Post by Doc Barranti on Jul 27, 2009 20:36:01 GMT -5
Changed the oil in my black horse today (Suzuiki 4 wheeler) & headed for the mountains, I wanted to check some of my old water holes & take a few photo's along the way.
These are very special water holes, me & my 4 son's have hunted them for many years & lots of deer, elk, moose & even a mountain lion were taken by these water holes.
In Idaho its illegal to bait any big game animal (good law) so the most effective way of hunting sept & early oct is in the vecinity of a water hole, there will be many trails leading to the more remote water holes, you just have to do your homework to be successful. In my early years I would pick 4-5 different ones, brush the entrie area down with a piece of brush & then check them for fresh tracks every 2-3 days, after a while it was quite easy for one or more of us to be successful.
One son was the youngest hunter in Idaho to harvest a bull moose with a bow, 2 years later he whacked a record book mountain lion, again with the bow.
Southeast Idaho is also one of the biggest sheep producing areas in the US, there are thousands of the "woolies" roaming the high mountain meadows & slopes, there's lots of water & plenty of grass, ideal habitat for "woolies", the herders come from all over the world but mostly old Mexico, Chile, Peru & of course the Basque herders from the Spain-France border areas. These guys are always carving there names in the millions of quaken aspen trees in the area, some are quite good, some are quite graphic! Outside of their native country there are most Basque people in Idaho than any where else in the world.
Below is some of the water holes, flowers & "quakies" we photo'ed today, yes I had Callshot with me!
Some of the many wild flowers in the area.
One of our favorite water holes.
More quakies will sheep herder art :wink:
Water hole
My neat little 32 maggie & an old tree stump
This is Callshot, all dressed up with his new 32 maggie.....no the picture isn't out of focus, thats how he really looks :wink:
I think some of these guys have been out here to long!
Still lots & lots of grass for so late in July, plenty of feed for the elk.
Hope you enjoy them! Dick
These are very special water holes, me & my 4 son's have hunted them for many years & lots of deer, elk, moose & even a mountain lion were taken by these water holes.
In Idaho its illegal to bait any big game animal (good law) so the most effective way of hunting sept & early oct is in the vecinity of a water hole, there will be many trails leading to the more remote water holes, you just have to do your homework to be successful. In my early years I would pick 4-5 different ones, brush the entrie area down with a piece of brush & then check them for fresh tracks every 2-3 days, after a while it was quite easy for one or more of us to be successful.
One son was the youngest hunter in Idaho to harvest a bull moose with a bow, 2 years later he whacked a record book mountain lion, again with the bow.
Southeast Idaho is also one of the biggest sheep producing areas in the US, there are thousands of the "woolies" roaming the high mountain meadows & slopes, there's lots of water & plenty of grass, ideal habitat for "woolies", the herders come from all over the world but mostly old Mexico, Chile, Peru & of course the Basque herders from the Spain-France border areas. These guys are always carving there names in the millions of quaken aspen trees in the area, some are quite good, some are quite graphic! Outside of their native country there are most Basque people in Idaho than any where else in the world.
Below is some of the water holes, flowers & "quakies" we photo'ed today, yes I had Callshot with me!
Some of the many wild flowers in the area.
One of our favorite water holes.
More quakies will sheep herder art :wink:
Water hole
My neat little 32 maggie & an old tree stump
This is Callshot, all dressed up with his new 32 maggie.....no the picture isn't out of focus, thats how he really looks :wink:
I think some of these guys have been out here to long!
Still lots & lots of grass for so late in July, plenty of feed for the elk.
Hope you enjoy them! Dick
