Yeah, a 500 lb one. Lol
Big Game Hunters, Show Your Stuff
- Thread starter GreatwhiteNorth
- Start date
BarnBuster
Virtually Unknown Member
"Harry Selby, one of the last of Africa’s renowned white hunters, who took rich and famous safari clients into the interiors of Kenya, Tanganyika and Botswana for a half-century to shoot game, photograph exotic wildlife and search for elusive adventure in the bush, died on Saturday at his home in Maun, Botswana. He was 92."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/obituaries/harry-selby-dead.html
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
BarnBuster
Virtually Unknown Member
I was looking at one of my auction sites and never would have thought antique hand carved duck and goose decoys would be that valuable. So, I guess search Pops and Gpops old ones and see if you've got a fortune!
This was from earlier last year, but damn..
"The top lot in the auction was a pair of pintails by Hamilton, Ont., carver Ivar Fernlund, selling for $201,250 USD, a new world auction record for this maker. Records were set for several other carvers from the Peter Brown/DUC collection, including Angus Lake and John Reeves."
http://www.ducks.ca/stories/rescue-our-wetlands/rare-pintail-decoys-set-world-auction-record/
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/inside-the-archives-duck-decoy-prices/
This was from earlier last year, but damn..
"The top lot in the auction was a pair of pintails by Hamilton, Ont., carver Ivar Fernlund, selling for $201,250 USD, a new world auction record for this maker. Records were set for several other carvers from the Peter Brown/DUC collection, including Angus Lake and John Reeves."
http://www.ducks.ca/stories/rescue-our-wetlands/rare-pintail-decoys-set-world-auction-record/
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/inside-the-archives-duck-decoy-prices/
SativaInMind
Well-Known Member
really conflicted on this, morality is a super tough subject to pin down, keeping the populace in check is well what it is, but I personally don't eat meat anymore though as we don't need to, what if there was a apex predator that just cultivated or hunted us to eat or for entertainment?
Anyways the idea of cutting up animals and spilling guts all over just doesn't agree with me, I couldn't care about other species as much as dogs and would happily kill pests or rodents that might effect me, but I'm not going to go out my way to shoot and slice up some 'innocent' creature, dunno if its truly right, I think its a tough one. well that's my 2c....
Anyways the idea of cutting up animals and spilling guts all over just doesn't agree with me, I couldn't care about other species as much as dogs and would happily kill pests or rodents that might effect me, but I'm not going to go out my way to shoot and slice up some 'innocent' creature, dunno if its truly right, I think its a tough one. well that's my 2c....
macsnax
Well-Known Member
Very nice!Is this the thread for girls with big ‘buts?
View attachment 4142529 View attachment 4142531
How bout a queen with a king?
View attachment 4142532
On top of 3 beautiful kings (one white) we got a years worth of halibut our first trip out this year, mostly thanks to the ladies, who found the keepers
Congrats to the ladies - our "Butt's" are coming up shallower now finally & it's time to fill the freezer.Is this the thread for girls with big ‘buts?
View attachment 4142529 View attachment 4142531
How bout a queen with a king?
View attachment 4142532
On top of 3 beautiful kings (one white) we got a years worth of halibut our first trip out this year, mostly thanks to the ladies, who found the keepers
And we always have feeder Kings year around - just have to find them.
tangerinegreen555
Well-Known Member
Wow, that's a lot of pollution free halibut you caught there.Is this the thread for girls with big ‘buts?
View attachment 4142529 View attachment 4142531
How bout a queen with a king?
View attachment 4142532
On top of 3 beautiful kings (one white) we got a years worth of halibut our first trip out this year, mostly thanks to the ladies, who found the keepers
when's dinner?
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
wascaptain
Well-Known Member
makes a year next month i went meat free myself.
and sure enough, not eating animals lead me to not killing them. i missed all last hunting season and did not keep a fish i caught since then as well.
i aint hating on anyone,...but i do feel better about myself.
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
12.5 yr old ram , solo
elkamino
Well-Known Member
Nice buck, nice ram!
And solo hunting is the best.
Twelve years is a very old ram, but somehow he’s not full curl? Interesting. I don’t age them and I’m not challenging his age but where are you that you can take a ram that’s not full curl?
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
Thanks ,
I do my best work solo, (Deer is solo too, my buddy came to my area when he heard the shot) & that’s my 4th ram
I’m in Canada, we have full curl and 4/5th curl zones. Lots of big horn rams will never get to full curl, they try to broom, there’s lots of rams that will never live long enough to make 4/5th, this guy is on the line, only because of my experience was the only way I was able to call him. It was his last winter , he would not have made it though the rut. And over the counter tags , when you tag one , you have to sit out the next yr .
Here’s a crude show of annual lines
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
The lines are not perfect, but u get the idea
Might as well close out my 2017 season here , 1 left (best yr to date)
Big Horn Ewe ( 7 year wait for this tag)
Might as well close out my 2017 season here , 1 left (best yr to date)
Big Horn Ewe ( 7 year wait for this tag)
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
It’s getting close to hunting season, less than a month away . Big Billy 
How'd I miss this?
Nice boy you have there.
Here's mine - He's right at 9" and was quite the workout packing off the mountain through a butt load of Brownies, camp & all.
BTW, I wish this Bull had pounded this turd into raspberry pudding.
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
Nice billy, to bad this didn’t happen to that guy.
I’ll be leaving in about 2 weeks
Scouting 2 weeks ago, I got on this band of 10, with 2 very impressive rams in there.
This yr I’ve seen more legal rams (& true trophy’s)then any other yr sense I started hunting them.
And I don’t have a tag, I’m just a guide this yr.
I’ll be leaving in about 2 weeks
Scouting 2 weeks ago, I got on this band of 10, with 2 very impressive rams in there.
This yr I’ve seen more legal rams (& true trophy’s)then any other yr sense I started hunting them.
And I don’t have a tag, I’m just a guide this yr.
BigHornBuds
Well-Known Member
When I was packing that billy off of that mtn, I fell once on this really steep spot full of dead devils club. I slid on my ass for almost 100 yards ,trying to dig my heals in n grab for anything that wasn’t devils club, it tore me up, I was picking thorns out of my legs for a couple months .
Ahhh .... good times , good times .
Goat unlike sheep, is the tuffest meat I have ever eaten, the burger was tuff even. Really big muscle tissue. I’d still go for a nice camp fire n some chewy billy backstrap tho.
Hopefully eating ram ribs on aug 25th.
Ahhh .... good times , good times .
Goat unlike sheep, is the tuffest meat I have ever eaten, the burger was tuff even. Really big muscle tissue. I’d still go for a nice camp fire n some chewy billy backstrap tho.
Hopefully eating ram ribs on aug 25th.