Camp is good. Some beers died, and some deers died.

Back at it next weekend.

Fish on...

Todd

I guess that means deer camp stories stay at deer camp, ROFL.

Nick usually starts the Deer Camp thread, we provide no in-season updates, and then we promise an end of season wrap up that we typically fail to deliver on.

I think in the many years we have done this together Nick and I have posted a grand total of one single photo, and that was my super-Mondo buck from last year.

That's the process you have been adopted into, Sky-Guy

Fish on...

Todd

Dandy buck wp!

Congrats on the groceries sg!

Todd and the Bronco Fan are pretty much worthless for vicarious buck adventure pixels & prose. Not as nearly as bad as Parker tho'.

Rut seems slow this year. Have stealthily shadowed a few does but have only seen a button buck hanging near 'em on one occasion rather than his testosterone-addled great grandpa....

Good luck, all!

Maybe we'll birth a few photos and/or words at the end of the season, come January...but we'll probably forget, or more to the point, for get to care to do so

I gave an entirely accurate report this morning, if not particularly satisfying for others

Fish on...

Todd

Helps if one were to go hunting, something I haven't done in over 2 years. We gave up the Tonasket Game Preserve land rights after the deer populations crashed a couple of years ago and had the wolves move in.

Can't say that I miss climbing Mount Mick at 2:00 am on opening morning, but I do miss that time of morning when the wind dies down, becomes earily calm, and one can just start to glass and see deer returning from feeding to their beds. The ghosts of the mountains.

I declined to hunt on the Toff Deer Game Farm and Preserve, as I'm still on the Island's Top 10 Most Wanted by PETA.

Next year......out of state.

Hunting Iderho.

May not kill anything and may not take any photos, but I'm sure I'll have stories to tell!

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elparquito

I ain't seen chit. That concludes my hunting report.

We killed alot of deer... and a moose died, good week.

Pics or it didn't happen. You can't be talkin' bout a downed moose and not provide pics! C'mon man!

We rented a house in Gardner, MT for a few days last month. On the morning of the last day, as I was packing the car, a 5-point bull elk sauntered down the street past our driveway. I guess stuff like this is common there. The day we arrived there was a large pile of grizzly scat in the driveway.

Here on the home front, archery season began on Sept. 1. I haven't seen a BT buck since the 3rd week of August.

You know you are in a different area when you have to pack just to check the mail.

You'll start seeing those sneaky neighborhood bucks on does in the daytime anytime now. The pre-rut is firing up and they're starting to sniff butts. It won't be long and they'll get real stupid, which is what I'm counting on. I need their stupid to match my stupid or it doesn't work out very well.

LOL

Paker thinks Patchouli is a cover scent and kale smoothies count as trail food. He finds it adorable when chipmunks eat organic free range almonds outta his hand. He often tries baiting them up the inside of his pant legs into his warm & spacious chippy cave. That's the word on the streets.

The Pied Paker

The flute jokes just write themselves. I can totally see him skipping down the lane with small forest critters in tow. Zamfir ain't got chit on the Hammer.

LOL
If he goes through the woods playing that chit, then he's been cornholed by that big buck.

"And this one, I shot right off of Paker's backside."

I'm going to have borrow Dan's lighter for you and Nick.....

No need. Just point out that in a few weeks, they'll likely have just as much fresh venison in their freezer as you do....