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 looking 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

 

[Rack Daniels]

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.View attachment 396362

That’s actually really really cool. Whenever someone looks up or finds out about something new it’s generally mentioned how or from whom the name came. You, and this brief description, will always be remarked in regards to this specimen. That’s freaking badass. Congrats! and congrats to the guy that found them in your honey hole!

 

[geetar]

This is a cool thread forgot I never really posted so here goes.

1. Named after Hank Williams Jr. my first name is Randall. My dad gave me that in honor of " Rockin Randall Hank". ( My dad is a big fan of Hank Jr's music and his friend Brent Mullis was Hank Jr's gunsmith and hunting buddy until he passed away last year. )

2. I quit the family automotive business to work for North Carolina State Parks and Recreation because it mattered more to me than repairing cars. ( 3 years in I don't regret it for a minute. )

3. I'm teaching myself to play pedal steel guitar after 22 years of playing acoustic and 18 years of playing electric.

4. Had a wolf pup run into my camp in Colorado. Chased it off and the adults showed up almost immediately. I stared down the adults with my .300 Win Mag hoping they didn't make me shoot them in self defense. 10 yards is too close but they eventually left and I got to go elk hunting again instead of explain myself to the game warden.

5. Rode out a spooked runaway horse scared by a herd of wild bison in Utah's Book Cliffs. ( They were so close I could feel the ground shaking through the horses legs into mine. )

 

[Nuts]

Wow all of a sudden I have not done much and lived a pretty boring life. lol

1. Spent a summer in India
2. The only male non pilot in my moms family including all uncles and cousins.
3. Flipped a raft in Alaska 60miles from the nearest road when a sweeper was hidden behind an oxbow. Lost gear. Was wet for the next 7 days as it also rained the next 7 days then temps dropped and stuff froze. Great memory. The suck was fully embraced. A week later harvested my first moose on that same trip. Never considered hitting the help button
4. Family is everything. Have turned down (3) guiding offers to stay at home and take care of family and not abandon them like happen to me Some days I dream of how awesome that would have been. Offers from Montana, Alaska and New Brunswick.......All awesome places
5. Have participated in disaster relief trips doing construction. There is a common theme to them. Not afraid of long hard work days. Or working nights and enjoying days afield
   1. Alaska worked on a new church during the salmon run 2 miles from the river
   2. St Croix repaired hurricane damage while spear fishing
   3. NY flood repairs while Ice Fishing
   4. Colorado flood repairs while trout fishing
   5. Oklahoma worked on a reservation training center during deer season
   6. Kentucky flood repairs during deer season
   7. Virginia flood repairs during deer season