HBC Fall Hunting contest- UPDATED WITH WINNERS!!!!!

[Gateholio]

All entries must be BC wildlife.
All entries MUST be accompanied by a photo, posted on this Contest thread.
All entrants *MUST* be members of HBC no later than Sept 10/2010
All entrants *MUST* be accompanied by a short story of the hunt. (No, we don't need GPS co-ordinates, just let us know what sort of terrain you were hunting, and how you hunted it, etc- This adds to the fun, and makes the contest more interesting) POSTING A LINK TO YOUR THREAD ABOUT YOUR HUNT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. You may copy and paste from your thread, but you MUST include a picture and short story on THIS thread.
All entries must be harvested in a legal manner, as prescribed by BC Wildlife/Hunting Regulations. Tag and HL #'s must be supplied upon demand if there is any questions.
COntest ends Dec 31/2010

Since this is a CONTEST thread, please keep comments/congrats to a minimum; : "Wow, Gatehouse, nice 2 point" is an example of an acceptable post..Eventually, such posts will get deleted in the interest of expediency. If you wish to discuss the animals, start other threads. No offence is meant, just it's hard to plow through pages of "nice buck" comments when I try to find entrants etc.

Questions will be answered on this thread.


I have had a number of people PM me over the last few months offering prizes. PLEASE PM ME AGAIN. I have been very busy and I've likely forgotten or misplaced your generous offers!

If anyone else would like to donate a prize, please PM me!

Categories will be sorted out once I have prizes sorted out. I'll link to the last contest for a sample of the categories

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=24999


Some great prizes this year:

Blacktail has donated a custom made knife

Digger Dogger has donated a cat hunt in the Fraser Valley

VantagePoint Outfitters will put up a Selway Quiver for animal taken with traditional archery equipment

Fozzy has donated a Buck caping knife

SitkaSpruce has donated a one day fishing trip for two in 2011 or 2012 in Port McNeill. It will include boat, all bait, tackle, fuel, guide and safety equipment.

Bigfish Canada has donated this prize:
http://www.chriscade.ca/bigbuckcontest.bmp

Omineca Source for Sports has donated a Youth Prize




Prizes to be assigned to categories in the near future. If you have a prize to donate and dont' see it listed here, PM me! I drink alot of beer and forget things easy! ha ha

[Spuddge]

I'll start:
Having chosen our destinations previously, we shut our eyes and tried to get as much rest as possible. 4 a.m. came quickly and we eagerly prepared ourselves and headed to our spots of choice. I decided on the same spot where I had harvested moose for the last 2 years, my "honey-hole". The plan was simple, Jay would enter one end of the area and I would enter the other, we would glass, walk and meet in the middle, probably around a 2 kilometre walk. I made my way on the quad trail (all the while protecting my face from being bashed and gashed by the now very overgrown branches), to a spot that I thought would be a good starting point. I dismount the quad and start shedding a couple of layers to ready myself for the hike through the area. At this point it is still very dark and I decide there is no point in walking if I can’t see, so I started looking around while my eyes adjusted to the darkness. I can just make out a dark mass about 300 yards away but quickly dismiss it as a stump, I’ve been known to mistake stumps as moose on more than one occasion especially the ones that look like they have antlers! I continue to stand around impatiently waiting for the sky to brighten. It’s finally starting to get lighter so I decide to check out that "stump" again, but this time I’m pretty sure it moved, I’m starting to get very fidgety now wanting the sun to shed some light on the situation, where’s the light?!! I patiently wait another 10 minutes or so and am now sure that it’s a moose! Now I’m saying to myself, it’s most likely a cow, to spot a bull at first light on opening day is just way to good to be true! Now I know it’s a moose but don’t have enough light to identify it as a bull, plus it has it’s head down feeding. It’s getting lighter now and I think I get a glimpse of an antler, I start shaking at this point, is it really a bull…… already? I’m getting nervous now thinking it’s going to notice me and take off, damn it’s still too dark. Finally!!! The sky brightens and sure enough it’s a bull! At this point I’m still shaking trying to calm myself and make a well placed shot, normally I don’t start shaking until after, but I had about 20 minutes of anticipation, which felt like hours.
I line up the cross hairs just right, take a deep breath, let it out slowly and hold……………BOOM the 300 winmag lets out a mighty roar!! I lose sight of the bull because of the recoil and am frantically trying to get him back in the scope. I finally locate him and he’s now facing me just staring. Did I hit him? I keep a careful eye on him and he starts to wobble and over he goes. I still can’t believe it, opening day, first shooting light, a first for me!.

Me and my Moose, here's the link http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=54469

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/My_Moose1.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20214)

[Spuddge]

And another:

Day7: It’s 4 p.m.,we have plenty of meat for all of us so were hanging around camp playing cards relaxing when we hear a thump from behind us near the trailer, I turn around and not 30 feet from us is a black bear with his front paws on the cooler, he must have caught scent of our dinner and wanted in on the action. I tell you, you’ve never seen a chubby guy like me get to his feet quicker! With four grown men standing in front of him, this bear had no intention of leaving, he seemed to have no fear of us at all! Grabbing a rifle was priority at this point and Lorne did just so, into the wall tent and grab the first rifle you see, which happened to be mine, he handed it to me and with one shot I cut my bear tag. This all happened very quickly and I think the moral of the story is to "always" have a rifle or shotgun at the ready when in bear country. He’s not a big bear by any means, around 5 ft, although the hide stretched is aroud 6. We hung the bear for the night and deboned him in the morning, now we definitely have enough meat.

Me with the bear and HBC hat

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/The_Bear.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20219)

[Bighorn hunter]

Here is my first for this year

Not much of a story, had my hunting party lined up to help and had it not work out come d-day. Went down solo and met up with a few from this site.

Glassed hard for 4 days only to see a couple of ewes. Then on the morning of day 5 hiked into an area we had been glassing to no luck and bumped into 3 rams, this guy was the better of the 3.Green score of 166 4/8.

Very happy as he is a beauty and is going to look great with my other critters.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/2010_cali_2.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20286&size=big&cat=500)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/2010_cali_002.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20285&size=big&cat=500)

[demlake]

Sounds good. Hopefully I'll get a chance to put in an entry this season.

Might be an idea to post a link to any separate threads you started? For those who might have missed them the first time around.

Feel free to delete.

[Gateholio]

Sounds good. Hopefully I'll get a chance to put in an entry this season.

Might be an idea to post a link to any separate threads you started? For those who might have missed them the first time around.

Feel free to delete.

You can post a link to your thread and/or copy and paste the story from your thread, but you must include a short story and picture here on this thread. thanks

[Shooter]

What is the time frame for when animals are taken? Is it after a certain date or will my sons spring bear be accepted into the contest? Just asking because it says "fall" contest

[TSW]

Here's a pic of my ram. Shot on day 4 of our hunt. We stalked a band of 8 rams for over a km and nearly turned back a few times as we thought they busted us and took off, until we found them in a "last chance" box canyon. We quickly surveyed the situation and found a legal ram. From there it was a 75 yard shot and this guy was down for the count.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Sheep_5.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20212&size=big&cat=&what=allfields&name=tsw)

[Gateholio]

Some of the prizes so far:

one day fishing trip for two in 2011 or 2012 up here in Port McNeill.

It will include boat, all bait, tackle, fuel, guide and safety equipment.

All they need to provide is licences, snacks, drinks and accommodation in McNeill, which I can help them with.

Sitkaspruce



A buck caping knife to the contest prize table.
Fozzy

[Gateholio]

What is the time frame for when animals are taken? Is it after a certain date or will my sons spring bear be accepted into the contest? Just asking because it says "fall" contest

Spring bears have usually gone into a spring bear contest. We didn't have one this year though, I was too busy to put it together.

We will accept entries for this "fall" contest starting Aug 1, 2010, when the sheep season starts.

Hopefully I can do another for next spring bear season, we will see!:-D

[Wrayzer]

Really appreciate the work and effort you put in Gatehouse, one thing I think this site has always needed was a section for hunt stories that could be archived for future reading, this is the closest to finding them without having to spend hours searching the Main board, Kudos to you and I hope this continues every season. And I'll make sure I put an entry or 2 in this year :mrgreen:.

[Woodpile]

Alright, here is my entry. He's a real monster pig of a bull. Came into the meadow around 5:00am and saw a cow and after a couple of minutes this little guy comes out too. They walked out of my line of sight so I climbed into a tree stand in the meadow, leaned against the tree a fired off a shot. I got to the bull, but the cow wouldn't leave me alone for a good 45 minutes. Eventually the cow gave up and we got him out of there.


http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Jay_s_Moose.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20215)

[Blonde Tornado]

Entered on my daughters behalf, it's way past her bed time!! Steeleco :wink:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/steeleco/My%20pictures/IMG_2123.jpg

[Buckwheat]

Now for the other kid killer. Steeleco :wink:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/steeleco/My%20pictures/IMG_3925.jpg

[Blacktail]

As per previous PM with Gatehouse

I will throw in a prize as well

Custom caping knife
cocobolo handle with yellow spacers
brass pins and a thong hole.
Black compression style sheath with yellow stitching

will start on it when I get home for days off

[Shooter Jr.]

Here's my entry.

After 2 straight days of hunting, I finally managed to cut a tag.

Day 1 Sept. 11
The day started out with a full truck, me, my dad (Shooter), my brother, and 5spike left the house before light. As we crept we up the road, we see some deer cross, nothing special, only does. We kept moving looking for the big guy. As we came into our spot 5spike see two bucks fighting. There were 3 deer, 2 bucks and a doe. Out me, my dad and my brother go. We identified the biggest one as a large 3x3. As my brother didn't have a shot and my dad lost sight of them, over the hill they go, never to be seen again. We kept on moving. We eventually came to where we were headed and got out and walked. Me and my dad stuck together as did 5spike and my brother . We saw a bunch of deer but none were legal. We saw 25 deer and 5spike's team saw 18 (we saw some of the same deer) 2 were 2 points but nothing panned out. We drove around for along time without seeing to much, until about 3pm, that's when the bucks were on the move. We went back to our spot again but this time drove it. First thing we did was see a nice buck. It was looking like it was another 3 point. This time it was my time and he was about 150 yards away broad side. (unfortunately it took me too long to get set up and it was about 350 yards when I was on it, too far for me). That deer was with about 8 other deer criss crossing together, again another 3 walks away. We saw a few more bucks throughout the day. One buck in particular gave me a good chance. I spotted him feeding and he made his way over a ridge without us being spotted. Me and my dad went looking for him and never found him.
That was the end of that day.

Day 2 Sept. 12
Once again we were up bright and early only to head out into the miserable weather. This time my dad and 5spike decided to take separate vehicles. We were ahead of 5spike by about 10 minutes. His plan was to go and sit up on a bowl. (as we knew he would be driving up there in his trucked we planned to get a head start walking and then hitch a ride a little bit farther. We didn't get very far before he showed up. As planned we hoppped in and was driving when 5spike saw 2 deer run across the road. I jumped out and loaded a shell. They turned out to be does so I headed towards my dad who had also seen some different deer. 1 doe, 2 doe, 3 doe. All does. "ohh wait, there's a fourth"! "its a buck"! So I set up my shooting stick and took aim. "Wait 'till he stops. BANG! I felt good about that shot. Then he stopped and turned broadside at about 150 yards. I had only loaded one shell and was scrambling to get another out but I could not get the shell out of my pocket. Then of coarse, he started to walk. I finally got the shell out of my pocket and into the gun. I lined him up again and BANG! I lost him completely, but my dad said he hunched over and was hobbling around. (luckily my dad was following him) But then my dad lost him. He must of dropped, it was the only explanation. Then another buck stands up. this one might of been slightly taller and maybe more mass but my dad thinks he had smaller forks. We then started to to circle around around the small stand of trees we last saw him by. Not less than 50 yards in we found a shed. A very small 2 point. We kept on going and on the back side of the stand of trees (Just making sure he didn't sneak off) my dad spots a small fawn, about 6' away. As soon as my dad said a word it bolted. We Kept going. "look"! and there he was, about 10' away still alive. That deer kept so still facing away from us. We were not being quiet at all and there he was. I took aim and plugged him right between the ears. Hes not huge by any means but good enough for the first deer of the season.

Like my hat?

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/tnlpinkney/P1030291.jpg

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/tnlpinkney/P1030290.jpg

[Shooter]

Here's my addition:

Well not a huge story on this guy. I am pretty pumped up tho because its my best Island buck to date. The day started off with me and Jr. hiking into an area. We were hiking in on the road and were planning on making our way down to a creek before following the creek up and circling some old slashes inside the treeline. Well we were walking the road in while it was still dark and when we came around one of the final corners low and behold someone had beat us into the spot and was parked in the road. Well we were already walking and it is a large area so I decided to go up and speak to the driver to see what his plans were and maybe make a plan that works for both. Turns out he was a real good guy and he said he was planning on going a different direction than we were going so we all ended up walking together until we turned of at the creek and he went the other way. After walking the creek for a ways we cut over to the slash and were making our way over to a ridge we were going to sit on for awhile when I spot movement out of the corner of my eye. I look over and see a doe getting up out of its bed in the fireweed. Then I see it starting to run with another doe, then another doe..... 3 Does running..... So I do the logical thing and start scanning up ahead of them and I see this guy just dropping into a small gully. I immediately get set up on a stump and wait for him to come up out the other side which he will have to in order to get to the treeline he was headed for. Well after what seemed like an eternity he came up about 40 yards further up the gully but he was headed directly away from me and all I could see was @ss and head and it was getting further and further away (about 300 yards now). Finally he stopped and turned so that he was quartering away from me.

I lined up and let rip...... He started trotting away.... :shock: I missed!!! :shock: He was trotting away like all was fine. I kept the cross hairs on him and after he went about 25 yards he stopped again.. I couldn't believe it I was going to get another crack at him!!! Just as the cross hairs were falling into place again I watched as he tipped over! He was done.... I didn't miss after all :mrgreen: Double lung at about 350 yards and he went about 25yards before tipping over.

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/tnlpinkney/P1030302.jpg

[willyqbc]

This bull was the final of 4 bulls in 6 days on our annual elk trip. In addition to that it was the second half of a double header with my son on his first elk. It died 5 minutes later and 300 yards from his bull thanks to some excellent calling from the hunting crew!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/chris_bull_2010_small.JPG

my measurements have him at 352 7/8 gross

Chris

[pnbrock]

Just got back from the Spatsizi with my sidekick Ryan B.

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/Tipsbrock/Caribou.jpg

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/Tipsbrock/Caribou-bulldown.jpg

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/Tipsbrock/RyanandPat.jpg final after drying 370 4/8

[cainer]

okay sign me up! here's my entry
http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr331/cainer1/731.jpg

here's my story:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=55691&highlight=early+season
(http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=55691&highlight=early+season)

[Tyler96]

Here is my first elk. We called him in to 15 yards and I shot him with a Ruger 6mm right in the heart. I've only shot two mule deer before, getting this bull was really exciting!!! It was worth missing the first day of grade nine!!!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs655.snc4/61503_431926922991_512917991_5177279_5715879_n.jpg

[CanuckShooter]

Very nice Bull Tyler96......very nice!!


This is my 6x7 bull elk [two different angles], taken in 7-21 with a Ruger MkII 338WM tossing out 225 Nosler Accubonds. He was called in using a Bite-Me & Squeeze-Me cow elk calls to about 50 yards and taken with one well placed shot from a ladder stand.[left side of pic on treeline with sitting hunter].

The best thing about this Bull is that my partner was there to see it, and got his first!




http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/0162.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20498&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=505)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/0186.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20518&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=505)

[Brambles]

I'm gonna try and keep it short because I'm BEAT, just got in from the first hunting trip of the year. I've been VERY busy building/renovating my house, big project, not much time for hunting. I've got some Late season mulie hunting planned but I basically wrote any early season hunting off the books.

That is until today, first day out in the field, had the weekend off and Rattler and I decided to go putz around a bit. The day was pretty uneventful until about 5pm when Rattler spots a bull. The bull was 550 yards away, first look over showed the bull missing his second points and small back tines (which should have been the 6th points but only a 5er with the missing 2nds), however we were able to see he had an extra on one side. Luckily we had spotting scopes. Rattler did well pulling the bull away from his two girlfriends to within 250 yards. It took a while looking through the spotter to see if his points were long enough to be legal but in the end they were and it was GO time.

Being the sporting hunter I am I gave a low warning shot:mrgreen: He basically just stood there and I was able to put a 130 gr TTSX from my 270WSM through the boiler room. He stood there for a minute or a little less with Knees shaking and then fell down. He still had his head up so I threaded another one through the back of his head.

Not a monster by any stretch but he's gonna taste good, still took 4 hours to pack him out to the truck, all of it in the dark through blowdown and creek crossings.

I'm going to assault my pillow now.

5x6

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Brambles77/P9180506.jpg

[rocksteady]

Oh well, keep walking back to the truck, go naother couple hundred meters and I look and here comes a whitey out of the edge of the timber, tail springing, coming right at us.....He stops at about 100 or so yards and I figure, well may as well take him, easy meat, drive right to him, tender young buck....

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/IMG_0148.jpg

Sneeking along some trails, trying to get a better look I come up the backside of a small knoll and peek over the top....Here is a big cow elk standing, quartering away, looking back at me over her left shoulder....

I take the rifle off my shoulder, slip off the safety, look through teh scope, confirm its a cow and aimm between her snout and left shoulder. Drop the hammer and she dropped in her tracks, in fact she dropped so quick her head went under her shoulder and stayed there, when she fell...

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/IMG_0006.jpg



For teh whole story of my season go to http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=55131

[BlacktailStalker]

"So I'll start early and skip lunch, I need more time to pack before my trip," I said.
I was home and packed ready to go by dinner, pumped for my first of two hunts.
Up at 3 a.m and on the first ferry, 5:15 a.m put me in camp at 7:30 mountain time, just enough time to get set up for the next day of hunting.
The guys were out when I arrived and when they came in for the night, they were pretty glum.
The bulls werent talking and they werent seeing anything, however, that seems to be the general consensus in any type of hunting and worried me little.
2 hours before light I was headed in with Robbie and WW, to one of my favorite spots, a spot that always holds a big bull, the same spot I had a 342" bull shot out from under me 2 years prior.
I wont ever forge that bull coming in hot & heavy, towered up for my sleezy estrous talk... all to have my spirits smashed with the crack of a rifle, of someone outside our hunting party.

Still beats hunting behind a fence though.

We didnt even get to our spot and split a herd of cows headed up to bed in the timber with a good bull held up behind them. He didnt want to leave them but he also didnt want to hang around long enough for us to get an good I.D on his tine.
Perfect, ten mins in and a promising candidate for future days... that I would not need.

We split and I checked my favorite "bedrooms" to find new trails since 2 years prior that were now pounded right out, a cow moose, many whitetail and a funky looking black bear that looked hybrid.

WW wanted to hang out til the p.m hunt since it was such a long drive back to camp but I wanted to cover the country and check a few more spots for sign.
So thats what I did, covered 3 more areas and found promising sign in all spots, interupted briefly by a broken brake line, which I had a spare of in the truck.
Bleeding of the brakes later on in camp led me to discover a cracked frame, over half way through in the drivers side wheel well :shock:

Later that evening found me well over 60kms from the bull we planned to hunt and no time to make it back, so I opted to walk in a deactivated road where I had some good action 3 years prior during mid day, when all other areas were quiet.
I walked about 5 kms and was very unhappy with the lack of fresh sign, abundance of wolf shit and how grown the cuts had become since my last visit.
However, I sat at the back bowl, by the only decent trail coming off the top of the mountain... and waited.

30 mins before I felt light was going to start falling and what was a long stint of silence, I located and let out a series of mews, a couple minutes apart.
A minute later I heard the reply of a bull, authentic wapiti or human I was unsure as it was so far away it was faint at best and the drone of road hunters made me have my doubts.

I started the walk back to the truck and was about 10 mins into it and I caught the last half of a bugle, a bit closer but again, unsure of the creator.
I thought to myself, "If it is a bull, he will never make it to me in time anyways, light is falling."

As I rounded one of the many snake bends I had to walk, with steep ravines between I heard rocks falling, 5-600 yards directly across.
I kneeled and scanned the timber to catch the tawny buckskin silhouette half hidden by a clump of 15' pines.

There was no hesitation in his walk, other than to ensure solid footing as he barreled straight down the bank, hitting the road with a full not bugle and note stopping to release it.

"Its a bull and a good one, he looks wide!"
In a brief second I had it planned exactly how it would play out, we'd meet on the dog leg of the turn as we met face to face, at less than 40 yards.

With me aware of his presence and him not mine, I had my binos up when he peeked around the corner at me, at my unnatural stance of a 2 legged predator whom he's surely been educated from before.

The disbelief in an animals eye is always comical when they see me, they know, but they second guess themselves almost every time and this wasnt the first time it resulted in the demise of their life.

1,2,3,4,5... 1,2,3,4,5.... good sticker, maybe 2 ! He bolted straight down the road, I take two steps to get on his "six" and chirp twice, he climbs the 15' bank like it wasnt there and looks back, quartering away.

He likely didnt have time to settle the weight on his feet on the awkward incline when i slipped the 168gr tsx projectile perfectly through his heart and both lungs.
He lunged forward with futile unsure steps as his life had left him before he hit the ground and the finishing round I cycled for good measure never had to leave the barrel.

My shot was heard across the valley and soon the truck found my headlight as I worked to 'untie' his legs from the blow down he came to settle in.
I thought it'd be fun, quick and easy to drag him to the road, kick him off the bank and load him whole.... which we did in well over an hour :lol:

He is an older bull and lived out his prime, clearly evident by the subtle points which he has lost with age. He's wide, has good tine length on his fronts, good bases but he is just a "meat bull" and another one for the memory book.

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/TaylenJames/Sept2010ElkGoat012.jpg

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/TaylenJames/Sept2010ElkGoat011.jpg

Another flawless TSX

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/TaylenJames/2010elk168gr.jpg

[Caveman]

Up early with frost in the air again. I hiked back into the area I wanted to be the night before as I had success the year before bugling a few bulls. I a come to the edge of the two year old cut and glass the edges I can hear the birds chirping and have a mule doe feeding in front of me. Back in the direction of where I had bugled the bulls the year before I hear a half hearted attempt at a bugle. Not sure that it wasn't another hunter I decided to get around to that side and into the timber, to not make the mistake I made the year earlier. When I was in the timber a couple hundred yards and thinking I might be within reasonable distance of the sound I had heard I let out a couple cow calls. I waited a minute or two and let out a light bugle. Immediately I get a response. A bugle from in front of me about 200 yards. Just as he finishes his bugle I bugled again. It's quiet. I sit tight to see what his next move was to be. About three minutes pass and then I see a small evergreen tree violently shaking just over the small ridge in front of me 100 yds away. The heart skips a beat as I realize he's coming in. Next I spot the top of his rack just above the underbrush as he approaches just beyond the ridge. Almost instantly he stands not 50 yards away broad side looking in my direction. I let off the safety on my new rifle, pull up and release 150 gr fusion in his direction. It feels like a good shot, but he runs about 20 yds and stops. He turns to look back and gives me a shot at his neck, so I take it. He now ran out of sight. I made my way to the crest of the ridge to try and find him when I hear what I think is his thrashing on the ground but he is still standing but I could tell he was about to go down. He gave me one more shot at the neck and he dropped. My second bull elk was on the ground. As I approached him to admire I count the points, 5 & 6, beauty!! For those wondering my first shot was a double lung, the second narrowly missed the neck bone and the third connected. I retrieved one of the fusions and it mushroomed beautifully. The one surprise was that the 150 gr was not a through and through, but there was very little meat damage, but the lungs were a mess. Skinned and quarted on the hook the fronts were 120 lb and the hind were 146 lb each for a total of 536 lbs





http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c247/cavemn94/016.jpg

[BlacktailStalker]

I was in search of a real sexy bitch of a nanny to post for the critics on HBC.
I think the nannys are nicer and I didnt want a heavy pack out so less meat would be better for me.

Before heading into my zone I stopped for a b.s with CW.
We'd talked through pm several times and I was looking forward to meeting him.
Coincidentally, he is a welder and would later go on to fix my truck for me (the crack) and the bugger wouldnt accept any $ for doing so.
I'm very gratefull of both that and to have made a new friend and likely hunting partner.
I will return the favour.
He also said he'd check on my truck each day as he had to go right by it enroute to work, perfect.

At first light I hit the trail, I knew where I wanted to go, just not the path that would lead me there.
I scoped out a couple canyons before committing to going all the way in one as I like to get a feel for the lay of the land, so I had quite the day under my belt already.
Of course I started up the obvious right side of the river, although had been told to start up the left side and in the end, crossed over, being stubborn as I can be.

Lots of grizzly diggings, maybe a good spring bear hunt, note to self...
Elk and moose tracks were plentiful in the mud and I stumbled across many potential wallows but they didnt seem to be used for as.

The scenery and country immediately became apparent why this area is known as a "locals area" and for such reasons the location will not be disclosed.
I did however, run into a local, of 12 years prior who ironically now lives in the same town I do !
Our intended victims were different though, his an elk or moose, mine a skimpy nanny.
Clint if you are on here, shoot me a p.m...

My first glassing location was about 3 hours in and I saw several nannys and kids on easy to reach knobs at low elevation.
I knew this was my problem soon I went.

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Continuing on I started a good climb, as I had 6 days worth of gear with me and I was already starting my stalk to get a better look at the billy that was hanging with a couple other nannys up top.
This was my first goat hunt but the difference between sexes was quite obvious and with afternoon well underway, I wanted a better look at him.

Three quarters of the way up and about 1200' more to go, I took a breather and glassed what lay further ahead that I could not see from below... and spotted a real billy.

All alone, dirty, yellow and his glands were obvious from well over a km away.
Initial stalk was abandoned and a new gear was found to try and get closer before night fall.
One thing I found in goat country is, you cant "hurry," the odds of falling or making a LOT more noise are greatly increased.
So I went straight down to the valley floor as opposed to sidehilling the whole way, dropped my pack, pocketed my rangefinder, 2 extra bullets and my headlamp and "gunned it" (binos are always on me)

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"585 yds" the Leica said as he hopped off the last ridge into the cliffs.
Goat 1- Me 0.
An hour later I was back at my pack and headed up to look for a "flat spot" to camp.

If you didnt get that, thats a joke, a "flat spot" to pitch a tent in goat country.
The basin I had to climb up to even see the goat again after I dropped my pack was hidden from below so I didnt want to camp on the valley floor and I sure didnt want to climb it again tomorrow or any other day for that matter.

I actually ended up camping much higher than I thought I would, 7000' to be exact (garmin)


I made my "flat spot" in about 15 mins and popped the Hillberg Allak's cherry right there.

After setting up I poked around and did some glassing across the valleys and was happy with what I saw, the scenery made the fact the goats were or were not there, irrelevant, what a spectacular place.
The goat sign was nice too

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No more goats were glassed up that night.
Winds must have been 60mph and the tent was very quiet as it was completely "taught" and I slept well.
I awoke to pink skies and the forewarned weather promised by them came as surely as each minute following the second hand.

2 hours of glassing and my billy was nowhere to be found.
No biggie, I was fresh and "curious" what was hidding over the 8,500' wall behind me, grabbed a day bag and headed up.
Half way up I was looking at the ice wishing I had crampons and was following it up the mountain with my eyes, looked back and that friggin billy from the day before was bedded 300' above my tent !
The peripheral vision limited by the opening of my tent which I had glassed from, in the comfort of my bag while eating breakfast was "just a wall" that would surely be unnavigational by anything... right ?



So here I was, the 'dumb goat' who was likely watched all a.m by the 'smart goat' and he watched me head back down the mtn towards camp to crawl behind a pinnacle, set up and range find him @ 285yds as he casually walked away.
I was in no hurry nor was he and after several ten mins he turned broadside to overlook his "domain"
As he overlooked his domain I overlooked the ledge he was on and after the 168 gr TSX smashed both shoulders he dropped and lay still.... and slightly twitched once and had a tumble.
I felt sick, I was certain he would be a nanny when he hit the bottom but fortunately he lost aboutan inch on one side and just needs a bit of minor surgery on his chin.

He is a 4.5 year old 9.5" billy and every bit a trophy to me.
In the time it took me to climb down to him, the ravens were already waiting, slim pickin's up there I guess.



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This was a very fullfilling and rewarding hunt.
One thing I do NOT like about the rocks is how hard they are on the horns, even with taking care they got scratched to sh!t.
I hope my next goat falls on a grassy hill!
I do regret having both hunts come to an end so quickly. I really wanted to explore more of my goat zone and had I known I would get a goat so soon, i would have held out for a better bull.
My goat LEH was priority so I told myself, first legal bull.

I then went on to look for something "else" as I finished my hunt with 9 days left but will leave that for another time when I fill "that" quest.
I will now concentrate on blacktails and I'd like to get away for a mulie hunt at some point.

You know, goats are an amazing animal, where they live, the scenery that goes with them and effort required, to make it successful makes this one of the most rewarding hunts I've been on.
I highly recommend a goat hunt to anybody who thinks it wouldnt be for them.

[Shooter Jr.]

Entry #2.

Well The day started out pretty interesting. Right away my dad spotted a deer, a buck of coarse. At first he had said it wasn't going to be a shooter, then slowly but surely that buck turned into a nice one. Needless to say i had already cut one tag and with my dad originally saying a small one i wasn't too interested in it. We keep moving, checking out some more "hotspots" and around 8:30am my dad spotted a 2 point that had HUGE mass all the way through the antlers and a smaller 2. (Like I mentioned earlier, I had already cut a tag and wasn't expecting to shoot a 2 this early) Me, not really getting a good look at it, took his word for it. We say what way it was going and knew not very far they would come out into a clearing. We decided to circle around and get a better view of those bucks. We were walking out to the bowl where they had been heading and first thing we see is him. I immediately got set up and was counting points. before I could finish my dad said "its got a lot of mass and a small tine to make it a 3" I told my dad previously i was holding out for a 3 and a 3 was going down. So I got lined up and "BANG" nothing happened. I missed? he's still standing there so again "BANG" again nothing happened. Now at this point this gun was making me mad. "here, take my gun!" says dad. Ok so once again "BANG" That deer jumped about 20' into the air and ran. I quickly cycled the bolt and let fly again. Now im not sure whether or not this deer had already slowed down but by the time the smoke cleared he was slowing down and heading for one nasty spot. "QUICK, shoot him again!" "BANG" and I kid you not. That deer nose dived into the dirt flipped over and started kicking. I watched him close making sure he was getting back up. Nope he stayed down and eventually expired. After the pictures and the gut job it was the NASTIEST drag ever...... believe me, it was nasty.
Hes not the biggest 3 out there but I'm more than pleased with him and I would end my season in a heartbeat on that deer.

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[derek p]

Good job, Shooter Jr. Nice looking buck..ahh yes, the drag out. That's most of the fun.. lol

Your sure making your dad proud this year.

Congrats on all your sucess.

[gun_rat82]

The RMR crew & I skipped work on friday, loaded up the boats and headed out to a secret river of ours. There was a warm front coming in a couple days and there was on & off rain, helping water levels be a little more navigable.
We boated 2 1/2hrs upstream to our camp and got settled in for the night.
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At first light Tim and I picked our way up the river valley cow calling but were'nt getting much action. We stopped and B.S.'d for a bit cow calling every couple minutes and started to move out and I spotted this guy cheking us out


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He spooked after a bit, but we cow called as soon as he left and he held up over the hill. We moved to a spruce and cow called & bugled at him but still not a peep out of him, but he was curious and wanted to get a better look at us. He was only at 80yds but we were having a hard time seeing his antlers all we could see was that he was at least a 5x5, not enough for our 6 point season. So we decided to have some fun with him and started bugling and raking trees...That got his attention. He charged in towards us and we noticed he had a squeeker 6th point. At that point I figured we had come that far and it would be packing downhill the whole way. I passed my vid cam to Tim and smashed him behind the shoulder, he humped-up and I shot it in the lungs again. He reared up and shot downhill and crashed into some trees and fell into a depression. We hardly lost sight of him and started celebrating.


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We were only a couple miles from camp, but I only took my daypack, so to save us an extra trip I traded Tim for his packframe and loaded the front and rear quaters of one side and we made our way down to camp.



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After sandwiches and gallons of water we made our second trip and snagged the rest of the meat and I did a mountaintop european with my hand saw to save some weight on the head!
An hour after we were in camp we were feasting on backstraps in mushroom gravy and sipping corona's.
I used my Rem 700 300 wsm and 168gr Barnes TSX over 67gr RL19, and a little Quaker horesepower:wink:
life doesn't get much better and I felt blessed.

[BCrams]

This past August, SSS and I had a great sheep hunt in which tells the tale of perseverence, working hard and good freindship. The trip was a success from the moment we closed the van doors and started our drive north for the flight in from Muncho Lake and culminated with a ram on day 12 of a two week hunt.

Many have enjoyed the sheep stories posted up on here the last few years and for those who have missed this years full story, you can read it by clicking on the link.


http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showth...ep+adve nture (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=54234&highlight=bcrams+sheep+adventure)

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[winbuckhunter]

heres my entry.

been hunting the area 4 years now, successfull every time. this is my biggest muley to date and definately the most mature. 524 yards. with a 7mm rem mag. 140 gr nosler acubonds.

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[silvertipp]

It was erly September & we were on our way to reg 5
Its been awhile comeing but we finally got a shared moose draw wich will be my sons first moose hunt.the weather wasnt to great but we were sure seeing lots of game.unfortionately nothing we were able to take.After a few days of the same thing ,chad was getting a little ancy but the grouse were plentiful & kept him busy.On day four while on a hike we ran into a nice bull out in the meadow,with a good shot Chad had his first moose down

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Well ive been on alot of great hunts takeing lots of nice trophys and seeing alot of great country but shareing this hunt with my son will always rank right up there to me

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[Blacktail]

I told Gatehouse I would supply a knife for this contest.

Just finished up the sheath and here it is.
I will keep it here and send it out to the winner when Clarke tells me who it is.

Knife specs

caping knife
440-C steel satin finish
cocobolo handle with yellow and white spacer material
sheath is oil conditioned 7.5 ounce vegetable tanned cowhide
nickle riveted with barb wire border stamping

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[kwasky]

her is my first entry. I got this bear after spotting him from about 250 yards. I snuck up to about 40-50 yards and let him have it. sure a perdy bear!

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[pg83]

A couple pics from my leh moose hunt in 5-04B. Sadly I never took a picture of myself with this little fella as he was shot late in the day and getting him out quickly and cleanly was the priority. He was shot on September 22 at around 55 yards. Tenderloins on the camptfire the next night were the best meal of the year so far!


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[porcupine]

My 2010 Mountain Goat Hunt


As a 60th birthday present to myself, I booked a backpack hunt for a mountain goat with an outfitter in Northern BC. I have wanted to get a goat for over 40 years but had no luck on previous hunts. Also, I thought that this would be a great challenge for an “old goat” such as myself and would get me in better physical condition, always a bonus.


My hunt began on September 7th when I loaded up my 40 year old Kelty backpack to start the tough climb up to where my 23 year old guide Troy and I would make a spike camp. A long distance view of the mountain showed two billies in one basin and lots of nannies and kids on another part of the mountain.

For the next 5 hours it was a slow, lung burning uphill climb through spruce, shin tangling buck brush, Devil’s club, steep mossy slopes and rock slides. Typical stuff for this type of hunt or so I’m told. My method of getting up the hill was 10 steps uphill and then stopping for 10 deep breaths. Slow but steady wins the race they say. As we got near timberline we got our first close up view of the north facing basin where we planned to camp at timber line.

After setting up our small tent and unloading our packs, we crept up to the bottom of the basin to look around. On the mountain to the north we counted 17 nannies and kids. At the back end of our basin we potted two goats, a nanny and a kid. This picture shows Troy glassing the goats at the end of the basin and near the top of the far shale slide at the base of the cliff face.
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The following morning we awoke at 7 AM to see a huge black bear working along the ridge to our left about 200 yards away. It looked to be an old bear and Troy, who has been guiding bears for 7 years and taken many Boone and Crockett bears, said it was one of the biggest that he had ever seen and he thought it would push 8 feet in length. Although I did have a black bear tag, I was not the least interested in shooting it. After a breakfast of Instant oatmeal and a cup of coffee, we headed up the basin to see what we could see from the left side. We had seen two billies from the base of the mountain in the basin on that side. It took several hours to climb up the very steep shale slope and on to the rock ridge that formed the edge of the basin.

After getting as high as we could on the edge of the basin we found that we could not go any further due to the steepness of the cliff face and the drop off on the other side. We sat down with our binoculars and started looking for the two billies that we saw from the bottom of the mountains. We quickly found the biggest one bedded down on a cliff face. The other one, also big, was found a few minutes later on the other side of that basin feeding near a slide. After a bit, the big one got up, surveyed his realm and then headed over to feed near the other billy. I tried to get a good picture of the big one through the spotting scope but couldn't get a clear one.

After watching the goats and resting for awhile it was time to descend back towards camp. Since the route we took up was so steep, and I was not skilled in “skiing” down talus slopes, we decided to descend along the ridge that we were on and on which we had seen the bear. We had to climb lower in elevation than camp and back into the trees before we could head back uphill to camp. We spent the afternoon and evening waiting to see if a billy would drop into the basin to feed. Here is a picture looking back into the basin as we descended the ridge.

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The next morning we get up at 7 AM; have some coffee and granola bars and head out of the basin on the other side. Once out onto the other side of the basin we found a nanny and kid bedded down on the grassy slope a few hundred yards above us. We had to scare them off as we climbed to the top of the mountain where a knife edge ridge allowed us to travel to other parts of the mountains. This scared the heck out of me as I had to crawl in some spots and/or get on my butt and inch along with legs hanging over both sides of the ridge. It was so steep on one side that I couldn’t look and just about as bad on the other side. Of course Troy walked along this nonchalantly. Eventually, the ridge circled to the more gently sloped (but still steep) southern side. Troy went ahead as I trundled along and soon he was peering over the edge of the mountain into the basin where we had seen the two billies. He soon came running back saying that a billy was bedded down in a perfect spot for us. He had me drop my pack and told me to grab only my rifle and bipod and not to make any noise. At that point I accidentally made a loud fart and he almost laughed out loud. He went ahead and motioned for me to crawl forward. He whispered that there were two goats bedded down and that the lower one was the biggest. I crawled to the end of a small rock outcrop, stuck my rifle slowly over the edge and looked down. The goats were bedded 168 yards away as Troy ranged them with the rangefinder. But it was too steep to use the bipod so I took that off. I slid the rifle over the rocks and pointed it down, using the trigger guard as an anchor against the rocks to steady it. I asked Troy if the lower goat was the one on the right just to make sure that I was shooting at the correct animal. He said yes and to shoot when I was ready. I had a steady rest and was too tired to be excited. I had practiced dry firing my rifle at goat pictures on the wall 100 times a day for two weeks to be ready for this moment. At the shot the goat dropped it’s head forward onto the ground and lay there dead. A perfect shot. The other goat lay there a minute then got up and looked at the other wondering what was wrong.

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Troy congratulated me then took off quickly downhill to get to the goat so it wouldn’t slide away. He also had to scare the other goat away. Just as he got to it, it did two involuntary leg kicks and then very slowly at first started to slide. It picked up steam and slide about two hundred yards down the slope until stopping against some scrub spruce. I took this time to go back to where I left my pack, empty it of all contents and savor the moment. Shortly, I picked my way down to Troy and the goat. This is what I found when I got there.

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Of course we did not have a tape or anything to measure the horn length. Why carry anything as heavy as a small tape measure? But he looked big to me! Here is a picture of Troy with my goat. Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures of myself with my goat on my camera. Troy took some with his camera and when he stops guiding later this fall and leaves the bush I expect to get the ones that he took then.

After that it was all anticlimactic. We caped the goat for a shoulder mount. We saved the rest of the hide to be tanned. I carried the head and cape and my gear and Troy carried the boned out meat and rest of the hide as we made our way back to camp.

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We got back to camp around 5:30 PM and were in bed by 7 PM. We slept until 8 am the next morning before starting a gruelling 5 hour descent just to get off the mountain. I shot the goat on September 9th and my legs are still tired, even though I got home Sunday night, alive and in one piece. We did eventually find out that the goat was 9 ½ years old and that the horns went 10” in length. I will get it fully measured after the 60 day minimum period. The hide is at the taxidermist and my wife and I had some loin medallions for dinner last night. They were very mild in flavour and not tough. A hunt of a life time. Next it’s on to moose season.

After the 60 day drying period I had the horns officially measured and the gross score was 48 1/2" and the net score was 48 1/4, just missing the BC book 49" minimum by 3/4 of an inch, but well over the 47 minimum for the Boone & Crocket Awards Period. Also, at the compulsary inspection the goat was aged at 6 years old.

[little moose]

my entry
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[buckguy]

Here is my entry,
On a nice little road hunt, caught this guy trailing a couple does. He was standing on a cliff top about 65 yards away. First animal for me and I couldn't be happier. :-D


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[PointMan]

Ok, I know stories are somewhat mandatory so I'll do my best. Left the house this morning at 4:30 AM and headed out to Bonneau FSR for a look around (no worries about giving up my honey hole LOL). I really wasn't getting that "warm and fuzzy" feeling I usually get when I head out hunting, but I just chalked it up to discouragement from such poor luck on past excursions. Anyway, once I got up on Bonneau, I almost turned around because of the rough road, but pressed on anyway. I covered a lot of road and hoofed over a lot of cut block and bush, lots of fresh sign everywhere, but nothing moving. Wasn't looking as promising as I hoped, but I still pressed on. As the day wore on I decided to start heading back down the hill to find another spot to try, checking each cut block as I went.

At one point I was walking along the top of a cut block and heard this exciting noise, the rustling of leaves! I looked down to catch sight of a pair of whitetail does booking it for a knoll, I squawked a couple of times through my new deer call, it's supposed to stop them, it didn't, stupid deer call. Off I went again.

As I passed below the 5K marker I stopped to glass another cut block, one of the last before I hit Creighton Valley Road. As I was glassing along the top I noticed a couple of mulie does. "This is at least a LITTLE promising I thought. I got out of the van with my rifle and binos and glassed some more. The does started to head toward the tree line, so I decided to give the deer call another chance, "MWAAAA" THEY STOPPED! Deer calls are GREAT! I glassed again and another 3 does came out of the tree line, COOL! "MWAAAA" MORE deer, but still no buck! CRAP! "MWAAA" More does and a fawn, AARRGGH! There has to be at least ONE buck in there! There's at least 7 deer... Wait! What's that? Are those SPIKES!? Down goes the binos, up comes the rifle, I peer carefully through the scope and watch. Maybe spikes, maybe branches, come on, MOVE! It turns it's head, the "branches" move too. It takes a couple of steps, YUP! SPIKES!

I drop to one knee (I have too, I'm shaking too bad for a free hand shot, LOL). Looks to be about 120 yards, uphill, I line up as best I can with the tremor, squeeze.... BANG! I see it jump forward with pink frothy blood spewing out of the wound and it's down! AWESOME!

I'm wondering who's cheering for me then I realize I'm the one doing the yelling! LOL I felt like I was 14 again. What a rush! I had to gut and haul this thing down the hill myself, that part wasn't as much fun as I expected, but fun just the same.

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A little high in the kill zone, but a kill just the same, broke the spine and took out the lungs.

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No B&C record holder, but meat just the same.
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This is where I had to drag it from.
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This is where it had to go, even had the smell out before the wife and kids got in!

[Tuffcity]

Here's my entry. Pretty much a cut & paste from my thread but... :)

Since my wife re-discovered hunting last year it’s been a whole lot easier to get out and do more of it. J Still riding the high from her success last year when she took a whitetail and mulie, we planned a trip for this year for goats and grizzly in region 6. The goats were GOS and we each drew a LEH for the grizzly.

She discovered muzzleloaders last year while on a trip to the Yukon with a friend of ours, who is a huge ml hunter. He offered to let her use his back up muzzlestuffer for this hunt and she was hooked. I was going to try and get one (griz or goat) with my bow.

Oct 4th found us drifting down the river and glassing a lone billy lounging on a cliff face. We put the spotting scope on him and decided to go for it. There was no question that she was first up to bat, plus I really enjoy being guide/packer/spotter/etc for new hunters on a chase.

I shot a compass bearing from the boat to the goat and 2 hours later, after pushing up a steep hill side filled with willow, birch, maple and various prickly bits of shintangle we were a little over 100yds away from a bedded billy. She has been hitting the gym for the past year and I’m pretty sure she only broke a sweat so I didn’t feel so bad. I, on the other hand, almost blew a lung dragging my sorry ass up the hill.

We found the goat where we had last seen him when we left the boat but, even though we were almost level with him, we had a hard time finding a clear shot through the canopy.

We finally found a window big enough to get a clear shot and she sat with her back to a tree and used her knee to rest her elbow on. I parked down beside her and watched the billy through my bino’s.

This is only the third animal she’d ever put crosshairs on and I watched out of the corner of my eye as she got her breathing under control and steadied up her aim. I watched the goat for what seemed like minutes when a cloud of smoke temporarily obscured my vision and the concussion from that big .50 cal assaulted me.

I watched the billy jump up, turn 180 degrees and take one step before he plummeted off the cliff. He vanished from sight on his way down and we heard one loud crash as he hit shrubbery.

Half an hour later we found him hung up against a small tree, dead as a post. To date, she’s 3 shots for 3 animals. J

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She makes me proud! :-D

..... and packs her share out too!

RC

[3kills]

thanksgivin weekend me and my brother inlaw met up with some guys to do some campin and hunting. saturday mornin me and my brother inlaw jump in the truck and take are planned route. bout a half hour into our hunt i see this lil guy bout 50 yards off the road. i get out and he runs away just as i bring the gun up on him. i go after him and follow him he stops about another 100 yards away standin behind a christmas tree and not givin me much to shoot at. so i put on right in his neck with my 300saum shootin 168gr barnes ttsx. he will be a good eatin region 8 mulie

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[Kalum]

Hope you enjoy the story, it's from an original post with a little clean up. Just getting back from another trip and will have the write up this weekend. :grin:
We headed up Tattoga way for a quick 4 day trip to set up camp on zippermouth lake. The weather was clear and crisp which gave some great hiking and calling but made it tough getting out of the sleeping bags. I knew the moose would be out dancing though and had my wife super stocked on the strong possibiloity we'd see some bulls this weekend. Saturday we went up high but didn’t find much in the way of fresh sign. In the evening we paddled the lake, scouting for a likely spot for the morning hunt. Found a great little side swamp and called for an hour to no avail. Sunday morning we hauled our ass’s out of bed, chipped some water out of the jug for coffee (dumb bunny left it out over night) and jumped in the canoe. Went back to the side swamp and started cow calling. Tough to hear the call back’s though as the fish were splashing and the roar of the duck wings as they came in for a landing had me pretty twitchy. Glassing the lake I saw some movement on the far side- and whispered “Moose,,, Bull,,, HOLY BIG @*!*&’n Bull,,, letsgoletsgoletsgo!!!” we went low back to the canoe and paddled like mad for the other side in half crouch. He went back into the trees but I could see his paddles as we got to shore. Found a rest and made the check to make sure we were good to go but just as I went to pull the trigger he turned and showed me his rump. I gave a low bull call and he turned broad side to see what was what. He didn’t look like he was in a great spot and I was standing on some pretty soupy ground but it was a lean year for the freezer last season and there was plenty of time in the day so we made the call to take him. One to the lungs at 135yds and he dropped, stood up and walked anther 10yds to the wettest coldest piece of swamp I’ve ever had the good fortune to stand in J
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Not wanting to skin and bone in water we decided to quarter and flip them onto a tarp and drag them through the soup back to the canoe. First quarter was a grunt and a half but we had a pretty good trail down for the next 3 hauls and it went pretty slick.
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Met some great guys back in camp and recruited their skiff to haul 3 of the quarters back to camp while the wife fufilled her wish of wanting to paddle the canoe with a quarter in it back to camp.
By the time it was hung, skinned and cleaned it was a full on 12 hour day. It was my wife’s first time on a successful hunt with me. She got the full experience, loved every minute of it and is tough as they come! The rack only measured 49.5” so not a monster but some great tines and will mount up nicely.
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[Tank]

This was bull #2 on our trip where our group went 4 for 4. There were a ton of quads hunting the area so after consulting our maps we hiked into a draw with very difficult access. My dad used a 6 point elk shed that we had just found to rake a tree when calling this guy in. It took us the better part of the following day to pack him out.

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[Venginator]

Here is my entry.

I was hunting with my father and we have been scouting out a good area around Babine lake looking for the best signs. We found a nice area with tons of sign and tracking so we decided this was our best bet. On the 3rd day in that area, I was walking into the spot with the best sign and the spot where my father seen a bull the day before. It was around 9am when I was walking in to the end of this cutblock. I stayed as quiet as I could as I made my way to the end, listening very carefully. As I got back there, I heard a big grunt/snort in the cutblock, followed by some branches breaking, so I knew a moose was back there. As I observed through the trash, I finally seen a moose rack move. I could not get a good shot from what I could see, so I just waited. As I waited for another 15 minutes listening, I see another bull show up, moving smaller trees, making noise etc. Again I did not have a shot. During this time of waiting, moose noises, calling, moose talk was happening all around me, it was intense just experiencing it.

After a few more minutes, I finally seen a smaller moose walk across to me left, about 50 yards away, all I could see was the top of his back and rack. 30 seconds passed and no movement. All of a sudden a much larger bull moose walks out in the same direction, almost as if the moose I just seen grew instantly, so I knew there were numerous bulls in the block. This moose finally stopped long enough so I could get a shot off to the back of his head as he was standing broadside. My heart was just pounding as all of this was happening, I couldnt contain my excitement.

After the shot, I seen part of the moose moving on the ground, then nothing. All of a sudden this cow moose runs out of nowhere, not too far from me, stands there, then takes off. Then this other bull moose, around the same size as the one I shot, shows up, stands around starring at me for about 20 seconds and decides to take off as well. I figured there was a good 2-3 or even more bulls in that cut block with that cow. It was definitely a hot spot for my early LEH draw and I wont hesitate to go back there again in the future.:mrgreen::mrgreen:

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[DV-67]

Here is my first bull moose. I got a LEH for region 7 and was on the second day of my hunt when we called him in to about 70-80 yards.
We got to our area early and started calling. Not long after our first set of calls we could hear a response way back in the bush. Two more sets of calls about 10 minutes apart and we could hear him raking on a tree and hear his grunts really well.
He poked his head out of some willows and was looking in our direction. He would not come out any further so my buddy did a couple of grunts and raked some willows in front of us. He then came out enough that I was able to get a good shot in.
He is 48 ¼” wide with a drop tine
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[hunterofthedeer]

This was my second ever deer I shot Thanksgiving weekend near Williams Lake.
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[The Dawg]

Bear, Does, Moose. Shot em’ before.

But the Mulie buck had always eluded me. Flicker of movement, gone. Bounding away white rear end. Glasses up too late. Think it’s a stump, and then it moves. 3 points in a 4-point season.

You know, the usual excuses.

Not this time.

My good friend Brett and I decided to head down to my mother in laws ranch just outside of Kamloops for the any buck season. Id been there a couple of times this year already in the 4-point season, and saw 2 shooters. See excuses above.

We arrived around noon on Friday and headed out shortly after changing into our gear. It was Brett’s first time being there, so there were many areas to show him. Within minutes, we had spotted a few dark spots in one of the many fields. Bino’s up! 4 does, 3 fawns… Not even a spike.

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Friday evening came and we went for a drive to the other end of the property. 6 more does. Seems to be par for the course now. Last time I was here, I saw over 70 deer in 3 days, half of which were bucks. After hyping this place up for a year to Brett and Mike (Moosinaround), now I cant even get a spike to show.

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Saturday morning- same as yesterday. Up to almost 35 deer now without an inch of antler. Its almost like they have a calendar saying “Season open, lets go to Mexico”
I really should look into a migration southward at this time. Check for bucks hiding under a sombrero.


Anyways…. Saturday around 430pm we decide to gear up and hop on the quad. Haven’t shown him this side of the property yet, so I’ll take him there. Nothing to lose except daylight.

We jump off the quad after riding for 5 minutes or so to each walk a low ridgeline. Him on one side, me on the other. Beds, rubs, poop, game trails. No animals. I look towards Brett to give a ‘F IT’ look and notice a large moving animal about 500 yards away on a hillside.

I throw up the bino’s to have a look and see that it’s a he. And what a he.

I immediately whisper-shout to Brett to get down and motion that there’s a large buck on the hill behind him.

With the friendship we have, of course he thinks I am messing with him and starts chuckling. After a second or two, he believes me and hits the dirt. Perhaps it was the panicked look on my face that did it.

(FYI, tears DO work when someone doesn’t believe you J)

He crouch-walks up the hill to me and glasses the buck. Ok, now he realizes the game is on.

Brett lays down and begins filming (which I found out after). I begin to try and close to within a comfortable shooting distance.

Thump, thump, crunch, snap. Do I ALWAYS make this much noise when I walk??!!
Every step I seemed to be making more noise than the last.

I close up the ridge to within 200 yards of where I last saw him. Brett hasn’t yelled that he’s gone yet, so I think he’s still there. I can just make out the tips of his antlers in the grass, so yep…still there and bedded down now.

Wind is good, noise is down. Things are going good. Flicker of movement on the hillside across from the buck. A doe and 3 more smaller bucks. Great. I think I am about to be busted, but they don’t even notice. Thump, crack, snap! Was I seriously born with an elephant walk?!

The last few yards up the hill were the worst. . As I crested to within a good sightline, I could see he was still there.

Heart racing, lump in the throat, trying to control the breathing…inhale, exhale…inhale, exhale.

Lower crosshairs onto him slowly…He drops.

I hear the shot from the 338 Win Mag propel the 225g TTSX towards him.

Does it always happen like that? The buck on the ground before you hear the shot?

I couldn’t believe it. My first buck was down and he was bigger than I thought or even hoped for. I waved for Brett to come over. I said my thank yous to this beautiful animal and waited for Brett.

Pictures taken and guts removed, it took the two of us to lift one side and drag it onto the quad. Back to the barn, lifted with the tractor and skinned out and caped for the taxidermist.

I was asked, “So, was your first buck worth the wait?”

Oh hell ya.

Thanks to Brett for all the help, laughs and yes, even the unmentionable smells :wink:

Thanks Brother!

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[luckynuts]

Time had once again slipped by as I found myself busy with uncompleted projects around the house and having to pick-up extra shifts at work to help out with the vacation coverage and unexpected emergencies. As this is Liam’s first year holding a junior hunting license we headed out looking for moose in August. Though with limited time and starting late in the 2 week season we found the moose already pressured into deeper pockets in the bush. As September 1st rolled around Elk had opened up and we put in a couple of solid efforts but to no avail mostly due to the wet weather.

Trying a new area this day Liam and I snuck into a little meadow that was adjacent to a much bigger slash. We discovered lots of fresh elk track and even bull rubs. We began calling as the sun came up over the tree line. However the effort proved fruitless as we did not generate any responses to our calling or even glimpse a single elk. Suddenly Liam say’s “Dad” do we have a doe tag? I replied does won’t be open for some time yet, why? Cause there are two does down in the slash. I spot them and lift up the binoculars to have a closer look. Wow! I could not believe it two great looking whitetail bucks heading into the timber to bed down. Quick Liam, get your gun up on the shooting stick. As Liam focused on getting his gun steady and trying to find the deer in the scope I pulled out the range finder and took a reading 169yds. We were a bit to slow getting ready and the deer had walked behind a log pile as we anxiously waited to step out from behind it I told Liam that the 2nd deer was a big heavy 4x4 and the first deer was a smaller 5x5. Soon the 5x5 walked out and I said Liam do you see him? Yeah Dad but I want the bigger deer. The bigger 4x4 never did step out after the 5x5, rather walked straight into the timber behind the log pile offering us no shot. Oh how I was kicking myself for telling him the second deer was bigger. We went home that day with no deer, though still a great day of father and son bonding and the fact we had seen 2 good bucks was exciting in itself. I looked forward to our next adventure in this new spot.

As I found myself preparing for my upcoming moose hunt. I could not forget the adventure Liam and I had just a week before. Looking at my schedule, I soon realized it as going to be tough for the two of us to get out again. With hockey starting up and school now in full swing, I made a decision that I would soon cherish forever.

Playing Hooky

After spending 7 days straight in camp, Wednesday morning finally rolled around and Liam and I found ourselves up bright and early. We packed our lunch and donned our hunting gear and set off to our special spot. We arrived just in time, the sun was just piercing the dark skies and the ground was damp from a light rain the night before. As we hopped out of the truck I soon realized the wind was not in our favor. Actually it prevented us from entering into the area without letting our scent be carried right into the heart of where we wanted to hunt. I told Liam we should go try somewhere else though he was adamant he wanted to hunt this area and I gave in to his pleading knowing better.

As we slipped into our spot I could feel the cross wind lap at the back of my neck from time to time, with dampened spirits I hung in there for Liam. After glassing for an hour we determined there was no deer present. I told Liam they probably got our scent and vacated the area. Liam was determined to make the most of the day and asked if we could call for elk. I agreed as it was still early and the morning air had not warmed up yet. After several cow calls we got a response! I couldn’t believe it, we had a bull coming in and the wind was coming straight from the west now so I was beginning to think we may have a chance. I got Liam set up and called just enough to keep the bull coming in our direction. We could now hear the bull in the timber he was getting closer and I was getting more excited. He was just inside the timber line when all of a sudden he barked and thundered back down into dark forest. Talk about being deflated the wind beat us again though we knew we were playing against the odds. I told Liam we might as well just walk down and out into the slash and make a big loop back to the truck the sun was making it’s ascent into the sky and it would be soon be too hot to do any hunting. Liam agreed, I was happy for his enthusiasm. As we made our away through the slash the wind now hard against our faces we began to heat up with all of the walking. We stopped to shed some of our clothing when all of a sudden 3 whitetail deer jumped up from the center of the willow choked slash and started to bolt away from us. It did not take me long to realize two of these deer were the ones we had hunted 9 days prior.

Liam get your gun up quick! I planted the shooting stick in the ground the deer were determined to put as much distance between us as they could, I started to doe bleat with my mouth when one of the deer stopped and wheezed loudly to warn any other unsuspecting deer nearby. I lifted my bino’s thinking this one was a doe, Liam it’s a buck get on it! Quick Liam it’s going to run. Though to my surprise the deer stood there stomping it’s front hove. The 250 savage barked sending a 120gr silvertip bullet on it’s way. As I stood there watching the deer’s vitals through the binoculars’ to determine the lethality of the shot. I heard the Smack! The deer flipped over tried to get up once but then expired from a well placed shot. I marked the spot where the deer went down pointed out to the spot to show Liam and had him stay focused on the spot with instructions to send another bullet on its way if he saw the deer get up. I slowly made my way towards where I had seen the deer go down in a semi circle so to not get in the way of Liams line of sight. Upon reaching a high stump and making sure the deer was not going to get up I called for Liam. We both walked in together looking for the deer. Liam was so excited he walked literally almost right over it Twice! Before, he was finally able to hold onto his prize. I let out a big YaHoooooo, one of the proudest moments in my life. Liam made an excellent 127yd neck shot on his deer. After a series of pictures we began field dressing the deer together.

Unfortunately Liam shot this deer several kilometer’s from the truck and with a willow/alder choked slash dragging became difficult very fast. I made a decision to cut the deer in half and pack it out in 2 pieces. Back at the truck we took a much needed water break and then started with the high 5’s and hugs.

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[#1fishslayer]

First I must say good job to all of you guys and gals who get to enter this year!!!!!
I drew a any bull moose tag for region 3-18. Started out hunting first weekend of October and saw a dandy bull. The cards were stacked against me that morning. Then with the sun pumping out a cool +26 nothing moved all weekend.
Next weekend I walked into where I saw the big one, and nothing. So after deciding to do a little driving around, we found a nice bull just standing there offering himself. Shot him with a Remmington 700 in 300wm at 2:30 in the afternoon, on my 3rd trip out.
Loading him was easy! I was able to back my truck up to him, hooked a choker into the trees and used a portable winch to place him in my truck for the ride down the mountain.
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[Tikka270wsm]

Oct 17 was clear and cold on top of the Vancouver Island mountain top I was hunting. I had gotten up there well before sunrise waiting for day break. When it came I began glassing some slashes very carefully as they were steep and grown in with berry bushes and fireweed. I was looking for the elusive VI Blacktail. Half an hour into my hunt, I heard and caught movement at 70 yards below me in one of the slashes. Through the binos, I saw a big body and good antlers. I brought up the 270wsm and sent a 140 grain Nosler Accubond on its way. Dropped this buck in his tracks. He's the biggest bodied deer I've ever shot and the most rewarding being mid October and all.
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[jrhunter]

here is my first blacktail shot on opening day on the north island. small fork but one of the best deer i have eaten yet.
shot him with X bolt .270 with 130grain hornady interlock.
sorry no field pics shot him just before dark.
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[jrhunter]

another one...
I went up to PG this yerar to help out/tag along on my parents and uncles bull draw. they were not successful but early in our week and a half of hunting they spotted a nice buck disappearing over a low hill. they tried to get a shot by following him but he disappeared into thick timber. about 2 days later after spotting a nice bull moose in the area me and my uncle decided to walk through this clearcut and come into a swamp from the backside to see if there were any bulls.

As we reached the end of the deactivated road the swamp was just coming into view. We left the road and walked through the slash to the edge of the swamp. I started to check out the swamp when I caught movement on my right, a lone deer was trotting out of a gully and heading up a hill. I dropped to one knee and saw that it was a good buck (for me) I took a few shots and saw him stumbling and then fall over on his side. I was so excited i almost ran up to him.

It was biggest buck I have ever shot. and it was also the farthest shot i have taken. about 260 yards with my winchester 88 in 308. I was using 168 grain winchester ballistic silvertips. I made a good lung shot and missed both shoulders so there was not a lot of meat damage.

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[rocksteady]

My latest entry...

Took a whitetail doe last night at about 120 yards, neck shot ...Went down POOF !!! Not a great story, knew where they were going to go, headed them off waited them out....

Sorry no pictures, jus the video on Youtube...Hope that counts.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkhHI6xwHvo

80 lbs at the butcher......Mmmmmmm...Cutlets

[krazy]

My first (and hopefully not my last) entry of the year. Not much of a story: Looking for Moose when this guy crossed my path ... so I shot him :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDkFZBF9Mc (the whitey's in about half way)

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[Mio]

My 2010 Youth Season Muley:

The morning didn’t start off like we thought it would. We had been scouting the area that we were in and were surprised that we could not spot the deer that we had been seeing over the last few days. After about an hour we decided to move to a new area.

We arrived in the new area around 8:30 AM and after a bit of glassing with the binos decided to walk the perimiter of a cut block. Not even 15 minutes in I noticed some movement up ahead! I looked with the binos and saw it was a buck feeding up ahead!

I decided I wanted him and the deer hadn’t seen us so I moved a bit to get a good rest on a stump and when he fed into an open spot I shot! The deer didn’t know what hit him!

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Still lookin for a white tail!

[Spuddge]

Here's another entry. Not a very exciting story with this one. Deer hunting a couple of weeks ago working my way through a cut and spotted this blackie out of the corner of my eye. It started to head for the treeline but stopped just long enough to give me a shot. MMMMM more sausage for the winter!

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[moosinaround]

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Sure wish I was posting a picture of myself with an elk, but just as fine table fare is this little bull calf. My son and I harvested this bugger in 7-12b. I hunt this MU religiously every year and it usually produces food for us each year. We started our hunt early in the am and had to power nap a little to wait for daylight. My son and I got out and did a little loop walk looking for his first shot at a big game critter. We were actually looking for a 4 point mulie, but never seen anything except other hunters. We got back to the truck and continued farther into the bush, when I seen a moose in a swamp out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and we got out, I seen it was a cow, so I started to look for the calf. Sure enough there it was kneeling down drinking in the water. I told my son to get his shooting sticks ready he could take the calf. It was about 150yrds and he couldn't see the calf at first so he said "Dad you shoot it" So I lined up with the ole 270win with 140gr accubonds and squeezed off a round and down he went. It was a hell of a pack, I should have skinned it and boned it in the bush but I figured what the hell, I'll give er a try. 1 hour later it was at the truck, and we were dead dog tired, but it sure felt satisfying!! This little fella has a lot of memories attached to him, and will feed us well this winter. Moosin

[Wrayzer]

It all started last night when the wife wanted to go for an evening hunt, we cruised some roads, had some good fun hiking around a bit and just at last light we had seen a white tail buck, decent too. It was getting to dark to shoot especially if I had to track it so I decided to hit the spot in the morning hoping he hadn't traveled too far over night.

Woke up to some cloud coverage and I could see some showers moving in from the west (ya it was past first light) and decided I would do a hike in and see if the buck was still around. I hiked in to the spot where he was, and noticed a lot of fresh sign, so after a decent hike I hunkered down and thought I might as well try some rattling. I rested the rifle against a nice log and brought out my antlers from last seasons buck and clashed them together for about 20 seconds. After stopping and waiting for about 10 seconds I look to my left, nothing, look to my right and low and behold a Muley buck is trotting in my direction at about 175 yards. I check my wind, slow my breathing, get my rifle rested and wait. He stops and looks in my direction, I see a nice shooting lane straight ahead where I figuered he would come in. He trots across in front of me at about 100 yards and getting closer, finally stepping into my shooting lane at about 60 yards and stops. So I aim and fire but nothing. Crap safety. click off the safety and he looks at right at me, its now or never so I fire it right into the boiler room and he drops on the spot. First time I have ever rattled in a buck and man what a rush.
Man did he stink when I got up to him, gutted and dragged a solid 600 yards on my own and loaded into the truck. Wasn't the whitey I was looking for, still have a month to find him, but can't give up a gift like that.
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[huntersam]

headed out in the first few days of the youth season in region 3, with some friends. on the way up we saw lots of game, saw a nice cougar, lots of deer and a coyote, right from there i knew this was going to be a trip full of bonuses to the good times.

There was 10 of us so we split up into small groups, my friend, my dad and me headed out the first morning right at dawn to see what we could stir up. 20 minutes into the hunt we had seen many deer and let a couple of small bucks walk. just after i spotted a nice buck a ways a way and the stalk started. after chasing him over a few ridges and through a few draws i managed to get a shot off at him at 220 yards and he was down, thats when i started jumping for joy i shot my first 4 point. it was a hell of a drag out took us a couple of hours to get him back to the cabin and hanging in the cooler.

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[huntersam]

i have had a pretty good season, we got a coulpe of 4 points back in youth season me and my friend and now i went out with my dad yesterday and brought back another buck.
we headed up to our normal spot we had been seeing a few deer, but gathered that from all the hunting pressure in there over thanks giving weekend, the deer would be looking for somewere to hide. the leaves were all down from the aspens and so we figured to check a ways over were they may have moved into to find cover.
we were quading down an old trail there and i got a tingly feeling that i needed to hike up a ridge i spotted, trusting my instinct i crept up and over as quietly as possible and sure enough just over 150 yards there were several deer making there way up the next ridge. i counted 4 does and a small buck before i spotted this buck, and i took a look at his antlers and counted 4 tines before pulling the trigger as i wasn't looking for a small buck. the deer bucked itself up into the air and landed on its back, i was very happy when i got up to him and realised he was almsot a 5x6

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[mark]

Heres my first entry, first of more hopefully!
6x6 elk taken near the end of season after a frustrating 28 days of hard elk hunting, in the south!
.300 win mag, 180gr. fusion, to the neck to put him down!
Was attending 9 cows!
(Yes thats a browning A-bolt, Gates!) :-D

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Heres the link for more pics and details!
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57498

[GrizGuy92]

heres my 'youth' entry.
first bull moose, region 8 leh.

went out thursday afternoon, did abit of scouting, found a nice cut, went back set up camp, did abit more hunting, saw some mulie does.. friday morning woke up, went to the cut we scouted. walked in 2kms. got to a "vantage point" did abit of glasses. then heard a crash behind us. sounded like a deer of some sort (sounded light hoofed) then all of the sudden i hear from dad "theres a moose! right on the road" so i turned around and put the crosshairs on him, boom, 1 shot from the .270 @ 125 yards made him stumble backwards and fall. then 1 to the head.
roughly 40 inch spread. drop tine on its right side.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/SenatorJunkie/DSC00203.jpg
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm182/SenatorJunkie/bullmoose.jpg
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[JDR]

Me and my partner have hunted hard for elk locally the last three years. Well, it finally paid off when this guy snuck in after my partner did some great calling. Have to say I'm hooked on elk hunting now!

http://i747.photobucket.com/albums/xx113/Muleybuck/Hunting%202009/Bullwherehedropped.jpg

[2x4x16]

So here is the one and only picture.My leh 3/4 curl big horn and the hard hike out to the quad 20 yards down hill

http://i698.photobucket.com/albums/vv343/2x4x16/IMG_1750.jpg

[jrod113]

my entry for the contest:
taking this buck was an extrordinary way, to end an already great weekend. the trip was to an area in reg. 7 that my family has been hunting for years. the whole crew was up there and things were goin well, some meat was already hanging. on the last night of hunting, the last path to walk, my partner and i split a few groups of does and continued slowly on. more does, both sides of us, and some veryy close. defenitely "deery stuff". the following deer we found at the very end of the cut, just out of the tree line. 1 shot and the deer made a run for it into the thick stuff. losing daylight, we began a search that lasted well into dark with no results. we made our way a couple hours back to camp, assembled a search party of 4 guys and 4 lanterns and went back for him. this is what we found

[Doe Eyes]

Here is a photo of my little island buck. Not much of a story, havent seen too many deer around yet.
Was with a bunch of does...spotted him laying in the grass...one shot and its over. Tasty little guy!http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/deer_with_koda.jpg

[lightmag]

1st night out for spring bear, saw 5, took this 6 footer. 1st kill with the new X bolt 300 WSM, 165 TSX 200 yards, hit him hard, did a complete flip and ran 30 yards and died on the log in the pic!! now I hold out for a big one or a nice color phase!!

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o298/dentonjohnson/springbear001.jpg

[lightmag]

so i Took a day off to catch up on sleep and hang with the family. Next morning I'm out solo again.. out calling, hiking and into my honey hole block calling... what's that?? a answer?? yep sure enough wuh wuh wuh .. bull coming?? sit down and hear he coming at a run towards me through heavy willow... no paddles that's good.... comes into 70-80 yards facing me in heavy heavy willow, 10 more yards and i will be able to ID him.... what? he turns and silently leaves!!! wind was swirling and he must have winded me!!! home i go.

next morning grab my best friend and head back out to this spot with the small bull. As per google earth we take a back hike into the top side of the valley where there is better visibility and sit and start calling. 30 minutes nothing...45 nothing... then......waaaaaaah waaaaaaah cow calling?? WTF this cow continues calling constantly for 20 minutes? we decide to hike in from the other side again to see if a bull comes into her, end result, no moose!

we head out to the truck, it's 9:30am.. jump in go for a driving, head up this road that goes by a swamp..... MOOSE.... TWO MOOSE.. out we go.... cow......not again, CALF!!! now i'm getting annoyed, i say where are the small 2pt's that are usually hanging around?? we look around.. nothing anywhere! back to the truck, drive ahead to turn around and head home and MOOSE... HOLY S****T 2 POINT!! out of the truck.. 50 yards and he's running.. i grunt, he stops BOOM.. humps up starts running, i grunt he stops.. BOOM...he humps up again and starts walking slowly towards the swamp!! NO NOT THE SWAMP.. 1 to the hump and it's all over! my 1st ever 2 pt.. they do exist, lol...

so that get's you up to date on my season to date... now onto helping my best friend and brother get their moose and then..... BIG MULEY TIME!!!

the 300 WSM 165gr TSX's performed great at 50 yards, lol.. 3/4" entry holes, both shots hitting ribs and destroying lungs and exiting 3 inches apart with big bleeding 2-3" exit holes.
http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o298/dentonjohnson/2ptmoose004.jpg

[steelheadSABO]

Spent a week in the bush hunting had a doe draw which was a gimme Frenchbar and I went out on the quads and spooked up three does. Well I was still waking up and was far two slow to get a shot off so about half hour later we spot two more does way off in the distance around 175-200 yards so I let the lead fly with my grandpas old model 88 boom... nothing happened... click click boom Frenchbar say "I don't think you hit him" so we go out into the cut looking around and there it is the doe. With the quad it made quick work of getting it out and back to camp for skinning. Out later that evening I saw a spike and that was it didn't shoot at it because I knew the year my uncle passed away was the year I was gonna get a big buck. So a couple days later my dad was tired of bouncing around on the quad so we did a hour drive around when it would only take ten minutes on the quad. We were driving along and saw a couple pulled over on the side of the road that said they had seen a buck so we continued on past to the spot were I had seen the spike. Tired of riding in the truck I was out the door and walking before a knew it. I could sense a Buck on the other side of the hill right along the tree line, I could tell my feet could sense it too since by now I was almost jogging towards the hill. I get too the top and look down and what do I see a a set of antlers moving quickly across the cut not only antlers but steaks and burgers too. So again my model 88 was loaded before I knew what was going on and boom nothing happened the buck was moving just as quickly through the cut. So I let out a grunt he looks back for a second. Click click boom he drops on the spot my dad runs up behind to see what was going on just as a spot two more bucks moving along the ridge to the left. Two Two points I point them out too my dad but in the moment he didn't notice the stump he could have rested on. He let out three shots with the 270 but didn't even slow them down. We go down to check out mine and he's still breathing a little so I quickly finished him off. The first shot went down through the spine through the heart and out the neck. After we got it gutted out we dragged it about fifty yards with only half a kilometer left to go I decided it would be quicker if he drove the hour each way to get the quad. So as I'm sitting out in the open next to this carcass two does come walking within ten yards of me. Once we got the quad there we Through it up on the back and hauled it out not bad for a 2wd. I'm practicing doing a European mount so I got the skull boiling right now since I don't have beetles.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20924&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent

[Riverbc]

So, I went on my first moose hunt this fall, with friends. I'd gotten an LEH draw, and this was to be my first ever, big game hunt. I had to borrow a rifle from a buddy at work, as I had only bird hunted before. Caroline had told me to learn how to do moose calls, as her and her husband don't call....Terry uses a moose antler and "rakes" it against branches, and does bull grunts every now and then, and has success over the years with that method. So, I learned how to do cow moose calls as we would be in an area where the rut was just starting.Thank goodness for youtube!
We spent 4 days driving the logging roads, and checking out logging cut blocks, with binoculars. I had done lots of research as this was my first game hunt, and I do like to be informed. So on the morning of the 5th day, I asked them to drive up the side road in a cut block and drop me off at the top of the hill, where I'd have a great view of the valley below, plus the sound would carry a good distance. After they drove off, I walked out into the cut block, found a dead tree and knelt down behind it. I let out a few cow calls and settled down with my binoculars in hand, scanning the valley below me. After only 10-15 minutes of waiting, I thought I heard a noise. Scanning the tree line, down below, I saw a moose standing 50 yards out from the trees. At that distance I didn't know if it was a cow or bull. I called again, and definitely heard a bull grunt as he started walking out into the valley floor. He walked about 400 yards, and then stopped at the main road.....looking up the hillside. I called again , and with no hesitation he grunted and continued on his way. Now he was coming up the hill, directly at me. Every 30-50 yards he'd stop and look in my direction. I'd call, he'd grunt, and start walking again. About 200 yards away he stopped, and I gave a real faint call, as if a cow moose was moving away from him. The bull then started walking, but was angling towards the side road. At this point I brought up the rifle, but had a hard time finding him in the scope. I finally had him in the scope. When he stopped, I had a perfect broadside view. I found my spot on him, and squeezed off a shot. I was really surprised at how he just dropped. I stood up and slowly walked up behind him. Terry had said to be very careful, and to get close and put a finishing shot into the head. I don't believe I needed to, but wanted to take no chances.
So how did I feel? I was very excited when he got to the road, and came in a straight line at me. I knew I had a chance. I had calmed down as I worked him closer towards me. I felt a little panic when I couldn't find him in the scope. When he fell, and didn't get up, I felt a huge sense of relief. I really didn't want to screw up. I definitely felt I had really accomplished something. My first hunt, and I had called in a moose from just over 1 kilometer away, to 95 yards of me, where I dropped it with one shot. When I told my hunting partners my tale, they explained what I had done was no small feat. I soaked up the praise that came my way. They were also very happy that the moose lay less than 30 yards from the side road, as now the work was to begin.

http://www3.telus.net/river_rat/moose4.jpg

[krazy]

Entry #2

Weird year ... ran into a whitey buck while looking for a moose and now bumped into this delicious spike/fork bull moose while looking for a muley buck. Oh well I'm not complaining! Best part about it was that I was out hunting with my son! Can't beat that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTS7OanZKxA

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/medium/HPIM3557.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/showphoto.php?photo=20996&size=big&cat=&si=2010)

[dime]

Not much of a story, I was driving along at last light on Sept 14 and saw three deer down in the bottom of the slash. I threw up my binoculars and lo and behold they were all young bucks. As we had no deer hanging in camp at this stage I decided that the two point was better nothing and dropped him with my 30-06 at 110 yards with an 180 grain round. He ran about 40 yards and piled up, his buddies did not run they actually started walking towards the area where he went down. No wonder young bucks get shot.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21002&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent

[Kody94]

jrod113: That's a great buck!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2994&d=1288224370

[ravensfoot]

Here's my story, the beginning is here and I have posted a link to the rest (cause it required a number of different photos being added)


Just got back from the Chilcotin area from a 9 day hunt this weekend and wanted to share. I enjoyed all the other hunting stories so I thought I would post one of my own.

It started out with some questions to the fine people on HBC. I have hunted in the Chilcotin in the past but my biggest concern was looking for the best place to set up camp. A few tips were also passed on and appreciated.

We arrived in our camp without incident after a 7 hour drive. Our original plan was to camp at the Fletcher Lake Forestry site but it was full. We travelled a little further and found a spot on a smaller lake. Our camp was set up in no time and we were happily sitting by the fire enjoying a beer by the time the sun set.

Chilco Moose Hunt...

Just got back from the Chilcotin area from a 9 day hunt this weekend and wanted to share. I enjoyed all the other hunting stories so I thought I would post one of my own.

It started out with some questions to the fine people on HBC. I have hunted in the Chilcotin in the past but my biggest concern was looking for the best place to set up camp. A few tips were also passed on and appreciated.

We arrived in our camp without incident after a 7 hour drive. Our original plan was to camp at the Fletcher Lake Forestry site but it was full. We travelled a little further and found a spot on a smaller lake. Our camp was set up in no time and we were happily sitting by the fire enjoying a beer by the time the sun set.
http://ravensfoot.com/hunting/chilcoot/IMG_4202-2.jpg

Up at 5am for the first mornings hunt, we have studied all the maps, regs, and roads and head off in three separate directions for scouting. I parked my truck on an old slash and hiked in about 5k to a sweet little meadow. Scouted around and let out a whimpy cow call. About 15 minutes later while still hunting in the surrounding forest, I hear what I thought was an even worse rendition of a cow call from another hunter when I realized this thing is real. The gargling from-the-gut sound towards the end of each bawl was not one that any human could make. I had to pursue this as it was only a couple hundred yards through the bush. Quickly did a compass and wind check and headed towards the sound. I came out on another section of the meadow and spotted a mature cow moose feeding on the willows. Gladly watched her for about 1/2 hour till she slipped away. (Blurry Photo - sorry zoomed up)
http://ravensfoot.com/hunting/chilcoot/IMG_4340-27.jpg


Rest of the story can be found here on this thread: CLICK HERE (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57857)

[Jehiah]

Sure Ill submit.
I shot my first mule deer; second of a double header.
I was trudging my way up to the top of a small mountain where my partner had just rang out a few shots and crackled on the radio. As I was sweating up a particularly steep section of the hill I managed a glance up and to my left; seeing this gentleman peering down at me. 3 seconds later my 150gr Barnes tsx launched from my 7mm (loaded with retumbo) and found its way into his shoulder. He hobbled about 10yrds before taking a nap.
I cut my tag and joined my hunting partner to celebrate his kill.

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy24/jchalifour/DSC_0091.jpg


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[cainer]

Entry numero 2- Okanagon Whitetail Buck

Here's the story:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=58104&highlight=white+tail

and here's the unlucky Buck:

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr331/cainer1/900.jpg
:mrgreen:

[Derp]

#1 Got this slingshot buck on opening day in region 4. Not much of a story, pulled up to our honey hole first light and picked this boy out of the group. Sent out my first shot at 200 yds with my 180gr Federal from my ruger 30-06..direct hit double lung. Watched him bleed from the boiler room for a few seconds but he didn't drop. So another shot hits him 2" from the first then decides to go down. :mrgreen:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs724.snc4/64491_429040285965_513685965_5518187_6252576_n.jpg

[Derp]

#2 Now time for a whitie. After passing a group of dandy whitie bucks I settled for this tener morsel spiker whitie buck, which turned out to be a dry doe :confused:.. haha anyways since it has antlers its plenty legal! One shot w/ same 180 gr federal from 30-06 down he/she goes!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs370.ash2/64855_428908485965_513685965_5515490_7827786_n.jpg

[Derp]

#3. This bear was spotted staring at us in the woods as we were leaving the bush. I decided to cut my second bear tag this year and 4 shots later from the 30-06 she was down. I don't really know why it took 4 shots; first one should've finished her as the bullet entered through the neck :confused:

Anywhoozle here is the pic:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs748.snc4/64855_428908510965_513685965_5515495_4516119_n.jpg

[generallee]

I'm so escited to share this! We had such a awesome trip!

It all started with a 12 hour drive to 7.6 hunting grounds to our special spot that some of the other guys have been going to for many years, 3 rookies on this trip, including myself.

We set out our first day checking out the area, making sure that everyone was familiar with it. Didn't see much for Tracks or movement that morning, pretty quite. After talking with a few other hunters that had been there for 11 days without anything in sight, so we head back for Breakfast/Lunch and decide were we would head for the evening. I decided I wanted to Head out on the Quad with one of the other guys, we covered a pretty good area without seeing anything just a few old tracks. Well our luck was about to change. We managed to catch up to some of the others in the group at about 5:00PM and they had decided that they were going to shoot some chickens (Grouse) and continue hunting moose in the morning. So we move on and head up the same road they were on. Well about 1 KM up the road we came through a creek on a corner and about 200 Yards up the road staring at us was a Bull, it took about 2 minutes to confirm because the Moose only had a Deformed Knub on one side, and wasn't turning the other way to get a good veiw. While my buddy was looking at the moose a I crawled over to get a clear shot (well I was freakin shakin with excitement as this was my first Moose oportunity) My Buddy shot and dropped the Moose on the Spot on the side of the muddy road Before I even Heard him confirm 2 x WTF, meanwhile the rest of the group was watching us from just around the corner and could not quite see what we were shooting at. But as soon as they heard the Shot they new! There were 6 of us to pretty much witness this, and 3 of us are new hunters. Pretty Damm Exciting. Take er back to camp and start cleaning..

I'm now thinking, this moose hunting thing is pretty cool, easy as hell right? Well the weather had changes just a little over night to -5, this should get them moving, so after a late night (2AM), we set the Alarms and up and out at 6:00AM to go look for more illusive Immatures as only one of us had a Cow Tag. I couldn't get anyone else to come on the other Quad with me that morning ( to cold, sore Back sore Bla, Bla, Bla) What ever. So I say screw it, my second day hunting ever I head out by myself early and get over to where we shot the last one, same area they shot there Cow the previous year (3KM area). So I'm taking my time cruising along and I can tell i'm the first hunter down this road this morning as there is ice on the Puddles until some local hunting guides that work in the area come racing up behind me, I let them through and them they start hunting 100 Yards in front of me on the same road (these guys need a serious tune up , as they are agressive towards everyone that comes up there). Anyways i chill out poor a coffee and have a smoke, continue on until I caught up to them again at a clearing so I chill out again a decide to work my way back so I can stay in Radio contact with the rest of my group. So i'm cruising along for about 1/2 hour and I'm coming around a corner and up a small hill and Holy Crap, another Bull, but this time I'm even closer 100 Yards. Well I'm shakin from excitement again, grab the Bino's confirm 3 times 2x2, 2x2, 2x2, Did i say I was excited? Well I set myself all up, look throught the scope, Crap my scope is All fogged up, and I had to wait what seemed like forever then "POW", I dropped him with my 7MM Savage on the spot, dropped like a rock on the side of the Muddy road 8:30AM.

Well I get on the Radio and Get ahold of another part of my group and Guess what? we can come help in about 2 hours, Cow Down about 1KM down the road, this is not so easy, Down a ravine, across a river, it took 6 of us 7 hours to get her to the road with turfer jacks, a 10ft boat and a truck, bent the taillgate on the truck loading her. We spent the next 2 days cleaning moose Quarters.... What a trip. I think we hunted for about 14hours, hauled the Cow out of the Bush for 7 hours and Cleaned meat for about 18 hours (rookies) and drove for 26 hours.

I've been having problems trying to up load pictures, so here is a link to 200 photo's of our trip.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=301025&id=745604008&l=636642808e

[stinney]

Here is my entry,

Now I'm fairly new to HBC and even newer to hunting. I've been an outdoors person my entire life just never crossed the gap to the next step. So this is my first EVER hunting trip! Finally was able to get an opportunity and went with a group of friends. We had an LEH for shared group moose hunt in are 5-04. We went pretty remote and did a lot of hiking. After 5 days of hiking (and no luck!)we zeroed in on where they were rutting. On the 6th day we broke into two groups to try and chase them into eachother. Around noon I heard a shot and found that my friend got one! Excited and relieved while they got the moose ready to pack out, the remaining three of us took a compass bearing to take us towards camp.

Sure enough ten min later the other two go off course and now Im alone. Looking around I find some fresh tracks and signs and conviently enough it goes in the general direction I was headed anyways.

After two hours of following these trails and minding wind direction I came to a field and there he was standing about 100yards away looking at my direction. He was aware of me but couldnt smell or see me so he was curious then became skiddish and began to turn tail and run. I let out a bull grunt he stops dead in his tracks and begins to come right too me and turns broadside. I check with my bino's and sure enough antlers :-D. My head begins to think of scenario's (mainly if anyone else shot another). After quick thinking I decided to go for it and with my 30-06 at about 65yards I send a bullet through his lungs and out his shoulder. He takes two steps drops and is done. I come up to him smile, let out a victory yell, take some photos, then panic and fear sets in.

I realize Im alone, no one knows where I am and Im with a freshly killed moose. Oh and I've never done this before. After that wave subsides I remember everything I've read on this website and other places and begin to go systematically what to do. I decided to start field dressing and prepping the meat for transport. Step 1. have your partner grab...oh yea I'm alone...Step 1b. if no partner use rope to tie a leg to a tree...oh yea I'm in the middle of a meadow. So I chuckle and compromise and end up doing a decent job I must say! (Hindsight 20-20 really should go with a partner for cases like this). All ends well I make it easily to camp and take my group (who heard me shoot him) to the site and there was much celebration. It was one of my prouder moments and I can't wait to get out there again!!

Also I'm not the greatest with formating pics to post so I aplogize if the pic is blurry or too small

[kishman]

Hi all, just got home from a great trip in 3-39. I was into Deer every day except for the first one(thursday). I hadn't ever spent much time rattling for Deer so this trip I decided I'd really dedicate some time to it. Man, I'm glad I did, four times I had Mulies come in to see what all the fuss was about. One Doe litteraly trotted up to where I was without a care in the world, amazing. On Saturday evening I was Rattling away at the top of a clearcut I'd walked up. Well, after about 45 mins. or so I start to think about heading back to the Truck with 15 minutes of shooting light left. So I get up I walk over and have a look down the bank, there's two Bucks walking across the road below me!!

The road I walked up was a switchback, so the Bucks were maybe 75 yards away, below me, walking slowly toward the next drop off down the switchback. I was able to get prone(I still had my bi-pod extended from rattling) I took aim at the second Buck as the first was already heading over the bank, this was the biggest Deer I'd ever eye'd through a scope and the old ticker was really pumping!! He just kept going toward the bank and I was starting to get that slipping away feeling, in desperation I let out a loud grunt as he was going over the bank.

He stopped, but all I could see was his head, looking back toward me and his ar$e. I already had the crosshairs on his head as he, every so slowly, began to look away. I put the crosshairs under his left ear and fired, he dropped as if struck by lightning-my first Mulie was on the ground. The shot entered under the left ear and exited out the right eye. I was shooting a Sako 85 in .270wsm with handloaded 130gr. Barnes TSX over 61.0 grains of RL-17, good for around 3160 fps and very accurate from my gun. I don't think I'd have taken this shot without this setup, by far my most accurate handload to date.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k43/kishman_2006/003-2.jpg

[farside]

Well here is my entry. Best buck for me to date and best shot for me to date. Did not even 2nd guess my shot for a sec. As it was early October, counting head gear was not a worry and I didn't care (chops are chops). He was far enough away that head gear could be seen but not counted. Good enough for me. Free hand, and down hill. Watched him drop in his tracks. When I finally got to him I was pretty happy. No ground shrinkage:-D

Now I actually have to get the pic in here. Back in a sec

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h325/darcybedyk/hunting/IMAG0019.jpg

[Muleycatcher]

Nov 6th buck. Taken in the Merritt area. Just got lucky and caught him in a cut with a doe. 150yd shot with the 300wsm and down he went.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd221/muleycatcher/IMG_2331.jpg

[trapperdan2061]

Sunday Buck down
Went out sunday with another member, in the morning he was in a stand where I have been seeing deer all week but the was nothing. I went over to another field and bumped 3 does getting in and saw another 3 does but nothing worth shooting.

We went for lunch at A&W and came back to a different stand where I was going to leave him for the evening hunt. I had seen does in the field when I went back to fetch him up for lunch.


We were hiking into the stand when I see a buck coming up the hill towards us. I tell Carroll to hold up as I move forward, the buck ovvers a neck shot at 29 yards and that it.

I draw the bow and release, the arrow nicks him in the neck he runs down hill into the hollow under a big ceder tree and stands there. I move slowly in cover down the hill and stand just out of view. Knowing that if I move it's over. I can see him clear and broad side. Knock another arrow and draw, estimating the yardage and let it go. It's a good solid hit just behind the front right leg. He runs about 30 yards into the thick stuff and piles up.

Oh ya the yardage I figured him at was 60, actual yardage with range finder 62.

When I was learning to bow hunt in Ontario 10 years ago the hardcore archery guy at the shop said it is always good to practice to the max you feel comfortable. So I have always practiced out to 60 yards.

Well it looks like it paid off with a 5X4 my biggest Blacktail ever.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/m...1/IMG_6115.jpg (http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm257/trapperdan2061/IMG_6115.jpg)

[showtimebc]

Region 3 buck, harvested on Nov 4th, 2010. Watched him for about an hour and half as he went from bed to bed and zig zagged through the trash. Eventually he presented a shot from 200 yards away and I was able to calm my nerves and put him down! My bigggest buck to date!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC00036x2.jpg

[qhergt]

well, i havnt even been shooting my bow for a month and have been out hunting with it for the past few weeks. stalked lots of deer but either didnt get close enough or couldnt get a clear shot. well last night just before sunset i spotted this buck in a wide open cut block kreeping up on a doe. i stalked him for about 10 min and 75 meters berfore he turned broad side from me at 20 meters. he dropped like sack of hammers then dragged himself 3 feet before he went over onto his side. hes a 4X2 blacktail but would have been a 3 had the one brow tine not have been broken.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1141.snc4/148301_10150320453525607_512865606_15713020_335908 7_n.jpg

[c.r.hunter]

Region 3 buck, harvested on Nov 4th, 2010. Watched him for about an hour and half as he went from bed to bed and zig zagged through the trash. Eventually he presented a shot from 200 yards away and I was able to calm my nerves and put him down! My bigggest buck to date!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC00036x2.jpg

Hey was that just up the hill from that lost 4x4 we both saw last year? That buck looks familliar, just a year older!

[jessonml]

This is my first buck. I got this guy late in the day on October 3 just below Alpine in Region 8. We saw a big buck from a distance (900 yards or so) and tried to close that distance on him by coming down other side of the ridge and then creeping over and looking down where he was. The big boy was gone but there were 2 smaller bucks sparring. I found a rest on my backpack and made the 275 yard shot and dropped one of them with my 300WSM with 168 grain TTSX.
I was so pumped. Finally in my 3rd year of hunting and so many opportunities I had my first buck.

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It was a long haul out... about 4kms and the first 2 were through some nasty brush. Thankfully I had 2 buddies to help me out. The meat has been amazing.

[jessonml]

I spent a week in Empire Valley with some good buddies. We got a couple bucks and on the second last day I got one!
It had been very hard hunting as all the bucks were in the thick stuff and there was no wind so the forest was very quiet. Basically I was bouncing deer all day everyday and the only shot I had after 4 days of hunting was on a 2 point on my first day. It was very exciting hunting, however and I was just happy to be out there. On my 2nd last day I climbed up a new hill that I could see was the highest point in the area. Nearing the top there was sign everywhere (as usual). I bumped a big deer from about 150 yards and I could see it was "probably a buck" from the size. There was only a very slight breeze so I knew that simply sneaking behind him would be impossible. Instead I sat down and had a bite to eat to give him some time and then used the freshly falling snow to find where he was bedded and see where his tracks went. I found his bed and followed the tracks for a bit then saw that they went down a ridge. I looped the other way to get upwind of where he would be and on the top of my loop I spotted him through the trees. He was still and obviously heard me but couldn't smell me. I was quite sure he was a buck but his antlers were mixed in with branches. I couldn't believe how long it took to be SURE that he was a buck. I had to slide along the ground on my butt to get a better look when finally he turned his head slightly and gave me the view I needed. Boom! Through the base of the neck and he dropped instantly. It was only a 70 yard shot with my 300 WSM and the ttsx did its magic again. It was a great shot not ruining any meat because it exited behind the shoulder as he was quartered on. I was pumped to see that he was bigger than my first mulie and had 4 points... small 4 point but 4 none-the-less. I radioed my buddies and the work began. I had 8 kms back to camp! I got him down the mountain myself when my buddy and his Dad met me with a game cart! What a relief! We carted him back to camp and everyone was happy for me as we had all been trying so hard for several days.

I got this picture after dragging him down a mountain and getting an antler in the leg when we both slid down the hill and I had to stop the buck from tumbling further. It was all an experience I will never forget. He looks kinda ratty here and my handlebars were cut in especially for our trip haha

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[yiorgo3]

http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/georgerounis/28inchmule2.jpgSo after leaving my cousins house in Invermere we headed out for our second day of hunting. Along the way in to the valley we see two pickup trucks heading our way. One goes past and it is the CO. As we go around the corner there is another CO. He stops and checks us. A very nice person he asks the regular questions and off we go. As we are getting close to the area we are going to hunt, Dad and I spot two does heading up the river bank. As I look back and up towards the timber line I see antlers. I get out of the truck load a shell into the 300 win mag and find the deer in the scope. I have to take 2 steps to the side and one step backwards to get a better look at his antlers. (4 pt season) He turns and looks back at me. No doubt he is a legal buck. 60 yards uphill shot one in the neck. He weighed 170lbs at the butchers. (hide off) Biggest mule yet. Shot on Sunday November 7th at around 8:45 am

[kishman]

Hi all, well I went out to try and fill my LEH draw(Mulie Doe) in 3-19 last week. I ended up staying out at Mile High Resort, great place. Clean, affordable and Hunter friendly. Anyway I had 5 days up there and began seeing Does right away. Nearly all the Does I saw had Fawns, twins more often then not. A few hits on the Fawn bleat call usually brought them right in, fawns and all.......

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On day three in the morning I spotted a lone Doe feeding on a bare hillside, maybe 800-1000 yards away. The trail I was walking along at the time lead right to the Hillside the Doe was on, so I was able to walk to within 250-300 yards of her without being detected. Once in place I tried the Fawn bleat again, and once again, the Doe wandered right up for a clean broadside shot at around 75 yards of so. She stepped into the treeline, got maybe 10 feet in and that was it.

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So, I stayed up at the cabin for two more days, hiking, teasing the Does with my Fawn bleat:mrgreen:, only saw one spiker Buck during my stay. Back at the Cabin, they have a barn to hang animals in. It was nice to be able to really take some time and clean up the carcass spic and span for the butcher. Smokies, Garlic Sausage, Roasts - done by Larry at Weyemouth Meats here in Abby. Best year hunting for me yet, I LOVE IT!!!!!

[BUCKJR]

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Here's my entry. Glassed this guy from a bluff overlooking a few open areas in the valley we hunt. Usually a short stop as it is between two of the more popular spots we have been hunting. Made our way down to where we expected he was heading and he showed up. Closed the distance a bit and put him down while he was shredding a small tree.

[Buckmeister]

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I just happen to have some great muley habitat right out my back door. This one was taken Nov 14th, 2010 at about 9:05 am. I was just headed back home after a morning hunt and was almost home when I came around a corner and found this guy with about 3 or 4 does. Not the monster I was aching to get, but he is a 4x5 and will suffice nonetheless.

[Doe]

My monster blacktail

Took two hours of creeping quietly thru a large slash so we could pop out on a bowl from the treeline side. Spotted the girlfriends first, and this beast was in full on rut, we counted 4 girls running, but only one hung out after I took him down. 8:45 am time of death, had no idea he was as big as he was until the the pig fell.http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/tnlpinkney/P1030437-1.jpg
This is a pic of me and my two guides, best in the area:mrgreen:

[Tank]

After passing on a decent buck while awaiting a 4 day deer hunt with Willyqbc I was hoping to make good on our trip. We were hunting thick bush on crown land with the help of some locals (met a couple years earlier through HBC). They had done the hard work setting up stands in key locations over the last 20 years...all we had to do was show up wait for a buck (sounds easy). unfortunately the weather warmed up and we saw very few bucks. I think bad luck played a key role as our hosts kept spotting bucks (smaller than the crankers they typically hold out for). On the morning of day 4 I was almost 3 hours into my sit on an bushed-in slash line when sticks snapping in the bush behind me caught my attention. This guy and his doe were passing by just outside of my view....a couple grunts brought him over to have a look. He stopped behind some cover just off the line....all I could see was a bit of shoulder and legs. After a minute or two he finally turned his head and I was able to a tine through the twigs. After 24 hours of butt time in tree stands without seeing a buck, and because it was likely the last day of my season, my standards where low enough that this tine meant he was a shooter. He took another couple steps into the open and I swung into position, after pausing just long enough to make sure the buck wasn't below even my standards (took about 1/8th of a second) I pulled the pin. So no regrets on passing a larger buck a couple weeks ago. It was a good time out with friends and a new style of hunting for me and a chance to get another hunt in this year with Willyqbc.

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[Tank]

I was getting the bug to get out a couple weeks ago, but my wife was out of town and I had my two year old and three year old to look after as well as the dogs. I had a doe tag in my pocket and figured it might be worth a try.....

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[o2fish2day]

We decided to do a November hunt this year for the first time in many years. My partner and had already had some good luck and had seen three potential shooters throughout the weekend (4 point) but couldn't confirm the points on them so had to pass them up.


On the third day of our hunt we got fresh snow in the morning and were first ones down the logging road.

We parked and proceeded to stalk through the forest when I came upon another road covered with lots of deadfall, just as I stepped on the road and noticed some footprints in the fresh snow, I heard a loud commotion on the opposite side of the road, clack clack clack, - sounded like two large animals fighting, I figured it was two moose as Mule Deer don't typically fight each other. Then, I saw a flash of this guys antlers and heard him grunting several times. That was pretty cool as I had never hear a deer actually make the grunt noise before.

I could also hear another animal breathing heavily right behind a tree next to me. I blew my deer call and a doe walked out onto the road followed by this guy. Neither noticed me until they were 20 feet away, then the doe walking with her head down right towards me finally looked up and stopped. This big boy was too focused on her and walked right next to her, I knew the jig was up and had to shoot or loose them so I took the shot, just 20 feet away. The sound scared out a second buck who was behind a tree to the right of me, and he had certainly been fighting the larger one. He was a small 2 point, missing one antler. I guess this big bully ripped it right off his head! He just slinked away into the bush. (probably laughing at the 5x4 for such bad luck!)

Anyways, it was quite an amazing experience.


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[835]

If you cant tie knots tie lots!!!

Great buck, But did you think you just knocked it out?

[325]

I was getting the bug to get out a couple weeks ago, but my wife was out of town and I had my two year old and three year old to look after as well as the dogs. I had a doe tag in my pocket and figured it might be worth a try.....

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/KidsDoeHunt-email.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/KidsDoeHunt3-email.jpg

That bottom pic is priceless!

[betteroffishing]

heres my 5x5 region 3 mulie. the thread detailing the hunt is labelled " big buck down " i took him early on the 14th of nov with my brother .http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/571.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21133&size=big&cat=&what=allfields&name=betteroffishing)http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/misc/title222.gif (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/index.php?)http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/misc/title222.gif (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/index.php?)http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/images/misc/title222.gif (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/index.php?)http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/580.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21132&size=big&cat=)

[Downwind]

Here's the trip, the sorrow, the triumph...

This year's hunt was going to be great. I missed out on last year as I had certain preoccupations that inhibitated me getting out. This year involved a 'new' hunter, who was 78 years young, who was a great person but cost a lot in equipment and retained meat. But that is another story that does not deserve to be in this same post.

I haven't had a lot of chances to hunt with my brother because I moved out of province after high school and my brother moved out of country not much after and, in just the last couple of years, we came back together, after about a decade. My brother has never shot a big game animal at this point. I wanted to take him out and see what we could find.

We head out and driving past a couple farmer's field's I spot a few does. We watch for a bit and drive on. In the next field we see a beautiful buck, but he's smart and is in a farmer's field. We keep on and this is why I wanted to go to this area. I knew behind these fields there were a few FSR's.

We head down a service road and shootin' the s**t. I think we should take a certain road. It just felt like it was going to back onto a farmer's fiend and a big old boy would be waiting for us. We get to the bottom and it is getting really greasy. It's been pouring with rain all week and I'm thankful for the 4 wheel drive in the truck.

Apologetic to my brother for not seeing anything , while we are on our way out, he spots a deer... and another. I pull over and we get out. I'm trying to slow him down. My heart is jumping hoping there's a buck here to score his first on last day of any buck season. We break past the small stand of trees we see the two had disappeared behind. I put up the binos. there's 4! And it's 4 does.

So I coax my bro back to the truck while he's trying to paint a pair of spikes on one of them, we head out. As I'm apologizing for my being wrong I'm still impressed as we had seen more deer in this 4 hour period that we had in the last week. J points and says 'DEER' just as I notice a white butt. I noticed the younger doe behind her and say it's just a couple does.

He jumps out and throws in a shell and says 'there's more!" Just as he says that he gets a view of the next animal and says it's a buck. My only thought that came out was' Well drop'em'. Bang flop. And I am proud to say I was able to be with my bro on his first big game kill! For all the poor parts of this hunt after this still trumps!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Justin_s_buck.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21174&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=11054)

Best hunting trip for me yet.... But I am taking out an interested young hunter this weekend... to be continued?

[moose2]

This is my 2010 stone ram Oct 2 2010

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Alaska_hi_way_2010_009.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20583&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13763)

The full story http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=56446&highlight=sheep+tale

[Tarp Man]

My entry is for my September alpine velvet mulie. After spending a day hiking into the alpine, we waited for 3 days in the alpine glassing the mountainside in between getting snowed on, hailed on, rained on, fogged out. After changing locations due to the safety margin getting trimmed significantly by the weather, we spent an afternoon scouting and hunting a new area, and sun finally cooperated. The next day was spent hiking into the alpine bowl that ultimately gave up my first 4x4 mulie. After glassing the bowl for 4 hours in the fleeting sun, the clouds parted and I spotted the buck surrounded by two does and a 3 point, set up as perfect sentries. A quick discussion between hunting buddies, and a plan was formed. A rapid decent began, dropping 1500ft in 20 minutes. We then split up, with my buddy going up wind, and me churning my way up the hill to get in position down wind. Well, the plan worked with my buddy's position making the deer get nervous and move towards my now stealthy position. Perfect plan, perfect setup, and for once the deer cooperated. Count points one more time, make sure not to shoot the three point, BOOOM! Deer down. A quick deboning and the pack out began. Technical details: Tikka T3 in .30/06 shooting 180gr Swift A-Frame bullet. Shot at approx 85 yards, downhill, kneeling shot (always good to practice field shooting positions!).

This big game entry is due in large part to my hunting buddy and good friend Lapadat. A guy couldn't find a better hunting partner and friend.

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[Blainer]

I was up early and thought I would put an entry in on mud-dog27's behalf.
In the event he wins 1 of the 2 fishing trips,I would think this may influence who he might take.

"Memorable final day"
The final days of the season are when my partner and I concentrate our best efforts at tagging a big buck.The better part of the year we concentrate on trying to achieve the younger fellas in our life an opportunity at a buck,for which we have been very successful.This year we had one of the younger fellas jump on board for the final week,which is primarily in pursuit of not just 4 points but big 4 points.Our theory was,in the event of a smaller 4 point,we would offer up an opportunity for the younger fella,muddog27.We hunted hard for 4 days and had seen many doe's,along with smaller bucks,but nothing to write home about.We figured the rut was on,but the doe's seemed to be running behind schedule.
Untill we happened on a hot doe on the second to last day,not only a hot doe,but a hot doe with a buck on her heels.This is what we were looking for and patience was on our side as the buck had only one thing on his mind.After some brief deliberation we decided this would be a GREAT buck for muddog.Now,the fact that my partner and I have each shot many a decent buck,we have started to appreciate the elation the younger guys get upon a harvest and the harvest of a big buck will forever be a memorable hunt in our memory banks.Cody(muddog27)performed flawlessly and managed to tag his biggest buck to date.This was a special year,as it was Cody that put the smack on the only moose of our group hunt,again a first for Cody.
We managed 2 to the butchers this last hunt,but not only was Cody's the biggest but the most memorable and a hunt I was proud to be a part of.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/DSC004121.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21182&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
Picture of the moose for good measure.
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[greasysidedown]

Here's my entry. VI rosey elk, taken the 4th Nov, Nahmint valley. As posted under 1-07 zone A Elk.http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Elk_Hunt_2010_005_1_.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21250&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=2986)Top of View main while hiking. 150yds over a bank. 180gr accubond. 300wsm. Green score 260 unofficial

[moosinaround]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/IMG_03792.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21234&ppuser=480)
Well 2 entries for me this year, this is my second, a whitetail buck from the Peace River country up around Ft St John. Brett and I seen this buck right at first light.
It buggered off into the timber on us so we went in after it. Brett head straight in and I skirted around the back side of the timber, and sure enough it poked out
of the bush in front of me. I took it down with the 300 win mag and then thanked everybody I could think of especially Brett for pushing him into me. Was a wicked hunt in some
beautiful country, with some good buddies!! Had an awsome season this year, failed one goal though and that was to get a big game animal for my son.
I guess that leaves it for in the spring for a blackie! It's been one hell of a season, and the freezer is full, and I got to hunt elk, deer moose and bears,
you have to love this province of ours!! Thanks to my son minimoosin, Brett. Noahdawg, Eric, my dads, Stan T, Darcy N and especially my wife Mrs Moosin,
for letting me do this crazy thing I do for enjoyment.

Moosinaround

[kwasky]

heres my second entry for the year. Got this 4 point after spotting him way off chasing 5 does. stocked about 800 yards to get within 238 and gave him one to the boiler room and another to the neck to drop him.

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[huntermike]

Got this guy late in oct in region 3.He was fighting with another buck,Iwas about 40 yards away waiting to get a clear shot when they stopped fighting ,he looked at me away and ran straight at me ,I pulled the trigger hit him straight on and he died at my feet. HOLY @#$% I HAD TO CHANGE MY SHORTS!!! I think he was coming to fight me!CHEERS HUNTERMIKEhttp://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee62/huntermike/killerbuck.jpg

[bugler]

A bowhunting story for you. I was set up in a treestand watching a well used wallow on the first evening of the season. It was nice to relax after a hard hike in the morning. This bull started to bugle about every 5 minutes from about 200 yards away. I stayed quiet because I thought he was on his way in anyway, but after an hour and a half I decided he must be laying down and could get up and go anywhere. A couple cow calls brought an immediate response and it wasn't long before I could tell he had closed the distance. He sounded young and I had decided that if he was a raghorn I would pass since it was just the first day.

As this bulls calls became more urgent another bull started to bugle from up the ridge. When this one came into view I could see he was no raghorn and my heart started to pound. Suddenly the other bull bugled from very close by and this one turned to meet him. I thought my chance was over as I could hear them moving away through the alders, but the next thing I knew they were both coming back toward the wallow. The bigger bull was in front and I drew as he trotted into the little meadow. He stopped to look back at the intruder at 30 yards and the string slipped from my fingers. The two blade Magnus Stinger caught him perfectly behind the shoulder and I found him about 60 yards away. Official P&Y score is 311 3/8.

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The other bull had no idea what had just happened so he walked in and proceeded to wallow while I gave my bull the customary 1/2 hour to expire. Pretty cool to watch. I got a couple snaps of him that aren't great. This one is the best. He was a gnarly old bull with short but heavy antlers.

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[300H&H]

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Here is my entry for this year.

Fresh snow makes everything better !!!
Especially when your hunting WT.
Today was my 3rd day in a row to chase WT.
2 Days earlier I missed a 6x7. That hurt alot.
This buck was bedded down with his does in a cut block.
he saw me and started to run.
I saw him and 1 shot from my 300H&H and he was down.

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I had a hard time trying to load him on my quad.

[mark]

Heres my whitetale entry! Shot while hiking, .270 win.
Backpacked him out for a mile, 135 lb. load!
Biggest whitey ever for me! Broke the curse!
Gross score 152"
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=58712

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[mark]

Heres my region 3 muley entry! Tracked him down in the snow, cought up to him while he was sidetracked with a doe! -16 out, glad it didnt take too long! The second kill for my new .270
Gross score 179"
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=58856

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[300H&H]

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Here is a spring turkey I took held by Dad.
Dad & I went out and hunted the big pines. It was not very cold for the end of April but the turkeys were gobbling like mad.
This was my longest shot on a THUNDER CHICKEN. A whole 25 yards.
16 lbs, 8 5/8" beard but NO SPURS.

[bugler]

Okay, I have another one for the bowhunters. I'm still blown away that we pulled this one off. My good friend and long time bowhunting partner, Rich, has been trying to get a bighorn with his bow for years and after a lot of piecing things together he found some rams that lent themselves to still hunting in the timber. On October 19, while I was at work, he managed to get in range of a band of rams and make the 22 yard shot on a full curl. He called that night and suggested we go back on the weekend as he thought there was another in the bunch that would make it. He was right. The ram was moving past me on a ledge above my position. When he got to broadside he was 25 yards away. I took the walking shot as I did not want to make noise to stop him. Hit a little back and low but it did the trick. Approx P&Y green score is 152.

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[Blainer]

That there Mr. Bugler is a great accomplishment!

[bugler]

It seems to me the hardest part is finding one, which I give all the credit to my partner for. But it was pretty cool none the less!!

[d6dan]

It seems to me the hardest part is finding one, which I give all the credit to my partner for. But it was pretty cool none the less!!


Hey Bugler, very nice Ram with a bow..:-D

[.300WSMImpact!]

Was out late Monday night, have not been able to hunt much lately, so I decided to go for a quad ride, drove around for about an hour, came around the corner and saw two does cross in front of me about 80 yards up, I watched them for a minute or two and decide to drive closer and see if there was a buck around, by the time I got up to where the does where they were gone, so I walk up the direction where the does where going and saw nothing, so I pulled out my buck grunt and grunted fairly agressively and waited 5 minutes and saw and heard nothing, then I figured I would keep tracking the does, I took 5 steps and heard something behind me, staight down wind, I looked and saw a buck ripping trees out of the ground with his anters, I turned and he popped his head up and all I saw was horns, I dropped to my stomache and pulled the trigger and watched as he dropped to the ground, I just shot the a great deer, and I you have heard of ground shrinkage, this was the opposite, I couldnt be more happy, rough score 169net, 195 gross

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[tomahawk]

Meat buck, 155 lbs dressed, one shot to the base of the skull as he tried to get out of sight and leave the hot doe he was chasing, taken Nov 16th in Kamloops area. Cut him up today, had a prime rib roast tonight, good tastin and tender full rut buck!!

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj230/tomahawktom/103_0089.jpg

[Kody94]

Apparently this is the place to become a cool intraweb personality. :)

Here's my lonely addition to the contest -- a Reg 5 muley buck from earlier in the week. I'm not much of a story teller, as some of you already know. Here's the skinny...it was a frosty affair, but the cold had the deer out and about and rutting hard. Got this guy on the second day, on foot, but thankfully in the company of an excellent (and benevolent) friend that is also very handy with a packboard. -20 C with some wind at the time of the kill and pack out. Got him with my 338 RCM and 210gr TTSX's. My shooting was piss poor, but he ended up quite dead when it was all over, and all's well that ends well. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v230/Staggerino/Chris_2010Buck_1-1.jpg

[tomahawk]

Meat doe, 140 lbs dressed, taken in area 5-3 on Nov 2. Great tasting and tender, chops are to die for. Had to pack her out over a km on the game cart to the truck.

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[Mio]

My entry and my biggest deer ever! ( so far ;) )

Went out with my dad looking for a 4 point mule buck. We started walking and glassing and seen a couple does when all of a sudden this guy showed up behind them! He did'nt give us time to shoot but we watched where he went and then decided to circle around and try to beat him to where we thought he was going. On our way there we saw a doe so we set up and waited and it was not long before the other doe showed up with the buck behind her and I had a good shot so I took it and I got him!

I wrote a longer story here (http://flyguys.net/blog/hunting-logs/2010-hunting-logs/mios-monster-mulie) if you want to read it.

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[mgnm300]

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i harvested him with my bow at 22yrds opening morning of late bow season in region 8. i turned down 3 bucks prior to deciding on him.

[Gateholio]

Just a reminder to please read the rules. SOme of the entries are not in compliance. If they aren't corrected they will be rejected as entries. Thanks

[Wood butcher]

Here's my entry.

My son had a few days off school just like everybody I guess so off we went hunting. Went into an area thats produced previously but one we had not been to this year yet.
Parked the truck on the deactivated road and started hoofin. On our way down we crossed a series of good rubs. Duely noted. On our way back up we sidetracked into the timber just below the rub line. We managed to pick up the rub line in the timber and there was a couple of beauty rubs in there. 3-4" cedars freshly pounded with the piles of shavings at the base. The ones that get you really excited. Well about 80 yards from the last big rub we turned from the timber and headed onto a nice sunny rock bluff. I hear my son say "deer" ,up goes the gun and a quick Id says doe. A glance to the right and I see throat patch and bases behind the tree. As soon as I saw the bases it was saftey off and shoot it in the neck. The neck being the only shot available at the time.
I really had no idea of how many points, he just had big bases. He stopped rolling at the tree he was hiding behind.

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Heres a picture of my son with our deer.

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My sons a pretty big kid so heres another picture of the deer on it's own just to give you some idea of how heavy the antlers are.

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This was the first deer that my son and I have shot together might just have to get this one mounted.:grin:

[Ddog]

Nov 28th was one year from the day when i took the youngster out and hooked up with his beauty biggest WT buck.
this year i decided i was going to be on my own and sit in my treestand that had some huge potential. After the snows in the last week and and a bit it turned out that my stand was situated in a very good spot, i kinda already knew this from all the scouting and hunting in the last 5 years in the spot.
i was hoping it would be the same and it surely was.
last thursday i got to sit in my stand for about 5 hours, but the -25c got the better of me and i had to get out and walk to the truck for some warmth.
Today however was different, just a -6c and snowing steady was the perfect temp and weather to get ready for the long haul and sit from daybreak to dark if i had to.
as soon as i reached the stand and sat down i had 2 does come past in the first 5 minutes, boy oh boy i thought it was going to be a steady day, then by 9am nothing else had come through and i was a little discouraged, but i had to stay just looking at all the trails around my stand, at 10am a beauty 4x4 buck walked on through and i neglected to even pick up the bow on him as i was after one a bit bigger, but he was a nice one.
right after him 10 minutes or so another one, same thing 4x4 down the trail and gone without even a sound.
by 10:30am i had several good bucks pass in bow range and few just out of my range.
then as i was trying to keep the snow from blowing in my face a couple more does trotted on by and then the buck came through a few minutes later.
i trie to video him but he was gone so fast all i could do was grab my bow and hope he came my way. Well as i was peering through the tree in front of me i could see his legs appear, then the chest, then neck head and antlers.
i guess thats the one i will take i thought, as soon as he started his walk towards me i had the perfect opportunity to draw, so i did, he came through and stopped at about 15yards behind the aspen trees in front of my stand, 30 seconds later he made the mistake and stepped out and took a few steps and thats where the arrow flew straight and true through both lungs and the heart. You just cant get a better shot with the bow. 9 yards paced off.
after a brief track he was piled up some 60 or so yards from my point of impact.
at that point my friend Rocksteady's phone was ringing and sure enough came to help me drag him out in the foot and a half of snow. Well close to it anyways. it took us 1 hour 15 minutes to drag him in a sled to the truck.
thanks again Mike, would have been alot harder without ya!
one pic here, more to come of the broadheads POI and the devastion the mechanical spitfires do!
this buck was a serious scrapper, a 5x4 with lots of cuts. he also has a bullet wound that opened him up on the back of the neck,a very close escape, gave him a good flesh wound.
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[weatherby_man]

A perfect end to this years season.

I arrived at Tunkwa Resort in the early afternoon of Friday Nov 26 2010. Warmly greeted by Al, Rich, Joe and the dogs, my good friend and I checked into our accommodations and our home for the next 4 nights. We planned to spend the next 3 days hunting the area for Mule deer. Reports were good that the rut was in its final stages and that some decent bucks had been taken in the last week. We unpacked and headed out for a quick tour of the area just to see what things looked like.

We had been here exactly one month prior in the any-buck season to try and ensure some meat in the freezer this year. My friend took a very nice 2 point the second day and I missed a beauty on the last day. We had stumbled upon some very nice areas that week while exploring, this was our first year to the area and we spent many hours hiking into the bush away from the other hunters.

We decided that first night that we would return the next morning to a particularly excellent spot that we found previously. It was a cold morning, Saturday the 27th. We ventured out at first light, drove to the “spot” and began our hike at around 7:30.

The snow was very loud that morning being as cold as it was but it was otherwise perfect with about 3-4” of fresh stuff that had accumulated recently. After about half an hour I ran into a ton of good tracks that had been laid down the past couple of days. I found a fresh bed and some big tracks with fresh urine drops in them. For some reason I didn’t find any really good rubs and decided to continue to an excellent meadow area I had been to previously. I sat and watched this area while the sun rose and warmed me. I had a feeling I cannot explain that told me to double back and head to another meadow area above my current position on the next bench up. I headed there as quietly as possible, CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH!

As I approached the area, there was no wind and the forest was completely silent. It was picture perfect and surreal somehow. I stopped just before and to the side of the meadow behind 3 young fir trees. At the other end of the meadow was a hill with thick bush but three perfect lanes running up the side of that hill. Old skidder lanes I assumed.

I waited there 20 minutes or so. I caught a glimpse of movement about 3 quarters up the hill to my right. What was that? I waited, scanning as intensely as possible into the thick bush, my heart beating loudly in my ears. Again the silence was unreal. I waited for what seemed an eternity but was likely a minute or 2, up the first lane to my left a good size doe came out. My first instinct in my mind was "oh geez only a doe", but then I waited for the “follower”. Another few seconds passed and then he appeared! 1, 2, 3, 4 points, he was a beauty too! I took aim and 1 shot from my Weatherby crumpled him and he slid down the opening about 50 yards. There was no movement after he came to a stop. A perfect heart shot.

I was stunned but ready with another shell chambered. I walked a few steps and scoped the motionless body. I called my friend on the radio and screamed, “I got one”! Later my friend was to tell me that after he heard the shot he was reaching for his radio at the same moment I screamed thinking someone else was in the area and that we should be careful. He said he would make his way to me congratulating me. Then I ran! I ran as fast as my stubby 46 year old legs would take me. As I hit the bottom of the hill his smell hit me, whoa! I ran up the hill trying to keep good footing without slipping, zig-zag, zig-zag I went. As I came over the little rise where he laid my eyes must have enlarged to many times their normal size. He was BIG, and he had a beautiful large spread rack. I knelt at his face and picked him up by his antlers and stared into his eyes.

I must admit to getting a little emotional at this point while at the same time laughing out loud. I said to him, I got you, I got you! This was my best ever deer by a far margin. I thanked him for being there for me and told him that he would take a place on my wall and fill my freezer. I looked around me. The sun was blasting through the trees shining on both him and me. I cannot explain this story well enough for you to know what it was like for me or how I felt, words are just not enough.

The shot was measured at just over 125 yards uphill through a small window of opportunity. It was truly my honor to take this deer, I will always remember him and the moment we connected. It was as if time stood still and there was only me and him on this planet and that during those first few minutes with him I had no worries, no thought of anything else, only that he was perfect and that he was the perfect ending to the 2010 hunting season.

Cheers to a great season, and cheers to this tremendous buck. Now to get the cape and antlers to the taxi.

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Final note for GH: was rough scored by the taxidermist at over 166 gross and 157 1/2 net. Plan on getting it re-scored after the mount is done.

[brock77]

Here is my entry:
& my first white tail

Well..... with two days left of the season (before returning to work)..Whent out with the bro in-law....at first light, driving down the road we see a nice little 4x4 i passed on him ? why im not sure..
(was looking for more of a actuall hunt then just open the door and boom i guess.... i dont know?)
Any ways get to our spot and go for a walk ..see a couple of does...more does.and then seen this guy. AT first we thought he was a small 2x3. After watching him for 30 min.... oh chit he's five on one side...and then.... he was having a nap in the snow..with the aid of 300 win mag....he was about 175 yrds
Nov 27 2010 Boooo yaaaaaa :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

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[Brambles]

Left for Saskatchewan on Nov 24th, season opener was on Nov 25th.

I'll leave out the details on the Majority of the deer taken since they arn't my story to tell but I will regale you with this story.

Day two .... we head into this area we had hunted in 2008.

We had spotted a couple good 4's and 5's running around but we had just spotted a 6, couldn't tell if he was a 6x6 or a 5x6 but, to say these deer are flighty is an understatement.

We drive into the area to start the hunt and this Brute 4x5 screams out of a coulee right in front of us, my hunting partner for that day managed to get a bullet into him before he hit the tree rows and makes him stumble. Since he got the first bullet into the animal the deer was now his regardless of who finished it off, now the goal was to find and recover the deer

We make a plan to push him out of a group of tree's that we seen him go into, I volunteered to do the pushing as the rest of the group surounded the group of tree's.

I manage to cut what I think is his tracks headed into the tree's, no blood yet. I look ahead and 40 yards in front of me I see him get out of his bed, its thick and I put up my rifle and the safety is on, damn.... he starts running. I run so I have a clear shot, up with the rifle and I shoot low. clean miss. We track him across a field and into a large Coulee. I asked one of the group to check the bed for blood and they confirmed blood and a small piece of bone in his bed.

We set up along the top of the coulee and I go in blood trailing him.

After about 500 yards or so I manage to glass him up in a group of tree's about another 500 yards ahead of me. Wanting to get a shot while he's not moving. I inch forward trying to get a shot, I come to a ridgeline and I can get a 350 yard shot at him but the snow is deep and the ridge is flat, I have to belly crawl and every time I set up for the shot the bipod sinks into the snow and no shot is avaliable. I'm skylined by this point but the sun is at my back........ I just can't seem to clear this damn flat ridge go get a shot.

Just as I'm about to get off the shot one of the other hunters see's what I'm up to and looks over the coulee directly above the deer and the deer see's him and starts running. I try a shot but hit low again...starting to think the added weight of the bipod is making me drop the rifle.
Normally I don't take these kind of shots but we gotta get this wounded deer down.

The deer is like Keanu Reeves in the Matrix as he dodges bullet fire from the coulee tops. No one manages to connect and the deer makes it into a Vast PFRA pasture.

For those of you who dont' know, a PFRA pasture is a large chunk of land set aside as community cattle pasture, there are many of these pastures set up all over saskatchewan. You have to hunt them on foot until you get an animal down and then you can drive in and claim your deer. The land is very rolling and lots of coulee's. Tough area to hunt and the locals dont' hunt them much because its a low odds hunt.

As the rest of the group post along the PF I make my way to where the buck was last seen to pick up his trail. After making it almost to the horizon:shock: I see two of the other guys have already picked up the trail and were in to coulee bottom. We give hand signals and decide I would stay up just below the coulee edge and if they bumped him I could get a better shot.

We parallel eachother for quite some time, wind is about 40mph and coming from the west, the sun is in the south east and its about -9 with out the wind. Wind in the coulee is nothing.

I can see that the coulee T's at the end so as I'm inching along and see on the western part of the "T" that there is a big buck bedded, I instantly drop down below sight. Can't risk having the deer see me and him run like lightenting. The tracks show that the wounded deer had also gone in the same Western "T" of the coulee. I meet up with the other two guys and tell them what I breifly seen. He's over 300 yards west bedded in the coulee.

We inch to the top of the ridge cutting the distance down to 250yds. I line up and take him in the neck. It all happened very quick as we didn't want the buck to get any further.

Now its over....yehaw, a long hunt is over. We are high fiveing, couple fist pumps. Then one of the group looks over and goe's HoleyShit there's a big buck bedded Right there, I throw up my bino's....holy shit THATS the wounded buck, all we can see is his nose and antlers as he's bedded behind something. We all drop to the ground and the guy who spotted it takes the first shot and misses, not sure how many shots were fired as he layed there. But I managed to finish him off with my second shot.

We walk up to where the wounded buck Lay... and HOLY CRAP, MASSIVE 4x6 definitly pushing the 160 mark.

After looking at that buck for a few minutes we headed over to my buck...... Didn't know what to expect, didn't get a real good look at him because we were concerned he'd see us and run. As we got closer........It turned out NOT to be a mistake, my first look at him was right another buck also Pushing 160... He is a 6x5.... I told my brother on the way to Sask that I wanted a buck with a typical 6 and I got him.

Both these deer are pretty large for he area we are hunting, we see lots of deer but most of the bigger bucks are in the 135-145 class. Two bucks pushing 160 shot 150 yards apart AND intheir beds is incredible.

Lots of things could have happened on this hunt and if any one of those things changed it would have resulted in me not getting a chance at this deer. Glad I volunteered go be the workhorse and push coulees


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[huntcoop]

My first entry...

This is my Peace country mule deer. He was shot at 9:30 in the morning as he was following 5 ladies through a timber block. One shot from about 80 yards and it was all over, he hit the ground like a ton of bricks.

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[proguide66]

here's my first entry.....was riding my horse along a river in between hunts up north , had a grizz tag and saw this guy in the willow maybe 60 yrds ahead of me...didnt notice me so I backed up the horse , jumped off with my rifle , ran across the river and had a staring match with him through some willow...he moved a bit ,bang flop!:mrgreen:

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[proguide66]

My next entry was a very large moose wich my last hunter had passed on....week after photgraghing him live , i went back and shot him the day before we left...too much fun...Moose nets 192
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[proguide66]

My 3rd entry is this nice btail...video taped him in the am with 4 other bucks....passed on him and went the opposite direction for 2 hrs...looked at the tape of him , shook my head and went back to find/harvest him..
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[Hunting/addict]

How firm are you on when a person became a member for this contest.....I didnt join until sept 28th I believe

[proguide66]

4th entry is a 2nd btail . I started off on a long hike and crossed a fresh buck track heading in the opposite direction i was headed....trailed it for an hr , two deer ran up a rock face 200 above me , saw frame , bang flop!:mrgreen:
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might have to nail a reg 3 buck for a 5th entry:mrgreen:

[d6dan]

Well, there's not much to the story. I've been holding off this season in hopes of a good buck, but time was running out and decided a doe will do. When the odds are stacked against you, being disabled you have to take whats offered.
Now my good buddy and I decided to hunt the shotgun zone of 1-06. We were cruising the roads nice and slow looking for a deer when all of a sudden there's 2 does standing on a side road to where we were. My buddy says drive up there...they won't run!. Well one takes off, but the other stands there, broadside and looks at us long enough to know shes all alone. Shotgun out the window, pin on her nose and Boom!. 15 yds and she dropped like a bad habit!. Never knew what hit her.:grin:.
00buck sure works good. Anyway, before some of you say WTF?. I have a permit that allows me to shoot from a vehicle..
Season's over and I never even used my rifle?? Go figure.:shock:.Now, looking forward to my elk draw :grin:..

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[bowhunterbruce]

Well, there's not much to the story. I've been holding off this season in hopes of a good buck, but time was running out and decided a doe will do. When the odds are stacked against you, being disabled you have to take whats offered.
Now my good buddy and I decided to hunt the shotgun zone of 1-06. We were cruising the roads nice and slow looking for a deer when all of a sudden there's 2 does standing on a side road to where we were. My buddy says drive up there...they won't run!. Well one takes off, but the other stands there, broadside and looks at us long enough to know shes all alone. Shotgun out the window, pin on her nose and Boom!. 15 yds and she dropped like a bad habit!. Never knew what hit her.:grin:.
00buck sure works good. Anyway, before some of you say WTF?. I have a permit that allows me to shoot from a vehicle..
Season's over and I never even used my rifle?? Go figure.:shock:.Now, looking forward to my elk draw :grin:..

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thats friggin awsome,wait to go

[tristanmac]

My entry is my first big game kill as a new hunter, taken early October of this year in Nanaimo.

Me and the family decided to take a trip up the mountain for the day to do some mushroom picking and fishing. So I decided id bring the trusty x-bolt with me just in case. After a bag of mushrooms in the books, we headed towards the fishing hole. Came down the hill when I spotted him darting up the slash on to the road. I jumped out of the truck found him in the scope at about 120 yards, he was over the road and heading up into the upper slash towards the thick forest. I would have lost him but my hunting partner gave a loud whistle and the bear stopped dead in his tracks, he turned around to give me a broad side view and one 150g 300 WinMag bullet later and he was on the ground.

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[huntcoop]

My second entry....

This was an early season hunt up near Big Bar. We almost got screwed by the weather as it was up and down like a yo-yo and almost always foggy throughout the day. This guy was hanging out by himself in a clearcut, just had to pull him down and load him onto the quad.

Second deer this year taken with my .270 X-Bolt :-D .

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[Trapper]

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Here,s a moose i got sept/10 officially scores 209 7/8 15 one side 16 the other side 54 3/8 wide. Not much of a story just being in the right place at the right time.we seen 14 other bulls on this hunt.

[d6dan]

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Here,s a moose i got sept/10 officially scores 209 7/8 15 one side 16 the other side 54 3/8 wide



Wowzers!!, Now thats a good Bull!!.Looks like a picket fence...Congrats Trapper..:-D

[sniper ren]

Got this guy in the hills Mid South Island on Oct 26th. I've been trying to find another one like him all season.....lol. Maybe tomorrow!

Here is a link to the story.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57574
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[dudly]

Well here goes.
The date was nov. 26 2010 that my hunting buddy and I were up the Chilliwack lake road area. We were just out for a drive to check out a couple of area's that I hadn't hunted for a few years. We had some fresh snow that morning and it was still snowing. We came up on a cut block and there he was walking with a doe following him.:confused: I glassed him saw the horns and the rest is history. He was harvested with my Browning lever 7-08 at 169 meters offhand. Little did I know that morning he would become the infamous buck on the hood. Guess he didn't know it either. He dressed out at 130 pounds. This is my first blacktail, needless to say I'm quite happy about that.:-D
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[Blainer]

This entry is on wes20 behalf.
I posted an entry for his brother earlier and thought it only fair to get both boys entered for some great prizes.
This was a fairly simplistic hunt,my partner and I like to take the
younger fellas hunting during the any buck season,this gives us the opportunity to concentrate on our own hunts during the rut and 4 point season.
On our first morning,we left at dark and entered an area we wanted to concentrate on at first light,within minutes we spot this fella at about 200 yards standing just inside the bush line.Wes was up first and after a short stock and great shot,we had meat in the truck.
Ruger #1,300 win. mag.

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[bugler]

One more bowhunting story. I'm done for the year (I think). Had a treestand set up in a travel corridor and saw numerous deer each day. Passed on a buck that might make 100 inches on the first day in that location but elected to wait. Today I was fixin to shoot him if he returned. I had numerous trail cam pictures of him on Tuesday but he did not show on Wednesday. Decent buck but broken brow tine.

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So today the first deer to show after daylight is this guy. There was a doe came in at the same time. 23 yard downhill shot should have been a slam dunk but he "jumped string" slightly and as he went to turn away the arrow caught him in the near shoulder muscle. Lots of blood on the snow and I figured he was going down right away but it was not to be. He slowly walked away and appeared to be none the worse for wear. I recalled an old Chuck Adams article regarding muscle hits, if you can you need to push him as much as possible to keep the wound flowing. I got down and pursued. The blood was easy to follow in the snow and 2.5 hours later I walked him to a standstill. He was hiding under a log and I was able to finish him off. Whew!!! Lucky for the snow. I think if I had let him rest he might have been able to stop the bleeding.

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[Gateholio]

Must be an HBC member prior to Sept 10/210

Sask whitetails are very nice, but not included in the contest, as only British Columbia animals can be entered.

[BCHunterFSJ]

Well, here's mine... Not too much of a story on this one. My sons and I have a section of land northeast of Fort St. John that we are trying to develop into a good deer hunting area. We have baited areas, blinds, and trail cams set up at strategic locations. My favourite place is a ground tent blind at the intersection of two cutlines. The previous
week my wife had shot a nice buck there. We have found that the large bucks often come in mid-day, so I didn't get to the blind until noon. Ten minutes later, out comes this 5X6 whitetail that we had seen on our trail cams on several occasions. Since it was the last day of the season, I decided to take him with my .30/06. At 50 meters it was an easy shot... He scored 139 5/8 BC points net. Not the "monster" I had been hoping for, but not bad for a last day deer!

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[Stone Sheep Steve]

After slaving away at work for over 6 straight weeks, I was looking forward to finally having a weekend off to chase whitetails. Muley rifle season was a complete write-off for me but after reading about the disappointing season most guys were having it made working every day a "little" easier to handle.

The day before Swampman called me up and asked me if I wanted some company as he had heard that I was heading out hunting(he had about as much chance to get out as I did all fall). Usually, I spend my whitey days shivering in a tree but this yr I purchased a pop-up blind as I thought it would be great for my daughter.

My whitetail area has had me stumped the last few yrs as I have been able to "hear" deer but couldn't quite see them. I figured getting into a thicker nasty spot might allow me to catch them moving during the day...so the week before I set up my trailcam in one of these nasty spots to help me to solve the mystery of this area.

As we arrived I grabbed my memory card out of the cam and we quickly set up the blind.
Much to my dismay the camera only revealed one nice buck the entire week but, unfortunately, it was a muley (season was closed).

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/nov_2010_trailcam_004_2_cropped.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21676&ppuser=1509)
The weather had been very cold so were were glad to have opted for the blind with a catalytic heater.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Doghouse_Blind.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21673&ppuser=1509)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/2010_whitey_002.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21671&ppuser=1509)

Despite the heater things were still a little chilly but we managed to sit tight until noon with zero deer sightings.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/2010_whitey_004.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21672&ppuser=1509)

After noon we decided to go stretch the legs and see what the newly fallen snow would reveal.
We managed to find some nice fresh scrapes in another area and tried some rattling but nothing showed up. There was a decent buck in the area but who knows where he was?

After splitting up for a couple of hours we met back up 2:30pm but we were stuck at what to do for the last two hours of daylight....back to the blind??? ....or something else?? With the lack of trailcam pictures we decided to head back to the blind and packup and move somewhere else for the last of the evening light.

We were just heading down to the blind when I spotted a doe across a steep draw. She was making her way straight down a snow-covered boulder field . I was a little baffled at her location as I have been using these boulder fields as natural funnels. No wonder I could figure out the area.
We watched her for a bit and then she snapped her head around and looked off to her right. Then we could also hear something crunching in the area of her attention. Swampman decided to loop back and get up higher to see if he could find the source of the sound.

I watched her for a while until she was concealed by some bushes then I snuck further down the game trail. All of a sudden I looked across the steep draw and saw another bigger bodied deer crossing another boulder field staring right at me. Immediately, I dropped and got my rifle ready expecting the deer to bolt. Seeing a decent buck in my crosshairs I slowly squeezed the trigger and immeditely saw the buck drop and roll down the steep slope.
It took us a while to get over to him and this was what we found.
Considering I was not holding out for a decent buck I was pleasantly surprized.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/2010_whitey_007.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21193&ppuser=1509)


Decent pack out ........just hard enough to make us feel alive.
Thanks Swampman!

SSS

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Entry two

After pulling the old "Radar O'reilly" trick(sign here and here) I managed to scam a 4 day weekend to bow hunt local mulies:mrgreen: (desperate times call for desperate measures!!).

The first couple of days the conditions were "picture perfect" with several inches of fresh, fluffy snow.

I came close to sealing the deal on day two and day three but, somehow, there was always some bush in the way saving the bucks.
Day four saw me partnering up with Calvin and I was really looking forward to some more "good times" with him...as we always manage to have.

I dropped him off on one end of a ridge and told him to follow my boot prints from 2 days earlier as he had never hunted the area from this access point. I drove the quad to the other end of the ridge planned on bumping into him somewhere uptop(we also had radios).

Hunting separately, we bumped into several deer each(but no bucks) before we broke out into the open and made eye contact. At that point there seemed to be deer in every direction(almost too many deer) ...making not bumping deer very difficult.

Calvin finally was able to make it over to my location just as the entire hillside seemed to come alive with deer. We looked up and saw 3 bucks chasing a group of does(a spike, 2 pt and a 3pt). After the bucks chased the doe into the trees we looked up and saw a big tall, heavy buck doing a loop around the group. Assuming there had to be at least one hot doe in the group we quickly formulated a plan of attack.
Waiting for the wind to stabilize, we made a big loop around the deer and then split up hoping someone could get in tight.

The plan took a couple of hours and after getting off course I finally got to where we last saw the deer.

There were beds everywhere..and I was slowly sneaking my was along when I jumped the small spike out of his bed. He only bounced a few steps and then stopped to look back over a small knoll at what had just spooked him. Immediately the smell of deer filled my nostrils. Just off to the spike's left the 3 pt lifted his head and let out a pissed off long grunt at the little buck( I think he was choked at losing his does to the bigger buck).
After what seemed like an eternity, the spike finally walked out of sight allowing me to close the distance a little more on what I had hoped was a larger group of deer.

Finally the spike showed himself at 20 yrds before yet another stand-off and bounded away by himself. This allowed me to sneak even close to the other buck. The time was mid-afternoon and the snow was starting to warmup and was getting a little squeaky.
I made a few more steps and the 3 pt's head snapped up but luckily he was low enough where I could only see his antlers and eartips.
At this point I was hoping he would do the same as his little buddy and expose himself within my comfort range. I ranged a few places where I thought he might pop out....and after what had to be 15 minutes, curiosity finally got the better of him and he made a fatal mistake.
Previous to this moment, I had set my personal limit to 30 yrds as I didn't get much practice time in due to an extremely busy fall.
Well, the deer popped out perfectly broadside but a quick check with the rangefinder said 40 yrds...outside my comfort zone....but I decided to at least draw my bow for practice. The first thing that I noticed was that I was extremely steady. A quick check of my cant told me everything was perfect so I gently squeezed my release.
The arrow flew true and entered the deer exactly where I held my 40 yd pin.
The buck immediately swapped ends and bounced down the hill but only managed to go about 50-60 yrds before I saw him pile up beside a downed tree. Then I lost sight of him and a few seconds later I heard a distant crash:?.

I felt confident in the hit so I made it over to where the buck was standing and found my arrow tip-down in the snow about 2 yrd behind where the buck had been standing. After waiting a few minutes I snuck down to where I saw the buck go down but couldn't find the buck ..but I did find some "toboggan" marks in the snow heading down...down...down a very steep hillside.
Carefully, I made my way down the icey slope and found my buck piled up against another log. He was stuck in a position that reminded me of Gatehouse's moose from this yr.
Thank goodness he hit that log or he would have made it another 70yrds to the very bottom.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/2010_Archery_Muley_004.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21674&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=1509)

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/2010_Archery_Muley_015.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21675&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=1509)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/2010_Archery_Muley_018.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21421&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=1509)

I couldn't reach Calvin on the radio but after hiking back up top, I managed to whistle loud enough for him to find me.

After processing the buck we had another "feel alive" pack back up and over the hill. After 45 minutes and some tumbles we arrived back at the quad just at dark.
Thanks Calvin!

This was my first muley with a bow and only second big game animal with the bow.

SSS

[Stéphane]

This isn't your classic big game monster buck kind of tale. Nope! It's about having a goal and making it happen. It all started in June 2010 when I received by mail my dad's 20 year-old compound bow. When I started, I was god awful. Wrecking arrows like there was no tomorrow. But I persisted.

By the time fall arrived, I had become quite accurate with my shots and my grouping was tight. So I went to get my hunting card and my hunting permit.

Bow season began September 1st and I was there as sun raised over the Cheam range. I began my quest for my first ever kill on a hiking trail where I had seen several ptarmigans during the summer. As I walked in, within 10 minutes, I saw a grouse. Aim, shoot and miss! Too high. Let's try again. Too high again and this time the bird flew away. I decide to switch from Judo points to a snaro head, which would give me more of a shotgun range.

I continue climbing until I reach the shoulder of Lady Peak. There, I see ptarmigans. Quite a few actually. I see one within reach and leveled. I move close enough to risk a shot . . . Aim, release and way too low. This is when it downed on me that I never practiced with the snaro and that they are way heavier.
After missing a few more, I was getting a better feel for it and I was figuring out how to adjust to this new point.

Now I see one standing on a ledge above me. 10 yards max. I have to aim way high in an uncomfortable position. Nock the arrow, pull the string, aim, aim, aim . . .relax my fingers. The arrow flies with a whooshing noise created by the snaro and land in the middle of the bird. Feathers flying and the bird killed instantly. I was so proud, you have no idea.

The second one was a fluke shot because my arrow was now bend and the ptarmigan was about 20 yards away standing on ice block. I aim right and let the arrow fly. The arrow moves way right then curved back to the left and hit the bird. I couldn't believe my luck.

All in all, it was a great first experience.

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[srupp]

This is a bull that I called in over two days along the Alaskan Highway on little backwater stretch that was inaccessible to the riverboats.The actual shooter, Todd was his first big game hunt ever and as we had had really bad weather on the northern portion of the hunt we dropped down to a bit more reasonable weather and the Moose were still in rut. Typical river brush habitat with Willow and alder, giving us a reasonable shot at a couple hundred yards, the pack was only 30 yards or less to the river I was accomplished by Tim and Todd. This was a very old Moose very mature heavy bases and heavy antlers and not too bad for Todd's first Moose, previous to this Todd had only shot a grouse

Cheers

Steven

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/srupp/DSC00591.jpg

[srupp]

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/srupp/CopyofNewImage.jpg



These were some of the photos of the deer we harvested in Alberta in the past couple weeks, it was cold, really cold and a good amount of snow. Really good guys to hunt with and for deer harvested, my Whitetail was harvested at 321 yards, uphill strong wind and last shooting light, last legal shooting light… And a perfect hit, something that really impressed even me. The terrain was typical open with shrub trees. Phils Whitetail was a hog a great running shot and the deer slid about 7 feet.

Steven:mrgreen:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/srupp/stevensdeer.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d47/srupp/Springerandwhitetail.jpg
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[srupp]

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This is Aaron and myself after Aaron made a wonderful shot on this one 150-ish Whitetail Buck, as in the Moose Hunt I participated in with Todd and Todd got his first big animal a tremendous Moose, here this is Aaron's first big game animal a wonderful six point Whitetail Buck. I actually get more thrill and excitement watching new hunters harvest their first big game animal then for me to shoot another one, although it was hard to sit on my hands as it were and let Aaron takes a shot as we all like to do the shooting it felt really good to watch him harvest this Whitetail. The shot was a great one at over 200 yards I believe there was a fairly strong wind and it was downhill shot and Aaron only needed one bullet to get the job done. I believe the weather was -16 about average for the entire trip.

This was another Alberta Whitetail and was harvested near Wainwright Alberta, included in the hunt were Phil, Randy, Aaron and myself.

Cheers

Steven

[IronNoggin]

This year's Black-Tails:

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Ironnoggin/Consolation_1.jpg

http://gallery.fishbc.com/albums/Ironnoggin/Two_Point_1.jpg

Cheers,
Nog - Hopin' for Bigger 'n Better next season...

[LeverActionJunkie]

The "Porn Star" buck, cause he was "barely legal". Shot on Dec 5 after a great stalk up some steep'n slick burn. Watched him breed two does and push a smaller buck off. One 400gr FNSP through the heart sealed the deal.

No cranker, but none of mine ever are. After missing lots of the season due to work and having a hard time finding deer this year. I was more than happy to see this guy.

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r131/LeverActionJunkie/69512_1675218130992_1553612673_1620038_7804795_n.j pg

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[kennyj]

1st entry
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=55399&highlight=early+season+blacktail

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/BT_10_015.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/BT_10_022.jpg
final score121 4/8 gross 110 6/8 net typ.

[digger dogger]

nice buck kenny j did you use the "STUFF" we talked about!
Actually, that is a fantastic buck!
Dave.

[kennyj]

second entry (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57617)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=57617

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/DSC018891.jpg
Scored 159''

[M.Dean]

This is the Mule Deer I shot this year, we had dropped my son in Law off at his tree stand before first light, so my Daughter and I took a drive up to the top of the Mountain, never seen a thing. On the way back we rounded a curve in the trail and here this guy stood about a 100 yards up a hill perfectly silhouetted by the rising sun! My SiL had fired at this same buck the week before, same hill everything, but all's we could see of him was his head and neck and the top of his back, the round went over him and off he ran with his buddy, a 3 point! Any way, I didn't want to shoot him, but my Daughter started with the " You never shoot any thing when I'm with you" shoot it Dad!!! So, I shouldered the 243, waited until he turned his head and fired, the 100 grn hit it in the neck and down he rolled! He was still kicking a bit so Tracy said" Dad give me the gun and I'll run up and shoot it again"! I declined her offer so off we went, up the hill! Well, sounds easy for most, but I have a Rifle in one hand, a cane in the other and my Daughter trying to hold me up! By the time I made it 30 yards I was begging for Morphine, Demerol and a big bottle of Perks!!! We made it up to the Buck, made sure he wasn't going any where and limped down, I had tears in my eyes when I got back to the Quad! We radioed Ash and told him I was coming down to get him, then I called the house to see if any other hunters had returned yet, thank God one of the guys from here was back with his friend! They jumped in the truck and were at the kill site in a few minutes. By the time I picked up Ash and got back up there, my 2 friends and my Daughter had the Buck cleaned and were dragging it down to the truck! Thank you very much you guys, no names mentioned! I shouldn't be in the bush, I shouldn't ride my Quad, I shouldn't fire a gun, don't bend, don't lift, just go home and sit on the couch and watch TV, that's what I'm suppose to do! But to do that a Man's quality of life is nil! I will hunt, ride my Quad, fire my Gun's and probably die in the bush, but, Dam It, I'm going to have some fun before I go!!! http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Photos_151_Large_1.jpg

[Sitkaspruce]

My Blacktail buck entry.
Took him on an overgrown road at 20 m, 270, 140 gr Hornady.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/btbuck.jpg

Cheers

SS

[Gateholio]

I better get my entry in, too!!:-D

This is a moose. I shot it poorly, then shot it in the head. Then we cut it up and used horses to retrieve it. Very civilized!:-D

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs412.snc4/47512_462040295515_526315515_7031059_2704018_n.jpg

[mark]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/nov_2010_trailcam_004_2_cropped.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21676&ppuser=1509)

SSS
I need yer guys opinion....

http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/medium/2010_bucks_018_Small_.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/showphoto.php?photo=21720&size=big&cat=500)
Actually dont comment, Gates will delete it anyway!
Am I good or what! :-D

[TyTy]

This buck is from the east kootenays and is my first white tail. he was part of a double header. My buddy heard them two bucks sparing, and missed off hand at this guy. We cirlced the timber, located the 2 bucks. and pushed the bush. My buddy got the 3x3, and this guy took off running. I missed at a running shot. he stopped for about 5 seconds enough for me to get a second just before he took off @ 150 yrds. He jumped 8' straight up over a windfall and landed stone dead.

This was on the last hunt of our 7 day trip and after passing on so many other does and spikes it was nice to get a couple nice bucks at the last minute.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Whitetail4.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20900&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13991)

[TyTy]

Buddies buck, part of double header. Getting these deer was a matter of team work. We had a great hunt and also got a moose as well.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Mullet_Deer.JPG

[gameslayer]

We went on our yearly hunt and ran into some high water issues that delayed our hunt. I called this moose in twice in about a 10 minute span very aggressive, he winded me and ran the first time, I cranked it up and tossed in a pissed off bull call and he came charging back in within 15 feet. He did not walk into the shooting hole I had planned but circled back and right of me. I had a hard time counting for points trying not to move with him beside me and his 10 point side on the opposite side I was on. We was down wind of me and started to spoke a bit and trot in front of me. Verified the points took a quick shot that unfortunately hit low in the brisket that ricocheted back into the same leg as I was standing shattering the bone and the bullet lodged in the forearm (JFK shot ??) and the bull took of running. Unfortunately not far away was a Griz bedded on a moose carcass and he ran straight towards that general direction. It was foggy so I was having a hard time pin pointing the exact location of the big boar not able to see surrounding vegetation and land marks so I was a little on edge tracking the bull. There was a lot of blood and he bedded within 200 yards. I unfortunately pushed him and the chase was on. Because this Griz was in the area and we had spotted another with all the blood, I was not comfortable with leaving it as I figured he would claim my moose so ended up tracking him & pushing him from close to a dozen different beds. All I can say it was an experience of a life time I will write about another time. Hooked up with a buddy after a few hours, we could see he was dragging one leg lot’s of blood and after another couple hours we found him standing on a knoll (bugger went downhill then back up) head shot. He was over 3 km from the original shot as the crow flies 2km off any trail and zigzagged covering about 6 km.


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[drakfero]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Dease_lk_2010_096_hbc.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21599&size=big&cat=500)
Here,s a moose i got sept/10 officially scores 209 7/8 15 one side 16 the other side 54 3/8 wide



-very nice moose

[luckynuts]

Well I better enter this in for the boy before the contest closes. He's been asking every day.

November 11th headed out with the boy and a good friend. headed to where I had been seeing a couple of really good bucks but the morning only turned up a couple of does. 2pm headed over to my friends buddy's place to see his whitetail. Turns out he had seen a couple of small legal bucks and asked us if we were interested. Well we never did find them but came home with this guy. He was bedded out in the open with his lady friends. After securing permission and a quick 300yd stalk Liam was able to make a great 80yd shot and the big boy fell just inside of the timber. Proud dad cuts another tag:mrgreen:

Sorry for the terrible pics the digital camera's were forgotten and only had my trusty disposable:redface:

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Liams_Mule_deer_2010_002.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/Liams_Mule_deer_2010_002.jpg)

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Liams_Mule_deer_2010_003.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/../photos/data/500/medium/Liams_Mule_deer_2010_003.jpg)

[Gilmore]

After going all year looking for my big blackie and not pulling the trigger, I decided to cut my tag on this dink in region 3 on December 7th. Steep, frozen and slippery were the words of the day for this guy. Not the hog we are all looking for but will make some good pepperoni for sure. Good times and good company for a week in the West Pavillion, even manged to win $125 playing cards! Came home with lots of food and outta booze, doesn't get any better!


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s56/gilmore-c/WestPavillionBuck.jpg

[Ambush]

Archery entry.

Local hunting has been rather harsh to me this year. Saw only a few good deer and only one in bow range that wouldn't give me a shot. I didn't put in for moose this year, as I knew I'd be gone for September. And I don't hunt fall bear. Since we can't count African animals, I've got one lonely entry.

This goat was in the wrong place at the wrong time and some wishful thinking coupled with poor trohpy judgment, on my part, sealed his fate. He only made it about twenty yards after the arrow passed through, but that was enough to let him fall off a series of cliffs and land several hundred feet below.

As luck would have it, he landed on his head every time. One horn was missing and the other was still attached to the broken skull by a piece of hide. One of my partners found the lost horn under a cliff a couple of hundred feet uphill. Sharp eyes and good luck!
Not a bruise on the hinds and nothing salvageable from the ribs forward. If he looks bad in the photo, he looked worse in real life. We patched him up as best we could for the photos.

Just means I have to drag my aging carcass up the goat mountain one more time next season to get that P&Y wall hanger.
Good thing I got strong, patient, young hunting partners.

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/045.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20228&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=7841)

[Gateholio]

Omineca Source for Sports has 2 separate YOUTH PRIZES

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy28/Omineca/primos.jpg


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[Husky7mm]

Very nice country gilmore. Wish I lived closer.

[CSG]

Last year was my first season hunting and I was successful cutting a tag on a small 2 point, but I went travelling to East Africa which cut my season really short. So this season was something I was really looking forward to.

My buddy got off early on a friday afternoon and we headed out to a spot not too far out of town and started walking. It was hot out and we didnt think we were gonna see much game out. We found a little draw and decided to take a walk. It was a shady little area with some nice places for a buck to bed down in the mid day heat. We walked and sweated for about 20 minutes, going in and out of the shade. Walking up a little hill we all of a sudden hear noise and see movement 40 yards off to our right. He is jumping through the trees and bush but we can tell he is not a spiker. Being any buck season, I raise my rifle and get the buck in my sights but he is dodging in and out of the trees and I am not comfortable enough taking a running shot on him. We run up to the crest of the hill and see him running up the next hill and continue over into the next draw. We head to the right on a range of hills that parallel the range he is on. After walking for a couple minutes we get a visual on him, he has travelled a good distance but he is standing there looking in our direction. After watching each other for 5 or 10 minutes, discussing what we should do, we decide to retreat on the other side of the hill and see if we can sneak up the range to within distance. We crest a hill after walking for 15 minutes and sure enough the buck is still there, and he is watching us! We were already on our bellies, we guessed the range at about 175 yards, I flipped up the scope covers and lined up the cross hairs on the top of the shoulder. bang. I see him drop instantly behind a rock, I see a leg kick and my buddy says "hit him again!". "Sh*t!" I said as I chambered another round. Lookiing through the scope I waited for him to show himself...nothing. My buddy and I celebrate a good stalk and head down to see the buck.

I forgot to mention that this was the first time out this season and we were onto this buck with in an hour of being in the woods! Short season again in region 3.

FYI-I am wearing my new DC Shoes hot weather camo...worked like a charm

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sorry I dont know how to post a pic directly to my post so you gotta click on the link

[Tron]

My partner and I hunted up near Dawson creek for the first time this year. We took this bull 3 hr's after setting up camp on the first day. I quickly threw a tape on him and he is 48" wide. My first bull and his first moose hunt.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff117/Tron28/P9190123.jpg

Thanks

[krazy]

Almost forgot to get this guy entered. He was the end to a great season mostly due to the fact that I was fortunate to do a lot of hunting with my son this year! With a 2 point moose and his deer already under our belts we followed a set of tracks one cold morning and ran into this fella at the end of them. We decided that he was a keeper. It's amazing how the definaition of "trophy" changes over the years - for me it used to relate directly to antler size but as of late it's much more about who I get to share the experience with!

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Steve1.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=21840&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)

[BiG Boar]

A killer hunting season
This fall has been absolutely incredible to say the least! With a job that can travel with mobile internet, I switched to the bell network and put some miles on the truck, on the quad, and even more so, on the boots. I started the season tipping the scale at 245lbs and this morning weighed in at 215. I wasn’t much of a hiker before, in fact I dreaded “hikes”, but I have since learned to slow down and enjoy just getting to look over another mountain. A cliché yes, but the more you hike the easier it becomes.
Between spring bear and turkey hunting was fishing season. I went out with a few people, one a friend I met on HBC, named pnbrock. He’s a hell of a good fisherman, and I learned a ton fishing with him. We did well and had a lot of fun doing it. It was definitely a good pause between hunting seasons.
First up was my first white tailed deer hunt. Manitoba style. I met another great friend on HBC who offered to take me out to shoot a big old prairie buck. Who wouldn’t want to do that? Not to mention that this guy was incredible at hunting whitetail! I have never thought one could know deer so well. He knew where they were traveling, what they were doing, who was there, and when they did it. I got set up in one of many tree stands, twice daily and for 40 hours over the course of a week, waiting patiently for one of the big bruisers on the trail cam. Mostly does and one small buck had come by over the week. Then on the second to last day I saw a doe coming by followed by a 4x4 buck. It wasn’t one of the monsters from the pictures, but it was go time. At 20 yards he stopped broadside and looked up at the fellow in the tree. Unfortunately for him, I had already drawn, and my finger was gently touching the trigger. What looked like a perfect shot was tracked an hour later. There was blood, but something didn’t seem right. 200 yards down the hill we jumped him from his death bed. So we decided to pull out and go for breakfast. 3 hours later and another 200 yards further we found my first archery whitetail all piled up. What a terrific hunt! Can’t wait to go back and do it all over again.
As soon as that hunt ended (Sept 5th) I had to get back home and start preparing for a bull moose/grizzly combo hunt. We both had bull moose draws, and my wife held the only coveted grizzly draw in the area. For 10 days near Fort St. James, we hunted hard, floating the rivers, hitting the cut blocks, quading to learn the area, and practicing calling moose.
We did find some grizzly tracks, but the salmon had left the rivers, and their tracks were cold. They were already on their way to their winter dens high in the peaks out of our area. I did try predator calling for the grizzly, but only called in a lone coyote, which we couldn’t shoot for fear it spooked the bear. I also had a chance at 2 wolves, one while I was on a boat, floating at 300 yards, however I just couldn’t get steady due to the boat rocking. The second was on a moose kill, but as I lined up for the shot it loped gracefully away and I couldn’t shoot as my wife would be deaf from the muzzle blast from where she was standing.

On day 3 it rained, so we decided to forgo the quad and ride in the truck. I had just read about fresh clear cuts and decided to check one out that was nearby. I was beginning to think I had just wasted 20 minutes checking this area when something caught my wife’s eye. It was a burnt stump in a brand new clear cut. Strange I thought, and so we stopped for a look. There at 500 yards was a nice black bear. My wife had yet to shoot a big game animal, and since she had spotted it, it was all hers. The soft wet ground and piles of logs allowed us to get to within 100 yards. We found a nice rest and yet the bear wouldn’t come out from behind a single log that was just covering its vitals. When it did, the bear was moving away. We had no choice but to follow it and get in closer for a shot. I thought the stalk was blown as the bear retreated to the forest, but then it stopped for a second and went back to feeding. That was when things went all wrong. The bear started towards us from 50 yards, Cory had no rest, and I had left my gun back at the last rest. I grabbed a 3 foot log and balanced it on end. “Kneel and shoot fast!” At 20 yards the shot rang out and the bear leapt, fleeing in the other direction. “Again! Anywhere you can hit him!” I urged. Bang! Flop! Another first for us. What a rush and what a feeling. Cory was shaking uncontrollably, more out of fear, or excitement, I do not know. When the dust settled we walked up to a gorgeous bear. Light tan muzzle, no rubs, and jet black. Wasn’t a monster by any means, but it was a memory I will never forget. From spotting it, to skinning it out, that was her bear.
We did manage to call in two moose that trip, one came in when it was too dark and we couldn’t get a shot on the moose who was answering 50 yards away with a Mwah – Mwah. The other on the last morning of the hunt was a cow that we called into 150 yards and we didn’t even see until we turned around to head back to the quad. Sure enough she was just standing there with a look on her face as if to say, who is this idiot bellowing like my sister. As hard as I searched for nubs, there were no antlers. Other than that we only saw one other moose and he was running at 200 yards in the morning mist into the thick.
I had also invited up another friend who had a moose tag. He only hunted for 4 days, and on day 3 a black bear ran across the road in front of us as we were driving back to camp on the quads. Fumbling to get his gun from a bush league, duct taped, gun case mounted on his quad I was very surprised to see the bear was still standing in the cut block. As he had never shot one I told him it was a definite shooter and to aim right for the middle of his neck. Didn’t want to waste the meat. Yeah, I enjoy it, makes a great sausage. Easy shot, 50 yards, what could go wrong? Boom! Went the 7mm 140 gr TSX right through the jugular of the beast. Still standing the blood poured, and I mean poured like 2 garden hoses from the neck of the bear. He said, “Dave, should I shoot again?” I said, “No, he’s about to fall over in about 5 seconds.” The bear made it 7 paces and fell over dead. Walking up to it there were some nerves moving, so I said to back out give him 20 minutes.
I went back to camp to get my truck and my wife. Twenty minutes later I was back at the bear. We walk up to him to take some pictures armed with a camera. Just a point and shoot digital, nothing that could actually be used as a weapon. But then again I knew this bear was dead by the vast amount of blood which had streamed from his neck. That was my second mistake. As I approached from behind 10 feet away the bear GETS UP! What? Oh crap….He is on his feet and looking at us! Turn and fight? Or flight? The 6’4” nose to tail monster knew better than to tangle with a 220lb ninja like myself. It ran for its life! Made it another 30 yards and lay down again. We made it back to the quad, retrieved the gun intending to give it the coup de grace. One to the heart to end it. Though I wasn’t sure there was any blood left in this animal. As the shot rang out the bear leapt to its feet again and ran, turning to face us at 20 yards before falling over and saying his final words. Note to self, never neck shoot a bear again, these suckers are tough, had it been in thick bush it could have gone much worse! Now I know why they say you should always break the front shoulder of the bear to immobilize it, taking the lungs and heart with it.

[BiG Boar]

From there we went home to get packed for the big trip of the season. Two weeks at the end of September beginning of October for Stone sheep, goats, elk, moose, and caribou. After washing and cleaning and repacking gear we headed north, hours past Fort Nelson on the Alaska Highway. This trip was to be done on horseback. It would be my first horse trip. Earlier in the year I had taken a horse packing course, and for a week I got to learn a ton about all aspects of riding and packing horses. Horses aren’t like dogs that respond to love and affection. These animals respond to pressure and release of that pressure. You must control your horse or it will control you. Apply pressure to get the horse to do something, when it responds, release the pressure.
We were dropped off on the Alaska Highway with 1200lbs of gear. With 8 horses this would take 2 trips. Why we had to bring so much crap is beyond me. But we had everything! In all seriousness one of the guys suggested bringing a kitchen sink to wash dishes in, to which my eyes widened and the look on my face must have said, “are you serious?” The 3 of us rode in and set up a beautiful camp.
Now hunting with the older generations is interesting. Yes, they have forgotten more than I know about hunting, but their motivation is different than a young 31 year olds is. Mine, is to conquer the world and all the animals in it, while theirs is to relax, enjoy the autumn breeze, sip coffee watching the sunrise, and relive hunts from the past. Also, older people in general love organization. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. We young guys just want to mark our gps where we drop camp and hit the trails! There have been animals living in these hills for thousands of years, and it’s our job to put an end to that! It’s like the old bull talking to the young bull on the hill.
First day is setting up camp. Had some tarps strung up, had camp made and things organized. Next day was hunting! The great thing about hunting on horses is you can cover some serious ground without walking an inch. Also, they are quiet and can get in close to other animals. They are also more alert than their riders and can pin point with their ears, something that you can’t see or hear. The bad part is that every morning you have to find them as they have hobbled off to greener pastures, sometimes many miles away. Another great thing about horses is that they can haul out a moose or anything in places a quad won’t go; but back to the hunt.
Day two we spotted our first grizzly, one of many. In total, we must have seen 12 grizzlies and only 1 black bear. As we had ridden all day we headed back to camp. All of a sudden there in the alpine not 250 yards away is a good bull moose. I jump off the horse, whip off my pack, set my spotting scope on my tripod and look closely to see if it is indeed a legal bull. Yep, shoot, I say to Peter. Boom, boom, followed by a few more booms, I then grabbed my rifle and lent a helping piece of lead to take the beast down. Approaching it we find a good bull. Peter is satisfied, and we have a need for a meat poll. Gutless quartering and one and a half hours later we are 2 kms back in camp with a moose. Anyone who doesn’t know the gutless method, you should learn it as it is so much easier than sawing and chopping. And it’s way faster too!
A few days later in the hunt I got to stalk my first caribou. I could only get 500 yards away as I ran more than 2kms to close the distance. However on the way I came across a grizzly which was heading towards the same caribou. I was hidden; however the bull saw the bear and made for the trees. Two days after caribou closed I came across the very same caribou lower on the same mountain and almost cried as it was a real beauty, with large bladed tops and good points all around. But hey, that’s hunting.
That evening we set up high on a hill glassing the alpine for anything. Four kms away I spot a nice bull moose bedded in the snow. Not sure if he's legal we close the gap, but it’s getting dark and the old guys know it’s best to get going home. I stressed that we should ride for 45 more minutes to try to close the distance to see if it is at least legal and worth coming back for in the morning. Sure enough we meet cliffs about 30 minutes later and are forced to retreat. We didn’t know if it was legal, but the horns were way out there.
The next morning I have the packs on the horses and the horses saddled by 9am. We are going to shoot my first moose, well, hopefully. By chance on the way we spot our first band of 3 rams. At 900 yards we can’t be sure any are legal, but they all look like they are under the bridge of the nose. Then up pops this guy, between us and the sheep! Like most snaky sheep hunters, some guy snuck through a trench between us and the sheep. He slipped by us, and I assure you he had to have seen us. There was no way he could have got to where he was without having seen us and our 8 horses. Like the competitive snakes some of them are, he slithered past us and I was very happy when I didn’t hear a shot. If he had shot a ram I would have cried, as I was the only one with a tag in our group of 3. Almost felt like letting off a warning shot to get those sheep moving. But my better judgment got the better of me and I took the high road! I was now chasing my moose which I had just spotted!
Weaving and walking my way down with the horses towards the valley floor, I hurried towards where I had last seen the moose. He was bedded in the snow with his cow, halfway up a mountain, well into the alpine. We got to a vantage point at the last ridge and eased over the edge looking across the next valley at a definitely legal good first bull. But how far? My Bushnell rangefinder couldn’t range it. I asked the old golf addicted man lying next to me what the range was. 350 yards was his response. It’s hard to tell with nothing in between you and the moose though; I’m on one hill he’s on the next. I thought it looked like 350 also. But because my rangefinder wasn’t working I radioed the guy holding the horses to bring us his range finder. Well that is when things got complicated…I am laying down set up on this moose, and next thing we hear from the radio, “Legal caribou herd heading your way!” We turn 180 to see about 20 caribou trotting right behind us 250 yards away. I say to him, “Peter, you have always wanted a legal caribou and I don’t have one foot in the grave, I’ll find one another year. You shoot this one! I’ll take care of this moose.” And off ran the 58 year old to close the distance. Again, the shots rang out. Quite a few. Caribou aren’t known as a tough animal to kill, but they are if you don’t hit them in the right spots. Finally it was down, and I was back waiting for the rangefinder.
One hundred yards away Stewart drops his radio in the snow and stops to look for it. Signaling to Peter to come help find it, I wait impatiently hoping this moose doesn’t go anywhere. Twenty minutes later they find it and over comes Stewart to tell me it’s exactly 650 yards. Way too far for my capabilities on a live animal, so I traverse down and around the mountain and up the other side using rocky out cropping to hide behind. They are watching the whole thing unfold from their perfect vantage point. The wind is perfect and I tell them the only time to radio me is if the bull is leaving. The radio is quiet and I close the distance to pop out behind a ledge not 20 yards from the massive bull. I Kind of wished I had my bow as the bull stood up and looked at this funny creature holding some kind of grey antler in his hand (my gun) wanting to challenge the king of the mountain and steal his woman. I put the cross hairs on the heart and for some reason I hesitated. Just then the cow walks out from perfectly behind the bull; she would have been hit if the bullet had been sent through. I drank the scene in. Two Bull Moose inside of 30 yards, the sun shining and the autumn mountain air blowing lightly on my face. Leaning into the rifle I shot the animal right through the heart, a quick follow up shot on the standing animal made his legs wobble and his eyes widen. Then like the king of the mountain being dethroned, he toppled over backwards and gave up his breath.
I quartered and skinned the quarters alone in less time than it took the more experienced hunters to do up a caribou together. It’s not easy to do alone, nor is it easy to take pictures of a moose alone. Shoving and twisting I got it onto its knees somehow got some good pictures of the brute. I was proud; this was my first really big game animal. I left it quartered in the freezing evening to come back in the morning with the horses again. I tied my shirt to its antler and hoped the grizzlies we had seen on Peter’s kill wouldn’t show up, or wolves or ravens.

[BiG Boar]

Again, that is when things went sour. We got lost. I had tried to use my iphone as a GPS that day as there was a cell tower in sight, but alas it was not a cell tower, and for some reason the GPS didn’t work. I had a compass, but it didn’t come out as the two older fellows KNEW where we were going. It was dark and eventually we had to trust the horses to get us back to camp. Give it its nose and it’ll take you home. Sure enough, in the pitch black with nothing but stars out the horses got us back to the trail and back to camp. It’s a funny feeling being lost.
Upon returning the next morning to the moose I was devastated as I climbed the hill to see ravens flying from over the kill. Then with gun ready we eased over the hill not knowing what to expect. Luckily and to our surprise, neither the ravens nor anything else had touched the kill. What a relief.
Over the next few days we caught some fish, and ran into a band of 2 more rams, one of which was just under the bridge of the nose. Also, we put a stalk on a good moose for Stewart, the biggest of the three 4x5 in the fronts but the wind changed and we had a shot at 300 yards but he couldn’t get to a rest in time to take the shot before they disappeared into the trees below.
Then on the last day, in the last hours of the hunt, I called in a 1 horn broken legal bull for Stewart to shoot. Would have been a real doozie hadn’t it have been broken off! It was shot for meat as apparently we didn’t have enough yet. Packing it out the weather changed in seconds to the worst storm I think I have ever been in. The rain was sideways with hurricane force winds; even the horses lowered their heads and closed their eyes going into the storm. Then as quickly as it hit us, it was gone! The next day we packed up and headed home. What an adventure doing a horse trip. Well worth doing. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
A few more days at home and it was then time to go for goats. Talking to BC Billies and a few others on HBC and reading their stories got me wanting a goat. A billy in particular. So with LEH’s in hand, a good friend and I named Chris headed towards the Rocky Mountains. He had spotted some good goats the year previous, way in the back on an elk hunt. Could have shot a few of them but didn’t have the LEH needed to do so. Now we did, and it was late season. November first. It was time to climb for a long haired billy.
But on our way to the EK we stopped in Creston and I shot my first white tailed doe. It was 300 yards downhill in a big clear-cut and I gave my wife Cory first shot at it. After 4 shots she thought it was thorougly warned enough and gave the gun to me, where I put the cross hairs at the top of her back and tried my first attempt at a longer distance shot on an animal. Bang flop, good eats, nuff said.
We arrived to our goat hunting zone with about 8 inches of snow on the ground. To make things more treacherous, we were in search of what some would consider the most dangerous hunt of North America. Now I know why. These things are easy enough to spot high up in the peaks of the mountains, but getting there is sometimes all but impossible. That’s when I got introduced to a madman named Jay. Jay has around a dozen goats under his belt. He isn’t afraid to work for them either; this is why I call him a madman. These hills are crazy tough! By far these are one of the hardest animals to harvest. Just getting to shooting distance can be tough, and retrieval can be even harder. Jay was doing it with his back thrown out! Just incredible! The man could barely stand up after an all day hike and was now willing to hit the trails with us again the next day!
Taking us into a secret spot 5 kms off the dirt road, we wound our way through a creek bed and found some goats straight up above us, right where he thought they would be. Well Chris and I gave Jay first option on the billy we spotted because he had taken us in there. To my delight he declined wanting one of us to get our first goat. Chris insisted that we at least draw straws for the goat and include Jay. Sure enough, Jay wins. Yet again the man of class turns the goat down! Now it was up to Chris and I. Both of us were committed to staying till we each got a goat, so it didn’t really matter who won. Chris said we should decide up top, I said, I don’t want to carry this gun up the mountain, if I ain't shooting. So we Rock Paper Scissored for it and as luck would have it, I got to shoot.
Up and up and up and up and up we raced, legs burning, breath fleeting, and thirst overtook me. But I pressed on, knowing the billy would follow the group of goats heading over the hill. Jay who is in incredible shape for his age of over 40 seemingly ran up the hill. From 30 yards above he peeked over the cliff and then looked back at my tired self. With two fingers raised above his head he signaled the goat was just in front of him. I took the time to catch my breath and climb using my poles and all my energy up the last 30 impossible yards.
As I got there, they were gone. No goats to be seen. They were heading over the top of the mountain some 350 yards further up. Remember, we had just climbed about 1200 yards and the last 30 took almost 10 minutes it seemed. It was getting steep, really steep. The kind of steep you use hands to get up. Then Jay informed me the billy had just dropped out of sight into an avalanche chute and should pop out in a few minutes. So I ranged the peak above at 335 yards. Just then I caught sight of another goat heading over the ridge, was this my billy? I saw a dark behind and fear took over in my mind. The billy had got around me and left with the herd. I was unsure though and gave it 10 more minutes, which seemed like an eternity. Then, like magic he appeared from the chute! Get lined up from 20 yards over says Jay! I get set up and put the cross hairs on him only to see 2 branches making a perfect X over the vitals. Also, he’s quartering away at quite an angle.

[BiG Boar]

I move over 20 more yards into the avalanche chute that the goat is in. Now there are no trees straight up between the goat and I. Only problem is that I am lying in a chute sliding, clinging to hold on to the ground! Toes sunk into the shale I raise the loaded rifle. Take a rest and realize that the steep angle is putting the eyepiece on the 300 Winchester magnum’s scope, almost right on my eyebrow. I know I’m going to get kicked so I hold the gun up off my shoulder and further from my eye. I’ll have to absorb the recoil with my hands and arms. The goat jumps up onto the ledge at 330 yards, perfectly broadside and stops when I hear Jay and Chris say they are going to have to shoot. But before they could finish their sentence the bullet is racing at 2950fps towards the goat. Thwap! The goat jumps, and I am sliding down the mountain. Letting go of my gun to cling to the mountain. The animal flips over backwards; smashing his horns and starts his 1500 yard roll to the bottom of the chute I am in. I am just wondering how I am going to stop it! Like a goal tender setting up for a penalty shot I dug my feet into the side of the mountain. Then after 200 yards of rolling the goat hits the one log lying in the chute and abruptly stops! Thank goodness I didn’t have to wrestle with a free tumbling goat!
From there we hiked up, took some pictures, then dragged it down in some snow using our belts to hold the beast from sliding too fast, then 300 yards lower we came to a couple of trees where we would skin it out for a rug and take the meat off. Jay and Chris go down the mountain to get the packs, however because the mountain had iron in it, our GPS locations were not accurate and with 2 GPS marks, they climbed up and down several times, unable to find the pack. Finally it was spotted with binoculars and is brought up to the goat. Talk about draining on them. Still no water up here and now incredibly thirsty from beverages of the dehydrating type consumed the evening previous. I am skinning out the goat and as I stood up I almost fainted and saw stars, I am thinking from the dehydration. The smell was okay, but was making me nauseous and I was forced to lie down and gather my head. That’s when Jay says, “Oh, I guess I lost my bullet holder from my belt up top where we took off our belts to drag the goat down.” Well, let me be the gentlemen as you guys have been up and down the mountain a few times now looking for the packs. I hoofed it up and found the pouch and headed back down to a few sips of water, Pepsi, and some antipasto Jay had in his pack.
We split up the meat and part way down with just a sack of rear quarters on my back swinging (my pack was at the bottom still) I managed to get off balance with only one pole in hand and fall down a few feet, twisting my knee real good. Quick feel over, everything is still working, but you have got to be careful. We were still a handful of klicks back in the bush.
At the bottom I drank 2 liters of water in 2 minutes. I have never been so thirsty in all my life. The whole way out I thought about how some guys like doing this! I couldn’t see why, it seemed stupid, hard, and dangerous. All for a little bit of “delicious” goat meat. I couldn’t even lift my arms back at camp to hug my wife. The next day I awoke dreaming of goats and getting to do it all over again next year. Too be honest I can’t wait!
Next it was off to Kamloops and Cache creek for 10 days to try my hand at mule deer. Maybe it was luck, maybe I just can’t figure out 4 points, but nothing was almost killed except my wife and me, while sliding backwards in our truck down an icy mountain road with a 28 foot trailer attached. Had to be one of the scariest moments I have ever been through. Absolutely terrifying. Got to see some 3 point bucks fight it out over does, and saw a legal 4 point one evening, but never pulled the trigger that whole hunt. Still had a great time, met some great people from HBC, you know who you are, and got to hunt with my good friends for a few days.
Finally though, the hunt I had been dreaming of since June LEH’s came out was finally here. Buffalo! And I was after a biggie! I wanted a big bull for the wall, but it didn’t have to be Boone and crocket, just a good representative of the species.
After talking to many people who have done the Sikanni River buffalo hunt, I decided to book with the outfitter. The cost was very reasonable in comparison to doing it yourself. After adding it up it was about $1000 more to use their equipment and guiding service and using my LEH. I weighed it out and said it was the smarter move as I have never hunted buffalo, didn’t know what to expect or where to find the big bulls, or how to judge them. Not to mention, finding someone willing to take off the time I needed to find a big bull could be tricky.
Before you put in for a tag be sure to know if you can even do the hunt. There are a lot of factors and costs to it. Just getting there from the lower mainland is an 18 hour drive. Not bad, but freezing rain and terrible snow storms put a lot of cars in the ditch in front of me. I arrived at the ranch to be escorted in by Mike and Dixie; they live in an area where residents can’t drive, so they pick you up from the gate. If you do it yourself, when leaving, you have to get your truck started out on the airstrip where you parked in minus 20 to 50 weather. It’s not easy to start a truck in that cold of temperature. Bring good jumpers, a charger, a generator, and a tiger torch. Staying at the ranch, Mike took care of all that for me. Some guys were out on the strip trying to start their trucks all day long!
Keep in mind. There is no quad access for most of the good hunting area. It is a park and they are not allowed in, as are trucks. You will need a snowmobile to access where the most of the buffalo are. That is if there is snow. It will be terribly cold. You will need specialized cold weather snow gear to do the late season hunt, expect -40 the entire time. Accommodations available to hunters are to camp; most hunters’ camp on the airstrip, but that is 13 kms from the good hunting area. Or at Mike and Dixie’s cabins. If you don’t stay at the lodge you likely won’t be able to hunt the ranch private property, where the buffalo are commonly found. The accommodations and 3 great meals provided per day at the ranch were spectacular! Spend the extra money to stay at the ranch. It is money well spent. You will probably even over hear people as to where they are finding the buffalo.
So, how did my hunt go? 3 hours into the hunt we stumble across a herd of 40 buffalo heading along the edge of a frozen lake. There are 3 good bulls in the herd. But not great. I decide then to hold out as it’s the first day and this is easy right? Wrong.

[BiG Boar]

We hunted hard all week and never again saw bulls of that caliber. We got onto herds every day, but never found lone bull tracks to follow, and never spotted any lone bulls above us on the mountain. We walked for miles most days following tracks in 1 to 2 feet of snow getting right in amongst the herds in the pocket meadows, well within distance for a good archery shot. But just no big bulls. We sat at look outs, spent many dollars in 2 stroke gas covering ground looking for big bull tracks and at the end of the hunt I had to choose over a weak bull and a good eating mature cow. As Mike and Dixie wanted the population brought back under control and had stressed that to the residents who were staying there all week, I decided on the last day with a few hours of light left to take a cow.
We found a herd of 27, picked out the biggest and the stalk was on. We got set up, took some video and were going to shoot, but the spot had a lot of brush in the way so we belly crawled 100 yards over to another tree to get set up on. As I was getting ready I reached for my camera to get some video of the shot. But it was not in my pocket, it had fallen out on the belly crawl over, and as I thought of going back to get it, two guys who had shot their buffalo in the same field the day before showed up on sleds and drove slowly by the herd, getting them moving. It was now or never. I waited for the cow to get clear of the herd and pulled the trigger. The 200 gr TSX smacked the cow and she made it 20 paces with the stampeding herd before piling up.
Then you load it on your skimmer, behind the sled and drag it out to cape it and clean it. Apparently there is less fat on the December animals than the October, November animals. So the meat will be used well. I have lots of family and friends who enjoy game meat, so all of these animals will be used.
A trapper at the lodge took this fine wolverine, I had a tag also, and found tracks, but no wolverine was in them at the time.
Another interesting story that happened while we were there was this guy who we’ll call Ron showing up by himself, with a sled, a quad, and a toboggan for a skimmer. Yes a kid’s toboggan. These are 1000 pound animal’s people.
So we are up the mountain on our sleds glassing from between 2 peaks and nothing is found so we lift our sleds back around and head back down. Only to run into Ron. Well actually we ran into Ron the previous day in the back 40, quite a ways into the park riding his quad. Apparently he didn’t “KNOW” he wasn’t allowed to be there. Anyways, we run into Ron, now on his sled and he says he’s seen a big buffalo up the mountain a ways back. He isn’t going to go for it by himself, so we ask if he will show it to us. So were heading back down the mountain, Ron (Mr. Unprepared) has his large back pack slipped over the handle bars of his sled. Almost on queue the push button throttle gets stuck under the strap and the machine races off through the trees on a mountain side, no wider than 5 feet. I come around the corner to see Ron 15 feet on his back in front of the sled. The sled ski bracket was bent as was the shock. As for him, his thumb is broken, no movement, and his leg is smashed up from whacking the tree at such a speed. He tries to show us the mountain buffalo he saw, but it’s not there. However there are some elk there. He assured us there was a buffalo, and like a fool we went up the mountain circled the entire thing, wasted a day and didn’t find a single buffalo track. Now I have enjoyed my fair share of Buffalo wings, but that is the only way that thing got off the mountain without us finding a track. I think we were tricked into going after this flying type buffalo, to get us out of his secret spot, or something like that.
To make matter worse when I did leave I found him on 8km hill, still on his way to the hospital. Even though he left 3 days before me, he hadn’t even made it out to the highway with his stuff. He didn’t bring chains and slid backwards down the mountain road with his truck and trailer. He hiked out, got a lift to bucking horse and spent a day in a motel, the next day the highway was closed, so he couldn’t get a tow truck in. The next morning when the tow truck did come in, its chains snapped and they had to go get a second tow truck, which was where I found them. Crawling up the 8km hill 3 in a row. I joined on to the parade because I couldn’t pass them anyways, and rather than chaining up. At the top I got around them and carried on my way. Then in some heavy snow on the highway, I spun out and did a 180. I was facing north for a while but heading south. A scary feeling for sure. Only to find 1 ½ hours into my drive south I had a rad leak. I had just replaced it a couple months back, so I was wondering what the problem was. It was the water pump. Finding a repair shop in Fort St.John that isn’t busy that time of year is another thing all together. I went to 6 shops before one guy finally called a few places for me and found a place that could get me in. S&S automotive in Taylor put me on my way 5 hours later.
All in all, it was a great season. I learned a ton spending 101 days in the field during my 3rd year of hunting. Predators and geese are open, so there’s still time for something else too! I hate seeing the end of hunting season though. Can’t wait for next years’ hunting season to begin! There are still so many animals to check off of my list of BC big game! Thanks to all of you who helped me along the way. I really couldn’t have done it without your help! Cheers, Dave

[BiG Boar]

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/bigbore14/bison%20hunt/IMG_1458.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/bigbore14/goat%20hunt/goatchris.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/bigbore14/moose%20hunt%202010/moosegood3.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/bigbore14/mule%20deer%20hunt/PA290015.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/bigbore14/whitetail%20manitoba%20bow/IMG_0657.jpg

[blindguy]

Caught this guy with his doe out in the wide open 200yrds away.
peace country. late nov.

http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss90/secondpaige/HudsonsHope2010036.jpg

[pse&remington]

Sept 20th 2010, 4 of us good friends decided to put in on Moose LEH for the 5-02 region. We applied in groups of 2 and just happened to get our LEH One group was for region 5-02c and the other was 5-02b both were for the same time and so we decided we would all go together and rented a house on Horsefly Lake. Unfortunatly a chain of events left the one group a man down and we were only 3. Sometimes work just gets in the way.
The trip started as we convoyed in 2 seperate trucks (of course). At around 3am the first truck broke down and we all loaded into the other. 10min down the road a doe jumped out infront of us and well....the first kill an unfortunate one. We went back to fix the truck the next morn and found the only altinator to be found in Williams lake (what luck). We then got things put back togerther and went for a night hunt. The next couple of days were a success. Thanks to having radios, detailed google earth and great maps we managed to limit out.
The first one taken by the lonerider he shot early in the morning and was able to find us 50km away were we all saddled up and came together to get it out. The other was taken the next day on the way back to camp where we spotted one about 175 yards on the back side of a swamp.
I could talk for ever about the beautiful country, great times, and story itself but you get the point, another great hunting trip fill with misfortunes and good times!

[rand]

Well after a wet and windy day of working I showered up, downed a bowl of soup then grabed my .257Weatherby for an afternoon hunt.It all started just about 2kms from camp when on the egde of the road was a huge set of buck tracks.I followed the tracks for about 3 kms thinking i've got to bump into this buck soon.With the rain just stopping an hour ago these tracks are fresh.Knowing this buck should be close I stopped the truck grabed my gun and walked up the switch back so I could look down on the road which is about 150 to 200 hundred yards down.Well low and behold when I crested the bank there he was walkin straight away from me and about 200 yard away.I quickly sat down and I shot him.The 100 grain Barnes TSX hit him far back in the rib cage coming out in the base of the neck,three steps later he was dead.
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/randallvos/HalloweenWEE025.jpg
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/randallvos/huntingtofino2010061.jpg

[rand]

My hunt started August 30th about eight-thirty at night.The phone rang and after about ten minutes, I was smiling.I was up south of Fort St John working and the heilcoper bill was over ninety grand. Funding was alotted for only eighty so they were going to be sending us home five days early. But not for me! I was going hunting. At three in the morning, I was off. Several hours later with my pack loaded with protein bars I found myself deep in the mountains. By the following evening I had come across several herds of sheep, moose (in the valley bottoms), cariboo and one goat.Things were looking good and around noon the next day I set up my spotting scope. I spotted eight-teen sheep (two legal) on one ridge, with the rest about three-hundred yards below. It was going to take about an hour to get into shooting range so I start packing up my gear when I noticed two cariboo coming up the hill fast, about 600 hundred yards away. The sheep got up and were moving nervously about and the cariboo began running up and out of the alpine. I stayed still and continued glassing the bottoms. soon I realized what all the excitement was about; a pack of wolves were headed straight up the mountain. The two rams started running, never stopping, but the lambs and ewes stayed put.The wolf pack ran by the sheep at a distance of about three hundred yards. When the pack got to the top of the alpine they milled around for a while before laying down and going to sleep.The lambs and ewes went back to grazing. It was time for me to jump into action. It took me 30 minutes to get within shooting range of the wolves. The first shot was three hundred and fifty yards out at the alpha male, a huge white wolf. He was three hundred and fifty yards out. The second was a hit on another big male, but it wasn't fatal. The third was a female that had stopped running and looked back at me when I howled (bad mistake for her). I hunted for another two days and never saw a single animal. At night in my tent I could hear the rest of the pack howling, looking for their lost alpha male; little did they know his hide was wrapped in cheese cloth hanging in a tree on the edge of my campsite.
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/randallvos/huntingtofino2010026.jpg
http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n580/randallvos/huntingtofino2010029.jpg

[cmk09]

Got my hunting license this past year, and went out with my brother. I was determined to get my first deer with my brother since he was the one who got me into hunting. We didnt have a whole bunch of luck, so we figured we would take advantage of the open doe season in region 8. This pretty girl stepped out and hung around long enough for me to take a shot and eventually get my first deer!!!

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww185/kwasky/Rhonda.jpg

[Lucky77_]

pretty girl, wish i had one like that, ummm beautiful

[Mik]

Went up for a late Sept hunt. Had a great time with friends and partners. We hunted hard for week, with all the rain it was discouraging, but nevertheless we pulled through. Story is posted;
Heres a pic of my moose,
http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq159/Kozynest/Hunt%202010/P1010674.jpg

and for the second entry; my grizzly. We didnt think we were going home with one, but as it turns out, luck was on our side.skull measured 21 5/16"
http://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq159/Kozynest/Hunt%202010/2010Hunt154.jpg

[bigwhiteys]

Here is my entry.

I shot this blacktail buck while on one of my morning walks through our local honey hole. He was chasing a doe back into the timber and was about to cross the ditch when I plugged him with my .270.

http://www.bchuntingblog.com/wp-content/gallery/blacktail2010/buck3.jpg

http://www.bchuntingblog.com/wp-content/gallery/blacktail2010/buck5.jpg

Carl

[kyleklassen]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/scan000121.jpgafter taking a smaller 2pt in sept and not seeing much after that i took advantage of a snow day in late november to try again. i drove a few areas in the morning but didn't see anything other than tracks.around noon i tried walking a small area just off the road and found this guy and a doe along a timber edge at the backend of a setting. south island deer taken with a 30/06...........k.k...

[deeks1989]

Had seen this guy in an area so patiently I hunted the area hard until I caught him standing on the edge of the timber towards my truck and whacked em'.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs833.snc4/69311_10150309147855425_651515424_15085830_338805_ n.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=15085831&id=651515424)

This cat I hunted for a long time haha. I had been chasing him for 2-3 weeks up early in the mornings and out before dark every day I could...trying to cut his tracks and hoping to find him. I finally found him feasting on a dead deer and put a stalk in but he ran...I then went after him and took a long shot but missed. Fortunately he got scared and ran up a big fir tree and it was game over for him. My first cat! I hunted very hard and put a lot of effort and time into getting him!:wink:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs765.ash1/165681_10150381105405425_651515424_16308948_139191 1_n.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=15085831&id=651515424)
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs026.snc6/165681_10150381105420425_651515424_16308951_299313 1_n.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=15085831&id=651515424)

[Gateholio]

FOr those of you that have "large" or "record book" size critters, be sure to post the score. Read below. Please edit your post and include the score.

#4 BIG GAME

Biggest animal, scored by a COMPETENT scorer. IF you want to enter this contest, we need to see proof of score. To enter, post your animal in the regular contest and include a score. A COMPETENT scorer will be defined as a person that "knows enough and has scored enough" They can be official scorers, credible taxidermists, or credible members of HBC. A number of HBC members qualify, so if you are in their area, hopefully they can help you out. In the interest of expediency, GREEN scores are fine. if there is a dispute, the entrants need to go to an official scorer, or a scorer that is agreed by me.


The winner will be based in percentage of the BC record book. So if you get a moose that is 65% of the book a blacktail with 70% of the BC book will beat you, regardless if your moose has a larger score.

1 winner, largest animal by %

Prize:

TBA

[Blacktail]

I told Gatehouse I would supply a knife for this contest.

Just finished up the sheath and here it is.
I will keep it here and send it out to the winner when Clarke tells me who it is.

Knife specs

caping knife
440-C steel satin finish
cocobolo handle with yellow and white spacer material
sheath is oil conditioned 7.5 ounce vegetable tanned cowhide
nickle riveted with barb wire border stamping

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k160/blacktail243/CaperHBC.jpg


for those of you who may not know
this one of the prizes

Gatehouse

let me know who gets it and I will ship it from here

[chickbunker]

http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc461/chickbunker/DSC01816.jpg

Well i figured i may as well enter this now that i got my official score of 234 and 2/8.

To make a long story short i saw a doe on my way to setup for the evening. Decided to get out and follow her down the hill got 50 yards in and he was standing there. I had to triple look at him counting tines had to me sure he was legal. I got him in my scope and boom i missed from maybe 40 yards. He took up off the hill and i pursued got on to the road and saw him in a clearing about 100 yards away, I setup up again took a deep breath and boom he just dropped where he stood.

[Gateholio]

I thought i did this before, but I guess I spaced it!


Categories:

#1 Big Game Animal category.

3 winners. The “entry fee” is an animal. You may enter as many times as you like. One animal= one ballot.

3 winners, to be drawn randomly

SitkaSpruce has donated a one day fishing trip for two in 2011 or 2012 in Port McNeill. It will include boat, all bait, tackle, fuel, guide and safety equipment.

From Bigfish Canada:

http://www.chriscade.ca/bigbuckcontest.bmp

Blacktail has donated a custom caping knife

440-C steel satin finish
cocobolo handle with yellow and white spacer material
sheath is oil conditioned 7.5 ounce vegetable tanned cowhide
nickle riveted with barb wire border stamping
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k160/blacktail243/CaperHBC.jpg

#2 Traditional Bow category. Same rules as above, except only open to animals killed with a traditional bow. ( A person that hunts with a trad bow AND rifle can still enter the contests, but must specify which animal is to be entered in which category. . (not limited to BOW ONLY seasons)

1 winner, to be drawn randomly

Prize:

VantagePoint Outfitters will put up a Selway Quiver for animal taken with traditional archery equipment


#3 Youth Contest

Limited to youth 17 and under. (You must be 17 or younger when you killed your animal)

Big Game Animal category. 3 winners. The “entry fee” is an animal. You may enter as many times as you like. One animal= one ballot.

Omineca Source for Sports has donated 2 prizes:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy28/Omineca/primos.jpg

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy28/Omineca/knife.jpg

Fozzy has donated a Buck caping knife


4 "BIG" Big GAME

Biggest animal, scored by a COMPETENT scorer. IF you want to enter this contest, we need to see proof of score. To enter, post your animal in the regular contest and include a score. A COMPETENT scorer will be defined as a person that "knows enough and has scored enough" They can be official scorers, credible taxidermists, or credible members of HBC. A number of HBC members qualify, so if you are in their area, hopefully they can help you out. In the interest of expediency, GREEN scores are fine. if there is a dispute, the entrants need to go to an official scorer, or a scorer that is agreed by me.


The winner will be based in percentage of the BC record book. So if you get a moose that is 65% of the book a blacktail with 70% of the BC book will beat you, regardless if your moose has a larger score.

1 winner, largest animal by %

You have until JAN 10/2011 to get your scores in!!

Digger Dogger has donated a cat hunt in the Fraser Valley


Thank you very much for the prize donations!

(PS if I missed a prize donation, PM me, I will add it....:???: )

[Gateholio]

Here is how the contest works:

Big game and Youth and Trad bow categories have random draws

I assign a number to each entry (no, you can't pick your number)

I send the number list to Marc. He locks this in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar that is stored under his porch.

I get another mod to use a random number generator to draw the numbers, and he lists them in order of drawn.

The first drawn gets first pick of the prizes, second gets second pic, third gets third pick (only one prize for the trad bow, though)

BIG big game rules are listed above.

As there are 2 "trip" prizes in the Big Game contest, 5 alternates will be drawn in the event that the winners cannot attend. If a winner cannot attend he/she has the option of "giving" the prize to another person that has entered the contest OR sending it to the alternate list. The alternates will be contacted and have refusal in the order they were drawn.

The BIG big game contest has a cat hunt. If the winner is unable to attend, then the prize will be given to the 2nd place winner or 3rd place if he cannot attend, etc.

PRIZES HAVE NO CASH VALUE AND CANNOT BE REDEEMED IN ANY WAY OTHER THAN PRESCRIBED

Good luck to all!:-D

[hillclimber]

Got this guy Sept 2nd in region 3 during the Junior hunt. ( My last year as a JR hunter) Seen a couple of nice bucks on day 1 but was too slow getting out of the truck. Second day about mid day I believe I seen this guy on the side of the road and decided to take him.

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg61/The_Menno/2010mulie.jpg

[Steeleco]

I'm not going to enter my flat top as there's so many good creatures taken this year.
But I will say thanks to all the generous prize givers and to Gatehouse for doing all the work once again.

Good luck all.

[TPB]

My last day of whitetail hunting this season as it was closing the day after so i went out after school with a buddy and his dad, the deal was if we seen a 3 point or greater it was theirs but if we seen anything smaller it was mine. We drove to our spot and went for a little hike following a game trail to see if we could spot anything. It was painful as we didn't even see a squirrel for over 3 hours and finally decided to pull the plug so we walked back to the truck with a hour of daylight to spare. We came to the fork in the road to go home and decided to go the long way out which payed off.

During the way in we seen a road sign at 300 yards or so and it looked like deer with the snow and what not it obviously wasn`t so we continued. So when we were leaving to go home we came up to a straight stretch with another of these ``roadsigns`` which we thought we better check out. It was a single deer eating a shrub with a bush for a backdrop so with 500 yards between us we couldn't tell if it had some headgear, we slowly crept up to around 300 yards and still couldn't see with that damn shrub. When we got to 150 yards and it started to run i was getting a little worried, but it stopped broadside in the middle of the road and with a quick check off the binos i realized it was a spike. I put one shot of my .270 into its lungs which caused it to spin around but it regained its feet and continued to run, the blood was easy to see in the snow and 20 yards we found it piled up in a clearing.

its a 1x.5 :grin:, the one side is a 9 inch spike and the other side is a 4 inch nub. This picture shows how its gimpy
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g406/tpb123/76001_10150091703506998_578961997_7594306_921771_n .jpg

[Brian011]

Here's my first region 3 buck. Shot him Nov. 16
I hiked into a spot that i got some great trail cam pics throughout the summer and then cows took over so that was the first time i went back to the spot.
I saw a 2 point and a decent buck first thing in the morning but i wasn't able to count points and he was gone.
The ground was damp and quiet so i headed up the ridge toward where he went and i ran into the same 2 point along with another 2 point. They went up to the top of the ridge and got out of sight.
Thinking the bigger buck could still be around i decided to circle lower down and come up the ridge towards where the bucks went.
Sure enough i saw a nice buck crest over the ridge but it happened so fast i didnt get a good look at him, i think he was a 4x3 though. Then just a couple seconds later this guy came into view about 80 yrds through the trees and i was able to see a decent 4 point frame. It was well into the season and i had already passed up quite a few 4 points so i decided to take him. All i had was a neck shot, which i normally wouldn't take but i was confident in my shot and he dropped on the spot. Took about 4 hours to drag out.
I quickly rough grossed scored him at 147"

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af2/Brian_j_01/IMG_0498.jpg

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af2/Brian_j_01/IMG_0212.jpg

[Brian011]

Here's my second buck of the year, this one from region 5. Shot him Nov. 27th.
Not much of a story to this one, I got to my dad's place before daylight, got ready, and out the door just as you could legally shoot. I planned on hiking around all day and maybe find a spot to sit for a few hours but 100 yrds down his driveway along the edge of his field i spotted this guy and a doe laying down about 70 yrds into the bush. He stood up and turned his head to show 4 points so i was able to find a hole through the trees to shoot through.
I shot him, gutted him and drug him to the road before my dad was even ready to head out. I was happy to end the season with lots of meat in the freezer now! I quickly rough grossed scored him at 143"

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af2/Brian_j_01/IMG_0512.jpg

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af2/Brian_j_01/IMG_0508.jpg

[Gateholio]

last Chance To Add Scores Of Your Animals If You Want To Enter The "big Animal" Contest!!!

[BlacktailStalker]

Here's one more.
Took my brother on his first mulie hunt, reg.3.
Hunted hard 7 days, couldnt get where I wanted and planned to go due to access changing so much since I was there last 5 years ago :neutral: so kinda had to "wing it."
Shot the only legal buck we saw.
It was the first hunt we arrange where we could both make it in the 4 years he has hunted so it was a good one for that reason.

http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/TaylenJames/Barriere10007.jpg



http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y305/TaylenJames/Barriere10020.jpg

[dino]

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee306/heydino/IMG_0411.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee306/heydino/DSCF2039.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee306/heydino/DSCF2065.jpg

[Buckmeister]

Any draw results yet? ;)

[Gateholio]

Soon..............

[Gateholio]

Going outside to shovel some snow. If anyone wants to add any SCORES to their animals, better have it done by the time I get back. Don't bother with any more entries please, entry time limit was Dec 31.

With any luck we should have winners posted tonight or tomorrow AM:-D

[Gateholio]

Categories:

#1 Big Game Animal category.

3 winners. The “entry fee” is an animal. You may enter as many times as you like. One animal= one ballot.

3 winners, to be drawn randomly

SitkaSpruce has donated a one day fishing trip for two in 2011 or 2012 in Port McNeill. It will include boat, all bait, tackle, fuel, guide and safety equipment.

From Bigfish Canada:

http://www.chriscade.ca/bigbuckcontest.bmp

Blacktail has donated a custom caping knife

440-C steel satin finish
cocobolo handle with yellow and white spacer material
sheath is oil conditioned 7.5 ounce vegetable tanned cowhide
nickle riveted with barb wire border stamping
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k160/blacktail243/CaperHBC.jpg

WINNERS:

1. doe eyes
2. TyTy
3. IronNoggin

Alternates:
1. TristanMac
2. Gunrat82
3. Kishman
4. dime
8. Proguide66





#2 Traditional Bow category. Same rules as above, except only open to animals killed with a traditional bow. ( A person that hunts with a trad bow AND rifle can still enter the contests, but must specify which animal is to be entered in which category. . (not limited to BOW ONLY seasons)

1 winner, to be drawn randomly

Prize:

VantagePoint Outfitters will put up a Selway Quiver for animal taken with traditional archery equipment

**No entries in traditional bow category****



#3 Youth Contest

Limited to youth 17 and under. (You must be 17 or younger when you killed your animal)

Big Game Animal category. 3 winners. The “entry fee” is an animal. You may enter as many times as you like. One animal= one ballot.

Omineca Source for Sports has donated 2 prizes:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy28/Omineca/primos.jpg

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy28/Omineca/knife.jpg

Fozzy has donated a Buck caping knife

Leaseman has donated a sturgeon day trip on the Fraser Lower mainland

Winners

1. HunterSam
2. Hillclimber
3. Tyler96
4. Shooter Jr


4 "BIG" Big GAME

Biggest animal, scored by a COMPETENT scorer. IF you want to enter this contest, we need to see proof of score. To enter, post your animal in the regular contest and include a score. A COMPETENT scorer will be defined as a person that "knows enough and has scored enough" They can be official scorers, credible taxidermists, or credible members of HBC. A number of HBC members qualify, so if you are in their area, hopefully they can help you out. In the interest of expediency, GREEN scores are fine. if there is a dispute, the entrants need to go to an official scorer, or a scorer that is agreed by me.


The winner will be based in percentage of the BC record book. So if you get a moose that is 65% of the book a blacktail with 70% of the BC book will beat you, regardless if your moose has a larger score.

1 winner, largest animal by %

You have until JAN 10/2011 to get your scores in!!

Digger Dogger has donated a cat hunt in the Fraser Valley


TBA

[Steeleco]

Congrats to all, win or loose it looks like you all had a good season.
Thanks again to Mr. Gatehouse for all his efforts.

[winbuckhunter]

my region 3 muley gross scored 184 6/8 net 171 3/8 page 4 of this thread.

[Gateholio]

Looks like the animals that people gave scores for (top numbers listed)

Bighorn 166 4/8
elk 352 7/8
Whitetail 152
Moose 209
Goat 48 1/2


Few other scores listed, but these are the top ones. Now to find my record book book. Can't seem to track it down, but it's got to be somewhere..:confused:

[Gateholio]

and mule deer 234 2/8

[bcbrez]

whens the 2011 sign up? I see someone said something about a spring bear contest is that a different thread?

I held a spring archery turkey contest between the Trail, (West Kootney Archers) and the Slocan Valley Archers. It was a ten dollar entry then everyone was spilt into random teams. Once you got a bird down you had to post a picture and story of you with the bird and what it scored. The team with the highest score wins. There was also hidden weight prizes. Once I find what i did with the rules i'll post them. Would people be interested in this idea. It would have to be a free entery so prizes would need to be donated but bragging rights for the winning team for a year is pretty good too. Could maybe have a Turkey champion signature added to each member of the winning teams profile for the year. Anyway just wondered what anyone thought of the idea.

[Buckmeister]

Thanks Gate for your efforts in running the contest and a Big thankyou to all who donated prizes. Congrats to all winners, lets hope 2011 will be an even better year!!!

[steelheadSABO]

Thanks for creating this contest and congrats to all the winners
A fishing one could be an idea :)

[pg83]

Buckmeister summed up my thoughts. Thanks to all for organization and prizes. Thanks to all for sharing pics of your trophies. Congrats to all of the winners.

[bsa30-06]

Nice job again Gatehouse.A big thanks to all members and sponsors who donated prizes.Congrats to all the winners.

[moosinaround]

Good job Gates, and the sponsers! Good job to the hunters out there too! I sure like the young ones pics, shows there is some future to our sport! Thanks again Marc for the wicked site, and the time and effort to keep my addiction alive! Moosinaround

[BCHunterFSJ]

I can't find the winners...

[Mik]

I can't find the winners...

try this link;http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=61563

[TPB]

So who even ended up winning the regular draw and the youth contest? I might have missed it but I don't think im that stupid?

[hillclimber]

So who even ended up winning the regular draw and the youth contest? I might have missed it but I don't think im that stupid?

Go to page 21 on this thread thats where the winners are.

[TPB]

Go to page 21 on this thread thats where the winners are.

Apparently i am that stupid but i didn't look that far back haha, thanks for that and congrats to all the winners.

[Blacktail]

who ever won my caping knife please PM me and I will send it out to you

thanks
:mrgreen:

[Sleep Robber]

who ever won my caping knife please PM me and I will send it out to you

thanks
:mrgreen:

Very nice job on that by the way :-D

[Gateholio]

TyTy won the caping knife, but he's away for a bit....You can PM him if you like.
:-D

[Blacktail]

TyTy won the caping knife, but he's away for a bit....You can PM him if you like.
:-D

great thanks gatehouse

[M.Dean]

It's great to see Gatehouse spend so much of his time putting this contest together for us all, Thank You! And to all the Sponsors, my hats off to you all! M.Dean

[BiG Boar]

So who won the big game biggest animal book wise contest? I saw the 5 contestants, but there is no clear winner. I am suposing it's the mule deer?

[Gateholio]

Trapper won with his moose but gave the cat hunt to Bighorn Hunter. Very nice of him!:-D