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[CptnBlues63]

First off, nice pics Stoopy Thanks for sharing! I would love a trip like yours......although I could do without wearing the strip of skin off my tailbone I always lose when riding a horse for the first time in years. Lovely country! Sorry you didn't have any luck. Maybe next year.

So far I haven't had any luck either.....but I'm still working on it locally. It was too warm where we go to hunt and barely dropped below freezing overnight. During the day it was well above freezing and we had no snow. On the very last day we hunted, the weather changed and a cold front and snow came in. I almost got a poke at an elk but the herd we saw about an hour before sunset were 700+ yards away and I couldn't get any closer. Had they been 600 yards (or closer) I'd now have elk in my freezer.

As it is, my hunting partner's son nailed a gorgeous bull moose. Rough measure is around 44" wide. He weighed about 900 lb's hanging after being dressed and skinned. I had some for supper last night and he was very tasty! LOL



My one other hunting partner, Terry, wanted to take his grandson Brandon up for a day and the two came up last Friday night and spent the night so we could get an early start the next morning. Brandon has come up to the range with us several times this past summer and was very excited about getting to come along even though he wasn't actually going to be hunting this time. I had a poke at a nice whitetail buck early in the morning and I'm not sure what happened but I missed! It was 400 yards and he was standing just on the edge of the bush so there was no chance for a second shot. Terry asked me shortly afterwards, "Problem with the gun or scope?" I said, "Nope, problem with the shooter, gun and scope are fine" He thought it might be buck fever but it wasn't. I missed. First time in.........well pretty much forever. But, season doesn't end until the end of November so I'll be going out again and hope to put at least two whitey's in the freezer. Terry did fine that evening and dropped a real nice 4x4 (8 pointer to you guys down south........lol) about 45 min's before sunset. The following is a pic of him and Brandon posing with the deer.



My wife and I started a web site some years back and if anybody is interested, you can go look at all my hunting pic's from previous years just PM me and I'll email you the URL and password.

Oh, it snowed like a bugger the night before we left and continued on all day the next day. A 500 km (300 m) trip that normally takes about 5 hours took almost 7 hours. I was quite happy to make it home that day as it looked like we might not a few times that morning before we hit roads that had actually had a snow plow over them before we got there.