Outdoorsman Thread

[zp4ja]

Great shot and hunting story Dave! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Regards, Jerry

[garddogg56]

Nice guys I just love exploring new hunting areas,I was walking down this beautiful old farmers tote road when I came accross this tree in the woods

[treefarmer]

That's pretty neat Gdogg! Shows someone has their eyes open. They see the trees rather than the forest.
Here's some sort of nest (I assume that's what it is) that was hanging from a limb of a Pecan tree. Anybody know what or who makes such a nest? It measures about I 3/4" long, about 7/8" diameter and the opening is a 3/8" X 1/2" oval. The piece it hung by is about 1 1/2" long. Looks like it is made of leaves.
Probably should have posted this in the "Snake Spit" section.
Treefarmer

[gsmith7158]

Looks similar to a bag worm nest you find on cedar trees.

[Dinadan]

I really enjoyed the hunting stories and photos, Jerry. The elk photos make it look enormous.

Dave, cool story and photos! I was wondering where the fallow deer hunt took place. My guess was Texas since the terrain resembles some of that state and I have seen some exotic game animals there. I never would have guessed South Africa.


Garddogg, that tree looks like Old Man Willow in The Fellowship of the Ring! Great imagination on someone's part!

[kootenay joe]

Jerry, are those 2 different elk ? or the same one ? Whether 1 or 2, it is a big bull. What State were you hunting in ?
I have elk that winter on my property from Nov. to late April. Hunting season here is 6 points on at least one side (basically a mature bull) and ends Oct 20th while the elk are still way in the back country with no roads or trails.
Dave, good pics of your African hunting adventures. You look like a young guy in those pics !
kj

[zp4ja]

Jerry, are those 2 different elk ? or the same one ? Whether 1 or 2, it is a big bull. What State were you hunting in ?
I have elk that winter on my property from Nov. to late April. Hunting season here is 6 points on at least one side (basically a mature bull) and ends Oct 20th while the elk are still way in the back country with no roads or trails.
Dave, good pics of your African hunting adventures. You look like a young guy in those pics !
kj

2 seperates hunts, last year and this week, 2 different tag holders. Location is North Eastern Nevada outside of Elko.
Jerry

[kootenay joe]

Thanks Jerry. Body size and rack size are influenced by genes. Elk herds are somewhat isolated from each other which means that elk in some areas are genetically larger than in other areas.
From Jerry's pictures it looks like N.E. Nevada has some very large elk.
Were you able to pack out quarters or did you de-bone and then pack out ?
kj

[CheckSix]

Dave, good pics of your African hunting adventures. You look like a young guy in those pics !
kj

kj,
Thanks! that trip was 12 yrs ago, I was 51 at the time... I guess now I would consider that young!

[kootenay joe]

Honestly Dave, in those pictures you look like early 30's. You must have good 'preservation' genes. Mine recently expired and it's been straight downhill.
kj

[carrmillus]

........kj, mine expired a LONG time ago, I'm fixin' to turn 80, I'm headed downhill head first but I still enjoy the outdoors!!!................ .................

[big monk]

Said to myself,when I started back deer hunting* ( I was "NOT" going to buy one of them dang 4-wheelers** ) buutttttt ---got me a new "TOY" today ___ Arctic Cat 300 4X2 -- didn't have room to store the bigger 4X4,and this thang' is way more faster,than I need !!!! -- my friend sold the land,I had been hunting and with a little rain, I couldn't get to my spots on the other hunt club*** so at 66,I'm gona' act like a kid again !!!

Have A Great Day My Friends _______ Monk

[TripleF]

That a boy Monk....release that inner child bro!!

[jmh58]

Nice score monk.. But... Does it float?????? John

[big monk]

Nice score monk.. But... Does it float?????? John

Hey John --- don't need to float*** ( I still got my boats for fishin' )

[blademaker]

Nice score Monk, If you're every up my way I got a place you can ride that thang. Although hunting season is usually taken, fishing in early summer most always will produce. Here's a pic of my daughter on a visit from Florida...More blues that year than ive ever seen coming upstream.

[big monk]

Thought this was interesting*** --- a guy a few miles up the road from me ,killed this piebald buck, Saturday with black powder rifle __ nice little buck !!!

[treefarmer]

Monk,
You're havin' a great weekend! Gettin' to see a unique deer and havin' Jabo win another game makes it a good weekend. I'll be rootin' for y'all up until October 29th.
Treefarmer

[kootenay joe]

I was on my way to sight in my rifle at a 'home made' but safe, range near by, when i came across some animals, visiting from high up.
kj

[CheckSix]

kj,
That's a nice goat!

[edge213]

Cool pics, kj

[philco]

I was on my way to sight in my rifle at a 'home made' but safe, range near by, when i came across some animals, visiting from high up.
kj

Wow!!! I'd love to see that sight. I got to see some from a half mile away last year but never anything close to the view you had.

[johnny twoshoes]

The crickets are singing, the farmer's tractor putters along and the evening begins to wind to a close. A warm coffee by my side and a few dove couing overhead tie this evening together.

October is a special month for me, it's forever been a favorite of mine since I was little, before I could even hunt, I loved it. I remember the men; my dad, grandad and uncles all heading out for small game. A lot of tan Wilson vests were worn with patches of fluorescent orange adorned. Old pump and semi shotguns were loaded in the truck, or blazer, along with my grandfather's beagles in the back. I always wanted to go with them, but I was so little I would have only been a hinderance. My time had to wait. It forced some patience into me that I've utilized everyday of my life, be it at work, on the trout streams, or in the field where I feel I truly belong. Imagination was the only thing I had when they were out hunting and I was left at home, but it fed my passion. My mom has always stoked my imagination, be it as a soldier fighting the nazis in Berlin, or as a skilled hunter working a fence row here in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania. After my dad's passing my mom continued to pour her time into my imagination and passions, being a youth hunter I was handicapped by not being allowed to hunt alone, my mom didn't let me miss much time out in the woods though and often times our first experiences as hunters were shared. My mom always hated that animals had to die in order for us to have "success" and there was a time when everything we saw was "too small", or no matter what time of the day it was, it was "too dark" to shoot. A lot of those "dark" times I killed a "small" buck, or a squirrel. Looking back on it now, it was comical, but at the time it was a struggle for her. She always cooked what we killed and gladly helped process the meat for the freezer. She had as much to do with me becoming a passionate hunter as the men in my life did and even more so at times. This is my tenth year of hunting, one decade, it's hard to comprehend that it was so long ago that I first took to the fields, but I'm already smiling at the prospects of another season under my belt.
I find it fitting that in my tenth year of hunting my mom has killed her first deer, a doe she shot with a crossbow on our opening day. Night and day isn't contrasting enough a comparison to express my surprise that she has taken afield, my surprise doesn't numb my pride though. She remarried and found a man who's own passion for hunting rivals my own and thus she has found herself in those all too familiar pictures of hunters and their kill, this time it's her holding the bow. She is by far the most experienced "first" time hunter I know and her success is solely dependent on her desire to be in the woods. Only time will tell how many trips to the tree stand are made, but I know she will count every experience a success, she always has.

I don't think my mom would like her picture to end up online, so until I know that answer this pic will have to do!

It doesn't matter where I go, this thread feels like home.

P.S.
My pic appears blurry on my device, but clicking on it makes it display clear like the original. I'm going to assume that has to do with me using a mobile device. Also, I'm writing in a mobile device so please excuse the missques in my spelling, grammar.... etc!

[Paladin]

Johnny,
Your post is very well done as usual. Your passion always comes through in your posts.
Thanks for sharing,
Ray

[CheckSix]

ya, that is a cool story! Thanks for sharing it!