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Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 18, 2017, 09:11 AM:
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This was my season in a nutshell. I'd like to see some pictures of how the hunting season went for everyone, doesn't have to be strictly hunting though. If you went fishing instead, post a pic!
Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 18, 2017, 09:14 AM:
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Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 18, 2017, 09:16 AM:
Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to posting pictures.
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on April 18, 2017, 09:37 AM:
Nice haul!
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Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 18, 2017, 09:41 AM:
Maybe?
- DAA
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 18, 2017, 09:57 AM:
Thanks, Aaron. Looks like somebody has taken the message to heart?
Appreciate it. And, good work!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 18, 2017, 09:58 AM:
I'm impressed !!!!
I took a fairly laid back approach with predictable results.
High point of the season was getting my picture in Traditional Bowhunter.
Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on April 18, 2017, 10:09 AM:
Wow! Nice!
Fur shingles...I want some for my shed! Maybe you have started a new trend? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by TRnCO (Member # 690) on April 18, 2017, 04:42 PM:
That is a cool end of season picture. A lot of work hangin right there.
I had another great season. I started off with a bang and ended with a bang.
First stand of the season I called in and killed 6. I called in and killed the first five and for whatever reason I quit calling. Rifle was empty and in my mind I guess I figured 5 was all of em. As I was dragging the nearest two back to the caller, another one started howling real close and so as soon as I got back to my rifle and caller, I put a shell in and started calling and #6 came rolling right on in.
The I got a new property this winter and my first day of hunting it I set a new single day record for myself. Did 13 stands and killed 13 coyotes including a quad and a triple. 9 of them got a ride home, 4 had mange.
Then my last solo stand of the year I howled in and killed another quad.
I was able to sell 69 of the 95 coyotes that I killed this year. One of these years I'm going to extend my season a bit and kill 100, just to say I did.
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Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on April 18, 2017, 04:55 PM:
Sweetness!
Posted by MI VHNTR (Member # 3370) on April 18, 2017, 05:27 PM:
Thanks for the pictures and sharing your hard work.
Well done.
The coyote numbers in all of your hunting locales is just amazing.
Posted by Az-Hunter (Member # 17) on April 18, 2017, 07:16 PM:
Always amazed me to see Quinton's tally for the year, several years he broke 200. Year in year out, I usually average between 50 to 75 coyotes, and have broke the 100 mark a few times. Can only speak for myself, but when pushing to break 100, it sure seems to become more like work and less like just a good time out calling.
Here in southern Arizona, the only local guy I know that knocks down high numbers is Brent, He consistently calls and kills way the other side of 100 coyotes, and no telling how many he traps on various control jobs?
Aaron has a damned pretty photo there. That represents a lot of hard work putting that fur up, nice job!
Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 19, 2017, 03:29 AM:
Thanks for the kind words guys, much appreciated. I figured I better post something, I've lurked and gleaned plenty of good info off of this site over the years.
TRnCO, that's one hell of a stand! Putting down 13 in a day is also something few callers will ever achieve. Nice work! How do you like that call?
Az-Hunter, I definitely agree with you on putting up numbers feels like a job. I plan on trying for the 100 mark this coming season, closest I've come is 60 something so I'm gonna have to step it up a notch. Does this Quinton fella put up his fur?
Posted by Wiley E (Member # 108) on April 19, 2017, 03:44 AM:
Nice pic and nice job on put up Aaron.
~SH~
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on April 19, 2017, 03:49 AM:
NICE pic! Like that red fox, front & center...
If calling ever goes sour, you could always try out for a crack at becoming Ryan Gosling's stunt double...
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 19, 2017, 04:45 AM:
thats a great pic Arron.
looks like you did a great job putting up those hides. who taught you too do that??
Posted by TRnCO (Member # 690) on April 19, 2017, 05:10 AM:
I guess if I wanted to break 100 all I'd have to do is hunt by myself more. This past season I shared stands with 14 different people. Some for only a few stands, many just for a day. But when you're sharing stands it's obvious someone else is there to shoot coyotes too. I forget the number but others tallied about 40 coyotes on shared stands with me.
Aaron, it took a while for me to get used to the new call, especially the remote. Made one small change on it which really helped but the next unit that will be coming out by this coming fall is going to be an upgrade, in several ways. The sounds are outstanding, that's for sure.
Surely some others have some good photos to share, ...clear throat..., DAA ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 19, 2017, 05:34 AM:
TR, I wasn't able to get out much this year. And didn't take many pictures when I did. And the pictures I did take, are nothing special.
That picture of Aaron's is really neat! And you just plain tore it up on the multiples this year. I'm jealous ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Here's a few anyway though, like I said, nothing special.
Think this was the first day out.
Having fun learning to use the shotgun, this made two stands in a row shotgunning pairs. Kinda set the hook in me.
Biggest one of the year, shotgunned him too.
This was definitely the most exciting stand of the year. That coyote left scratches on my chest and right arm where his toe nails dug into me for traction after he jumped right on top of me.
First one with the TBAC.
- DAA
Posted by TRnCO (Member # 690) on April 19, 2017, 01:22 PM:
as usual, outstanding pictures. I gotta up my game in that department.
Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 19, 2017, 01:42 PM:
Great pics, wow Aaron that's a buttload of work you have in that pic. Dave awesome photos as usual. TR that was one hell of a stand . myself I did not get much hunting or trapping done this year working a lot getting the homestead together. Next year will be better.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 19, 2017, 02:17 PM:
Thank you, everybody! I'm glad to see some actual hunting photos.
Historically, I've always been a 60 coyote per season type, never invested the time to do 100, that's like work! Also, I've killed 12 on daylights several times but never did 13.
That's kinda like multiples on stand, I've done four more times than I can remember, but never killed five on a stand. However, I did do six, once. But, that kind of thing is getting more difficult; with the Foxpro Army out there beating the bushes. Actually, compared to the good old days when no one else was doing it, it's just more harder and much more competition.
No really, AR mentions 5 states. Hell, I was doing 5 states in the 70's. And, had it to myself, pretty much. I remember casually asking a gas station guy in a little Burg, how's the coyote hunting hereabouts? "Nope, we don't got 'em around here". Not even lying, and yet, he's in prime coyote country! Nowadays, those local yokels are doing 100 a year. Thanks Foxpro!
Thanks for the pictures, everybody.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: should we give Aaron a custom title?
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Posted by TRnCO (Member # 690) on April 19, 2017, 02:24 PM:
yes, how about, man with shingles
Posted by Wiley E (Member # 108) on April 19, 2017, 02:54 PM:
Dave,
I am not just trying to get on your good side here but you are an artist with a camera of the highest caliber. You have a gift of capturing a lot more in your pictures than most.
I wish I could put my finger on it. Not sure if it is the lens or the light or both.
Maybe I don't travel in the right circles but I don't see much in the way of really good wildlife photography.
If you were to hunt coyotes strictly with a camera, I can't imagine what you could come up with. I am sure you would capture their breath on a cold morning or snap the picture as they were shaking moisture from their fur after running through wet grass.
One of the best things I ever saw Merv Griswold capture on film was a coyote that was so nervous about the dogs that he lifted his leg and pissed on the other coyote. NO RESPECT!
~SH~
Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 20, 2017, 08:54 AM:
Beautiful pictures Dave!
The bearhunter- Thanks, I learned the ropes from a good guy that was willing to take the time and teach a newbie how it was done. I still owe that guy a beer or two!
Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 20, 2017, 08:57 AM:
Let's keep the pictures coming. Doesn't have to be just coyotes either, any critter or fish will do!
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 20, 2017, 09:42 AM:
Here's a deer I killed this year...
- DAA
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 20, 2017, 09:48 AM:
That's a hell of a deer, Dave! Caliente?
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 20, 2017, 09:49 AM:
And some live coyote pics for Scott. These are all older though.
- DAA
Posted by DAA (Member # 11) on April 20, 2017, 09:52 AM:
Leonard, that's a Utah buck. Solo hunt back in October.
- DAA
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 02:38 PM:
Aaron. stop into the cabin someday and i'll take a few beers from ya (grin).
my phone blew up and i lost all my contact numbers including yours. give me a shout someday i'ffn you still have my #
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 02:39 PM:
Aaron. stop into the cabin someday and i'll take a few beers from ya (grin).
my phone blew up and i lost all my contact numbers including yours. give me a shout someday i'ffn you still have my #
Posted by Wiley E (Member # 108) on April 20, 2017, 05:05 PM:
Damn!! Incredible!
Thanks Dave!
~SH~
Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 05:27 PM:
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Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 05:41 PM:
Aaron. i do quite a bit of calling along the Red River. call from the MN side and get them to come across the ice from the ND side. its a pile of fun dumping them on the river.
took very few pics this year. the pike is 44# inches caught on lake of the woods on a tip up.
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Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 05:43 PM:
can't get photos to post proper??
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Posted by the bearhunter (Member # 3552) on April 20, 2017, 05:52 PM:
fuck photo bucket
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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 20, 2017, 06:10 PM:
That's a hell of a nice Northern! I grew up in Minnesota and never caught one that big.
Good hunting. El Bee
PS welcome back!
Posted by Wiley E (Member # 108) on April 21, 2017, 11:26 AM:
Dandy northern!
~SH~
Posted by Az-Hunter (Member # 17) on April 21, 2017, 02:05 PM:
Ive never caught a pike. I hear what fine eating Walleye pike are, do the Northern pike fall in the same arena for table fare?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 21, 2017, 02:23 PM:
No, the Walleye are rated a lot higher but I never would turn down Northern. As far as I'm concerned, they are very good eating. My family used to soak them in salt water for a while then fry them in a batter like you would Bass.
As far as the name, "PIKE" I can hardly see the resemblance? Pickerel and Northerns and Muskies are all similar, like a Brown Trout looks a lot like a Rainbow.
Not so with the Walleye. No resemblance at all. Completely different habits. We caught Northerns trolling and casting spoons. For Walleyes, we pretty much targeted them at night with live minnows, shiners or chubs. And, deep.
But, the locals, given a chance, might turn up their nose at Northerns, if they have Walleye available. Kinda spoiled.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: PS Lake of the Woods is right up on the Canadian border. Personally, I never fished that far north of Mille Ac or Leech Lake. A five pound Northern puts up a good fight, believe it.
[ April 21, 2017, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on April 22, 2017, 05:19 AM:
Dave's slob looks like a musky to me? Sure is a beauty!!!
As for walleye, I liken them to being a big azz perch. And they eat just as good, too...
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 22, 2017, 11:39 AM:
Fred, I had to look close, to be sure but I'm pretty sure it's no muskelunge. It's a well fed Northern.
As far as the observation comparing walleye to perch. That's not an invalid observation but a true walleye affectionado would be greatly offended.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 22, 2017, 05:35 PM:
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I can't help?
[ April 22, 2017, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 22, 2017, 07:13 PM:
Just opened Photo Bucket account and first attempt to download photo. 0 for 1.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 22, 2017, 11:27 PM:
Among the social media I do not participate in, including FaceBook, Twitter, and PhotoBucket.
Wish I could be more help, you have perked my curiosity, dying to see what you are trying to post for us.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: if only Fred was around, somewhere?
[ April 22, 2017, 11:28 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
Posted by Wiley E (Member # 108) on April 23, 2017, 12:25 PM:
Az,
For the most part, what Leonard said.
Then again, taste is a personal preference. Some people really like catfish and bullheads. Also depends on how they are prepared.
All things being equal (preparation, etc.) most fisherman I know will take Walleye over Pike hands down. Perch and Crappie would run a close second.
If you have ever eaten Talapia (sp?), walleye are very similar.
The meat also looks different. Walleye, Perch, and Crappie all have lighter colored meat. Northern is more reddish and a heavier texture.
Between pheasant and walleye, eating is good in the Dakotas.
~SH~
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on April 24, 2017, 08:04 PM:
For Tedo. As near as I could tell there was just one picture you wanted to put up?
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Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on April 24, 2017, 09:38 PM:
Nice pictures all around. Thanks. A lot of work getting all those gathered up and put up. I have never faced any concern about running out of stretchers so I like to see lines of coyotes and barn pics of put up fur.
I have to wonder. how on earth that fish fit through that itty bitty hole, if tedo's 'cat broke the 30# mark (it seems to have the frame to do it?), and how DAA's pictures pop and mine seem flat. (I know part of it, and it has nothing to do with equipment.)
I hope the buyer treated aaron and TR well.
I had big plans this year but I let the weather be an excuse. Turned out to be a good decision, search and rescue was dispatched twice, one guy spent the night in a blizzard and the other was lucky enough to hitch a ride with Union Pacific. Both were very lucky and made the evening news.
I did get one killed shortly after I looked up from the remote to see her doing the bouncy side step thing.
This was last year. The boys didn't ever see it, and the shot took them by surprise.
This was one that crossed the two track at a bad time. I would have missed this particular shot 9.5 times out of ten.
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Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 24, 2017, 09:52 PM:
Bryan J,
Thanks for putting photo up. Not sure what I did wrong when posting, new to Photo Bucket. I was able to post on another forum? I'll try again.
Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on April 24, 2017, 10:20 PM:
You are welcome. Photobucket puts a bunch of extra code when you copy the link that this board doesn't like for what ever reason. Maybe the same glitch that when you hit on certain words you get something like *****?
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2017, 04:57 AM:
How time flies, Bryan. Seems like yesterday we were talking about Bryan and Heather getting hitched. Looks like you've been busy?
Good hunting. El Bee
PS I was thinking the same thing about pulling a thrashing Lunker like that through that itty bitty hole!
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 25, 2017, 05:36 AM:
Not a predator but a nice picture of a Kodiak goat my son took this spring. 
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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on April 25, 2017, 05:58 AM:
Great pic of the goat. That had to be a tough hunt.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2017, 06:18 AM:
Yeah, tough but it's a wonder he didn't roll all the way down!
I've climbed mountains like that. Have to stop and catch my breath every fifty feet!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 25, 2017, 06:49 AM:
You have to be somewhat selective where you drop them or they definitely can roll, sheep too. Trophies get busted up tumbling down a mountain side. Son invited me along but I declined, thats a young mans hunt! Heres another view of the terrain.
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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on April 25, 2017, 07:43 AM:
Impressive !!!!
I've got body parts that hurt just looking at those photos. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Lone Howl (Member # 29) on April 25, 2017, 07:44 AM:
Freakin sweet!
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on April 25, 2017, 08:12 AM:
Heres a photo from my "Last Season" at work escorting tankers thru Prince William Sound. 
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Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on April 26, 2017, 06:16 AM:
Shoot Leonard that is coming up on 13 years, but yesterday just the same. I haven't run her off yet. Busy has new meaning.
Looks like you got it down tedo. Glad I'm not on that boat.
Posted by 243aaron (Member # 4786) on April 26, 2017, 08:02 PM:
Awesome pictures guys! Keep em coming!
The bearhunter, I'll give you a call tomorrow, this damn snow has put a damper on landscaping work. Hell of a nice gator you got there!
Awesome buck and coyote pics DAA, your pictures are amazing!
Tedo, a goat is on my bucket list. Congratulations, that had to be one heck of an awesome hunt.
Bryan, love the pictue of the little guy with the red Ryder. If I had a nickel for every bird I killed with one of those when I was a kid I'd be a rich man!
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on April 27, 2017, 03:34 AM:
Yes, love the pics! Especially seeing the kiddos with their Red Ryder!!!
Hey, didn't we all start off with a Daisy? My uncle would take me & my bro out to hunt frogs with our Red Ryders...
Aaron/all: I spoke with Dave bearhunter last night. He's up @ bearcamp with no internet and lowsy cell service. Also, his phone melted and he lost all his contacts. He asked me to let yall know to reach out, so he can save your #s in his new phone...
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 27, 2017, 05:55 AM:
I had a BB Gun, probably 8 yr old at the time? I didn't have a choice, my Dad decided on a pump and I forever envied friends that had the lever action. I think mine was slightly more powerful? And, it didn't hold a million BBs like the levers did. I have no idea what happened to it? I think, when we moved to California, there were many things you didn't need out there, fish spears and frog gigs and maybe that BB Gun was given away like everything else, but my .410 made the trip.
Back in the early to mid fifties, just about any store you went in to had BBs for sale. Mostly in the red tube, a little later in the milk carton. Some kids actually had war games with their BB Guns, live fire. A little too radical for me, but on the other hand I didn't actually know anybody that had their eye put out by a BB. But, that was the standard admonition, it could easily happen.
We roamed the neighborhood, seemed like virtually every day with a BB Gun and nobody ever called the cops? Pretty common, even as we were in the big city, Minneapolis, not out in farm country. Of course, in those days hardly anybody had a second car and it usually had the keys in the ignition overnight and all day long. Crime was pretty much nonexistent. I must have led a sheltered life, I can only remember seeing about three black people, total the whole time I lived in Minnesota.
Same when we moved to El Monte. I don't think there was any blacks in that town, at all? It was actually mostly Okies types and about 10% Mexican American, at least second generation, maybe third, but no wetbacks. These were the type that took Spanish in high school, and got an easy C. Possibly three Asians? I had no contact with blacks until the Army. As in none.
Oh well, we survived, didn't we? Of course, back then, we didn't need a wall because they weren't sneaking in. Why there is a question about building one today, I don't understand? As they say, it might cost one billion dollars or is it ten billion? But look at the cost for all the welfare programs, right off the bat, teaching these kids English. Right now, in El Monte, the high school population is 98% English as a second language. WTF?
Thanks Liberals!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by Aaron Rhoades (Member # 4234) on May 02, 2017, 03:58 PM:
Here is a picture of a cat I called in last archery elk season. I wasn't hunting myself, but I was calling for a friend on a small piece of state ground with construction going on on the road just a short distance away. I had been carrying my 10mm but didn't on this one because of all the commotion with the trucks and dozers and excavators. I asked the friend, what do you think, should I bring the 10mm with me? He says, no, you won't need it. 20 minutes later that cat was at 30 feet and all I had was a pocketknife.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 02, 2017, 05:18 PM:
Boy, you don't get too many chances like that! It's been at least 15 years since I called a lion.
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on May 27, 2017, 04:37 PM:
A Dolly Varden out of the Kenai River. [img] DSC00606.jpg [/img] [img] 0606161905.jpg [/img]
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 28, 2017, 05:50 AM:
I'm sorry. I have no idea how to help you with that? There must be something missing?
Good huntng. El Bee
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on May 28, 2017, 07:26 AM:
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Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on May 29, 2017, 05:39 AM:
What I tried didn't work either. Sorry.
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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on May 29, 2017, 07:19 AM:
I messed with it, didn't help?
I bet Fred could finger it out?
Posted by tedo (Member # 4320) on May 29, 2017, 07:47 AM:
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Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on May 29, 2017, 12:14 PM:
Something about that last coyote photo looks kind of familiar.
Nice fish, btw.
Posted by knockemdown (Member # 3588) on May 30, 2017, 03:47 AM:
tedo's pic:
Beautiful!!!
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