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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:23:24 AM

Title: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:23:24 AM: I was hoping to find bigger. This guy is a candidate, more for the pure challenge of it than anything. Not sure how I will be able to connect with the longbow or not. We'll see. Contemplating if I will check out another haunt or not.
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Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:26:10 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Fthisyearmaybe3.jpg&hash=68f1a775ff5073be95a6a09672ae3991ef42785c)
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:26:41 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Fthisyearmaybe1.jpg&hash=a4d982e58d5470ac0ae8fd31a86e657353abc402)
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:27:09 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Fthisyearmaybe4.jpg&hash=bc8841b81d733151ecd23998809f3cc6c238c55e)
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:27:44 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Fthisyearmaybe5.jpg&hash=ca2dc757a453b1bc90b572caee0421cdde7c7748)
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: bucklucky on August 08, 2011, 08:31:48 AM: Nice, looks like he is bedded in a gravel pit :chuckle: I think your best bet is to come in off the top :chuckle:
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Hornseeker on August 08, 2011, 08:43:29 AM: Yeah, come straight off the top like Tom Cruise with a little wire thingy...you can drop in like 3 yards above him then drill him between the shoulder blades like you did that big buck in 92 or so...

Seriously though... I think there's a fair chance that when you get back in there, you might find he has a bigger buddy that eluded you this time? Then again, eluding you?? Maybe not.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 08:51:57 AM: I'm hoping there were lots that eluded me. I had my eye on a couple that I just couldn't see. I'm a bit irritated that I packed 30 pounds of camera equipment in there and didn't take a single quality photo. I was mostly after goats and I didn't want to scare the deer for obvious reasons. I wish I could drop the dime on a cute little Swaro spotter.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: jackelope on August 08, 2011, 08:55:46 AM: :yike:

You weren't kidding...
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 10:27:19 AM: Gonna be tough unless they change their patterns a bit. There were three bucks in the slot to the right of this guy, all small. I missed the shot. They finally gave up on the heat. This buck stayed here the WHOLE hot day.
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Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 10:28:50 AM: (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2FAntler%2520Images%2Finthestuff.jpg&hash=29aae04f545f2152465d5c95495feb6ecc93521b)
Title: Re: maybe this years....
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Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: saylean on August 08, 2011, 10:31:17 AM: Boys he dug in there for sure. Good luck bone!
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 10:31:54 AM: I found four other bucks in another pocket. The fourth barely revealed himself. He stayed put until dark. The third finally showed just before dark, coming out and laying next to the one in the shadows in this photo. They finally got up and moved just at dark....
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Thanks Saylean. I do like challenges.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: PacificNWhunter on August 08, 2011, 11:12:30 AM: Wow bone, looks like your hunting on the moon with all that rock! How far above the timber are those guys hanging out? Great shots too, I think you can nail the big one with the sapphire. Good luck.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Goomsba on August 08, 2011, 11:22:16 AM: Cool Pics :tup: :drool:
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 11:46:20 AM: A LOT fewer deer in the high country this year. More in the midrange. I like hunting the rocks.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: PlateauNDN on August 08, 2011, 11:50:39 AM: Great pics Bone, and a couple of those angles look like familiar terrain but I'm not sure? :dunno: Keep up the good work! :tup:
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Pathfinder101 on August 08, 2011, 02:19:48 PM: Good luck Bone. Hope you stick him :tup:
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: mulehunter on August 08, 2011, 03:21:14 PM: Wow nice find. 30 lbs. Geez..... I am surprised those Bucks doesn't smell you since your getting so sweaty from hiking. :chuckle: Awsome find spot.

Mulehunter.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: wilsongideon on August 08, 2011, 06:49:16 PM: I would call those quality pictures...that unreal cool
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 09, 2011, 06:10:37 PM: Never got a look at this guy. He stayed put until black dark
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Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: LuckyDog on August 09, 2011, 09:32:53 PM: Maybe spend the year gaurding him, if he picked up some fronts next year he may place very well in the book! Ya right, if I had a pin or crosshair on him I would drop him without a second thought, great pics!
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: SemperFidelis97 on August 09, 2011, 09:41:43 PM: Are those through a spotter Bone? or just the zoom on your cameras they looked pretty good to me for the amount of disntace you were covering now as for getting on one in that stuff with a bow that may be interesting.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 10, 2011, 05:44:58 AM: Just my camera and cropped in. THey were a LONG ways away. I didn't want to disturb them. Its certainly going to be tough, especially with my longbow.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Skyvalhunter on August 10, 2011, 05:54:51 AM: Awesome Pics there Bone, Even though you said the quality wasn't there I still love the pics. For me it was well worth YOU packing that 30 lbs of camera gear.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Daytonite on August 10, 2011, 06:13:22 AM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on August 10, 2011, 05:54:51 AM
For me it was well worth YOU packing that 30 lbs of camera gear.

:yeah: very cool
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: wsucowboy on August 10, 2011, 06:20:25 AM: Good luck getting the buck in the rocks if you go after him. Should be a challenging hunt
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: boneaddict on August 10, 2011, 08:41:08 AM: Thanks guys. I was really hoping to get an eye on a monster so that I'd have more enthusiasm for the death march. LOL. Really any deer in this environment would be a "trophy".
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: bearhunter99 on August 10, 2011, 09:00:17 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on August 10, 2011, 08:41:08 AM
Thanks guys. I was really hoping to get an eye on a monster so that I'd have more enthusiasm for the death march. LOL. Really any deer in this environment would be a "trophy".

Hell any deer with a longbow is a trophy Bone. Best of luck!
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: Austrian Hunter on August 10, 2011, 09:04:33 AM: Quote from: bearhunter99 on August 10, 2011, 09:00:17 AM
Quote from: boneaddict on August 10, 2011, 08:41:08 AM
Thanks guys. I was really hoping to get an eye on a monster so that I'd have more enthusiasm for the death march. LOL. Really any deer in this environment would be a "trophy".

Hell any deer with a longbow is a trophy Bone. Best of luck!

:yeah: Wow, you have your work cut out for you! Nice pics!!!! I am sweating just looking at these pics, lol
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: jake on August 10, 2011, 09:54:30 AM: so thats where ive been going wrong! i need to be looking for goats to find big bucks....pretty wild country up there good luck bone, looking forward to the stories i know we always enjoy reading them.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: NWBREW on August 10, 2011, 10:38:08 AM: Good luck bone. Looks like a very long way up there. Did you run across any sherpa's? :chuckle:
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: shedcrazy on August 10, 2011, 10:44:22 AM: Very cool photo's, your an animal!! Good luck
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: firehawk87 on August 10, 2011, 10:12:06 PM: Awesome scouting pics. Man I need to go out with You a couple times and have You show me how to scout better.lol.
Title: Re: maybe this years....
Post by: hunter_sean08 on August 12, 2011, 10:46:18 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on August 08, 2011, 11:46:20 AM
A LOT fewer deer in the high country this year. More in the midrange. I like hunting the rocks.

I've heard from my sources in the Central Cascades that it's been unseasonably cool this summer. Maybe the migratories haven't gone as far up the mountain this year. That's making me foam at the mouth for this season. We're hunting around 3400-3800 feet up, so hopefully there will be a few more bucks around in the early hunt. I would normally complain about this summer's weather (it's been over 70 in Port Angeles for maybe an hour or so this year lol) but it has certainly made for some of the best salmon fishing in recent memory, and hopefully a killer hunting season this fall.