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Author Topic: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!  (Read 4478 times)

Offline Mark Baker

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #40 on: October 01, 2007, 03:32:00 PM »
This story is getting long, ain't it?    Any rate, the elk did'nt pan out for us this weekend....so the last morning I set up to fill another doe tag, with "Frankenstein"....

 

 

And so the saga will continue....

My new bow performs flawless, and shoots like a dream.....a hand-planed fir shaft tipped with a wensel woodsman this time did the trick.   Shooting selfbows is a truly rewarding thing for this hunter, especially when they prove up to the task that I build them for....fun stuff.  

That's all for now, hope you enjoy the story.
My head is full of wanderlust, my quiver's full of hope.  I've got the urge to walk the prairie and chase the antelope! - Nimrod Neurosis

Offline Kyle Lancaster

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #41 on: October 01, 2007, 04:25:00 PM »
Great Story, Mark. Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #42 on: October 02, 2007, 09:18:00 AM »
Awsome Mark, love the new bows. Congrats on the deer. Great story and pictures, keep 'em comming.

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #43 on: October 03, 2007, 07:28:00 AM »
Cool bows Mark and fine shooting on the two does. Placement looks like short blood trails. Thanks for the ride along on the hunt. Don't know if I could have made that evening hunt with the cat watching!

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #44 on: October 03, 2007, 11:52:00 PM »
Hey thanks for reading, Kyle, Rusty and Woody.   Hey Shaun, I'm still working on the new song "Death by Natural Causes", and stuff like this sure helps motivate me.    

I never know if people are interested in reading this stuff, it's pretty norm around here...except for the cat experience!   Thanks again guys, I'm heading up there again on Friday.
My head is full of wanderlust, my quiver's full of hope.  I've got the urge to walk the prairie and chase the antelope! - Nimrod Neurosis

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #45 on: October 04, 2007, 05:17:00 AM »
Mark, Thanx so much for taking the time to keep us updated bud...great stuff!  Congrats   :thumbsup:
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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #46 on: October 04, 2007, 06:44:00 AM »
Mark, Congrats to you and your son. Thats a dandy buck he shot and you made a beautiful shot on the doe. Real nice! I'd love to get up that way sometime but I suppose I'm better thermally designed for trout season as deer season gets too damn COLD!  :scared:  

You guys keep giving em hell! CK

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #47 on: October 04, 2007, 07:15:00 AM »
Awesome!!!
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Offline Kevin Bahr

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #48 on: October 04, 2007, 09:33:00 AM »
Congratulations to Korey and Mark.  Now it's Boone's turn...
Awesome pics Mark.  Can't wait to get back up to the ranch some time with you guys.  
Looking forward to seeing you in March, twice.

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #49 on: October 04, 2007, 12:48:00 PM »
Mark,  This is Brad from PA.  Congrats to you and Kory.  I't's cool to see your stone head worked flawlessly.  Our archery season started Sat sept 29th.  It's been in the mid 80's here.  Too warm!  I still gotta join that PBS man.  I can't keep puttin' that off.  Been hunting w/ the Sheepeater and it's shooting great.  Now i just gotta see a leagal deer worthy of an arrow.  I can't wait till the PBS thing in Pittsburgh.  If i get a deer or something with this bow, i'll post the pic on Tradgang.  How has the elk hunting been going lately?  Keep us updated.
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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #50 on: October 04, 2007, 01:06:00 PM »
great area   hindsite is 20-20 isnt it   have fun hunting the rest of the season
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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #51 on: October 04, 2007, 01:17:00 PM »
Thanks for the pics.  It's work but it makes the thread so much more fun and helps transform a desk chair into a treestand seat.  That camo blends well with your surroundings.

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2007, 03:53:00 PM »
Mark the stand you have sitting over that elk wallow is awesome. i could sit there every day all day and just look out at the beautiful landscape. now the big cat encounter is something to cherish for sure.

o' and sweet shot on that whitetail, can't get any better than that.
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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2007, 10:26:00 PM »
Great stuff, Mark!  The new Sheepeater is awesome!
I'm thinking about taking it out this Saturday when Josiah and I go hunting.  Finally a day to go out when he's not working.

I feel now that my bow has a little Montana Mojo in it!  Keep the stories coming, please!


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Offline Mark Baker

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2007, 11:18:00 PM »
Thanks everyone for reading...I'll keep the updates coming.   Kevin, looking forward to my time in Illinois and PBS fun too!    

Curt and Curtis....can't wait for you're stories as well.  

Lee, glad the bow arrived okay, and that you're liking it.  Mine certainly fills a niche in my aresenal.   Great little bows.

I'm off for the weekend again, Friday morning sometime.   It's supposed to be cold with perhaps some snow....good hunting in the snow!
My head is full of wanderlust, my quiver's full of hope.  I've got the urge to walk the prairie and chase the antelope! - Nimrod Neurosis

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #55 on: October 05, 2007, 12:23:00 AM »
Mark, thanks for the stories and pics. It helps with those of us who are pretty much done for the year. Good luck this weekend. Love the lines on Frank and his Bride.
" Just concentrate and don't freak out next time" my son Tyler(age 7) giving advise after watching me miss a big mulie.

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #56 on: October 05, 2007, 09:24:00 AM »
Snow?  It's gonna be 90 here tomorrow.  Real nice bowhunting weather...not!

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #57 on: October 10, 2007, 08:37:00 AM »
Tap,tap,tap....more please!

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #58 on: October 10, 2007, 09:22:00 AM »
Thanks for sharing your season so far. Great stuff!
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Offline Mark Baker

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Re: Our season of memories and successes...more harvest pics!
« Reply #59 on: October 10, 2007, 11:08:00 AM »
Okay, guys and gals, here is a quick update.  We only had a couple days to hunt this past weekend, but we made the most of it.   We got up to "camp" Friday eve, and sat adjacent to an old homestead alfafa field, hoping to take another whitetail doe, and possibly locate some elk.  

Kory sat a stand about half-mile north of me, and had a good view of the critters that decended a ridge into the hayfield.    Plenty of deer, as always, but just before dark, two raghorn bulls came down the ridge and sparred just above the hayfield.  

I enjoyed plenty of company in the form of whitetail deer, but no shot opps....although I could clearly hear the bulls above my position sparring, I was'nt treated to a visual, like Kory was.  

There was a lot of activity in general that evening with the approaching cold front.    

The next morning we awoke to about 3 inches of white stuff, and it still coming down hard!  It snowed most of the day.   (thought I was kidding about the snow, eh?)

We both sat stands on the creek bottom in the snowstorm, but deer or anything else for that matter, were not moving at all.  

 

That afternoon, things cleared up, as you can see, and we went back up to where we saw the elk the evening before.   Kory wanted to try and intercept the elk, hoping they would meander down again.    I sat the same stand I did the previous evening.  

Here is my view from the stand.....aspens are glowing neon this time of year, and with the new snow, it was really beautiful and peaceful.  

 
My head is full of wanderlust, my quiver's full of hope.  I've got the urge to walk the prairie and chase the antelope! - Nimrod Neurosis

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