A Good Decade

[Stone Sheep Steve]

As we start a new decade I can't help but to reflect on the past 10 yrs. I began hunting back around 1990... relatively late in life compared to most. For the first 10 yrs I fumbled around shooting a few little bucks and LEH does. I wanted to spend more effort on hunting but seemed to be stuck in a rutt with the same old partners.

The new millenia found me hunting with similarly passioned people and my (our)luck began to change. I consider myself very fortunate to have found people like BHB, Calvin L and BCRams (and others) that share the same passion for hunting. Success has been good but the memories have been great! Remember........you get out of it what you put into it.

For those newer guys who want to take on this great province I say "go for it" as time can slip away very quickly...a lot quicker that you can imagine. Make sure you don't look back with any regrets.

A photo journey throught the past decade.....and looking forward to the next 10 yrs.:)

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Cont'd

[frenchbar]

Just Think Of Whats To Come For The Next 20 Yrs SSS..awesome Pics ..thanx For Sharing.

[358mag]

thanks for posting pictures
brings back many a fine menory's of the mountains and past hunts

[cainer]

yep -great pics..it's good to keep track of your accomplishments, then you can tell if you're succeeding.

[d6dan]

Awesome 10 yr Journey SSS. Its amazing what a person can accomplish when he/she puts there mind to it!:-D Thanks for posting the pics..

[snareman1234]

beautiful pics, congrats on a great decade!

[Spy]

Thanks for those word's of wisdom & pictures gives me something to look forward to. Where were the caribou taken?

[mud-dog27]

amazing pictures

[Fisher-Dude]

Great pics SSS! You've covered a pile of ground in a short time!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

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Looking forward to the next decade and the challenges that lay ahead.........

SSS

[Fisher-Dude]

Look out Bugs! Here comes Jaime!


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[peashooter]

dude, thats awesome!

[todbartell]

great pics SSS!

[BCrams]

Awsome post!! Looking forward to the next 10 years!! Gonna be awsome!

[Dirty]

I might make fun of you now and then but by the looks of things you are a good hunter, and most importantly a good dad. There is nothing I respect more than somebody that spends quality time with their children. Hopefully by the time I'm your age I'll have as many wonderful experiences and a Dall Sheep on the wall. :mrgreen:

[BlacktailStalker]

Excellent. Best of luck in your next ten years.

[Crazy_Farmer]

I see someone else has a ton of Natgear. Find the the stuff blends in so well with rocks, trees, dirt, pretty much everywhere, we have a whole rack of it, from waders to jackets to overalls, shirts and pants. Great pictures.

[killman]

Wow, awesome! You have seen some nice places. Congrats.

[one-shot-wonder]

Looking back at old pics and sturring up the memories grows exponentially, the more time goes by the better the feelings get.

Heres to another decade of memories to come!

[whitetailsheds]

Now this is a hunting thread....what a great photo journey...thanks Brent!

[horshur]

got to be hands down winner of the category "Best Dressed Sportsmen"

The next decade will go faster than the last!

[kootenayelkslayer]

Great pics SSS. Hunting sure does subject us to some amazing experiences, looks like you've got alot of good memories there.

[Blainer]

Absolutely great pictures.
Good on ya!

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Still my favourite there SSS.
Great smile!

[Blainer]

Note to The 'Hummer',those pictures are great."10"
Great thread.

[GoatGuy]

Looks like a heck of a good run.

[Will]

Awesome stuff ! 8-)

[Crossfire]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing. Makes a guy want to start packing right now!

[Caveman]

Awesome Pictures SSS, can't wait to see what the next decade brings on. Good to see you training those young eyes so when your start to go she can point you in the right direction.

[BCbillies]

Thanks for the great photos and words . . . they capture the true essense of what hunting is all about!

[yama49]

awesome awesome pics of your last decade, keep up the hard work...

[Stone Sheep Steve]

I might make fun of you now and then but by the looks of things you are a good hunter, and most importantly a good dad. There is nothing I respect more than somebody that spends quality time with their children. Hopefully by the time I'm your age I'll have as many wonderful experiences and a Dall Sheep on the wall. :mrgreen:

Thanks Dirty! I appreciate the kind words:).
I think my focus will definitely be shifting to getting my kids out more in the next 10 yrs. Really looking forward to that.
Good luck with that Dall! You'll definitely have earned it:wink:

The most important person that I forgot to thank is my wife. Our son was born in 1999 and I bought my first sheep tag 3 weeks after he was born. It was just a local hunt but that's where it all began. Without her support I would be still struggling to find that ellusive spike buck:).

SSS

[hunter1947]

There is one thing I should have done over my years of hunting and that is to have put time in hunting stone sheep and Dall's as for goats..

I hunted RME every year for the last 43 years and should have put time into hunts for the others.

Any of you young HBC hunters out there that is wanting to go out and hunt stone sheep ,Dall's or goat do it while you can you won't be disappointed with the outcome http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif..

[Stone Sheep Steve]

There is one thing I should have done over my years of hunting and that is to have put time in hunting stone sheep and Dall's as for goats..

I hunted RME every year for the last 43 years and should have put time into hunts for the others.

Any of you young HBC hunters out there that is wanting to go out and hunt stone sheep ,Dall's or goat do it while you can you won't be disappointed with the outcome http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif..

That's some sound advice ,Wayne. I was given similar advice a decade ago by my buddy(the real Stone Sheep Steve). Chase the mtn critters while you're young as those flatlanders will be waiting for you when the mountains get too steep.
Thanks for the advice, Steve! I know you're lurking out there in the shadows.

SSS

[Deaddog]

great thread Brent, you are living the dream, hunting and family, doesn't get much better than that!! What a great example for the rest of us..hope to meet you on one of those mountains someday..

[Fisher-Dude]

There is one thing I should have done over my years of hunting and that is to have put time in hunting stone sheep and Dall's as for goats..

I hunted RME every year for the last 43 years and should have put time into hunts for the others.

Any of you young HBC hunters out there that is wanting to go out and hunt stone sheep ,Dall's or goat do it while you can you won't be disappointed with the outcome http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif..

Yup, can't stress this enough. Just think SSS, one day you'll be old and crippled, just like me! :mrgreen:

You better learn all you can about road hunting for when the time comes!

[BiG Boar]

These are the kind of posts that push my ideas of where boundries exist! You are a wild mountain man with nothing holding you back! Cheers to another 10!

[Prowler]

Awesome pics SSS. I love looking thru threads like this. gets you thinking about past trips, upcoming trips, and trips you dream about making someday.

[BIGHUNTERFISH]

Awesome pictures and great memories.I think you have found one of your great passions in life and it shows.You are a good role model for your kids and all hunters.All the best in the future.:-D

[proguide66]

Cool pics Steve!!!!!....threads like this is why I come on here..I could look at everyones hunting pics allll dayyyy easily....beats the shit outta people argueing about crap , having pissing contests or lonely assed souls making posts about their personal crap....keep em coming , this is what HBC should be about !

[rockdog]

Great pics Brent! However, for posterity, I think you should have included a shot of you getting the tapeworm removed. Hope to see you soon.

[pnbrock]

may have been a book tapeworm!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Great pics Brent! However, for posterity, I think you should have included a shot of you getting the tapeworm removed. Hope to see you soon.

Thanks Johnny! But after seeing the look on Steve's face when he saw the icefishing bait swimming in the jar, I'll think I'll pass:wink:.

SSS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Very rarely do I give out compliments...Nice

Okay.........what spot do you want now??:roll:.........................:wink:.

Thanks Higgy!:)

SSS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Cool pics Steve!!!!!....threads like this is why I come on here..I could look at everyones hunting pics allll dayyyy easily....beats the shit outta people argueing about crap , having pissing contests or lonely assed souls making posts about their personal crap....keep em coming , this is what HBC should be about !

Steve....I'm the same way...could look @ others pics all day!! Always look forward to yours, Deaddog's, BCBillie's, Kenny's, KES's and those pics of so, so many others here on HBC. Kind of like a support group for us addicts.
Just cant beat BC for its dviersity of terrain and game:cool:. If I could live anywhere in the world it would be right here!

SSS

[Blainer]

Cool pics Steve!!!!!....threads like this is why I come on here..I could look at everyones hunting pics allll dayyyy easily....beats the shit outta people argueing about crap , having pissing contests or lonely assed souls making posts about their personal crap....keep em coming , this is what HBC should be about !
VERY WELL PUT.

[goatdancer]

Great pics. Really enjoy the ones with the kids. About time we had a thread that wasn't just a bunch of bitching.

[ThinAir]

Thanks for posting SSS. Great pics and memories for sure.....just think in the next ten years, your daughter will be dating:mrgreen:

[835]

it never stops amazing me how people make it to places like that.
i only wish i could, not for a lack of drive but just ability.
i live in victoria married and morgaged, i cant even imagine taking the time off work let alone the gear required to do that.
im glad your kids will have the chance to see and hunt parts of our province that most never will, even if they want to.Keep it going so i can live vicariously through you!

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Thanks for posting SSS. Great pics and memories for sure.....just think in the next ten years, your daughter will be dating:mrgreen:

My daughter already had a date a couple of months ago:shock:. She had a boy classmate over to play some hunting video games. She said she didn't like him that much but just wanted him to show her how to get to the next level on one of her games:mrgreen:.

When she starts to like boys for real we're moving into the bush:(.

SSS

[calvin L]

Thanks for the post . As said before Hunting is the best sport in the world . I have been been very luck through hunting I have found friend I call family . (This has caused we to wish some family members were not ). I can alway could on any one of my friends all it takes is a phone call . . I have meet most of these people over the last 10 15 years . Yoou all know who you are . And I am very luck to call you family . I pray that my son will hunt as I was with a very good friend when his son got his first buck I have never seen a man heat swell so fast . Just plane cool to be there .

Calvin L.

I will help you thin out the boys when it comes to Jamie . :evil:

[jrjonesy]

Great Pics SSS and great post!!! Your right, you get out of it what you put into it. People have to recognize there are other sacrifices you've made in order to be able to visit some of the amazing places you have.

Hopefully this year I'll get my $hit together and we can add some pictures from a successful black bear bowhunt!

[jrjonesy]

I will help you thin out the boys when it comes to Jamie . :evil:

If I was a kid your daughters age and saw you and Cal standing behind her on a first date, likely in the process of cleaning 4 or 5 guns, I'd make for the hills in a hurry. A 6'4" dad and his psycho cowboy buddy...yikes! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[calvin L]

Jason Never mind Black Bear Lets do Grizz Bow hunt . I am sure We can get the time off work LOL

calvin L

[jrjonesy]

I'll pull some strings here if you can work your magic on the LEH :mrgreen:.

[bighornbob]

She said she didn't like him that much but just wanted him to show her how to get to the next level on one of her games:mrgreen:.
SSS

I guess she is like her Mother, hooked up with you for the wine!!!:mrgreen::mrgreen:

BHB

[Sitkaspruce]

Wow, What a decade!!!!

Great post Brent!!!

Just goes to show everyone what a great place we have to hunt.

Thanks for the flashback and look forward to the next decade.

This has also got me thinking of putting on my own decade or two of picts.

We should all follow SSS's trail and post our own. I think we would be a much happier group of hunters if we all got to look at others successes and places we have been.

Sorry to steal you post Brent, but you have a great idea and we should follow it!!

Never get bored with looking at picts.

Cheers

SS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Thanks for the post . As said before Hunting is the best sport in the world . I have been been very luck through hunting I have found friend I call family . (This has caused we to wish some family members were not ). I can alway could on any one of my friends all it takes is a phone call . . I have meet most of these people over the last 10 15 years . Yoou all know who you are . And I am very luck to call you family . I pray that my son will hunt as I was with a very good friend when his son got his first buck I have never seen a man heat swell so fast . Just plane cool to be there .

Calvin L.

I will help you thin out the boys when it comes to Jamie . :evil:

Thanks Calvin!
I (we) think of you as family as well:)...which is a good thing since the bank called today and said they are foreclosing on our mortgage. I guess I should have been paying some bills instead of hunting the past decade:?. We should be moved back out soon after the kids have graduated from college.
Don't worry ...... I told Jamie no more spear-fishing for Oscars in the tank:mrgreen:.

I'll be bringing the "R.V." over later today(ala cousin Eddie:wink:).

SS---No hijack....it's a Great idea!

Bring on those pics!

SSS

[Bighorn hunter]

thanks SSS for the great post,, Hope your kidding about the bank

Cheers
Bh

[1911]

Great pics! Thanks for the inspiration and wise words.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

it never stops amazing me how people make it to places like that.
i only wish i could, not for a lack of drive but just ability.
i live in victoria married and morgaged, i cant even imagine taking the time off work let alone the gear required to do that.
im glad your kids will have the chance to see and hunt parts of our province that most never will, even if they want to.Keep it going so i can live vicariously through you!

The most that I've spent on one northern trip is probably $1300. Least is ~$800 ....and I live in the southern interior.
Gear doesn't have to be fancy. Just good enough to keep you warm and dry.

Married and mortgaged but No kids?
If you want it bad enough you should be able to do it. There are ways.
Get your employer (or are you self employed?) to take of more income tax. Doesn't take much. Squirrell away two yrs(or more) worth of tax returns and you could be in business.
I'm lucky that I get to work lots of OT in the fall to pay for my gear and trips....but at the same time I spend zero money day to day. I haven't been to a movie since the wife and I saw Titanic. I use a cheap motorbike to commute 9 months of the yr (can be freakin cold at times) to cut down on fuel bills, cut my own firewood to heat the house...... Lots of little things can be done if you want it badly enough.

SSS

[kennyj]

Awesome photos SSS. Hope to see many more.
kenny

[ElectricDyck]

Great pics!

[358mag]

The most that I've spent on one northern trip is probably $1300. Least is ~$800 ....and I live in the southern interior.
Gear doesn't have to be fancy. Just good enough to keep you warm and dry.

Married and mortgaged but No kids?
If you want it bad enough you should be able to do it. There are ways.
Get your employer (or are you self employed?) to take of more income tax. Doesn't take much. Squirrell away two yrs(or more) worth of tax returns and you could be in business.
I'm lucky that I get to work lots of OT in the fall to pay for my gear and trips....but at the same time I spend zero money day to day. I haven't been to a movie since the wife and I saw Titanic. I use a cheap motorbike to commute 9 months of the yr (can be freakin cold at times) to cut down on fuel bills, cut my own firewood to heat the house...... Lots of little things can be done if you want it badly enough.

SSS
Amen some peolpe havent figure that out yet not what you make its how you spend it !!!!
and maybe someday you will buy me that cold beer you owe me

[nomad]

Awesome post SSS! Thanks for sharing! Inspires me to push that extra bit and make things happen. As you've said if you want it enough you can make it happen. I love the look of those mountain top sheep hunts. Slowly working my way towards some of that, this just helps paint the picture a bit brighter! Best of luck to your next decade of adventures!

[dana]

Great post SSS! Makes me think back on my own adventures over the last ten years. Amazing how time flys. My advice to you is to keep on doing what you are doing with your family and friends. These memories are what we get to look forward too when we are too old and we are sitting in the rocking chair. These are the stories we will be telling our childern, grandchildern and great grandchildern.

[weatherby_man]

Those are some awesome pics, just breathtaking man. You've been to some of the most beautiful spots on the planet!!!

So cool :-).

[Elkhound]

Great post...this is the stuff that made me join HBC. Wish I saw more posts like this.

Thank you

[Ambush]

If we could get that pic of you two together, in the truck, on some front pages, the antis would be sunk!

That crooked camo hat and beautiful, honest smile would melt the toughest heart.

You have some awesome trophies there, but the best ones call you "Dad".

[Kody94]

Great stuff SSS! Congrats on a great decade, best wishes for an even better next decade, and thanks for sharing!!

I have been reminiscing quite a bit of late, since its a new year, new decade and I just turned 40. Have come to the realization that I wasted way, wayyyyy too much of my 30's on work. I have very little to show for the decade, hunting-wise, other than four trips to Africa. Has made me quite upset actually! This decade will be much different. :)

[PGK]

Lookin good Steve. Hats off!

[Rattler]

Thanks SSS for the great pics. Hope the next decade is even better...

[Bearen 09]

Great pics, all i can say is wow.:wink:

[Brambles]

Nice work there SSS, the years are only gonna get better, your kids are gonna get older and be able to pull the trigger, your gonna fine tune your skills and your appreciation for the outdoors is only gonna get hightened.

Congrats on a fine decade and I look forward to seeing how the new decade progresses.

Brambles

[Stone Sheep Steve]

If we could get that pic of you two together, in the truck, on some front pages, the antis would be sunk!

That crooked camo hat and beautiful, honest smile would melt the toughest heart.

You have some awesome trophies there, but the best ones call you "Dad".


I think she's going to be a great recruitment tool. She has so much passion when it comes to learning and is an absolute "sponge" when it comes to animal and hunting info...and she loves to share it when at school.
Just before x-mas her Grade two teacher was talking about Reindeer and their "horns"....well guess who put up her hand and corrected the teacher that they were not "horns" but in fact they are antlers???(and explained the difference:-D)
Her teacher took it well and raves about her as a student and a friend to her classmates.
Can you tell I'm proud??:wink:

SSS

[whitetailsheds]

Just before x-mas her Grade two teacher was talking about Reindeer and their "horns"....well guess who put up her hand and corrected the teacher that they were not "horns" but in fact they are antlers???(and explained the difference:-D)
Can you tell I'm proud??:wink:
SSS

LOL....that's priceless....atta girl....good job!

[jml11]

Awesome photos and a good decade for sure! Here's hoping your next is equally as memorable, maybe even start it off with a white sheep to complete your slam :cool:.

After seeing these "decade" posts I came to realize that this past season was my tenth year hunting period! Might have to put together a photo montage of my first decade as a hunter as well!