Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: Keenan on August 17, 2008, 11:45:05 am
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Getting close and getting excited. First time in three years that I have'nt been recovering from surgey during the hunt. Last year I was able to call in four bulls right on top of people, didn't get any shots myself but sure had fun watching others.
Been shooting morning and evening everyday and I think I'm finaly getting close to being back to where I was about four years ago.
The high country where I like to hunt still has some snow drifts on the norths and with the incredible amount of snow there is water everywhere. The elk seem fairly well dispersed and with the misquetoes at 10-20 times the normal count I'm hoping and praying for an early freeze.
Set the trail cam in a new spot yesturday to see what's tearing up a nice meadow ;)
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Keenan, really happy to hear you are back up to speed and ready for a dream hunt. Hope you get a big one as no one deserves it more. Yep two weeks here also, I think I will start getting gear organized today. Again the best of luck to ya and let us know how it goes. Kenneth
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Good luck to ya, can't wait to see some pics!!! I leave a week from tomorrow for antelope in Wyoming!!!!
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Thanks Ken, Good to here your reday as well. Keep us posted on your outings and how your season goes. Have you been seeing much this year?
Thanks Fireman, Antelope in Wyoming should be good. Love the antelope meat. But they are hard critters to get a shot on without being seen. Are you from Wyoming?
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Fireman have fun in Wyoming. I hunted antelope in Wy. once with black powder and had more fun than any other hunt. As soon as I blew one stalk I could spot another group and be off on another stalk. It went like that from early morn till dark. Finally got one on about the third day. . Enjoy. Kenneth
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Best of luck after the elk and antelope...I'm going to give the whitetail a go I hope! :)
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Good luck Greg, get a big one. Kenneth
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Glad to hear you doing good this year,best of luck to all,Ya it is almost here. :) ;D ;D
Pappy
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Having some severe lightning storms rolling through right now. Several new fires going. One about two miles from where I just set a trail cam and the other out by where I planned on hunting opening weekend. >:(
Another where we had the central oregon bowyers rondevous last spring. (Squaw Flat) About 800 acers so far
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Hey that is gettin g a bit close Keenan. L.J.
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I hear you brother, two weeks of waiting..... :( glad to hear you are ready for the high lands, happy hunting hope to see some pics of the hunt ...Hawk a/ho
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Mike, glad you joined in. All the luck to ya, have a great hunt and am anxious to hear the story. What date does your season open and for how long? Well you live in some awsome game country, glad you can live it to the max.
Keenan, are you hunting those big Oyimpic elk that Glen St,Charles hunted way back when? Is your wife hunting with you? Packing in? public land? wilderness?
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My elk tag doesn't open until the fifteenth of sept... but Wolf Watcher has a sept 1st tag so we are going after his first.. I will be hunting black bear at the same time ... should be a good wilderness hunt ... I took a 360 bull there with my bow a few years ago... I have been shooting 500 arrows every night and have the fever real bad... Hawk a/ho
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Hawk, there is nothing like a wilderness hunt, especially in an area known to produce trophy class elk. The primitive gear just makes it about ten times sweeter. Best of luck Brother L.J.
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Kenneth,
We have several areas that we will hit. Opening weekend we will be down near Cresent lake in the diamond peak wilderness. After that, a few spots up off the Cascade lakes Hyw. for a few day hunts here and there.
Our main scheduled time is the last week deep in the Three Sisters Wilderness. Thats my favorite spot and has produced some nice bulls for me in the past. They are Rosevelt elk up there. Huge bodies but slightly smaller but heavy racks. The mature bulls will crown out at the top of the rack similar to a red stag.
Several years ago I got a 7x8 in that same area that has huge bases and very thick main beams but the tines are relatively short compared to the rocky mountain elk.
But the bodies are the size of a horse. I had hind quarters that were near 150 lbs. off that bull.
Good luck Hawkbow and everyone else.
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thanks Keenan, good luck to you too brother, look forward to some pics of the hunt Hawk
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Sounds good Keenan, How do you do the wilderness? Pack horses? I would definatly have to have one to pack out 150# quarters. I doubt that our biggest elk would go over 120 pounds. I had a pretty good one a few years back that the hind quarters weighed about 100# L.J.
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Hey LJ. We have two horses but one is a hot blooded TB that should be a barrel racer instead of trail horse (My Wife's) And my horse is a Perchron/quarter cross that has been a great trail/pack horse over the years but she's getting very old so try not to burden her to much.
She packed out those big hind quarters many years back and has earned her keep in the past. Now she is there just to keep the hot blooded youngster headed down the right trail.
Last year we took the new one on his first pack trip. He did fairly well and we only had a few rodeo's. Once he stepped on his own lead rope while getting a drink in one of the lakes. Freaked him out and he rared up so hard that he went over backward. :oI think he was a little emberrased about it, ::) seemed to settle down after that. We had Him hobbled in a meadow by camp and one evening some elk were trotting across the other end of the meadow and he came loping back towards camp as fast as he could blowing and looking like he had seen a gost :D
Guess it's probably time to pull some hides out of the frezzer and let him get familar to the smell and look. >:D
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Oh I tell ya, those horses are always some kind of a wreck. I guess they are kind of like women, hard to live with them and hard with out them as well. Now days I mostly back pack my camp gear and go get the horses If I get an animal. L.J.
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My old war horse has been there done that also, he and I usually put on about five hundred miles a year in the high lands. This year I plan on using my new mustang from the mccullough peaks herd. He is doing great and is one powerful horse.... We are learning that my mountain lion quiver and bowcase is not out to kill him ;D and that shooting a bow from his back is a sure fired way to find out just how powerful he is... :o Hawk a/ho.... L J horses are nothing like women, a horse will usually warn you first before kicking you in the head... ;D ;D ;)
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LJ, I take that aproach often as well. Hike in on foot come out for horses if something is down ;)
Hawk, ;D I guess I'm fairly lucky I tend to get the same look from either one just befor getting kicked in the head. :o :o Most the time I know it's coming ::) ::)
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I'm glad you are able to get out this year Keenan. I'm not as ambitious as you guys. I always ride my horse in. Then I don't shoot anything unless I have to so I don't have to walk out. ;) I thought walking was for guys that don't have horses. ;D Justin
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Justin it probably has nothing to do with ambition ::) your just smarter then we are ;D And I like your thinking. If my wife shoots something and I don't, dose that mean that I get to ride out while she walks ::)
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No Keenan but you do have to dress out the elk or deer! ;)
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If the wife shoots one all the rules go out the window. That is why I like my big mountain horse. I have thrown deer on and still rode out. ;D Justin