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Post by jfs on Oct 25, 2017 11:12:40 GMT -5
WOW...............................
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Post by cherokeetracker on Oct 25, 2017 11:28:11 GMT -5
Shakin my head, and thinking, that Hook has been set deep in that Young Man. Please shake his hand for me if you can.
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Post by mart on Oct 25, 2017 12:04:10 GMT -5
That's a great bull. I'd venture a guess his grades are probably as good or better than the kids who don't take an occasional biology field day. I used to tell my crew when I was shift supervisor at a prison, sometimes you just have to call in well.
Nice badger. I sure caught tons of them when I was trapping in eastern Washington. They can move a lot of dirt in a hurry.
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Post by kings6 on Oct 25, 2017 12:05:15 GMT -5
" Which I don't get because Valsetz was a small, very rural town." Doug is the master of understatement with this line. Valsetz was a company town where the mill owned all the houses, the company store had a two lane bowing alley and the sidewalks were made from boards. Years ago the mill shut down and they totally removed the town and all the buildings, drained the mill pond and gated the road into the town site. For years there was still a herd of cattle that had gotten loose and were running wild around the hills around town. You used to be able to go to the timber company office and get a permit to go "cow" hunting. I had lots of friends and family who lived and worked there over the years.
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Post by jsh on Oct 25, 2017 12:22:47 GMT -5
Dick, that young man is very fortunate to live where he does good job. A hand shake and slap on the back from me as well.
I am glad to see the "old codger" got a young badger!
Jeff
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Post by sixshot on Oct 25, 2017 12:31:59 GMT -5
Paulg, my son is a world class gunsmith & he did an action job on the 327 that is amazing, the trigger breaks like frozen lettuce at a nice 2 lbs or a tick under. Other than that I just pull the trigger in the general direction of the target & those 113 gr HP's track them down. The Amboyna Burl stocks are pretty amazing also. Bula, there's a lot of difference between a bull elk & a Watusi, although I've never seen a Watusi except for photo's here on the forum. A big bull elk like the one shown is as hard an animal to hunt as there is after the hunt starts if it's on public land. They just get so wild you have to experience it to believe it. That kid killed an even bigger bull last year, I'll post a photo later. In the photo it doesn't look bigger but it is, photo's can be deceiving. He said last years bull scored higher. His family & relatives are all good hunters, just like most kids in this town. I would say the Watusi would be much harder to kill just because of the sheer size difference, but others here would know about that & have commented on their results. No elk can reach that kind of weight, even on a high fence operation. Here's a photo of the young kids bull from last year which he told me was bigger than the bull taken 2 days ago. Dick
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Post by blacktailslayer on Oct 25, 2017 13:54:35 GMT -5
What is left for that young man is to do it again next year! That is what keeps me going, never a one and done deal.
Don D.
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Post by dougader on Oct 25, 2017 23:26:05 GMT -5
" Which I don't get because Valsetz was a small, very rural town." Doug is the master of understatement with this line. Valsetz was a company town where the mill owned all the houses, the company store had a two lane bowing alley and the sidewalks were made from boards. Years ago the mill shut down and they totally removed the town and all the buildings, drained the mill pond and gated the road into the town site. For years there was still a herd of cattle that had gotten loose and were running wild around the hills around town. You used to be able to go to the timber company office and get a permit to go "cow" hunting. I had lots of friends and family who lived and worked there over the years. My Dad's graduating class was 17 kids, I think. He has an old car in the bottom of the mill pond... My grandfather was the foreman at the veneer plant there. My grandmother was able to attend the big "party" they held when they officially closed down the town.
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Post by bula on Oct 26, 2017 8:16:50 GMT -5
No problem Sixshot, the watusi comment was tongue-in-cheek. I've spent a month worth of time in elk country, but was doing other things at the time. They are ghosts in the timber and hard to catch in the open.
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Post by sixshot on Oct 26, 2017 13:02:51 GMT -5
Ghosts in the timber is correct & they don't care for direct sunlight, usually coming out right at dark & leaving before sun up. That's what makes them such a challenge. Plus they are a herd animal so several pairs of eyes are watching & that lead cow is the devil, she makes the decisions & the rest follow. When it's time to go she leads out & the bull will bring up the rear, sometimes quite a ways back.
Don't get in a big hurry & shoot a smaller bull when you first see them, many times the big boy will be trailing further back & you have to sweat him out. Sometimes you have no choice, that's elk hunting. A few days ago when grandson Ridge got his bull he first spotted a spike, then he spotted a 2 1/2 yr old raghorn & then finally a much bigger 5X5 bull bringing up the rear. Again, being above them & hopefully off to one side is your best bet, doesn't always work but you have to play the odds to kill elk consistently on public land.
Dick
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Post by callshot on Oct 26, 2017 20:33:22 GMT -5
I kept my oldest son out of school and we went hunting. The principal ask me if I knew that my son had missed school and I said, "yes he was with me and we both didn't miss the school." The principal ask me what we were doing. I said "We were moving some meat to a different safer location and that I couldn't do it alone." Nothing more was said. We did get both deer moved to a safe location.
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