npaden
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I've been all over the place this year posting asking for advice and then drawing some amazing tags and then asking for more advice and then getting the tag of a lifetime on a reissue.
I've been debating on the best way to document this, and have come up with posting one giant thread with additional threads posted separately but linked here and linking each of those threads back here as well. I'm really doing this as much for a way for me to document things than to share, but I do enjoy sharing as I go when possible. I still look back on some of my old posts and reading them helps me to remember some of the details that I had forgotten.
I'm going to try to use this thread as my base of operations and try not to get way into the weeds on it, but I'm pretty wordy so you will just have to suffer through it and you can skip ahead to pictures and stuff if that is your thing.
Barring something really crazy where I get another turned in tag or something, the whiteboard looks like this:
Biggest list I've ever had by far! I've had a couple different years with a couple out of state hunts and maybe 1 year with 3 out of state hunts but this year is going to be CRAZY.
First up is our trip to New Zealand and I will try to document some of the touristy stuff along with the hunts. I will start another thread on it and post a link to it here and vice versa.
I'll probably run some kind of rambling vlog type stuff in this post and am going to try to get some captured on video as well. Thankfully we had started a wellness challenge at work and I had started back running again so I didn't start out at ground zero trying to get in shape for my sheep hunt but I'm not very close to what I would consider to be in shape. I did run 3 miles this morning and am going to do my best to get that worked up to 6 miles before the sheep hunt starts but that might be a lofty goal. I will be getting in several hikes in New Zealand and Montana and hopefully will be able to get the rest of the way on mental toughness!
Thought I would get this started and will try to do some live posts and do some recaps once I get back from each trip.
Thanks for tagging along.
Nathan
I've been debating on the best way to document this, and have come up with posting one giant thread with additional threads posted separately but linked here and linking each of those threads back here as well. I'm really doing this as much for a way for me to document things than to share, but I do enjoy sharing as I go when possible. I still look back on some of my old posts and reading them helps me to remember some of the details that I had forgotten.
I'm going to try to use this thread as my base of operations and try not to get way into the weeds on it, but I'm pretty wordy so you will just have to suffer through it and you can skip ahead to pictures and stuff if that is your thing.
Barring something really crazy where I get another turned in tag or something, the whiteboard looks like this:
- Trip to New Zealand in early July (which is winter there). We are going for my son's senior trip, but we decided to throw a red stag hunt in there so there should be some hunting related stuff in there eventually.
- Nevada Antelope hunt for my son (his first) in a really good unit that he drew at 1.6% odds.
- Colorado Bighorn Sheep. This is a tag that was turned back in and I was the next on the list. Odds were .79% for my 9 points per GoHunt. Harvest success has been low for this unit at 17% the last 2 years.
- Colorado Private Land Only Bear tag. This was going to be hunted pretty hard when I drew it, but now I might not end up being able to hunt it at all. Sheep is #1 priority for September.
- Colorado Private Land Only Landowner Archery deer tag. I'm almost certainly not going to be able to hunt this tag. One good thing is that I might actually end up selling it (it is a landowner voucher) instead of just eating it, which is probably what will happen to my other September tags unless I tag out early on my sheep hunt.
- Wyoming Pronghorn tag. This is a decent unit that takes 7 points to draw in the Special and I drew it with 4 on the random side with 5.1% draw odds. Season starts September 20 and goes to October 31st, but with the way things are at work and with my other October tag I'm not going to be able to hunt this tag unless I tag out on sheep in early September.
- Kaibab Plateau early rifle mule deer tag. This was the 2nd lotto win this year in finding out we drew (1.9% odds) but the last draw tag that we have to hunt. This is after all my September hunts so I will be able to devote my full attention to the hunt but have no time at all to do any scouting on this.
- Not draw tags, but we have some pretty good whitetails on camera on our place here in Texas - Archery season (crossbow for me) starts 10/1 and rifle starts in early November and goes all the way to early January. This year is looking promising for whitetails.
- Last year I shot my first mule deer on our property near our house. This also opens up for archery season on 10/1 but the rifle season is much shorter and ends in late November.
- Hogs, Dove, etc. are all mixed in on our hunts here in Texas.
Biggest list I've ever had by far! I've had a couple different years with a couple out of state hunts and maybe 1 year with 3 out of state hunts but this year is going to be CRAZY.
First up is our trip to New Zealand and I will try to document some of the touristy stuff along with the hunts. I will start another thread on it and post a link to it here and vice versa.
I'll probably run some kind of rambling vlog type stuff in this post and am going to try to get some captured on video as well. Thankfully we had started a wellness challenge at work and I had started back running again so I didn't start out at ground zero trying to get in shape for my sheep hunt but I'm not very close to what I would consider to be in shape. I did run 3 miles this morning and am going to do my best to get that worked up to 6 miles before the sheep hunt starts but that might be a lofty goal. I will be getting in several hikes in New Zealand and Montana and hopefully will be able to get the rest of the way on mental toughness!
Thought I would get this started and will try to do some live posts and do some recaps once I get back from each trip.
Thanks for tagging along.
Nathan
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