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ridgewalker
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Here are the bucks we took on our 3rd season hunt..
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ridgewalker
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My buddy's deer...
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Chef
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Congrats to both of you on some nice bucks!
Where is the snow?!
Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
Where is the snow?!
Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
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PronghornHunter
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Nice bucks! that first buck has huge eye gaurds.
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ridgewalker
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I'm not sure what happened to all the snow this year..If we had it, you may be looking at a couple of 190+ bucks in these pictures..It would have helped out a lot!
Michael J...I think my buddy's buck broke his jaw..He shot him on a full run and he did a face plant...Didn't notice it until I got the pics developed.
Michael J...I think my buddy's buck broke his jaw..He shot him on a full run and he did a face plant...Didn't notice it until I got the pics developed.
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elkhunter40
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ridgewalker, nice deer. was this 3rd rifle season in Colorado ?
something doesn't look right.
No flourescent orange (hat or vest)
In a rifle season with other hunters with rifles. NOT TO SAFE.
something doesn't look right.
No flourescent orange (hat or vest)
In a rifle season with other hunters with rifles. NOT TO SAFE.
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dakotakid
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ridgewalker,
Nice bucks, both your's and your buddies.
elkhunter40,
Give it a rest.
Mike
Nice bucks, both your's and your buddies.
elkhunter40,
Give it a rest.
Mike
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DEERSLAM
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Nice bucks, congrats to both of you.
If you don't mind me asking, what unit and how many points did you have to draw out?
If you don't mind me asking, what unit and how many points did you have to draw out?
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ridgewalker
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Elkhunter40..Yes this was 3rd season rifle..as for the orange, we wore it, but I preferred not to have it on for the pictures.. As for it not being safe.. nobody was hiking in as far as we were anyway, so I wasn't too worried about it. The people I run into 3 or more miles from the roads, normally aren't the type of hunters that mistake a guy in camo for a deer.
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Prism
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Great bucks, especially considering how (un)crapy the weather was. Very nice!
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neverbeenonanATV
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Really nice bucks ridgewalker, looks like you made the right choice on units. I don't like looking like a glowing pumpkin in my pictures either. Congrats.
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elkhunter40
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ridgewalker,dakotakid
"The people I run into 3 or more miles from the roads, normally aren't the type of hunters that mistake a guy in camo for a deer."
I have hunted in Co. for the past 14 years and I have seen a lot of things that made me think to my salf why do I still hunt.
your looking through your binoculars and see someone looking at you with his scope.
or someone see a ear move, a flash of a tail, part of a altler or any thing thats moving. and they shot.
yes you got some good photos. but was it safe.
Take a look at this site. these are the type of hunter out with in the feld with all of us.
http://www.all-creatures.org/cash/accident-center.html#sh2005
I'm not trying give you a hard time. just help some one from getting shot.
(like you said NORMALLY aren't the type of hunters.)
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"The people I run into 3 or more miles from the roads, normally aren't the type of hunters that mistake a guy in camo for a deer."
I have hunted in Co. for the past 14 years and I have seen a lot of things that made me think to my salf why do I still hunt.
your looking through your binoculars and see someone looking at you with his scope.
or someone see a ear move, a flash of a tail, part of a altler or any thing thats moving. and they shot.
yes you got some good photos. but was it safe.
Take a look at this site. these are the type of hunter out with in the feld with all of us.
http://www.all-creatures.org/cash/accident-center.html#sh2005
I'm not trying give you a hard time. just help some one from getting shot.
(like you said NORMALLY aren't the type of hunters.)
Ron
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ridgewalker
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If it makes you feel better, we had an orange vest laying on top of a bush to my left..Thanks for looking out for me though.
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deerbedead
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elkhunter40
Nice website you linked with there. Do you believe all that stuff on there????
Nice website you linked with there. Do you believe all that stuff on there????
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Ridgedrifter
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Fantastic deer skywalker! As for the orange, I think you're both right. I get silly with the orange when I'm hunting in CO; hat, vest, hell, I even have a pair of orange boots. On the other hand, when a hunter hikes in a long way, he gets away from the road hunters, and a vest over sage while taking a picture is ok. By the way, what did each buck gross score?
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cohntr6
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That is a heck of a pair of bucks! Thanks for sharing and congratulations! How about some details...scores, story, scouting involved, etc.? Looks like you were in the oakbrush country of south/ southcentral CO.
Jeff
Jeff
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ridgewalker
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Cohntr6.. We were hunting in western Colorado.. We scouted for three days at over 9000 feet because there were still doe's up that high so we figured the big ones would still be up there too.. In three days of scouting and four days of hunting up there, we only saw a dozen or so bucks, but two were in the 180 range and one was bigger..The problem was that they were sticking to the THICK aspens and we couldn't get shots off.. We finally decided to drop off the mountain about 1500 ft even though it was pushing 70 degrees down there..We shot both these bucks within a day of moving down.. The warm weather didn't seem to matter because the rut was kicking in pretty good..My buddy's buck was running with a bigger buck and a few doe's..He missed the big one and shot the 27 incher.. The other buck had the same frame, but he had two cheaters on one side and three on the other side..We packed most of his deer out that night, drove back to camp, slept a few hours, and hiked back into the same area in the dark the next morning.. I saw my buck at first light with four or five doe's.. He was skylined at 300 yards. What a sight.. After he went down, we packed him out and then went back in to get the rest of my buddy's deer.. A lot of work, but well worth it!
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AZbowhntr
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Congrats on a couple great bucks. It sounds like you guys earned them. It's always good to hear that when someone puts in the hard work they get rewarded.
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cohntr6
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Thanks for the story, too bad the big one got away. Will you be able to hunt there next year?
Jeff
Jeff
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ridgewalker
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Muskegman..I know..I have a few pics where I am smiling, but this was the best one of the deer..That's my "Going on 3 hours sleep & this damn deer head is getting heavy" face.
Cohntr6..I won't be able to draw that tag for quite some time..I had 7 points saved up..
Cohntr6..I won't be able to draw that tag for quite some time..I had 7 points saved up..
