here we are out of fun tickets and nearly out of the 08 "daze".
how about posting the one that made you proud in 2008?
short note of where,caliber,bullet,distance...
friend of mine drew colo sheep after 18 yrs and invited me along,6 days and 40 odd rams later he hung his tag on this beauty
300wsm,bullet??,170 yd shot.never put a tape to him but guessing 173-174

Awesome Ram!

Shot this one in ND at 22 yards with my Bowtech 101 Airborne bow. Net 161 6/8. My biggest buck to date. I watched him bed down while sitting in a treeestand and was able to get down and stalk to 20 yards.

It was a pretty darned good year, even if we did get skunked on AZ elk.....

Nevada, 9,3x74R, 60 yards:



I realy like the wartie (Zim, 80 yards offhand and running [him], .375 H&H):



and the waterbuck (Zim, 15 yards, standing on the roof of the truck to see over the grass, .375 H&H).....



and the big boy we spotlighted (Zim, 40 yards, 3 shots, .375 H&H, 2:30 am!)...

I can't follow these guys....

Missouri 9 pntr. .270 WSM 140 grn. Accubond 60/70 yards from a tree.

Add 3 does and a cow elk.






.270 WSM 140 grn Accubond about 150 yards.



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Originally posted by ravenr:

here we are out of fun tickets and nearly out of the 08 "daze".
how about posting the one that made you proud in 2008?
short note of where,caliber,bullet,distance...
friend of mine drew colo sheep after 18 yrs and invited me along,6 days and 40 odd rams later he hung his tag on this beauty
300wsm,bullet??,170 yd shot.never put a tape to him but guessing 173-174

What an interesting picture! How did you get a live billy goat to pose next to the dead sheep?

Nice sheep!

thanks for the interest in the sheep,but the flavor of the post was to include one of yours
i try and get this started once a yr so i get to see some of everyone elses and its time once again.

p.s. scott is it cold and dark and freezing where you are right now? then you are suffering enuf,i'll save the "goat" comment for another day

Took this Gemsbok on my first African hunt in Namibia this year. This is my "one" and I will never forget the shot. This was a great hunt and a great old bull oryx. 40 Yards running with a 200 grn TSX from a .300 RUM.




The African animals had already made my year, but my best elk to date made it even better. I doubt I will ever have a better year. Ended up with a mountain zebra, oryx, kudu, two springbok, a South Carolina whitetail, a cow elk and a bull elk. Also killed my first Merriam's turkey, first green head and will hopefully kill my first greater canada in a week or so. The hunting gods shined on me this year!

Scott,

A goat??? I thought it was a scare crow to keep the birds off the carcass while the hunters went to get the pickup and the Bud Lite.

Mark

Brooks Range, Alaska. 218 yards 30/06 180gr Nosler Partition. 17 Hours from when we first saw him to when I pulled the trigger.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Scott,

A goat??? I thought it was a scare crow to keep the birds off the carcass while the hunters went to get the pickup and the Bud Lite.

Mark

Say Mark, doesn't that piece of ground in Ravenr's picture look familiar? Seems like thats alongside the highway just out of Cody on the way to Yellowstone. Shouldn't be a long wait for the truck and Budlite as the bullet was most likely sent from the passenger window.

The being next to the sheep is obviously a billy goat and not a scarecrow. If you'd review the photo posted you'd notice the grizzled facial hair that most mountain goats grow after many years of cliff dwelling and that the hat is slightly elevated off the head by the horns.

Joe, I hope your holidays were happy and I look forward to seeing you soon.

Kudu, thanks a lot for the almost nothing hunt report. Please show some holiday spirit and elaborate on the outstanding sheep!

This buck was taken on our homestead in south central Texas in an area not known for anything but spindly little bucks. I rattled/grunted up this guy on November 8th and took him at 165 yards using an Encore with a 28" barrel in .308 WCF. The load: a Sierra 150 grain Pro Hunter pushed by a near-max charge of Varget. The shot centered the lungs and, despite not breaking any bone other than ribs, dropped the buck in his tracks.

The piggie below was one of many I took in '08 but was the largest of the year and the 3rd largest I have ever killed. I took him with a Contender carbine in 7mm Bullberry shooting a 120 grain TTSX at 2640 fps. This boar featured incredible girth and weighed 353 (most mature boars around here go 180-225)

and now a christmas poem by ravenr
ho,ho,ho
the old farts(mark and scott)are too fat and slow
and kudu56 just stole the show!!!
ho,ho,ho
really kudu!you been holding out!!fantastic!!
this is what i was trying to accomplish w/ the original post.
where are the rest of you??
ann?
doc from tx?
taylor1

I nearly forgot about one I am definitely proud of. Our oldest (16) took a hog a couple months ago. It was certainly not his first hog and certainly not the largest, but the degree of difficulty made it memorable. He was shooting toward the western horizon right at dark, which made the 195 yard shot on a dark animal -- one that was moving -- quite difficult.

But he placed the bullet in the prescribed spot and put the piggie down in short order with his Contender, which has a 24" 25x30-30 barrel on it. He was using 85 grain BTs at 2955 fps MV.

I was actually lucky to get a photo of him. He had already changed from his camo, and I had to do some begging and pleading to get him in the photo. But he finally relented...

StormGSP, nice Dall. Sounds like a grueling hunt.

Bobby, great shots and trophys, and all the kids are Good for you involving them!

Ted, nice whitetail. Everyone has some great trophys. I hope we see some more.

Kudu, lots of ducks and geese this year, buckets of pheasants earlier this month in North Dakota and a moose about a week and a half ago. I'll post pictures as soon as I figger the photo bucket thing.

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Originally posted by Scott King:
Kudu, lots of ducks and geese this year, buckets of pheasants earlier this month in North Dakota and a moose about a week and a half ago. I'll post pictures as soon as I figger the photo bucket thing.

http://i388.photobucket.com/al...katchewan2008335.jpg

http://i388.photobucket.com/al...katchewan2008314.jpg

Get the heck out of here! I sort of did it!

A friend and I went to Sask in October this year and had a heck of a good hunt. We only got into the Honkers really good one morning but we had some really good pass shooting on the snows more than a couple of times in some stiff wind and it was really good work for me and the dog.



Hey! thats my dawg on the 'net! This is cool!

Well since we're including African game:

5 1/8" Steenbok in Namibia taken with a 300 grain TSX out of my 375 H&H

Second place is this big Burchell's stallion taken on the same trip with the same load at 302 yards.

Got skunked in the fall hunt for moose. Luckily for us the Fish and Game has the ability to open up winter hunts. A couple of friends and I got out for the day a couple of Sundays ago and bumped into two bulls. I ended up with one. .375 H&H, 300g TSX, 52"bull. About as good as I could hope for.

Looks like lots of success this year.

scott, nice pile o' geese and nice pile o' moose
when are you headed back our way?
happy new year to you and yours

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Originally posted by kudu56:
StormGSP, nice Dall. Sounds like a grueling hunt.

It was tough, being 20 years old helps though. Sounds like you had one hell of a year with the lotteries. Shoulda played the mega millions too.

What did your sheep measure? Looks like one hell of an animal. I would kill to hunt a Bighorn.

I'm going to add a second:


Artic Griz. 100ish yards 30/06 180gr Nosler Partition

It was my lucky year to draw, I got a limited whitetail tag to. LOL!

THe sheep green scored 167.

Kudu,
Sounds like you had an incredible year! I've plunked a couple of bison and like big moose, I can't imagine working one by myself. Now thats work! Great looking sheep and congradulations. I'd love to hunt bighorn and keep applying for the non res tags in the western states. Looks like your weather helped you out too!

Ravenr,
I suspect I won't get back that way for another year or so. Reno this month and then Zimbabwe this August. Idaho next fall for waterfowl and no firm plans for after that. I'm gonna get real serious in the next couple of years about mule deer hunting. I've got a ton of preference points in Oregon and a few in Nevada. I really NEED to get back to hiking in some sage brush. How did the rest of your season go?

i had a pretty good year,106 days afield since august
3 states,mixed bag,and some great trophys for
some great folks.
good luck on the elephant!!

need some lessons on the "bucket thing

The one for me this year was my son killing his first big game animal. It was a 49 inch Kudu in Namibia. One perfedtly placed shot at 40 yards with his Pro Hunter 7MM-08 with my hand loaded 140 grain TTSX.
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The second one for me is my first Bull Elk. used my Kimber Montana .300 WSM with hand loaded 180 grian TSX. 80 yards. Arizona Unit 4B September hunt. Took him with my best friend from Ohio.
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ravenr,
whats the story behind those sawn off elk antlers.

5 yr old bull @ 460" part of the apaches breeding program,they trap 100 cows and corral them in a 5000 acre area that is double fenced
so the wild bulls can't fight the breeder,and saw its horns off to keep the "investment" from busting its neck fighting the fence/outside bulls and from goring the cows.
cows get bred and kicked out onto the 1.3 million acre reservation.
458lottfan,it was a season of firsts for you and your son,but i can't tell which is 12 judging by the smiles!! congrats

Raven,

I guess I'll get a start on the "2009 Show us the one" next week in Sonora. I'll post up a few pics when I get back. From what I understand the legend of Flaco Bigote is still going strong down there. Wish you were going to be there!

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Originally posted by ravenr:

I uuuuuuhhhhhhhh.............tha buc,.......................aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh,...................I wih I cold,.........................Whatta set of hon,..............................

Mommy, I want one.

better step up drummond, i got a 202 b&c
3X4 mainframe from this yr.
good luck in messico' and be safe.
senor' flacco begote likes tecate,slice of limon,dash of sea salt.....have one for me

338 win mag

Scott King:
"Got skunked in the fall hunt for moose. Luckily for us the Fish and Game has the ability to open up winter hunts. A couple of friends and I got out for the day a couple of Sundays ago and bumped into two bulls. I ended up with one. .375 H&H, 300g TSX, 52"bull. About as good as I could hope for."
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I know what's for dinner Thursday night. LOL

If I had to pick one I was proudest of... it was my son's first buck. A local blacktail taken the evening before his 13th birthday.



(Of the thousands of photos I've taken for clients over the years wouldn't you know it... dad didn't have the real camera when son shot his first buck.) He used a Remington in .257 Roberts with 115gr. TSX bullets (thanks condors!) at about 50 yards on opening day.

Not having taken a deer for myself for many years it turned out to be the year of the whitetail for me.

I shot my first ever whitetail hunting the blackpowder season with my brother-in-law in KS. The rifle was a T/C Triumph with a Barnes bullet and three Pryrodex pellets. This was my first time hunting from a tree and it was only a 60 yard shot.



Then a friend invited me to MT and we had our choice of hunting mulies or whitetails. Already having a decent mule deer on the wall I decided to try to upgrade my whitetail.



On this buck I used a Remington in .300 Wby. with 165gr. MRX bullets. We snuck to just about 100 yards of him.

It's been quite a while since we had game meat in the freezer and we really made up for it this year.

Maryland, 30-06, 30 yard shot.

How do I post a photo?? I got my first Whitetail this year, I'd like to post a pic...

thank you in advance,

regards,
Craig Nolan

Got my first elk, don't know how to post pictures, either.

Craig,

I followed the steps outlined in the Hunt Reports Africa forum. I think it's a sticky titled "How to post pictures" or something like that. For those with slower internet speeds like myself, it's easier to load the smaller pictures.