Huntnphool & Boneaddict

[huntnphool]

a couple more of him.

[boneaddict]

I'm looking for another pic, but there were a couple good bucks on this thread as well.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,2815.30.html
I screwed the pooch on a couple of these.  The tight narrow guy hung for quite awhile as I was sitting on his doe and didn't know it.  He kept leaving and coming back.  I had another buck behind me.  I rattled and all of a sudden I had two bucks.  I didn't know the doe was there or I could have really milked this.

[boneaddict]

cool buck Rob.

[huntnphool]

one more. By the way, the last few months there have been several members on here purchase some nice new cameras, I'm betting this coming season we have loads more guys posting hoof pics of some pigs.

[boneaddict]

I'm hoping so.   Plus, we just aquired Tom.  Nothing but awesome stuff coming from him. 

[huntnphool]

Plus, we just aquired Tom.  Nothing but awesome stuff coming from him.

 No pressure though Tom

[boneaddict]

I get this feeling he has a garage full of boxes full of photos, and probably several hard drives laying around.

[boneaddict]

This one was a big one....I would have liked to have seen him 2 years previous.  I photographed him for 3 years over a 4 year period.  Last trip was with Lil Bone. Kinda cool that Idabooner, Grandpa spotted him this time, and Graddaughter did it the last time.

[boneaddict]

THis was him the next year

[boneaddict]

Its all about the learning curve.   By the way Jack, found the pics.   I need to compare sheds to the last buck.  I looked hard for his sheds and I think I found the pair this spring.  I couldn't find his pics, so couldn't compare.  Looks like they might be his.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,2631.0.html

[jackelope]

Rob-i'd have dropped that whitey like a bad habit...is he a wa. buck or a montana buck?

[PacificNWhunter]

Great looking bucks everyone, some whoppers for sure.

[Tom Reichner]

I get this feeling he has a garage full of boxes full of photos, and probably several hard drives laying around.

Ha!  I wish I did.  I actually just started this wildlife photography thing in the fall of 2006 with a Sony point & shoot.  I got my first decent digital camera exactly two years ago - a Canon 1D in May 2007.  Right after that I moved out here (from Pennsylvania), and I've become seriously addicted to "shooting" wildlife ever since.  Of course, I still hunt with a gun - mostly waterfowl and upland game birds.  But 90% of the time I'm out there I have a camera instead.

I've been able to get many good photos simply because of the great area I live in.  Back east there are just so few opportunities, and so little diversity in wildlife species.  Out here, I'm within a 10 hours' drive of great opportunities for Bighorns, Goats, Grizzlies, a gazillion species of ducks, a dozen upland gamebird species, wolves, moose  . . .    There's just so much around here that I can't help but get some excellent opportunities if I just get out there enough. 

So, all tolled I've only really been at it a little while.  I'm so darn technologically challenged it took me 6 or 8 months to learn how to use my first digital SLR properly, so really I've only been getting decent wildlife pics for less than a year and a half now. 

It really is the abundance of wildlife we have out here that makes this possible - millions of folks who live in the east can only dream of seeing a grizzly, or a Blue Grouse, or of having 10 species of ducks come in to a blind in one morning.  In just two days - from Friday evening to Sunday evening - I saw Red Foxes in several color phases, Blue Grouse displaying, and, to top it off, a big Black Bear on the drive home.  That's how come the photo count racks up so quickly.  That stuff just doesn't happen in the east - ever.  That's why I live here now.

[OneHorn]

Those are some awsome bucks guys. Its awsome to see pictures of soem of the bucks you huys work hard to film. thanks for sharing

[boneaddict]

I envy you for where you live, having been raised in Twisp.  I do so love it up there.