swagbrdr
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Here are a few of mine.
What do You Hunt? Help Cure Cabin Fever & Share Your Critter Pics
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troy fairweather
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I really need to go on a dove hunt some day, stupid we can't hunt them, looks like such fun and practice.
Armored farmer
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This was a good day in the field last fall.
#3 son took an 8pt, and I joined him to help drag out. We were hardly done taking pictures when another 8pt walked in on us.
I took him, and suddenly we were tagged out!
Opening weekend 2019 firearms season.
#3 son took an 8pt, and I joined him to help drag out. We were hardly done taking pictures when another 8pt walked in on us.
I took him, and suddenly we were tagged out!
Opening weekend 2019 firearms season.
Patocazador
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Only one deer allowed?
Robbins290
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Only one i have on my computer at the moment, A rabbit i got a few years ago.
Degree of difficulty of big game retrieval varies greatly dependent upon the terrain we hunt.
Most of my hunting is now limited to relatively flat land so only obstacles to use of vehicles are thick brush and/or mud.
Having a bad back, I mounted a boat winch on a telescoping boom on an old '61 Ford hunting car where it served for many years on several different vehicles........
.....until 2003, when I changed leases and had the opportunity to hunt some larger game which the hand winch would not handle.
First solution was a drawer/ramp setup with a boat trailer winch in the bed of my pickup.
Low profile roller @ back of bed and two recessed wheels @ front of "drawer" enables tray to roll easily to rear, even with several hundred # load. 3/4" plywood ramp rides in the tray until needed and door hinges connect ramp & drawer when it is deployed.
Winch then used to drag the game into the bed once deployed. The drawback to this arrangement is that bed had to be empty to accept some larger game. Since we only have to transport game a few miles of ranch roads, switched to a boom outside of bed using same winch for lifting.
One of the most difficult retrievals (below) during a severe rainstorm. Nilgai expired inside brushline (upper rt corner of picture below left) and had to be snaked out w/main winch but stuck the truck doing so. Cut nilgai loose and hooked winch line to nearby tree, extracted truck and decided we'd better get truck out and worry about the nilgai later. Buried truck twice on way out. Once all the way to the frame @ arrow below . Nearest tree was @ 45* angle, dragging front wheels sideways in the mud on that pull. Finally got truck on gravel an hour later. We rigged a snatch block and w/over 100 yards of rope + all winch line were able to reach the nilgai at edge of brush line and drag it onto gravel just as rain stopped.
Now using an ATV winch on back of jeep and telescoping boom which handles everything up to nilgai and scimitar. Jeep gets into places truck can't due to size and with slime in jeep tires don't have the flats we did with the truck.
Show us what you're using to handle large game in the field where you hunt.
Regards,
hps
Most of my hunting is now limited to relatively flat land so only obstacles to use of vehicles are thick brush and/or mud.
Having a bad back, I mounted a boat winch on a telescoping boom on an old '61 Ford hunting car where it served for many years on several different vehicles........
.....until 2003, when I changed leases and had the opportunity to hunt some larger game which the hand winch would not handle.
First solution was a drawer/ramp setup with a boat trailer winch in the bed of my pickup.
Low profile roller @ back of bed and two recessed wheels @ front of "drawer" enables tray to roll easily to rear, even with several hundred # load. 3/4" plywood ramp rides in the tray until needed and door hinges connect ramp & drawer when it is deployed.
Winch then used to drag the game into the bed once deployed. The drawback to this arrangement is that bed had to be empty to accept some larger game. Since we only have to transport game a few miles of ranch roads, switched to a boom outside of bed using same winch for lifting.
One of the most difficult retrievals (below) during a severe rainstorm. Nilgai expired inside brushline (upper rt corner of picture below left) and had to be snaked out w/main winch but stuck the truck doing so. Cut nilgai loose and hooked winch line to nearby tree, extracted truck and decided we'd better get truck out and worry about the nilgai later. Buried truck twice on way out. Once all the way to the frame @ arrow below . Nearest tree was @ 45* angle, dragging front wheels sideways in the mud on that pull. Finally got truck on gravel an hour later. We rigged a snatch block and w/over 100 yards of rope + all winch line were able to reach the nilgai at edge of brush line and drag it onto gravel just as rain stopped.
Now using an ATV winch on back of jeep and telescoping boom which handles everything up to nilgai and scimitar. Jeep gets into places truck can't due to size and with slime in jeep tires don't have the flats we did with the truck.
Show us what you're using to handle large game in the field where you hunt.
Regards,
hps
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Double Naught Spy
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7’ is big. Had a pile of them where I grew up. Not sure how long the biggest I ever saw was but it hung off each side of an s10 tailgate by about 6 inches. You worry about stinky slitherers which I can see and sometimes smell because I have been around so many. I worry more about rattlesnakes. My hearing is compromised and it gives me fits with pinpointing sound direction. Rattlesnakes drive me nuts and freak me out when I can’t find them.
troy fairweather
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I'm not scared for say just don't like when they pop up with out warning lol. Rattle snakes seem to stay put when I seen them, i think most bites are for the snake they did not see. I had a rattlesnake pass me one time when I was trout fishing, I was about 10 feet off the bank and it stoped and was flicking its tonge my direction. I've had a few different snakes swim up to me when wadding in the water, but normally a push with the for will turn them.
I did freakout one-time a bad a hellbender on my foot lol.
I've hunted S. Tx since the '50's on ranches which had healthy rattlesnake populations. Have to admit that walking through knee to waist high grass still stands the hair up on my neck.
In all those years, I only remember 4 cases of aggressive rattlers; two I had shot but not anchored and one I think was just looking for a dry spot while swimming a half mile offshore in a large lake.....he was doing his best to get in the boat with my son and I and the boat was definitely not big enough for the three of us. Fortunately, IME, most rattlers would rather run than strike.
The most aggressive was a 4.5 footer I spotted crawling across the caliche road through the middle of our camp. There was a very old abandoned trailer that had been sitting so long the sand was almost drifted up to the siding which the snake was heading toward; my pistol was in the truck half way between the two of us, so I ran toward the truck, hoping to keep the snake from getting under that trailer. Apparently he saw/sensed my approach, turned in my direction and sped up. He was still beyond striking distance when I grabbed the pistol and shot him.
Funniest "snake" story happened a few years after the 4.5 footer and occurred mid summer, also in that camp. My old Ford, which I left parked year round under a mesquite tree, had knee high grass growing around it as my partner and I approached it.
I was about three ft. behind my buddy when he screamed like a little girl and jumped straight up 3'. By the time his feet hit the ground, he had his pants half way to his knees revealing a 10" Texas spiney swift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_spiny_lizard which had run up his leg inside his pants leg.
I can't remember ever laughing so hard as I did that day.
Hunted that ranch 17 years and we always killed more rattlers in camp than we did in the field. Guess the abandoned trailer and couple of abandoned tool sheds (it was an old homestead) attracted mice and all the snakes.
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hps
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