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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Bean Counter on August 14, 2008, 09:46:40 AM

Title: All in a day's work
Post by: Bean Counter on August 14, 2008, 09:46:40 AM: Have you ever worked and hunted in the same day? After putting in a full day of work (and I use that term loosely), I ducked out of the office a little early to head afield. Left around 4pm, and by 6pm I was in the field with my rifle, glassing for bears. I caught a great vista of the sunset over several hills. I shoulda taken some pics. The bears got away this time, but what a way to end a day. Even more clarification to me that I want to spend the majority of my life in an area where that is the rule, not the exception.

To top it off, I was joined by Master DeKuma while calling for bears. now I know 10x more about predator calling. :bow: Thanks, DeKuma! :brew:
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: M_ray on August 14, 2008, 10:18:32 AM: Do it all the time I did it last night as a matter of fact! I look goofy changeing into camo at the back end of a VW Passat! Lucky for me I can call tmike with the game cart and a truck when I get one down! :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: tmike on August 14, 2008, 10:23:00 AM: You have to around here. The sad thing for me is I've been hunting twice this year in a minivan. :yike: Don't want to fill the Power Stroke
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: M_ray on August 14, 2008, 10:49:37 AM: :yeah: That's why mine is sitting in the driveway!
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: boneaddict on August 14, 2008, 10:59:05 AM: Done it that way since I was in school. Used to ride the 10 speed tot he hill about 5 miles away.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: MountainWalk on August 14, 2008, 11:06:45 AM: When I worked at the horse farm, that was one of the big perks, was to hunt there. Soon as I got through feeding and unhitching then putting the Deere away, I would grab my bow and I had two creek bottoms, all the woods and such to hunt. It was great.

Now during certain seasons, a full day of work is a full day of hunting. I love it and I learn so much.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: DeKuma on August 14, 2008, 11:27:53 AM: Nothing Master about me BC! I just repeated what I learned form the guys here!

It was a great evening. Wish the animals would have cooperated. Sunset was great. Glad you did not get too freaked out when I talked to you on the trail. I was standing near a brush pile in full camo, when he was coming up the trail. I was not moving and the sun was low in his eyes. When I said "hey" to him, he jumped, but remained calm.

Tell me about the gas stuff! I left the Ram at hom and drove my wife's Saturn up the mountain to meet Bean Counter.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: Lincoln4 on August 14, 2008, 01:05:04 PM: Non-Truck driving hunters of Washington Unite! :chuckle:

Dodge Durango or Saturn for me as well... :dunno:

I just did the evening hunt after working all day Tuesday. Man, it was Africa hot out there. Maybe it was Monday. Heat caused me to lose my memory I guess.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: JoshT on August 14, 2008, 01:20:29 PM: I've got you all beat... pink Toyota Tercel baby... yes, I said pink. But, I can do a lot of hunting on 35+ MPGs. There's a bunch of eastern WA coyotes that never suspected that the guy in the pink car would do them any harm... little did they know.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: DeKuma on August 14, 2008, 01:24:40 PM: I am really close to either selling my 87 Celica GTS or taking the time and money to fix it, and make it my hunting rig. Getting in the high 30's is nice and I could then go on more hunts! Packing an elk or bear in there might be fun. :yike:

Should just find a cheap little truck or suv with a 4 or 6 cylinder in it and buy it, but the wofe and I are trying really hard to be debt free soon.
She HATES me taking her car to hunt as it gets all dirty, and she will kill me if I get blood on it or heaven forbid, in it!!!

Sure makes those after work hunting runs nice when you do not have to worry about gas!
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: Bean Counter on August 14, 2008, 01:56:54 PM: Tie it to the roof, in lieu of the truck bed. Just be sure to slam a beer can through the antlers and drive through Freemont on the way home.

This is crazy, 4 out of 4 of you ditching the truck in favor of a car. I used to drive around in a Subaru and now this year I finally have my truck.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: MountainWalk on August 14, 2008, 02:02:21 PM: I used to take a 64 Nova ss hunting back in AR.. Ive crossed creeks in that thing. I started out trying to hot rod the thing, but that was too much that took away from hunting. It never got past a new enging and a primer job. It was a hunting machine.
Title: Re: All in a day's work
Post by: GoldTip on August 14, 2008, 02:06:09 PM: Hauled a few deer and one quartered out elk in the trunk of a 70 chevelle SS in high school. Killed a lot of grouse hunting out of that car.