only bear was toilet seat cover size.  :dunno:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 09:17:22 PM »
 :'( :dunno: :bash:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 09:18:42 PM »
I have three stinky muley bucks but they are not nearly as stinky as my three bull tags

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 09:26:19 PM »
I ate $5200 in deer tags between Montana and Colorado.  Eating my Washington archery deer tag was like loosing a couple quarters in coke machine compared to those two bad boys......OUCH!    

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 09:27:58 PM »
Bone, maybe I'll just give you $5K this year and you can let me take one of the bucks you pass :chuckle:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 09:29:58 PM »
 Dude, Backwoods rocks  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2009, 06:49:55 AM »
I dont want to talk about it.  :'(
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2009, 06:54:31 AM »
first year Ive eatin all my tags.The tags taste much better if you swallow some pride with them,wash it down with a sip of envy.

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2009, 06:55:40 AM »
I hit a Limb in Elk and Deer season both!!! One in Oregon and one in Wa. Does that count?  :dunno:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2009, 06:57:26 AM »
I am just glad we wrap our meat so well, two layers of plastic wrap, then one in waxed butcher paper, tape it tight...  I still have steak from three years ago...  :EAT:  The freezer is still looking pretty good...
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2009, 07:00:17 AM »
I hit a Limb in Elk and Deer season both!!! One in Oregon and one in Wa. Does that count?  :dunno:
I heard the out of state limbs are really tasty.if it was a dry limb you could roll it in your tag and have a tag taco,or smoke it..Better to find light in the slow times,next year will be better least we got out.thats what really matters

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2009, 07:03:03 AM »
I am just glad we wrap our meat so well, two layers of plastic wrap, then one in waxed butcher paper, tape it tight...  I still have steak from three years ago...  :EAT:  The freezer is still looking pretty good...
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2009, 07:28:44 AM »
I have eaten Deer, Elk, Bear, and spring Turkey Tag soup this year.  Worst year on record !

Pass the Tabasco please ! :(

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2009, 07:37:35 PM »
I ate Deer,Elk,and Turkey tags but it seems to have been my favorite food for the past 3 years. :cryriver:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2009, 08:25:06 AM »
I seen more deer this year than in the past 5 years.But I still ate tag soup.It was well worth the money spent though.Took the wife out for her first modern firearm season,brought my kids with me on almost all my hunts,seen well over 500 deer,just no big blackies.The biggest I seen was a five point that one side had been busted off.Of course that was through my log truck windshield oct.31. :bash:
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2009, 08:55:56 AM »
Well- I agree - tag soup sucks....  I didn't tag out - didn't go back to AK....  :'(  but I learned alot of things this season for hunting here in WA  :bash: and met some great folks and learned new areas for the future.  Grocery bill will be higher than it has been in ten years, guess I can survive on Sturgeon..... :chuckle: although the supply is very low.... So it must be this 2nd coming season that I get one of those easy to draw OIL tags--right...

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2009, 10:51:51 AM »
Easily my worst year ever, not only conditions and other normal excuses but I had the added hinderence of my overall health and fitness.  All my own fault.  I am in the process of changing that.
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2009, 01:27:34 PM »
I started with a Montana archery antelope appetiser, followed up with a archery elk tag main course and an Entiat archery muledeer dessert. Thankfully I helped my partner pack out his cow in the early season. That will get me thruogh the year.
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2009, 03:20:47 PM »
Ate deer, elk, bear.  :'( :'( :'( I missed that darn spike :bash:

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2009, 03:37:52 PM »
I'm trying to put this year behind me!!  The worst year I have ever had... :'(  Now, you start this thread and I have to tell the HOLE WORLD that I suck as a hunter. :chuckle:  I am looking forward to the rivers come back into shape...I'm blowing this sight up with the biggest STEELIES you guys have ever seen :IBCOOL:  Its fish steaks this year for use...maybe I will try TAG BREADED STEELIE STEAKS! :chuckle:
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2009, 06:40:43 PM »
Can we break the soup down per state? If so I have enough soup to eat for the next 3 winters.

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #28 on: January 07, 2009, 06:47:39 PM »
You ever try to figure out how much $ spent per pound of meat brought home? I was in the positive (barely) while in my 20's but now deep into the 30's I figured I am at a minimum (negative -----) $100 per pound but oh well. I figure I will quit using this formula when I turn 40 and sure as hell wont care when I am in my 50's.

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2009, 07:55:12 PM »
Amazing how many guys state that 2008 was their worst year ever....

2008 was my worse year for sure. We even ate a cow modern rifle tag.  :'(
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2009, 01:14:50 PM »
Ate my deer tag as I nomally do. Trying to teach the daughter to hunt.And my son and his bud. Don't have much time to go out alone anymore. Next season I will be adding my granddaughter into the mix. Wouldn't have it anyother way!
Didn't go elk hunting this year as I didn't draw the tag and wasn't in the mood to go!
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2009, 02:29:37 PM »
First season and I deep fried my archery deer tag, tempura style.  I didn't even see an adult deer of either sex during hunting hours. The guy who said he'd show me the ropes is a good guy, but he's basically a road hunter- "We just drive from one spot to another until we see something... that's how we do it when I get to hunt with the Yakima tribe."   Help me Jeebus! 
Here are the excuses:  I didn't have a good start with areas to hunt (he hasn't hunted western WA in about 19 years and didn't invite me to go east with him); I'm really out of shape so my lungs felt like I'd scrubbed them with a broadhead; the places I went on my own were guess work at best (though I did see lots of tracks and poo in a couple places- just no deer); um, school and work kept me out of the woods; the woods is real thick, too so it was hard to find a spot :) ....  shall I continue?   
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2009, 02:37:43 PM »
ate my elk tag as i did not draw a branch tag.....and I hve no time to try and run around looking for spikes with abotu a billion other hunters.......did good on finding deer....found one for my roommate to shoot(his first) then I passed up a small 2x3 whitey.....then I missed a decetn 3x whitey and then I missed a giant 4x whitey with 10-12 long tines!! soo my hunting was good it was just my shooting skills that lacked and this is the first time Ive ever had a problem with missing an animal and I am really stumped......I have dropped an elk at 250 yards but for some reason that whitetail at 75 yards did not die!!!! :bash: oh well I had a good time hunting as I always do! i would have to say as far it goes for worst hunting season by seeing animals would have been my 2007 season btu I was also jsut coming off crutches and had abotu 1 leg with maybe half of the other working ok so hunting hurt like a biatch and I ust wasnt into it as much since I was ins oo much pain........ still havent cooked my tags up though!! whats a good recipe!?!?!

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #33 on: January 08, 2009, 03:00:44 PM »
modern rifle deer tag

Passed on a nice little basket 4x4 WT from off my back deck. I had him scoped up and ready to let er bang......It just didn't seem right.

maybe I should have.

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2009, 08:15:29 PM »
3rd year trying to find a deer for me... third year failing to find a deer for me


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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #35 on: January 08, 2009, 11:55:06 PM »
I ate one of my deer tags and both my bears tags as well as my cougar tag.  It was one big meal.  At least I filled one of my tags and my dad filled his tag so we will have venison for a while at least.

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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #36 on: January 08, 2009, 11:59:59 PM »
ICEMAN, there is always next year!!   Thats what I keep telling myself..
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Re: Official Tag Soup Thread '08 Version
« Reply #37 on: January 09, 2009, 05:59:46 AM »
Yeah, that is what we are all telling ourselves!  :chuckle:

Even with no meat down this year, did have fun with family and friends.....  meat just makes it more fun...
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