Idaho whitetail
Springville Shooter
5/4/10 6:12pm
Got bored, so I decided to post a pic from a hunt a couple years ago in Idaho. This is a deer that I killed on public land on a general hunt in western Idaho. I didn't get him mounted at the time because I lived in a smaller home with no room. Now I have all kinds of room and I wish he was in my office. He's just a three point-21" wide, but his head was huge and his cape was beautiful. I go through phases in hunting it seems and I went to this spot 4 years in a row and killed one other pretty nice 5x5 and a couple of smaller bucks. Been thinking if I don't draw out in Nevada or California that it might be time to go back and try it again. Might even take my daughter as a suprise for Thanksgiving break. Good memories to make!----------SS
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Well there is not much of a story for that Buck. I had four days to hunt last year and two of those days would be driving. My brother wanted to hunt Salmon. I have hunted Salmon before so I told he I would go with him and show him some spots. He came out from Northen CA. We met up in Caldwell Id and drove to Salmon. Grabbed our hotel room and hit the woods for an evening hunt saw some game, but no shots. In the morning we split up. He went to a spot down off of Hwy 28 and I went right behind the town of Salmon. It was at the end of Oct and from years past I have seen big boys get pushed out of the high mountains and come right into town. Right at day brake this buck was about 50 yards in the BLM zone. shot him at 100 yards loaded him up and head back to the hotel. My brother showed up a few hours with a nice buck and we head back home.
Very fast hunt ,I like them to last longer than that, but with the time frame we had I was happy. The best thing was I got my Mule deer mount. Now I need a Whitetail mount.
i've wanted to do a idaho whitetail hunt for a while. AGCHAWK has gone to idaho alot. seems like there is alot of game.
cool post, i'm glad you got bored :thumb
Pic of the Rifle Whitey..
SS- Yeah I really like Salmon I started hunting it around 2003 with a buddy of mine. Then I met some sheriff's and Police Officers from there and got some really good pointers for the area. So salmon has become a fall destination for me every year.
Have you seen the new Fish and Game rules for the Salmon B tag. they have put a cap on the tags, which I think is fine. Since the wovle as been back I have seen the elk hard dip a little. The good thing is the witers have been mild so there is not alot of death do to winter. I just have to be one of the frist ones to get my Elk tag.
Here's a few pics of some of the bucks me, my brother, and my nephew have pulled out of there over the last few seasons. (I have more somewhere. Will need to dig through all my files one of these days)