...when they get Big

sageadvice

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Hey guys! Winter is on us, most seasons long closed so as usual it's getting slow. What do you say, a thread made up of Bucks that made it to the ripe old age, had whatever else it took, "This is how they look like when they get Big"

Blacktail, muley, whitetail, cross bucks, cactus bucks, last years or a hundred years ago, dead or alive. Gotta be something in the puter memory there that you can share. Thanks!!

Joey


It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
A Local Tribal Member got this 378" Buck a few years ago!

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"I'm Living & Dieing with the Choices
I've made!"

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Thought about it Sage, you were always one of the good guys on here, but there is a reason this site is dead, and best to leave that dead dog lie... Some amazing ones showing up this year though, still fat as ticks although it may not last. Big snow year shaping up. Best of luck in the draws, I'll keep my nuts stashed for now.
 
That's fine Squirrel, you've shared plenty with us through the years, maybe you will choose to again.

I never had a clue that i was going to be participating near as much as i have back when i first joined. I was drawn here to see the pictures of big bucks and the sometimes neat story's that went along with the pics. I think this place is still good for that, plenty of participation, more so than any other places i've visited. In any case, i'd like this thread not to be a political debate so much as seeing some pic's of some Dandies. Thanks!

We knew this old 35" dandy called that particular area of the Ruby's his home. I went up one ridge, my Uncle the other. My Uncle on the left there made good of a slim chance, he was one buck huntin SOB!, i took the pic. Heavy heavy all the way out!

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Joey




"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-18-16 AT 09:19AM (MST)[p]These gents from my home town took these in Colo back in the day. 4 great bucks, two freaking monsters.

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...and in case you might not be too impressed with that group of 4 bucks, this is me holding the exact same deer that Harry, with the Open Road Stetson on, is holding... the best buck i've ever had my hands on.

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Guys, i figure that this thread is not going away for awhile. Take your time and join in if you care to. :)

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
Nice buck Paul. We are passing the refuges in Williams and its geese galore !! I told the geese I'll see them in Oregon later!! Keep eating that rice so you taste good!!!
 
Better than a " good looking deer " really man that beer is huge and well worth a better adigitive than "good looking". You probably won't ever in your life time see let along hold one in your hands. That's a Mac Daddy!!
 
DeeDee, See if you can get a good pic of Riches Nevada 5X3 that's over your Oregon Fireplace. He certainly qualifies as "what they look like when they get big!"

Joey

"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
Here is a 177" whitey I got many years ago. public land in Northern MN.
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Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"
 
Those are some incredible Bucks Joey I can only imagine what it was like hunting that country back in the Day.
 
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One heavy SOB and only 18 inch wide to boot! Cali cross ,just never was ment to be a wide buck but he was as big as I'm sure he was ever going to get.
It's not my buck I do posses the rack, I talked a friend out of it I can't remember if he shot it or it was road kill.
 
"Those last two bucks are awesome! love the mass
Mntman"

+1, all you guys, very nice!

I got a blacktail cross buck from around Almanor here that i don't have a picture of. He's only like 20" but heavy heavy, even Steven, and nice. I'll see what i can do, try to get him posted up because for around here, that's what they look like when they get Big. lol

Joey


It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-20-16 AT 11:46AM (MST)[p]YBO, i don't know. It would be under Harry Rowell. While i has holding it for that pic, i noticed the black stuff on top of the scull cap. That might mean that the cap, which felt solid, had been broke at one time and because so, ineligible for the book. Maybe so, maybe not.

Did you take a look at the other buck in the middle? As big as the one that Harry is holding, i think i'd like that other buck better... :)

Oilcan, I remember as a kid when we'd get a call that "the guys" were back and we'd jump in the car and go watch them unload. My Home town had a overabundance of hard core hunters for that day that loved hunting monster bucks out of state. There were several different groups, two of which included uncles from my family and occasionally my Dad as well. Anyway, we'd get there and all the guys would already have most their stuff, with the huge buck heads with big racks sticking up and out all over the place taking my especial attention, out of the rigs and lined up on the sidewalks. There was always at least two or three over sized monsters and i think i knew that way back then as a toddler, that i wanted in on that action! :)

Fast forward 30 years to about 1990 i'm headed west into Elko. I was done in after hitting it hard for the whole season in two states, and empty from not having seen what i went for and not firing a shot. I'm dirty... and tired, and in no hurry to get home because i'd lost my job. I had to quit because my "Boss" told me that him and his kid were going to idaho, i'd have to stay and watch the shop. My plans had be made and approved but i guess my boss at the time felt that his new plan trumped mine old one and he was wrong in thinking that.

Anyway, i pull in the Stockmens and ask around who i needed to talk to to cash a check cause i'm near empty of cash from my hunts. Turns out i needed to talk to the Head Pit Boss who once looked at my check, asked me to tell that bartender over where he was pointing, to set me up with what i wanted on him, and that he'd be over in a bit and we'd talk.

I did as told and when that pit boss came over, he said that he recognized my name and home town there on my check and wasn't i related to So and so? Well, i was. He knew all my Uncles, my Dad, and all the guys that they hunted with. He called them all out to me by name and wanted updates. He knew them very well and though he was closed lipped about anything particular, he was looking back to the good old days, gazing off into the distance about the times that were, when those groups of guys hit the good old town of Elko.

He told me that i could write the Check for any amount i cared to write it for, that i was more than welcome to be a guest of the Stockman's, and that he had to get back to work but it was a pleasure to meet me and to talk about those guys from back then because they were apart of his best days, days that would never be again.

3 days later, refreshed, well fed, and reinvigorated, i checked out and headed home, a right good way to end a good hunt i'm thinking. I wish i could remember that Pit Bosses name. I doubt he's still with us but he had a lot of good and no bad to say about those Livermore Boys from years ago and he made me proud to be a part of them too. :)

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
One of the bigger ones from Nevada from long, long ago now. Don't know for sure if it is still #1 NT.
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NVPete, That's what they look like!! I mean to say, that's a gagger sure enough! Thanks!

Thinking about that story in the above post, at least one of those 4-5 man groups hunted and took some monsters from the Grays river country of Wy but i remember them talking a lot of hunting the "Diamond Range" not too far from Elko but don't know it myself. Knowing that crew of guys as i do now, they may even have taken rooms at the Stockmans and returned there each night to eat and "socialize" after their hunts.
A guy do stuff like that a few or more years in a row, he gets remembered by the staff and in most cases, happily welcomed back.

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
Diamonds are farther south below the rubies they run from the town of eureka north,I have poked around there a couple times.
 
Maybe your buddies were thinkin' about the Independence Mountains (Lone Mountain, Jack Creek, Tuscarora Area, Maggie Creek/Maggie Summit,Snow Canyon, North Fork). In the deer hunting heydays of the 60's and 70's, they were teeming with deer, and lots of reports of hog bucks (I remember seeing some real monsters that I never got a crack at, and a few in the back of rigs like this ( an old newspaper clipping from Elko paper I've kept and cherished as something I'll probably never see again). I remember one particular hunt in Coyote Creek out of Carlin, NV where the week we camped, my party of seven all filled out (only one monster)...and that I knew of, there were about twenty-one bucks taken there that week!Those WERE the days, my friend!

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Here's another from my archived pictures (one of my all-time favorites, a 13x16 rack)...kinda like the big one you're holding!
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nice Pete! yeah, that would be about the time, maybe years before and years after but those guys went every year and that back of the rig shot is not too different than what we'd see when they returned home.

I never was too much into making a hunting trip into a big party but those guys were all married ranchers and heavy equipment operators, like that, that worked hard and didn't really go a lot of places and do a lot of stuff other than their yearly hunts. Work hard, play hard, they may not have wrote the book on the subject but they were certainly fine examples. :)

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
The picture that NV Pete posted is still the number 1 Non typical. Scores over 300"s.
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-21-16 AT 11:17AM (MST)[p]
We've all seen this pic before, always been a pic I enjoyed. Seems to capture alot of things about that time period. New Mexico 1963. The Garcias.

Nontypical scores 306 2/8
Typical scores 192 3/8
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DW, Yeah, i've seen it before but so what? I can't never get tired of looking at a pic like that!! Awesome and Thank you for posting that up!

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 

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