Post by: Rainier10 on November 26, 2016, 09:06:48 AM
For those that have followed the threads about my kids' hunts you know we have been really blessed this year. This harvest was the one I was most concerned about. This was my first since dad passed and I just didn't know how it was going to feel not being able to share the story with him.
With as tough as the hunting was for everyone in camp I believe he was looking down and helping out. There is no reason I would think to go back to where it started but I just had a feeling to go back. Glad to have this one behind me. Life goes on, miss you dad and thanks for sending me back uphill.
Post by: Lever-Action-Outlaw on November 26, 2016, 09:16:47 AM
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Post by: Boss .300 winmag on November 26, 2016, 09:53:24 AM
Tough year. I'm glad you had the extra help. Congrats on your buck.
:yeah: :tup:
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on November 26, 2016, 08:40:41 PM
You guys aren't missing the migration. What you see is what you get up here these days. :twocents:
:yeah: The Entiat herd is not to far behind the Methow Herd...Fires-Hunt pressure-Winter kill-Several types of illegal hunting+= A very reduced herd. :twocents: :twocents:
Nice one R10, congrats on a great year for your family...time to buy another freezer yet? ;)
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Post by: mhbrewster71 on November 28, 2016, 11:54:37 AM
Congratulations on a beautiful animal, and thank you for sharing the hunt with us as well.
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Post by: Rainier10 on November 28, 2016, 05:24:59 PM
Post by: pope on November 28, 2016, 05:53:13 PM
"With as tough as the hunting was for everyone in camp I believe he was looking down and helping out. There is no reason I would think to go back to where it started but I just had a feeling to go back. Glad to have this one behind me. Life goes on, miss you dad and thanks for sending me back uphill."
I had an experience like this (not hunting) exactly one year after my brother passed. More than ten years later, I absolutely know it was not my imagination, it was a message.
Post by: Pathfinder101 on November 29, 2016, 06:17:38 AM
Thanks everyone, it was a great week with the family. Here is a photo of me with "the pink hat". My wife used to give a tshirt away for big deer each year. One year she said no tshirt this year, it's a hat. Then she unveils the pink women's hat assuming she was going to win. Well she didn't and the hat became a traveling trophy. Each year since big deer in camp wins "the pink hat" for the year. You sign it with initials and the year. Five years now I have come in second. Four of those deer were bigger than this years.
That's a cool tradition. :tup:
Post by: Rainier10 on November 29, 2016, 07:54:58 AM
Here is a pic of camp.
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Post by: Rainier10 on November 29, 2016, 02:11:36 PM
I know where I'm going for thanksgiving dinner next year :chuckle:You should, I figured you must be close with all the pic's of the sheep. Stop on in, all you need is a chair. You can use it around the camp fire before dinner, carry it into the wall tent for dinner and back out to the campfire after.
This year we didn't mess around, we had two cords of dry fir delivered for campfire wood. It was awesome. We hauled almost a cord home with us. It wasn't as cold as in the past so we didn't go through as much as we thought we would.