Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: Skinner on May 04, 2008, 05:44:52 PM
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Hey, my name is Matt and I'm from Castle Rock. I am a new guy here so wanted to let ya know who I am. I like to hunt for everything there is especially mule deer and elk. I typically hunt muzzleloader elk on the westside then hunt rifle deer at my friends place in Winthrop, then finish out with blacktails back at home. The last few years I have been into hunting the wilderness in Idaho. I really like that kind of country, so rugged you have all the hunting to yourself and just a few others. No roads!! I am hoping to learn more from you guys and share my experiences with you. I attached a couple pics from last year. My bear from Winthrop and my buck from Idaho. I am not sure if I can post animals from other states so let me know and I won't!! Thanks, Matt
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Welcome to the site. Those are a couple nice looking animals. That bear is a Barrel how much did he weigh? Skull?
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The bear was actually a old sow! Teeth worn to the gums but still managed literally 6 inches of back fat. Tipped the scales at 315 and was not much taller than 5 feet. I had a half body coming out of the wall made that should be back any day. The skull measured just over 17. Lots of bears in that country. That was the 5th one I saw there. Missed an opportunity on a much larger boar.
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Welcome to the site. Nice animals, Where about in idaho did you get your buck?
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Middle Fork of the Salmon!
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Steep county in that part of idaho love the background in that pic :o
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sweet bear. welcome abored :)
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Love the mains and dark color on that buck, welcome aboard.
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Nice pics. Not bad for a guy from "Rocket" country.
:chuckle:
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Welcome.
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Welcome to the site!! Congrats on the animals!!
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Nice pics and welcome aboard.
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Thats a Trophy sow. Welcome! Look forward to more pics and stories.
by the way...thanks for not over exaggerating on the bear. VERY nice trophy.
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Welcome to the site, nice animals. Bone does that bear picture background look familiar? It does to me but I could be all wet.
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Definatley looks like the valley. I recognized the deer pic right off. Can't mistake it.
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Sweet looking bear. Love the paws. ;) Welcome.
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Deer pic looks like the Frank Church country, sure is beautiful and steep up there.
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Great to have ya hear! Thanks for posting a couple of nice pictures. Looking forward to your contributions!
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nice looking animals...really like the old sow. Welcome to the site.
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In the deer pic if you look under my right arm you can see our wall tent. It was about 6 hours from wall tent to where I shot from. That was day seven of hiking the hills. I was the last one tagged out. Was trying to hold out for the biggin and this one was really unique. You cant see but his bases are loaded with stickers and he has a broken tine up top on the right side. 17 wide but almost twenty tall. I'll dig up the pics of his stickers!
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Here's a couple more from Idaho to get the blood flowin! Mine and my cousins buddy from Winthrop (left) shot this dandy 4x4 with 7 stickers on the bases the day before the earlier buck I posted. We watched him pass on his genes a couple of times before scaleing some rock cliffs to bust him at 240 yards. The other is looking over the Salmon River but of course you cant see it because it is so steep. My cousin in the middle of the deer pic wacked a nice 4 pt. right after this pic. It made for a 16 hr first day of the hunt. Needless to say we were dragging the next morning.
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Some awesome looking country there, nice bucks also.
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You put Cody's buck on here, you put your buck on here, but where the hell is mine? Thats what I want to know...
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Yours is next! I didn't have your permission yet, but I guess I do now. If I post them all at once I won't have anything else to post. Think the deer head pic of the group is appropriate?
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Welcome! :hello: Way to start off! Very nice pics I hunt over not to far from there and that is some Nasty @$$ $hi+!!!!! Makes my lungs burn looking at it!
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You think your lungs burned look at JoeVon and his buck after we ran back up the Mt. after it. I might as well tell you the story. Just after the scenery pic we started down a rock knife ridge towards the Middle Fork. I'm guessing about a 3500' drop in elevation. It was about 2:00 pm so we had plenty of time to make it to the river trail. 1/3 the way down we sit down for some water and while resting we hear rocks rolling. The noise was directly into the sun and it took everything to make out two nice bucks moving across the canyon back the way we just descended about 600 yards away. Needless to say we ran as fast as we possibly could through the rock slides to get within range of the bucks. Thats when JoeVon laid the smack down on this nice buck. Dropped him at 404 yards! Just happened to be that we got to the buck and boned him out about 45 minutes before dark with about 2 hrs left to scale down the rocks. Worse night of my life and I sure of those guys. All in all we were gone 16 hrs that day. Said I would never go back up that mountain again, but we're buying our tags this week. What an awesome place!
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I was dieing....show em' the picture with all the bucks in it.
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Here's the group!
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Welcome to the site.
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Looks like a great time. Nice work!
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hey im new on here also.
awsome trophies u got there.
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Nice animals you got there Matt! I just registered on here and saw your pics. Thought you looked awfully familiar. I was an intern at the department for a short time back in the fall of '04.
