Dad's Trophy Photos - Pack Giveaway

[Founder]

This photo thread is to honor our dads and their days of hunting. Share some of those photos of your dad and his trophies. You'll be in to WIN a nice daypack! Our friends at Bad Ass Outdoor Gear have got an Eberlestock Bandit to give away to one of you who shares a great Photo of Dad's Trophy.

Feel free to share 4 or 5 or so photos, but post them in separate posts if you would, as only the first photo in each post shows up as a thumbnail above. Share a little detail about the pics too!

We'll run the photo contest for a few weeks and then I'll randomly pick a winner. Each photo shared will count as one entry and every 10 reactions that your photo gets will get an extra entry. Just another fun contest. We all love seeing the photos.

Thanks to Bad Ass Outdoor Gear for donating the prizes for the contests and PLEASE everyone, when you're in the market to upgrade your gear, please shop Bad Ass Outdoor Gear and give them a chance to earn your business for good. They've got a large selection of hunting gear for you to look through.

Here's the prize that's up for grabs.

 

[Founder]

This here is my dads biggest buck ever. Scored about 208. He took this one just above Bountiful back in the mid-70’s.

 

[Founder]

Nice archery buck for dad. I believe this is a Monroe Mtn. Buck.

 

[Trix4me]

Dad as a teenager. He passed away this year at 85

 

[HikeHunt61]

Dad with a 243 pound dressed Muley next to a cow elk. Won a rifle in the Casper big buck contest that year!

 

[HikeHunt61]

40 years later with a nice pronghorn from the foothills of the Wind River mountains...

 

[Built Muscle]

Beautiful old school pictures. Got to love it.

 

[CFMuley]

My dad’s Henry Mountain’s bison. We left for this hunt a couple days after my little brother was born in 2005. A few years later my father passed and, a couple years after that my grandfather, who is a also in the picture, passed as well. These 2 men ignited my passion for the outdoors and hunting, and this picture is my favorite to this day.

 

[buckspotter7]

Me and my Dad late 80’s Book Cliffs OTC

Same location 20 plus years later

 

[BLooDTRaCKeR]

Dad’s last and biggest bull from his 62 years of hunting big game.

 

[DoubleDropMuley]

My Dads one and only Bull elk!! After getting injured in a accident at work and loosing both his left arm and left leg sure glad he still found it in him to get me into the hunting world !! Here’s to you Pops??

 

[antlerradar]

Dad and his best buck. A thrtyfour inch 7 by 9.

 

[HornyMan]

What a cool thread.

 

[BellyUp]

My Dad’s first and only bull elk. I wouldn’t trade that trip for anything.

 

[eelgrass]

This is the very first deer my Dad ever killed. He only killed three in his life time. It's a Blacktail from CA. This was about 1951. I have his rifle now. A Marlin 336C .30-30. He's holding the rifle like he's still in the Army....lol.

 

[2Rocky]

Jump shooting the pond coming back with the kids... Dad didn't take many trophy photos 'till I started going with him..

 

[2Rocky]

My second Wyoming elk , but we were just feet apart when i killed this bull. i could see him but Dad couldn't.

 

[2Rocky]

My dad and uncle with their first antelope.

 

[2Rocky]

Dad has had English pointers since he was stationed at Fort Benning GA in the 60's

 

[Aceman]

Enjoying seeing the pictures and comments.

 

[Nodserk]

Dad waited a long time to finally hunt his elk and all he cared about was that his 3 boys were with him.

 

[Nodserk]

Dad with us 3.

 

[jm77]

My favorite photo of my dad that he took of himself on a solo hunt in the southern Bighorns 1970.

 

[Cboc42]

My dads 2021 Nevada bull.

 

[Cboc42]

My dads 2019 Nevada bighorn sheep. 3 months after having surgery from brain cancer.

 

[2lumpy]

Love all these Dad pictures. Wish I had some of my Dad. But……. he didn’t hunt, much, and he never have a camera. Y’all are fortunate to have these memories to enjoy. Thanks for sharing.

 

[fullthrottle]

3 generations

 

[Rackmastr]

Dads Alberta pronghorn

 

[Rackmastr]

And his pretty cool NT mulie

 

[Rackmastr]

And one last one, Alberta bull

 

[nfh]

My dads first mule deer from last year. Always been a whitetail slayer. We worked our butts off to find a decent muley.

His record wyoming moose shot with a bow. Was number 7 in the state back in 2000.

his antelope with my 2 boys a few years ago

I will throw in one of his mid size whitetails. That buck I watched all summer and hunted hard with a bow trying to connect but always out started me. Few days into rifle season the old man took him. This same story happened 3 years in a row on different bucks

 

[2lumpy]

My dads first mule deer from last year. Always been a whitetail slayer. We worked our butts off to find a decent muley.

His record wyoming moose shot with a bow. Was number 7 in the state back in 2000.

his antelope with my 2 boys a few years ago

I will throw in one of his mid size whitetails. That buck I watched all summer and hunted hard with a bow trying to connect but always out started me. Few days into rifle season the old man took him. This same story happened 3 years in a row on different bucks

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Great pics. Better yet, a great Dad.

 

[Calif_Mike]

My late father's California Tule elk in 2015. This was a lifetime dream for him.

 

[Calif_Mike]

My dad's last elk, he passed away the next spring.

 

[Calif_Mike]

Dad's first elk in 2007. He had hunted with a group of guys for about 10 years and they never scored. I got out of school and established in a career and could finally go. Took us a few years to make things happen and this was the result.

 

[Calif_Mike]

A fun one that dad was really proud of. We both got our first elk that year (2007) and had several days to kill before heading home. Our camp was overrun with mice and dad made it his mission to clear out camp. Great memory!

 

[huntindad4]

Dad's 2019 Roosevelt bull. He'd had brain surgery to remove a golf ball sized tumor in June and killed the bull 3 months later in September. It was a struggle to find a bull we could get him on. We saw bigger bulls. But I don't think any of us could have been any happier.

Dad with my youngest son and two daughters and the bull.

Dad and I with the bull.

Dad worked hard to instill and nurture the desire in me to hunt and I can never repay him. I can only do my best to pay it forward to my kids.

 

[antlerhound]

 

[antlerhound]

My Father in laws 2021 Muzzy buck. Shot a few days after his 81st birthday.

 

[Muleman1]

Got scoped for the first time

 

[devobrodie]

My Dad never hunted with us, but he went along, he wanted to spend the time with us doing what we loved, he was 83 and just had a knee replaced but still went along and listened to the elk bugle! He is 92 now and still full of piss and vinegar, but his body will no longer allow him to come along.

 

[jhibbs]

My dad with a whitetail buck in the 1950’s.

Jody

 

[Bumpy]

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Jump shooting the pond coming back with the kids... Dad didn't take many trophy photos 'till I started going with him..

If that jacket he’s wearing could talk I bet it would have some interesting stories to tell.

 

[ElmerFudd]

My dad and I with his last buck, about 20 years ago. His knees got so bad he couldn't hike shortly after this. Note that he had his hand on my knee for support. Still had him in camp years later but he had trouble falling on broken ground.

 

[DeerMadness]

I loved seeing all these pictures. I always wonder why my Dad never took pics. He scored on many Deer, some Elk and Pronghorn.
Great stuff Fellows !!! ??

 

[eyeman]

Great thread and pics folks!
I wish you could all win a backpack for these pics!

 

[3TOE]

My dad has never been one to pull the trigger too often, but these 2 pictures are two of my most memorable hunts with my dad.

 

[COPLAINSHNTR]

Dad and his grandsons, over the last couple years.

 

[cgmoonsky]

Here’s my dad and his buck from 1971 I believe. He even got his pic in the local paper for it haha.

 

[Longun]

Dad killed this buck in 1962 in NorthEastern California..probably would of booked if it had been scored..

 

[Tikka]

Dad killed this buck in 1962 in NorthEastern California..probably would of booked if it had been scored..View attachment 81066

Great buck!
So I’m guessing it’s gone? I sure hope not…

 

[Longun]

Great buck!
So I’m guessing it’s gone? I sure hope not…

back then they would just skin it out and hang it on the fence and let let the dogs chew on it all winter...glad they took a few pics though..Dad is 88 now and still love to hear the family's buck hunting stories..

 

[chicken77]

 

[chicken77]

My old man still out getting it done, a little slower and wiser.
Top pic is us out checking traps, middle pic is fishing at Utah Lake, and last is my brother, my dad and my self with a nice buck from the Uintas a few years back.

 

[Muley_Slayer]

My dad hunted this high country buck in the early 80's for a month straight and on the last day of the season he finally caught up to him.

 

[Muley_Slayer]

My old man also could have killed bigger animals if my brother and I weren't so damn noisy!? My dad never left us behind when we were old enough to stomp around behind him!
Thanks Pops!

 

[publichunter1]

My dad, my oldest boy, best friend and me all with my dad's biggest buck to date in MS.

 

[shedneck]

I grew up hunting with my dad and he never hunted with archery equipment until he drew a great bull tag in Nevada. This is his first and only archery big game hunt. 372” bull.

 

[Ramaha]

My Dad drew a Michigan Bull Elk tag in 2003, which was as about the same odds as winning a lottery. After three long days of hunting he was able to fill it, and I was right next to him when he did. It was a great family hunting moment.

 

[buxnbullz]

My dad's southern Utah bull. He was 74 years old at the time. This is his one & only bull elk. A lot of memories were made on the mountain during that hunt. I'll never forget them. It was pretty much the last minute of the last day. I didn't think dad had 1 more hike left but he found a way to get it done!

 

[Founder]

WINNER has been Drawn!!!

COPLAINSHNTR is the lucky one!

Thanks to all of you who shared photos. They're sure fun to see.

 

[huntindad4]

Congrats to COPLAINSHNTR

 

[Gator]

Lots of awesome pictures for all the guys that posted them up. You all have some great memories.

 

[NPHunter]

Congrats to the winner. Wish I’d have seen this thread sooner.
Here’s a picture of my dad with his biggest bull, I took the picture as I walked up on him and he had no idea I was there. Pretty great memory, that was 2006 a few months after my son was born. Two years ago my son killed his first bull in almost the same spot.

 

[freaknasty]

Congrats I hope you get to have the opprotunity to take many more pictures, winners or not, they are all treasured memories.