Old Gray Mare
TB Fanatic
I do hope you two had help packing that big boy out?
If the GSM spanks us like I think it will, you'll have had the better idea. I just love a dress dripping with fringe. And all those little sparkly 13/0 cut beads.
I would probably swap the muley with the speed goat on your scale but either of them are awesome when you're a hungry kid! We didn't get beef on the ranch until I was about 12; before that our only meat was wild game - usually antelope or mule deer with the occasional elk. So I pretty much love anything wild still.Yep, for our family/kids at least, there was a scale of good, better, best…
Mule deer if nothing else
Antelope
White tail
Elk
Moose
Buffalo (bison)
The lower down the scale of meat that year, the higher the ketchup bill was!
The upland game birds were all roughly the same for us…crock pot and BBQ sauce or gravy and you’re golden!
When they do a Gathering of Nations, there's always that group of female dancers who just kinda pop up and down in one place, and wear what look like fringey leather dresses and boots. I always enjoyed watching the traditional and fancy dancers but that one tradition was kind of intriguing to watch. I never understood how they were judged.I’m Native American, hair on blankets are a must, with bison or bear being the most desired.
When they do a Gathering of Nations, there's always that group of female dancers who just kinda pop up and down in one place, and wear what look like fringey leather dresses and boots. I always enjoyed watching the traditional and fancy dancers but that one tradition was kind of intriguing to watch. I never understood how they were judged.
It is not my Bull or anyone I know. That is Ryan and his dad. Ryan is a moderator on North Idaho Life a facebook page for North Idaho People and of course the wanna be North Idaho people. A lot of beautiful pictures on that page. Should check it out sometime.I do hope you two had help packing that big boy out?
Aw, that's a shame that inner beauty doesn't get a chance to surface. I've only been to two GoNs but they were interesting - even if a bit loud with all the drums and singing. I never did understand how the drums and singers were judged, either.Have never attended one as competition for dress and dance. My skill level lies elsewhere. Also I’m not pretty which is a requirement for 5hose competitions.
Friends, in their seventies, packed their two bull elks out on their two mules and two llamas. From glacier national park.Be an absolute cast iron bitch to get it home.
Wow! Huge 6x6! Beautiful...
Summerthyme
Friends, in their seventies, packed their two bull elks out on their two mules and two llamas. From glacier national park.
My hunt got cut short, last year bro and I packed a bull out a few miles. Gutless method.
Right pack makes huge difference
2000 yards, first and only shot
Would you make me one?I'd slip that hair in a heartbeat and do a beaded fringed long dress. Cozy warm, velvet soft.
Oooo yes! I’m quite the fur blanket freak lol!that's also an option, I was going for a blanket.
That's a nice bull, congratulations!
I would probably swap the muley with the speed goat on your scale but either of them are awesome when you're a hungry kid! We didn't get beef on the ranch until I was about 12; before that our only meat was wild game - usually antelope or mule deer with the occasional elk. So I pretty much love anything wild still.
Your speaking of ketchup makes me laugh at an old memory. I went to school at Montana Tech in Butte; back in those days there was only one dorm. The food was pretty good for a college cafeteria, actually, and the old gal who ran the dorm did a good job turning out good groceries while pinching pennies.
One of the ways she did it was on the afternoon Sunday meal, she always served something that had no name except we called it beaver pie - it was basically all the leftover gristle from the previous week and tasted like beaver tails ought to, we thought. Anyway, the only way you could down that stuff was to drown it in ketchup. I always thought the ketchup bill on Sunday had to be higher than the cost of some real meat, but I guess it wasn't!
I still don't care all that much for duck but I do like pheasant and grouse. And quail and dove when I get to hunt down in Texas.
What handloads or factory ammo did you use in your .375 H&H?
I can honestly say, that the blackbear roasts I've had have been as close to beef of any wild game I've ever eaten! The 'ham' muscle was so marbled with fat I've never seen anything like it in wild game, and it was a SPRING BEAR.. supposedly at the thinnest part of the year.. Mmmm Can't wait to get another, this fall season is in it's twighlight!!
I have the famous elk herds of North Bend, Wa. that sleep in my back yard.
We “Northbendnecks” now refer to them a ‘Forest Cows”. Lol! V
I hollered at Ryan last night on FB he advises that his dad killed it with a 30.06.Beautiful !! What caliber did he take it with, and at what range ?
Yeah, we got that out here in Wa. Vyou got hoof rot issues?
2000 yards, first and only shot......sign him up.
Curious as to the optics. 2000 yards?!Last year we built a custom .338 Lapua rifle for a customer for an elk hunt. Rifle with scope weighed in at 15 pounds. He dropped his elk at 2000 yards with his first and only shot of the hunt.
Curious as to the optics. 2000 yards?!
Interesting.I can't even see that far.
The improvements in calibers and bullets since I retired in the early 2000s has been super impressive. The longer you can keep a bullet supersonic, the further out you can hit with it (if you can shoot). Thus VLD (very low drag) bullet designs. One of the SOTIC instructors I used to work with was turning his own bullets on a lathe out of naval bronze (IIRC), looking for better designs. He did the early testing on the .408 CheyTac after he retired.