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Well it’s complicated. We spotted him about 730 pm the night before and he was on the face of knob that comes out off a very narrow saddle. We couldn’t relocate him in the morning but we were pretty sure he was still up there. We made the 4.5 hour climb pretty much knowing we were swinging for the fence and we might miss. Anyway after we made it to the top we found that he moved into a bed in some timber, the face was frozen over so I could get close enough to take a picture but not to safely shoot. We knew that we came out of his bed his only exit was through the narrow saddle. There was only two spots he would cross, one at 12 yards and the other lower at 58. I put myself in between them and pined him down while freezing my balls off until he got up from the bed. He went to the spot at 12 yards and was quartering to me too hard. I was already drawn and needed him to either take a step turn broadside or turn one more step and face me head on. He faced me and I took the easy frontal. He was dead in about 30 yards and then tumbled 300 yards down the slope next to the shoot we came up. Lucky it warmed up enough that we could now dig in and get down the slope vs coming up the rock shoot we came up originally. In any event that’s why he was so dirty and thankfully he didn’t have any damage. While we were caping and quartering him snow hit us again and basically whited us out. Took us about an hour to get pictures and put him in our packs for the trek out. After we descended another 600 feet or so the snow turned to rain. The total pack out took us about the about an hour longer even though we started down the sloop lower. I guess 80-90 pound packs slowed us down a bit … it was a brutal pack out.

Thanks guys ! The rain fog let up a bit today. We spotted two bears, I made a half ass stalk this morning on six footer knowing it was unlikely I could catch up to him the way he was moving …anyway I got within 80 yards of him but he beat me to the timber. Seen a another bear in the afternoon but he was smaller and I passed the stalk. I think I will hunt tomorrow and just relax on Tuesday my last day, everyone here deserves a well earned break.

I am hanging out a few more days, been looking over some bears.

British Columbia checked all the boxes you’d want in a mountain goat bowhunt. Lots of nice goats, check. Beautiful rugged mountain, check. Insanely epic vistas at every turn, check. Grizzly bears, check. Sunshine, rain, wind, and snow all in one day, check. Brutal climbs to get into goat country, check. Backbreaking pack outs, check. I had great bowhunt and was very fortunate that it encompassed the total experience. The sense of accomplishment with each obstacle that was over come is not something that I will soon forget. My outfitter and guide were fantastic and worked very hard, and I super impressed all the way around. You’d be hard pressed to find better people. Well, here he is. He was aged at 7 years old by the Bylaw wildlife officer. His Horn length is 9 1/2 and 9 ( broken tip). We spotted him on a face of finger ridge the evening before at about 730 pm and although we didn’t see him in the morning we still made the 4 and half hour climb. We managed to find him and I was lucky to make a 12 yard shot. I am excited and yet humbled at the same time. It was an awesome experience.

Success in British Columbia…TBC

You should be able to check the status and adjust the setting via the app. You can schedule an up load as test.

Yes the way they did it freaking stupid. Show me any other hunting regulations that each county’s has to Opt into? What’s regulations next will have county’s opting into and out of? It’s a stupid can of worms they opened.

The only changes that make sense is the time change and bear season change. The rest is stupid

Stupidest shit I ever seen. Like it we don’t have enough time in the woods between all the seasons to shoot a freaking doe

And I thought she really into me ..

Chippawaa wedge lok

I had four on our Ohio lease for five years, that was pre cell cam days… bought them because I was sick of having cams crap out or go though bouts of poor service. When you had a 12 hour drive to check cams the price for the reliability was worth it. When we lost the lease I sold the four cams to a buddy for half of what I paid and he got a bunch more years out of them. They make a solid product

Grouse is a selfish inconsiderate prick, there is no other rationale to explain why he would think it’s okay to spam this board daily with his idiotic spew.

The Gander in Coxsackie had mostly low quality junk anyway. Don’t think we will be missing much

Same political hack assholes shitting on every thread. Enough already Winchester model 52b Sporter the my favorite gun I own.

Rather then second guess your location I am going to take a different approach and assume you picked the best spot in the saddle and for whatever reason you expect bucks to be traveling on the east side of the ridge. Bucks are going to travel that east side are going to want a predominantly westerly wind to scent check the ridge from the east. Which is no good for you. Your best bet for that set up is cross wind almost dead north or dead south…. That’s the safest for you. But the best wind to kill a buck is going to be north or south with touch of west in it. Yes more of gamble but that’s wind a mature bucks will want cruising on that east side.

Going with my two oldest bows evoke 31 and Elite Spirit, none of my 2020 and 2021 bows have made the cut. Season starts in 16 days …..

Hawk extendable bow arm

That was my Bitcoin plan years ago, however now it’s real money and maybe I need to turn it in to farm house in MO and some new ground. Or I just keep sweating it out

Maine is wonderful state to visit and recreate in. Wouldn’t want to live there but i sure do like to go visit

What’s your target [emoji457] moving of course? I got in at about .8 for awhile the moved a bit more at 1.3 might sell a bit of ETH and move it to ADA

Bump for a solid gun. This is my winter time carry, it’s solid In all regards. Feeds everything and everything and way better than avg trigger on it. Good luck with your sale.

Rough sex

There already has been confirmed cases in southern NY. Pretty sure the press release was via the DEC