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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: daydreamn on June 30, 2011, 10:19:30 PM

Title: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: daydreamn on June 30, 2011, 10:19:30 PM: Here you go buck man. Your right, 121 produces some impressive deer. This buck grosses 194" and nets 185". 12" eyeguards make him a unique buck. As good as he is, I have seen a few others running around that unit that make him look small. Maybe this fall Ill chase a few of them around with you? :tup:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: carpsniperg2 on June 30, 2011, 10:42:47 PM: I think I would have to pass...

NOT!!! what a dandy :tup:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: buck man on June 30, 2011, 10:44:18 PM: He is a beauty daydream. For that matter that's all he will probably be for me is a day dream ! :tup: :yike: :yike:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: 50CalJim on July 01, 2011, 12:43:58 AM: Last day meat Buck!!! :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: Seriously thats a hell of a Trophy. :tup:
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Post by: Goomsba on July 01, 2011, 01:18:06 AM: :tup: :drool:
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Post by: boneaddict on July 01, 2011, 04:56:29 AM: Not sure who came up with 121 not having any big deer. I think it currently holds the next world record. Thats a sweet deer.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 01, 2011, 05:37:36 AM: Very nice buck I love its character. Congrats
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: CedarPants on July 01, 2011, 06:32:19 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on July 01, 2011, 04:56:29 AM
Not sure who came up with 121 not having any big deer. I think it currently holds the next world record. Thats a sweet deer.

:yeah:

There are some absolute giants in 121. I personally was very happy to see the 4-point minimum restriction put in place. When I started hunting that unit about 15 years ago it was 3 point minimum and we always saw a lot of bucks, and a lot of big bucks. When it went to any buck, pretty much anything with any visible antler was getting whacked during modern season. The number of quality deer we were seeing dropped dramatically over the next several years.

That said, the smart deer survived none the less and like I said there are some giants up there. Great pic daydream, those eye guards are incredible!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Pathfinder101 on July 01, 2011, 06:43:15 AM: I started the rumor about no bucks being left in 121. I was planning on hunting there next year. You see, Bfoots from the Blues that have run out of food (no more elk to eat) and are migrating north.... :rolleyes:

Nice buck Daydream...too bad he was the last one in there...
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on July 01, 2011, 06:46:52 AM: Dude ..nice one....good lookin mount too !!!!!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on July 01, 2011, 06:55:57 AM: Nice!!! Here is another Huck Hog from a couple years ago. Still seeing good bucks . If you listened to all the 4 point advocates, you would think big bucks were extinct. I am in the field 12 months a year in the Huckleberry unit and there are plenty of big bucks that escape to breed.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: piledup on July 01, 2011, 07:36:41 AM: I'm missing out on not hunting huckleberry :bash:

But last time I went there for modern rifle, it was like a zoo of hunters though :yike:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Ridgerunner on July 01, 2011, 07:39:49 AM: Those are some gorgous whitetails, thanks for sharing. Incredible bucks.
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Post by: 180-GRAIN on July 01, 2011, 07:50:30 AM: Some true giant bucks. Wish I were lucky enough to tag just one like these.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Pathfinder101 on July 01, 2011, 08:46:38 AM: Quote from: piledup on July 01, 2011, 07:36:41 AM
I'm missing out on not hunting huckleberry :bash:

But last time I went there for modern rifle, it was like a zoo of hunters though :yike:

And now Bfoots too! Stay away from 121... :bdid:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: bearpaw on July 01, 2011, 10:38:54 AM: Every unit in the northeast has some very large whitetail bucks. :twocents:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: piledup on July 01, 2011, 10:45:16 AM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on July 01, 2011, 08:46:38 AM
Quote from: piledup on July 01, 2011, 07:36:41 AM
I'm missing out on not hunting huckleberry :bash:

But last time I went there for modern rifle, it was like a zoo of hunters though :yike:

And now Bfoots too! Stay away from 121... :bdid:

Don't worry, I hunt next door to huckleberry and there is not much of a zoo of hunters there. ;)

Quote from: bearpaw on July 01, 2011, 10:38:54 AM
Every unit in the northeast has some very large whitetail bucks. :twocents:
:yeah:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: daydreamn on July 01, 2011, 12:00:21 PM: Quote from: CedarPants on July 01, 2011, 06:32:19 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on July 01, 2011, 04:56:29 AM
Not sure who came up with 121 not having any big deer. I think it currently holds the next world record. Thats a sweet deer.

:yeah:

There are some absolute giants in 121. I personally was very happy to see the 4-point minimum restriction put in place. When I started hunting that unit about 15 years ago it was 3 point minimum and we always saw a lot of bucks, and a lot of big bucks. When it went to any buck, pretty much anything with any visible antler was getting whacked during modern season. The number of quality deer we were seeing dropped dramatically over the next several years.

That said, the smart deer survived none the less and like I said there are some giants up there. Great pic daydream, those eye guards are incredible!
Not sure what you mean. 121 has never had any point restrictions.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: CedarPants on July 01, 2011, 12:14:20 PM: Quote from: daydreamn on July 01, 2011, 12:00:21 PM
Quote from: CedarPants on July 01, 2011, 06:32:19 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on July 01, 2011, 04:56:29 AM
Not sure who came up with 121 not having any big deer. I think it currently holds the next world record. Thats a sweet deer.

:yeah:

There are some absolute giants in 121. I personally was very happy to see the 4-point minimum restriction put in place. When I started hunting that unit about 15 years ago it was 3 point minimum and we always saw a lot of bucks, and a lot of big bucks. When it went to any buck, pretty much anything with any visible antler was getting whacked during modern season. The number of quality deer we were seeing dropped dramatically over the next several years.

That said, the smart deer survived none the less and like I said there are some giants up there. Great pic daydream, those eye guards are incredible!
Not sure what you mean. 121 has never had any point restrictions.

Technicality, but good catch. The southeastern corner of 121 used to be 117. That little triangle between Loon Lake, Springdale, and Chewelah used to be 117 but is now 121. Since the point restrictions apply to both 121 and 117 though we're really talking about the same thing.

There are hogs in 121 and 117. Again, great buck daydream!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: wsucowboy on July 01, 2011, 02:54:45 PM: Some dandy bucks!
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Post by: willapawapiti on July 01, 2011, 06:46:06 PM: Great bucks guys!!
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Post by: Machias on July 01, 2011, 08:13:55 PM: I tell you what killed this unit was when they went to the controlled hunts in Spokane county, a big chunk of folks that do not draw a late season tag In Spokane and the Palouse area head to 121. I used to hunt the late season and NEVER see another hunter out in the field. Always killed a nice buck in the late season. The year they went to the draw, holy smokes it was amazing. I parked my truck one more on a little piece of state land that I always hunted and I'm not exaggerating I had to wait to cross the little logging trail while 14 rigs drove by. :yike:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: bearpaw on July 01, 2011, 08:31:03 PM: That buck definitley has some killer eye guards, sweet. :tup:
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Post by: Elkslayer on July 01, 2011, 08:53:01 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on July 01, 2011, 08:31:03 PM
That buck definitley has some killer eye guards, sweet. :tup:
:yeah: Thats why buck man calls him the Can Opener buck!!! That one eyeguard has a larger circumferance measurement then the main beam! :yike:
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Now post up some pictures of those 230" sheds ya got Daydreamn!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: huntnnw on July 01, 2011, 09:08:21 PM: awesome buck!! Some character... alot of the NE units have great deer..but 101 to me is the best for massive,freak bucks... there is nowhere in my 25 years of chasing whiteatails here where anywhere you dump salt hang a cam come back in 2 weeks and you have BIG bucks on cam. I spend the whole summer in 127,124,121 to find just a few bucks and yet most of the time non compare in mass to these 101 bucks
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: piledup on July 01, 2011, 09:18:05 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on July 01, 2011, 09:08:21 PM
awesome buck!! Some character... alot of the NE units have great deer..but 101 to me is the best for massive,freak bucks... there is nowhere in my 25 years of chasing whiteatails here where anywhere you dump salt hang a cam come back in 2 weeks and you have BIG bucks on cam. I spend the whole summer in 127,124,121 to find just a few bucks and yet most of the time non compare in mass to these 101 bucks

I guess I'll give 101 a try this year then :chuckle:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: huntnnw on July 01, 2011, 09:41:24 PM: I wish I could hunt it like I want to.. but I cant effectively scout the area as its a 3 hr drive and the cost of gas these days its too much..so I stay closer to home.

3 spots no more than 4 miles apart last year..just some of the bigger ones
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Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: daydreamn on July 03, 2011, 02:38:11 PM: Those are some great bucks huntnnw. I love the trash on that last buck.
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Post by: Drifterat on July 03, 2011, 02:48:22 PM: Killer bucks! That bladed eyegaurd buck is awesome!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Sneaky on July 03, 2011, 11:00:44 PM: I've seen some giants up high in that unit. Whitetails are not strictly a lowland creature..... :drool: Nice bucks
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Post by: akirkland on July 04, 2011, 10:08:50 PM: What a dream buck! :)
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Post by: KNOXY on July 05, 2011, 12:52:39 PM: great character on that rack!
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: PA BEN on July 10, 2011, 06:55:25 AM: Here's a 121 buck I shot when I was 15 on my Grandpa's farm. I've hunted 121 for 36 years. I'm from Bluecreek N. of Chewelah. Back in the 70's and 80's all you could see was headlights on 395 the night before season opened. Now a days not too many, it doesn't get hunted as hard today as it use to. It has a 4 point now because the road hunters and the guys who don't want to really hunt don't see the big boys, the big boys don't get big for being dumb.
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Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Big P on July 10, 2011, 11:09:26 AM: I'm starting to consider moving to the eastside :drool:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: huntnnw on July 10, 2011, 12:39:45 PM: What did that score ?
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: carpsniperg2 on July 10, 2011, 12:44:40 PM: That's a great looking buck. Very cool :tup:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: HornHoarder on July 10, 2011, 01:53:41 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on July 10, 2011, 12:39:45 PM
What did that score ?

:yeah:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: PA BEN on July 11, 2011, 06:11:30 AM: 155 non-typical at the big horn show in Spokane.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: daydreamn on July 11, 2011, 09:41:19 PM: Great buck PA BEN. I rember seeing that set on here somewhere before. As far as the score 155 nt., I think you might want to think about having it scored again. I guarantee he scores better than that. Those guys at the bighorn show have been known to make a few mistakes with there scores.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: HornHoarder on July 11, 2011, 09:46:44 PM: I agree with Daydreamn, That buck scores more than that. I'd have guessed he was 180 ish.
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Pathfinder101 on July 13, 2011, 10:06:55 AM: Quote from: HornHoarder on July 11, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
I agree with Daydreamn, That buck scores more than that. I'd have guessed he was 180 ish.

Hard to tell without some sort of size comparison reference...
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: deadwoodbuck on July 14, 2011, 11:02:35 AM: so many sweet looking animals on this site...I have seen some LARGE racks in 121 over the last 20 years and have a nice 6x5 on my wall to remember the hunt. muzzy season has been very good to me in 121
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: Elkslayer on July 20, 2011, 07:16:20 PM: Quote from: buck man on June 30, 2011, 10:44:18 PM
He is a beauty daydream. For that matter that's all he will probably be for me is a day dream ! :tup: :yike: :yike:
I think for you buck man, you meant a wet dream!! :yike: :yike:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: 400out on July 20, 2011, 08:40:02 PM: Quote from: Elkslayer on July 20, 2011, 07:16:20 PM
Quote from: buck man on June 30, 2011, 10:44:18 PM
He is a beauty daydream. For that matter that's all he will probably be for me is a day dream ! :tup: :yike: :yike:
I think for you buck man, you meant a wet dream!! :yike: :yike:
:yeah: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: MuleySniper on July 20, 2011, 08:48:03 PM: Holy crap! How'd I miss this thread! Some studs posted on here! I like your work daydreamn.
NICE!
MS
Title: Re: Huckleberry Hog
Post by: BENCHLEG on July 20, 2011, 10:34:56 PM: i hate to say it guys-but the internet has changed hunting. now we have to deal with it, it has good and bad so we will deal with it. :twocents: if you can't beat them join them. thanks for posting.