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White River here we come (story and pics added)
« on: June 12, 2015, 11:30:56 AM »
2 buddies and I drew 3 of the archery White River tags, already have the hole season off. This is going to be awesome.

Good luck to everyone else!!!
« Last Edit: September 28, 2015, 11:56:21 AM by duramax588 »

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2015, 11:31:43 AM »
2 buddies and I drew 3 of the archery White River tags, already have the hole season off. This is going to be awesome.

Good luck to everyone else!!!

jealous. Have fun!

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2015, 11:41:06 AM »
That sounds like fun!


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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2015, 11:46:49 AM »
2 buddies and I drew 3 of the archery White River tags, already have the hole season off. This is going to be awesome.

Good luck to everyone else!!!

Doesnt get much better than that! Good luck
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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2015, 01:20:43 PM »
Going to head into the unit this weekend to do some scouting and get some starting points for our hunt. I have not spent time in the unit but believe me we will be in there all summer. My buddies and I have plenty of backpack hunting experience and are planning on spending most of our time in the high country of the unit. That being said I am curious if anyone could give me some pointers or starting points, like trailheads or good roads to drop off of to begin are scouting. We don't care how steep it is and will put the work in for this tag, 2 of us have the whole season off the other buddy only has 1 week.

Any info would be greatly appreciated

thanks and good luck to all!!!

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2015, 02:10:30 PM »
Google earth is your friend.  Combine that with a Delorme map and you should be good.


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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2015, 09:22:55 PM »
I also drew archery, Handcock permit worth buying? Cant scout it because of fire danger? Or should i focus on hunting higher towards crystal mt.   New to this area.. Any helpp??

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2015, 03:12:01 PM »
Good luck brother! My
Buddy drew the tag and we are up scouting as much as we can. Maybe we will cross paths!

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2015, 04:55:36 PM »
Laqua338, Don't buy the pass yet , Hancock White River may not open the entire season and even if it did open I'm not sure you would want it . The tribe has hit it pretty hard the pass couple years and there are other areas in the White River to hunt .

Good luck to all that have this tag , would like to be there myself , maybe next year .

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2015, 06:46:46 AM »
Wonder what happened with this hunt?   
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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2015, 07:05:35 AM »
so do I.  Any luck putting the hurting on a few nice bulls?

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2015, 09:21:33 AM »
Herd there were a few nice white river Bulls taken have only seen 2 pics one guy i know the other I'm not sure but was a good looking bull. What's the results you guys did ya stick any?
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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2015, 11:02:35 AM »
We filled 2 of the 3 tags, I posted them in the 2015 bulls and will be righting a story soon. Been busy the last couple days. Mine was a 6x6 with kickers off the eyeguards and my one buddy shot a big 6x5

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2015, 11:41:28 AM »
You guys must have seen my buddy tyler.

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2015, 11:26:45 AM »
You guys must have seen my buddy tyler.
yeah we ran into him, saw a picture of a big one he shot after that

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #15 on: September 28, 2015, 11:52:14 AM »
It all started when my 2 hunting partners and i found out we drew White River archery tags. We knew are work was cut out for us being that we had never stepped foot in this unit. We spent 7 weekend scouting trips, all but 1 trip was an all weekend backpack trip. We saw and video'd a lot of good bulls and also got plenty of trail cam pics. We started are hunt by hiking in the day before the opener and being way back in for opening day. Went to our planned spot for opening morning and got on elk right away. I was first shooter and as we crept on some cows that we could here my buddy Mike moved to my right and ended up making the right move. He could see a 5x5 that I could not so he drew back and stepped up a little farther exposing a big 6x5 which he smoked at 40yds. The bull went less than a 100yds and was piled up, we spent the rest of that day getting that bull out. It was a great start but the next 8 days elk were hard to come by and not much for bugling. My other buddy Adam had to leave the second Sunday as his vacation was over. The next day on Monday I almost got a shot a 5x5 but one of his cows busted me as I was drawing back and they all ran off. We spotted the bull I ended up shooting on Tuesday night and went in after him on Wednesday morning. They had moved down closer and we busted them earlier than we thought we would run into them. This bull along with a smaller one and some cows moved into the timber. I moved to where they went in and cow called getting a response right away. My buddy Mike bugled below which got the bull pissed off and he came into 16yds. I smoked him and he went less than 100yds. 2 really good Bulls and 2 arrows, one heck of a season and so much fun.
Hope you guys enjoy, I know we did. Good luck to everyone else
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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #16 on: September 28, 2015, 11:53:40 AM »
Pics of my buddies

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2015, 11:54:51 AM »
Pics of mine

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Re: White River here we come
« Reply #18 on: September 28, 2015, 11:55:44 AM »
Pics of them together

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #19 on: September 28, 2015, 12:15:14 PM »
Congrats!  That is a hell of a whale tail on the one!
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #20 on: September 28, 2015, 12:58:22 PM »
Nice work :tup: pretty sure I photographed that big 5, ill try and find it
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #21 on: September 28, 2015, 01:05:54 PM »
Sounds like an amazing hunt!!!  Congratulations!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2015, 01:12:08 PM »
Congrats, two very nice bulls there!
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2015, 01:26:52 PM »
Nice bulls to bad Adam didn't get to wack one

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2015, 01:28:23 PM »
Congratulations! Beautiful Bulls.
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2015, 01:28:55 PM »
Nice job!!!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #26 on: September 28, 2015, 01:55:44 PM »
nice bulls!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #27 on: September 28, 2015, 02:00:11 PM »
Some GREAT bulls! Congrats :tup:

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #28 on: September 28, 2015, 02:11:59 PM »
Doubled down. Nice bulls and 2 for 3 ain't bad!
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #29 on: September 28, 2015, 02:51:16 PM »
Very nice bulls... 
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #30 on: September 28, 2015, 02:57:58 PM »
Real nice elks!!!!!!! :tup:
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2015, 03:33:30 PM »
Great bulls  :tup:
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2015, 08:13:18 PM »
2-3 not bad at all.  Congrats on some good bulls
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #33 on: September 28, 2015, 08:21:15 PM »
Awesome bulls!  That would be a really fun hunt. 

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #34 on: September 28, 2015, 08:46:08 PM »
It wAs your bull I got a pic of, that thing is pretty sweet! Good job guys and congrats!
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #35 on: September 28, 2015, 08:51:53 PM »
Congrats!  Looks like a blast!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2015, 12:10:12 PM »
So the quality is terrible, only place i could find a picture was on an old phone, lost the original when my computer crashed. Anyway, here's what I thought was the same bull from a year or two prior, not sure but very similar genetics anyway....
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« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2015, 08:30:55 PM »
So the quality is terrible, only place i could find a picture was on an old phone, lost the original when my computer crashed. Anyway, here's what I thought was the same bull from a year or two prior, not sure but very similar genetics anyway....
This look like the same bull to you. This was from this year
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #38 on: October 13, 2015, 06:37:43 AM »
  Thats a great lookin bull, he has got some very similar characteristics! I will pm you
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #39 on: October 13, 2015, 07:04:42 AM »
awesome bulls, love the big 5x6. 

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #40 on: October 14, 2015, 07:43:07 PM »
Great bulls :tup:
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #41 on: October 14, 2015, 08:01:37 PM »
Great bulls, great job telling the story and congratulations!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #42 on: October 14, 2015, 08:31:02 PM »
I think I may have seen that last bull this year.  :dunno: Great bull. And great job on the bulls on the ground!

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #43 on: October 15, 2015, 03:13:21 AM »
So the quality is terrible, only place i could find a picture was on an old phone, lost the original when my computer crashed. Anyway, here's what I thought was the same bull from a year or two prior, not sure but very similar genetics anyway....
This look like the same bull to you. This was from this year

Looks like you guys where pretty high up in elevation

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #44 on: October 15, 2015, 04:18:45 AM »
Very Nice, Congrats to both!!!!   :tup:

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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #45 on: October 15, 2015, 05:07:17 AM »
Congrats on a couple fine elk
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #46 on: January 09, 2016, 09:37:10 AM »
congrats again. it was good meeting you over on the eastside last weekend

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« Reply #47 on: January 09, 2016, 07:04:19 PM »
congrats again. it was good meeting you over on the eastside last weekend
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Re: White River here we come (story and pics added)
« Reply #48 on: February 08, 2016, 12:03:29 PM »
Great looking bulls! Congratulations!

 


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