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What trucks do you regret selling?
1985 K5 Blazer we used as a snowplow rig. But the thing was pristine when I started driving it. If it was as nice today as it was in 2004 when we sold it, I bet it would be a $20k-$30k blazer by today's standards. 1977 K5 Blazer my buddy wrecked and my dad and I rebuilt about 95%. Just needed...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #139
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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2025 Montana Bull
For sure. Had one ricochet off a fence by Ennis one year because people were lobbing rounds over an elk herd. The whistle/buzz sound in my right ear before my dad and I ran to a ditch bank for cover is a core memory. I stay away from the crowds as much as I can nowadays.- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #52
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Glad you got one! It was a bit rough. This season I swear snuck up on me. I had been planned to pass on opening weekend archery because the weather has usually been so hot when I go and how I am sitting here without a plan trying to figure out what to do this weekend. Rookie mistake. Always...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #50
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
I am sure I am missing some things. I did not have all my photos compiled. And I did block out faces outside of mine mainly out of respect for them as none of them are on this site but me. I will admit, one of the reasons it took me so long to post any of this was the fact that last year may...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #46
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
We talked late into Saturday night. Something made us decide that rather than hitting the public the bull was taken on earlier in the season, we would head into the mountains and plan to hike in along an area I had kicked elk out of during archery season. I had planned to hike in at least a...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #45
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
By the weekend before thanksgiving, we were starting to feel a little like it might be a one and done elk season. I was already into the season about two and a half weeks. I figured at any point, time in the field is better than nothing. And as a well-known acquaintance of mine says...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #44
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
After we cleaned out dads fifth wheel, we went back out. A lot of hiking around. And after how quickly the prior week took off. We really thought perhaps that was just it. I would venture to guess we saw potentially upwards of 2000-ish head of elk and short of the few days everyone but me saw...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #43
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
The following week, believe it or not. I was in the wrong spot at the right time. I never saw an elk in this place we were hunting. But the other three people did. Eventually the cattle on the private lands around us were pushed around enough it seemed the elk hunkered down for a while and...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #42
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Archery season ended without so much of a visual on elk. They were in the area. Just not where I had any access to or felt comfortable hiking into alone. So, we decided to look into other areas and looked promising. But were pretty new to us. Found a spot that was too dark to look at in...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #41
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Archery season did not bring much hope. As many elk as I had seen the previous few weeks around the area, I never heard a bugle where I was hunting. It was hot, as usual. And I just did most of it solo. Though I wish I had made plans better as my dad seemed like he actually wanted to go. We...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #40
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Realized I am home today for various reasons. No better time than to finally start now. Thanks for the kick I needed @MontanaBlades! My dad and his friends decided to put in for a tag, and given his age, I decided to put in with him. We all did it individually rather than party and with...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #39
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Sorry everyone. I know I said I was going to write something and share more. Between changing jobs before the end of the year and then adding in some other things I just have not been able to do anything extra. It has been on my mind about weekly, and everything time I have tried to sit, I...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #38
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Thanks for the support everyone. Love this forum. I will go back and read them all and try to respond. Running a bit on fumes as had some family things go on and potentially in the middle of a job change now. Will try to get a photo of my dads (i just want his approval, first). It was a great...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #34
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Thank you! Yeah that is a habit I got into so I don't accidently get stuff in there. But I get it. I can confirm it was empty short of the magazine. I have hunted with a lot of old timers that had holes in their bed, hood, and floorboard that shaped some of my safety habits, but I also lost...- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #33
- Forum: Elk
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2025 Montana Bull
Ohh I have got cows. Just never a bull. The only other bull I have shot, some other guy shot it as it was falling over and ran up to it and tagged it as fast as he could. One reason I will never hunt the valleys like that again.- starvingoutdoorsman
- Post #4
- Forum: Elk
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