Big Game Hunters, Show Your Stuff

[The Outdoorsman]

I'm headed out for moose on the 5th of Sept.
Woo Hoo, 2 weeks living at tree line on a mountain side - I'm Amped !!!!!

I'll be above tree line as well. 10,000ft I believe. Just need to buy my $800+ out of state tag by October. Montana hills. Will be setting up camp few days before season opener and heading to high land most people don't fuck around with. Cheers and happy hunting.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Ok, I know this is a hunting thread but didn't know where else to post these cool pic's.
Took a fishing trip fairly remote weekend before last & found a "Raft" of Otters hiding from the tidal current around this rock - forget trying to count the damn things, they never stop moving.
I'm sure most people are somewhat familiar with land or river otters - these are Sea Otters and many of them are pushing 5 1/2 ft and 100 pounds - you DO NOT fuck with them, they will hand you your ass (in pieces!).





I've been assembling and packing gear for the moose trip for a couple of days now.
Outta here on the 5th to find Bullwinkle & I'm jazzed !!!

 

[Yessica...]

Ok, I know this is a hunting thread but didn't know where else to post these cool pic's.

View attachment 3243958 View attachment 3243959 View attachment 3243960 View attachment 3243961 View attachment 3243962

I've been assembling and packing gear for the moose trip for a couple of days now.
Outta here on the 5th to find Bullwinkle & I'm jazzed !!!

There's a pretty Neat thread about Neature walks kickin around here somewhere...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/neature-walks-are-the-tits.840951/

Oh, there is is! You and your fun pictures are welcomed ANYTIME. No actual hunting required there.

 

[The Outdoorsman]

Ok, I know this is a hunting thread but didn't know where else to post these cool pic's.
Took a fishing trip fairly remote weekend before last & found a "Raft" of Otters hiding from the tidal current around this rock - forget trying to count the damn things, they never stop moving.
I'm sure most people are somewhat familiar with land or river otters - these are Sea Otters and many of them are pushing 5 1/2 ft and 100 pounds - you DO NOT fuck with them, they will hand you your ass (in pieces!).

View attachment 3243958 View attachment 3243959 View attachment 3243960 View attachment 3243961 View attachment 3243962



I've been assembling and packing gear for the moose trip for a couple of days now.
Outta here on the 5th to find Bullwinkle & I'm jazzed !!!

Holy shit that's huge!
I remember as a kid when the family had a lake place, I decided to keep fishing around after sunset while everyone else took the boat to some family friends across the lake. I was hooking into a school of black crappies well into after it got dark.

After awhile a whole pack of muskrats moved in on the shore by the dock, at the end of the dock, swiming around me in the water. They were hissing at me like a damn cat. Slapping their tails in the water. Was around a dozen.

Mind you I was maybe 9-10 years old. I sat on that dock for 2-3 hours getting eatin by bugs scared as shit. It was atleast a quarter mile up a hill in complete darkness to make it to our camper. Finally family arrived, my brother driving the boat cause dad got drunk. Man was I pissed...

 

[The Outdoorsman]

Also I went to the shooting range today with my, I guess I would say my mentor. First time shooting slugs, got my shoulder pretty tender. Also shot a couple different high powered rifles I wasn't familiar with. I shot good, just wish the target range was longer. Think one was a .300 savage modified. and it was either a 30.06 or 308 light weight kevlar/carbon fiber composite or something like that. Good experience overall. Both had modified triggers and such. Think he loads 175 grain if that sounds right? Will be making a few more trips before hunting in a month and a half. Definitely a lot to learn.

 

[Pinworm]

@GreatwhiteNorth Can we get some swamp donk porn?

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Didn't take a lot of pic's this year but cool things happened none the less.
About 27 years ago I sold an airboat to a dude in a tiny town in the interior of Alaska. He was an ex marine and I an active duty Coast Guard - we became instant best friends and have remained so.
This year he was 6 weeks out of knee surgery (replaced his ACL w/ cadaver parts) and Dr. told him to take it super easy for at least 6 months - aaannnddd we're moosen.
He spotted one sleeping down low on the 9th & waved me down from my lookout at another 1000 feet up. Got into good shooting positions at a ranged 285 yards - I gave him a grunt & he got to his feet facing directly away. Two more grunts got him curious enough to give me some shoulder & a quick .308 diameter 180gr partition at a tad over 3000 fps put him in the freezer.
My disabled buddy cut trail & got a wheeler within 100 yds of him (plus a 30' gorge) - butchered for 7 hours, packed for one hour & had the meat on ice 2 hours later.
We split the moose 4 ways with 2 going to my buddy & his gf - they live a lot closer to the edge than I do & I've got an ass load of moose from previous seasons.
When I left the Man hug was real as was his appreciation for what we had done for him - he told me "I wasn't sure if I had enough meat for the winter".
That's about as close to a "thank you" as you're gonna get from a fukin leather neck.

Best friends don't come cheap + I love this guy.

My best time yet !!

 

[dux]

No mammals yet for me, but been doing my best to keep duck population in check ..

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Back from my annual trek in the Alaska Range.
I will have to guess that I must have walked at least 50 miles - no flat land there & I'm bushed !
The bull was tending 5 cows & we found him around 0830 opening day @ 230 yards.
Finished half the meat yesterday so spending today cutting, grinding & vac-sealing.

 

[brimck325]

nice bull! as they say, the work starts after you squeeze the trigger.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

nice bull! as they say, the work starts after you squeeze the trigger.

No doubt.
2 hours to chainsaw a trail to him, 4 hours to butcher & bone out - 4 more hours to get him into the coolers with 35 bags of ice.
Been doing the final cleaning & vac sealing the last 2 days, around 50 M/H to finish that.
Good News?: he's in the freezers.

 

[racerboy71]

i don't usually like posting videos of myself on here, but in this case i thought it would be ok to do so..

 

[dirtyho1968]

lmao.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

i don't usually like posting videos of myself on here, but in this case i thought it would be ok to do so..

That guy need's to study up on "line of sight".
Though to be honest I gently "bounced" a .22 off the roof of my mothers 73 Vega station wagon shooting @ an armadillo.

I missed.

 

[racerboy71]

That guy need's to study up on "line of sight".
Though to be honest I gently "bounced" a .22 off the roof of my mothers 73 Vega station wagon shooting @ an armadillo.

I missed.

isn't it also illegal to hunt from a vehicle gwn?

 

[dirtyho1968]

I love your honesty but when did you do that, in '73?

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

isn't it also illegal to hunt from a vehicle gwn?

Twas on a single track dirt trail & using Mom's car as a rest. Not the wisest thing I've ever done but perfectly legal - and the dillos are always open season around my dad - they tore the hell out of the yard & felt like a familial vendetta.

I love your honesty but when did you do that, in '73?

I think it was 76.

I dunno - lotsa square grouper between there and here.

 

[racerboy71]

Twas on a single track dirt trail & using Mom's car as a rest. Not the wisest thing I've ever done but perfectly legal - and the dillos are always open season around my dad - they tore the hell out of the yard & felt like a familial vendetta.

I think it was 76.

I dunno - lotsa square grouper between there and here.

oh, i was just watching one of those north woods law shows or something similar, and a game warden rolled up in some guy in his truck and was asking if he was shooting from the truck from the road, and he turned to the camera and said that was a big no no.. of course the hunter said no to both..

 

[dangledo]

this buck was almost directly under me, hence the placement. any lower I probably would have hit the ground. as high as it was, it was still a lung shot. it dropped, and gave me enough time to hit him again. he didn't get far.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

View attachment 3503936

this buck was almost directly under me, hence the placement. any lower I probably would have hit the ground. as high as it was, it was still a lung shot. it dropped, and gave me enough time to hit him again. he didn't get far.

Nice buck - it looks like he'll push the scale !

Do you also collect snow plows?