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Title: 2018 Wyoming elk hunt
Post by: trophyhunt on March 16, 2018, 12:34:56 PM: I've been applying for a united elk hunt in Wyoming for 12 years, I had 1 point less than max 11, that kept me from drawing sooner. So I was very surprised when I finally drew this year! My hunt started when I drew, and my conditioning started this past Monday. I'm probably in the worst shape I've ever been in, 48 years old 5'6'' and about 206 lbs! This will not be the case in a few short months!!! I've always needed some reason to get off my butt and get in mountain shape, in the past as you all well know I could just depend on being young. And as most of you know, getting older takes away that no need to exercise. I will be hunting with guys that live in Wyoming and have been hunting 62 for many years, that is a blessing. We will be horse backing in and setting up a camp, I hope they have an electric fence!! I hate grizzly bears, especially the ones that have never been hunted, they have no fear! They expect at least a 320'' bull and have seen a few 350 bulls, I didn't wait 12 years to kill a rag horn so I'm glad we are on the same page. I will miss the adventure of finding a new spot, picking people's brains on past hunts and hunting alone in a new area with great potential. But with all the bear reports I'm feeling pretty good knowing I'll be with people in the know! I hope to update with pic's of beautiful country, camp and big bulls. Good luck to all you guys in this years permit draws, I hope your dream hunt comes true as well.
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Post by: Brushcrawler on March 16, 2018, 12:45:55 PM: That will be an amazing hunt! Please keep telling us the story as it unfolds.
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Post by: trophyhunt on March 16, 2018, 12:53:46 PM: Quote from: Brushcrawler on March 16, 2018, 12:45:55 PM
That will be an amazing hunt! Please keep telling us the story as it unfolds.
will do!
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Post by: Duckslayer89 on March 16, 2018, 01:17:45 PM: Tag!!
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Post by: 2MANY on March 19, 2018, 01:05:38 PM: Are you bow or gun hunting it?
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Post by: trophyhunt on March 19, 2018, 01:51:14 PM: Quote from: 2MANY on March 19, 2018, 01:05:38 PM
Are you bow or gun hunting it?
ill be rifle hunting, most likely long distance.
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Post by: jackelope on March 19, 2018, 02:32:41 PM: Tagging along for the ride. Can’t wait to see how this plays out!
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Post by: trophyhunt on March 19, 2018, 02:44:14 PM: Quote from: jackelope on March 19, 2018, 02:32:41 PM
Tagging along for the ride. Can’t wait to see how this plays out!
Im pretty sure it will be on tv, another reason to lose my beer belly! Lol
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Post by: jackelope on March 19, 2018, 04:29:46 PM: Jeez man. You better get your hairs did too before you go.
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Post by: Stein on March 19, 2018, 04:46:06 PM: Sounds like a great trip, looking forward to the pics and story.

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Post by: ian_padron on March 19, 2018, 08:13:52 PM: Congrats on the draw and best of luck my friend!

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Post by: bowhunterforever on March 19, 2018, 09:36:33 PM: Quote from: jackelope on March 19, 2018, 02:32:41 PM
Tagging along for the ride. Can’t wait to see how this plays out!
:yeah: Good luck :tup:
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Post by: 2MANY on March 20, 2018, 10:14:49 AM: Who are you hunting with??
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Post by: trophyhunt on March 20, 2018, 10:48:42 AM: Just some local guys with knowledge of the area.
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Post by: 2MANY on March 20, 2018, 10:53:03 AM: Local...............Like crazy?
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Post by: trophyhunt on March 20, 2018, 11:04:04 AM: Quote from: 2MANY on March 20, 2018, 10:53:03 AM
Local...............Like crazy?
lol, I’m going to find out!!
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Post by: Mr Mykiss on March 24, 2018, 09:34:26 PM: Tag. Good luck TH!!
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Post by: elkrack on May 25, 2018, 08:48:01 AM: Well Jerry if you wanna plan a hike sometime soon to help shake a few pounds give me a call!
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Post by: jackmaster on May 25, 2018, 08:52:48 AM: Maybe you should just man up :tup: they just came out with that pair of boots you been looking for PUSS N BOOTS if I remember correctly :chuckle:
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Post by: trophyhunt on May 25, 2018, 09:08:19 AM: Lol, you should be going as well jacknanny!
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Post by: jackmaster on May 25, 2018, 10:11:32 AM: Can't all be rich like you yafa!! :chuckle:
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Post by: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 11:26:37 AM: Jamie and I were discussing for your Wyoming hunt since you will be on the big screen you really should bring back the look of the glory days of high school. Perm and all :rockin:
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Post by: 2MANY on September 21, 2018, 11:34:52 AM: Be bear aware and good luck.
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Post by: Ridgerunner on September 21, 2018, 11:40:23 AM: Kill a monster!!!!!! Git er done!
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2018, 11:41:55 AM: Quote from: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 11:26:37 AM
Jamie and I were discussing for your Wyoming hunt since you will be on the big screen you really should bring back the look of the glory days of high school. Perm and all :rockin:
oh my, that photo does not appear on here!!!
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2018, 11:42:52 AM: Going the last week of the season, can’t wait!
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Post by: 3nails on September 21, 2018, 01:20:15 PM: Best of luck! Hope you do well.
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Post by: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 01:23:14 PM: Quote from: trophyhunt on September 21, 2018, 11:41:55 AM
Quote from: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 11:26:37 AM
Jamie and I were discussing for your Wyoming hunt since you will be on the big screen you really should bring back the look of the glory days of high school. Perm and all :rockin:
oh my, that photo does not appear on here!!!

My mom has the photo..... :peep:
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 21, 2018, 01:34:02 PM: Quote from: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 01:23:14 PM
Quote from: trophyhunt on September 21, 2018, 11:41:55 AM
Quote from: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 11:26:37 AM
Jamie and I were discussing for your Wyoming hunt since you will be on the big screen you really should bring back the look of the glory days of high school. Perm and all :rockin:
oh my, that photo does not appear on here!!!

My mom has the photo..... :peep:
:bdid: :mgun: :nono:
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Post by: elkrack on September 21, 2018, 02:12:32 PM: I definitely would liven this thread up :chuckle:
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Post by: CaNINE on September 21, 2018, 08:31:40 PM: Looking forward to hearing about your hunt. I’m banking points for unit 62 and have a few years to go. Good kuck.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 07, 2018, 10:29:56 AM: leaving Friday to head over, will ride into camp on Sunday or Monday. Hoping for heavy snows to start a migration, can’t wait to see this country.
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Post by: 2MANY on October 07, 2018, 11:23:10 AM: You will love it.
Watch behind you and best of luck.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 07, 2018, 11:51:36 AM: I will be packing my .45, stupid grizz need hunted!
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Post by: jackelope on October 07, 2018, 12:05:11 PM: Good luck, Jerry!
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 07, 2018, 12:39:05 PM: Best of luck. :tup:
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Post by: CaNINE on October 07, 2018, 05:00:09 PM: Good luck looking forward to hearing all about it
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Post by: elkrack on October 08, 2018, 07:35:36 AM: Jerry’s gonna be on the big screen :yike:
Should be an awesome hunt! :IBCOOL:
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 11, 2018, 06:29:56 AM: My once in a lifetime journey starts tomorrow morning, I've been waiting for this since I started applying 13 years ago. Probably won't have phone reception after sunday but I will try to check in when I can. This adventure would sure be a lot better if my dad was out of the hospital, can't believe he's still there. I'm going to make a detour to go see him friday morning on my way out. Thanks for all the well wishing and prayers, you guys are a really great bunch.
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Post by: Mr Mykiss on October 11, 2018, 06:37:43 AM: Good luck man!! I’m sure your dad will be thinking of you the whole time your gone...it’ll keep him entertained :)
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 11, 2018, 07:29:34 AM: Quote from: Mr Mykiss on October 11, 2018, 06:37:43 AM
Good luck man!! I’m sure your dad will be thinking of you the whole time your gone...it’ll keep him entertained :)
He put pressure on me, lol, told me to kill a big one for him. Gonna give her heck.
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Post by: CedarPants on October 11, 2018, 07:35:27 AM: Good luck and stay safe out there.
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Post by: PlateauNDN on October 11, 2018, 08:21:19 AM: :tup: knock down a monster.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 11, 2018, 04:31:04 PM: Getting nervous now, no more work, and I leave in the morning! This is a pick of my first elk, I felt like DiCaprio on the bow of the titanic ! Now 26 years later I’m going on the hunt of my lifetime! Hoping I can find one about 330” bigger!
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Post by: Brushbuster on October 11, 2018, 04:41:05 PM: Take lots of pics & just take it all in. Enjoy the adventure. :tup:
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Post by: mp.hunter on October 11, 2018, 05:57:15 PM: Good luck Jerry

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Post by: bowhunterforever on October 12, 2018, 12:25:47 AM: Good luck :tup:
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 13, 2018, 08:07:22 PM: Slow drive from Thompson falls to Cody today, lots of wrecks! Heading in 10 miles on horses monday!
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 11:30:36 AM: Bear with me I’ve had about four hours sleep last night driving home from Wyoming right now, high on caffeine chocolate beef jerky and life. I’m talking to my phone because I’m driving so any miss spelled words I can blame it on my phone like when I say bowl and it spells it beOWL instead of BULL. I can’t begin to explain the adventure that I had, but I’ll try. It started out with a 12 mile-ish horseback ride into the backcountry of North West Wyoming. I’ve never rode horses like this or hunted off horses let me tell you it is not easy! The guide works his ass off getting those horses ready fed watered packed unpacked brushed, it was truly amazing to see what this guy was doing for me for no payment simply because the owner of the best of the west kept his word from many years ago that he would take me elk hunting if I drew this tag. Chris my guide and handler was simply superman to put it in simple terms, his partner Shane showed us everywhere we needed to go to find elk. The first day I passed up two or three rag Horns, we saw a wolf and a bear track, grizzly bear track 1 foot away from our tent when we arrived in camp. The hunters before us who camped with us for two days saw five grizzly bears in one day. I personally saw one female with three cubs feeding on a gut pile across the canyon, far across the canyon which I preferred it be. I shot my bull on the second day it was the biggest bull that I could find in a herd of about 125 elk, simply amazing to see that many elk in one spot. Unfortunately I shot this bull in a canyon where horses could not go, so debone and on our backs was how we got this elk out of this very steep canyon. The first shot was a 600 yard shot, I pulled it a little bit and hit him in the leg, I’m just being honest here, second shot He gave me a perfect broadside shot and I hit him in the chest with a 210 grain VLD bullet from thier 300 WinMag set up with the huskemaw scope.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 11:37:01 AM: Unfortunately my last shot made two of our horses run off they were lost for two days with one of the guides rifle and pistol, he searched on foot for 18 miles looking for his horses, the next day after I got my bull out he found them in a faraway place but thankfully they were all good and his guns were fine. One saddle was upside down and his spotting scope was broke in half, thankfully it was a vortex which I’m sure they’ll replace or fix. They shot at a wolf and missed there was one Wolf tag left for the area so we were hoping to fill the quota. we had to leave my elk meat that night in a tree without having the horses that were lost. Packing out the meat and head the next day at 11,000 feet elevation my chest was killing me I thought I was having a heart attack. I understand now Why outfitters with horses charge so much, it’s like bearbaiting or chasing cats and bears with dogs, it looks easy until you do it! Those guys spend incredible amount of time taking care of their hunters, cooking cleaning, making coffee, building a fire, taking care of horses, everything ! And let me tell you riding in the back country on cliffs with 1 foot wide trails on a horse not a relaxing ride you really got to trust your horse and he gave me one of the best, Rusty was a great horse and I’m thankful for him. My bull wasn’t the biggest on the mountain but I really felt these guys were working too hard the past his bull up considering I wasn't paying them.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 11:43:12 AM: I’m not sure yet what his score is but I’m guessing maybe 300 inches but it’s the most memorable bull I’ve ever killed and I’m very happy with it. We didn’t get the snows like this hunt usually entails in fact it was beautiful there in the day and cold as heck at night, very cold. I passed up a bull that would score easily 360 to 370 walked right by our camp but he had a life saving broken off fourthpoint on one side and a third broke off on the other side, truly a massive very thick *censored* bull. It was an honor to see a bull of that caliber walk right by us I’ll never forget it. After I shot my elk we did not see very many animals at all on the mountain, the two hunters in our camp took two bulls both good bulls probably around 310 320 and the hunter below us also took a bull that I never saw. This is truly an adventure I’ll never forget and I’ll probably never get the opportunity to do again I can’t express how thankful I am for the guys at the best of the west for Jack Peterson for setting this up for me, this ain’t a sales pitch but we got to stay at their factory see their operation and it is for real. They have a gunsmith working in there that is a genius, their guns are expensive but they are very accurate. If we had gotten the snow that they usually get the last part of the season I’m sure I would’ve got a bigger bull and if I could’ve hunted the first week of the season I’m sure I could’ve got a better bull, But such is life and it is hunting and again I’m very happy with the results. Thanks for tagging along I’ll try to post as many picks as I can without crashing here on the road if I come up with something else I’ll post more.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 11:44:13 AM: Grizz track at camp
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 11:48:36 AM: And to make this perfectly clear I did not pay anybody anything for this hunt, I say this because the forest service thinks that these guys take people in for money and they don’t! They take friends in in past customers who draw so they can take video for their TV show no way was this a guided paid for hunt for the record.
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Post by: PlateauNDN on October 21, 2018, 11:49:40 AM: Pics pics pics :dunno:
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 12:11:47 PM: I should add that we saw three bull moose two cows, the two bowls out of the three were very nice, and we had four big horn sheep run past our camp on the last day we were there so much to see. That Wyoming back country only gets bigger the higher you go, it makes our back country look like a walk in the park but it’s a damn shame that the Wolf lovers and grizzly bear lovers in this country are ruining are deer and elk population’s. Yellowstone park used to have 20,000 head of elk not less than 15 or so years ago, now there are 2000 elk left, 2000 out of 20,000! Those elk fed all the other regions it’s a damn shame what’s going on.
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Post by: mp.hunter on October 21, 2018, 12:24:07 PM: Awesome Jerry! Nice work

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Post by: wheels on October 21, 2018, 12:33:42 PM: awesome sounds like trip of a lifetime
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on October 21, 2018, 12:54:01 PM: Very very cool! :tup:
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Post by: CaNINE on October 21, 2018, 03:53:42 PM: What an incredible trip. Great write up and great bull. I might have missed it but what caliber did you use? Hopefully you got to stretch it’s legs a little.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 05:16:16 PM: Quote from: CaNINE on October 21, 2018, 03:53:42 PM
What an incredible trip. Great write up and great bull. I might have missed it but what caliber did you use? Hopefully you got to stretch it’s legs a little.
i used a .300 winmag 210 vld bullet, very nice gun.
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Post by: jackmaster on October 21, 2018, 05:35:05 PM: Looks like a great hunt dude :tup:
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Post by: CaNINE on October 21, 2018, 06:18:22 PM: Quote from: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 05:16:16 PM
Quote from: CaNINE on October 21, 2018, 03:53:42 PM
What an incredible trip. Great write up and great bull. I might have missed it but what caliber did you use? Hopefully you got to stretch it’s legs a little.
i used a .300 winmag 210 vld bullet, very nice gun.

:tup: great combo
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 21, 2018, 07:25:12 PM: did some proof reading, man these phones are terrible at taking notes.
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Post by: Bigshooter on October 21, 2018, 10:32:46 PM: Congrats
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Post by: elkrack on October 21, 2018, 10:42:57 PM: Sounds like the trip lived up to the expectations! :tup: heck of a nice bull!
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Post by: sjhgraysage on October 22, 2018, 08:42:44 AM: Congrats!
I've been in that area years ago.
Great report, hope the pics can get turned right side up! :tup:
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Post by: idaho guy on October 22, 2018, 09:53:42 AM: looks awesome thanks for posting the story
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Post by: go4steelhd on October 23, 2018, 11:35:35 AM: Nice bull :tup:
Thanks for sharing
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Post by: meatwhack on October 23, 2018, 12:12:34 PM: Good story and pictures with a nice bull. Congratulations.
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Post by: longrange7mm on October 26, 2018, 08:48:41 AM: Nice bull 👍🏻. It was a tough year in there this year.
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 26, 2018, 09:21:57 AM: Quote from: longrange7mm on October 26, 2018, 08:48:41 AM
Nice bull 👍🏻. It was a tough year in there this year.
With two very special elk tags this year and both not going as planned, I think I’ll just try not to hope for the best anymore and just hunt. The experience was epic, the guys helping me were amazing! I don’t regret a thing, but sure wish the big bulls were more plentiful. I’m sure it will be epic next season, when I’m not there. 😆
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Post by: elkrack on October 26, 2018, 09:41:52 AM: You’ve had a great year :tup:
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Post by: trophyhunt on October 26, 2018, 09:52:09 AM: Quote from: elkrack on October 26, 2018, 09:41:52 AM
You’ve had a great year :tup:
very true, it’s been great. Just wish my dads hunt went better.
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Post by: elkrack on October 26, 2018, 11:14:08 AM: Quote from: trophyhunt on October 26, 2018, 09:52:09 AM
Quote from: elkrack on October 26, 2018, 09:41:52 AM
You’ve had a great year :tup:
very true, it’s been great. Just wish my dads hunt went better.

Yeah unfortunate timing to get an infection for sure!