Post by: huntnnw on May 16, 2022, 06:05:14 AM
Post by: trophyhunt on May 16, 2022, 06:11:13 AM
Post by: RB on May 16, 2022, 07:24:21 AM
Post by: go4steelhd on May 16, 2022, 10:50:22 AM
Good luck on all the hunts
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 16, 2022, 02:46:40 PM
Ok, where do you work, and are they hiring????
:yeah: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on May 17, 2022, 07:39:22 AM
For us, son has an Eastern Oregon Spring Bear Tag we are heading out Friday. Can't draw anything yet (waiting on Idaho Moose results) and then will have Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington left but mostly in for premium tags.
I have a combo Moose and Grizzly hunt in Alaska in September and a Late Season Bull Tag in New Mexico.
Post by: elkchaser54 on May 17, 2022, 09:39:09 AM
Post by: bugs n bones on May 17, 2022, 07:55:57 PM
Excited to follow along.that’s awesome ! Who you going with in Alaska ? What unit you draw in New Mexico ? I drew 16d rifle
For us, son has an Eastern Oregon Spring Bear Tag we are heading out Friday. Can't draw anything yet (waiting on Idaho Moose results) and then will have Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington left but mostly in for premium tags.
I have a combo Moose and Grizzly hunt in Alaska in September and a Late Season Bull Tag in New Mexico.
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on May 17, 2022, 08:33:34 PM
Post by: huntnnw on June 01, 2022, 01:41:26 AM
Post by: huntnnw on June 01, 2022, 01:42:31 AM
Post by: huntnnw on June 09, 2022, 09:50:33 PM
First pic is the bear she killed on trail cam.
Post by: huntnnw on June 09, 2022, 09:52:58 PM
Post by: Twispriver on June 09, 2022, 09:53:53 PM
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on June 11, 2022, 04:50:29 PM
Post by: MADMAX on June 11, 2022, 05:09:12 PM
I’d hate to have your gas/diesel bill :chuckle:
Post by: huntnnw on June 13, 2022, 12:05:03 AM
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Post by: huntnnw on June 15, 2022, 07:12:15 PM
That looks great. Did you use a mix? And how much pork did you add?
Recipe online I used. I used 70% bear and 30% pork fat
Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 16, 2022, 11:43:54 AM
That looks great. Did you use a mix? And how much pork did you add?
Recipe online I used. I used 70% bear and 30% pork fat
Holy %$#@ that looks good! :EAT: Can you post a link to the recipe you used..?
Post by: bigdub257 on June 16, 2022, 01:19:13 PM
Post by: huntnnw on June 16, 2022, 02:11:30 PM
That looks great. Did you use a mix? And how much pork did you add?
Recipe online I used. I used 70% bear and 30% pork fat
Holy %$#@ that looks good! :EAT: Can you post a link to the recipe you used..?
Post by: huntnnw on June 16, 2022, 02:12:33 PM
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on June 17, 2022, 07:28:49 AM
New excuse to kill an "extra" bear this year... :tup:
Post by: zwickeyman on June 17, 2022, 07:55:25 AM
Idaho archery Antelope
Idaho archery Elk in Pioneer Zone
WA Horse trip for Muledeer
Post by: huntnnw on July 04, 2022, 10:44:27 PM
At home I have found 2 bucks Id arrow on Sept 1 if given the chance. 1 buck I had on camera in 2020 in November I had figured he was 4.5 years old then, I watched him last summer and it didnt look like he grew much at all and now this year I have found him again and once again it looks like he wont change much. He is a 140 ish buck and I hope to get some good pics of him on trail cam soon as I am placing one tomorrow where I think he exits a field.
Post by: huntnnw on July 04, 2022, 10:45:01 PM
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Post by: hunter399 on July 05, 2022, 08:19:10 AM
I'm after a few from last year myself.
Sometimes I see them on the hoves. ,on game cam,even a track let's me know ,yep I need a cam here.
Hope you catch up to them two.
👍
Post by: ShaneTyTrey on July 05, 2022, 06:53:58 PM
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Post by: Timberstalker on July 10, 2022, 04:09:19 PM
Post by: huntnnw on September 01, 2022, 01:08:42 AM
The buck Im after has been cooperating the last 2 days, before that he had been erratic for a week.
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Post by: borntoslay on September 07, 2022, 11:12:01 AM
Day 3 started at 3 am making my way to Treestand . Got all settled at 4 am and at 5:00 am the buck I’m after shows up and hangs out until 5:22 then wanders off to bed. I climbed out and returned at 5 pm after a big thunder storm moved over and dumped a bunch of rain. It was 20 deg cooler today and I had high hopes that deer would move early. Not much longer after climbing into stand a doe appeared and fed for 40 min.. good sign! Well that was it until 7:40 when a decent 4x5 showed and a doe as I counted the minutes and was watching the 4x5 thru Binos he went on alert and I could see antlers coming it was the buck I’m after , but unfortunately he never presented a shot in the 2 min of light I had. Back at tomorrow morning .
You been getting after it?
Post by: huntnnw on September 07, 2022, 10:08:18 PM
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Post by: borntoslay on September 08, 2022, 08:25:14 AM
I sat last night and it was a very boring sit as I saw nothing. Buck I am after showed in daylight this am and tonight and of course I was not in the stand :'( Ill be in the stand tomorrow evening, friday morning and friday night will be pretty much it for Sept deer in WA. Ill be off to chase elk saturday in MT for 2 weeks
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Good luck and safe travels
Post by: huntnnw on September 26, 2022, 12:07:49 AM
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Post by: huntnnw on September 26, 2022, 02:37:34 AM
Next am my wife has to head for home, so I get up and glass from camp and sure enough there is a herd up on the hill. After now hiking around up there the previous day I had a better idea how to get up there easier and faster, but it was still 3 mi one way and up and down 2-3 ridges. I get up there and hear no elk and see nothing, so I continue to the private boundary to glass below and notice the big herd with the big 6 is not visible, and now I'm thinking they may of moved up here. About then I hear a bugle then another and cows calling everywhere holy cow they are right here on public land. I start sneaking thru a sparsely treed hill side to the draw I hear the elk and I start seeing cows feeding and bedded cows in the sage brush spread out over 300 yards. Wind is good and I am running outta cover, I slide on my butt for 2 hours slowly to a large tree with lots of shade under it to hide me from the elk and is going to get me very close to shooting range or at least the ability for elk to come by me. I have now spotted 6 spikes, too many cows and 2 small 6 pts, but can hear the herd bull bugling. I continue inching closer to my spot I want and here comes 12 cows and some spike 50-60 yards past me! this is perfect then I see the herd bull hes right in front of me at 125 yards and its the 330ish bull. I am thinking this may work! he comes and checks these cows I am getting a shot he then heads towards me and my heart starts pounding I ready my release and hes at 94 yards and stops and chases a different cow away from me. I now am just watching and waiting to see if he circles back to me as he chases bulls and cows for the next 30 min. Its 12:30 now and I have noticed a couple cows wandering down to the fence and they jump it.. crap they headed down and on to private they are going to water. Then it was 5 more cows then the whole herd started moving and in 20 min the whole herd moved 500 yards down and on to private and watered and bedded. I decided to just stay put and see if they would move back up later. I made lunch and took a nap. Weather forecast was for rain and thunderstorms that afternoon and I thought the weather would possibly move them back up well that was the complete opposite :chuckle: the wind started ripping like 50+ mph then lighting I decided I need to leave as I am packing up my bow a cow came tearing out of the timber across the draw from me and ran all the way to the bottom and joined the other elk. I sat there and thought that was odd then here comes 5 more on a full run... the wind had them freaked out in the timber. I continued to sit there thinking that's 6 cows and there is no bull? about 10 min go by and here comes 16 elk and black muddied up 5 pt bull running at me :yike: the bull is running as hard as he can as hes trying to get in front of the cows and stop them as they are headed to the big herd. He cuts them off and stops the herd in front of me at 80 yards hes doing his best to keep those cows and is running ragged trying to keep them from slipping by. I start inching closer and have him at 65 yards , but the wind is way too much to shoot.Then the cows made a dash and you could see that bull just give up and watch as those cows ran 400 yards to join the now 130 elk in this herd. I pack it up after all of this head for camp.
That night I got hit with torrential downpours twice 40-60 mph gusts and it ended around 3am. I get up and once again glass from camp and there's elk all over hill! off I go. I get up there and there are 2 herds about 400 yards apart. One herd is the muddy 5pt from day before and the other also is a 5pt. I make a plan and one herd is in a good spot to sneak in on that's when it all went downhill. Had terrible winds and swirling and I blew all the herds out and all ran to private. There was lot of rain coming so I backed out and headed for camp and decided it was a good day to run and get ice and few things from store. As it got dark I glassed hill from camp and here comes elk outta timber above when I thought I had blown them all off the mountain.
Next am full of excitement and a plan, also my last day I hear the first truck since I have been there and they park by tent and head in :( well I am not going in and fighting over elk, so I got in the truck and drove down road and glassed some stuff further out. I glass up a herd of 50 elk or so on public land and this bull is the biggest I have seen on the trip. I look at maps and find a road near, so I made the drive. 3 mi later and pretty much a trail all the way there I had gotten to where I dropped a pin. I am inching over hill glassing and I hear a bugle in next draw. As I crest the next ridge I see him standing on the opposite side with a cow and he chases her off the other side and outta sight. I'm looking at this little timbered draw and I start picking elk out in it! just then I hear him bugle and here he comes up the hill and hes coming into the timber. I figure out what I need to do to get into that timber, so I crawled 300 yards so the elk couldn't see me. Then once outta sight I hurried to the head of draw and started working down the bottom. I cow called and then bugled to sound like a satellite bull had some cows. I hear a cow call and I see 2 guys across from me :bash: I had a far better position and wind. I worked to about where I had seen elk in timber and slowed way down and got a shaded spot to sit. I sit down and look across from into the dark timber and there is 2 cows bedded 70 yards away and have no clue I am here! I decide to just sit and wait that bull will come thru here at some point, but I had those guys in here. I hadn't heard them call in awhile, so I figured they left. nope here they come with bad wind and blowing away on calls the cows stood alarmed looking their direction and they busted out! ugh. I walked up on ridge took a break and ate snack and walked out. Got to camp and the truck that showed up in the am was still there and the guys were walking back. They were the 2 guys who were calling :chuckle: That ended my archery portion of MT and will rifle hunt later in season, but now its time to head to ID next for my wife and I annual rifle elk hunt.
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Post by: huntnnw on October 16, 2022, 06:19:58 AM
We arrive at 4 pm at spike camp and get situated and eat steak. At last light we hear 2 bulls bugle down the mountain! Sweet! Like the previous years. I barely could sleep that night. Morning comes and bull is bugling just below. We make our way to a hillside they like to feed in and realize the elk are down in timber bottom. We decided to leave them be as accessing them was going to be difficult and they had no clue we were here. We will come back in evening and wait for them to feed up on the hill. They never showed or did we hear them. We realized these elk were never going to come into the areas we had normally seen them. They were bouncing around this big timber bottom and trying to locate them everyday was tiresome. I had flashbacks of Mt view elk tags hiking into those bottoms. :chuckle:
Next morning we went to another basin and glassed and turned up 20 muleys and 9 bucks. 1 buck I’ve watched now for 2 years and is getting to be really nice. Next year I’ll get a tag and hope he’s still there.
Post by: huntnnw on October 16, 2022, 06:43:01 AM
Day 4 back to that area and nothing! One bull always calls back when I cow called. Hmm off to other areas and nothing.
Day 5 we decide to hike 2 hours in the dark to a new spot as we are 1/2 mi from where we wanted to sit a bull screams then another and then the small bull! It’s the herd we have chased all week! I knew where they were now as I ran to the vantage to look in this big saddle. We get there and bull Is just inside the timber I get rifle set up for wife. 404 yards to saddle. I start calling and hear a bugle! He’s really close to being seen. Then silence! :dunno: I’m once again sitting there wondering wtf! I hear hooves running now below us . I grab the rifle and run down the mountain and don’t see them. Come back up to wife and start talking about what happened wind is blowing up hill and didn’t see us. I start glassing into saddle and wife says “ wolves coming” here comes 10+ down a game trail looking at us, what they saw was our goats feeding . She ranges them and says 470 yards. I’m looking at a few trotting down trail and pick out what looks like a big one and boom! Thinking I missed as wolves scatter I’m looking to shoot again and wife says you hit that wolf it’s up gimping. I howl at it and it turns broadside at 475 and boom! Rolls down into ceanothus and vine maple hillside. We get down there and can’t find it! No blood! I’m thinking what the ! Shot it twice with 215gr Berger’s there should be something. We are crawling thru brush where we could see 2-6’ in front of you and so thick in places I would get stuck. My wife yells he’s right here behind me! Holy s$&@ seriously? I was about to give up. The wolf made it about 80 yards in heavy brush with heart blown out and broken leg. Pretty cool to finally be able to shoot one.
2 days previously when elk just shut up we now think wolves came in and pushed elk out and why we didn’t hear them the next day the elk moved a mile over a ridge to where we got on them day 5
I’m returning Thursday and got weather coming! Should help and buying another wolf tag !
Post by: huntnnw on October 16, 2022, 06:48:06 AM
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 16, 2022, 11:44:56 AM
Hope you can get into them again and shoot a couple more.
Post by: jasnt on October 16, 2022, 01:54:40 PM
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Post by: MADMAX on October 16, 2022, 04:10:23 PM
Great stories too
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Post by: Timberstalker on October 19, 2022, 04:46:42 AM
Looking forward to seeing what you get on your next hunt. Good luck.
Post by: Rutnbuxnbulls on October 19, 2022, 08:09:32 AM
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Post by: Naches Sportsman on October 22, 2022, 07:23:32 PM
Sure did snow a lot and still snowing up high!
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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on November 10, 2022, 08:39:08 AM
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After I missed the buck of a lifetime with my bow I burned it just like you. That bow missed WAY to many deer
Post by: jstone on November 10, 2022, 08:44:52 AM
I Miss hunting Idaho
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Post by: huntnnw on November 20, 2022, 09:20:25 AM
Day 6 I was running outta time plus still needed days to pack meat off mountain and the 12 hour drive. Day 6 had me climbing 45 min before light to a mountain top in 12–18” of snow and bitter cold to only be greeted by 15 mph wind on top. My hope was to see some bulls on backside in canyons nobody could glass unless you hiked up and over. One thing I was told and learned is Utah hunters rarely hike :chuckle: never saw a dude hiking or cut a single boot track! They all drive and glass then hike to shoot. As I hit the top I glassed a herd of elk 4 ridges away and noticed cows which isn’t good on this hunt . If you see cows late in the year there’s a low percentage there’s a decent bull. I kept moving closer and as sun hit the herd I looked at them and noticed there was 3 bulls and 1 looked pretty good and good enough for almost last day. My wife was on road watching with spotter and said the one looks big. Well 4 hours later and 3.8 miles I was set up across canyon from them at 585 yards. I was then told someone was stalking from the bottom and coming up the ridge they were on! Well I better get ready they are going to blow them wtf are they doing wind is blowing up hill at 10 am. Sure enough they spook! Run up hill and to my advantage they moved 500 yards up hill and were now 400 yards from me. The 2 biggest bulls were still over a ridge and fed over. They both were 6x6’s both pretty equal in size , but one had a busted 4 so the decision was made to shoot the other as he only had about 3” broke off. 1 shot with a 215 Berger dropped him.
The work started as I broke the bull down and deboned and bagged everything I made my way down 1,300’ in elevation and hit road with about 30 min of light left. Next day my wife and I hiked up and brought down 230lbs in 1 trip. Thanks to her I didn’t have to do 2 loads. Overall cool country ,lots of elk and had a blast in Utah.
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Post by: sjhgraysage on November 21, 2022, 10:41:31 AM
I think I have the points for this hunt.
Post by: huntnnw on November 21, 2022, 12:16:27 PM
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Post by: huntnnw on December 07, 2022, 10:59:54 PM
Good bull!
I think I have the points for this hunt.
If you put in for hunt and draw it let me know Ill share what I learned and areas I hunted.
Post by: Dan-o on December 07, 2022, 11:03:02 PM
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That's a great buck. :tup:
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