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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 |
The antelope gave me the slip but I filled the freezer with elk steaks! The cow was alone, dry, and huge! The bull is obviously young and should be delicious! Weather was rough, 6 degrees Sunday morning! Marlin guide gun 45-70, leverevolution 325grain. Shots were 40 and 60yds. I can't seem to edit and rotate pics.
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Senior Member Joined: Nov 2015 From: Buck Ridge, Georgia Posts: 3,471 |
That is a great hunt. Congratulations.
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Super Moderator Joined: Apr 2008 From: Where it's warm Posts: 10,615 |
Who needs Antelope when you put two Elk on the ground. Good job, congrats.
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2009 From: Far Western WA. Posts: 10,968 | |
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2014 From: Texas Panhandle. Posts: 3,845 |
Glad yall had a good hunt, Dennis. You'll be eatin good this Winter. Nice camp too. |
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 |
Thanx men! That was the base camp junkie. Heres a pic of our spike camp. The three guys I hunted with are 69 and two are 71 including my dad. Worked my tail off for em in hopes someday some young 51yr old whippersnapper does the same for me!
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2013 From: northern wisconsin Posts: 6,001 |
Good luck, Denis. I, too, love elk, but, especially antelope, though I've never had a chance to hunt either one. Fortunately, have had good friends that were willing to share meat after a hunt.
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 |
Opening morning was good to me! The cooler weather had the bucks answering natures call! Smith and Wesson model 1500, 300 win mag, federal blue box 150 grain, 120yd shot sitting position, complete pass thru double lung. After the shot he ran into a stand of trees, came out the other side making snow angels, I took that as a good sign! Didn't have my phone opening day so these are day two picks. Packed the hinds out day one and the rest day two. Steep country, the pics don't do it justice! The postcard mountain is Mt Meeker in all its glory! 4 for 5 with one tag to go, doe antelope. Edit: all the pics are sideways ![]() Last edited by Dennis H; 11-16-2018 at 10:45 PM. |
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Senior Member Joined: Nov 2015 From: Buck Ridge, Georgia Posts: 3,471 |
That looks like very rugged country. You are having a very good season. Congratulations. How far up did you climb the tree?
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Super Moderator Joined: Apr 2008 From: Where it's warm Posts: 10,615 |
Good job, congrats that looks like a fine buck and a great hunt.
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2009 From: Far Western WA. Posts: 10,968 |
Congratulations! Great pictures!
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 | I hang it as high as I can reach if I have to leave it overnight. The biggest threat to it is generally coyotes so I try to get it out of their reach. Lions and bears can climb better than I so the hope is they feed on the carcass and leave the meat in the tree alone for a night. I usually hang a piece of sweated up clothing with it. In this case it also shaded the meat late in the day.
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Senior Member Joined: Nov 2015 From: Buck Ridge, Georgia Posts: 3,471 |
That's some fabulous memories......and eatin".
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 |
My 2018 big game season came to an end a couple hours ago, with my fix for one of my favorite big game meats. Couple miles from my house, 150yd shot Smith and Wesson model 1500 300 win mag, 150 grain federal blue box. Caught her high after she got up from a couple hour rest, DRT. Never tried antelope liver and onions, tomorrow night I'm gonna give it a try. I love fresh elk liver, I'm not sure this will come close to that but I'll find out. Time for geese and coyotes. Unless that badger shows up in my yard again, then he's next! He caught me empty handed the other day and I wasn't about to go hand to claw with a badger with a bad attitude!
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Senior Member Joined: Nov 2015 From: Buck Ridge, Georgia Posts: 3,471 |
Makes me want to leave Georgia.
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2014 From: Texas Panhandle. Posts: 3,845 |
Congratulations, Dennis. That's a heck of a way to end a season. I ain't messin with a badger, even if he's in a good mood. |
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Super Moderator Joined: Apr 2008 From: Where it's warm Posts: 10,615 |
Great thread and sounds like you are eating good this winter. Congrats.
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 2009 From: Far Western WA. Posts: 10,968 |
You had a great year Dennis! Congrats!!
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Member Joined: Nov 2016 From: VA Posts: 51 |
With season winding down, all I have to show is a couple that I got in the swamp with a bow. Hopefully I'll get a crack at something this Saturday, the last day of muzzleloading season. |
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Senior Member Joined: Apr 2014 From: colorado Posts: 5,660 |
Good luck!
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