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  1. elkrchr

    Took the Pumpkin Roller for a walk!

    I bought a Remington Gamemaster Model 141 (chambered in .35 Remington) a few years back. According to the serial number, it was manufactured between 1946-1948. I had a gunsmith go through the gun and make sure it was in proper working order before I sent any lead down the barrel. I did have...
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    WY ANTELOPE UNIT 89 or 101

    Hello fellow Hunt Talkers. I'll start off by saying I've already talked to biologists and wardens for these two areas and will reach out to them again later in the spring to determine if the winter had an impact. I've spent a fair amount of time fishing the Pinedale, WY area and even was lucky...
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    Board of Fame (x2)

    I found an old 2 x 10 board on the shores of the Missouri River last fall and immediately had an idea for how to use it. I brought it home and let it sit in the garage over the winter while trying to find someone locally who had a horizontal bandsaw. After locating someone with a horizontal...
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    Different Way to Display Your Taxidermy. What Do You Think?

    I try to change things up when it comes to displaying my taxidermy. I built these pedestals and really like the way they display the animals. The pronghorn/badger pedestal is made out of oak and walnut while the sitka blacktail/harlequin duck pedestal is made out of wormy chestnut and cedar...
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    One Less Wolf in Idaho

    I finally got around to summarizing our Idaho deer hunt. Although deer were our intended quarry, no deer were harmed during the hunt. We did however somehow manage to be at the right place, at the right time and were able to harvest a beautiful male wolf. We both knew they were in the area...
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    Wyoming is amazing (photo heavy)

    I'll let my photos tell most of the story, but here is a brief summary of our road trip to WY. I drew an antelope buck tag in central WY and my buddy drew an antelope doe tag for the neighboring unit. We arrived in the hunt area nine days after the season had opened and the bucks were still...
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    Awesome Father's Day Gift

    The great state of Alaska decided today that I needed a Kodiak brown bear tag for Father's Day!!!!!
  8. elkrchr

    Started the New Year with a BANG!

    I applied and drew a late season (Jan. 1st - 31st) coastal cow elk tag here in OR. I have always hunted Rocky Mountain elk, so this was going to be a first for me. The area received about 5-6 inches of fresh snow on Sunday, Jan. 1st so it was a no brainer to be in the forest on Monday. After...
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    Book Cliffs Deer Hunt Question/Help

    One of my hunting buddies recently found out that one of his relatives in UT owns enough property in Unit 10 (Book Cliffs) to get one landowner deer tag or whatever they call it in UT. Anyhow, his relative has offered to sell it to him. At this point I'm not sure whether it is a Book Cliffs...
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    Colorado Rocky Mountain High

    With the late third season deer hunt this year, a buddy and me took a chance and drew. I had previously drawn a fourth season deer tag in this unit back in 2013. The weather that year was sunny and hot, which is exactly what the forecast showed for this years hunt. I packed up my gear and...
  11. elkrchr

    Colorado Rocky Mountain High

    With the late third season deer hunt this year, a buddy and me took a chance and drew. I had previously drawn a fourth season deer tag in this unit back in 2013. The weather that year was sunny and hot, which is exactly what the forecast showed for this years hunt. I packed up my gear and...
  12. elkrchr

    Son's First Waterfowl Hunt

    My son is 11 and can finally comfortably shoulder the .870 20 gauge we bought him last year. A good friend of mine owns a 40 acre hazelnut orchard with a small slough running through part of it. At some point during the season, several dozen wood ducks will show up. He gave me a call and told...
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    New Member of the Family

    The week prior to Christmas, we had to put down our 12-year old Vizla, Sage. Our son had been asking about getting a dog that could be his for over a year. Upon arriving home from the vet, my wife and I were checking e-mails and low and behold, there was an e-mail from the GSP breeder we had...
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    Back from kodiak!!!

    Well, 17 years ago my buddy (Mark) and I swore we would never go back to Kodiak after having our camp destroyed by a Kodiak brown bear and then having him terrorize us for two days. Supposedly with age comes wisdom, but not in this case. We made the decision to go back to the exact same spot...
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    OR Rifle Deer Hunt Recap

    My wife and I drew Starkey Experimental Forest rifle deer tags this year. Another friend of ours also drew the tag and camped with us. My son prepared his "good luck" card for us as he does for every hunt and after a four and a half hour drive from Portland, a beautiful sunset awaited us...
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    10-Year Old Son's First Big Salmon

    The fishing on the Columbia River has been red hot the past week or two. My buddy borrowed my boat on Sunday (09/06) and took his dad and cousin out fishing. They absolutely hammered the salmon, so we decided to go out Labor Day afternoon for a few hours. What a great way to end summer break...
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    OR Lookout Mountain Antelope Hunt Recap

    After 13 years as an OR resident, I applied for and drew the Lookout Mountain antelope tag. This is a large unit that is mostly private (~65-70%), but supposedly has/had some excellent genetics. I lived near this area for three years back in the early 90's and still have friends in the area...
  18. elkrchr

    Kodiak Island Here I Come!

    While still eight months out, I officially started the DIY hunt planning today by booking award mile tickets for my buddy Mark and myself from Portland, OR to Kodiak, AK. I also scheduled the float plane to take us from the town of Kodiak to our "secret lake". With three great winters in a...
  19. elkrchr

    This One Was For Dad

    I grew up in Wisconsin and dad got me started hunting at an early age. He hunted at a camp in northern Wisconsin and when I turned 12, I started my deer hunting career at the camp. I hunted there for 10 years and never saw a buck or shot a deer. I moved West and never did return to hunt at...
  20. elkrchr

    Beer Can Grouse

    Today was the last day of Oregon's general blacktail deer rifle season. I took yesterday off and headed up on the mountain to try my luck with the elusive blacktail deer. I saw some fresh rubs, a few spots where a buck had dogged a doe on an old skid road, but no deer were sighted...
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