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What is one of your most exciting hunts #5992302 10/24/15 09:54 PM
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A memorable and exciting hunt for me was taking a boar at long range and my wife capturing it on video. The pig was so far away I thought it was a piglet and when it ran off I thought I missed. After reviewing the video in the laptop we thought he went down at the edge of the woods. A great shot with my 243 at about 300 yards.

https://youtu.be/qxzqh11ZwFg

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Nice.

I have too many memorable hunts. My most exciting would have to be a released pheasant hunt we did on Jan 25, 2014.

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At first I thought you were going to free-hand that shot. Still, even with a rest, very impressive. And your wife did an excellent job following it with the camera.


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Originally Posted By: allterrain
A memorable and exciting hunt for me was taking a boar at long range and my wife capturing it on video. The pig was so far away I thought it was a piglet and when it ran off I thought I missed. After reviewing the video in the laptop we thought he went down at the edge of the woods. A great shot with my 243 at about 300 yards.

https://youtu.be/qxzqh11ZwFg



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Originally Posted By: Creekrunner
At first I thought you were going to free-hand that shot. Still, even with a rest, very impressive. And your wife did an excellent job following it with the camera.


Freehand would have been insane, if only I were that good.




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Last month when i killed my bull elk with my bow!


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Last month when i killed my bull elk with my bow!

Congrats! Got pics?

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Thank you BTW!


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Originally Posted By: allterrain
A memorable and exciting hunt for me was taking a boar at long range and my wife capturing it on video. The pig was so far away I thought it was a piglet and when it ran off I thought I missed. After reviewing the video in the laptop we thought he went down at the edge of the woods. A great shot with my 243 at about 300 yards.

https://youtu.be/qxzqh11ZwFg

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The mule deer hunt i went on last year was one of the best hunts I've ever had.

I'm getting to were I like the adventure 5-10 day hunts more than quick weekend deals


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Nice shooting.can anyone make out what was running through the woods around the 150 mark.

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Nothing beats the excitement of working a love struck but wary gobbler within shotgun range and take him in full strut.


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For me, it would be last year's Kansas archery buck shared live here on THF.


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Good work on that pig

For me one of my most memorable hunts was the one where my Father got his first and only 10pt buck. The grin on his face will always be in my memory. His excitement was the kind that was contagious.


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He is a blast from the past!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK fellow hunters and world class sportsman its time for another edition of the not so famous or well written Elk Hunting Memories. I’ve got a few days off work so I thought I’d relive an old hunt in my mind and try to share it with everyone.

The fall 1984 season was one I’ll always remember because of two very different reasons. The first was that it was the first hunting season after my marriage in late 83. My wife knew I was a hunter but I think she hadn’t fully grasp the fact that I was going out west every fall and second was the hunt itself.

If my memory is correct a bull elk and mule deer buck tag were about 225 bucks for non residents in Colorado and that was a ton of money to me back then. I’d saved all my change and every dollar I could scrap up during the previous year like I always did and I barely had enough to make it out there and back so away I went. A solid week of creek water, beanie weenies and spam fold over’s will keep you alive but dangggggg.

My buddy Roger and I were hunting in unit 66 north of Lake City, Colorado. North of town on hwy 149 is an access trail heading back west towards Independence Gulch, this is a hell of a climb to get above timberline but once you get up there the view is spectacular. We spent a full day packing in and setting up camp on a horseshoe bend in the gulch. The 3 days of the hunt were dry and clear but brutally cold. We were seeing some small bucks and only a few elk a day.

The next to last day there we decided to split up. I was going north to a long and wide park running north to south where I’d seen some sign a few days before, it was about a mile or so long and about five hundred yards across in most places. Roger was heading west following the creek.
The morning was very cold and clear but the wind had laid a little so I was encouraged. As enough light finally hit the tree line I could see 4 elk on the very north end and they were feeding slowly away from me towards the west tree line. My plan was to skirt the east tree line and pop out to check their location until I could get close enough for a shot. I could tell one of the elk was a bull and this late in the hunt if he was a legal 4x4 or better he was going down.

I had a good plan, I was staying out of site just inside the tree line and the wind was in my face. I had advanced at least five hundred yards when I had peeked at the elk from a small depression that ran into the meadow from the east. The bull was legal for sure and the elk still had no idea I was there. I still was about six or seven hundred yards away so I crawled back to the tree line and continued my trek north. Another three hundred yards or so and it would be “game on”.
I was moving faster than normal because the elk were getting closer to the tree line when I caught some movement out of the corner of my right eye. I froze as I realized a great mule deer buck was looking right at me only about 70 yards or so away. He was laying on a small bald rise and I guess he was just sunning himself because he stood up and looked right at me like I was really interrupting his nap. I froze for what seemed like 20 minutes but was really only a couple when he made a fatal mistake. He turned his head and looked back north towards the elk. I instantly raised my 300WM and dropped him right back in his bed. My elk stalk turned into a mule deer hunt in the blink of an eye.
I’m going to try and attach an old photo of the buck so please keep the comments about the incredibly handsome and young hunter to a minimum.

But seriously folks that was a day I’ll remember forever. He’s by far my best muley and I doubt I’ll ever top him. Man I truly miss hunting in the mountains every fall. My days of climbing above timberline are over but I highly recommend hunting out west to anyone who loves to hunt. You don’t have to take a 350 class bull every year to enjoy mountain hunting. There are still over 100 over the counter units in Colorado alone so don’t wait till you get to old then say I wish I’d gone and done that. Elkhunter 49 has left the building!!!!!



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there are so many that are memorable that I will always remember some fondly some not.

Tracking a wounded Cape Bufflo
Getting snowed in for 6 days on a mountain goat hunt (got skunked)
Taking my nephews on a duck hunt where the Ducks were coming in by the hundreds
A 440 yard shot on an oryx in New Mexico
Any hunt where a kid was on there first hunt(successful or not).

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Lots of exciting moments and not much of a writer, so I'll limit it to one that happened last year during deer season. My wife had shot a nice sized hog on our place that we butchered ourselves and left all the remains in a pile off to the side of a field where our deer blind sits. While sitting in the deer blind, we saw two coyotes work their way in to the hog and start to eat it. I got out of the blind and made a fairly long stalk to where I had an easy hundred yard shot. First shot dropped the coyote, then the second ran back a little ways and turned around to take a look in my direction. I didn't expect this, but was able to reload and drop that one too. My one and only double on coyotes!!!!

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You guys are bringing up some great hunts and memories for my self that I had forgotten. I forgot being stuck in the mud for 2 days in east texas as teen agers walking miles to the nearest highway to try and find someone to help us. This was before cell phones. We slept in a small tent that was flooded from the persistent rain, we were miserable. Good times with old friends.




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This will always be my most memorable and exciting hunt. The pics are no longer in photobucket, but the storyline is all that matters to me.
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STX what a fine story. I have taken my son hunting since he was a baby and would wrap him up in blankets and let him sleep in the floor of the stand. He is grown up now and attends Tarleton state university in Stephenville. I am lucky that I can pick him up on the way to the hunting lease. My father was not much of a deer hunter but we had many fishing trips together and his health is not so good any longer, family is our most valuable possession.




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stx really good story and thanks for sharing. Your patience and concern for you Dad's happiness is admirable. My hunts have all been good like others have mentioned. But I think the best was taking a nice 8 pointer after hunting for sometime without seeing anything. After I shot him I could not find him for a while but eventually did.
Ranking right up there at the top was when my grandson got his first deer.

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