Who can't take it?

[denali]

Hope all is well doublung   our prayers are for a speedy recovery !

[Deer slayer]

Doublelung I have to ask what your picture is.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Doublelung,

Wish you a speedy recovery don't know where you are,  but if you need some helping packing let me know.

Joe

[DOUBLELUNG]

Doublelung I have to ask what your picture is.

Slayer, that is the cut marks of a Thunderhead broadhead through the lungs of a mule deer.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Doublelung,

Wish you a speedy recovery don't know where you are,  but if you need some helping packing let me know.

Joe

Thanks Joe - Wenatchee is home.  I'm blessed to have several good friends willing to play pack mule, if i can get to where i can kill a bear and get it ready to be packed.

[Deer slayer]

Doublelung I have to ask what your picture is.

Slayer, that is the cut marks of a Thunderhead broadhead through the lungs of a mule deer.

I see it now.

[MichaelD]

I hear ya 400out!  Was just up there today looking around and talking to as many people as I can.  Pretty much updated all of my gear I thought.  I pulled out my little "bowhunting" range finder last night and the dang thing won't range past 40 yards. .
I have a huge Bushnell that are as big as a pair of huge binoculars that works well, but to lift them up I will likely have to use 2 hands which may not work for staying stealth.  Working on the boss to see if we can find a way for a new finder in the next couple of weeks!

Other than that......just thinking, dreaming, watching, reading, listening, and hoping elk!!!   I know it will be the experience of a lifetime.....just seems like a lifetime till it gets here!

Michael

[Hunter Dug]

Well thanks Joe top pin would be nice.  Ive been known to call em in pretty close myself so we may be flipping a coin. Sounds to me like we got it covered I'll get the video camera ready maybe we can get it on film.  Going to be fun.

[coachcw]

I'm so excited for my son this year. It;s his second year of archery hunting. been putting him in for bull permits since he was ten .six points and a bull permit is his . last year I killed a good 340 bull in the same unit . i really hope I can call a good bull into his lap for a memerable hunt . I'm confindent he'll make the shot . in the past he's only hunted the weekends except for a three generation idaho hunt . this year we are taking the first week atleast , the teachers are gonna just have to deal with it. good luck to the rest of you and thank god for our health and the abillity to get out and hunt.

[400out]

I'm so excited for my son this year. It;s his second year of archery hunting. been putting him in for bull permits since he was ten .six points and a bull permit is his . last year I killed a good 340 bull in the same unit . i really hope I can call a good bull into his lap for a memerable hunt . I'm confindent he'll make the shot . in the past he's only hunted the weekends except for a three generation idaho hunt . this year we are taking the first week atleast , the teachers are gonna just have to deal with it. good luck to the rest of you and thank god for our health and the abillity to get out and hunt.

OH MAN I wish your son the best!  The only thing better then doing it yourself is doing it for a loved one!

[PA BEN]

I drew GMUs 602, 607, 612, rifle tag, only one tag, Sept.20th to 24th. I haven't gotten to excited so far. I spent some money on new calls and sent. I've bow hunted for many years and have call in some big bulls but couldn't draw a tag. I lost all my points 6 years ago on a muzzle loader cow tag. I've moved to the wet side 5 yrs ago and have hunted a little with rifle for elk. (no time to bow hunt). There's lots of elk out here and w/my scouting it should pay off. Now when I drew my moose tag in '08 it was no sleep for 3 months. I'm trying not to get to worked up about this tag like I did w/my moose tag. 

[MIKEXRAY]

I had the " FEVER " in 08 when I had my bull tag, it is agonizing !   No tag this year, just now getting excited. Marriage is doing better this year with no tag. Good luck to all this season and good luck with those tags. I'll post pictures of my spike. Mike

[bowhuntersd]

I drew an Eastside tag this year and feel the same as the rest of you...... Completely Obsessed. Tuning my bow, going through and laying out all of my gear, looking at maps, making scouting trips, and spending alot of $$$$. All-in-All , my wife completely HATES and wants to KILL me to say the least.

[PA BEN]

I've been married for 24 years now. My wife knows how important hunting is to me. It hasn't been EZ over the years. I have 5 daughters and all have killed deer and my wife too. That's all we ate for meat. She knows how important this tag is. She rides bikes and I'm getting her involved in my scouting. Bike riding behind gates. Honey does are real important right now. Do your thing around the house and include her in your scouting. BTW, sex in the woods is great.    

[GoPlayOutside]

I've had "true spike only" fever for months now