My 2007 hunting season
supersider34
12/15/07 10:20am
This will be a long post as it has alot of hunting.
Started off in April with starting a bait site for bears but took off one week to go to northern Idaho to go turkey hunting with a friend in that neck of the woods. He put me up and hunted with me to help me get my turkey. Had a blast with turkey hunting with him and took a small jake this year with my bow. Got the hunt on video so that was even more awesome.
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Next was my bear hunt. It was a blast also. I shot my bear and my son also got his. Got to see several bears messing around the bait site this year and that was to cool. They are pretty awesome to watch and video them. My sons hunt was awesome as he still is quite the marksman when it comes to his rifle.But here is both of our bears. Mine is a dink and still happy with it and my sons is a average bear. I enjoyed hunting with him and watching him more than I did when I got mine. He got so excited when his bear came in. Here are both of our bears.
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Then came antelope season. I set up blinds and got ready for the season. My friend from northern Idaho came down and another friend from here went out with us. Opening morning me and John saw some goats come in but the bigger one hung back. We stayed in the blind till dark and got back to camp and found matt shot one first thing in the morning so he took his out and next morning we went back to the blind. John shot the bigger buck that came in. I have his pictures but can not find them. But here is a picture of Matts buck. I got mine the last day of season which made for a fun time. Also I got to shoot a coyote that was feeding on a gutpile with my bow.Here are several pics.
Matts buck
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My buck
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My yote
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Also shot a muley early in the season back in Sept that me and Matt found and saw several times. Nasty day and we saw where they where bedding when it was nasty. Came in above him and shot him at 20 yds with my bow. Here is that picture.
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Then came deer season and I had a friend that has never hunted deer before and I took him up and he bought a NR tag also and we filled both tags on opening day. They are not the biggest bucks but he sure got excited over taking the 2 different bucks. I only got 1 deer picture. The other is also a small buck. Here is his picture.
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Next came my sons elk hunt. He drew a cow elk and had a long season coming up. I backed out of my elk hunt because of this and also my brother drew a bull tag hunt and wanted to be around to help pack if he needed me.
But anyways my son and I went up with the wife after elk for my son. saw elk every time up but just could not connect till the 3rd weekend up. He shot this cow at 322 yds with my 7 mm Mag. he hunts with a 243 but with that distance he opted to use my 7 mag. he asked if his rifle could hit them elk I told him no but mine would so he was all over that. He shot her and dropped her right down and she rolled down 250 yds to where we where. It was nice not having to climb up after her. Got to her and she had a radio collar on. That was an exciting hunt to be with him for his first elk hunt. Here are some pictures of us packing his elk. My son is 15 and weighs 86 pds. We got that whole cow out in one trip. We did have to leave her over night though. Came in in the morning. I boned out 1 quarter for my pack as there was a bag on my new 2nd pack frame. Both quarters would not fit inside the bag. So got quarter neck backstraps and any other meat I could cut off carcass in the bag.
Here are the pics.
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Next was my brothers elk. Went up to help do some spotting. Well he worked his way up from the bottom and I was sitting in the picture to my brothers left up on the top of that ridge and saw this bull bed down in some quackies. My brother hiked all the way in from the bottom and came and snuck right into this bull. I got to watch the whole outcome of it. It was awesome. Then I went down and hauled in 2 pack frames and the work bagan. His is a 5x6. Here is his picture.
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Next was my sons deer hunt. With him being a youth he got to hunt either sex. So it was the last couple days of season and my son said Dad anything hits the ground. Well thats exactly what he did when we found a group of doe's. He shot the biggest out of the group. He got all excited and that made the whole trip to me.
Here is his picture of him.
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Then my last archery buck with my NR tag I had.Have video and stalked this buck several times and he suckered me. Missed out on a couple other bucks as well. Got video of some very good bucks.
But the day I got this one is I bumped them while coming in and they headed over into some rocky area's and I seen them drop into one ravine and knew where they where headed. Got ahead of them and got in a perfect spot and they fed threw where I was. But here is his picture. Long season for me this year but had a great time.
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Started off in April with starting a bait site for bears but took off one week to go to northern Idaho to go turkey hunting with a friend in that neck of the woods. He put me up and hunted with me to help me get my turkey. Had a blast with turkey hunting with him and took a small jake this year with my bow. Got the hunt on video so that was even more awesome.
Next was my bear hunt. It was a blast also. I shot my bear and my son also got his. Got to see several bears messing around the bait site this year and that was to cool. They are pretty awesome to watch and video them. My sons hunt was awesome as he still is quite the marksman when it comes to his rifle.But here is both of our bears. Mine is a dink and still happy with it and my sons is a average bear. I enjoyed hunting with him and watching him more than I did when I got mine. He got so excited when his bear came in. Here are both of our bears.
Then came antelope season. I set up blinds and got ready for the season. My friend from northern Idaho came down and another friend from here went out with us. Opening morning me and John saw some goats come in but the bigger one hung back. We stayed in the blind till dark and got back to camp and found matt shot one first thing in the morning so he took his out and next morning we went back to the blind. John shot the bigger buck that came in. I have his pictures but can not find them. But here is a picture of Matts buck. I got mine the last day of season which made for a fun time. Also I got to shoot a coyote that was feeding on a gutpile with my bow.Here are several pics.
Matts buck
My buck
My yote
Also shot a muley early in the season back in Sept that me and Matt found and saw several times. Nasty day and we saw where they where bedding when it was nasty. Came in above him and shot him at 20 yds with my bow. Here is that picture.
Then came deer season and I had a friend that has never hunted deer before and I took him up and he bought a NR tag also and we filled both tags on opening day. They are not the biggest bucks but he sure got excited over taking the 2 different bucks. I only got 1 deer picture. The other is also a small buck. Here is his picture.
Next came my sons elk hunt. He drew a cow elk and had a long season coming up. I backed out of my elk hunt because of this and also my brother drew a bull tag hunt and wanted to be around to help pack if he needed me.
But anyways my son and I went up with the wife after elk for my son. saw elk every time up but just could not connect till the 3rd weekend up. He shot this cow at 322 yds with my 7 mm Mag. he hunts with a 243 but with that distance he opted to use my 7 mag. he asked if his rifle could hit them elk I told him no but mine would so he was all over that. He shot her and dropped her right down and she rolled down 250 yds to where we where. It was nice not having to climb up after her. Got to her and she had a radio collar on. That was an exciting hunt to be with him for his first elk hunt. Here are some pictures of us packing his elk. My son is 15 and weighs 86 pds. We got that whole cow out in one trip. We did have to leave her over night though. Came in in the morning. I boned out 1 quarter for my pack as there was a bag on my new 2nd pack frame. Both quarters would not fit inside the bag. So got quarter neck backstraps and any other meat I could cut off carcass in the bag.
Here are the pics.
Next was my brothers elk. Went up to help do some spotting. Well he worked his way up from the bottom and I was sitting in the picture to my brothers left up on the top of that ridge and saw this bull bed down in some quackies. My brother hiked all the way in from the bottom and came and snuck right into this bull. I got to watch the whole outcome of it. It was awesome. Then I went down and hauled in 2 pack frames and the work bagan. His is a 5x6. Here is his picture.
Next was my sons deer hunt. With him being a youth he got to hunt either sex. So it was the last couple days of season and my son said Dad anything hits the ground. Well thats exactly what he did when we found a group of doe's. He shot the biggest out of the group. He got all excited and that made the whole trip to me.
Here is his picture of him.
Then my last archery buck with my NR tag I had.Have video and stalked this buck several times and he suckered me. Missed out on a couple other bucks as well. Got video of some very good bucks.
But the day I got this one is I bumped them while coming in and they headed over into some rocky area's and I seen them drop into one ravine and knew where they where headed. Got ahead of them and got in a perfect spot and they fed threw where I was. But here is his picture. Long season for me this year but had a great time.
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Great job, lots of meat for months to come! :thumb
Shot that yote at about 20 yds. He was just a young pup. Not very smart yet. Was eating on a antelope gut pile and snuck down on him on one side of the fence and him on the other. Fence was all covered with tumble weeds so was kinda easy. Have stalked tons of yotes and this one was the first for me to get that close.
oakbrush
The coyote was a pup that was feeding on a antelope gut pile. Someone gutted it along a fence line and the fence had alot of tumbleweeds and I came down one side of it and it was on the other. He ran one time but came back to it. I honestly didnt think I could get there. I got lucky.