What's your goal every year when you take the woods? Are you looking to fill the freezer, take a buck, or shoot something big enough to be eligible for Pope and Young or Boone and Crockett books?
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What's your goal every year when you take the woods? Are you looking to fill the freezer, take a buck, or shoot something big en
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During my 4-year tour (1986-90) at Eielson Air Force Base Alaska, I've been asked how many bears have I taken. I had hundreds of chances. I had my crosshairs on many with a round in the chamber of my 338 Win Mag with Nosler 250 grain partitions loaded at 2800 fps and a harvest ticket in my backpack. An easy one shot clean kill everyone. I never pulled the trigger though.
Why you ask?
The beauty and respect of one a Hunter to the other (the bear) perhaps? Most of all the cost of having it mounted I couldn't afford and I knew in the back of my mind that if I did pull the trigger, the hunt was over. I wasn't ready for the hunt to end, never. I wanted more days to hunt, just to be out there. Even if I came home empty handed, it didn't matter. The awesome power, to watch a Grizzly role rocks the size of my ATV like a basketball, hunting for rodents. I never have taken a bear until I moved back to Arkansas.
Most of all, being alone on a mountain ridge, setting on a giant rock overlooking the endless landscape where perhaps no man ever walked.
To watch a snow flurry on a far mountain ridge and feel the Lord setting next to me enjoying what God has made.
I may have come home empty handed,
but my mind is full of awesome memories
it is a experience, I'll never forget!
But the most memorable days of hunting was with my Father!
Any questions!
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Clay Cooper, well put, I fully understand. When I head to the tall timber, I go with the hope of fresh meat for the freezer, seeing my dogs do well, and seeing old friends, with horn and hide being a bonus but not a necessity. I place greater value on the rolls of film I shoot that will last longer, mean more, and cost less, but most of all the time spent enjoying creation with my kids and close friends is what it's all about.
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I'll take whatever I can get. I'm not really the "if it's brown, it's down" type of guy, but whatever God allows to wander my way, that's what I will take. This past year, I tried very hard to get a nice buck, but it never happened. I settled for three does and buttonhead (oops, but good eatin!). The real prize is just being out there.
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Who wouldn’t like to bag the world record or hunt for meat besides I would be lieing if I said I wouldn’t. I have witness Hunters get so mad they not only there temper tantrum damaged something but they endangered those around! I watched a High Master rap his brand new M1A he had built costing over $3000 wrap it around his back bumper and threw it into the parking lot then drove off almost losing control of his truck!
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