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Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:52 pm**

Ghost Dog wrote:
Yuppers, I think I may have already answered this. What we need is a Great story Line and Data. A 100yd shot on a 300lb pig, with factory ammo, from a water tower, using a mirror, could generate votes. Just make sure you can cleanly and ethically, kill the animal, shooting over your shoulder, using a mirror and falling to the ground and dieing, because of a stupid trip to the top of the local water tower, doesn't count..

..t

Dang. Hope they'll take the mirror back, now where's that receipt.
Suppose the blindfold and gorilla suit have to go also?

LOLOLOL!!!

Ok, using the Gorilla suit, with antlers, and running around Hoot's AO, could be a winning story. Hoot might write.."so there I was, at 48yds (remember his ranges are necessarily short), when a Ten Point-Big Foot attacked me". Which would be a great winning story, but Ghost Dog, might be a little on the tough side and need extra cooking and barbecue sauce???..

..t

Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:17 pm**

I think some members of this group are taking the challenge a bit too far as to the colorful story line aspect . . .

Posted: **Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:54 pm**

I like the colourful story. More crayons please, and try ever so carelessly to stay between the lines. I am a rabid Monty Python fan, afterall?

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:47 pm**

Jim in Houston wrote:I think some members of this group are taking the challenge a bit too far as to the colorful story line aspect . . .

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I see somebody has been screen-grabbing the Cialis commercials running on the Redneck Channel.

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:19 am**

The first time you ever hunt, is exciting in a way that nothing else can match. The anticipation, the unexpected, the learning, the experience, no matter what happens, it's a trip of a lifetime.

Not having enough seinority at work, my vacation fell on the final week of a 2 month hunting season here. We arrived in the Mendocino National Forest to set up camp with enough time for an evening hunt. I pulled on my "Hardwoods HD" clothing and backpack, clipped the Garmin Rino 530HCx GPS/Radio to a pack strap, slipped the Steiner C5 Predator 10x40 binoculars around my neck, loaded "Thumper's" 5 round factory magazine with Hornady .450 factory ammo, and checked the lenses of the Zeiss 3-9x40 scope. I don't make a lot of money. It has taken years of saving, and carefully watching sales and specials to assemble my gear.

Over the 5 days we followed trails, tracks, and bear scat, through tree cover thick enough that visibility was usually 20-30 feet ... not yards, feet. In cover like this, any bear definately had the advantage, but I had "Thumper", and my determination. Occasionally we found a small clearing of trees filled with vegetation, and a trickle of creekwater. We would set up to watch for activity. With the wind in my face, and sun at my back, I scanned the treeline and held "Thumper" at the ready. As the sun set and the circle of darkenss constricts, every shadow is a bear. Every shadow must be scrutinized with the binoculars, but slowly so as not to give yourself away. Nothing.

We hunted morning and evening, but beginners luck was not to visit me. The area had already been hunted heavily for 2 months. All of the bear scat was dark, and the tracks were not fresh. Most likely all of the bears had moved far out of range, into an area where the season had already closed.

In summary, I didn't see the biggest bear I never shot at infinate distance. It was the trip of a lifetime.

Bill

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:34 am**

Bill, sorry you didn't get anything. I find your story extremely well written. You should try submitting it to one of the magazines

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:16 pm**

Agreed...you should fill in lots of details, and send it off to the mags! Very nicely written, indeed.

That's an example of what I have always loved about hunting...I never really cared whether I bagged a critter or not..."the hunt" and the process of getting there and back, usually with friends, was an end in itself. Welcome to the club!

(Okay, how did this forum get all these highly talented people on it? I'm impressed.)

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:29 pm**

My first year hunting mule deer in SW Colorado in 1996 was like that. I drove from Cordova, TN to Dallas TX then on to Delores, CO and came back empty handed, but with a TON of memories. My uncle reminded me on the way home that year..." That's why they call it hunting, not killing". But I went back in Oct 1997 and for the first time in my life, killed a Muley. I took tons of notes. It would make a nice paperback to read while on the throne. LOL. But I wouldn't trade those two years of memories for anything.

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:49 am**

Thank you for your kind compliments.

I have no idea how to submit something to a magazine, but I suppose I could give it a try.

Posted: **Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:52 am**

BillytheKid wrote:The first time you ever hunt, is exciting in a way that nothing else can match. The anticipation, the unexpected, the learning, the experience, no matter what happens, it's a trip of a lifetime.

Not having enough seinority at work, my vacation fell on the final week of a 2 month hunting season here. We arrived in the Mendocino National Forest to set up camp with enough time for an evening hunt. I pulled on my "Hardwoods HD" clothing and backpack, clipped the Garmin Rino 530HCx GPS/Radio to a pack strap, slipped the Steiner C5 Predator 10x40 binoculars around my neck, loaded "Thumper's" 5 round factory magazine with Hornady .450 factory ammo, and checked the lenses of the Zeiss 3-9x40 scope. I don't make a lot of money. It has taken years of saving, and carefully watching sales and specials to assemble my gear.

Over the 5 days we followed trails, tracks, and bear scat, through tree cover thick enough that visibility was usually 20-30 feet ... not yards, feet. In cover like this, any bear definately had the advantage, but I had "Thumper", and my determination. Occasionally we found a small clearing of trees filled with vegetation, and a trickle of creekwater. We would set up to watch for activity. With the wind in my face, and sun at my back, I scanned the treeline and held "Thumper" at the ready. As the sun set and the circle of darkenss constricts, every shadow is a bear. Every shadow must be scrutinized with the binoculars, but slowly so as not to give yourself away. Nothing.

We hunted morning and evening, but beginners luck was not to visit me. The area had already been hunted heavily for 2 months. All of the bear scat was dark, and the tracks were not fresh. Most likely all of the bears had moved far out of range, into an area where the season had already closed.

In summary, I didn't see the biggest bear I never shot at infinate distance. It was the trip of a lifetime.

Bill

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Now this is what I'm talking about!! Is our Billy Hooked or What?

Even though, Bill here, didn't shoot a deer at 14 miles or a charging Godzilla up close (which are our two basic categories, emphasis on Basic), Bills story, I think, deserves some votes, when we vote after the first of the year. Anybody second this thought??..

..t

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