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

 

[TX Trophy Hunter]

1. Missing half my large intestine.
2. Once hit a 90 mph fastball
3. Ran 2 miles at 3:00 am lighting off the side of a road with a drip torch.
4. Pulled a pistol on a mountain lion (didn’t have to shoot)
5. Went to my last college final exam hung over cause I was up all night playing indoor soccer with my midget roommate.

 

[6mm Remington]

This is pretty cool and sad some of the things and experiences we have been through, loved, hated, and survived.

1. I had 178 amateur fights over a 12 year span and got to share the ring with 3 Olympians, Carmen Rinke (Canada 1976), Johnny Bumphus (United States 1980), and Virgil Hill (United States 1984). Both Johnny Bumphus and Virgil Hill later turned pro and became world champions after their amateur career. Had my nose broken a couple of times. Broke my thumb in two in a fight in the second round up in Canada. Continued to fight through the 3 round bout and finished but lost the decision. Got my jaw broken in a fight in the second round, again continued to fight and told my coach not to say anything. Won the fight. Damn tough friend/competitor from Butte Montana Tim Schmidt and I always beat the crap out of each other. Had two cracked ribs in my fight at the Montana State Golden Gloves with Carmen Rinke. Man could he punch!

2. Worked for the Sheriff's Office where we live and retired after 33 years of service. Never had to shoot anyone, and never got shot myself. Was bitten by a suspect who was fighting with us one night as we were attempting to arrest him. He bit my ring finger on my right hand hard enough that his teeth went through the leather gloves I was wearing and clear to the bone. This from a grown ass man about 40 years old. Think I survived without too many internal scars either as I was somehow able to manage some of the horrible events over the years.

3. My wife and I have been married for 32 years now. We had one of our sons Jeremiah pass away when he was 19 months old in 2006. Our children aren't supposed to die before their parents! It's incredibly difficult. Marriages that have things like this happen statistically don't survive, but somehow we have made it to this far at least.

4. I have an adult daughter and son who are both fantastic people and are a joy to be around.

5. I was born in Montana and have never lived anyplace else. I love our state and the people who call it home. Our children are both people I can say that I am proud to know and love.

 

[Outlaw99]

1. I asked permission first, then proceeded to throw a ball and hit Terrance Bud Crawford in a ball pit a few months ago

2. I was removed from a flight Leaving Las Vegas for being too drunk…I don’t even know how that’s a thing

3. I had my picture taken with Dale Brisby and Billy Etbauer on the same day

4. I shot a 19pt 190” non typical on the 19th of December when I was 19 years old

5. I once broke both hands on a meth head with an axe handle, only for him to jump in the Missouri River when the water temp was 38 degrees. He now has permanent brain damage. I have no regrets and he had it coming

 

[Irrelevant]

Man, @theat and @trb are two badasses. Them and Hank.

 

[Rack Daniels]

I built the Governator's stair case. 3 times. When money is no object changing your mind about which wood to use is no big deal.

Where was this? I’ve seen the governator smoking a cigar on his patio near bill gates house up Andesite…

 

[Rack Daniels]

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.....

THE SLOCKMASTER!? That you!??

 

[Rack Daniels]

This is absolutely my favorite thread ever. I’ve re-read the entire 20 pages and can’t wait to read them again in another few years! I meant to contribute when this began… Let’s see what I can come up with…

1) Got expelled from two schools in two states—even though I’d always cared about my education/grades/performance…

2)Drove 2.5 hours to jump the fence and sneak into “Fun Fun Fun Fest” in Austin, TX with 3 buddies- where i got to skate a mini ramp (and got congratulatory tail claps) with Mike V. before watching Bun B and Run DMC perform that evening.

3)Got jumped by a group of black dudes “for being a skater” when I was in 7th grade. Mobile-home park Manager saved me.

4)Shot a disk out of the air at a Napa, CA archery range with my Lil Sioux when i was like 6 years old.

5) 3 kids and 12 years with the same woman. Feel that not many in my demographic can say they’re still with same “babymomma/daddy” Hopefully another 50+ years together!

 

[seeth07]

1) In High School, my group of friends and I were pretty serious gamers and we even played at a competitive level. In Counter Strike we were ranked worldwide. In today's age of eSports realm and popularity, our level likely would have got us sponsors and compensation for what we did.
2) Related to one, the High School lunch table often contained talk between us regarding playing. Fall of our Junior year we were discussing a tournament that weekend and going over some new concepts for a map that was going to be used and in doing so, we were using words like "bomb", "shoot", etc. Shortly after lunch, we were all gathered up by police officers and sat down in the principals office. We were able to explain ourselves without anything more than a "hey don't do that again". I cant imagine what would happen today.
3) In college, our senior design team got assigned Packer legend and originator of the Lambeau Leap Leroy Butler as our client. For 8 months we met with him weekly to go over schedules and plans of our design for him to build a learning center in inner city Milwaukee. In spring at final presentation, our design won and Leroy took it as the basis for his project.
4) On our way up to Sturgeon Bay to go ice fishing at 2am one early February morning in a snowstorm, I was driving with my brother and I was uable to stop when a herd of deer crossed in front of me and I slammed into a large doe. I pulled over and the deer was alive as I hit her in the back end and had just a broken pelvis. All I had in the truck at the time was a cheap free Fleet Farm 2 inch knife so we jumped out and tackled her together and I went to town repeatedly stabbing her neck. My brother called it in (to take the deer at that time you had to have a sheriff come give you a tag for it in person) and the lady said that with the weather they were too busy but we could grab the deer and bring it to the station down the road for the tag. So I got her gutted and off we went to the station. The reaction of the staff and the officers in the lobby when I walked in was something I'll never forget as they rushed quickly to me to "help" and make sure I was ok. Apparently if you walk into a police station at 2am and your hands are solid red from blood and your face is covered and your clothes soaked in blood it gets that reaction. Since it was dark and snowing, I didn't really realize how much blood got on me from the stabbing of the neck.
5) On the Thursday before our wedding, my wife was diagnosed with cancer and surgery was scheduled the following Monday to put a port in. The Friday rehearsal dinner was telling our close family the news and as you can imagine the wedding day was an emotional roller coaster and not the typical high energy fun party like normal. It snowed like crazy on Sunday making for a day getting back home. Monday the surgery went good but since its chest surgery to the heart, Monday afternoon and overnight was spent in the ICU opening wedding gifts. Our anniversary of 13 years was just a couple weeks ago and she has been cancer free for 12 of it. We knew that if we could survive that first year of hell together it would be pretty unlikely anything else could get in our way.

 

[Gut Shot]

1. I married a good woman and we've been together 37 years.

2. Raised 2 good kids. My daughter graduates this spring with her bachelor's in "environmental science" and plans on getting her master's. My son just graduated from OSUT as a Combat Engineer.

3. I turned a childhood hobby into a career and have been a jeweler professionally for 28 years.

4. I could retire at any time and live comfortably for the rest of my life, I still have too much ambition and feel like I still have something to offer the world though.

5. I kinda suck at hunting.

 

[Elktrack]

5. I kinda suck at hunting.

The name checks out