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Posted: 11/2/2020 2:17:44 AM EDT

Punched my B tag on a fat yearling whitetail. Only took 2 hours to drag to the truck??.

Posted: 11/2/2020 9:27:39 AM EDT

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Punched my B tag on a fat yearling whitetail. Only took 2 hours to drag to the truck??.

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Nice work!

Posted: 11/2/2020 9:34:35 AM EDT

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Got my antelope tag filled. Just a small buck just filled the tag to get some butchering done.

Wanted to fill a muley B tag yesterday but couldn’t get a shot. Spooky as heck. Going to knock over a whitetail doe this evening.

Space out the cutting up process so me and dad don’t need to butcher 6 deer in the last two weeks of season.

Posted: 11/2/2020 8:49:58 PM EDT

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I've seen a decent amount of mulie does on the block management land I've been on, but no bucks. I don't really know where to go for elk so nothing for me there. This is only my second hunting season being a resident so I still need to figure out where to go. But I will get there.

Posted: 11/2/2020 9:45:30 PM EDT

[#4]

As I was brushing my teeth yesterday morning I saw around a dozen elk run into the neighbor’s property. Had they been 200’ closer they would have been on my ground and easy pickings. I didn’t bother to see if the neighbor wanted them thinned out because my mind was on going skiing again.

Posted: 11/2/2020 10:24:23 PM EDT

[#5]

4 geese on saturday. Hunted pheasant sunday with no luck. Spent last wednesday looking for a cow elk - didn't see any real sign.

Posted: 11/13/2020 10:23:47 AM EDT

[#6]

Being a non-resident, all I could get were doe tags. Wouldn't you know it, the two deer I've had lined up in my scope were both bucks. There's one spot where I always see mulie does, but haven't gotten a shot yet. I'm hoping to get out a couple more times before the season ends.

Posted: 11/13/2020 12:28:18 PM EDT

[#7]

I have only been out twice and only saw does on private property that I couldn't hunt.

Posted: 11/13/2020 7:32:46 PM EDT

[#8]

We have not been out yet. Between the storms and that I keep getting sick, no such luck yet. This weekend should get out though. Otherwise I will have to take some time off of work to go :D

Posted: 11/13/2020 11:25:21 PM EDT

[#9]

Heading your way Sunday for 10 days . I know you all hate out of towners but I love hunting mature Mulies in Montana.

Posted: 11/15/2020 8:41:15 PM EDT

[#10]

Aren't you guys lucky. Mine had a sucked. Put up 3 cameras early in hopes of finding a good spot reasonably close for elk, only to have all 3 stolen.

Scouted a great spot for my Antelope tag but 40 mph winds killed making contact with a very nice ram opening weekend.

Got frozen out for deer elk rifle opener and tested positive for the Rona the following weekebd, finally getting better on Thursday and released from quarantine yesterday. But hey, I made it out to the range today so maybe I'll find something next weekend.

Posted: 11/15/2020 10:17:18 PM EDT

[#11]

Went out this afternoon with @Country and popped a small whitetail doe at last light.

Posted: 11/16/2020 12:17:20 AM EDT

[#12]

Nothing yet.

Crazy/crappy/windy weather conditions were I hunt.

My mule deer tag expired today, so left with General WT deer & bull elk for the next two weeks.

Posted: 11/16/2020 12:54:02 AM EDT

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Oldest nephew has caught a buck and a doe this fall.
Unsure if my 3 nieces will be able to get out.

Posted: 11/21/2020 7:18:56 PM EDT

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Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

Posted: 11/21/2020 8:53:42 PM EDT

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Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

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Oldest nephew has caught a buck and a doe this fall.
Unsure if my 3 nieces will be able to get out.

Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/50785/IMG_20201121_075623306_HDR-1695282.jpg

Nice work!

Posted: 11/21/2020 10:09:36 PM EDT

[#16]

Swore off venison decades ago.

Despite many weeks of effort and a cow tag I’ve pretty much conceived myself that this year we’re eating beef.

Posted: 11/21/2020 10:43:46 PM EDT

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Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/50785/IMG_20201121_075623306_HDR-1695282.jpg

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Your eyes are closed

Posted: 11/22/2020 1:55:49 AM EDT

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Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/50785/IMG_20201121_075623306_HDR-1695282.jpg

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Did he let them go after he caught them

Another good day hunting with @Country on the same property. I got this buck early and we had him loaded in the truck by 8:00 country got his at about noon and he may or may not stop by and post a pic. 6.5 Grendel 12" pistol w/Burris XTR II 2-10

https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/50785/IMG_20201121_075623306_HDR-1695282.jpg

Native way is to say caught or catch when you harvest a animal.

Posted: 11/22/2020 11:43:49 AM EDT

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Friday I shot a mulie that is a typical 3 point on one side. The other side has what appears to be a 4" long spork. It also has a stub of a main beam with a brow time. Coming off the spork is a antler about the size of a finger that runs horizontal over the skull about 4" very bizzare. Now hopefully my wife can get her deer and we will have some meat in the freezer.
No luck on elk yet. Did find yesterday a cow that had been shot and never found. That was discouraging.

Posted: 11/22/2020 5:10:04 PM EDT

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Used my general deer tag on a fat mature doe crossing a tiny piece of BLM between a cut alfalfa field and her private land willow patch sleeping area. Being a retired surveyor, I've figured out more than few little spots to hunt that most folks ignore Too crippled up to elk hunt any more

So my season is done.

Posted: 11/24/2020 12:41:08 AM EDT

[#21]

Wife got a small 4x3 Sunday.

Posted: 11/30/2020 9:39:46 AM EDT

[#22]

Ended up just getting does this year.

Didn’t see any bucks nicer than what I already have had so decided to let the 3 and 4 points grow another year.

Wasn’t able to get a chance to go for an elk in the breaks. Only weekend I was fully free it was muddy and it ain’t worth fighting the gumbo lol

Posted: 11/30/2020 11:25:09 AM EDT

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Used my general deer tag on a fat mature doe crossing a tiny piece of BLM between a cut alfalfa field and her private land willow patch sleeping area. Being a retired surveyor, I've figured out more than few little spots to hunt that most folks ignore Too crippled up to elk hunt any more

So my season is done.

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When I first moved to CO in 2007, I hunted with a friend that was a surveyor in the area for a few decades. He showed me all sorts of little BLM spots that nobody knew about. I suck so bad at hunting that the advantage never helped me...

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Posted: 12/1/2020 3:47:10 AM EDT

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Never got a chance to go this year, and to rub even more salt in my wound, didn't get this new (to me anyway) rifle sighted in, either.

Posted: 12/3/2020 5:44:21 PM EDT

[#25]

Made it out 4 days looking for my cow. Never so much as smelled an elk. Freshest tracks I saw were 24 hours old. Saw lots of whitetail, nothing I wanted to shoot.

We didn't make our annual pilgrimage to the CMR for mule deer. My hunting partner had a ram tag that he was working on (he did end up tagging a nice ram).

Doing ok on waterfowl though. I think between the three of us we are at 38 geese and 68 ducks so far for the season. Sausage day planned for about a week from now. I have a batch of jerky in the smoker now.

Posted: 12/26/2020 3:43:49 PM EDT

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Hunted elk in colorado.. Saw some but no shot. Cold and snowy entire time.

My farm here in va. has been swimming in deer. Literally as it is very wet.

Family and friends have 13 deer so far and 1 bear. So it is a good year. Still have 1 week left.

Posted: 12/26/2020 10:06:32 PM EDT

[#27]

VA must be a new county on the east-side.

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