Show us your Out of State......

[Deehntr56]

Scenery pictures and any other relevant pictures of States Out West, Canada, etc. and if you want, some of the game out there so those that haven't been to some of these great hunting destinations can get a feel for what they can expect, or realize maybe after viewing them they may want to give it a try.

Feeding off my "Show me yor Guns" post and learning from that, I thought this would be a good way to share some experiences so others that haven't been hunting outside of Ohio can begin to understand/See/and experience what some of those States and Countries have to offer.

Great way to help anyone along looking to Hunt out West or any other State.

So Post away.....I won't even post the 1st one.....I'll let the OS Members lead the way!:D

[CJR123080]

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[CJR123080]

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[CJR123080]

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[Deehntr56]

CJ...Your stuttering...:biggrin:

Must be a glitch...

[riverdude]

I will post some in a couple days, will have to do a scan since there 35mil. photo's and not digital.

[Deehntr56]

I dug some out tonight...I'll post when I get mine in too...

In the Interim....

Mt. Rushmore.....

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[Deehntr56]

Pagosa Springs, Colorado...After I walked to the top of this Mountain stalking a 5x5 Elk, and lost him in the "Bush" at the top.....

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[riverdude]

Awesome photo's 56. Thanks for sharing. :D

[Deehntr56]

Colorado Once again....The peak on the top right of this Photo is where a large Herd of Elk had their bedding area, and where we couldn't locate the one we spent a few hours stalking on the last day...

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One of the Owners Den of the Property we hunted at.....

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[Deehntr56]

Some of the Standard Road signs in Colorado....

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My Friends 5X5...

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[killbuckcreekgiants]

These are from Ontario 2007.

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[cornstalk7]

deerhtnr56, I've seen that same sign a few times if that is rt. 160.

[cornstalk7]

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Continental divide

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Spanish Peaks

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A buddies bull,he moved out there from Athens, look at those loins !! tasty !!

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hunting unit 71, between Telluride and Dolores, CO

[Deehntr56]

deerhtnr56, I've seen that same sign a few times if that is rt. 160.

Yes it is.....we hunted off of Rt 84, just North of the Southern Ute Indian reservation.

Lots of Lions there, like your buddy found out!!:biggrin:

One of the Outfitters I met long ago who now is a good friend, walked the length of the Continental Divide....

[redcloud102]

Very nice pictures fellas.
I added some to my album and you will have to forgive the quality. The pictures I took was with a disposable camera (pre digital days )and not the best but it's all I have. I was young and wasn't much of a shutterbug back then and now since I have a family I kick myself almost daily for not having more pictures to show the kids and tell them about my time in Montana. Since I uploaded them from scanned pictures and since we have a size limit on the photo's we can upload it makes some of them kind of hard to see as well.

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[Deehntr56]

Finally got some pictures scanned.....I'll work them in here and there...


Sheridan, Wyoming.... Sunrise in the Big Horn Mountains..year, Hmmmmm 2000, 2001....I remember that morning like it was yesterday...what a sight!:biggrin:

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[jeffmo]

enjoyed the pics! i'm gonna get some posted soon.should have some very good ones in a couple of weeks.we'll be in s.dakota,montana,wyoming,colorado and possibly 2 or 3 more states.

[Deehntr56]

This was a special hunt....Jack shot a small buck on the last day of the hunt the year before, and this year, 1997 he wanted to make up for the year before.

We located a good Mulie bedding at the top of this draw....we had the Binoculars on this 30 yard round area of cover, and could see a deer in there, but couldn't ID the deer Completelely. There was no cover anywhere else in this draw, and this draw worked up the mounatin for several hundred yards.

We waited until arounf 9:00 am and the wind was right as we worked our way in from the back side.

We spent a good 45 minutes trying to work around that draw, stopping every 10 yards or so below the ridge line, and then sneaking over it to try to make sure he was a good Buck.

I was able to see his bases, and some of his antlers, but never could get a full look at his rack. It was very thick and we could only see bits and pieces. We knew he was a decent Buck, just didnt know "how good".

I told Jack, from what I could tell, he looked pretty heavy at the bases, I just couldn't tell how many points for sure, he was at least a 4x4....

Jack decided to take him in his bed. The Mulie was sleeping soundly 130 yards away, and he had a small opening to place his 150 grain btsp, when his 270 finally reported the 150 grain was on its way....The Buck never knew what hit him. He Jumped up at impact and fell over.

When we got to the deer, he had a smile from ear to ear(Jack is on the right with the BIG smile, mine wasn't much smaller)..:biggrin:

He was a Nice, heavy 6x4 and field dressed at right around 250 lbs.

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[Hiker]

My 13 year old daughter's 2007 Colorado Pronghorn
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[Hiker]

My 2007 Colorado Pronghorn
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[Hiker]

My 2006 Colorado Pronghorn

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[Hiker]

This is my 10 year old son's NM Mule Deer, his first.
Here's Luke story.......................

Hello, my name is Luke. I am 10 years old. This is my first post. My dad wanted me to share my hunt with you, plus my Mom said I can count it as a school project. So here it goes.


Day 1 - We woke up the first day to rain. It rained for about 3 1\2 hours. So we ate breakfast in the tent. When it stopped raining. We got all our stuff on and walked down a river bed about a mile long. Then we started up a mountain. When a very thick fog set in, we were about half way up. When we got to the top, we sat on some rocks and waited for the fog to clear. While we waited, my dad showed me how to use a GPS. When the fog finally cleared, we went back to camp to eat lunch. When we got back, we cleaned out the tent because it had rained and everything was soaked. While we did that, my dad saw a herd of deer. So we went and began to stalk them from camp. They were about 1,000 yards away. So we went down the river bed and a doe saw us. But she didn’t move and kept bedded. When we got about 225 yards away from them, my dad looked to see if there was a legal buck. It looked like a forky but it was a spike. We watched them for a long time. Then it began to get dark so we went back to camp and ate dinner. We also played cards until to bed.
Day 2 – Today we woke up and ate breakfast. We then prayed we would find a buck I could shoot. Next, we went up the river bed and reached a small mountain. We began to hike up, hoping to get the deer from behind. But the deer moved so we went back to camp and ate lunch and then we went hiking where the deer where and got about 100 yards away. When they saw us and ran, there was a spike and fourteen does. We watched the deer for a little while and glassed for other bucks. But we didn’t see anything… So we went back to camp and ate dinner.
Day 3 – Today we took down camp and went shopping for a few supplies and went to check out a mountain. So we went up it and glassed for a long time. We went down a little ways and my dad said, “Let’s glass one more time.” So when my dad looked, he found a whole herd of deer and my dad said, “Let’s get ready and go hike and stalk them.” Well right now, the wind was blowing right at the deer so we went around the mountain and got close to the deer. But a doe was looking right at us so we went around another tree to stay hidden. And we were about 50 yards from the deer so my dad said, “Get your gun ready.” So I put my gun on the shooting sticks and a doe ran straight down the mountain and I thought the deer were gone but my dad said “Get ready... here comes the buck.” But I didn’t tell him when I was going to shoot. When the buck came, I thought it was a forky but my dad said it was a 4x4 or maybe a 5x5. My dad was looking through his binos when I shot. I thought I had missed. When we got over to where I had shot, a doe ran from the group and it got lost. So my dad said, “Luke, go look for some blood.” While he went down the mountain, he found my deer. But, I couldn’t find any blood so my dad said, “Luke, go follow the tracks.” So I followed the tracks and found a buck laying down and looking right at me. It scared me at first! I thought: “Wow! A sleeping buck!!” Then I saw a hole in his side and I said, “That’s my buck!” So we walked over to see it and we kneeled down and prayed, Thanking God for my buck. Then we pulled out the buck from the shade and took some pictures. Then we gutted it and dragged it for about a mile, up hill! My dad drug it all the way out while I carried the camelbak and more. When we got to the truck, I was ready to take a nap. I learned during this trip that being quiet is important, stalking is key, walking quietly is vital, and to listen makes all the difference, ohh and no sneezing. http://www.ohiosportsman.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif Thanks Dad for taking me!

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[Hiker]

Colorado

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[Hiker]

Colorado High Country Hiking

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[Hiker]

My 2008 Colorado Muley The butcher said he weighed 330 on the hoof. I was so tickled that God let me get this ole boy. He was a sharp ole boy too, came out of his hiding place at last light. I love hunting muleys!

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[Hiker]

My Daughter's 2008 Wyoming Pronghorn

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[Hiker]

My 2008 Kansas Whitetail

Here's the story..

I met my friend Chris in Kansas for our deer hunt. He arranged for us to stay at his uncles and sleep in a camper. It turned out to be a nice, warm & dry place to "camp". We were up and gone before light opening day. I hunted the same fields that I hunted last year, Chris hunted the timbered area, a mile or two away. The wind was really bad, but thankfully it was blowing the right direction, as to not mess up the fields I was watching. I wasn't seeing anything moving and after a few hours I decided to get up and move around a little to try to get my blood flowing again. That Kansas wind was downright Cold! I hiked over to the two track that Chris dropped me off at and tried to reach him on the radio, sure enough, he had his ears on and answered right away. Within minutes he was there to get me. I opened the door and he had that sheepish grin on his face, so I asked him, "was that you that shot earlier"? he said yes. I said buck or a doe, he said "both". I laughed and said, where are they at? he said under the tonneau cover. That's a good way to start out the hunt, two shots and two deer.
We talked it over for a few and decided to head over to Cackley and hunt the trees. With the strong wind and all, they'd more likely be holed up there. Once we got to our destination, our plan was to slowly still hunt into the wind and see if we could stalk into range on some deer and maybe get a shot. Chris stayed on the property line to the east, I parrelled him to the west a few hundred yards. We had hunted around a mile or so into the property, when I saw some deer bust out at the edge of the field 400-500 yards ahead of me. I stood still and through my rifle up onto my shooting sticks and found them in my scope. I see a buck and 4-5 does, not sure if the buck is a shooter or not, when all of a sudden I hear a shot from Chris' direction. The deer I'm watching decides to jump the creek and come my way. I can see the buck really well now, definitely he's a shooter. I follow him with my crosshairs, he running the whole way and finally stops in the woods, only 75 yards or so away. The does move by me and the buck follows, he stops, I place the crosshairs on his vitals and squeeze off. The does blow outta there, I'm looking for antlers but thankfully I don't see any. I precede into the timber to where he was standing. Blood, good blood. I track him for a few yards and there he is lying next to a big tree. I walked behind him and poked him. He's finished! I'm pumped, my first whitetail buck, that has antlers, I shot a button buck when I was a kid. I start walking over towards Chris, to see if he has his 3rd deer of the day. After 5 minutes or so I see him, sure enough he's killed another doe. 4 shots, 4 deer. He came over to see my buck and told me it was a good one. After kneeling my knee and Thanking God for blessing me with one of His critters. I gutted him out and hauled him out of the trees. Chris went and dressed his doe and dragged her to the truck and came over and helped me load mine. The butcher said he weighed close to 250. He should score score close to 145-150 after the broken browtine. I really enjoyed hunting in Kansas with Chris. He is a true comedian and had me in stitches the whole time.

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[deerhunt45]

Awesome stories and pictures! Read them all twice :cool: Thanks for sharing Hiker :)

A big Ohio whitetail buck would look good on your wall :coolgleamA: :D

[Hiker]

Thanks DeerHunt45. :D I would also like to have a big buckeye buck on my wall. I hunted them some as a kid but couldn't close the deal. Some year I hope to come back and settle some unfinished business and bring an Ohio buck back to the rockies. ;)

[Deehntr56]

Awwww, now Jeff....you just motivated me to post some more.....tomorrow!:biggrin:

[Kaiser878]

Awesome photos guys!

[Hiker]

I'll try to post the story later.
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[Hiker]

My Wife's Colorado Bull Elk
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[Hiker]

Colorado High Country.
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[Deehntr56]

Atta Boy there Jeff!!!

Might as well throw some out there....


Sheridan, Wyoming.

On this hunt, we started out the 2nd morning looking for a "speed goat".

We went to one of the properties that held Antelope and began the climb to the back of the ridge. This ridge overlooked a large valley full of a very well irigated alfalfa field that held Antelope in the past.

If we were lucky, as the morning progressed, we were hopeing they would be in the valley. It was early October, and the weather today was great. Sunny and in the 40’s, climbing to the 60’s by late afternoon. A great day to be out!!!

As we approached the top of the ridge, we slowly crawled up to the edge, and peeked over.

Today, we had antelope in the valley!!!:biggrin: I grabbed the Binoculars and started to look them over. We had a decent Buck with 5 ladies bedded down. I looked him over and saw that he maybe had about 12” of horns. I said not bad, but let’s see what else we can find. Dave, my friend looks over and says, I think your underestimating him. Look how they sweep back at the top; he’s between 13-14 inches. I said “no way”. He smiled.:)

I looked him over and said, well…maybe 13”, and he smiled again. I took the range finder out and he was 375 yards. Makeable but they had no clue we were here. Let’s walk to the north end of the ridge and see if we can “sneak” in a tad closer.

We pulled back and stayed below the ridgeline, and when we got to the end of the ridge a tall grass field separated us and the antelope.

We got down on our hands and knees and began the crawl through the tall grass to get within 250 yards. As were getting closer, were under 300 yards now, we stop and stand up to look over the top of the grass , and one of the “ladies” has us nailed dead to rights!!! She is standing at full attention, and staring right at us. I said" how in the world did she see us? The wind is perfect, and we were way below the top of the tall grass???:confused:

I get back down quickly and look over at Dave and can’t believe they have a clue were here. For those of you that don’t know “Antelope”, they have GREAT eyesight. I found out “how good” this morning.:biggrin:

We peak back over the top of the grass, and now all of them are standing up looking at us.

We know the gigs up, and they begin to “exit stage left”. By the way, their nick name of “speed goat” is another one of their strengths!!! THEY MOVE VERY QUICKLY!!:dizzy:

We decide to head back to the top of the ridge and try to get to the south end of the ridge about a quarter mile away, hopeing (Luck more like it), that we can get there in time to get an opportunity at the Buck.

So up the ridge we go as fast as we can move. We get over to the south end a while later, and began glassing….Nothing. Glass some more and all of a sudden I see a little movement. Here they come up the draw below us, heading to the ridge ahead of us.

I get down, get the Bi-pod down, and begin to wish for an opportunity. Sure enough they get to the bench below the ridge, they stop. They look over to us, Dave says 305 yards, and you’ll only get one shot…..5 more leaps and their over the ridge and gone. They see us and know were here….

I get the Buck in the scope, put the 7mm STW 4” above the boiler room and squeeze off a round.

Dave says…holy chit…he dropped like a rock. I scurried to get the scope back on the speed goat, finally found him, and he’s laying there. I watch him for a few minutes, the Harem he had disappear over the ridge, and I can finally relax.:biggrin:

Always good when a “plan” comes together!


Here's the after pic, while I'm waiting for the truck.....he did measure 13.5 inches...Dave was right :biggrin:

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Top of my finger is where his final resting spot was after the shot.

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[Hiker]

John, Great stories! :) I love to hunt those "speed goats". As you know, 8 power vision & 60 mph can be exciting.

[Deehntr56]

Agree, and as long as you have quick reflexes, you have a chance.....:biggrin:

Not only that, good Glass is needed to hunt out West too.

2 days after I shot the Speed goat..this is the weather we had....My God.....the 1st year we hunted out in Wyoming, I think it was 1996, we couldn't even fly in to Denver. They had a blizzard on, and the airport was closed. We had to detour to Billings, Montana, and then rent a truck to drive ito Sheridan.

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[Hiker]

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[Deehntr56]

They are fun to hunt Hiker.....and the views are just tremendous too..


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the hunting is pretty good too! I found some pictures and scanned them .

Wyoming Mule Deer...

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Wyoming Whitetail...man it was cold that week! There is some very good Whitetail Hunting in Sherdian too...lots of nice 130-160 Deer, and some ven larger. they hang around the Big Ranches with the Irrigated Alfalfa fields by the 100's.

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My Friends Colorado Elk, nice 5x5

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I got a call one day at work and said my Western Mulies were going to be delivered....so I hurried went home to help with the freight truck, Son took this pic....I actually cleaned up well that day :biggrinI

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It's been 7 years since my last trip there:(......I do miss it....:D

[Hiker]

Girls 08 WY hunt....
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[Hiker]

Great stories and photos.

This was my wife's first elk.

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After nearly thirty-minutes of glassing the elk that were bedded in the black timber on the ridge across the creek, I could finally see antlers on the bull I had been spying. From the look of things, he was a mature bull. After hunting hard for three days, covering many miles of up and down country, seeing hundreds of elk, I finally spotted a shooter. Now, all I had to do was get close enough to shoot. That wasn't going to be an easy task, as I has a good thousand yards to cover, five hundred of which were open country, with all those bedded elk eyes looking at me.

I looked over at my wife and said, "Honey, let's try to get closer."

We started down the mountain, mostly sliding on our rear ends, staying low and hiding behind the scrub oak and tall grass. We were on the southeast slope of the mountain. With little cover, we made due with what we had.

We covered close to five hundred yards and an elevation drop of two hundred and fifty feet. We quickly relocated the bull, who was still bedded in the shade, chewing his cud and thankfully unaware of our presence.

Over the next forty-five minutes, we maneuvered the other five hundred yards and another two-hundred and fifty foot drop. Now within comfortable rifle range of about three hundred yards, I needed to get a good rest and steady my rifle for the shot.

Once situated and comfortable, I placed the crosshairs of my 300 WIN Mag steady on his lung area.... Unfortunately an aspen branch was covering his vitals. I told Meredith, my wife, to hold tight and I was going to drop down a little bit to get under that Aspen branch. I slid down another twenty to thirty feet. Now I am able to get a great, clean shot.

Now to find a good clump of grass or bush to set my rifle on. I find it! Steady, release the safety, line up my crosshairs, start squeezing the trigger ..The bulls stands up! I can only see his back half. I wait a few more seconds for him to move, and he takes steps and disappears behind the pine trees.

Well, I thought to myself, "That was a good practice in patience." There's no way he saw me and the wind was just right.

I climb back up the hill to Meredith. She asks me why I didn't shoot. I told her He got up and I couldn't get a clear shot. I knew she was disappointed after all the work, sweat, and splinters in our backsides from sliding down the hill for nothing.

"Honey, let's go on down to the creek and get out of the sun. Eat some lunch," I said.

"Sounds good to me," she responded.

This hunt was years in the making. Meredith had saved up six Colorado elk preference points and I had saved seven, hoping to draw a good tag and hunt a great unit. We wanted to shoot some decent bulls, as far as bulls go in Colorado. After much study, we finally locked in on a RFW (Ranching for Wildlife) Private Land hunt. I had hunted the surrounding public land for a number of years and thought I understood the pattern of the elk in the area. I hoped to hunt their escape routes and intercept them on their way off the public lands. Hoping for a chance at a shooter bull before they made it safely to the unhuntable ranches was my goal.

We were where we wanted to be on opening morning, overlooking some major escape routes. When the sun finally started coming up, we spotted elk. Five here, ten there, twenty over there, some in shooting range, some too far away, but no decent sized bulls. Mostly rag horns, spikes and LOTS of cows. It was close to 10 AM when we decided to move over and get a little closer to the migration trails. When I say migration, I don't mean winter migration. I mean a migration to "ranches of safety." These elk use the public ground as "calving grounds" or summering grounds, where they will stay until pressured by hunters. Then they migrate out by the thousands. Many will be slaughtered on their mass exodus off the public land, but once they make it to the private ranches they are "home free." The exception is the few private land hunters, which Meredith and I are, who have a RFW tag.

We found a good spot and set up. In just a few minutes we see a head of fifty elk, mostly spikes and cows, but toward the back of the herd we see a nice shooter bull. He is a little far away, close to six hundred yards, and covering some ground at a steady pace. Mere and I decide we can't cover that much country before they are gone. So we just watch and drool as they disappear in to the forest.

Only a few minutes elapse before we observe another large herd, but they are close to a thousand yards away. Again, just a couple of rag horns in the bunch.

We finish up the day finding a few cows. As the sun sets, we head back to camp for a hot dinner.

We choose to hunt another area the next morning. It is not long after shooting light that we scope out a few walk by the quakies. We hold tight, not wanting to spook them. I feel the wind blowing on the back of my neck and know we have only seconds until they blow out. Hurriedly, we look them over for antlers. Don't see anything worthwhile. Sure enough, they catch wind of us. The woods come alive with breaking branches, tumbling logs and whatever else is in their way as they escape.

We come to the conclusion, based on all the noise, that we have only seen part of the herd. Most of the elk are still in the timber when they winded us. Meredith and I hurry down to the rolling grass hills to glass. We spot nothing much close by, but we do spot a few herds crossing 1,500 yards farther down. We move fast to get lower.

On the way down, I glass for a few minutes, and sure enough, I see elk moving up toward us. One looks like a nice bull. I tell Mere, "Hurry! I see a shooter."

We cover another four to five hundred yards and get our shooting sticks set up. "Here they come," I whisper to Meredith. "Get ready, sweety. The one in the back is a shooter."

We rest our rifles on our shooting sticks and get our breathing under control. I cow call with a diaphragm and they stop. Meredith shoots and the bull drops. I figure this is as good a time as any to fill my cow tag, as he is following several cows. I pick a cow and shoot. She runs up the hill and collapses. I hear Mere shoot again. Her bull is back up! She shoots again and finally the bull is down for good. Boy, are we pumped!

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2008 kill
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SW Colorado winter hunt
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[Deehntr56]

TTT....Time for this to start having some action in the coming months....:biggrin: