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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:56 am • # 1 
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Start a hunting thread. Mine are all old photos that I scanned into the computer.

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My first goose, at age 12. taken in 1977 Shot with a Winchester m 1200 pump 20 ga with #5's. I started fly fishing the same year. My dog's name is Trix. Though she was a mutt of sorts, she sure could hunt. She flushes pheasants for God now.

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My Dad looking over some country in Idaho's Selway Wilderness. 1985. His rifle is a Remington model 6 30-06

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My Father in Law and I with Nebraska Turkeys. My shot gun is a Rem 870 12 and his is a Mossberg 12ga 1998.

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My friend with his Lab 'Faith' with some Nebraska roosters and prairie chickens. Taken in 1996. He shoots a Browning Superposed o/u 12 ga. Back then I shot a Weatherby Orion o/u.

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Nebraska Whitetail I took along the South Platte River near Ogallala in 1993. The rifle is a Ruger m77 carbine 30-06. The load was a Hornaday 165gr. With it's light weight and short barrel, it kicked worse than my 300 Weatherby.

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My wife's first deer, a Western Nebraska Mulie taken in 1993 with her Browning BLR 308 and factory 150gr Core Loc ammo (when Remington made good ammo). This rifle is as good a deer rifle as any I know. The scope back then was a burris 3x9...way to bulky for such a trim rifle so now it wears a 4x Leupold. We fight over this rifle to this day. The scope has never shifted regardless of humidity or location. It fits nice in a scabbard and is hardly bulkier than a lever action 30-30. Were I to ever go on a guided horse back hunt....for anything from Bull elk to Dall Sheep, this is the rifle I would pack...we have that much faith in it. The rifle shoots 150gr hand loads either Hornaday or Nosler Partitions (which I would use for serious hunting.)

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Me shooting rock chucks in Idaho - 1984. This was a rifle I saved and saved to get. I still own it. It is a Remington Classic m 700 .270 Winchester. I carried it this year deer hunting. The scope is a 3x9 Leupold. It too is very reliable. I have switched from 130gr bullets to 140gr bullets in it. BTW, Jack o Conner was one of my childhood heroes. I now mostly prefer heavy slow bullets, but the .270 gets the job done just fine.

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We had a rogue badger making holes all over our lawn and garden when we lived in Nebraska. It called for my dangerous game gun: Winchester Safari Grade .458 Win Mag. One shot at the jumped badger did the job. The running badger in wheat stubble was no problem with the express sights. I miss this gun for some reason. Taken in 1994.

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Taken a couple years ago, a 4'4" Banty Bamboo 3/4wt and my old Ruger Blackhawk 45 Colt next to some fresh grizzly scat. I still have the gun but Don bought the rod back from me.

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Taken a few years ago, my dad taking aim at some rock chucks with his Remington 22-250. I load his ammo, a 55gr Sierra.

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Marlin 17 HMR in a varmint field here in Idaho. The 17 is a good ground squirrel gun.

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I owned a Ruger Single Six 17 HMR....shown here with a dead ground squirrel. The gun was extremely accurate but louder than a 357 magnum.

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Me hunting Spring Black Bear in Idaho back in 1984. The rifle is my Remington 270, the bullet I hunted most with was a 130 gr Nosler Partition. I passed up a 300 yards shot of a bear not 20 minutes after my dad took this photo. Too far for the 270, especially in all that brush.

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My first rifle given to me when I turned 12. I still own it. It is a Winchester m94 30-30. I carried it a couple years ago deer hunting. M94's like this one are really fun to hunt with. It wears a Williams Peep sight.


So lets see some gun/hunting photos, old ones, new ones or both.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:01 pm • # 2 
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My duck Rig.
16' Jon with custom scissor blind and 27hp longtail mudmotor.
This pic was taken on the Mississippi River. The dawg on the front is my now 5yr old Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
Also named......River.

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Same area as last pic.
This was River's 1st goose retrieve. You can see the rat huts in the background. A solid 100 yd retrieve after the bird sailed when hit. She took a great line and found the bird without the help of a single cast.

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This pic is of a snow goose hunt in NE. We shot 235 birds in 4 days with 3 guys. It literally was a "blast".
In the back of the pickup is 75 birds we jumped from a retention dam. Great shoot, River was tired after all the retrieve's she made.

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Another snow goose hunt. River was only 2, she learned alot on this trip. Especially how to "sit" without much going on!. It was a tough year. We only bagged 25 birds in 4 days with 3 shooters. You can see the spread in the 2nd pic. Awesome spot by a farm pond with a picked cornfield on the other side.

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A little pheasant action here. Love the muscular look of River's chest in this one!

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Meet Katie..
She was 3 at the time I took this pic. We kept her in our home for 1 yr while her owner rebooted his life after a divorce. She was an awesome dog, and big for a CBR female. She weighed in at 102 lbs. Gentle as a lamb until you got her out in the field, then it was all business. This pic as was taken on the WI river close to where I live.

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One of my favorite pics of all time.
This is a Dec hunt. We received 5" of snow. The birds were flying up and down the river all day. It was classic late season duck hunting.

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Love me some Wood Ducks!

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They turn into these...

My famous Ancho Citrus duck burrito with smoked onions, garlic, peppers. Add some potato and shredded cheese, Add a layer of Chipotle Adobo, = a great breakfast treat.

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The chef in action.

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The Mississippi River. My home away from home.

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My duck hunting partner and his lab.

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Ok...enough for now..I could go on and on. Duck hunting, my favorite hobby. I love sitting in the marshes at first light. Sunrise, coffee, good friends, whistling wings, and the smell of a wet and happy dawg.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:24 pm • # 3 
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That's looks really fun guys!
Bret, those pics of you and your dawg are awesome.

I picked up my recently inherited 7x57 Ruger M77 over Christmas. It's been a long time since I've shot, much less hunted but I hope to pick it back up this year.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:48 pm • # 4 
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I take a ton of photos fishing, not so much hunting. In my pockets I already have a dozen or so shotgun shells, leash, transmitter, cable cutters. A camera is just something else to loose. Most of my pictures come post hunt. I have lots of pictures of dogs pointing when we're training or just running on wild birds but when ever I try and get a shot hunting its out of focus or branch in the way.
I did take this shot on a sunny day of my cousin and one of the dogs.
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Here's the old girl a few years later.
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The old man of the squad, best retriever of the bunch.
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This shot is a bit posed, note the water bowl in the background, another picture taken at the truck.
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Here he is during younger days. He pointed the bird in a ditch, you can the see the garbage lying about, I thought for sure he'd come out of there with a cut foot.
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This is the young one of the bunch(although he's seven now). He might not look it but he's beat! I usually only run a dog for 30-60min but we got turned around in this cover, took us two hours to get back to the truck. He just kept finding birds and all I wanted to do was get out of there.
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A couple doodles on the tailgate and all that's left of a make shift boot. I haven't seen one stay on for more than half a hour, I still find them in my covers.
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Finally, this was the best dog I ever hunted over, handled great, honest as Abe on birds, retrieved, really did it all. Died way too young but was some fun when she was around.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:59 am • # 5 
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That's some beautiful country, looks alot like northern WI in the fall. Nice to see dawgs and feathers.
Love grouse and woodcock hunting. Really humbles a man when you've shot a box of shells and have nothing to show but leaves and branches. Cool pics.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:15 pm • # 6 
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Loomis4wt, I always say, I do a lot of shooting, not so much hitting. Grouse are tough, if you wait for a good shot you might never pull a trigger.

That Chesapeake of yours is a handsome dog. I always said if I got a retriever it'd be a chessie. When it comes to dogs you have to like a specialist. We do a bit of duck hunting later in the fall, mostly Dec. I'd kill to be out there with a dog, but I need at least two for grouse hunting and three is definitely the limit!


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:03 pm • # 7 
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My 2011 buck
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My son's 2011 deer (button buck)
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:15 am • # 8 
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loomis4wt wrote:
The chef in action.

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This is an awesome pic!


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:49 am • # 9 
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CBarclay wrote:
That's looks really fun guys!
Bret, those pics of you and your dawg are awesome.

I picked up my recently inherited 7x57 Ruger M77 over Christmas. It's been a long time since I've shot, much less hunted but I hope to pick it back up this year.


I love the 7X57 (aka 275 Rigby to the British). The Ruger you own is a tough gun and ballistics potential is right near that of the 280 Remington. I had one on a sporterized spanish mauser with a peep sight. I killed a lot of coyotes with it. I would love to find a Ruger. In a quality firearm like the Ruger and with good ammo, the 7x57 is enough rifle for all hunting you would ever do in the Lower 48 and enough gun for 90% of the rest of the world too. Jack O Conner said it was just as good for mountain sheep and African plains game as his 270.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 12:37 pm • # 10 
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Thanks for that info, Dave. I don't know much about it but my father-in-law had similar things to say about it. I'm excited to use it.


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:48 pm • # 11 
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I shot this buck a couple years ago. He is a little lopsided. We named him the trident buck.
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I knew something was strange when I saw him in the field but didn't realize just how odd until we walked up on him. Here is a link to the video of the hunt also, sorry my cameraman was a little shaky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcifHAnSvkA


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