2011 is quickly closing. I'll look back on it as the year I took a 164" whitetail in S. TX and froze my arse off up in Canada w/ -30F temps trying to chase the whitetails up there.

Happy New year to the rest of my hunting brethren.

I'm glad you had a decent year. 2011 is the year I shot a coyote.....that's it. No turkey this spring, no deer this fall.

I drove clear to Wyoming to hunt pronghorn. In five days of hunting I saw one buck, and blew the stalk. I did shoot the coyote out there.
This afternoon I'm going out with the muzzle loader to try for a doe. If I have another year like this I'm going to take up golf.

I managed to squeeze in some hunting between truck runs.. My son and I won a Predator calling tournement in ($1300) (you mean you're gonna PAY me to hunt coyotes??) took a couple of antelope does in Sept.. got a nice 8 pt whitetail in Idaho in Nov...got a half rack 3 pt should been 6 in Michigan in Dec..filled in the summer months with ground squirrels and prarie dogs.. didn't even buy an elk or deer tag in wyoming this year..too busy..great year....Les

Cape buffalo, Impala in August in Zimbabwe. Bear in Colorado in September and Mule deer in Colorado in November. No elk meat this year. Just thankful to be able to enjoy my passion.

I had a Great year.
Shot a Utah Mt. Lion, New Mexico Oryx Bull, a Florida 11.5 inch Alligator, and a Free Rannge sika Hind here in Maryland. Plus, I had my third child, a little girl named Molly.
I hope everyone has a wonderfull 2012.
W.

Two turkies this spring in Kansas, one turkey in Colorado, no elk in Colorado, my biggest mule deer to date 32" and score 189 1/8 in Colorado and plenty of geese and ducks. Life was good this year!

Happy New Year and good hunting in 2012.

Stuck close to home this year due to a sick family member. Still managed to roll over a couple of hogs, two 8 point whitetails and three does, and a couple of red deer in Texas. I got to hunt with my son and my dad which doesn't happen enough anymore. I also got to hunt with a young boy on his first hunt and watched him roll over a nice buck, I think I was more excited than he was. Overall a good year with plenty of plans for the coming year. Happy New Year to all.

My hunting success in 2011 was modest - a cow elk and 2 whitetail does. 3 kills in 3 states with 3 shots.

But it was a comeback of sorts, after going through a string of health problems and dealing with the loss of my parents one month apart from each other in 2010. My rotator cuff is destroyed so I'll never again be able to draw a bow or take an offhand shot with a rifle or shotgun. The three animals that I was able to take after making it through 2010 were trophies and I am thankful for them.

I just pulled my hunting year out of the toilet!



Seven hours left in the year and I plugged a whitetail doe for the freezer. The kids just helped me hang her in the barn. Still a pretty lousy year, but not a total loss. And we have a couple of weeks of deer & turkey left.

I took a nice 9 point Whitetail in January....and went on to take a trophy Addax bull(July) and Axis buck (August)....along with my first few hogs with an AR-15.

I am starting off 2012 with a "bang"....with a Water Buffalo hunt in South Texas next weekend, attempting to bloody my new .375 H&H

I will also be taking a good friend of mine out for a Scimitar Horned Oryx hunt the week after....

Keep an eye out for the report(s)!!

Ate tag soup on whitetails and muleys. Whacked lots of 'yotes and hogs.

Had a great year for my first year really out hunting. Took a nice hog in north Carolina, and more importantly got to spend a bunch of great days in the woods with family and friends chasing Connecticut whitetails. Opening up 2012 tomorrow with crows and coyotes. In the planning stages for a trip or two this upcoming fall.

FOr me, the highlight of the year took place when both of our twin boys were able to bag their very first whitetail bucks – and did so with perfectly-placed shots, I might add. Those were moments I will cherish forever.



And when Andy got his deer, Grady was absolutely beaming with pride for his brother.

Started the year of well in Sonora, Mexico where to killed a nice desert mule deer and very nice Coues deer. Ended the year with a holiday season bonus whitetail doe to go with the one I killed during archery season, the one during primative arms season and the buck and two does I took during firearms season. In between I had some great dove hunts and killed a bunch of pigs and coyotes from a helicopter and with night vision gear.

I am headed back to Sonora in a few days for two weeks of hunting to get a jump on this year.

Perry

Woodsie,
I wasn't going to write about the small 8 pointer I took this year but when I read about the gator you took that wasn't even a foot long I said what the heck.
Bryan

Here is a post I wrote a few weeks back about my 2011 hunting season.

Graybird's 2011 Hunting Season

quote:

Originally posted by 7x57:
Woodsie,
I wasn't going to write about the small 8 pointer I took this year but when I read about the gator you took that wasn't even a foot long I said what the heck.
Bryan

HAHA
sorry, 11 foot 5 inch gator.

Rode around two weeks, ate a box of Utah peaches, spent some time yakking with people along the way, and shot a nice doe antelope in Wyoming. Not so bad, more time would be nice...

Two big wild hogs, a cow moose, and a black bear......it was good year if I say so myself!

a dark chocolate black bear, an 85" antelope, a cool bull moose and a pair of elk.
bout 30 days of hunting.
8 shots fired
injury free
Was a good year

Each year I am just plain thankful that I live where I do. The wife tolerates it and I have excellent hunting and fishing behind the house. I sit and dream about international hunts but try to never forget how fortunate I am to have all the good Alaskan critters in my back yard. Now if beer weren't so damn expensive...

I am looking forward to 2012 - starting off next month with a Nunivak Musk Ox hunt

I hunted quite a bit but I aint very good at killin stuff

Successful spring grizzly and black bear in BC and a toad of a scimitar oryx in Texas. The highlight was watching my youngest (13) son take his first deer, a nice little Hill Country 8 pount with a couple of kickers, using his crossbow during rifle season. He simply refused to hunt with his crossbow during archery season.

I had a very slow year. My favorite water hole was dry this year, so no dove hunting. Quail hunting was terrible this year compared to last year's stellar season, but it is still on thru the first week in Feb.

I struck out on my annual MN deer hunt, which is unusual. Did shoot a high racked 3 pt in New Mexico. Leaving for Tanzania a week from today to whack 2 buff, a Grant's gazelle, and maybe a zebra (what do you do with four skins?) a wildebeeste, impala, and perhaps a warthog.

Rough year for me personally. Scored a double hernia while holding up the back end of a Polaris ATV in October of '10. Put off surgery till June of 11. Was told it would be no big deal. They lied. What with the heat this summer, it was the worst 5 months of my life that I can remember. Did get to put my son on a good buck at our bow lease.........



I also got to hunt for four days between Christmas and New Year with my 15 year old grandson. My son married his mom when he was 12. He has not got to hunt much in the past. Spending 4 days instructing him how being a hunter and a sportsman will make him a more responsible individual was worth the price of admission. He took a hog at 164 yds with my Bronwing Micro medallion in 7-08. He did everything perfect. I guess I'm officially at the stage where taking my son and grandson hunting and watching them take game means more to me than killing a good buck (and I love to kill deer).

Best

GWB

I finally got to go on my Newfoundland moose hunt this year and was rewarded with a heavy, 39-inch wide rack and 300 pounds of processed meat.

Here at home I shot 50 white-tails, a turkey and lots of ducks within four miles of my house. Just two days ago, I helped a couple of kids kill their first deer, and in October I helped on a youth hunt where the kids killed 15 does.

Overall, this was a great year.

Hope to return to Colorado and Wyoming next year.

got a cow elk in colorado and 4 whitetails here on the farm. one coyote and enough squirrels to feed me and the grandkids until next season. God blessed me again with great health and good hunting.

i didn't get to spend nearly enough time in the field as i would have liked to have.. i am hoping to change that this year

2011 was pretty good for me. I took a 9pt on La Atrevesada in January. Later in the year an ALBINO Scimitar-horned Oryx 36", an additional meat oryx. On a trip to Louisiana an Egyptian goose, a nice flounder, more specs and sandies than I can count a red and got to watch my dad catch a monster red. The biggest fish I have ever seen him catch.

Best of all I was able to share all of my hunts with close friends and or family.

Thats what really counts!!

While many aspects of my life sucked in 2011, hunting was a notable exception. I had my best year in a long time. In the US I took 6 whitetail bucks, some does and 10 hogs. I also bird hunted some. I shot a lot of birds. I had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time in the woods.

I sat in one tree over 80 hours total trying to kill one absolute monster. I sat in that tree 11 hours in one day. My last attempt, I had him coming. He was 45 yards away and it was damn near dark. He was coming down a trail that I had seen countless deer follow. I had the gun up and aimed where he should come out. What happened? He was 1 step from stepping in the clear when for reasons know only to him, he took a 90 degree left hand turn. Game over. I could hear him grunting as he walked off. I haven't seen him since.

I took my 1st dangerous game animal in 2011, a very nice cape buffaloe I named Blisters.
Also killed: sable, bushbuck, bushpig, zebra, a couple of very old wildebeest & 3 whitetails.
2012 looks like I will be staying close to home.
Thank GOD for adventures.

This was an exceptional season for me. I have had three animals on my "bucket list" for thirty years and this fall I GOT THEM ALL! Started off here in Montana, Oct 25th got my wolf.....

http://forums.accuratereloadin...851073561#2851073561

30 days later I was on my first trip to Africa and on Nov 25th got my elephant (with a cape buffalo a few days earlier).......

http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/2261089761

It was all well worth the wait. Good Luck to all of you this year!