5 things about you.

[MontanaBlades]

Since this IS Huntalk... I'll keep mine hunting related.

1. Have hunted from the arctic ocean to the Andes and lots of places in between.

2. At the age of 19 I killed a record book bull, a whitetail and a mule deer with my bow.....all on the same day.

3. Decided it was a real good idea to try and hunt griz with a sharp stick.

4. As much as I hunt my daughter and wife BOTH have bigger mule deer than I do.

5. Almost never miss.... except when I do.....

1. Just drew a Moose tag for 514.
2. Excited and nervous
3. My family is very supportive of this new adventure
4. I have n my mind that I’m looking for an Alaskan size bill.
5. Need elk whisperer and Frenchy to help pack it out’

 

[glass eye]

Started hunting at age 12 with no mentors. Also started taxidermy from a book at 12.

Hitch-hiked from Sacramento to Alaska at age 16 and again at 17

First lobster I ever ate was one that I caught while on my first scuba dive and it was at night.

Traveled throughout Mexico coast to coast, border to border on public transportation while not able to speak any Spanish. I'm fluent now.

Hunted and killed 46 species of waterfowl all diy.

 

[antlerradar]

This was a cool thread about unique stuff about HT members, so I am reviving it with one more thing about me.

A few years back I was driving home and on the side of the road was three or four people look at rocks. It was a paleo-botanist professor and some grad students from the University of Florida and they were looking for leaf fossils in the rocks that had fallen out of the road cut. Knowing where you could find several other sedimentary rocks with leaf fossils I gave him directions where to go. He has come back to Montana several times and I would always give him spots to look. Last month he emailed me, that he was naming a previously unknown extinct plant from roughly 62 million years ago after me. Got some good mileage with my science major wife with this one. Here it is Arthayesia Breivpetiolata.

 

[Nick87]

This was a cool thread about unique stuff about HT members, so I am reviving it with one more thing about me.

A few years back I was driving home and on the side of the road was three or four people look at rocks. I was a paleo-botanist professor and some grad students from the University of Florida and they were looking for leaf fossils in the rocks that had fallen out of the road cut. Knowing where you could find several other sedimentary rocks with leaf fossils I gave him directions where to go. He has come back to Montana several times and I would always give him spots to look. Last month he emailed me, that he was naming a previously unknown extinct plant from roughly 62 million years ago after me. Got some good mileage with my science major wife with this one. Hear it is Arthayesia Breivpetiolata.View attachment 396362

Thats awesome.

 

[BAKPAKR]

Bonus fun fact - I was attacked by a wombat in Australia.

You didn’t, by chance, become an influencer, and years later, get back at that wombat by stealing its baby?

US tourist filmed running off with baby wombat flees Australia after visa threat | abc7chicago.com

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abc7chicago.com