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Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
Put up trail cam and salt mid june.. lots if elk and deer first couple weeks.. coyote laid a big dump while smiling at camera.. almost 500 pics first week.. went to Dease lake to fight fire for 2 weeks.. came home to almost 300 pics.. ciws, calves, spikes.. never got murdered in Dease so good thing..
Got back and big time change.. no picks for 2 weeks.. starting to pick up again..
Went out this morning.. nothing but squirrels and nit a pic since the 29th..
Oh well, beauty morning today.. stars sparkling.. quiet as a morgue
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
Gonna go hard during archery for any bull.. still got an leh for any bull moose, but freezers are barren.. i feed not only me and wife, brother in law and family and stepson and family, so hope to get elk and moose, plus a couple whiteys
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
Highlight of the day was finding a road kill badger at 5 am this morning, scooped it and emailed the badger society so they can do dna on the threatened population in the EK..
Mmmmm... badger stir fry.. yummy as hell
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
I wish good luck!
And enjoyable to hear how your season goes.
Keep it coming.
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rocksteady
Highlight of the day was finding a road kill badger at 5 am this morning, scooped it and emailed the badger society so they can do dna on the threatened population in the EK..
Mmmmm... badger stir fry.. yummy as hell
Heard the flavour is somewhere between goshawk and leopard frog
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
I really enjoy your season updates Mike, thanks for starting a 2019 thread. Was out with my daughter for youth season mulies, it was scary quiet, headed back out now! A buddy dropped a spike bull though.
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Dont you hate it after day 1 of elk season you realized that yesterday was a good day to trim your toenails? Not the end of day 1..
Another lesson learned
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Awesome idea for a thread,
i think im going to steal your idea and come next week do the same for my season.
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rocksteady
Dont you hate it after day 1 of elk season you realized that yesterday was a good day to trim your toenails? Not the end of day 1..
Another lesson learned
Ha ha, my buddy always laugh when I call him and say I am on my way to pick him up for the hunt.
Always ask if he has his tags, guns, ammo, and "did you cut your toenails"
Sheep hunt once coming down I could feel the pain, but couldn't believe once the socks came off how deep they can go.
Right to the bine almost.
Like you, lessoned learned.
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Morning hike.. no deer, no elk.. 1 huge blue grouse but not gonna risk losing a carbon arrow
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HBC come through again.. got a pm from a member (never to be named) asking me to explain my rationale to try to get an elk a moose and 2 deer for my family and extended family (total of 10 people) since our wildlife populations are in such dire straights..
Really?
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rocksteady
HBC come through again.. got a pm from a member (never to be named) asking me to explain my rationale to try to get an elk a moose and 2 deer for my family and extended family (total of 10 people) since our wildlife populations are in such dire straights..
Really?
Now thats a good laugh !
I take multiple deer deer and a bear or two each season for 2 of us.
Filled all my tags last year + a large spring bear and I still have less than 25% of my freezer full!
usually the ones who can’t fill a freezer making the comments lol
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All of the family eats wild meat probably at least 3 days a week.. does not take long to eat those animals..
Maybe this is why people dont post hunting stories etc anymore, like we used to back in the early days of HBC..
Too many critics!!!
If the author of the pm was so concerned about populations, he/she would be the first to sell all their guns and bows and not hunt , in the name of wildlife.. no????
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rocksteady
1 huge blue grouse but not gonna risk losing a carbon arrow
Someone recently asked me about bows and grouse. I explained that an organic chicken is a sure thing, and good hunting arrows cost more...
The trip to Whole Foods is almost as fun as hunting though, as I get to park my lifted longbox 3500 on top of a couple of Priusss and watch the vegans reactions!
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rocksteady
All of the family eats wild meat probably at least 3 days a week.. does not take long to eat those animals..
Maybe this is why people dont post hunting stories etc anymore, like we used to back in the early days of HBC..
Too many critics!!!
If the author of the pm was so concerned about populations, he/she would be the first to sell all their guns and bows and not hunt , in the name of wildlife.. no????
Bang on. Anyone giving people a hard time for feeding their families with legal bag limits has their priorities messed up.
Got a small bull opening morning. Likely not to share the story or photos.
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Mikey Rafiki
Bang on. Anyone giving people a hard time for feeding their families with legal bag limits has their priorities messed up.
Got a small bull opening morning. Likely not to share the story or photos.
Congrats.. cant say i blame you. Some asshat will give you the gears for taking a legal good eating bull, when, in their opinion you shoukd have let it grow to maturity
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RyoTHC
Now thats a good laugh !
I take multiple deer deer and a bear or two each season for 2 of us.
Filled all my tags last year + a large spring bear and I still have less than 25% of my freezer full!
usually the ones who can’t fill a freezer making the comments lol
Yep, I think you nailed it.
Buddy and I each killed a bull moose a couple days ago, going to kill an elk, and at least a deer or two. GF will kill an elk, and probably a deer or two.
All of it will get eaten if the last 30+ years are any indication....
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
I plan on a elk or moose along with my usual 2 deer to feed a family of 3
People need to worry about themselves more.
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Usually the ones who drive and dont hike have the most to complain about
i know where a few bulls are hiding, just need to get a cable car and a mile of cable to getm out of there
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Fact is there are plenty of members of this hunting website that NEVER hunt
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And goodluck Rocksteady,we all enjoy your hunting stories. Life in the east Kootenays,lots of opportunity.
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Hmmmm goodluck Mike...be safe..
Steven
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Good luck Mike, hope ya post pics of the animals you harvest..
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We all hunt for traditional and cultural reasons,spread that around.
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Well, that really disappoints me that a member would say that to another member.
You go Mike.
If it is legal and you have tags and you are going to "eat it all up", then go ahead.
For someone like me, I just don't consume that much game meat (even when I have it:smile:).
IT's not me as it is the rest of the family just doesn't want to eat it all that often.
Elk I drop, MD I am selective because of it.
BUT, IT"S MY CHOICE!.
And if you have tags, it's your choice, and with tags, it is LEGAL.
The reason we have game issues "is not" because of legal hunters!
So, who ever is tooting that horn about taking too much legal game, better get the F off HBC! or "smarten up"!
Sorry Mike!
Back to you and "continue your Reports"!!
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rocksteady
HBC come through again.. got a pm from a member (never to be named) asking me to explain my rationale to try to get an elk a moose and 2 deer for my family and extended family (total of 10 people) since our wildlife populations are in such dire straights..
Really?
My family has been through the same. Family of 5. We harvested 3 moose in one season. One was LEH rifle and 2 were bow harvest. We heard it from numerous hunters around town. Thats too much for one family. Why do they need that much meat. My response is that meat will last a few years in the freezer, and we may not harvest 1 moose next year. Never a bad thing having 2 freezers full of wild meat! We also donate the hide when we can and all the trimmings go to the local dog and cat rescue shelter.
Good hunting this season. Hope you tag out!
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An adventurous day.. hiking in to my viewpoint on the river in the dark. Get there as dawn breaks.. 30 minutes later have 13 cows and calves with a spike bull come out and feed on the willows on the sandbar.. nother cow and calf cross downstream.. upstream 3 cows.. getting good.. aint gonna swim the river though..
Look a bit further mid stream and a herd are crossing.. 14 cows/calves, 2 spikes and a raggy 4 point.. they cross and feed onto a different sandbar but i know where they are headed.. its go time..
Run upstream about 500 yards bail down the bank for a couple hundred and get in on the main trail in the thick stuff.. willow pit in front of me and i am sitting in a mature spruce type.. figure it should take an hour for the herd to graze to me.. nope..
Within 10 minutes i catch movement way back to my left.. lead cow walks by, rest of the herd following.. gets to my 10 o'clock and freezes.. think she smells me
. She is 9 yards away trying to find me.. this goes on for 20 minutes.. intense.. she finally walks away, circles around behind me with her girls. Never saw the bulls.. they were all around me for almost an hour, from 40 to 100 yards.. afraid to breathe..
Eventually they all just wandered away, into the forest then another hunter came stomping down the trail, totally oblivious.. he walked by me at 6 yards, did not know i was even there and within 3 minutes i heard the herd blowing out of there crashing through the woods..
So close... yet so far.. oh well, be back there tomorrow..
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There was no bugling, cow calling, chirping.. nothing.. just a bunch of elk out for a wander..
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Well, don't need to tell you that you are in the right spot, before 1st light tomorrow and sounds like you could have some fun.
Doesn't sound like they will be far from today, if at all.
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And to clarify.. far side of river is private.. near side is crown
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Good morning Rock, I just was wondering why you find the need when our wildlife population is in such bad shape to kill enough wild game to feed three families?*
are they on welfare and cant afford to feed themselves? are the physically impaired so they could not try for thier own game? I follow your posts and have the utmost respect for you but in these bad times for our wildlife i just dont see a need to kill everything that walks to feed other families. In my mind this is the 21st century and not the 1930's just wonedering your rationale
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Tthis is the note i got..
I will never divulge who sent it to me.. maybe if he/she rereads it they will understand how silly it sounds..
Hunters are huntings worst enemy!!!
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Now that its all out in plain view, lets rejoin our regularly scheduled programming.. not gonna dwell on this.. if someone sees fit to cut and paste to another thread for discussion, fill your boots. I am over it
Hunting Adventures in BC!!
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
Keep it up and your efforts should pay off. We had another bull within 50 yards but would not reveal himself. Up in the higher country so hopefully the action hits your spot soon.
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
I hunt low lands.. less Grizzlies
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I hunt low lands.. less Grizzlies
I hear ya. That's why we only do morning hunts up high and multiple people with guns and spray. Solo we go low for sure.
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Plus i know that the grizz have been "dealt with" by the COS.. the collared one i bumped on opening day of rifle last year did not behave and got "dealt with"
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Good luck to you and stay safe.
Make sure you have jingle bells around your neck to scare off the grizzlies.
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Another awesome but empty handed day.
Went back to the same spot this morning and constant action at the river. But it was different.. biggest herd i saw was 10 cows with 2 spikes.. saw a bachelor band of 4 spikes (got within 80 yards before they vanished like ghpsts). All together, probably 60 or so elk.. and a bunch of whiteys too..
Yesterday they were all in large groups.. today.. nope
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Sooner or later some big boys have to show up.
If they are on private land and without permission, then it is tough.
But a decent satellite should make his way over to you.
But I don't need to tell you that.
Been a bunch of years since I seen a decent herd together.
I also am hoping that the lack of wolf sign "last season" may pay off this year, IF, they still haven't returned.
I suspect we will be seeing some success pics soon.
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Re: Rocksteady 2019 Dear Diary
Thanks for the posts Rock.