Whitetail Freak Hunter

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Heck looks like I did the week-end it was just 5* above zero here last month and still froze my buns off.

Good congrats!

Actually I called our Fish Wildlife and Parks dept in Kalispell, and told them that this was much larger than a regular red fox with a color variant of some tan and black with a white tipped tail. He identified it as a cross fox, which I had not heard of until I did the search at Google. But it looked nothing like those pictures which does look like what you say, a differant color phase of a red fox. I'm gonna get this rascal, as I've been watching the fox dens around the farm. As soon as the cattle are picked up that the owner has, then we can get turned loose to nail some coyotes and foxes.

Thought about that one for my ex-wife.

Will do, but we hunt the 4 legged varmints after our general rifle season, and that ends Thankgiving weekend. I may take my little .22 WMR out this weekend just to pack it along, since where gonna be in another area that is also good for coyotes and shots are real close. Can't wait for my .223 Rem bull barrel to get here and then I will get that all sighted up and ready to go.

You done good, I love it when I see a drunk go to jail.

Well we have the common red fox, and have found several dens where momma has several pups. But we also found a little bit larger fox that I called out local Fish Wildlife and Parks about. He said it was a cross fox, and should make for a nice pelt. Along with the coyote problem that we have, and the foxes I'm thinking that my .223 Rem and my stand by .22 WMR are going to see some action after our general rifle season is over. I'm gonna purchase a few more calls, and I'm thinking of a good electronic one with variant sounds to bring them in to it.

Yep, for most preditors I will use .223 Rem (most likely a Barnes TSX bullet), but if I was hunting our big cats up here in Montana I would be using my 7mm-08 with a 120-gr Barnes TSX bullet or just stick with the 140-gr Barnes TSX that I am using now.

Any buck taken with a bow, is a trophy and your dad did an awesome job with this hansom buck. Heck I would be proud to hang that one on my wall even. Way to go dad!

I have a Game Hauler game cart that will take up to 500 lbs, which can still be a job. Most of the time, I'm hunting with a friend who does have 4 wheelers, but even then we still pack the Game Hauler along in case we set out on foot. If your in snow country when you get something down, those roll up toboggans http://www.emscogroup.com/products/product?id=70&category_id=25 work great as the game just slide right over the snow and ice. But if your in cell phone coverage, like others have said, as a last resort.... call friends.

Now my hunting trip today, was a completely differant story from yesterday. My son in law and I, headed over to the property the his grandmother owns. We got in and set up with just the hint of day break. While we are up on this ridge over looking an area that we saw a buck during bowhunting season, I spot movement. I got myself in a great outlook, and bipod was holding everything steady. I put the scope and low and behold a nice shooter buck with carmal color antlers, is not paying attention. I have the crosshairs of the Nikon ProStaff w/BDC retical right in the ol windbags there. I let the Barnes TSX 140-gr go, and the buck stood there like it hadn't even been hit, then took a couple of steps and layed down. In the picture you might make out the white hair in the grass. When we walked up to tag and recover my buck, we happen to notice he had grass still in his mouth. Well after this I still had a B tag for getting me a doe. My son in law and I decided to move from where we were. As we relocated, I happen to notice a nice little rise that over the top might yeild something. As we approached the top, and could just make out a couple of does. The grass was long enough that I got real low, and crept to the edge where I had a good clear shot. I again made my selection of the 2 does, and placed my Nikon ProStaff cross hairs in the heart lung area. Now this doe was not sticking around not liking what it just felt. But I tell you that the Barnes TSX 140-gr bullet created a bloodtrail a blind man could follow.

The best case I ever had, was when I nailed the sheriff of our small county that I was working in. I caught the sheriff Now after this happened, I left and quit law enforcement all together. He plead to lesser charges of Misdemeanor Theft. What surprizes me though, he now shows his face on facebook and myspace as if nothing ever happened. He discraced every police officer and sheriff's deputy here in Montana, and occationally returns to Missoula, Mt for the local Griz games at MSU. I'm just glad he is out of law enforcement all together.

Glad it was not worse than it could have been, as I always say though.... "Trouble Never Makes An Appointment"

A buddy of mine works there as a doctor, and he was real busy yesterday. Glad he was safely away from the shooter.

I'm learning to come around more, and more. Very good forum here, and I have adopted Team Realtree camo as my camo of wearing while hunting as well.

"Oh man, just when I was thinking about them does, you come along and spoil my nap"

I have a lot of Zombee friends ya know.

This is my 7 month old grand daughter Nickelle, she is not wearing her camo outfit but took to my Team Realtree cap. Now I told her that Pa Pa had to have his hat back, and she looked at me like, you what? I say's Nickelle Pa Pa needs his Team Realtree cap back, I'll have to get you another one of your own. Pa Pa no this is mine now

I used to climb telephone poles for a living, and 22' feet takes getting used to, but once its done its okay. Some guy's like just being at 12' feet and that is okay. Never go higher than you need to, or feel okay with as its not falling that hurts but hitting the ground should you do that. Wear a good harness, and get an arrest that will lower you to the ground should you be saved by your harness.

I'm using a Nikon ProStaff 3x9x40mm w/BDC retical and sighting in as I have always done was to group 1" low at 25 yards. Then move out to 100 yards, where normal hits were 6" high and about 6" right. I make my corrections to be dead on at 100 yards. The second circle down is at 200, then 300, 400 and finally 500 yards. Know your caliber and scope, and you can sight in dead zero at 100 yards. Alot of guns are out there with scopes not intended for their caliber that they are using.

Here is a picture of last years bucks, mine is the smaller of the 2 in the back of the truck. I did not get a chance to take a picture of my son in laws buck after he shot it, but it was very heavy, with mine being slightly less. This hunt was on private land owned by his grandmother east of me. His buck was a 5x6 with a broken tine, and mine was a 5x6 as well. You can get way back away from other hunters in my area, and if you would like I can get you some maps from the US Forestry for my area that will provide you with forestry roads, and show where the gates are.

Great looking arrows.

I hunt all over NW Montana on public land mostly, and no you will not have to wade thru a bunch of other hunters. You may see some orange vest here and there, but there is so much vastness, that you can not believe how alone you are. http://fwp.mt.gov/default.html

You still don't have to purchase a hunting lic on your own land? Here it don't matter if its your land or not, we still have to get the necessary license to hunt. Here is a breakdown of fees for Montana for Resident and Non-Resident. http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/licenses/availableLicenses.html Now for my conservation, Deer A tag, and Elk Tag I pay half off because of my perm disability. But all other tags are at full price.