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Big Game Hunting => Out Of State Hunting => Topic started by: Bean Counter on October 07, 2015, 11:29:14 AM

Title: Bean Counter in Wyoming 2015
Post by: Bean Counter on October 07, 2015, 11:29:14 AM: Mule deer at the Powder River, in the shadow of the majestic Bighorn Mountains, and pronghorn of the Red Desert.
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 07, 2015, 11:33:31 AM: Now the REAL work begins
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Post by: Fl0und3rz on October 07, 2015, 11:40:16 AM: Awesome! Share as many pictures as you can, please. WY is on my possibles list.
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Post by: FWilliams on October 07, 2015, 11:41:00 AM: Love that area :tup:
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Post by: Ridgerunner on October 07, 2015, 12:14:50 PM: Well lets see the field shots. I love hunting in Wyoming.
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Post by: Wolfdog2314 on October 07, 2015, 12:44:11 PM: So awesome. Just got back today with full coolers of meat.
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Post by: lamrith on October 07, 2015, 02:16:33 PM: Congrats Bean!!!

Hope to be in same situation here in 20days!
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on October 07, 2015, 02:19:05 PM: :tup:
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Post by: pianoman9701 on October 07, 2015, 05:03:42 PM: I love that mule deer pic especially, although both are great. Nice meat, too, BC!
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 07, 2015, 07:02:58 PM: More photos to follow, fellers. Stay tuned :)
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 07, 2015, 08:01:17 PM: Can't wait for the story and more pics. Congrats.
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Post by: go4steelhd on October 07, 2015, 09:09:30 PM: Tagging :tup:
Bean empty your PM box :chuckle:it's full
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 08, 2015, 08:13:33 AM: moar!
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Post by: Bob33 on October 08, 2015, 08:27:11 AM: I’m sensing we have another hooked Wyoming antelope junkie among us.
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Post by: Carl on October 08, 2015, 09:05:52 AM: Wow, great pictures and area. Apparently, successful too! :tup:

Carl
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 08, 2015, 09:06:54 AM: Come on bean get to the good stuff.
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 09, 2015, 12:24:45 PM: Quote from: Bigshooter on October 08, 2015, 09:06:54 AM
Come on bean get to the good stuff.

:yeah: 8) :hello:
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Post by: Ridgerunner on October 09, 2015, 02:33:57 PM: Quote
I’m sensing we have another hooked Wyoming antelope junkie among us

Count me in that club as well, they are fun to hunt, I'll be posting pics from my hunt soon.
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 09, 2015, 04:18:40 PM: I think I built too much suspense for nothing :sry: Hate to disappoint, guys, but its just an average buck for my first. I'm pretty sure I passed on a few that were bigger than the one I shot, then there was the much nicer one that I shot at and completely missed, due to my stupidity chronicled here: http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,183565.0.html

None the less, here they are:
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 09, 2015, 04:22:24 PM: Ridgerunner had the best advice of them all for this hunt:

Leave your ammo at camp the first day :chuckle:
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Post by: 2labs on October 09, 2015, 04:35:42 PM: Bean, are you in a witness protection program? Is that your first Muley? Nice job.
Antelope next year! For sure.
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 09, 2015, 04:37:55 PM: Just didn't want to break your monitor by making it display my ugly mug. :chuckle:

It was my buddy's mule deer. BOB = Buddy of Beancounter :) I had to pass on a deer tag to make the new expensive scope fit with the budget. Oddly enough if I would have just kept the old fixed 6x scope that was on it I would probably got the nicer one I shot at and missed several times :bash:
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Post by: Craig on October 09, 2015, 04:38:55 PM: Nice buck. The deer must have got made fun of with ears like that. Wyoming is awesome.
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 09, 2015, 04:45:12 PM: :tup:
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Post by: 2labs on October 09, 2015, 04:46:03 PM: For what it's worth I told you to buy a used Luey. Lifetime transferable warranty.
Us cheap guys gotta stick together. Nobody listens to me!
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Post by: ridgefire on October 09, 2015, 06:16:01 PM: Nice bucks. You embarrassed of them or what? Why not grip and grin instead of hiding the faces?
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Post by: Bob33 on October 09, 2015, 06:59:25 PM: Looks like that face camo works. :tup:
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 09, 2015, 07:36:40 PM: Quote from: lamrith on October 07, 2015, 02:16:33 PM
Congrats Bean!!!

Hope to be in same situation here in 20days!

You sure will be, buddy! We're going to find that Boone & Crocket coues deer and put him in the bag with time for drinks at the campfire by sunset! :bfg:
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Post by: GUscottie on October 21, 2015, 06:50:07 PM: Glad to hear you had a good hunt on that peach of a buck tag! I'm very envious you drew that goat unit. Glad it worked out for ya!
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Post by: BGLEMIN on October 22, 2015, 10:30:51 AM: Nice job Bean and BOB!! Really like your photos!!
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 22, 2015, 10:33:06 AM: Thanks all!

FYI B.O.B. = buddy of beancouter ;) :chuckle:
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 22, 2015, 10:50:23 AM: How big is that buck in the "Where's Waldo" photo? Is that your buck?
Good spot for him to bed.
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 22, 2015, 11:01:38 AM: He was good, perhaps a smidge better than the one my buddy killed. He pretty much sat there the whole time watching his pal get shot, carried up the cut, and us to do all our silly photos up top. When we were packing up my buddy took one last look at the area and was like "hey, what's that white glint down in the shade down there?" answer: the muleys nose :o

We passed a few hunters on the way out and agreed that if anyone asked if we had seen any deer, we would have told them about Waldo, but nobody did. So I guess he lives to breed the does for the winter and make new bucks :IBCOOL:
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 22, 2015, 11:21:19 AM: That's pretty cool.
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Post by: Stickerbush on October 25, 2015, 08:26:31 AM: Wyo doe tags for antelope are pretty cheap right? Could a guy get a little hunt in during a family vacation perhaps?
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Post by: Bob33 on October 25, 2015, 08:54:02 AM: Quote from: Stickerbush on October 25, 2015, 08:26:31 AM
Wyo doe tags for antelope are pretty cheap right? Could a guy get a little hunt in during a family vacation perhaps?
$34 for adults, $19 for youths.
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Post by: Bean Counter on October 25, 2015, 09:55:08 AM: WyG&F has a ton of info on its website, including phone numbers of land owners you can call for free or cheap access. One thing you should plan on is having to go after the rifle Buck season is over so they can sell access to the clients with the big wallets before allowing us little people on. Not all but many I called last year (our first away year) we're like this. We already planned on being there early last year so 'twas the best laid plans of mice and men for us. We actually ate the tags we bought in the spring.

But then, we happened to meet a landowner by coincidence and he told us to buy some doe tags for their unit and come out and kill as many as we want. We be like: yeah ok :) we took good care of the guy, taking him out to dinner at the nicest restaurant in town and later mailing him some unique gifts from the Southwest, and now it seems as though we have a standing invitation to kill does and bucks on 50,000+ acres of one of the ten people who actually live in Wyoming. :chuckle: with the exception of my pronghorn buck tag we filled all our tags on their land.

If I were you I'd pick up the phone and make a few calls right now even if it's next year on your mind so you can get an idea how the game works. Good luck.
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Post by: Stickerbush on October 25, 2015, 10:41:35 AM: Thanks for the info. I drove through who last year and really would like to hunt it. And hopefully combo it into a family vacation

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Post by: Bean Counter on October 25, 2015, 11:12:35 AM: No problem. If you find a good plot of land you can fill several doe tags in an afternoon. Sending you a pm for a few more tips :tup: