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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #420 on: December 19, 2024, 12:09:10 AM »
We always call the mini corn dogs “corn doggies”. It really seems like you named these deer after things you saw around the Luvs :chuckle:

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #421 on: December 19, 2024, 06:24:40 AM »
Thanks for the replies....Good to know these deer were taken by tag holders. Amazing success out there this year. So glad they didn't go unethically.
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #422 on: December 19, 2024, 11:11:33 AM »
I vote Klickitatsteelie (Hunter) for Man of the Year.  His sacrifice truly inspired me.

Congratulations, Karl.
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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #423 on: December 19, 2024, 12:13:48 PM »
Deer like that don’t come around very often and when they do grow to that size and that age they are very very smart. If Karl and I would have competed for that buck what would have happened is we would have ended up pushing the envelope to hard and blowing him out for nether of us to have gotten. Karl went into the tag with a specific score of 190”+ and with that being the only buck of that caliber we had found and with all the time and work Karl put into finding him it was only right to let him have his opportunity at him. I was just glad to be a part of it.

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #424 on: December 19, 2024, 09:49:22 PM »
I vote Klickitatsteelie (Hunter) for Man of the Year.  His sacrifice truly inspired me.

Congratulations, Karl.
He definitely gets my vote!
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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #425 on: December 19, 2024, 10:55:02 PM »
Deer like that don’t come around very often and when they do grow to that size and that age they are very very smart. If Karl and I would have competed for that buck what would have happened is we would have ended up pushing the envelope to hard and blowing him out for nether of us to have gotten. Karl went into the tag with a specific score of 190”+ and with that being the only buck of that caliber we had found and with all the time and work Karl put into finding him it was only right to let him have his opportunity at him. I was just glad to be a part of it.

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #426 on: December 20, 2024, 07:13:07 AM »
Is that your biggest buck Karl?

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #427 on: December 20, 2024, 09:48:04 AM »
What a journey. Thanks for taking us along.

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #428 on: December 20, 2024, 10:25:29 AM »
Is that your biggest buck Karl?

If it isn't, he should post the bigger one too!! But gosh that thing is hard to beat. I will steal a line from JPmiller that if I'da ran into him with my bow, my arrow would end up in the next county from my shakes.

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #429 on: December 20, 2024, 12:45:49 PM »
Is that your biggest buck Karl?

If it isn't, he should post the bigger one too!! But gosh that thing is hard to beat. I will steal a line from JPmiller that if I'da ran into him with my bow, my arrow would end up in the next county from my shakes.
He's for sure my biggest by a few inches.  My next best was a CO buck that took me 6 days to re-find and get killed.  I'm a procrastinator  :chuckle:
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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #430 on: December 20, 2024, 01:04:17 PM »
Deer like that don’t come around very often and when they do grow to that size and that age they are very very smart. If Karl and I would have competed for that buck what would have happened is we would have ended up pushing the envelope to hard and blowing him out for nether of us to have gotten. Karl went into the tag with a specific score of 190”+ and with that being the only buck of that caliber we had found and with all the time and work Karl put into finding him it was only right to let him have his opportunity at him. I was just glad to be a part of it.

RESPECT! 

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #431 on: December 20, 2024, 01:05:10 PM »
My next best was a CO buck that took me 6 days to re-find and get killed.  I'm a procrastinator  :chuckle:
Ok, now THAT was funny!!  :tup:

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #432 on: December 20, 2024, 01:20:17 PM »
Deer like that don’t come around very often and when they do grow to that size and that age they are very very smart. If Karl and I would have competed for that buck what would have happened is we would have ended up pushing the envelope to hard and blowing him out for nether of us to have gotten. Karl went into the tag with a specific score of 190”+ and with that being the only buck of that caliber we had found and with all the time and work Karl put into finding him it was only right to let him have his opportunity at him. I was just glad to be a part of it.

RESPECT!
  :yeah: and I'm damn glad he had that mentality because head to head he'd whip me bad at a bowhunting competition  :bdid:  Klicks a far better bowhunter than I am.
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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #433 on: December 20, 2024, 01:22:22 PM »
I vote Klickitatsteelie (Hunter) for Man of the Year.  His sacrifice truly inspired me.

Congratulations, Karl.
He definitely gets my vote!

That was certainly a big sacrifice: Good for you Hunter. If anyone on this forum "deserves" a fellow hunter to sacrifice for them, I'd vote for you, Karl. You've contributed in your always affable manner to other members.

Great write up. You put in the work and suffered the mosquitoes, sand, and sun. That appears to be the Blanchard way. You do your family proud. I hope you hunt an even larger buck someday and grace us with another compelling story.

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Re: Can someone tell me where this "Desert" unit 290 is?
« Reply #434 on: December 20, 2024, 01:52:10 PM »
great story and awesome buck, thanks for sharing!!!

 


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