Nick87
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Wish scheels still sold those hats. Awesome bull too.
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NDGuy
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My wife always wonders why I’m buying all these Scheels hats (they come free with a gun purchase)
Nick87
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Used to be able to get em for $5 each. I think i bought like 8 and I’m down to my last one. Actually wearing it on my elk pic. Its on its last leg.My wife always wonders why I’m buying all these Scheels hats (they come free with a gun purchase)
WNC2500
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Easy one for me. 2024 NM Oryx. 303 yard shot!
cgasner1
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I’ll buy one and mail it if you want my Scheeles sells them for 500.
Nick87
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Send me 2. Brown not orange
Carl 9.3x62
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Why is that?
cgasner1
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I always tell my wife look I bought this hat and they threw in a pistol
antlerradar
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Still a fantastic pronghornGuess it's been awhile.
I'll own it.
The gross is an odd eighth.
But an inch short after deductions.
Probably why I still have the original application to submit.
Still get a smile when I admire the 17" stacks though.View attachment 382855
antlerradar
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The net score on pronghorn is essentially the smaller measurement on each horn doubled. Double any number and you end up with an even number.
Definitely my Montana bighorn ewe hunt. A ram tag would have been amazing, but nonetheless, I walked away feeling like I got the sheep hunt I'd always wanted.
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I have the euro and several photos from the trip hanging on my wall. I think about it often and it always brings a smile to my face.
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I have the euro and several photos from the trip hanging on my wall. I think about it often and it always brings a smile to my face.
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It’s Bucky
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That is very cool. My girls will be 7th generation to live in MT, 5th generation to hunt the same places I grew up hunting as well.
Buffalo Abert’s wings are the way to go. Whole squirrel tends to disturb the family.
elkhuntinfool78
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Heck of a buck, Fred King is a great guyGuess it's been awhile.
I'll own it.
The gross is an odd eighth.
But an inch short after deductions.
Probably why I still have the original application to submit.
Still get a smile when I admire the 17" stacks though.View attachment 382855
antlerradar
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Three of my hunts kind of stand out above the rest.
My 2005 archery mule deer, was the product of a ton of scouting him all summer and using that knowledge to put myself in position to be successful on opening day.
My 2021 archery whitetail was a few weeks of cat and mouse with plenty of failures for me, but there was a better than even chance I would get it done on opening day of rifle if it went that long.
My 2006 public land whitetail was the deer I didn't think I would get, so maybe that was the one that was the most rewarding.
Started when I found one of his shed antlers in the spring, Nice heavy antler. That fall I was up above where I found the antler with my bow looking for an elk or deer. It was a miserable day, cold, windy and spitting rain off and on. Good day for still hunting into the wind. With a half hour of light left, I had yet to see anything, I was cold, wet and tired. I was ready to quit so I bailed of the ridge for the truck. Didn't make it fifty yards and there he was with two little bucks 65 yards away. For the next half hour I tried to get myself closer as the three deer feed down the hill. I did finally get to within about 30 yards, but with the growing darkness and the rain I decided to not take a shot.
I hunted him every chance I got form then on. Not one sighting until the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. That morning I bumped him still hunting, I spent the rest of the morning still hunting the draw he ran into and only saw a flash of brown in the trees. I figured he might have turned and went back to the ridge to the west where I saw him on in September, so I decided to walk down the draw to the east back to the truck and drive down to the west end of the ridge and still hunt it into the wind.
As I was walking down the bottom of the draw I busted out a doe and he was fifty yards behind her. She was running up a steep hill and when she went through small clearing I figured that would be my chance. When he entered the clearing I put the crosshairs a few inches in front of him and pulled the trigger. Had no I idea if I had hit him or not, but when I got up to the clearing he was there. I have shot bigger whitetails, but this one I worked the hardest for with a low chance of success.
My 2005 archery mule deer, was the product of a ton of scouting him all summer and using that knowledge to put myself in position to be successful on opening day.
My 2021 archery whitetail was a few weeks of cat and mouse with plenty of failures for me, but there was a better than even chance I would get it done on opening day of rifle if it went that long.
My 2006 public land whitetail was the deer I didn't think I would get, so maybe that was the one that was the most rewarding.
Started when I found one of his shed antlers in the spring, Nice heavy antler. That fall I was up above where I found the antler with my bow looking for an elk or deer. It was a miserable day, cold, windy and spitting rain off and on. Good day for still hunting into the wind. With a half hour of light left, I had yet to see anything, I was cold, wet and tired. I was ready to quit so I bailed of the ridge for the truck. Didn't make it fifty yards and there he was with two little bucks 65 yards away. For the next half hour I tried to get myself closer as the three deer feed down the hill. I did finally get to within about 30 yards, but with the growing darkness and the rain I decided to not take a shot.
I hunted him every chance I got form then on. Not one sighting until the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. That morning I bumped him still hunting, I spent the rest of the morning still hunting the draw he ran into and only saw a flash of brown in the trees. I figured he might have turned and went back to the ridge to the west where I saw him on in September, so I decided to walk down the draw to the east back to the truck and drive down to the west end of the ridge and still hunt it into the wind.
As I was walking down the bottom of the draw I busted out a doe and he was fifty yards behind her. She was running up a steep hill and when she went through small clearing I figured that would be my chance. When he entered the clearing I put the crosshairs a few inches in front of him and pulled the trigger. Had no I idea if I had hit him or not, but when I got up to the clearing he was there. I have shot bigger whitetails, but this one I worked the hardest for with a low chance of success.
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It’s Bucky
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One of my favorite hunting memories with my then 2 year old. She likes to point at it and call it “her buck”. The buck was lab aged 5.5 years old and had one of the largest heads I’ve seen on an antelope, making him hard to field judge. Got to pick him out of a herd that had 3 good ones in it. I’m hoping to do it all over again in a couple months.
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Mass helps a lot with the short horned bucks. I know this from experience. Nice buck. mtmuley
