slickrockpack

I could not agree more

no tents for us but we'll be in fish creek in about 100 ? days, something like that. Have fun!

for what it is worth....the rangers here put cameras out for all kinds of reasons, monitoring wolverines, etc etc and people doing illegal things end up on the cameras so they shoot the cameras or otherwise destroy the box, they carry a collapsible ladder and mount them high as phade suggested and that solved the theft destruction etc as most people don't look 10 feet up apparently while they are lugging stolen antler, fossils, wood, etc. I adopted the same idea for some hang on stands I tried out in a very easy to see location where tourists play. I and just carry one section of an extension ladder, I go up the ladder hunt and take the ladder back with me when I leave. maybe try that?

there are some monsters out there. we've got a lot on the computer, too many really. having a phone that is camera makes us snap pics we'd otherwise never lug a camera around for. I cant open that link

you get the tag I'll take you if I'm still kicking. goats are really common along the highways over near dubois in winter, the easy walking draws all the critters to the highways in winter time, they don't come down here too much but people claim they see them all the time up around the clark's fork in winter. sheep are a dang nuisance say from thanksgiving through april here by the house, there is a reason we call them Jerk Sheep...they are jerks, always kicking at you, head butting us, the cars, the mailbox, real morons. you get tags, I'll happily help you kill them.

very pretty, enjoy! nice thing is you don't have to worry about crows landing, they'll fall right off!

friend of a friend drew a bison tag here, lucky sob, that's 3 sheep tags and a bison he drew since I know him...oughta play the lottery... any interest in bison hunting from you folks? I drew an antelope island tag once, SD a couple times, and hunt the reservations whenever the price is right, never have drawn MT, WY or UT but enjoy watching the shaggies.

I'll say!! look at a rabbit or squirrel you'd never see people buying camo patterns like them or ruffed grouse but if they are STILL you can walk right by one. it's the movement that catches eyes, I walk up to bears, bison and moose all the time and suddenly spot the twitch of an ear or the lips moving as they chew their cud and its a heckuva jolt...geez, there's a freakin buffler right there...dang....

Deer in the creekbed knocked the phone line down again, tricky photo to get a head count, there were about 40 or so but I didn't get them all in the shot, I count 32 or 33 in the frame? hard to tell. The bigfoot folks here turn their photos into negatives so they can count the bigfoots, feets? better but I don't see that option in my editor.

Bird hunting is good Lots of walking, fair amount of driving, big country out here. What I was used to in N.Y. was walking out the door and shooting grouse and hare on my walk over to my brothers houses. In Vermont I got used to a 15 minute trip to turn the hounds loose on bear or cats, same drive to get into my stands. Here it took a few years to get used to a 60 mile one way drive to pick up my buddy then an hour in the truck, an hour on the horses, then a two hour walk through the forest head shooting grouse with 22 revolvers. I walk more in one day Bird hunting here then I did the whole woodcock season in Vermont. Different. Lots of different birds too.

It's not for everyone.

yepper, reminds me of the Vermont Trophy Fishing page someone sent me a few years ago from the VT website. It showed two guys from Brooklyn happy as clams holding up a mud covered bloody musky, the photo of which they entered into the trophy program.....the VT F&W had a note on the photo saying something to the effect that all musky must be returned Immediately unharmed to the water...people are silly.

IF you're going to hunt elk you want to do it in the rut I say, and that means archery in WY, September. If you really only want rifle bull only then buy the montana combo tag, that's what we do and even though its limited draw they almost always have leftover tags in the full combo. That's rifle elk in sept and lots of fun, wolves are open then too. With the massive decline in elk from the wolves the biologist over the line calls it a great muley hunt with a chance at an elk and that sums it up perfectly. weather and pressure can push them into the park and that's that, but MT backcountry and ID are a tag in hand so if you want to rifle hunt that's the way to go until you draw the tag you want in WY. my 2 cents. Another neat thing with hunting ID is if you have your deer or elk tag and want to burn it on a bear, cougar or wolf you can, as long as the season is open. If you really are serious about it you'll just move here

we are right on the edge of Elk 56 and Elk 55

depends on the unit and the season you want to hunt, they have odds of drawing each unit and hunt type published. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Hunting/Drawing-Odds/2016-Drawing-Odds

fact is no one knows where that was shot, or if it was shot, could be roadkill or a bigfoot or cougar kill, seems that gets "reported" in NY all the time too, we don't know anything about this is the point...just what was "reported". If a reporter said it was daytime I'd go check for myself.

come hunt your own land!! There's 17 million acres of public land right out my door, saddle up and GO!... gotta cross a couple highways, but it's all there.

view off the deck last September, its fun having all these animals around, we think anyway. probably there's a reason chuck adams, jim zumbo, the Eastman's etc all live in Wyoming.....lotsa critters

BKHUNTER, Ummmmm, good seafood and lots of turkeys??? Real bagels? We left N.Y.for Vt, then to southern Utah before finding here. It's not for everyone.

some elk photos from around the house

if you pass hunter safety you should be allowed to hunt. why would anyone want regs limiting hunting

there are always around 300 deer in that town and people do shoot them, game here isn't anything anyone would get excited about, just knocking down meat. fun to pet and watch though. they are characters.

Some young bucks in town

look up Daddy Rabbit and say hey! to him and Philosophical from me.