Any one else like hunting or fishing?

[mikm]

Very beautiful sunset pics ... I like the camp site fire in the foreground ... makes for a nice contrast ... oh, and that "deer" is nice too, lol .

[KITKAT]

I absolutely love fishing, but I have little opportunity to hunt.

I'll have to find the photos of me with some of my catch(es) and post it!

[Elliot]

Since this is a hunting thread, I'll post a dead animal picture. I hope nobody is offended. My bow is about a 1985 model PSE with round wheels (no cams)... practically a museum piece, I know. The draw weight is 68 lbs, and I still shoot aluminum arrows. When I'm not bow hunting, I also shoot a Winchester Model 70 .375 H&H magnum, a Browning A-bolt Medallion .300 Win Mag, a Savage 25-06, various shotguns, and .22 rifles. I still have a Marlin 30-30, but I haven't shot it in about 15 years.


Arctic sunset at about 1:30 AM in mid-September

Believe me, this little stream is full of delicious arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus).

barren ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

Nice caribou! I love places where you can go out and it still seems truly wild.

[adamanteus]

Rick, I'm guessing you dropped that caribou with an arrow? As they're in the picture. That's some shot, isn't it?

On another note "That's some bad hat, Harry!"

[abcat1993]

Woah, if only deer were that big... And too bad where I go hunting, it's on people's farms so there are cows and little dogs running around in the opposite field. Kind of scary when you're walking out in near pitch black and all of a sudden you hear a snort or run into a big, hairy, smelly thing.

[adamanteus]

in near pitch black and all of a sudden you hear a snort or run into a big, hairy, smelly thing.

Hey, tell me about it...I've been married...twice!!

[Cazador]

Hysterical!!! Anyway, yes... I took it with a bow and arrow. I spotted a group of caribou bulls from the road (across the river); drove upstream and floated down toward them before beginning the stalk. That particular animal was a real pleasure, but the story is long and might sound self-inflating, so I'll share the "after-kill" experience. After shooting this animal, I had to quarter and pack it about 1.5-2 miles to my awaiting raft and sleeping bag. It took two trips to get all the meat out (about 300 lbs), so I took one trip to the raft the same day I shot it and the rest of the meat out the following day. I stashed the meat away from the raft in case bears smelled it and came to investigate. Then I made a makeshift tent out of the raft and a blue tarp and had a great night's sleep inside the raft because I was warm, dry, exhausted, and essentially lying on an air mattress. When I awoke in the morning, it had apparently rained before the temperature dropped below freezing because there was a crust of ice over the outside of the tarp. After getting the second load of meat in the morning, I put all the meat and gear in the raft and floated it about 3 miles downstream to a place where the river and the road were only about a thousand yards (meters) apart. I hitch-hiked back to my truck (upstream) and brought it to my awaiting raft and meat; then I packed it and my gear back to the truck. It gives me a special sense of pleasure to share meat from those types of kills with people because of all the labor it takes to recover the meat and care for it properly... more so than buying steaks at the supermarket and inviting a friend over for dinner. That's just one more aspect of hunting that makes it so special to me.

Rick

[adamanteus]

Self inflating or not, I'd like to hear it. There can be no doubt that it takes more than a small measure of skill and patience to stalk and kill an animal like that...in those conditions...with a bow and arrow!! Come on Rick, no need for modesty here, we sad folk who live in a city environment can feed for weeks on a decent tale!

[Cazador]

I'll send a PM after I've had a chance to tell it properly.

[abcat1993]

Send one to me too, if you want. And that's pretty cool, you sound like those guys that go "camping" for like, a billion years.