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We recently had some good action at the trail cam. So we’re gettin excited for the up and coming season. Trail cams are a beautiful thing.

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More wolf attacks in the north west.

(AP) KALISPELL - A man hunting black bear shot and killed a wolf near Olney, northwest of Whitefish.

Zachary Harms of Kalispell was driving his truck up a forest road Tuesday when he saw movement. He walked along the road with his rifle, thinking he may have seen a black bear. Two wolves then ran out from the side of the road. One ran across the road and up the hillside. The other ran down the road towards Harms. The wolf closed to approximately 10 feet and Harms fired, hitting the female wolf in the front of the head.

The hunter contacted the sheriff’s office later that day and reported he had killed a wolf. Two state game wardens investigated, and determined the shooting was in self-defense and was allowed under state law.

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Jonas and I went out to setup his trail camera. Turkey and Bear both open up in a couple weeks. The snow is still pretty bad, so we didn’t get out there. But I did get a couple pics of some whitetails.

I got a chuckle out of this “Bible Scholar”, after finding a incoming link from Extreme Mortman. It’s about Huckabee committing “murder” in the fields of Iowa, and breaking the 6th Commandment. People are such cutie pies.

Thanks Guav for sending me this interesting piece published by the National Geographic on the steady decline of hunters. In the last 15 years, the number of hunters has dropped from 14 million to 12 million. It touches on the subject of conservation, Ted “the douche” Turner, Guav’s ancestor ape-man hunters from millions of years ago, and other issues in regards to game management.

The great irony is that many species might not survive at all were it not for hunters trying to kill them. All the wings provided to Norman Saake and his colleagues throughout the country come from hunters, who fold them into prepaid envelopes, record the date and place of harvest, and mail them in. It is but one example of how the nation’s 12.5 million hunters have become essential partners in wildlife management. They have paid more than 700 million dollars for duck stamps, which have added 5.2 million acres to the National Wildlife Refuge System since 1934, when the first stamps were issued. They pay millions of dollars for licenses, tags, and permits each year, which helps finance state game agencies. They contribute more than 250 million dollars annually in excise taxes on guns, ammunition, and other equipment, which largely pays for new public game lands. Hunters in the private sector also play a growing role in conserving wildlife.

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About a week ago, Jonas took himself a nice 9 point whitetail. He was watching a power line clearing one day after work, and out he stepped.

I helped him gut it and bring it home. Unfortunately I didn’t have my Nikon D50, so I wasn’t able to get any good photos.

Ryan and I sat out in the Wolf Lodge tree stand this morning. We got out there at dark 30, sat and watched. It’s late in the season, so we’d both be happy with a doe fawn at this point.

About an hour into it, a big doe steps out good and broadside. She was about 60 yards away when I stopped her, and told Ryan to take the shot. It cleared her back by an inch or so. She ran off, and sounded the alarm. Ryan didn’t calculate the rise in the bullet at that distance, plus the rise in the bullet from shooting down.

I wish I had my digital camera rolling. It woulda been good to ruffle his feathers. Anyways, I’m so “fortunate” that I get to miss a week of hunting season to spend it down in San Diego, Mexifornia. Too bad there wasn’t a season for border jumpers. Maybe there will be if Ron Paul gets elected. So I’ll be down there from this Saturday till the next. We’ll see what happens.

Alas, today ends Elk season and I have nothing to show for it. Been all over the woods and the most we’ve done is spook em and chase em up or down. We’ve hunted Wolf Lodge Creek, Rose Creek, Killarney Creek, Beauty Creek, Blue Creek, Bullion Creek, and countless other places around the panhandle.

Down rose creek, we got skunked by some other hunters. We got up a 3, hiked down the mountain in the dark from Rose Saddle. We sat in the dark till dawn started to break. As we stood up to put on our packs and head down the creek bed, 4 other hunters on 4 wheelers roll up. Park next to us, and head off down the trail we were just planning on taking. Within 20 minutes they pulled out a cow. So that was a disappointment.

Down Killarney Creek, we sat down in the road to take a break. It was about 10 am when a doe tore out of the woods, crossed the forest road, and went back in on the other side. As I was just about to ask Jonas what her hurry might have been, a tired coyote came out of the woods in pursuit of her. He was about 300 yards down the road, and quit chasing her after we sparked his interest. We were sitting still on stumps, and camo’d, so he wasn’t sure what to make of us. As he trotted toward us a few yards, Jonas stood up and laid his sights on the varmint. Shot and it hit too low. The coyote jumped and stepped back a few feet. I told him to aim high, as the rounds for his 30-06 have a 36″ drop in the bullet at 300 yards. So he aimed around the top of the coyotes head and fired again. It hit the ground immediately at his feet, and the coyote ran into the thick. I guess I shoulda been shooting at him too, but I was enjoying watching Jonas take the shot. We’ll get him next time.

Welp, Deer is still open till December 1st, and I’m still holding out for a buck. We’ve had plenty of chances at a doe, but we won’t take one unless we need to. From December 1st through the 9th we’ll have a shot at a spike Elk once more. That’ll be with the inline muzzle loader.

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Sean and Jonas called me at 10:30 in the am, yesterday. They shot a doe and needed help packing it out, plus the use of my truck. So the boss gave me the day off to help em out.

He shot her from around 300 yards with his 300 Ultra Mag. Dropped her while she was still eating, so you can see the food hanging from her mouth.

Let her hang for a minute to drain any extra blood from the chest cavity.

So far the hunting season is off to a bad start. Last year there were only 2 hunting deaths due to carelessness. This year, season has only been open for 2 weeks, and we’re already at 3 deaths.

It’s really irritating to know how many douche bags with guns are out in the woods with me. It also irritates me to know that people refuse to wear blaze orange, cos it “looks gay”. I full heartily disagree. I think pink lipstick with buttless chaps looks gay. But blaze orange cos yer out trying to kill something looks far from gay. I mean, Halle Berry looks good in it . But if you are John Kerry, then you are gay no matter what.

I bring this topic up after I read this article this morning. A 22 year old Bayview man was shot dead, because of a moron in the woods didn’t positively identify his target. Shot the guy at 70 feet through the thicket.

That is so stupid. I hate knowing that there are people like that out in the woods with me. I refuse to be out there without orange. So… that being said, head over to my shop and get yerself a blaze orange vest or some blaze orange caps.

So Jonas and I finally got our hunting store good and live. Only took a year to get everything in gear. But most the time goes into adding products. I’ve got just under 400 products on there now, and we carry about 2,000. So products are added all the time.

And just in case anyone is interested and living in a true state. I can sell you an M-249 SAW, If you want to spend around 7 grand.