The Mountain Hunting Thread

[freddyfour]

Interesting conclusion, you must have studied the whole P section of Websters to find that word. Talking about mountain hunting here, right?

Been hunting areas in the mountains and they were good, like going home with a sheep and caribou every second year. Then the outfitters take over and draws for residents have been implemented due to the hunting orgs lobbying. It went to chits ever since. The stewarts of the land eh, lol.

This is my opinion and experience. So if you are frustrated about anyone's opinion I can't really help you. Maybe study another section of Websters and you'll find another fancy word to keep frustration levels low.

Not my intention at all, just sharing my experience and opinion.

Share it somewhere else. This is a positive thread for mountain hunting. Start your own thread if all you wanna do is #####.

 

[medvedqc]

Here's a really old one with my best hunting partner when he was just nine years old.

Of course, as they say up here, "If you don't like the weather, just be patient. It'll change in a few hours. "

Ted

wow. thanks for the memories.

 

[MattW]

Awesome Ted. Bringing kids hunting is the best.

 

[Why not?]

Every once in a while I went after a big one for myself. Alex Van Bibber and I were hunting on Mount Bratnober, and he said this guy would go seventy inches.

One shot with that same old 270 Husqvarna from so far away I'm embarrassed to tell you the distance. The bull was just shy of the seventy.

Two days to pack all the meat down to Champagne. The picture was the third day. Never even thought about decking a moose that far from camp again!

Ted

 

[hawk-i]

So where would you try to put her down if you had to? or do you try not to think like that?

 

[Slimbo]

Sometimes you just have to pretend that donkey wouldn’t dare quit on you...otherwise you’d never get any work done.

 

[MattW]

Sometimes you just have to pretend that donkey wouldn’t dare quit on you...otherwise you’d never get any work done.

Ain't that the truth. Lots of guys out there though that won't fly anywhere without a highway underneath them. Their loss I guess, more wilderness for the rest of us.

 

[Ardent]

So where would you try to put her down if you had to? or do you try not to think like that?

Slimbo nailed it. If I had to chose and didn’t have a valley bottom, I’d pancake it onto the gentlest slope I can find, head into the hill and upslope, keep killing airspeed and climbing and then pull hard back at 50’ and mush it in. The #### in your pants reduces the impact I’m told.

Have had one engine failure ever... and I was on final for an airport in a heli. That’s a good time to have it, but is a cheat, wish I could say I got it outta the way.

 

[Ptichka]

Slimbo nailed it. If I had to chose and didn’t have a valley bottom, I’d pancake it onto the gentlest slope I can find, head into the hill and upslope, keep killing airspeed and climbing and then pull hard back at 50’ and mush it in. The #### in your pants reduces the impact I’m told.

Have had one engine failure ever... and I was on final for an airport in a heli. That’s a good time to have it, but is a cheat, wish I could say I got it outta the way.

What kind of a heli do you fly, if I may ask?

I'm an avid sheep hunter myself, I will be heading out scouting in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Ardent]

Like Slimbo a few, but Astar and 66 at the present gig.

 

[Moose Masher]

Every once in a while I went after a big one for myself. Alex Van Bibber and I were hunting on Mount Bratnober, and he said this guy would go seventy inches.

One shot with that same old 270 Husqvarna from so far away I'm embarrassed to tell you the distance. The bull was just shy of the seventy.

Two days to pack all the meat down to Champagne. The picture was the third day. Never even thought about decking a moose that far from camp again!

Ted

Great photo and a great bull!

I want to think the embarrassing shot distance was something like 10 yds.

Do you still have the rack?

 

[Ptichka]

Like Slimbo a few, but Astar and 66 at the present gig.

Those are nice machines. I'm putting my pennies in a jar for a MD 500 series, lol.

 

[albertacoyotecaller]

Like Slimbo a few, but Astar and 66 at the present gig.

Are you flying for Dan by chance?

 

[Ardent]

You bet, small world eh? Pretty sure we met by the way about nine years ago in Grimshaw, think it was for a .22 Hornet.

 

[Slimbo]

Those are nice machines. I'm putting my pennies in a jar for a MD 500 series, lol.

My personal favourite to fly, but least favourite to sleep in.

 

[Slimbo]

Back on track, one of my favourites from last year

 

[Ardent]

Gotta love high camp, long as the weather looks like our pics Trouble is finding a flat spot.

 

[Why not?]

Back on track, one of my favourites from last year

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Now that is a camp! All you need now is a bicycle.

Ted

 

[Slimbo]

I was pretty happy to find that divet in the ground filled with goat poop after a long windy rainy day! Luckily the weather improved over night and I got to enjoy a hot cup of coffee while glassing.

 

[Ardent]

That’s living! That cup of coffee is the best one in the world.