Post by: MountainWalk on December 03, 2012, 11:50:15 PM
Post by: deerslyr on December 03, 2012, 11:54:01 PM
Post by: runningboard on December 04, 2012, 12:02:36 AM
Post by: PolarBear on December 04, 2012, 12:04:35 AM
Back in 1991 or 92 I was working movie security for Warner Brother's in Southern California. A friend of my Dad's was in charge of a big ranch out in Santa Clarita where they filmed a bunch of tv shows and movies, one show was the Duke's of Hazzard. My buddy and I lived in a little house on a hill just above the Boar's Nest and Uncle Jessie's place. In the evenings we kept seeing deer come down to a moat that was built for the Movie "Nothing But Trouble" to get water. There were a couple of nice bucks in the group. The guy that was in charge of the place bought me a non-resident deer tag and I shot a decent 3 point Cali blackie in an oak grove about 200 yards behind Uncle Jessie's house. That was such a cool ranch to be on. It was several hundred acres and we drove our trucks like mad men up and down the same roads that they filmed the General Lee burning down.
Post by: MountainWalk on December 04, 2012, 12:12:13 AM
Post by: fish vacuum on December 04, 2012, 12:26:42 AM
Funny you mentioned this subject.
Back in 1991 or 92 I was working movie security for Warner Brother's in Southern California. A friend of my Dad's was in charge of a big ranch out in Santa Clarita where they filmed a bunch of tv shows and movies, one show was the Duke's of Hazzard. My buddy and I lived in a little house on a hill just above the Boar's Nest and Uncle Jessie's place. In the evenings we kept seeing deer come down to a moat that was built for the Movie "Nothing But Trouble" to get water. There were a couple of nice bucks in the group. The guy that was in charge of the place bought me a non-resident deer tag and I shot a decent 3 point Cali blackie in an oak grove about 200 yards behind Uncle Jessie's house. That was such a cool ranch to be on. It was several hundred acres and we drove our trucks like mad men up and down the same roads that they filmed the General Lee burning down.
That IS an interesting place to kill a deer.
Post by: C-Money on December 04, 2012, 06:41:34 AM
Post by: elkoholic on December 04, 2012, 06:52:04 AM
Post by: boneaddict on December 04, 2012, 07:10:52 AM
last year hunted my A$$ off all day , put the miles on the boots only to shoot my deer 75 yards from the truck ......This year for me. Most boring anticlimatic hunt I have ever had
Post by: boneaddict on December 04, 2012, 07:12:21 AM
Funny you mentioned this subject.
Back in 1991 or 92 I was working movie security for Warner Brother's in Southern California. A friend of my Dad's was in charge of a big ranch out in Santa Clarita where they filmed a bunch of tv shows and movies, one show was the Duke's of Hazzard. My buddy and I lived in a little house on a hill just above the Boar's Nest and Uncle Jessie's place. In the evenings we kept seeing deer come down to a moat that was built for the Movie "Nothing But Trouble" to get water. There were a couple of nice bucks in the group. The guy that was in charge of the place bought me a non-resident deer tag and I shot a decent 3 point Cali blackie in an oak grove about 200 yards behind Uncle Jessie's house. That was such a cool ranch to be on. It was several hundred acres and we drove our trucks like mad men up and down the same roads that they filmed the General Lee burning down.
Thats dang cool.
Post by: Kioti on December 04, 2012, 07:28:27 AM
Then the last day of hunting season I come home and there is a buck in my garden eating my raspberries. I say exsqueese me?
I grabbed my smoke pole from my truck, loaded it and walked over to the garden...shot a raspberry eating deer.
It had a slight raspberry taste to the steaks.... :chuckle:
I don't know if this fits the qualifications of being interesting, but it kind of blew me away to hunt all year and then tag this one in own back yard.
Post by: blacktailcody on December 04, 2012, 07:58:10 AM
Post by: Arnbo on December 04, 2012, 08:14:04 AM
Exactly 9 miles on my new Ford Ranger 4x4 coming from the Credit union
Local FoodBank was given the meat.Oh by the way it was over $4000.00 Damage.
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 04, 2012, 02:09:04 PM
I left my perch about 930 seeing nothing... Dad wanted to meet back at camp by 11 to pack up ... Almost back to camp and a doe runs across the logging skid with a legal buck in tow... :bash: Now I'm kicking myself for not being ready... I follow their tracks as best I can before I lose them... I am way above camp now and gonna be late... Start heading down toward camp dejected and kicking rocks.... Turn my radio on @ 11 am... Knew I was close to camp because how steep the ridge was getting... Slipped, fell, tumbled... First I did was jump up and make sure nobody saw... Check my rifle out... Then body.... Look around one more time... A little flat spot almost 400 yards away with massive elevation drop between us.. A deer standing there staring at me.. Throw binocs up... Legal buck... Rifle goes boom... I see deer is hit... Fall again... Dad is on the radio before I can get up... He watched me fall both times through the trees and thought my rifle went off... :chuckle: I get down there and show him the dead deer not 50 yards from the trailer... He'd been there for 40 minutes within 100 yards of that buck... Which turned out to be a small 4x benchleg.... Easiest pack out ever... I got it mounted just to remind him everytime he comes over...
Post by: PlateauNDN on December 04, 2012, 02:14:45 PM
last year hunted my A$$ off all day , put the miles on the boots only to shoot my deer 75 yards from the truck ......
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Had that happen this year as well for a cousin of mine. went up a couple of times walked for miles and then re-located the following weekend and met up with some good guys and didn't make it more than 3/4 of a mile from the vehicle and what do you know he gets a buck. I was familiar with the area from hunting there for quite a while but it was his first year there and he nabbed a buck right at shooting light after many years of a dry spell. good day for him. :tup:
Post by: dscubame on December 04, 2012, 02:15:01 PM
Funny you mentioned this subject.
Back in 1991 or 92 I was working movie security for Warner Brother's in Southern California. A friend of my Dad's was in charge of a big ranch out in Santa Clarita where they filmed a bunch of tv shows and movies, one show was the Duke's of Hazzard. My buddy and I lived in a little house on a hill just above the Boar's Nest and Uncle Jessie's place. In the evenings we kept seeing deer come down to a moat that was built for the Movie "Nothing But Trouble" to get water. There were a couple of nice bucks in the group. The guy that was in charge of the place bought me a non-resident deer tag and I shot a decent 3 point Cali blackie in an oak grove about 200 yards behind Uncle Jessie's house. That was such a cool ranch to be on. It was several hundred acres and we drove our trucks like mad men up and down the same roads that they filmed the General Lee burning down.
That is so frackin cool!!! Daisy Duke, ahhhhhhh.
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 04, 2012, 02:16:19 PM
Funny you mentioned this subject.
Back in 1991 or 92 I was working movie security for Warner Brother's in Southern California. A friend of my Dad's was in charge of a big ranch out in Santa Clarita where they filmed a bunch of tv shows and movies, one show was the Duke's of Hazzard. My buddy and I lived in a little house on a hill just above the Boar's Nest and Uncle Jessie's place. In the evenings we kept seeing deer come down to a moat that was built for the Movie "Nothing But Trouble" to get water. There were a couple of nice bucks in the group. The guy that was in charge of the place bought me a non-resident deer tag and I shot a decent 3 point Cali blackie in an oak grove about 200 yards behind Uncle Jessie's house. That was such a cool ranch to be on. It was several hundred acres and we drove our trucks like mad men up and down the same roads that they filmed the General Lee burning down.
Did you get to see her (Daisy Duke) atleast??!!
Post by: jess on December 04, 2012, 02:16:47 PM
Post by: 400out on December 04, 2012, 02:18:33 PM
I killed a big muley on butterfly glacier in glacier peak wilderness a few years ago.. He literaly died on the glacier i had a heck of a time getting to him and then trying to bone him out with nothing to tie him to realy sucked..:yike: gotta have pics of that! Please share
Post by: pianoman9701 on December 04, 2012, 02:20:36 PM
Post by: littlemac on December 04, 2012, 02:28:28 PM
The Sika was the best hunt though. I was eating lunch sitting above a valley and I was watching a couple of stags on the far side of the valley. Watched them for some time when a Sika 4 point stepped out right by them. None of them paid any attention to the other it seemed.
Sipping my soda and watching for 15 minutes or so, they were a long way off. Figured I couldn't screw up too badly if I tried to put a sneak on them, worst I could do is not get across to them and it was in the general direction of camp. It took about 20 minutes to get over where they were, problem became there wasn't much if any cover once I got to about 500 yards. I ranged a tree that was about 300 yards from me in some failry tall grass with some clumps of bushes between me and the tree.
Decided to take a chance and get to the tree. Worked across between the clumps of bushes and got to the last clump without spooking the Sika, the stage had wandered off into the woods nearby. No good shot unless I could make it to the tree so I finally just waited until it was feeding away from me with it's head down. Made a run for the tree and got there.
It wasn't too long before the Sika started to feed down the rise it was on and I got a good rest for the shot.
When I got to NZ I hadn't planned on a Sika but as things turned out I ended up with a nice one. Here are pics of both the Sika and the Red Stag.
Post by: pianoman9701 on December 04, 2012, 02:32:31 PM
Post by: Austrian Hunter on December 04, 2012, 02:48:49 PM
Post by: jess on December 04, 2012, 03:06:31 PM
Post by: littlemac on December 04, 2012, 03:09:23 PM
Wow, Littlemac.... Now that's what I call a cool stag/hunt!!! :tup:
Hopefully not my last one down there but if it was it was worth it. I'd love to get back down there, most friendly folks you could imagine. South Island is amazing too and totally different than the north, I got a Chamois and a Thar on the south island.
Post by: buck man on December 04, 2012, 04:30:39 PM
Post by: bankwalker on December 04, 2012, 08:40:29 PM
How about the first placed I looked. I got out of the truck, looked left and seen a Buck, and shot said buck. Usually we hunt all year and kill our deer in the last spot we look :chuckle:
Post by: Elkrunner on December 05, 2012, 11:02:55 AM
Post by: Elkrunner on December 05, 2012, 11:04:55 AM
Well it's not exotic or very exciting, but I have killed two deer on hwy. 395 that had their backs broken by vehicles......?..didn't have my pistol, so I used my hands and choked them out. :'(
I did the same thing once but used the tire iron for the jack in my buddies car. He about puked watching me do it(he is a west side tree hugger type of guy though).
Post by: NRA4LIFE on December 05, 2012, 11:16:09 AM
Post by: BK Dave on December 05, 2012, 11:26:45 AM
Post by: steen on December 05, 2012, 03:20:38 PM
Most interesting spot i killed a deer.I'll bet that was the last place u looked! :chuckle:
How about the first placed I looked. I got out of the truck, looked left and seen a Buck, and shot said buck. Usually we hunt all year and kill our deer in the last spot we look :chuckle:
Post by: CAMPMEAT on December 05, 2012, 03:51:17 PM
Ever see the movie "Sling Blade"? Remember when Carl goes to visit his father Robert Duval? That old house is right next to my folks' property in Avilla, Arkansas. I've killed several smoker white tails in that backyard and on the rest of that property. The movie was filmed in my hometown.
Oh no, no wonder you're on the "FIGHT" forum. Ya gonna get some of dem, french fries ? Uh huh !! Besides that, cool !!!!
Post by: bankwalker on December 05, 2012, 03:51:32 PM
Most interesting spot i killed a deer.I'll bet that was the last place u looked! :chuckle:
How about the first placed I looked. I got out of the truck, looked left and seen a Buck, and shot said buck. Usually we hunt all year and kill our deer in the last spot we look :chuckle:
Can it be last if it's first :dunno: :chuckle:
Post by: Old Man Yager on December 06, 2012, 11:01:53 AM
Post by: rickomatic on December 06, 2012, 08:01:45 PM
Apologies to Groucho Marx. :chuckle:
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 06, 2012, 08:12:57 PM
Well it's not exotic or very exciting, but I have killed two deer on hwy. 395 that had their backs broken by vehicles......?..didn't have my pistol, so I used my hands and choked them out. :'(
Have done that a few times. One time when I was a recruiter for the Army I finished off a mule deer doe with a broken back by breaking her neck, when I had a kid who had just enlisted in the passenger seat. He didn't say much the rest of the way back to Walla Walla... :chuckle:
Post by: BK Dave on December 07, 2012, 03:00:47 PM
One morning I shot a deer in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.Haha
Apologies to Groucho Marx. :chuckle:
Post by: Kola16 on December 07, 2012, 03:03:58 PM
Post by: steen on January 05, 2013, 09:01:56 AM
Post by: AKBowman on January 05, 2013, 10:04:00 AM
Super anticlimactic but I was happy to take it
Post by: DoubleJ on January 05, 2013, 10:35:28 AM
Post by: coachcw on January 05, 2013, 04:07:03 PM
Post by: buck man on January 05, 2013, 11:22:35 PM
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Post by: HntnFsh on January 06, 2013, 05:18:36 PM
Post by: PolarBear on January 06, 2013, 07:36:09 PM
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on January 06, 2013, 07:56:51 PM
Post by: NRA4LIFE on January 06, 2013, 08:07:20 PM
Post by: RifleRidge on January 06, 2013, 08:10:37 PM
Buck down.... Crazy stuff....
:peep: :hunter:
Post by: Sitka_Blacktail on January 06, 2013, 08:46:12 PM
Post by: lokidog on January 06, 2013, 10:06:39 PM
Post by: bone collector 12 on January 06, 2013, 10:12:26 PM
Post by: Elkrunner on January 07, 2013, 07:29:39 AM
I didn't kill it, just watched in amazement..... An acquaintance, back in my Kodiak days of the early 80's, woke me up a little after 2 am, (right after the bars closed curiously enough) banging on my door. As I grumpily opened the door and asked him what in Sam Hill he thought he was doing, he shouted he needed to borrow a knife, fast. It was then I heard banging in his Volkswagon Bug parked in my driveway. I ran and got a knife and watched him dive in a back door, and an even bigger ruckus broke out and there was a lot of cussing and yelling. Then he finally stumbled out all covered in blood. I said, "What the????" "Did you just kill somebody?" And he told me the whole story. He'd been driving home out the road from his favorite local bar And as he got to Bells Flats he noticed a deer along the side of the road. His favorite beverage had affected his judgement to the point he decided this was an easy way to get some fresh venison for him and his girlfriend. He purposely swerved and clipped it, jumped out, threw it in the back seat, and headed on home only to have the deer come to life. As I lived nearby, all he could think to do was wake me for a knife to finish the job. He paid a price, with a mess in the back seat, a black eye, and numerous bruises and cuts where the deer had kicked him in the struggle. But he got his venison. I went back to bed told my wife what happened, then tried to convince myself I'd been dreaming.
reminds me of the movie tommy boy
Post by: Todd_ID on January 07, 2013, 07:52:27 AM
So I punched my tag on a deer that hadn't been shot and ate well for that winter! To this day I wish I could have gotten that on video.
Post by: sirmissalot on January 07, 2013, 08:05:44 AM
Post by: h2ofowlr on January 07, 2013, 08:18:32 AM
Post by: Elkrunner on January 07, 2013, 08:25:33 AM
15 years or so ago, I didn't fill my deer tag during our week long hunt that we did in Idaho. As I'm driving toward home and almost out of the part of the unit that was open I saw a big doe at the top of a 50' cliff above the road. I stopped, jumped out with my muzzleloader intending on filling my tag. When she noticed me scurrying across the road to get to a legal spot to shoot, she just came unglued, jumped up, stumbled, and fell off the cliff. She broke her neck in the fall, and dead instantly.
So I punched my tag on a deer that hadn't been shot and ate well for that winter! To this day I wish I could have gotten that on video.
That right there would be something to see.
Post by: Elkrunner on January 07, 2013, 08:26:25 AM
Not as interesting as some but my Wyoming buck this year died in the center of this picture, tumbled probably 30 yards and free fell a good 20ft, then kicked his way away from a sink hole. Pretty interesting country never hunted anything like it.
How far of a shot?
Post by: lokidog on January 07, 2013, 08:33:09 AM
A memorable one I had was back in 98'. I was duck hunting a little beaver pond and I had a 3x3 walk out into the pond. He was going to try to chase off the ducks I guess. When my decoys didn't move he walked over to one and started sniffing it. I had two slugs on me and it was during modern rifle season. I changed out my round and dropped him standing next to my decoys in the pond. I drug him across the pond over to where my boat was and dressed him out with my pocket knife.
Hope those were non-toxic slugs.... :chuckle:
Our first year hunting together, my wife and I had a buck swim the Chehalis in front of our boat while duck hunting, had a couple of slugs still in the box, but it was the day after season. :(
Post by: sirmissalot on January 07, 2013, 08:42:17 AM
Not as interesting as some but my Wyoming buck this year died in the center of this picture, tumbled probably 30 yards and free fell a good 20ft, then kicked his way away from a sink hole. Pretty interesting country never hunted anything like it.
How far of a shot?
Only about 175 yards. The look on that bucks face when he saw us was something I will never forget. Something like "uh oh". We caught him out of his bed standing in the wide open. The pack out was a fun one too.
Post by: steen on January 14, 2013, 06:05:14 PM
Not as interesting as some but my Wyoming buck this year died in the center of this picture, tumbled probably 30 yards and free fell a good 20ft, then kicked his way away from a sink hole. Pretty interesting country never hunted anything like it.Wow! Cool story and pictures. I see a bobcat etched in the hillside of the first picture!!
Post by: pianoman9701 on January 15, 2013, 07:37:50 AM
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Post by: PolarBear on January 19, 2013, 05:34:09 AM
Post by: Hunterman on January 20, 2013, 02:29:30 PM
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: TriggerHappy on January 21, 2013, 03:25:30 PM
Shot my first buck in the Carbon river.:yeah: I also killed my first deer with a bow in the Carbon River :tup: