2019 Getting Up To Speed (Pic Heavy)

[warnniklz]

I thought I kept an ongoing thread last year. Guess I didn't? So I'll do a quick synopsis of last year.

I usually plan a week of holidays before or after May Long Weekend depending on which week burns less holidays. But 2018 May Long was a busy one. We started off with a bachelor party at Crooked Lake (Crooked Dick as my buddy put it). I was always taught don't take candies from strangers... well I learned don't take candies from your friends...

"I NEVER MADE A DEAL WITH PUNJABI CLUB"... Star Wars reference...
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After recovering from the bachelor party... we made a trip to "Dugan" Lake or Super Secret Lake... for some trout fishing and black bear hunting. I never did find the bear I wanted, but C-Man wasn't so picky...
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I had to leave bear/fishing camp early to head down to Kamloops for a softball tournament... I never did shoot a bear last year

[warnniklz]

I have had a nagging feeling about the spot I started hunting mountain goats near Shitters... um, Smithers. But I like applying up "Dink Mountain" for reasons unknown... My buddy C-Man wanted to apply for goats. What better way to start someone out mountain hunting than where I started. Sure enough he got the draw.

Just like me when I started, he didn't really have the gear the first year mountain hunting. He had an Eberlestock Team Elk Pack... so he couldn't really fit everything in his pack. I figured we'd go minimalist as the hike in was not far. If we needed to get more gear, it wouldn't be a big deal. It was early August and everyone said "it'll be so hot, why would you go then?"

Had a cheap Outbound Tarp for cover. I slept on one of those foil window reflectors for a sleeping pad and brought just my sleeping bag liner...
C-Man had a small Kelty +10 sleeping bag and my thermarest sleeping pad.

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We got to Shitters (there's an outhouse at the trailhead... shitters... smithers... I love smithers but it's a play on words)
We pull up to the trail head in the dark. Still could find it after 6 years. We slept in the truck... well waited for daylight in the truck. Got our gear sorted one more time. C-Man chugged a pilsner and we were off. C-Man immediately regretted chugging the beer.

Got up to camp and set up. Went for a little glassing session, spotted a good billy. C-Man hated it when I told him it was too late in the day to go after him. We spent 2 nights in the cold ass wind freezing. Never did get a goat, after the second night C-Man wanted to head to Rip Bum to go fishing with his dad. We didn't touch shit, so we went out to Rupert and went halibut fishing... caught my first halibut so that was cool.

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[warnniklz]

Somebody put someone's LEHs in wrong and ended up with a goat draw near Terrace, but a place I wasn't overly familiar with, but confident we'd find goats.
My dad put my step mom in for goats in a spot that was pretty rugged. She's not a mountain hunter. Bought newer gear so she would stay warm and comfortable... realizing right away, you gotta suffer a little to be comfortable. My dad was insistent on trying to get quads into where we were going, I told him we wouldn't get them very far. But to be fair, there is an old logging road back there, even though at the end of the day I was right. We walked along the old road quite easily that lead to a mostly dry creek bed. Took a short beef jerky break and my dad spotted goats up the valley. It was already getting late so we started heading back to camp.

Now it took us 2 days to get up to not even Terrace... along that trip, I was being grinded about how C-man only spent 1 day hunting... we spent 1 day hunting for my step-mom's goat. Then 3 day drive back to Williams Lake...

The only shitty part is that once I'm with someone that pulls a goat off the mountain I started on, I'll want to go back and get one of the goats we looked at.

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[warnniklz]

Now here's where I wanted to really get to... so my buddy Beer-Rad finally decided that he was over relying on me to feed him wild critters. I've been getting pickier and pickier with the animals I've been killing. So he went out got his CORE and PAL. Then he went out his first day ever hunting with his g-pa and got this tasty little bear
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I was a little chapped that he didn't ask me to go out for the first time. But it was his grandpa... so it's all good.

After I got back from my step-mom's goat hunt, I got a call from Beer-Rad and said he wanted to go hunting. He came down Sunday morning and I took him out a little spot that... well... by late morning I found him his first deer.
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I thought "well I want a little guy now too..." think I could find myself one? Not even a glimpse of a deer. None the less Beer-Rad had hunted 2 days and 2 critters down. I even made him cut his own first deer...
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[rocksteady]

Keep it rolling buddy..

[DeepJeep]

Love it....

[warnniklz]

I did have a doe draw last year. I made up every excuse as usual not to shoot one. Too big, too small, too old, too young, too close, too far... which lead me to late season archery.

(Not my blind... have yet to run into anyone sitting in it)
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Great shoes for archery hunting... in the early season... yeah I forgot my boots that day
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[warnniklz]

Back in April, I tried talking guys into going to do the sheep count... apparently early bear hunting was a lot more appealing. Only thing we seen was a white tail, a cow and calf moose and... .... oh yeah! My buddy got excited over a "that's a big bear!" and at the end of the day it was a burnt stump...

My brother likes his sammiches... I on the other hand don't like mustard and am too damn picky when it comes to mayo
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C-Man likes his lumberjacks
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Region 5 White Tail
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This spot, C-Man was a little worried to drive through in his "new to him" Tundra. He says he doesn't like driving through water... but...
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It barely came up to his tires hubs... Later that night he went wheelin and swamped his truck and had to do and engine swap.

[warnniklz]

It was April 19th before I even went back out again. My step nephew Brickles decided May Long Weekend was a good weekend to have a wedding. Most of us that go bear hunting/fishing May Long weekend were in the wedding party... not cool Brickles. So my plan was to hammer the same spot for bears any chance I got and get it really dialed in.

Like I said, April 19th me and my brother went out, knowingly very well it was to check on "Dugan" Lake or Super Secret Lake more than anything. We did see a bull moose standing in a swamp. We also regretted not bringing ice fishing gear...

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[warnniklz]

It wasn't until May 3rd that I spotted my first bear. Took a little toodle somewhere that wasn't "Dugan" Lake... He was a good bear, but can't shoot the first bear you see in region 5... even though I had my bow in hand with an arrow knocked when I took this picture
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Seen this bear the same evening. He was in with a bunch of deer, neither cared one lick about each other. Nice to have a fence post to make judgement that much easier...
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[warnniklz]

So May 5th Beer-Rad (I don't know why he keeps asking me to hunt Sundays... but...) and myself decided we'd see if "Dugan" lake had ice on it or not. When we pulled up, I was excited there was no ice... except on the section of lake I wanted to fish...
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After not being able to fish my "spot" we decided that maybe we could burn Beer-Rad's bear tag...

[srupp]

Hmmmm great read..manhas Lance ever grown tall !
thanks Warren
srupp

[HarryToolips]

Great thread so far...

[warnniklz]

On the way out, I took Beer-Rad down a little super secret spot I like for bears. We stalked one but it only gave him an ass shot before it took off. Then on the way out came across this chocolately goodness.

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Beer-Rad had now been out hunting 3 days and has 3 critters...

Beer-Rad was driving on the way out, my plan all spring was to finally kill something with my bow. What gives you more opportunity than spring bear season. Well coming around the corner, here's a huge black bear on the road. I say bear and reach for the rifle instead of my bow... I wanted this bear. Beer-Rad had his bear... why would he stop for a bear? Oh well I didn't get that bear, I have another friend that doesn't like to stop for my bears either...

[warnniklz]

Got out for a lot for spring bears, only really seeing one other bear that I really wanted. I can't figure out how to cheat the system and post videos from FB on here. I usually spend time mixing up locations and only hunting this particular area during a week around May Long. But this year I decided to see if I could get the area dialed in. Seen a total of 48 black bears while out bear hunting this year.

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Even seen more than one moose
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Caught some fish
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[warnniklz]

Caught some mosquito bites
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Some sunsets
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Caught some hail storms... Oh I Miss The Misery... (Halestorm reference)
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Spent time with this farty *******
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[warnniklz]

Bonus picture (I know I've posted it before) baby sand hill crane. Dinosaurs are real
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[warnniklz]

So last day of spring bear season, went out for a cruise after work. Packing the rifle... cruising my area, a bear cuts across the road in front of me. Not the bear I want, but it's the last day... so I grab my rifle and head in to the clearing the bear went in. I heard a couple branches snap but couldn't see anything. I started to wail on my deer call. I think most people know the sound of a bear running away through the woods... well it was that sound but getting closer real quick. I pulled up my rifle to get ready. As the bear came into view I squeezed the trigger. All in the smallest split second I thought hang fire? Didn't hear the firing pin? I know it's loaded... then I flicked the safety. I hit the bear, it spun in circles and went into a little hollow where it came from. Now the worst part of all hunting for me. Walking up to a dead bear... no matter how dead it is. Plus I didn't see exactly where it went. It was a short track with no extra excitement.

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It was not fun trying to pack this thing out without quartering it or anything like that. Was basically rollie pollie through the burn and mosquitoes.

So far went with simple slow cooked bbq bear shank. Just added all the ingredients of bbq sauce with the meat.
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Hammered shaggy manes already this fall and made bear wellington (I know, shouldn't eat rare bear... I'll pay for it later. I won't serve other people rare bear, only myself, even burnt the pastry trying to get it more well done)
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[warnniklz]

Went from counting bears to counting ounces, calories and days...

Salmon fishing also wasn't too bad.

Beer-Radimus got his first spring (don't bug him about the way he holds fish... just got him to hold trout properly)
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[warnniklz]

Some people are proud of their bird dogs... well my step mom has a salmon dog...

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My brother blew his rod up on a good fish (seen tended to by... the man with the moon?)
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My brother with a jack
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My step-nephew getting in on the action
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[warnniklz]

Went from counting bears to counting ounces, calories and days...

Oh yeah did I mention, myself, C-Man, My brother and Beer-Radimus got our sheep draws for up north. Without dragging it out, Beer-Radimus dropped out early, which was nice instead of cancelling at the last minute. I had an idea of where I wanted to go.

There was 'Lake A' which is not a secret, we could set up a pretty good base, hike 4-8 hours (one guy says he did it in 4 with his 5 year old, another guy says him and his buddy slugged away all day... I don't really know) to sheep country. There's for sure sheep there, but everyone knows that and there would be some competition.

There was also 'Lake B' which puts you right in sheep country and everyone knows that. So we knew it would be busy as shit. None the less C-Man started in talks to book a plane with Alpine Lakes air. Now I knew we would be limited on weight, I run 6'2" and 210-215lbs... C-man was at 6' maybe 6'1" and running 220... then my brother... 6'9" 250lbs. Just in bodies alone we're at 680lbs...

C-man came back to the group and said there was 'Lake C'. I didn't think of Lake C because I thought the guides had an exclusive on it. Start doing research on Lake C. Don't find much info on Lake C. No info means the usual, it's a Serengeti, there's nothing there or no one ever goes there. The info I did find on Lake C was "seen some goats and caribou, fishing is good too". C-man talked to someone who apparently guided in there 10 years ago or so...

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Gave my little cousin a ride in my backpack, he was scared to go in at first, but after he was in there he didn't want out.
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[DeepJeep]

Nice pics. Keep them coming

[warnniklz]

C-man talked to someone who apparently guided in there 10 years ago or so...


Info from 10 years ago is a long time in hunting terms. We did all agree on Lake C because how little info there was. Hunting an area to ourselves sounded better than racing other guys for critters.

We all started cutting weight. My goal was 200lbs, C-man's was 200lbs and my brothers was... I don't really know... he can't afford to lose much weight in the first place. But we wanted to get into the lake in 1 trip, and 2 if needed. At the last minute we came to the reality that we would need 2 trips in.

I was trying to monitor C-man's and my brothers gear and food. C-man went on a weekend trip up a nice little hill and my brother has done some rock climbing, but no back country expeditions. Once we agreed to a second plane, the other two kept saying things like "oh maybe I'll pack (insert piece of bullshit gear here)"

I felt like drop kicking most of their stuff out of their hands so they wouldn't bring it. It didn't come to that and they did leave behind most un-necessary gear.

Here's what food idea looked like
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Here's reality of one day food (less mountain house and beef jerky)
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We did score a deal at the health foods store in town. They had case lots of mountain house tins on sale. We each grabbed a case of MH tins and divided them evenly.

[warnniklz]

July 29th rolled around, I snuck away from work at 2 that day. We were already loaded and made it to Shitters for the night. Along the way we found the fake Dee Dub in Prince George
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The 30th we met up with the real Dee Dub so C-man could grab the rest of his gear
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Forget what time we got to Tatogga at. We got ourselves a room, went down and finalized plans with the pilot, had something to eat and then went through gear one last time.


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[warnniklz]

The next morning we woke to light rain and fog. Wandered down around 8:30 and talked to the pilot. He told us to grab breakfast and then check back in a hour. A hour later we were told to check back at 1. The boss man was flying through the area and would let our pilot know what our "Lake C" was looking like.
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The boss finally landed and said our area was good to go. We helped a German family get their gear loaded up as they were doing a river raft trip down some river.
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After they took off, it was time for us to load up and load out.

[Hombre]

The next morning we woke to light rain and fog. Wandered down around 8:30 and talked to the pilot. He told us to grab breakfast and then check back in a hour. A hour later we were told to check back at 1. The boss man was flying through the area and would let our pilot know what our "Lake C" was looking like.
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The boss finally landed and said our area was good to go. We helped a German family get their gear loaded up as they were doing a river raft trip down some river.
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After they took off, it was time for us to load up and load out.
The people on the far left and right of the pic are Eric and his wife Pat volunteer hosts for August at Coldfish Lake.

[warnniklz]

The people on the far left and right of the pic are Eric and his wife Pat volunteer hosts for August at Coldfish Lake.

Yes they are... they aren't the German family we helped with gear. They were just hanging out until it was their turn to fly out.

[warnniklz]

With no info on the lake we were going to, it was good old classic google earth. The guide from 10 years ago that C-man talked to said it was good to the south east end of the lake. Google earth told me there was a big valley to the south west with other multiple valleys running off each side of it. C-man wanted to go where somebody got a sheep 10+ years ago, I wanted to go to a spot where we can set up a main camp in a main valley and then spike out to all the different valleys.

So myself and C-man flew in the first trip in case we both saw something that looked good. We hit a little rain but landed with some nice weather. Myself and C-man started re-organizing gear while we waited for my brother. Our plan was to leave some extra gear (salt and mountain house tins, extra clothes) at the landing spot. Within a couple hours, the plane was back with my brother and some rain.
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We didn't get dropped off where I wanted, but started up a "trail"... I think it was just where the bears come down to the lake. Anyways, we were stringing up our extra gear in a tree just up a trail. My brother right away said "there's a goat". C-man got my brother to talk him into the goat. The "goat" was a B&C rock, but C-man did spot an actual goat close to the rock. We're 20 minutes from my brother touching down on the lake and we threw our(I guess selfishly my) plan out the window.

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[warnniklz]

We ended up going the opposite direction of where I wanted to go. But we found a place to camp. Turns out a kelty 3 man 7 pound(I didn't have to pack it) $200 tent can fit 3 of us... mostly comfortably. Did we set it up and test it before we went? No... did I have my MSR 2 man back with the other gear close to the lake? yeah. Only thing I didn't like about is it was bright green on the inside. Even though it was past shooting light outside, it was bright as shit inside the tent.
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We piled in the tent for the night and watched some Eater... Meateater... The next morning C-man was the first one out of the tent to pee...

[warnniklz]

The fog had rolled in, but C-man spotted a goat.
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With the fog rolling in and out, the goat laying down, we spent most of the day watching it. We were trying to figure ways to get it to stand up to have a look. At the same time we didn't want to scare it away. So first idea was "we've seen moose in the area already, give it a moose call". C-man let out a classy cow moose call and the goat barely flinched. I stood up and yelled "hey f*ckhead! Stand up!" The fog rolled in, I could barely see the goat stand up, do a 360 and lay back down. There was another break in the fog, my brother made a Comanche war cry and the goat kind of lifted it's head.

It was enough for me to know it's not a goat we should be wasting time on. But I got 2 rookies with me...
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#sitkaathlete
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[warnniklz]

My brother told me that when he gets back to town, he'd basically be working straight through to Christmas and he wanted that goat. I told him he's not shooting that goat.

C-man asked me what I thought of the goat. I told him "you have a goat draw for dink mountain, the chances of getting a better goat than that is 1000% better" He went on and used Meateater against me saying "Papa Janis says 'don't pass on something you'd be happy with on the last day'" and other things about "I don't need my first goat to be huge". This wasn't going well for me. I was able to get my brother to stand down.

The fog lifted, the goat stood up, C-man baptized his new 270wsm. Nothing I could do now. The goat took a really good tumble.
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C-man walked up to the goat and immediately regretted his decision. I think he went through all the emotions. The joy of getting his first mountain goat, but the sadness of it not being the goat he would have liked, the disappointment of it blowing it's headgear all to hell. The excitement of getting to try goat meat.

What was done was done. Showed C-man how to do the gutless method, cape out an animal. Guess it was a learning experience for all.
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I'm not a fan of liver or kidney... but...
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We discovered that we didn't bring any seasoning. Other than salt for hides. We ate a lot of goat meat that week with salt and mountain blue berries. We got some of the goat up in a tree and the rest we were packing with us to add to our house.

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I didn't want to keep going to the east, so we broke camp and headed west.

[monasheemountainman]

was that pic of the big meat thing over the fire, what rinella and remi warren did with that elk in alaska? a bunch of cut up meat and organs wrapped in the cal fat? if so I really want to try it, looks awesome! awesome story so far!

[warnniklz]

was that pic of the big meat thing over the fire, what rinella and remi warren did with that elk in alaska? a bunch of cut up meat and organs wrapped in the cal fat? if so I really want to try it, looks awesome! awesome story so far!

yes it is... kind of fell apart on us after we cut into it. We didn't have red wine or cumin, we also didn't use lung either.

But what was left over, we did sort of a Mr. Noodle hot pot with the rest. Not sure if it was the kidney or liver, but one of them tasted like canned smoked oysters when boiled in the Mr. Noodle broth. Also added some puff ball mushrooms to it... which didn't turn out so well. Tofu texture... barf.

[DeepJeep]

Good story telling. Congrats to your brother!

[monasheemountainman]

yes it is... kind of fell apart on us after we cut into it. We didn't have red wine or cumin, we also didn't use lung either.

But what was left over, we did sort of a Mr. Noodle hot pot with the rest. Not sure if it was the kidney or liver, but one of them tasted like canned smoked oysters when boiled in the Mr. Noodle broth. Also added some puff ball mushrooms to it... which didn't turn out so well. Tofu texture... barf.

yeah with some proper spices I could see that being an epic meal. still nice work on trying it

[warnniklz]

So we moved from camp 1 westward to camp 2. Along the way we had intermittent showers. My brother's siltarp came in handy. It would pour for 5 minutes then the sun would come back out. We had setting up cover down to a science.
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We camp 2 set up and spent the evening glassing the far side of the lake. We did see a cow caribou come up and over the top
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The next day we made the march up the hill to go check out what we thought/hopped was a plateau. On the way up we kept coming across little hollows and areas we couldn't really see too well. So we slowly climbed to the sop stopping often to glass and make sure there wasn't any pockets of sheep hiding somewhere. I did find a cool piece of obsidian... someone must have got it at the gift shop and lost it on their hike?
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We watched this basin all day. Like all day. We figured sheep could be bedded down in the rock field below us maybe? Maybe they were on the other side of the mountain and maybe would move over at some point. We never did see anything except across the valley. The sun was going down and the light caught a cow and calf caribou bedded just right. It was easier to see the sun glistening off of them with the naked eye 5 kilometers away than it was to glass them up with the spotting scope.

Caribou tracks for days...
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I don't know where he idea came from, but it was decided we would pack up camp and head back east past camp one to set up camp 3. It was a whole day full ruck side hilling one way. At one point my brother and C-man wanted to set up camp. I told them to take a look at where they were setting up. It was in a perfect funnel. If a bear was coming up from the valley, it would be directed right onto camp. If we got a down pour, water would be draining right through camp. So we pushed on a little further. Camp 3 wasn't in a terrible spot for camping, but I didn't like it for hunting. Mind you we did have a young caribou come in 100 yards behind camp.

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The next day was basically a day off. My brother made some repairs to his pack.
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We also went up and around the corner to do some looking. C-man kept wanting to see what's around the next corner. I like his gumption, but we've spent a lot of time moving camp. We're like a dog doing circles in their bed before laying down. We weren't in a good glassing spot, we'd have to keep hiking before we could do any looking. We went on an evening glass up around the corner. My brother did glass up a big ass g-bear in the valley bottom (couldn't get a good picture of it through the spotter). But he was walking through a clearing, there was a lone spruce tree in the clearing the bear was walking towards. Instead of going around, the bear just walked over it.

[warnniklz]

That night we discussed plans. I wanted to go back to our original plan of going and setting up shop in the main valley and spike out the branching valleys.

C-man thought if we just got to look around the corner, it would lead to another basin. Plus we wouldn't have to back track. Plus if we got to the valley bottom, we could cover ground quickly. (I must note that we were way above the valley bottom and the valley bottom was swampland)

Thinking with there being 3 of us, a vote would solve it. My brother came in with a diplomatic answer that translated to 'I'm good to go either way'

So it came to a coin toss. We found a toonie, if it came up bears, we would go valley bottom where the bear was... if it came up the old goat, we'd go back where I wanted to go. Sure enough it came up bears.

I still insisted it was a bad idea. I even wanted to pull the mountain seniority card on the other two. But it was all of our hunt and we let fate decide. The plan was to grab enough food for the day and empty packs to cover ground. Then we would go for a short 6 hour hike just to see. C-man lead the way and basically went crashing through the thick ass trees straight down the mountain. I knew right away that we wouldn't be coming up this way.

This is the mountain we came off of.
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C-man was right about it turning into a bowl
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I will admit it looked pretty good to me. Since we couldn't go back the way we came, we would just have to keep pushing on. We found lakes with trout in it, we were even going to swim in the one, but decided to have a look at another lake first. I did happen to stumble upon this goat horn (i really should measure it)
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It was getting later in the day and we were getting further away from camp. We started going up and up some more and then up even more.
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[monasheemountainman]

Epic thread beauty pics

[warnniklz]

It was getting later in the day, rain clouds were moving in and it was windy now. We were almost full summit when I spotted a caribou below us. We all sat down and I started yelling "doo-doo-doo-doo-doo" I wish I could post the video so the sound was right. But the caribou came within 40ish yards. C-man or my brother say it in the video. But once it caught wind and realized we weren't other bouskis it made some serious ground headed down the mountain.

We carried on and went up and over to come over in the basin we glassed for a whole day. There was a good billy out on a flat. My brother said "I'm going after that goat"

Now I like his gumption and it was indeed a very good goat. We were limited on daylight. He would have to cross a 300m wide shale slide that ran to the bottom probably 500 feet down, just to get to the flat outcrop the goat was on. I told him to hold off and we'll watch him until dark as we were camping up here no matter what. The goat ended up going vertical and bedding on the ridge top until just before dark then made it's way down the ridge and off to another valley. So even if my brother did go after the goat, he wouldn't have got it. My brother was pissed at me first for not going after it, but once he realized the goat would have been gone before even getting close to him, he calmed down a little.

we ended up setting up a cowboy camp. It was cold and windy that night. If I wore my rain gear to keep the wind off, I'd sweat then get cold... if I didn't wear my rain gear, the wind would hammer me and I'd get cold.
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The next morning was a rough one. We stayed and glassed to see if the goat would show up again. Or maybe because we were wiped. We spotted another camp in another valley(one I wanted to go up in) couple more goats and some caribou. It was late morning before we headed back towards camp. On the way back we made a run down to the lake to grab some more food. By the end of the day we had made it back to camp 3, completing the full circle of the mountain.

[warnniklz]

We spent the next few days hunting from camp 3. Before our last day we moved back to camp 1. The feeling of "I don't want to leave yet, I haven't even hunted yet" started to sink in. Woke me up in the middle of the night. I got out of the tent and there was an awesome dry lighting show going on. But at the same time, I heard a crash that I thought was thunder... nope, just big ass rocks rolling close to camp.

The next morning we had to be at the lake as our ride was suppose to be showing up at 9ish. It was pretty foggy out and it didn't look like we were leaving that day. None the less our pilot found us after missing the lake once or twice. We figured that we could probably get out in one plane. We did have less food by now. We loaded up and the pilot went screaming down the lake and it wasn't happening. He figured that it wasn't that we were too heavy, just we needed to take gear out of the tail and put it in the floats.

After gear was re-adjusted, we hauled ass down the lake again. No go... The pilot figured we could make it out the other direction and wouldn't have a tailwind. We spun around on the lake and throttled up. We were pointed towards the end of the valley. The pilot was trying to bounce his floats off the water. We were running out of lake and the pilot was talking nice and calm, not even looking at the throttle. All of a sudden we were off, maybe 50 feet above the trees at the end of the lake. The pilot was tipping his wings side to side trying to grab altitude before banking left and turning back towards the direction we needed to go.

We made it back to the lodge, got all our gear sorted and headed straight in for burgers and beer.

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[whognu]

we're like a dog doing circles in their bed before lying down..........

classic


great adventure; thank you very much for taking the time to write and post all the pix

chris

[Ferenc]

Huntin in style ..... Awesome !!!!!

[warnniklz]

When we got back for burgers and beer, John was out and there was other... Tahltan people working there... that had been into the burgers and beer already... well maybe not the burgers.

Anyways, I use to really dislike the movie Training Day because how could that much happen in one day? well...

We started out with C-man trying to find smokes, my brother coppenhagen and the resort manager needing buns. So the 2 Tahltan people escorted us to a store in Iskut to grab said buns and nicotine products for C-man and my brother. They stopped by their place and grabbed some beer, we headed back to the resort to dry gear out. We were hanging out with the Tahltan people at the cabins, joking, making fun of each other, having some drinks. I snuck away, 6 beer after a month of no liquor and being dehydrated... I needed a nap.

My brother and C-man went looking for other legal products to be overcharged for. They got back to Iskut and found out that the two people we were hanging out with, we shouldn't be hanging out with. So my brother and C-man rushed back to the resort knowing I was alone passed out around a couple of people that shouldn't be trusted. By the time they got back I was up and about but the two we were hanging out with had disappeared. They told me the story and I guess it got pretty intense up in Iskut. I don't know, I wasn't there or they could have been funking with me.

So we head back up to the lodge for something to eat. John had fresh salmon burgers and erdzinger beer on the menu. Sounded good enough to us. We got to talking to some other guy at the table next to us. He as in a Catholic Priest in 6 different countries and knew 8 languages. The dude he was with was from Italy and hooked us up with a bottle of red wine. I don't like red wine... but this shit was legit! The Italian guy seemed like a good dude, red wine and a hot wife... So they called it a night and went back to their rooms.

We finished ours meals and then this other lady emerged from the corner. She was telling us about how she was doing a solo road trip from Tofino to Whitehorse... The four of us hung out at the lake and told stories. Nice lady, but she threw every single offhand offer to cure loneliness... after 10 days of sleeping next to 2 dudes... I respectfully declined. Still pissed her off lol.

The next day we were up and out before any other craziness came upon us. I stretched out in the back seat of the Tacoma only to emerge for A&W in Shitters. Then back to laying down. As we pulled into Burns Lake, we could hear a bearing going. We pulled over, hub was hot and all that good stuff. We limped it to the Sunshine Inn and grabbed a room for the night. Tried to get a hold of Decker9 to see if he knew of a torch we could use, went to Woods And Water, my cousin from there helped out quite a bit. Buddy ended up grabbing parts from PG and ran them out to us.

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It was another day down, but we finally got back to Williams Lake at 1am.

[Hombre]

Awesome thread, thank you for posting. We spent 12 days up there and want to go back.
Saw your entry in the journal at Cold fish camp from a few years ago.

[warnniklz]

Awesome thread, thank you for posting. We spent 12 days up there and want to go back.
Saw your entry in the journal at Cold fish camp from a few years ago.

That journal is something else. I had seen my ex-girlfriend's dad had been in there before us and got a caribou. I was mad at her, like shit woman, let me know so I can give your dad a call and pick his brain.

[warnniklz]

Back to Beer-Radimus
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Ooops... Here he is
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Well Beer-Radimus also got a region 5 moose draw. But his hunting time would be limited on time to hunt do to work. I usually give people shit when they use work as an excuse to not go hunting (book your holidays for hunting you goof)... but in this case he has legit reason. SO with limited time, even though his draw ran through September, I ran out and put up a blind with trail cams up for Beer-Radimus

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[Stone C. Killer]

You guys are nuts! Lol

[Ourea]

Great thread. HBC needs more of this.

[Squamch]

Parking lot swapping a toyota wheel bearing is a bitch of a job, in addition to the hard hunt preceding it. Kudos.

[Rattler]

Really enjoying your thread. Thanks for taking the time to share with us...

[HarryToolips]

Awesome thread and pics, and congrats to the team on the goat...

[Getbent]

I was hoping for photo of said hotwife...thanks for the write-up man...good stuff

[warnniklz]

I was hoping for photo of said hotwife...thanks for the write-up man...good stuff


I googled it... first picture
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[warnniklz]

After I got the trail camera and blind set up for Beer-Rad, labour day rolled around. Myself and my brother still had our goat draws for the Shitters area(same area I went in 2012 and where me and C-man went in 2018). So quick pack job, boss told me to leave work early and we were off. We were pulling up to the trail head about 1 am. All of a sudden this huge blue streak went across the sky. Looked real close... well it was in universal terms. When we got back I figured it to be the QY5 Meteorite. We slept in the cab of my brother's tacoma that night. Well I waited until daylight.

The next day we were up the mountain in fairly short order. We were only going for a night or two so we didn't pack much. When we got to the "lake" we got camp set up and were off to our glassing spot.

Mine and C-man's camp form last year was still half ass set up... just meant we had seasoned firewood!
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We finally rigged up a sliding float with and empty water bottle and paracord to estimate the deepest park of this water source was 10 feet deep.
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Glassing time
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[warnniklz]

The firs day glassing the main bowl didn't offer much up... well nothing to be exact. So the second day we marched to the far end and look over the back side. The best part is we found other water sources at the far end, so now I know I can camp at the far end and not die from dehydration. We did see 4 goats way in the back end. 1 big ass nanny with this years kid. A younger goat and a young billy. Nothing we really wanted to go after, on top of that they were in a spot that was impossible for humans to get to.

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[warnniklz]

We never did get a goat that weekend, but we still have until Feb 28th to get one...

Bonus pictures
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[Knute]

Keep it rollin' man...great thread

[warnniklz]

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[warnniklz]

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Would love to get a goat with my bow... one day
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[warnniklz]

The following weekend we mixed it up. I went looking for bighorns and check the moose camera for Beer-Radimus, while my brother would go look at another spot for bighorns...

Pretty much a ladies weekend for sheeps
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I on the other hand realized my super secret spot was only a secret spot... but it looked promising
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I also got 2 moose in one video... and a bunch of cattle
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[warnniklz]

The next few weekends were a little quiet. My brother and C-man went out and did well on grouse one day
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They got C-man's Tundra stuck and look what they used to get out (look at the front wheel)
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They even helped their buddy Tea Sea get a decent little 4 point... C-man said it was easy 180/170 when he first told me about it. Then I seen the pictures and asked maybe 150? Nice deer none the less
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Only thing I really seen on my outings was this shitty buck... literally inside of 50 yards from SRUPP's front door
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[warnniklz]

I got a call from Beer-Radimus saying he'd be flying back from Vancouver on the 27th, wanted to go for his moose on the 28th and would have to fly back to Vancouver on the 29th. Well shit, can't say no to that. 27th rolls around, Beer-Radimus is suppose to be in town around 9pm. Get a call, "I won't make it, I forgot my wallet on the plane and it has all my tags in it".

I told Beer-Radimus (can I just shorten this to B-Rad?) to maybe give the airline a facebook message, twitter message and/or instagram message to maybe expedite the process. No luck. B-Rad wasn't going to get to go for his moose.

Oh wait! He did get out for 2 or 3 days with his G-Pa, but got skunked. Seen a spiker but didn't feel comfortable with the shot and let it walk. So he finally got days in the field without getting anything.

So B-Rad and I weren't going to be able to go for his moose. I figured I could get up early and burn to bighorn country. I was up early and looked at my gear. I thought "what if B-Rad does get his wallet back and wants to go? Then I'm not in cell service and don't get his message?"

So I started in on some early morning video games. About 10:00am rolled around... well... here's how it went
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I think we were in the bush by 2ish. Within the first 3 kilometers in I was sweatin because we hadn't seen anything yet. It was a furious hunt. We walked some clearings and wasn't seeing much. Crossed some guys coming out with campers and pulling side by sides. Hunters for sure. Don't know why they had campers back where they were, no real good places to camp unless you want to camp right in the middle of the spot you should hunt... never a good idea folks, I see it all the time. Frigs everything up.

Down the road I told B-Rad that I'm going to burn over the hill and go and do some calling in a little swamp I know about. He was to stay on the road where he would come to a clearing with a swamp in it, park there and just kind of toodle around there for an hour, then I would come get him. I get in to my little swamp, do some calling, wind is good, but nothing happening. Time to go get B-Rad.

I had to circle the swamp, all of a sudden I hear a loud stick break and catch movement.

[warnniklz]

I had to circle the swamp, all of a sudden I hear a loud stick break and catch movement.

If you follow along on the grammar... instagrammar, you'll have the behind the scenes and know what happens

But the movement I caught was B-Rad coming through the trees. Not where he was suppose to be, how did he know I was here? He parked at the wrong spot and just followed the marsh leading him to me. He had only seen a grouse. We went and took a look at another swamp to see if anyone was home. No luck. Now we had to make a decision. We were running out of time. Do we go to the area B-Rad was suppose to park and look for moose, or do we haul ass over the mountain and go check the area around my trail cam?

I knew I had a moose on my trail cam... so that looked promising. So up and over that direction was the plan. We took a little detour to check out another area. More trucks and quads burning around... I gotta check how many moose tags were issued in this area again. A little early to be looking for 4 points in this area, but I guess if you don't look you don't know.

So ditch the detour idea and keep hauling up and over the mountain. We came across another side by side with a couple nice looking ladies in it, they didn't stop for us :-( . Kind of losing focus, we got on the subject of silent farts. We were trying to come up with as many different silent fart sounds as we could. All of a sudden I spotted a cow moose standing in a burn.

"there's a moose" I said. Then I spotted the bull with it. "There's your bull"

[warnniklz]

"there's a moose" I said. Then I spotted the bull with it. "There's your bull"

B-Rad is very cautious when it comes to touching the trigger. On his deer I swear he lined up for a minute before touching off. On his bear it was several long seconds before he put a round down range. Now I approve of his actions on making sure he's comfortable with a shot, better to let something walk un-touched than taking a marginal shot. But we had one afternoon to make this happen, here was his opportunity and B-Rad was taking his sweet ass time to get in position.

In other words, I was getting buck fever while B-Rad was calm and collected.

The bull turned and brad touched off a shot quartering away from him. I lost sight of the bull for a second as the cow ran between us and the bull. I caught sight of the bull again and it was if someone stuck a faucet it in him and turned it on. The bull was hit hard. The bull tried to follow the cow but then ended up laying down. We gave it some time and then I lead the way in. I gave my 30_06 to B-Rad and took my 300 back. If the bull got up, I wanted to make sure to sit him back down right quick. The bull wasn't going anywhere but, B-Rad did finish the job.

Me and B-Rad had now spent 3 days hunting together and B-Rad has taken home a critter every time. Luckily we still had some daylight to get to work.

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[warnniklz]

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I got going on dressing out the moose. It's B-Rad's moose and he should learn... but we had to get this moose through a burn. I also like clean meat... Easiest way is to open up the chest and pelvis so you don't have to cut so much by feel. Also good for people like B-Rad that like to hack and saw with a knife.

I like to open up my critters from nuts to the bottom of the rib cage, less opening to get dirt in, especially if you're dragging it. I got him gutted, heart, caul fat, kidney not left behind. Got him positioned towards the road. It was only a 100 or so yards through the burn to the road, then we could drive up to it. Well we made it maybe 15 yards, B-Rad was gassed. Shit, he's way bigger and stronger than me... but to be fair, I've crushed a mountain or two so far this year.

I went up the 3rd rib and halfed the moose with my knife... I always thought those pocket sized bone saws were dumb... I wanted one now. Got him halfed and we leap frogged the two halfs back to the road. Just before dark we had the moose in the back of the truck and on the way to town.

We took it to a friend's house in town to hang. My place off a 4 story balcony wouldn't work... We got him all skinned out. As is tradition, me and B-Rad took a raw chunk and cheersed it. Also... the fat behind the eye does taste like pizza dough, just doesn't have that carbonated fuzzy sensation.

[srupp]

Hmmmmm that buck has lived in our hood from birth..slept in back yard beside us..been eating crabapples next door..

Watch him from front door..and porch in the back..

Srupp

[warnniklz]

Hmmmmm that buck has lived in our hood from birth..slept in back yard beside us..been eating crabapples next door..

Watch him from front door..and porch in the back..

Srupp

I think he wanders up to my grandma's house whenever I stop there after a day of not seeing anything hunting just to remind me what's up.

[warnniklz]

We were to meet our buddy to have the moose cut up the next morning

Our buddy
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Luckily I did a lot of the gutting and skinning...

B-Rad had 340 pounds of gluten free moose on the hook
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Oh yeah.. luckily I did most of the gutting and skinning because I HATE wrapping. I enjoy everything about hunting, except the actual wrapping part. So B-Rad got to wrap his own god damn moose. It also gave me a chance to sneak a pack of steaks without him looking.

We were all squared away by noonish and B-Rad had to burn back to Quesnel before 6 or whatever to fly back out to Vancouver.

[Quesnel Kid]

Lucky hunter or a good guide.....good read. Thanks for posting.

[warnniklz]

Lucky hunter or a good guide.....good read. Thanks for posting.

As you know I'm not the fastest or most agile in the mountains... but I'll go.

Leaving for Dink Mountain on Friday afternoon...

[DeepJeep]

Good read so far bud. Keep it going and good luck

[Salty]

As per usual great stuff niklz 8) Hope the weather gods are good to you on Dink Mountain. lmao love that name

[warnniklz]

I hope the weather gods are terrible... not my goat draw. I'm just a sherpa... a certain Sherpa was even smart enough to head south... but yeah I hope weather is terrible, good weather and big goats don't go hand in hand

[180grainer]

Great thread.

[srupp]

Great thread Warren..very enjoyable reading, photos..successful too.
good luck be safe
Yes that buck does wander down to your Grandmas too.
Cheers
Steven

[HarryToolips]

Great thread congrats to you and B Rad on the moose..

[nature girl]

Really liked all your hunting adventures with friends. Thanks for posting up the hunts and the great pics.

[decker9]

I hope the weather gods are terrible... not my goat draw. I'm just a sherpa... a certain Sherpa was even smart enough to head south... but yeah I hope weather is terrible, good weather and big goats don't go hand in hand

That last sentence nails it hahaha, great thread here bud! Keep up the good work, and good luck on the goat’n!! Can’t wait to see what you guys turn up!

[rocksteady]

You bugger.. your thread kicks my daily diaries ass with all of the pics... but quite happy to be in second place.. thus is a great picture/verbal story of your year

[srupp]

Hmmm really no surprise to see Warren /Lance do so well yet again...they come from hunting heritage..their Father is still a kick ass hard core hunter...very knowledgable..and raisefd his sons in the outdoors..fishing..hunting woodswise..as was their Grandpa..Ed..who taught me also lots of outdoors skills knowledge..salmon fishing the Bella Coola, Atnarko..mushroom picking..places to find color phased black bears..etc

Additionally these men have their priorities in order..not so interested in the next $$$$..but living a full productive enjoyable life...and when you do what you love..you tend to excell...as another years photos demonstrate..
Im not a betting man..however if I was I would not give this winters goats much chances against these two.
Good luck guys.
Cheers
Srupp

[Boner]

Great thread, thanks for sharing.

[Redthies]

Hmmm really no surprise to see Warren /Lance do so well yet again...they come from hunting heritage..their Father is still a kick ass hard core hunter...very knowledgable..and raisefd his sons in the outdoors..fishing..hunting woodswise..as was their Grandpa..Ed..who taught me also lots of outdoors skills knowledge..salmon fishing the Bella Coola, Atnarko..mushroom picking..places to find color phased black bears..etc

Additionally these men have their priorities in order..not so interested in the next $$$$..but living a full productive enjoyable life...and when you do what you love..you tend to excell...as another years photos demonstrate..
Im not a betting man..however if I was I would not give this winters goats much chances against these two.
Good luck guys.
Cheers
Srupp

Nice way to grow up. Unfortunately my father was a lawyer who liked golf. I’ve had to try to figure this all out on my own, and started hunting in my late 40s. Luckily I at least spent my younger years mountaineering and climbing, so I have tons of bush time. I seem to be able to find animals, just nothing legal so far...

Its nice to see some success stories here!

[warnniklz]

So Friday the 11th rolled around. Everyone at worked rolled out early... except me. I got to leave half hour early. Then it was off to Mrs. Dikes for supper with the step mother. I wanted to get going and inhaled my wings. Made up a playlist to jam on the drive up. Got some Crue, Leppard, Maiden, Metallic, Ozzy/Sabbath, Meatloaf in there and I had to toss in some of my favourite bands like Linkin Park, Godsmack, Mudvayne, Trivium, Black Label Society. Plus some other classics like Boston, Kansas, Trooper, Loverboy and some other stuff like Airbourne, WASP, Wheeler Walker Jr, Baroness, Gojira, Steel Panther, Alter Bridge... I think my dad was enjoying his old days, plus experiencing some stuff that he doesn't really give a chance. I think my step mom keeps him with... well I dunno, probably stuff he pretends to enjoy to like because she likes it? I think that's what dudes are suppose to do with women, pretend to enjoy stuff they don't actually enjoy? I dunno... The only part I realized I screwed up is he doesn't like covers, even though every cover of PhilCollins is a better version of Phil Collins. Oh well... We were on the road and decided to have a nap on the side of the road just before Hazelton.

The next morning we carried on and made the short drive to our spot to find out there was now a locked gate on the road in to where we wanted to camp. We spent the rest of the day figuring out where it would be best to camp. Sadly the closest best spot was outside of the goat zone.
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The next morning I was ready to rock and roll... to find out that my dad still had a day to wait before his goat tag was legit. There was some discussion about that while we spent the day just glassing up goats.

Argument 1 - The tag was bought 8 hours away from the hunting location, argument 1 doesn't play the factor

Argument 2 - I get why you have to wait the 2 days, stops people from spotting a goat while hunting something else, burning to town, buying a goat tag and then probably get on the goat the next morning.

Argument 2B - You know you're going on a goat hunt... friggin get your tag

None the less, the first day would have been spent glassing up goats to see what's where.
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[warnniklz]

It was foggy as it always was, so our plan the night before we could actually touch the trigger on something was to wander into dink mountain and wait. We woke up to a clear sky and decided to wait for daylight to glass it up before crashing. We spotted a nanny and a kid bedded down low, but from our angle there was a lot of the mountain we couldn't see.

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After seeing what we say, we decided to stick with the plan and hike in. I swear this trail grows in every year. Bushwhacking into goat country isn't often documented visually... so I went for it. You aren't goat hunting if you don't have thorn in your corn...
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Love the camo... white sweat pants are perfect for goat hunting... looks like other goat legs. (I think the newest part of his kit was his pack)

[warnniklz]

I usually get to this spot and say "**** it!" and then stop clearing trail and just plow through
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We got to a good looking spot. We were inside of a hundred yards of the bedded nanny and kid. They didn't seem to have a care in the world. Especially on a blue bird day. Even on blue bird days, this spot is notorious for holding fog. Back to the goats, we were glassing up some other goats, I felt it get just a little bit warmer and a breeze popped up. I mean the thermals went from blowing down the mountain to up the hill. She went from bedded to hauling ass up the mountain.

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[warnniklz]

I don't know how the topic came about, but I realized that my dad has yet to see the gorge... so we had to wander over so he knew what we had to avoid if we ended up coming down in the fog or dark... or the fog at night... oh the memories.

Looking up
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Looking down
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One day I'll get a picture that actually gives it perspective and scale.

From there we did a little glassing across the valley and spotted a bunch of goats. Nothing studly, but some decent looking goats. We discussed imaginary was of getting over there, zip lines, gondolas, squirrel suits... the usual
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The other goats in the area we were glassing up (more nannies and kids) busted out of the area, these ones I think finally spotted us down below and got outta compton.

[warnniklz]

After a night of watching a couple Bill Burr specials, we rose to some heavy fog. We bounced around from spot to spot trying to find a break in the fog like a steelhead fisherman trying to find a pool with fish stacking up.

We mostly focused on "The Back Channel" and I glassed up a STUUUUUUUUD on the very top. Long winter coat already (especially compared to all the other goats we were seeing), huge shoulders... just everything that said trophy without even getting a look at the headgear. We picked out what we could, and decided to go check out the "Diesel Tanks". On our way to that spot, we noticed Dink Mountain had opened up and there was a truck parked there. We stayed low to see if we could pick anyone out up on the mountain. After not seeing anyone, we headed towards the trail head. There was a couple kids Cole and his buddy Oscar doing some spotting. We sat, looked at goats, all while I tried to milk him for info without giving up any.

Asking the usual questions
"got the draw? - Yeah"
"Have you had this draw before? No"
"Know anyone that's had the draw before? No but... so and so outfitter got such and such goat from this general area" (so he knows... but doesn't)
"Have you heard of any other goats last year coming out of here? - apparently so and so outfitter was saying the nannies took a shit kicking last year" (frig)
"Have you checked out anywhere else? - No, still got time before I get serious but apparently, these people cleared a trail to this area"
"how far up? - Not sure, but pretty sure to the top"

Spent a little more time glassing, they decided to take off to the back channel. While we were still glassing up the spot together, my dad kept asking what I thought and what our plan was. In other words, my dad was asking me questions that were going to give valuable info away.

Side note: In this situation... like out deer hunting, I'll tell people everything I know about an area. Only if they're out there putting in the effort... If you ask me for help on here... show me pictures of you putting in effort, I'll PM you. But in this case, buddy seemed to have a good instinct on what he was doing. I didn't want to start showing him the pictures on my phones of the studs that have come out of "Dink Mountain"... I want him to discover it for himself... but if he's a member on here... ooops my bad.

But when the kids took off, I finally spilled my plan. If the trail was as described and if it was by who cleared it, I'm sure the trail was clear to the top. So that evening, we headed to the trail head to the lake where I took Tranquilizer to get his goat back in 2013.
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[warnniklz]

We discovered there's an actual trail head there now... I grabbed my camera and headlamp(we were already losing light) then basically ran up to the falls to see how the trail was. Then to see if there was work done on the far side of the creek. This would give us an idea of how long it would take us. As I went up the trail, my dad went and climbed into a canyon to see if he could jump anything.

The trail was marked better than I ever had it marked. No losing the trail like I've done a number of times 6 years ago while I was marking and clearing it out. They were even nice enough to cut out all the dead fall. I use to climb through it (which was usually the cause of me losing the trail) and then later went down and around it. It was looking promising if they did this much work right here.
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The trail seemed longer now and kind of went up the ridge where I took it down lower... but this is me back in 2013 before the creek crossing
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And here's me after the creek crossing in 2013
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[warnniklz]

This is the creek crossing now
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It was like a highway had been opened up. I went up part way on the other side of the creek and decided it was probably clear to the top, giving the evidence I seen down low. I made my way back just before dark and met up with my dad who hadn't seen much. Back at camp while introducing my dad to meat eater, we came to the decision to pack gear for an overnighter with the intent of making a day trip up to the lake. We also discussed whether we should be up real early to head up the mountain, or to turn off the alarm and sleep until whenever so we were well rested for the hike ahead of us. We had planned on an overnighter so if it got dark up there, no big deal.

We slept in until 6 that morning. We started off the trail. The trail before the creek is deceiving, casual walking. Mostly just slowly gaining elevation with a couple steep switchbacks. On our way up, a nice looking lady in her 40s? caught up to us with what I'm assuming were her two daughters in their late teens/early 20s... Rocking their trail shoes, leggings and small dry bags for luggage, they were on a mission to make time. They apologized for potentially ruining our hunting with their bear bells and carried on.

My dad cooling down after seeing the pretty ladies (they were too old and too young for me)
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Side Note: I always told my mother "I'll probably find my wife on a mountain somewhere" Now that reduces the odds a lot because
1 - I don't often hunt mountains where there's other people
2 - generally single women don't venture into the mountains... especially alone
But now I know there's a chance

Anyways...

We carried on and made pretty good time (not as good as the ladies, but they weren't packing gear) to the creek crossing. I got to point out to my dad the spot where I took a little drop.
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It looks bigger than I remember, also makes me think it wasn't as high as I thought... also makes me realize it could have been a lot worse for me.

[warnniklz]

Going up the other side, it's still a bitch of a trail. Slippery and vertical. It's easier now because it's cleared, marked and even have ropes in spots to haul yourself up, but **** it's a slug of a trek up the mountain.

My dad thinking "if his mother had that abortion, I wouldn't be here right now"... don't know if he was thinking that in a "this is awesome" sense or a "**** this shit" sense... his thoughts, not mine.
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We were into the snow and... fog.
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We started losing light and we still had a ways to go. The girls had even turned around before the snow line. We had to be getting close, but I wasn't exactly how sure. We stopped at the bottom of a bluff. Father took a breather while dropped my pack. I went and did a recon mission on the trail ahead. It was more straight up for a bit. Then it cut across a bunch of chopped alders. But with the wet snow, they were slick even without a pack on. Past the alders was a waterfall crossing beginning to ice up. it was a short shot from the crossing to a drop off, so one mis-step you're going over. Sketch... but that's goat hunting.

Made my way back down to my dad, told him what was ahead and we needed to make the decision now. He asked me what I thought and I told him it was his goat hunt not mine. I couldn't make this decision, I know I'd push on but it was on him if he wanted to head back... sadly that's what we did.
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To be fair, it was foggy and wet as hell. We would have made it to the lake to climb into sleeping bags for a cold night to wake up, look at the fog and then hike back down. Burning 2 days... turning back we've only burnt one, giving us more time to hit other spots.

[warnniklz]

The next day was back to scouting in pouring rain. We spent most of the day sitting in rain gear trying to pick something out through the fog. Nothing was happening, goats were either still up high or not of the caliber I know this area can produce. After spending before sunrise to late in the afternoon, I decided we should go for a drive and look at the neighbouring zone to see what the action was like. Plus my dad hadn't been that far down the road before. Even though it's a bigger area, it's less access and even gnarlier terrain than the area we were in. I managed to pick out one goat bedded down real low, but besides that it was still rain and fog. That night we had a couple hot rums while watching more eater on Netflix and discussed a plan. The STUUUUUD up top of the back channel was still on my mind. I've yet to make it to the top of the back channel. So the plan was to push a trail as far up as we could in one day. It would then tell us how realistic it was to get to the top. We'd be burning a day, but at least I would know.

So we were up and at er. Getting to the meadow below the back channel wasn't that hard. It's a lot nicer to mark a trail when the devils club is dead... I still got hammered by stinging nettle. At least when you get enough of it on you, the effected area goes numb and kind of gives you a little boost... in my mind anyways. On our way up I picked out a goat bedded up among some waterfalls. Glassed him up through some rain and fog. Was an OK billy. We spent some time trying to figure out if we could get to him. I know you can only go so far straight up the waterfall before you're into cliffs too high to navigate. If we could get to the one big rock and the terrain was angled properly, we could get a shot.

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We continued on up to the meadow. We came across a couple young billies right in the creek bottom. Easy shot, easy pack out... goat hunting isn't suppose to be easy and those goats were too small. But the fact they were low and moving about, we figured there could be other goats close by. So we decided to post up of a bit in case something else was about. Then we made our way up the gut to get a better view at a canyon.
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We spotted another small goat come down into the gorge with a little slip n sliding and then headed up the cliff into an area I deemed impossible for us to go. We went back to focus on the goat we intended on getting and he gave us the slip. I'm thinking he fed his way back into the alders or moved off considering goats were up and about. We spent the rest of the day without seeing anything down low and without a good view of what was above us. Other than the mountain taunting us with goats we couldn't get at.

[warnniklz]

Bonus pictures

Think you can see goats here (lower left quarter of the picture)
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May be able to pick out the goats dead center
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Probably able to see the goat here
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[warnniklz]

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[warnniklz]

we left that day with no goats... not like we couldn't have got a goat. Just not the caliber we were looking for. Early November is better anyways. My dad also has a better appreciation for the work we put in to Tranquilizer's goat... even if it was a smaller goat.

We made a burn for Shitters that night to day trip my area. Never did get to go in the past during October due to trade shows at work. Was hoping they would move more eastward. We found shitty ankle deep snow up in the goat area, but didn't see any goats or sign of goats. But I do know how me and my brother will do it when we get back there. Snow shoes our touring skis, joe rogan branded fanny pack for snacks and a cheap dora the explorer tobbagan. That way we can just skim the full critter across the snow and down the mountain.

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On the way out the next day I planned on shooting chickens on the way out. I've often hammered grouse on the road in particular... nothing that day. Got back to Williams Lake at roughly 1am on the 18th. That day was pretty much a write off. Saturday I burnt out to my bighorn spot. Spent most of the day glassing the mountain and farmers fields only to see deer upon deer upon deer. Nothing with the proper head gear I was looking for. So that night when I got home, went and checked my trail cams in my super secret spot.

[warnniklz]

I got a bunch of does, cattle and the first buck(or 2) showing up

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No big boys yet except this herd bull
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Also have to stop baiting my area with Jack Links Jerky to keep Sammy the Squach from messin with my trail cam
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[Kopper]

Nice thread! Fully appreciate that kind of hunt with the old man; having just got back from 2 weeks sheepin and goatin myself.

Hoping ya get the bill you’re holding for!

[decker9]

That looks like some wicked country your huntin!! Props to your dad for getting out there, I see a STUD in his future!! Great pics too!!

[warnniklz]

Well because of a couple other threads posted on here... I'll post this up because... well why not.

The 4 point season before the rut closure, I didn't really hunt too hard. Mostly because it's been relatively warm, full moon and clear skies. Not really the conditions for the deer hunting I liked. The Saturday of the long weekend, I went out and re-set my trail cameras in case I need to hunt archery season in December. Had a decent 2 point follow me around wheezing and stomping. He would come into the 30 yard markish and then run off wheezing then come back and do the same thing for 20 minutes.

My brother went elsewhere and didn't see anything. So last day (November 10) we decided to go hit one of his hidey holes. The area has been logged pretty heavy and he knows most of the people that hunt it. We only seen some girls all day.
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[warnniklz]

That night my brother called and asked if I wanted to head to region 3 because it was still open. I said sure and he told me he'd be at my place just after 5. I was up at 4:30, had gear together and breakfast made. 5:10 rolled into 6:20... I think my brother slept in. I went back to bed for a bit and my brother finally got a hold of me at 9... we weren't making the day trip to region 3.

Week rolled on and Thursday night I went over to my brothers to watch the hockey game. His buddy in Kelowna called and a plan of driving to Kelowna Friday night to hunt around there during the weekend took place. Friday I'm off work, brother is finishing up an oil change and he tells me his buddy has to work that weekend. But we could go stay at Jakeskin's in Kamloops

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Shit there's lots of hunting around Kamloops (I've never hunted around there).... so we head down to Kamloops. We roll in to young Jakey's just before 11 last Friday. We had a couple beer, but not too many as we would be up in a short time to head out hunting.

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6 am rolls around and my brother heads out to fire up his truck. I drag my ass a little trying to get my stuff organized to how I like it and head out the door. My brother ask if I have my pack with my binos and spotter... I sure do... but then I realize the tone in his voice.

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We hadn't even been there 7 hours and someone broke his window, stole his sub, amp and his sitka gear... which had his tags and my hunting knife. Called the non-emergency police line. Got the "that sucks" and our morning went from going hunting to walking around the north shore of Kamloops... well looking for leads.

I've spent some time downtown Vancouver... but I think I'd rather walk around Vancouver than the north shore of Kamloops. Got to see some shit walking around Saturday morning. People shooting up around every other corner, some guy rode by on his bike and dropped his shank right in front of us. He even turned around and came back to pick it up. We have cousins that are first responders in that area... the stuff they must have to deal with.


They tried to warn us... but we didn't see this at night.
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Pretty sure this is how the Ninja Turtles got mutated.
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That night we decided to go to On The Rocks, got kicked out by the server because she had "reserved" her table for her friends. So ended up at Tumbleweeds and had a good time.

Sunday we decided we may as well head out hunting anyways because that's what we came for. Headed up the Coquihalla into the snow... found a road that looked like it went up into some decent country. Not even a kilometer down the road, CV lets go... no more 4 wheel drive. We tried climbing the mountain, but it wasn't happening in 2 wheel drive. Short hunting trip and we got drive back to town in 2 wheel drive.

Beer-Rad is headed down Friday night and meeting up with ol'Tranquilizer and we're headed out deer hunting for the day possibly weekend.

[LuckyHorseshoe]

Look like MacDonald park..... not surprising...

[warnniklz]

Look like MacDonald park..... not surprising...

Just a couple blocks from Surplus Herbies...

[warnniklz]

I don't know how, but I forgot to post that one weekend, me and my brother went out on a Bananarama for bighorns early October.

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[warnniklz]

We did find some sheep. Seen 2 ewes with collars on them.

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Spotted a 4pack of rams waaaaaay off. I think we had to cover 10 km just to have a better look. The top one was stockier and darker than the others. But upon further inspection, it was easy to tell he wasn't legal.

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Also found this... ? ? ?
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[warnniklz]

November 22nd, B-Rad came down from Q-Town. Ol' Tranquilizer came to town with his whife. So I had B-Rad, Tranquilizer couple and my brother over for dinner. Then Saturday morning myself and my brother were going to take B-Rad down to my little spot for mule deer. Tranquilizer was wanting to come, but his chores hadn't gotten done.

But served up some bear neck cheese steaks to everyone. Figured it was a pretty fool proof way of over cooking bear meat and still being able to serve it. Tranquilizers wife finally tried bear meat for the first time. She liked it quite a bit. So I think I can take Tranquilizer bear hunting again.

November 23rd... well 3 am came early after a dinner party. B-Rad is usually pretty on the ball when it comes time to getting up early and going hunting. I made up some bacon and eggs, quick stop for gatorade at the gas station and we were off. We were a little later than what I wanted and as busy as I expected it to be. My brother took off up one side of the valley, B-Rad and myself headed off another direction.

I wanted to start off up behind our parking spot, but I seen headlamps on the ridge already. So I decided to head down valley to option number 2. There was a truck parked there, but buddy was still getting his gear together. I kind of pulled a dick move. I went walking about 30 yards or so past the guy as if I was going somewhere else and headed up the mountain in the dark without my headlamp on so buddy wouldn't know we were close. Got to the top of the mountain. B-Rad was wheezing a little, but we were on top now and it was legal shooting light.

It was a little windy out. So we worked the timber near a big opening. We weren't seeing much, just as I expected. I decided we would cut across the top and head down the back side. Did bump into buddy cutting across the top hunting a ridge line. We headed straight down the backside into the thick stuff. Wind was good and the ground was quiet... but B-rad still found the dry crunch vegetation to step on.

In a very short time dropping off the back, I spotted our first deer of the day. Sure enough in the thick stuff, spotted a doe. I slipped away and I was a little puzzled why it was alone. We started making our way through a ravine with some good timber in it. B-rad caught some movement and said "deer!" The deer was working it's way up to an opening. The doe had 2 others in tow with her. They were making their way up single file... I told B-Rad to be ready, there may be a buck right behind them.

Sure enough not far behind the girls, here's a porch buck trailing them. I have my binos up, "He's 4". Expecting to hear a gunshot, I look at B-Rad and his rifle is still slung over his shoulder. It was a bit of a mixed blessing. It was still early, and I know there's better deer around. But this could possibly be the day myself and B-Rad could get skunked.

We carried on down the back side of the mountain, bumping little pockets of does, but no bucks? I lead the way around a little knoll and seen a really good buck right away. Just staring right at us, but we had the wind. I froze, his antlers were an inch past his ears.

Me "Brad there's a good buck"
Brad *looks at me*
Me "I can not see 4 but he's big, get ready"
Brad *gets rifle in ready position*
Me "Line up on him and if you see 4 shoot him"
Brad *stands there*
Me "Grab that tree and get ready to shoot"
Brad *Lines up on the deer*
Me "Take 1 step and use that tree as a rest"
Brad *Finally gets into shooting position*
Me "If you're 100% sure he's four... take him"
Brad "Is he four?"
Me "I'm waiting for his head to turn"

[Bugle M In]

This should be good^^^^^

Atleast it was Nov 23rd, so it wasn't me "getting ready" that you pulled tha move on.
Don't feel bad, as where I go I used to have all to myself for years but slowly people have followed my tracks in (when there was snow!),
and now I am never alone and also "skirted" another hunter who I suspect was just sitting there waiting for deer to move and then saw me
pull in with my truck and then acted like he was going up.
I just cut across and up I went ….hell, it's "my spot"!:mrgreen:....go get your own!!
Just how it is.....others have done it to me, but it does mean you have to hunt the areas most wont go!
Sounds like that's exactly what you did by going down the backside!

Also sounds awfully familiar to where I hunt...????(big opening etc in the vicinity)

Anyways, also have to admit I am jealous about how much time you find to get out there!!
(oh how I wish my back yard was also my hunting playground....)

Keep going....want to hear this!

[adriaticum]

Looks like fun!

[lakelander]

Great thread..amazing pics and story. Nice rifles..what brand?

[warnniklz]

Brad "Is he four?"
Me "I'm waiting for his head to turn"

Seemed like the longest staring contest I've ever been in. The deer finally turned his head. I count off... one, two, three... what? That's not right.

B-Rad "Is he four?"
Me "I can count 3... do you see four?"

I count again in my head. "one, two, three... there's gotta be a kicker or double brow tine or some piece of garbage somewhere"

Me "you got four?"
B-Rad "I only can cont three"
Me " It's a clean 3 isn't it?"
B-Rad "I'm not sure"

The deer slowly wandered down the hill with a couple ladies in tow. We worked our way around. Maybe a different angle would reveal something we couldn't otherwise see. Looking down the hill, we got a clear 360 of his headgear. He was a big clean three all day long. We didn't want to push him, but he was headed to the bottom, we also wanted to head to the bottom as I think everyone was up top.

B-Rad rethinking his life choices
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When we got to the bottom, there was some sign, but we didn't see a whole lot for life forms, other than a couple ravens. So we decided to slowly pick our way back up.
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We got up top and I finally allowed B-Rad to have a sit down. Actually I was starving so I wanted one too. We hunkered in behind a big boulder near a draw. Protected be wind and a good view, didn't seem like a bad spot to take a breather. We caught 2 does moving across the top, no other deer followed. But looking back down at the bottom. 2 does ran from the timber below us across some open country and into a draw. I could see them walking around in there, when they emerge from the back end into some more open country, they hauled ass again for cover.

[warnniklz]

Great thread..amazing pics and story. Nice rifles..what brand?

Not sure which rifles you're looking at.

B-Rad was toting my Parker Hale 11000 chambered in 6.5x55 tossing 140 grain accubonds
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Here C-Man was packing his Savage 110 chambered in 30_06 chucking Barnes 165? grain TSXs
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Here C-man has hi brand new X-bolt chambered in 270wsm and my brother has my Weatherby Vanguard 300 win mag
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Which is the same rifle B-Rad got his moose with
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For my dad's goat he was packing a Parker Hale that was built into a 7mm_08 and then after we decided to climb to the snow line, he started packing my Weatherby Vanguard 30_06. My brother also had a custom built 25_06 on a K29 action. B-rad also packed a Savage model 10 308

[warnniklz]

S I could see them walking around in there, when they emerge from the back end into some more open country, they hauled ass again for cover.

We didn't have a whole lot of daylight left. I still kind of wanted to show B-Rad more of the area so we wouldn't have to walk shoulder to shoulder the next time we came down. We kind of hunted one ledge that overlooked some good country, but didn't come across anything.

I seen some flagging tape hanging in a tree along a ledge. Hmmm... we had to go that way anyway. As we got closer, there was a couple of guys taking a break. They had a couple quarters and were waiting on the rest of their party. Guess they had got a deer near the bottom the day before and that day was pack day. Burned some daylight with them a bit and the rest of their crew made it up. Had a pretty decent deer. Took some group photos for them and we had to bail. I wanted to power hunt a spot before it got dark. Spotted a couple more does in a ravine and glassed the bottom a little. B-Rad didn't glass the bottom too hard. I don't think he wanted to head back down.

This point B-rad piped up "If we gotta get up and give'r, just go, I don't think I'll be able to keep up"

So I stayed up higher so we could kind of see down in the draws, and if anyone spooked something, it'd probably come up near us. Cutting across another open patch for some reason I felt I needed to glass the timber. Sure enough there was a lone doe feeding. From what we had seen, where's there's one deer, there's more. So we moved ahead slightly, as there was a little hollow in the terrain to give us some cover in the open country.

We sat there glassing thinking "there's gotta be more deer close by" The doe started moving to our left. We were pushing right. All of a sudden there was the other two does we knew should be around .They came out of the timber and headed towards the area we just left. With the does headed the opposite direction we needed to go... we started to push on.

Then I catch some movement in the timber. That just looks different.

Me "B-Rad.. Buck!"

[scttlp86]

This thread is awesome!

[warnniklz]

Then I catch some movement in the timber. That just looks different.

Me "B-Rad.. Buck!"

I tried to make out 4 while he was going through the trees,but he ended up going out the backside and over the ridge. The wind was in our favour. So we gumbooted it across the opening (B-Rad said if we had to give'r, to give'r without him, well he was leading the charge)... We slowed just before the rise. We crept over the top and seen two does booking it across the open country. Then a shot rang out. It was close! It wasn't in our direction, but we were definitely ahead of the firing line. Then we heard another shot ring out. That's when I spotted the buck hoofin er towards the timber. He jumped a fence and I kind of lost track of him. He didn't look hit and he wasn't stopping. Not sure if buddy went looking for blood. But me and B-rad decided to work our way across the top timber on the front side as it would burn the rest of our daylight.

We picked our way through the timber, bumping some more deer while going in and out of gullies. We finally just took a seat to overlook the area and wait for dark. This was the first time myself and B-rad had been skunked together. But... I got this text
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I don't think we seen thaaat many critters. But he enjoyed it none the less.

We got back to the truck after dark and my brother was waiting there. He didn't get anything. He said the deer in his area were really spooky. He basically had to stand still to even see them. He did find a couple bucks that had gotten themselves all tangled up in some wire and died. He was going to go get a permit and go back and retrieve them. I thought it would make a cool centerpiece. But he never did get a chance to.

On the way out, as expected the CO's were waiting for us. Well not just us, but had a road check. Came up, checked rifles, asked us what we got so far this year and grabbed our tags. Right away, B-Rad noticed his bear tag... it was his fall bear tag from last year. He told the officer right away that he did get a spring bear and he didn't have that tag on him (he grabbed the fall tag because it said 2019 on it... and it's 2019, not thinking that this years tags say 2020).

CO - "So you got a moose this year"
B-Rad - "Yeah"
CO - "Where did you get it?"
B-Rad - "Region 5"
Co - "Where in region 5?"

This is where I thought "something is wrong here, this is a lot of questions on one tag"

B-Rad - "ughhh..."
Me thinking - "come on B-rad... you know where"
B-Rad - "Dugan lake"
CO - "On a draw?"
B-Rad - "Yeah"
CO - "Goup or?"
B-Rad - "Individual"
CO - "Dugan Lake, that's near... Oh yeah I know that spot. I'll be right back... hold tight"

They were dealing with another vehicle at the same time, so it was taking a little bit. They came and checked on us and let us know that B-rad was getting a written warning about his moose tag, then went back to the truck and let us sweat a little more.

They came back and showed B-rad that the region wasn't clipped. He got a warning as we weren't hiding anything from them, and it was a good way to educate a new hunter. So they made him clip the region in front of their eyes. We asked them some questions we had, they asked a little more about the moose hunt and congratulated B-Rad on getting a moose in region 5. The CO even said "good that you got one, don't know when they might take it away from us"

Then we were on our way home.

B-Rad had to head back to Q-town... my brother and I had intended to head back down the Sunday. He called me early, I made breakfast and he was suppose to be at my place just before 5... didn't happen. He fell back asleep, so we went out for an evening cruise to a little spot not far from town. On the was out, this H2 went cruising by us and I seen some blood on his front quarter panel... then he got by us and I seen this
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Thumbs up!

Anyways, we got to our spot. We hunted around and didn't see much. We knew of one draw where the deer filter down onto some ranch land we're allowed to hunt. We figured we'd post up in the timber and wait.
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We didn't see anything. On our way out, we stopped and talked to the rancher. He was saying he's barely seen anything. Had one doe cut across his hay field. Guess his girlfriend seen a lone yote pushing cows around, possibly wolf. Not a good sign. Usually the deer stack up on his property pretty heavy. I have seen deer around his property this year, just not like the past.

[warnniklz]

The following Saturday, myself and my brother were headed back for the last day of rifle season. Got there at pretty much the perfect time. It had cooled off a lot since the weekend before and even got a dusting of snow. Except walking on the snow was like Spongebob walking on styrofoam. Squeaking and crunchy. Me and my brother basically started the same route as myself and B-Rad took. But just to take a look in the bottom. I figured with all the pressure, maybe they'd be in the bottom. I wasn't 100% sure. But I wanted to look. We cut a bunch of rubs... but didn't see any deer.

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[warnniklz]

With not seeing a whole lot, we picked our way to the top. As we got to the top, my brother picked out and deer through the timber. He didn't get a good look, so I figured lets see if we can sneak in and get another look. We were moving out of the timber and just as we got to the open, we spotted a buck with a doe making some tracks across the flat. The stopped before the timber and were hanging out. They were a long way off. He was tall, not wide at all and for sure 3. We picked our way across the open country using terrain contures, sparse trees and rocks to impede their line of sight. We closed some distance but it was still going to be a long shot. We posted up behind a down tree. I settled in behind my 300... I knew there was a reason I grabbed it that morning. My brother got on the spotting scope. He had the forks on the back, but we couldn't see the forks on the front. Usually back forks means there's 4... but neither of us could call it 100%.

The pair slowly headed into the timber. We tried to circle around and and maybe cut the distance and get a good look. But the wind kept going every which way and the ground was still kind of squeaky. He wasn't a huge deer and it was still relatively early in the day. We slowly worked our way along a ledge that gave us the high ground.

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We didn't see anything going across the ledge, but we got to go to a little spot I like to sometimes sit and just watch. Right away we glassed up a couple ladies.
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We had a pretty commanding view of different draws. I always see them moving up down and across the draws. My brother had been running on a couple house of sleep after a long work shift. So he took five
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He looked like Lt. Dan laying there... also... whether it's myself and my dad, or myself and someone else down there in late November. I always bring my hobo gloves (seen on my brother's hands) and I always end up giving them to whomever I'm with.
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[warnniklz]

While my brother was taking 5, I glassed up another deer. With all these does in the same draw, there's gotta be a buck patrolling somewhere.
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While I was taking a closer look, my brother woke up. We were saying something about how awesome it would be to see a big buck just come working it's way down the ridge. Sure enough. Here's a dinky little buck coming down for ladies night.
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Now that we've been laying on the cold ground, and in the shade, we started to get chilled. I told my brother that we could go around the corner to look at more draws. I always find deer bedded in them, usually next to a tree. We pack up and make our way over.

Sure enough, I spot up a nice 2 point bedded next to a doe down in a draw. We took a moment to glass them up. All of a sudden the buck stood up and took off. We weren't skylined, wind was good. I wanted to get up a little higher to have a better look. Then my brother said as quietly as possible "HUGE ****IN BUCK"

[Sundown]

You’re leaving us hanging here!!

[HarryToolips]

Awesome read so far....

[Knute]

:) dramatic pause

[warnniklz]

Then my brother said as quietly as possible "HUGE ****IN BUCK"

You know how Bullwinkle's antlers come straight out and points just go up. From our point of view this is how this buck's antlers looked.
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He was perfectly lit up and chasing tail. Me and my brother fell into the hillside. I started looking though my binos while my brother was pulling the spotting scope out of my pack. The buck moved down into a draw after the doe. We couldn't see right down into the draw. But if he came out the bottom or out of the top, we would be able to see him. As I was glassing up the spot, I could see another hunter in the bottom. This was not good, if we were to have a shot, he'd be in our line of fire. We also didn't know if he knew we were up on the hill. Even though I'm sure he probably would see us lit up by the sun if he did any sort of looking.

We half ass pack up and pull cactus out of our hands and asses... then headed down the hillside. Hopefully when the buck popped out we'd be in a safer shooting position, plus closer. Then if we did bump him, he'd head out in front of the other hunter and he may get a crack at him. At least if the other hunter got him, we go and least go inspect him and admire him, even though it wasn't one of us that got him.

[warnniklz]

We were hammering it down the hill to try and get set up behind a rock. Before we could get to our desired rock, he re-appeared. My brother tossed his pack on the ground and laid up against the mountain, with his rifle rested on his pack. With spotting scope already in hand, propped the tripod legs open and focused in.

Brother - "He good?"
Me - "three"
Brother - "what?"
Me - "I count 3"
Brother - "He's huge"
Me - "3 for days... trying to find a little piece of shit hanging off somewhere"
Brother - "4 yet?"
Me - "still clean 3"

The buck popped out the far side of the draw. I switched to my binos and glassed up the other hunter. He had eyes on the buck. I went back to glassing up the buck in case i had a better view of a kicker or something. The sun just gleamed off of every tine as he crossed the flat and dropped into another draw.

Me - "from where we are, we'll be able to see him if he comes out of there"
Brother - "But that other hunter is headed up in there, we should get to the top in case he bumps him"

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So we hauled ass up the mountain and through the draws. We slightly angled towards the other hunter and eventually met up with him. After talking to him, I guess he had glassed him up earlier in the day and watched him for awhile with the spotting scope trying to put a 4th point on him, but conceded that he was indeed a big clean 3. We discussed plans so we wouldn't be hunting on top of each other. (I guess he was heading back the next day with archery gear to try and get that big 3. I think it would be tough to get close to him. But if he got him, that would be amazing.) He would hunt his way across the top, while me and my brother would hook around the front of the mountain and hunt the timber back.

We never did see that 3 again, but with all the deer we seen below, we headed to an outlook that overlooks private property. But would be cool to see what's stacked up.
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We glassed up 15 or so deer in the bottom on private land. There was one dinky little buck among all the does.

We carried on pushing the timber and bumping the odd doe here and there, but never did see another promising deer. We were back to the vehicle with about 45 minutes worth of daylight left. We went to a little spot where we could overlook a bunch of flats. We glassed up a bunch of does. Possibly a spike buck. But nothing worth a closer look.

We burned back to town, went to the stamps game. Then ended up going to a friend's party. Intent was to head out bow hunting the next morning. Even though I stayed sober all night, but being up for 24 hours didn't allow me to get out Sunday for archery opener.

By Thursday I had developed a gross head cold. Friday it kind of plateaued to better than Thursday afternoon but better. So Friday, I took a couple hours off and burned to grab my trail camera.

[warnniklz]

Quick scan of the pictures revealed that I may have set my trail cam a little high... or didn't angle it down properly
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Although there was couple pictures I liked, but not really enough to hit it hard.
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Saturday morning we got an actual dump of snow. The first one for the year. We had got a little dusting before but... I was excited about the snow. My dad called me up Friday night,

dad - "what's your plans for the weekend?"
me - "last weekend for bowhunting"
dad - "wanna go to that spot we got a flat the other year?"
me - "yup"
dad - "meet at your place at 4 tomorrow morning?"
me - "done"

Had a hard time sleeping that night with excitement. Up at 3am, sweating, this cold isn't going away. Made something to eat, tossed everything in my pack and laced up my boots. Kept my eye out the window. Dad can't knock on my door, and he can't call me from his non-existent cell phone. 4am rolls around. My phone starts ringing. Call display "Father". Answer the phone and it's my step mom.

Step mom - "you awake?"
me - "yeah"
SM - "Your dad is still sleeping"
me - "oh"
SM - "don't think he's in any condition to go hunting... he went visiting with Ray and Joe"
Me - "well if he gets up and wants to go..."
SM - "I'll let him know"

Waited around until about noon, no call from father. So I burned to super secret spot.

[HarryToolips]

Too bad about the buck only being a 3 point but that's the way it goes...I have had that quite a few times, but no matter how hard you look, they just can't grow that extra tine lol...

[warnniklz]

Saturday afternoon hit up super secret spot. There's many different ways to hunt this spot. Most people just drive around and hope to catch something crossing the open. I like to get into the thick stuff and push the bush... now that I say that, maybe people know that I'm pushing bush and taking advantage of the deer I may spook?

So this time I start at the bottom of the mountain. I usually like to start at the top as it's easier to see deer downhill than it is uphill. But it's good to shake it up sometimes. I started up the hill. It had stopped snowing, but just stopped snowing. So picking up fresh tracks would be easy.
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The snow kept most things quiet... but it also kept the noisy dead bushes hidden. So slow and steady up the hill. Right away I found 3 beds. Considering there was no snow, they were just abandoned and the deer must have held up there for quite some time. I carried on and came across some fresh sign.

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[warnniklz]

Up the hill a little further I did bump 3 does. They didn't take off but they kept their distance. Luckily I was able to keep close tabs on them. I finally made it to the top of the hill. I started off towards a spot a had a blind and seen most my deer throughout the season. Not a track in the area. Even the one field I can overlook usually has a couple deer in it and nothing. So I decided to check out my blind. Not 10 yards from my blind...
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Well it's not very old, but could explain why there isn't a lick of deer sign up top here. I only had a little bit of light left. I started my way down. Picked up a trail that lead me to a ravine and I worked my way down. As I was headed down I heard a deer wheeze right close to my and I seen it taking off through the trees. But this deer just looked different.

[warnniklz]

That night my dad called and asked if I wanted to go out the next day. Of course! He asked where we should go, and I figured somewhere closer to town (better chance of him getting up at 6:30 if he goes out partying). 7am rolled around and he was at my place. We were at a spot I wanted to check out before daylight. We park the truck and get out... right off the hop we see a wolf track. It came to the road, did a 180 and headed back into the timber... probably heard us pulling in?

There wasn't much deer sign on the drive in. Plan was to give'r down the skid trail until we picked up sign or bump something. Got to the landing, we split up and took off two different directions. It wasn't a long walk but we had both came back to the rendezvous point at the same time. Neither of us had seen any sign. So we headed back to the truck and headed towards another spot. We went through a "residential" area (more of a road with some houses on it at the start) and right away I picked out 3 deer. 2 of them were bedded.

Me - "I wonder if all the deer are down low"
Dad - "I wonder if all the deer are bedded"

As we were carrying on, we came across 5 deer right along the road. This created my "the deer will be down low and when we do find them, they'll be stacked up heavily"

We headed up a forestry road and noticed all the deer tracks were headed down the mountain. We ended up coming to a tree across the road. My dad had the power saw and asked if we should buck it up and carry on or re-locate. I told him that being potentially my last day, and after not seeing any sign, we should relocate. So we hauled ass to another spot he wanted to check out. The spot was the same spot me and my brother posted up that one night. We got back there a ways and once again... not even a track. Once again my dad asked what I thought. I told him I've hunted this area long enough and talked to the rancher, and neither of us have seen shit for deer all season.

So we headed to "Jurassic Park". I think it should be called "Jurassic Park... Sometimes". I've only ever been there with my dad and have yet to see a deer back there. Didn't take us long to decide to relocate.

We're down to 3 hours of light. We can head to Super Secret Spot or Secret Spot. Knowing that I've seen deer in Super Secret Spot, I figured this would probably be the better choice. Even thought the night before I had only seen 4 deer... 4 deer is better than no deer. Plus! we could pincer move the area. I started in at the far end of the area, my dad parked the truck in the middle of the area and worked his way down the hill where i was the night before.

I was in the thick timber.
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It was quiet and there was deer tracks going every which way. I went through the stand tactically and quietly and didn't bump a single deer. I came out to the open country and decided maybe I'll punch the poplar stands. Moose tracks going every which way. SHIT! Nothing. I found where my dad had parked the truck. Found the keys, did a quick loop around the top and headed to the bottom to wait for him to finish his hike.

I get to the bottom and see him coming from the bush. Perfect timing. Got out

Dad - "What did you see?"
Me - "deer tracks going every which way"
Dad - "but what did you see?"
Me - "nothing... what did you see?"
Dad - "Grab your bow"

I grabbed my bow and we were headed up the ravine.

Dad - "seen a shooter 4"
Me - "like rifle shooter or"
Dad - "yeah I'd shoot him with a rifle"
Me - *thinking oh wow*
Dad - "and a huge heavy 3. His back tines are probably 18" tall but he's heavy heavy"
Me - "you spook him"
Dad - "well I was working my way down and spotted 3 does. So I was looking looking, that's fine, then I just seen antlers moving. The does moved out and the buck just kind of fed the same direction. Had an arrow knocked and figure the buck should come out where the does are and he'll be dead. But he just kind of disappeared. So I quietly backed out and then spotted the 3 up high cutting across"

We worked the ravine but I only ever caught a glimpse of an ass going over the top. It was noisy in there. We hung around until dark and then headed back to the truck. I figure either the 4 point or the 3 point is the deer that wheezed at me the night before


...I heard a deer wheeze right close to my and I seen it taking off through the trees. But this deer just looked different.

I know my dad didn't head out after he got off work this morning as I seen his truck at the hardwear store just before nine. But may have to take tomorrow morning off and head out with him to see if we can't get the LAST CHANCE TO DANCE ENGLAND (watch Lamp Of God's Walk With Me In Hell DVD)

[Tim Tam Slam]

Great thread, B-rad is in hunter heaven 3 animals 3 days, you spoil him! Haha

hope you and pops managed to get one. Looking forward to the rest

[Bugle M In]

OK….waiting for the "here comes the boom"!

[warnniklz]

OK….waiting for the "here comes the boom"!

I friggin hope so... Should be headed out in 3 hours. Snow sure is squeaky this morning.

[Bugle M In]

I friggin hope so... Should be headed out in 3 hours. Snow sure is squeaky this morning.

What is up with that "squeaky snow"?????
You described it on a past post to a T.
Sometimes I would almost prefer crunchy snow over that:shock:.

To be honest, hunting on ground with no snow is way better.
Either the snow that is around is a few days old and crunchy, or like walling on Styrofoam.
Neither is conducive to great hunting.
How I miss powder snow like in Alberta!

Snow is great for fresh sign, finding that rusty colored urine for a doe in heat and makes spotting them a whole lot easier.
The patchy snow is the worst, imo.

Good luck out there!
Wish I was out there with you.

[warnniklz]

Well headed out yesterday afternoon. Hauled ass to my parking spot and I was off. Was going to half ass hunt to the top and seriously hunt to the bottom. The snow was loud in the morning, but it had warmed up to -3 or something by the afternoon. Dropped into the gully
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and started my way up. Found high traffic area and started follow a bunch of deer tracks. I then picked up man tracks. My boot is a size 12... not many people in this town that have boots this big
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This guy has the same idea as me. As if my dad told somebody else about how he hunted it the other day. I continued up a ridge that is paralleled on both sides by a ravines. There was beds all over the ridge...
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Next summer, I'm going to hammer the area with trail cameras. I'm also cutting trail all through there. Not really a trail trail, but go clear all that brown dead underbrush that makes all that noise. Anyways I work my way up the ridge some more...
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A boot that big and coppenhagen snuff drippings that fresh... my brother is hunting the area. I decided to split off a different direction so I wouldn't hunting on his heels. But ended up spotting him anyways. I couldn't get his attention, I thought I had at one moment. When I did end up talking to him back at the trailhead, I guess he had been seeing deer all over the area. But the everything was still jumpy. Probably why I never got to see any. There had been a side by side in the area. I know bighorn tires 64" wide when I see them. So I think someone else knows what was kicking around there.

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So in that, here's a sunset on my 2019 hunting season. I'm not a very good predator hunter, but I'll pack a rimfire ice fishing if I happen upon a lynx or bunnies. But other than a goat tag valid until the end of February, I won't be really hunting until 2020. Probably head out ice fishing this weekend if I kick this cold... or if I don't.

[Bugle M In]

^^^^^Wolves and Coyotes!!!

[Getbent]

Thanks for your telling of the tales...great to read during lunch at work

[Bugle M In]

Hey, thanks for the time to share your season.
Really cool to see what others do in the year and what type of hunts they go on and how they hunt.
Whether the person has success or not plays no role in such threads.
Thanks!

[warnniklz]

^^^^^Wolves and Coyotes!!!

I'm not a good predator hunter. I should probably find a predator hunter mentor.


Hey, thanks for the time to share your season.
Really cool to see what others do in the year and what type of hunts they go on and how they hunt.
Whether the person has success or not plays no role in such threads.
Thanks!

Considering all my spots I refer to Dugan Lake/Mountain or Super Secret Spot, but writing everything out lets me look back and learn from past experiences. As well as maybe help other people out.

But in reality, in past threads like this, I've had members PM me like "Oh that's Dewar lake in that picture, maybe if you hike up to the left there you'll find what you're looking for". So it's mostly just hoping someone recognizes little spots and share tidbits privately.

[Bugle M In]

^^^^^yup, I have had pm's asking about a location in the photo or folks guessing at times on threads.
It's normal I guess, as I know sometimes I look at the photos and guess as well.
But it is just cool to look at the terrain some folks will hunt for certain game at certain times.
Hunting MD, I have never really spent much time chasing them in the Sage/Timber borders, but rather just timber.
So, it's kind of cool to see what others experience and makes me consider alternative style hunts if I get bored with timber hunting.

Also, I have also pm'd members over the years for tidbits of info, so I am no different then those that ask me.

[whognu]

I'm not a good predator hunter. I should probably find a predator hunter mentor.



Considering all my spots I refer to Dugan Lake/Mountain or Super Secret Spot, but writing everything out lets me look back and learn from past experiences. As well as maybe help other people out.

But in reality, in past threads like this, I've had members PM me like "Oh that's Dewar lake in that picture, maybe if you hike up to the left there you'll find what you're looking for". So it's mostly just hoping someone recognizes little spots and share tidbits privately.

hey warren:

thanks for taking us along this year, you have a very entertaining writing style

well done

chris

[marcus44]

Thanks for sharing your stories, I've definitely enjoyed the read. I'm the same as you, a rookie predator hunter, but I'm going to get out and try to thin the wolf population in my area this winter.

[warnniklz]

... a rookie predator hunter...
Not rookie... just bad at it

During the week, I talked to Ol' Tranquilizer about maybe going ice fishing on the weekend. He's never been to "Dugan" lake, so I told him don't expect much, but if we did get something it was going to be worth it. Friday night I go to get my stuff together... can't find my tackle box, but find every ice fishing rod I've ever owned... So burn to Slurpy Herpies, grab some jig head hooks, new line just in case, split shot and Jensen eggs as Rapala doesn't make Trigger-X anymore. Drop $20 and make the special trip to Crappy Tire as Herpies didn't have the hooks I wanted. They only had 3 packs of the Matzuo red Sickle hooks in size 2... those 3 packs cost me about as much as everything else I bought. Got home and my tackle box magically appeared.

Saturday morning me and Tranq' headed out. I usually bring just enough gear to get a line wet. Tranq' had everything you need to survive a Manitoba walleye weekend. Tent, heater, coffee, seats, so on and so fourth. Got everything set-up...
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Looking down the holes, I wasn't seeing much. Could even see through the ice itself. I figured we weren't quite in the right spot. So I went out drilling more holes. Spent most of the day on "Dugan" without even seeing a fish swim by our hole... so about 2pm, we packed up and burned down the road to "Dewar" Lake. punched a couple holes in the usual prime spot. Had fish swimming by the hole and chewing on my bait, but couldn't get them to hook up... which was OK because they were a little coloured up. But maybe I'll head out this weekend solo and get it dialed in. I also have a lynx tag in the pocket now... time to pack the 17.

[Bugle M In]

You made me relive an episode years ago when I was young and out ice fishing with family and friends of my dad.
Back then, no tent shelters and it get windy in Merritt.
There was one fellow that was a friend of my Dad and company, but he was an odd duck.
Anyways, he had been by one of the holes when my Dad and uncle showed up.
The guy had to go back to camp for a minute, and left his vodka bottle.

My dad and uncle thought pouring some vodka in their holes might help keep them from freezing!
Guess it was worth the shot, especially since it didn't cost them anything.

Just something stupid that I remember from seeing your pics that made me think about it and laugh.

[warnniklz]

...My dad and uncle thought pouring some vodka in their holes might help keep them from freezing!
Guess it was worth the shot, especially since it didn't cost them anything...

The odd time we do bring a beer or two out, some always goes down the hole, only polite to share...


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[warnniklz]

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[warnniklz]

So nobody wanted to go fishing with me on Saturday... I also didn't ask anyone to come with me...

Loaded up gear, looked at artillery...

Me - "Should grab a rifle in case you see coyotes or wolves"
Myself - "But how often do you see coyotes and wolves out that way?"
Me - "true"
Myself - **sees coyotes**

So yeah... I'm a bad predator hunter lol...

It was a bright blue day out. Had the whole lake to myself.

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On one hand I think it's cool the sun never rises above the trees at this time of year... on the other hand... doesn't allow for enough time ice fishing.
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[warnniklz]

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Fishing was tough, spent a lot of time jumping hole to hole. Kept thinking if I can find the fish, I'll be into the bigguns. Wasn't seeing poop! So later in the day I figured I'd go out further than what me and Ol' Tranquilizer were fishing. Finally seen what my brother and I call a "Five'r" or 5er. A fish that barely breaks the 50cm mark. He was chewing my bait, but never did hook up with it.

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My favourite hooks for ice fishing... except I don't need the pre-tied leader... may do a quick video on how to tie directly onto your main line.
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I use to make bank selling Danielson and Mustad tools... but now... insider tip... Danielson pliers $18... but mine... $5
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As I sit and tell you about the fish I didn't catch... I'll explain my usual go-to methods and maybe I'll talk myself into what I'm doing wrong...

1 - I like my fluorocarbon for ice fishing... I may have to switch up my main line on my go-to rod as I'm not really sure what's on it...

2 - I usually run 1-3 split shot, usually 2, just to get my line down... I could be running them to close to my hook. During soft water I'll drag a fly through the lake, but use at least a 20 foot leader because the further your fly is away from your main line, less chance the fish will spook from said line.

3 - I use to run a single pink Rapala TriggerX egg with a prawn. But TriggerX is discontinued and been running a pink Jensen Egg. It's more anus/anise scented where TriggerX claimed to be pheromone based.

4 - Could just be in the wrong spot

4.5 - This lake has sooooo much feed in it. The fish can afford to be picky and/or just can't get to the whole buffet. Or I'm just in the wrong spot... from past experience, 18 inches in another direction can make a big difference.

[warnniklz]

More pictures from my solo trip on the 21st

Flat Earthers are right I guess... there's a big ice wall
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Finally marked my rod for a quick measure
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Saved some money on not buying a rod holder
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[warnniklz]

The 22nd, myself and my brother went out. Once again, stopped to look at a decent looking 2 point. Then just up the road a little further, here's a coyote. I have artillery this time... but this time the yote is in a 400m single projectile area and on private property...

My brother brought his ice tent... but first time setting it up this year made it a little difficult.
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We got the tent up. It was kind of foggy and frosty
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I was trying to get a picture of the ice rainbow (hoping the ice rainbow would bring the troutsies in) but it didn't turn out so well
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It looked as someone had showed up that night and fished the same spot. As the skimmer track wasn't there the day before, and we were out there fairly early in the morning and all the holes were frozen over pretty good.

While fishing we moved a couple times, but ended up going all out.
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We did have a school of quarter pounders with cheese swim by. Figure about 5 or 6 of them. But not one batted an eye. Then later I did have a meat fish swim by and mess around with my bait (got video up on the grammer)... some people say bait is too big (looking at my brother) but I'm here for shooter fish, not meat fish.

[dana]

Looks like a great year filled with epic adventures!!!! Awesome stuff!!!

[warnniklz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veju4PxhuGc&feature=share

Merry Fishmas Tough Guys and Pretty Ladies

[PressurePoint]

Good posts, thanks for sharing

[warnniklz]

Well... last post by me in this thread. New thread next year!

Went out last Saturday and discovered I ****ing suck at ice fishing this year. But I also came to the conclusion I get the shooter fish when it's -20 or colder. We haven't had that. Me and my brother watch un-interested meat fish and quarter pounders with cheese swim by. The other "Regulars" were out there. There was a lot more of them and they managed to lose one rod, have one bite and kill 2 fish. I was planning on going winter camping out there, but I got a call from buddy and wants me to work a day out in Shittin. Errr... Hinton. So off I go!

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And now I leave you with the sunset of my 2019 (and partly 2018) season.
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Got big plans for 2020
1. Finally pull a goat off of the mountain where I started goat hunting/get a goat in February
2. Pull a NorBC and get 2 goats in 1 calendar year
3. Get a lynx
4. Do more small game hunting
5. Think about taking up moose hunting again and think about getting one with my bow
6. Hunt goats in a region that isn't region 6
7. Finally kill something with my bow
8. Start reading up on elk hunting and learn that (only because Beer-Radimus-Anus-Maximus-Decimus wants to get one)
9. Date a flapper and listen to jazz music
10. Redeem my ice fishing abilities.

[warnniklz]

Oh also... my brother sent me this... been that long since I've been to the OV and stumbled to Denny's
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[Bugle M In]

Great stuff.

Damn awesome the stuff that mother nature can provide in the way of Scenic backdrops while out in the woods.
Enjoy!

[warnniklz]

Finally got our footage squared away from our 2019 fly in


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