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From the tag line by Slider:

Golf is for people that don't know how to Hunt and Fish.

Sorry Slider, I don't believe that...

I have been an avid hunter and fisherman for over 50 years. I also got bitten by the golf bug about 20 years ago, and I find that by walking 3-6 miles chasing that little white ball around a golf course 4-6 days a week to be a good way to loose the 10-15 pounds that I seem to acquire every winter .

So a few years ago after I hit a couple of Hole-in-Ones, my Dad gave me a trophy commemorating those occasions. I hung it on the wall going into my big game trophy room where I have 62 mounts of some of the game that I've shot and fish that I caught.

Then again a few years ago I saw where Grand Slam Club/Ovis has a program called the "Super Ten" honoring hunters who have killed an animal from each of the ten major species of big game animals in North America. So I sent in my list of those ten animals, and a couple of years ago I went to their annual convention in Las Vegas and was presented a plaque awarding that accomplishment. I am especially proud that only the Musk ox and Mountain Lion I got on guided hunts, and I got the other 8 animals on DIY hunts, with 7 of those on DIY solo hunts. So I hung that plaque on my "hero wall" next to my golf Hole-in-one trophy.

In 2004 I shot my Musk ox and two Central Canadian Barren Ground Caribou on a hunt in northern Northwest Territories. One of the caribou and the musk ox qualified for the Boone & Crockett record book, but I didn't enter them.

Then in 2017 I shot a great Quebec caribou, and when I had it Boone & Crockett scored, the measurer submitted the scoresheet to B&C. A few weeks later I got a phone call from B&C and they invited my caribou to their 30th Big Game Awards held this past August at the Bass Pro Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield, MO. I felt very honored for this invitation, so I went ahead and entered all three of these trophy animals. My taxidermist did a rush mount of my Quebec caribou, and I shipped it to Springfield where it was on display along with 94 other animals in the WOW Museum from last May to August. My Sister and Girlfriend went to Springfield with me. My caribou won 2nd place in that 30th Awards period, and I received a plaque commemorating that.

The B&C Club also sent me Award sheets for both of these caribou and musk ox, and I put all of them on my "Hero wall".


So some of us CAN hunt and fish AND play golf.

Keep it up and you'll need a bigger wall.

George

I want to see pictures of the caribou.

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Originally posted by buffybr:

quote:

From the tag line by Slider:

Golf is for people that don't know how to Hunt and Fish.

Sorry Slider, I don't believe that...

I have been an avid hunter and fisherman for over 50 years.
So a few years ago after I hit a couple of Hole-in-Ones, my Dad gave me a trophy commemorating those occasions. .

How old is your dad?

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Originally posted by Sevens:
I want to see pictures of the caribou.

OK, if you twist my arm...

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Originally posted by Norton:

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Originally posted by buffybr:

quote:

From the tag line by Slider:

Golf is for people that don't know how to Hunt and Fish.

Sorry Slider, I don't believe that...

I have been an avid hunter and fisherman for over 50 years.
So a few years ago after I hit a couple of Hole-in-Ones, my Dad gave me a trophy commemorating those occasions. .

How old is your dad?

Time is flying by too fast. My term "a few years ago" was more like 15 years ago. My Dad passed in 2007 when he was 82.

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My Sister and Girlfriend went to Springfield with me.

your sister is your girlfriend?

Your one of the few!!! Congrats Nice Bou!!!

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Originally posted by buffybr:

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Originally posted by Norton:

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Originally posted by buffybr:

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From the tag line by Slider:

Golf is for people that don't know how to Hunt and Fish.

Sorry Slider, I don't believe that...

I have been an avid hunter and fisherman for over 50 years.
So a few years ago after I hit a couple of Hole-in-Ones, my Dad gave me a trophy commemorating those occasions. .

How old is your dad?

Time is flying by too fast. My term "a few years ago" was more like 15 years ago. My Dad passed in 2007 when he was 82.

Sorry to hear that about your dad and I know what you mean about time flying by. Nice trophies and I agree we can play golf along with hunting and fishing.

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Originally posted by 505 gibbs:

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My Sister and Girlfriend went to Springfield with me.

your sister is your girlfriend?

Wow, some of you are tougher than my high school English teacher!

OK, Both my Sister and my Girlfriend went to Springfield with me.

This was at the Welcome Reception where all of the 30th Awards trophies were on display in the Wonders of Wildlife Museum. I'm the lucky guy standing between my Sister and my Girlfriend and next to my Quebec caribou.

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Originally posted by 505 gibbs:

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My Sister and Girlfriend went to Springfield with me.

your sister is your girlfriend?

He's from Montana not East. Texas.....

Montana ain’t no Arkansaw
We do have DNA and we do have teeth ( some at least)

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Originally posted by 505 gibbs:

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My Sister and Girlfriend went to Springfield with me.

your sister is your girlfriend?

That explains why he likes golf!

BH63

WOW, that's a caribou. Nice. A caribou is the one animal still on my bucket list. Guess I should have went to Quebec when they were in good numbers.

caribou is the only thing I have ever wanted to leave the U.S. to go hunt.
actually I didn't want to leave the U.S. to hunt them it just seemed more logical to do so.

the sad thing is I actually live in Caribou county.
yeah,, there used to be Caribou here, I have found antler remnants when I've been out and about.

Colorado Bob and Lamar


A Caribou was the first hunt that I did outside of the continental US.
Back in 1980, several of my friends here in Bozeman and I did a DIY Caribou hunt out of King Salmon, Alaska. We all got a bull, and this was mine...


In the late '90s I went on my first guided hunt which was a cancellation Dall Sheep hunt with Gana River Outfitters in the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada's Northwest Territories. After I killed my ram I shot this Mountain Caribou that my taxidermist was able to preserve the velvet on his antlers...


I really enjoy Caribou hunting and it's a lot like spot and stalk Pronghorn Antelope hunting that I've done on the plains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. In 2004 I decided to try to hunt all 5 of the Boone & Crockett recognized species of Caribou, and I found an outfitter out of Inuvik, NT Canada that did a fall combination hunt for Central Canadian Barren Ground Caribou and Musk ox and we were allow to shoot 2 Caribou each, and this was my best one, which also is one of the B&C award sheets in my original post...


My "Hippy cow" also earned one of those B&C award sheets shown in my original post, and the fall hunt was very pleasurable without the extreme cold of the winter hunts. I had to do a full mount of him.


I had long wanted to do a Quebec Caribou hunt, but kept putting it off until 2017 when I heard that Quebec was going close their hunting to non-residents so I booked a space on the last Caribou hunt that Leaf River Lodge would be offering to non-resident hunters. I was then luck enough to get that great bull shown in my original post.

In two weeks I will be fulfilling my North American Caribou dream and will be hunting Woodland Caribou in Newfoundland.

I traveled to Springfield and viseted the first day of that new B&C wing at Bass Pro Springfield