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  Evening Serenade
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  I enjoyed your story about listening to the coyotes in the distance as a young boy. I can very much relate. I lease a piece of land in the Okefenokee swamp in GA that I started out originally pursuing wild hogs. That spread to White Tail dear. During the past 5 years of this process the coyotes have proven to be the most elusive of all three species. I upgraded to NV & Thermal yet getting the dogs to come out of the thick brush after dark has been a steep learning. curve. More to follow
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  Daughter's First Deer
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  Very awesome.
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  2019 bow season best yet for Deer!
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  @kea Yeah... the hunters that travel to hunt are some of the worst. Few are good. I like the ones that are, and actually care about something. Most feel entitled, because the money they spent and the distance traveled, they think they are entitled to shoot anything, anywhere. 160 is a great deer. They don't even start looking shootable until 140, in my opinion. ... but yeah the guys from other states think a 120 is huge because all they ever see is 80" deer... because they all shoot everything with ANY horns on its head. I wish more people would stay at home and wreck their own hunting instead of travelling everywhere and wrecking everyone's hunting. ;)
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  Seeing the sights!
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  Taken from my living room in the last couple weeks.
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  Hunting Buddy
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  October Elk Hunt Idaho
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  Beautiful! Congratulations on an awesome bull @tpk936
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  @martino re: 1600yd Pronghorn
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  Taxidermist fail
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  @donnie said in Taxidermist fail: Very hard to find a professional. Boy is it ever.
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  Shame them.
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  Doe control is necessary for a healthy buck population I have been taught. Bucks seem to want to spend more time fighting than breeding when there's an abundance of does. Don't know about antelopes guess they have their own nature. My hunting buddy down here has taken on a ranch of about a thousand acres owned by his sisters husbands family. They don't have any water sources on it and is perfect for whitetail they just never developed it. I guess he's been there about seven years and made watering places with plastic wading pools and convinced his brother in law to get the well going and try to keep water there. He has fed a little protein and he and his sons have been shooting out the old spikes and otherwise dud deer and put up lots of cameras to see what was really in there at night. Two big problems they found as to why there wasn't any "good" deer. One was a pig control trapper and hunter that was allowed in there. He did way more than trap pigs, cameras caught him. He just about annihilated the turkey population too. I would have had him thrown in the pokey. The other was the Department of Criminal Justice had permission to train officers how to catch prisoners with bloodhounds on horseback in that place. That was a no brainer. Unloading a trailer full of hounds and horses in the fall chasing trustees. They finally put them on a schedule that wasn't conflicting with hunting season and they may have stopped altogether now. They had a bad habit of just showing up unannounced. He came up on a riderless horse one time and a couple of inmates were sitting under a tree resting and him with a .270. That could have been bad. The place has only gotten better and some deer worthy of mounting have been taken but seven years isn't long enough. He might be half way there.
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  Bobcats
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  I found the picture of the one we had tanned. It's a picture of a picture so it's not too good. That's my dog Ruby standing by the truck still panting after getting a whipping from the cat. She had the bobcat held down under a little shrub out in the pasture about thirty feet. I was more worried about a rattlesnake than I was the cat at that point. I had a rifle with me but laid it down when I saw where the bobcat was and had to get low for a shot.
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  Texas Doves
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  Prairie Dog Termination
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  @martino1 Decidedly more predators around pdog towns. Seems to be more still after I've hit one hard for a few days in a row.
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  Coyotes 2018
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  Saw a couple of coyotes while planting soybeans yesterday The gray one got out of there as soon as I stopped the tractor but the reddish brown one stuck around a bit.
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  2018 Deer Season was another good one!
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  @kea Finally got my Colorado Black bear back that was taken with my TS Customs 8 mm Remington Mag. Very pleased with how it turned out.
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  Hog Trapping
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  The same morning from the first trap to the last on this side of the pasture. We had three or four more on the east side of the property that caught about as many as these did. I don't know who that goofy person is talking to the pigs and he can barely do math.
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  New Years Day Deer
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  @bigfoot I hung it up after this one. Nature was calling me and I had to answer and I hadn't had any coffee yet. If we get back I am for sure going to clean the window.
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  Great pal for coyote hunt
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  lol!
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  First bull elk
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  @prometheus that’s some sound advice. As I get older I get wiser. Probably would have downed an elk by myself in my 20’s and spent 4 days packing it out. Now, we like ATV access or a group of guys to assist if someone downs one. Same logic when sheep hunting, take 2 guys or hunt close to the ATV’s. We spent 2 days packing out my buddy’s ram in 2016. You see so many guys claiming to do solo hunts and pack everything out countless miles on the first trip. Every honest hunter knows that’s not the case. Don’t know how many horses you would need to pack an elk out in one trip 3-4 plus 1 per rider??
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  Mother Nature isn’t being very nice
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  Well the good thing about the snow is if I move it right I get a firing range.
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  Technology Crushes Hope
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  @rr2241tx congrats on the deer. It’s a shanr that liver with onions is banned from the kitchen. Good stuff!
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  Alberta mule deer
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  Mule deer taste fantastic when they haven't been running hard.
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  2018 archery
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  Very nice,The most fun i had deer hunting is with a bow, you get up close and your heart pumps like a bass drum.
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  First deer with new DT
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  holy dark horns batman.
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  Guest Hunter
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  Not a fan of the poisonous snakes. Nope not at all. I quite enjoy killing them. Killed something like 35-40 of them this summer/fall.
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  X LG ATV rifle case
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  Dusted one.
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  Money well spent and there will be no bullshit with Travis.
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  Grizzly encounter x3
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  @donnie sounds like it’s purely anti-trump BS reasons.
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  Here kitty kitty
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  That’s why I want a 10mm or 357 to carry deer hunting. Dang things.
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  Interesting video on headshots and thrashing around
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  Very cool explanation.
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  Scouting
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  @hypo, It’s probably man-bear/pig. Half man, half bearpig. We have a couple (2) wolves in the area last I checked but they were further north. I have a 85 pound Malinois puppy at home. He’s got big feet, but not this big. I don’t think it’s anything canine. This print has to be at least six inches wide. Figure that quarter is 45 thou less than an inch. I’ve done some checking and that’s too big for all but the odd few cats. I think the official word is bear. I’ll be back up there in a couple days for more scouting. I’ll see if I I can’t find more or better prints.
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  Death from above
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  I really like these pictures. Thanks for sharing.A
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  Caught in the rain.
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  I enjoy shooting, stalking, practicing in the rain. Thinking about going out while in the house might be daunting and even sometimes when it starts raining my "city" brain tries to kick in and say "why are you out here in the rain". But the funny thing is, when you are out in the rain, it seems far less disruptive that when you are actually out in it. Even "noah's rains" don't seem too bad. Of course, I grew up in Florida where our idea of a "regular rain" most people call a "heavy rain". Also, more recently, when I've been doing my wind practice, I've noted the rain (or the snow) is a useful wind gauge, so it has value for that as well! == Well, in Kansas, we don't have hogs and we don't have p-dogs ... just coons, opossum, yotes ... so I dont' get to have fun shooting p-dogs ... though it does not sound like I would like what they do to pastures.
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  Some sod puppies meet my 6 Dasher
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  Looks like a whole lot of fun, that is some good rifle shooting greg. God Bless
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  2018 Hunting Thread
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  Draw deadline for AZ Deer/Sheep is Tuesday. Just put my draw in for me and my youngest. I'm going for Whitetails only in two different units. For my boy, I put him in for Youth only, any antlered deer, in two units, and a youth only, any deer, in a unit near the AZ/UT border. I bought a point only for my son for Javelina, and a point for me in bighorn sheep.
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  Advise for a newbie on coyote hunting
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  Thanks fellas, I’m gonna give it a try soon. Not sure when exactly but I’ll ley you know how it turns out.
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  New Eberlestock camo
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  @tackyp Very cool. I wouldn’t mind hiking the 150 miles from. Death Valley to Whitney, but as you say I can’t stand California politics and don’t intend to return. It is a shame that such beautiful country is wasted on liberals.
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  .264 SMK 142gr for Deer
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  142SMK will definitely kill deer.
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  Black coyote double
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  Is it possible the black yote might have been a hybrid. It looks beefier that the other yotes.
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  Proud daddy
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  Them’s good days right there! Get the pictures printed and put them in her baby book. Kids grow up fast and we forget how precious they were before we got so damned old.
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  Day After Thanksgiving Buck
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  Thanksgiving Day Buck
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  Yup, they are really awesome, and good pictures are compelling. I love my DSLR :) I have a T3i body.
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  Colorado hunter kills lion at 16 feet
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  @orkan said: Every single state GF&P or DNR need to be gutted, and start fresh. There is so much corruption in those agencies it staggers the mind. They literally behave as if they own every square inch of land and every animal on it. They have their purpose, in the last month three elk were poached around here, one pretty good Bull ( I assume I don’t know anything about elk http://www.myholtcountynews.com/holt-county/info-sought-on-bull-elk-shot-near-county-line I bet seeing as how it was left it was a pissed off farmer)but yea they’re corrupt as hell. Plenty of dumb stupid laws as well, why, for instance, do they hire loggers to clean up Forrest’s when people would pay to go in and get firewood? Or animal control in some instances they’ll pay professional hunters to come in and take them, when they could be getting paid. It’s dumb, more evidence government is terrible.
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  Only one thing on his mind...
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  MAN LOOK AT THAT MONSTER!!!
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  2017 Deer season
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  Well went out today and got a couple for steaks and roasts and stuff. (We’ll make summer sausage out of that buck) And my dad got one as well, video is uploading I’ll post a link when it’s done.
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  Whew.
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  Dinner time.... MMMMM
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  Grizzly shot with .44 magnum
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  @rr2241tx said: These guys from San Francisco or what? Their standard protocol might be to fog a halo around themselves with spray and get into the fetal position
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  About that time of year in PA
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  Dove season 2017
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  @rhyno said: Oh yea, we have huge ground storage to. The deer love it. Oh man... I could keep an eye on that for ya. I could even be quiet about it.
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  Off to a good start.
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  Usually I shoot coyotes with a camera, which is always rolling and getting them. It was certainly a change of mindset being on the set with a rifle. Lots of miles put on, but through beautiful country I'm ready for more.
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  Unknown Paw Print
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  Any better pic? I'm having trouble making that out. It looks pretty round. My first guess would be kitty cat.