North Dakota Badlands are Real Good!

[Fritz]

Good stuff! Awesome deer! Congrats!      

[maineac]

What a grand adventure.  Thanks for taking me along, maybe someday I'll get the opportunity to head west, you have certainly fanned the flame of desire.

[Chris Surtees]

   

[Kevin Winkler]

Congrat's Smoke! .......Job well done.
It's fun to see your friends have a successful hunt.
I am planning on hosting another WTA bunny hunt if you guys are interested.

[smoke1953]

Thanks you guys. Up for the bunny hunt and congrats on your deer!

[Bigriver]

"I just want to thank Smoke, "Bruce H." and Whip "Joe L. for inviting me and making a dream of mine to go out of state to come true. I also want to thank Bowhuntinfool "joe.B for helping me make the transistion from compound to Traditional. I can never see going back. Want to thank John McDonald for the best longbows around. Dave Ricke for the Knives he made me and Paul M. from badger arrows for helping me pick properly spined arrows for my set up. And also My Big River bow that i named Indian Summer for Providing 3 deer for me in my 1st year of Traditional Archery"

You can thank all of them if you want, but it was that bow grip that had the magic!

Congrats Tiger

[GREATBROWNKNOCKEMDOWN]

Thanks Brain, and yes i'am for sure planning on going back!!  traditonal archery, you can't get any better than that!

[doubleo]

Looks like an awesome hunt and great story telling. Congrates on the 2 beautiful bucks.
     

[Paul Mattson]

Awesome stories thanks for sharing.  Raffel you sure had one successful first year of Trad.

[Izzy]

       

[pronghorn23]

Great story and congratulations on your deer!
It was just like we were there...except we were warm in our homes and not in 15 degree weather  

[Duckbutt]

Awesome trip! Thanks for taking us along.

[Guru]

Well done fellas....well done    

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Wow guys!! Great read and picks and deer dang, It's all good        

Tracy

[rastaman]

Beautiful pictures and great story telling!  Thanks for sharing it all with us!      

[Whip]

This was just one of those trips where it all comes together.  A fantastic group of people who all got along well and had smiles and laughs from start to finish.  Just about ideal weather conditions.  More deer than we could have ever hoped for, including some great bucks.  And to top it all off with the two deer that Rafael and Bruce ended up with?  Wow!  

Sure, I suppose we could have wished that Joe and I could have gotten deer as well.  We both had our chances.  But to go 50% with traditional gear on a couple of last minute trophy class bucks - it just doesn't get much better than that on any trip.

I've sure had my share of western hunts, and hope and pray there are more to come.  But this one will remain at the top of my memory list for a long long time.

[CCWhitetail]

Cool pictures.

[BowHuntingFool]

This is pretty awesome thread fellas! I don't know where to begin! LOL! I had a great hunt in an amazing place with some good friends!

[BowHuntingFool]

Yeah Joe, we had our chances thats for sure, I blew a 13 yard shot out of the same tree Bruce killed his deer out of, things just happened so quick on that opening morning my mind is still racing on that one! LOL!

[BowHuntingFool]

Originally posted by PA-Spot:
Great stuff guys. Gona do it again?

I am thats for sure!!!!!!!!!