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TurkeyHuntin
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Nice pics Mozey!!!! Keep em coming. Glad to see you got to get out.
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hornhunter247
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man I showed up way to excited! nice pics
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stinkystomper
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Just curious mozey. You've posted pics of the same waterhold for the past year. Is that the only one you know of or is it the only one with action. Is it a secluded honey hole that noone knows about or what. Do us a favor. change the position of that log or something. You know, move the furniture around and spice the pics up a little bit with variety! lol
mozey
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Sorry for the false lead for all of you that expected to see something else, but not that sorry... =)
I mostly just keep this to the NM forum, but I occasionally step out. As a regular in the NM forum, I don't doubt that you're probably getting tired of looking at it.
This is a secluded honeyhole on public land. I was tracking elk through the area about four years ago (ended up nailing a 355" 6x7 that day) and noticed a small seep coming out of the ground that the elk were walking right past to get to some other water further down the mountain. It's not marked anywhere as a spring on any map that I've seen. So the next summer I packed a shovel in (it's about eight miles) and dug it out and dammed up the sides, dropped off a salt lick, and then hung a camera over it. The first year hardly anything showed up at all, but since then, the action has steadily increased, with bears, bulls, bucks, mountain lions, and now turkeys. I only post a small fraction of the pictures that I have, and there are some MM members on here that can attest that I purposely don't post the best ones (the harrassment would never end...). I still very much look forward to the 16-mile round trip hike just to see what has been there, and being that remote, I've never had a problem with someone else showing up and messing with the cameras. If that ever does happen, that will be the time for me to move on. Even though it has its regulars, the new and different animals that show up on a weekly basis add enough variety to keep me interested.
Sorry for the false lead for all of you that expected to see something else, but not that sorry... =)
I mostly just keep this to the NM forum, but I occasionally step out. As a regular in the NM forum, I don't doubt that you're probably getting tired of looking at it.
This is a secluded honeyhole on public land. I was tracking elk through the area about four years ago (ended up nailing a 355" 6x7 that day) and noticed a small seep coming out of the ground that the elk were walking right past to get to some other water further down the mountain. It's not marked anywhere as a spring on any map that I've seen. So the next summer I packed a shovel in (it's about eight miles) and dug it out and dammed up the sides, dropped off a salt lick, and then hung a camera over it. The first year hardly anything showed up at all, but since then, the action has steadily increased, with bears, bulls, bucks, mountain lions, and now turkeys. I only post a small fraction of the pictures that I have, and there are some MM members on here that can attest that I purposely don't post the best ones (the harrassment would never end...). I still very much look forward to the 16-mile round trip hike just to see what has been there, and being that remote, I've never had a problem with someone else showing up and messing with the cameras. If that ever does happen, that will be the time for me to move on. Even though it has its regulars, the new and different animals that show up on a weekly basis add enough variety to keep me interested.
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stinkystomper
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Well I'm about sick of that stupid water hole. However....If you'd send gps coordinates I'm sure I could appreciate the pictures a little more. Thats actually a way cool story. I've noticed that some years its a bigger hole than others. Is that true or is it just camera angles. Wonder if the drought years affect the water table. Thanks for the info..... Again, way cool man way cool.
mozey
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It's getting bigger and deeper because I keep messing with it. A couple times it's been drained a little by an elk stepping in the wrong place. And coming out of this last winter, it was completely dried up (the only time I've seen it that way since building it), but I think that was because ground above was still frozen.
Between me and BIGBULL48, we've used three different cameras at different angles around it. The third picture above is actually a wallow about 20' "down stream" that BIGBULL48 built at the beginning of the second year. The bulls took to that almost immediately (I'm not a bow-hunter, but from what I've seen, I think building your own wallow could be a very effective tactic to bring bulls in to you, which I've never seen discussed much). The trickle goes back into the ground just a few yards below that.
Between me and BIGBULL48, we've used three different cameras at different angles around it. The third picture above is actually a wallow about 20' "down stream" that BIGBULL48 built at the beginning of the second year. The bulls took to that almost immediately (I'm not a bow-hunter, but from what I've seen, I think building your own wallow could be a very effective tactic to bring bulls in to you, which I've never seen discussed much). The trickle goes back into the ground just a few yards below that.
Califelkslayer
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I love the story, my minds a clicking now.
