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Western Hunting Expo 2008

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Sevier Valley Sportsmans Expo

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Show season is in full swing and we have been busy. I thought I would include a few photos of the last show we did. We had Cody Wall’s Taxidermy in with us and Paul Kendall with his “Never Enough Big Game” video series there as well. Next up is the “Sneekee Outdoor Expo” in St George, Utah on March 30, 31 and April 1st. If you get a chance come by the booth and introduce yourselves. The booth will be full of good looking blondes (one is taken and the others are too young).

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Guided Bull Frog Hunt

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I was at the SCI convention last week with some friends and ran into this guide selling his specialty bull frog hunts. It was a “for real” thing. They even had pictures there you could look at. We all got a big laugh out of this one. I am not sure what a pair of bullfrog boots look like but I’m wondering if you can get them in purple. If so I will take 2 pair. We booked a couple of hunts for 2040. It may be the only thing I can hunt by then.

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One Woman in a “mans” world.

Filed under: General Hunting — admin @ 12:27 pm

As most of you know, I have 4 daughters and a wife that enjoy the outdoors and hunting. Because of this I am always excited to see the women doing well in the great sport of hunting. Jonean Gasser is one of those successful hunters I have admired. This girl not only hunts but is very successful at it as well. She has drawn for, and successfully taken just about every big game animal in the state of Utah. Pretty impressive for a “girl”. Jonean is involved in Women for the Outdoors and the National Wild Turkey Federation and is a great representative of women in the hunting world. Jonean has taken enough big game animals, as well as a wide variety, to make any man envious. Enjoy the pictures.

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Kansas Whitetail Hunt ‘06

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I had the opportunity to go whitetail hunting in Kansas this year with some good friends and I had a blast. The hunt started the Wednesday after Thanksgiving and we hunted for 5 days. It was cold as hell but clear. We figured with the wind chill factor along with the single digit temperatures, it was below zero the majority of the time. Opening day I was in my stand freezing my tail off but I didn’t see a deer. That afternoon I moved to a different location and was climbing up into my deer stand when the wind blew it over. I included a picture of it here. That stand stood 10 ft off the ground. When it started to go over I was on the platform going into the door. I jumped the opposite way the stand was falling and landed on my feet. I immediately felt pain in my feet but my right foot was extremely painful and I couldn’t put any weight on it. I decided that, since I couldn’t walk I would have to use the truck as a blind. I drove it down to where my stand was set up and parked it. Day 2 continued to be cold and I really wanted to shoot a whitetail bad. I was watching a fenceline when a couple of deer walked out of the edge of the trees towards the corn pile. I could see that the one buck had a pretty good set of horns on him but I had come to Kansas to kill one of their huge bucks. I debated on this buck for at least 30 minutes until I finally decided that I should kill him. It took one shot from my wifes J. Bauer Custom .243 and the buck went 20 yards and piled up. 3 nights later my friend Mark Bauer shot the other buck in the pictures. His ended up scoring just over the 150 mark. He shot it at dark and we didn’t recover it until the next morning. All that was left of it was some hair, bone and his head. Coyotes had themselves a nice feast. All in all it was a great hunt with some minor problems. I can’t wait to do it again next year.

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Late Season Elk Utah Elk Hunt

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I hunted this morning with Chris Snell and Shane McDougall for Chris’ elk. We had spotted a couple of good bulls and I had been keeping tabs on them for the past week. This morning we started up the hill and had 2 of the smaller bulls (340ish) come out on the hill in front of us. Chris decided to pass on these bulls because we had seen another bull that was a lot bigger. After several hundred yards we finally reached the summit where the bulls were last seen and sat down. We immediately saw a bull laying down in some pine trees on the opposite side of the draw. We watched this bull for 2 1/2 hours trying to decide whether or not Chris would drop the hammer. There were some hunters that had come into the draw above us and were making a drive through the pines in this draw and kicked out the bigger bull which ran in front of the other hunter. After 4 shots the bull finally dropped. After watching this bull for over 3 weeks I had to get a closer look. I went to see the downed bull and WOW! He’s a great bull (7×9) that will probably score in the 370 range. The hunter that killed the bull was Gary Knapp. He had put in for 13 years and deserved to kill a great bull. Conratulations Gary!

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Elk Season is Over

Filed under: General Hunting — admin @ 11:06 pm

The last of the elk hunting is over for me. I had some great hunts and I have to say that this has been one of the most challenging elk seasons I can ever remeber. I didn’t harvest the bull I was after but had many close calls and passed on some smaller bulls. I don’t regret passing on the smaller bulls. As for the guiding aspect of this fall season it proved to be one hell of a hunt. We had temperatures from 27 degrees to 78 degrees with over a foot of snow during the first week of the hunts. It was also a very interesting rut this year. The bulls were not as active as usual and I think the weather had a very dramatic role in the elk activity. I will post some stories with pictures soon.

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Week #1 Wasatch LE hunt

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Week #1 was a lot of work for little productivity. We were into elk every time out but they seemed to be in the transition mode from summer eating to rounding up their girlfriends. Sometimes they were vocal and other times they didn’t say a thing. I came close several times to drawing my bow back with 3 bulls over the 360 mark under 40 yards. Nothing seamed to come together. We saw a couple of shooter mule deer and found some new wallows to sit. There is a lot of water and many new wallows. The bulls are hitting the wallows but they are not hitting the same one twice. They seem to be wandering from wallow to wallow and just sitting in the closest one. Frustrating but fun. The next time I will be out is on Wednesday. I plan on hunting until the sun sets on the 15th or until I kill my bull.

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Successfull Scouting Trip

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I rode my mountain bike in to check on one of my trail cams yesterday and kicked these 2 bulls up. It was an uphill, brutal ride in but fast and furious on the way out. I had 81 pictures on the trail cam and all were of bulls.

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UDWR Giving out more elk tags

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I was just reading an article on the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources page that states they are going to give out more cow elk tags to those people that already have an elk tag. Here is the link;

http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/news/06-07/2nd_elk.php

I’m not sure what the UDWR is thinking. It does not specify what weapon can be used or what the season is. I have been seriously scouting a lot of country since may. I have not seen that many cows. In fact I have seen more bulls than cows. In my experience, there has been a decline in the number of cows on the Limited Entry units over the past several years. Giving out more tags for these areas to kill cows is a huge mistake, but then again, they have made similar mistakes before. Remember the Fish Lake disaster?

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December 2, 2007

Western Hunting Expo 2008

March 5, 2007

Sevier Valley Sportsmans Expo

January 29, 2007

Guided Bull Frog Hunt

January 27, 2007

One Woman in a “mans” world.

January 17, 2007

Kansas Whitetail Hunt ‘06

November 12, 2006

Late Season Elk Utah Elk Hunt

September 29, 2006

Elk Season is Over

September 3, 2006

Week #1 Wasatch LE hunt

August 9, 2006

Successfull Scouting Trip

August 6, 2006

UDWR Giving out more elk tags

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