All in the Family featured the curmudgeonly Archie Bunker. Archie was television’s most famous grouch, blunt, blustering, straightforward and untouched by the PC crowd. He was the archetype of the conservative male. Michael desprately tried to reeducate him, but he persisted in his breviloquence.



Looking back at the last 40 years, we realize: ARCHIE WAS RIGHT!

10/23/2012

Hunting

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Not an elk.  It is however my first mule deer.  I normally don't hunt mule deer,  I go after whitetails.  Its not even my best deer.  At 3:30 on the last day of season, I stalked up on him and 5 does, and the rest as they say, is hamburger.

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Also not an elk.  It is my longest distance shot on a big game animal.  It was a 317 yard head shot.  Those of you who know I normally shoot long distance might be surprised that I don't have a longer big game kill shot.  I don't try for long shots on big game and I never wait till I get a longer shot.  Until two years ago my longest kill was under 200 yards.  Then I took a 297 yard antelope and this year I took a 317 yard shot.  It was only a head shot because the buck turned and backed up when I shot.  My normal point of aim is the place on the shoulder where the white and brown make a little corner.

As for elk, I drove across the state just to spend my week of vacation in a mechanics shop getting my truck fixed.  Of course there is a tale of adventure with that but it will have to wait till I have more time.

7 comments:

  1. WaterBoy9:57 AM

    No elk, but nice work putting meat on your family's table, anyway.

    And a 317-yard kill is nothing to sneeze at. Good job!

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  2. How does one live in Wyoming as long as you have and not kill a mule deer till now?

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  3. I like eating whitetail better. The other reason has to do with when the season is open in the unit I live in. This is the first time it was open till the 20th. For the first 9 years I lived here I owned a great bird dog and I spent my free time hunting with her. Bird season and muley over lapped but whitetails were open till latter in the year.

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  4. I can't say I can tell the difference.

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  5. Our mule deer is a little closer to antelope in taste. The whitetail I grew up eating was mostly corn fed. So when I first had mule deer it was different. I don't mind either but it was eaiser for me to hunt whitetail so thats what I did. Prior to saturday I only went out muley hunitng 1 time in the last 12 years of living here and I passed on a buck that day.

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  6. I try to hunt them with the bow when we are in the Hills over thanksgiving on years that we don't draw a rifle tag. Or after the rifle tag is filled.

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  7. By the way, that really sucks about the pickup. I'd have gone out of my mind.

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