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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2016, 09:03:48 PM »
Looks like a blast
You sure you know how to skin griz pilgram

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2016, 06:45:16 AM »
Definite bucket list trip to hunt the Frank on stock someday. Thanks for sharing your story. Wish this Backcountry Sub-Forum got more love...but I guess that's why we end up with these places all to ourselves eh?
LOL- no kidding.

The Frank Church is an amazing piece of backcountry.  We hunted in ~12-15 miles on a cleared trail and never saw another hunter, horse track or boot print.  We literally had hundreds of square miles to ourselves. 


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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2016, 07:04:29 AM »
That would be a neat hunt, especially with the mules

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2016, 07:19:54 AM »
Were you guys putting the quarters on top of loaded panniers for the trip out? It's interesting to look at packed animals to see how other guys skin the same cat.

We always have bute around for "just in case" but we use syringes and keep the injection site higher on the neck closer to the shoulder to avoid those major blood vessels. Any horse owner that does back country hunts with their animals should have bute in one form or another for their animals. 

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #19 on: October 27, 2016, 08:47:57 AM »
Next time maybe you can let Brian get a shot at something. Sounded like a fun trip.


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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #20 on: October 27, 2016, 10:10:02 AM »
Next time maybe you can let Brian get a shot at something. Sounded like a fun trip.


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LOL- he got a bull in the Church in 2014, on opening day.  You should have seen the look on his face when the three of us took off to bivy camp and left him in camp to care for the stock for three days!  It looked like we took away his birthday, he was so mad. :)

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #21 on: October 31, 2016, 01:03:03 PM »
Looks like a fun trip. Only ever used Bute paste in the big oral syringe myself. That buck looks real nice.

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #22 on: October 31, 2016, 01:11:39 PM »
Looks like a fun trip. Only ever used Bute paste in the big oral syringe myself. That buck looks real nice.
The paste is nice and easy.

The buck was a whopper.  We rarely see many deer in there, but found a few decent ones and this big one. 

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2016, 01:37:33 PM »
Looks like a fun trip. Only ever used Bute paste in the big oral syringe myself. That buck looks real nice.
The paste is nice and easy.

The buck was a whopper.  We rarely see many deer in there, but found a few decent ones and this big one.

Thats unfortunate to hear, I thought it might be a good place for a mulie hunt from a drop camp.  We are running into to much competition in our spot and I thought the Church would offer some much needed space between hunters.

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2016, 01:40:49 PM »
I suspect there are spots that are better than where we were.  The season also goes into November, but we were pretty high and getting stock in would be tough.  I think a raft based hunt through there, with some hiking up the tribs would produce awesome bucks. 

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #25 on: October 31, 2016, 01:58:51 PM »
Looks like a fun trip. Only ever used Bute paste in the big oral syringe myself. That buck looks real nice.
The paste is nice and easy.

The buck was a whopper.  We rarely see many deer in there, but found a few decent ones and this big one.

Thats unfortunate to hear, I thought it might be a good place for a mulie hunt from a drop camp.  We are running into to much competition in our spot and I thought the Church would offer some much needed space between hunters.

I shot a nice mulie buck in the church in September. He was with 4 other good sized bucks as well. There are pockets that hold good deer numbers
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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2016, 06:38:27 AM »
That would.be a very *censored* rafting trip, especially in November.
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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2016, 03:03:25 PM »
Raft in November is very risky. I have pictures of it froze in November on a couple trips   Elk areas, deer areas and some sizable areas that mix. It is all there.  I might have taken some of that mule medicine a few times if I had it for myself

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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #28 on: November 21, 2016, 07:36:00 PM »
I would like to see more pics of the Bucks.
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Re: frank church this fall
« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2016, 06:58:23 AM »
I would like to see more pics of the Bucks.

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