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Author Topic: PBS Membership Hunts  (Read 5038 times)

Offline Jeff D. Holchin

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PBS Membership Hunts
« on: October 07, 2019, 09:30:02 PM »
In recent years the PBS members have hosted a variety of membership hunts all over the country for various animals, such as Kodiak Island AK Sitka blacktails, coastal Georgia hogs, New Hampshire black bear, Blackbeard Island GA hogs and whitetails, Colorado elk, Virginia whitetails/turkeys/black bear, Utah elk and mule deer, Ohio whitetails, Alaska black bears, South Dakota mule deer, Texas hog and Javalina, Arizona deer and Javalina, and many more.  There are also many “unofficial” hunts between members.  If you are a PBS member, you are automatically invited to these hunts.  Some are for just a few Bowhunters, while
others can have ten or more attendees, many of them TradGangers.

Right now, with the fall hunting seasons finally here, we are really cranking up our membership hunts.  I hosted one for cow elk in Wyoming that finished up last week, and we have two going on right now: one for mule deer in South Dakota that I plan to join later this week and another for whitetail deer at LBL in Kentucky.  Later in October we’ll have one in Virginia for whitetails, turkeys and black bear, and in November we’ll have one in Wisconsin for whitetails (hosted by one of our Canadian members, interestingly enough).  The Arizona Membership hunt at the end of the year for Coues deer and Javalina finishes a pretty busy year for us, and sort of kicks off 2020 as well.  We’ll start all over in 2020 with some winter hog hunts.

In this thread I will provide some pics and stories from my WY elk hunt, along with updates from the current membership hunts as they unfold.  Stay tuned!  Many of the PBS members on these hunts are also TradGangers, so hopefully they will posts some pics and stories too.

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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2019, 06:38:29 AM »
Thanks Jeff.....I'm over due one!!!
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2019, 08:16:54 AM »
I have heard such good things about PBS hunts. I am going to have to be part of one before long because they sound great.
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2019, 08:45:19 AM »
Jeff is spot on. I have been on them, and hosted one. Hosting one was probably more  rewarding than going on one, though that was great too! I hope to be attending more in the future, the hunt itself is just a small part of the experience.

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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2019, 12:15:29 PM »
I was on the Kodiak island hunt with Jeff. It was outstanding and it’s really great to be able to hunt with like minded bowhunters. I intend to go on as many of the membership hunts as possible in the future. If only I didn’t have to work!

Offline Jeff D. Holchin

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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2019, 12:57:58 PM »
I have hosted Memberships in GA, OH and WY, and attended about a dozen more all over the country.  So much fun sharing a hunting camp with my PBS buddies!

I am working feverishly to complete my work duties before I leave on my next PBS Membership hunt, later this week.  I will definitely post pics and stories before I leave (once I figure out how to post pics from my iPhone) - I just got some updates from buddies attending the SD mule deer hunt and the KY deer/ turkey hunt. 

For those who can’t wait on my slow fingers to read about my WY cow elk hunt (which was specifically for members looking for their first archery elk), click on my link for the PBS web site, then click on “topics” on the upper left corner, then “latest” for a bunch of pics and stories.  If you poke around our web site a little, you can find pics and stories from previous membership hunts as well.  Enjoy!  I always thought that if you can't be hunting right now, the next best thing is reading about other bowhunter’s hunts....
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2019, 03:57:53 PM »
I need to look into these hunts.  Between loosing my hunting buddy a few years ago and moving from Louisiana to North Carolina, I haven't hunted as much as I used to.  Need to get back to it and these hunts with like minded bowhunters sounds like a good way to do so.


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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2019, 07:11:10 PM »
Good luck. I need to go back some time....use to hunt down at LBL quite a bit years ago. Last time I was in the area....drove through and saw that they had plowed though two of my favorite spots while redoing the roads.

One spot was a big old cherry tree that formed a natural blind that was just about 30 yards inside a small ag field/plot. Spent would more time in that “blind” than my college apartment in the fall.
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2019, 10:27:44 PM »
I just got home from the SD hunt I had to pull out early as a huge blizzard is coming in with snow expected to be as much as 30 inches. I couldn't leave my wife at home with that happening and I will have to take care of my cattle . Very disappointing I only got to hunt 2 days and was expecting to hunt a week and a half . I also got rained out of my ND mule deer hunt in September so the weather hasn't treated us too well . Yesterday was 80 degrees in SD and I got sunburned , today it was snowing when I left, but I did get to see a couple of real trophy bucks !!!

Offline Jeff D. Holchin

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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2019, 06:35:26 AM »
Tim, sorry about the bad weather.  Daniel and I were gonna drive out there tonight but now will delay our arrival a little...I think everybody bailed out because of the blizzard, but Paul and Mark are still hunting whitetails in eastern SD.

The guys at the LBL area in KY are hunting hard and looking to get some critters hanging on the meat pole.  I understand that the food is fantastic so far!

Having trouble posting photos, hopefully these from my WY elk hunt will work.  We had 5 hunters from 4 states: John from Iowa, Nathaan and Hunter from Indiana, Randy from Virginia and me from North Carolina.  I have hunted this unit 5 times now, with one nice bull and several cows to my credit there.  Its a hard unit to draw a tag, even for cow elk - originally about 10 PBSers applied for a cow tag. 














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Genesis 27:3 "Take your bow and a quiver full of arrows out into the open country, and hunt some wild game for me."

Proud PBS regular member - if you are a serious bowhunter, check us out at     http://probow.discussion.community







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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2019, 08:06:54 AM »
I went on the PBS hunt last year at LBL. It was great hunting and camping with other like minded hunters. We had a good time, I wish I was with them now, but work got in the way :banghead:


I am starting to think that work is overrated :dunno:
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2019, 08:24:54 AM »
Hunting here at LBL is excellent. But similar to what I often find when hunting a new area it takes awhile to figure out out.  I've honed in on a long and narrow cut corn field that I've seen deer in every time I've been here, including a couple of nice bucks. So far I've been zigging when I should have been zagging.
Time is winding down fast but I'm hoping it comes together yet. All it takes is one. 
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Re: PBS Membership Hunts
« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2019, 08:28:47 AM »
If nothing else I have learned one very important lesson on this trip. 
If chef Melvin Gregoire signs up for a PBS hunt do everything in your power to join the group, and don't be late for dinner! 
That man can cook!
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