Post by: RadSav on August 18, 2012, 03:33:45 AM
DelMastro, Crazy Larry, The Angry Squaw and myself should be slaying ourselves some speed goats Monday morning. And this time next week we should be eating fresh antelope chili :EAT: One of my favorites!
Eastbound drivers beware...There's a half blind angry chick and a crazy *censored* on the road with nothing but bloody arrows on their mind :yike:
Post by: Austrian Hunter on August 18, 2012, 03:51:54 AM
Post by: PolarBear on August 18, 2012, 03:52:44 AM
Sweet! One of these days I'm going to find the time to hunt speed goats on my Brother In Law's family ranch out of Gillette!
Have fun and get some goats!
Post by: windygorge on August 18, 2012, 05:33:31 AM
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Post by: Bigluke1981 on August 20, 2012, 12:58:25 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 20, 2012, 01:39:17 PM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on August 20, 2012, 01:44:23 PM
Oh and what the heck is that muzzy hat on his head :chuckle: Time for some RAD hats :IBCOOL:
Post by: C-Money on August 20, 2012, 01:45:00 PM
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Post by: Johnb317 on August 20, 2012, 01:58:36 PM
Hope stories to follow. Distance etc.
Post by: Bigshooter on August 20, 2012, 02:09:37 PM
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Post by: RadSav on August 21, 2012, 06:57:31 AM
She hit a little low and forward breaking the shoulder and stopping short of the opposite side. Followed up with a second shot at 35 yards getting a better arrow through both lungs. That is the short arrow you see. Yes, she was shooting a new prototype made just for her with a .025 Contender blade profile.
Post by: dreamingbig on August 21, 2012, 07:05:42 AM
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Post by: muzbuster on August 22, 2012, 01:45:31 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 22, 2012, 01:48:24 PM
Looked like nice heavy bases on that goat :dunno: hope another nice one wanders on in! Congrats to the wife! love the horns on that guy, cool cutter. Hang in there guys 8)
Thanks Dwayne. You should have seen the two I passed him up for. Not as pretty. But both had cutters 1.5 to 2" above the ears. Can't kill the big ones if you settle for little ones. No matter how perfect they are. Judging by today though a bird in the hand would have been the right choice. It's brutal today. Not even does up in this wind.
Thank you muzbuster
Post by: RadSav on August 22, 2012, 03:05:31 PM
Oh man, it sounds like you are having a blast! Migraine excluded! I know how it feels, makes me want to :puke: & :ACRY: when I get one. Hang in there!
You know it's a bad one when you use a hot water bottle filled with urine as a pillow and your happy it's almost full :chuckle:
Wind starting to die down. Just had some does come for a drink and to get their picture taken.
Post by: MLBowhunting on August 22, 2012, 03:07:05 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 22, 2012, 04:51:27 PM
Post by: windygorge on August 22, 2012, 07:49:10 PM
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 22, 2012, 08:09:49 PM
are you filming your hunts rav. would be cool to see ya stick one. would be a good promo for your new broadhead to. :tup::yeah: I want to see this broadhead in action :tup:
Post by: sebek556 on August 22, 2012, 08:12:01 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 23, 2012, 06:08:18 AM
I feel like an incompetent boob with a still camera. Not sure I could make a video anyone would want to see. I do know Del will be producing something next year. He'll be the one you w.ant to watch anyway. I've got a face for radio and a voice for silent film
No wind today so we should be good there. New blind location I'm a little unsure of. And today is the last day. So now Larry and I are meat hunters. If its brown its down for the most part._
Post by: bloodhound on August 23, 2012, 08:37:21 AM
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Post by: FSTaxidermy on August 23, 2012, 12:53:08 PM
good luck guys, they will probably be coming in the last hour! 8)
Post by: RadSav on August 23, 2012, 02:27:04 PM
Bryan it might be time for a desperation move, you need to toss that hot water bottle over to Larrys blind :chuckle:
good luck guys, they will probably be coming in the last hour! 8)
Larry is the one having a rough go. At least I could have tagged out if I had wanted. He has not had one single buck in the normal comfort zone. And the buck he did try for all the way across the waterhole in front of me was not at all a big one. He'd have been happy with it if the wind hadn't made the shot too far. But all previous years we would have given him grief for tagging one like that.
Quite a bit different than two years ago when we saw easily 30 mature bucks a day. WDFG is expected to drop the amount of doe tags and possibly buck tags by a good bit next year. Everywhere in the state. Will probably take three good winters and a few wet springs to get the numbers back.
Post by: bearpaw on August 23, 2012, 03:03:34 PM
Post by: Curly on August 23, 2012, 03:06:44 PM
Post by: FSTaxidermy on August 23, 2012, 04:13:25 PM
good luck guys :archery_smiley:
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on August 23, 2012, 04:35:33 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 23, 2012, 09:34:31 PM
Larry's 23 yard shot looked perfect, but after a longer than expected recovery inspection showed otherwise. Even though entry looked like a heart shot the broadhead somehow passed behind the heart and barely grazed the bottom of the lungs. One of the goofiest things I've seen in all my years of bowhunting. If I were to draw a picture of where to shoot one it would have been within inches of where his arrow hit. He followed up with a long shot and put him down quickly. Great buck first or last day for him. :tup:
I had to pull a bit of rabbit out of my arse so to speak on my buck. He stayed about 300 yards away on the other side of a fence and with less than an hour of hunt left. It looked like he would live another day. Wind had picked up and was blowing pretty hard right at him from my location. Two does came in to drink and decided to stay for a while and feed around the waterhole. I think the buck smelled them and came for a closer look. He paced back and forth at the five wire fence 48 yards from the blind trying to find a hole to crawl through. He finally gave up and decided a doe and yearling were not worth it and he started to walk away. I've got to take him from there!
I set my single pin sight to 48 yards (distance to the fence) and instinctively aimed for his shoulder. Looked like the arrow would clear the top wire by about three inches if I took the shot. I let down, took a range directly off of the buck at 55 yards. And reset the pin. Now that damn wind!! Steady, but blowing around 20 I figure. Having seen what it did to Larry's arrow the day before I figured about 25 inches of wind compensation was needed.
At this time the buck was standing near 45 degrees quartering away with his head to my left. I drew, placed the pin about 2" outside the right ham and let fly. Perfect curve ball for a strike out :whoo:. Arrow entered mid ribs and exited out the right shoulder. The big boy ran 20 yards, stopped, reared up on his hind legs and flipped over backwards. Never another kick or twitch.
I've taken a lot of animals and just don't get too shaky anymore. That darned miracle I'd just pulled off turned on the shakes like I was a teenager again. I spun around and tried to grab my phone to text the guide. I was shaking so bad I dropped the phone three times before being able to turn it on. Not sure how he read it with all the spelling errors from my not being able to hit all the keys right, but he did - "Won't need to track this one. Come get me!" He texted back, "I'm already on my way."
At dinner that night he said he had been working on a poem after watching me shoot that buck;
I watched Bryan shoot an arrow into the air.
I said, "What's he doing that buck is way over there!"
He said the shot was true, "Look over by the ditch!"
And when I did there laid that dead son-of-a-bitch!
You made me work, you made me mad.
But after it all you ain't too bad!
Billy Hudson- guide
Good food, good people, and good hunting. Can't ask for anything more than that!
Post by: bearpaw on August 23, 2012, 09:51:00 PM
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Post by: FSTaxidermy on August 24, 2012, 11:35:25 AM
Congrats! couple of nice bucks :IBCOOL:
Post by: sebek556 on August 24, 2012, 08:43:41 PM
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Post by: windygorge on August 24, 2012, 09:02:29 PM
Post by: RadSav on August 25, 2012, 02:19:33 PM
Sometimes all works well. Larry missed a small buck and got a nice one with only a few hours to spare. I passed on a nice buck and caught grief from everyone, but with one hour to spare took one even bigger. There have been a lot of hunts where things have not worked out as you would have hoped. 2012 Wyoming lived up to expectations and all disappointments and regrets worked out in the end to make this our best Wyoming trip ever.
I took my tripod with me and forgot it every single day :bash: By the end I figured out a little better way to work with that big lens and got a few good pics out of the 300. Here are a few of my favorite pics to leave you with.
Post by: RadSav on August 25, 2012, 02:20:01 PM
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