Daily Hunt pics and Stories 2006

[RayMO]

Great stores and pics guys! Whitetails start here Friday.

[Talondale]

Originally posted by Alsea:


     

Alsea you need to smile.  LOL

[Littlefeather]

Mystical arrow flight captured. This was Shaun Webb shooting at a Jack Rabbit. You can see the arrow in flight on a bee line to the rabbit. See his head under the branch?

   

A closer look...

 

[Ray Hammond]

Tree Killer, go back to that same spot and put yourself in the right side of that photo and it WOULD be a magazine cover...those are worth money too....help you finance that roosie hunting!

Santiam, yours is a cover as well...bugling off into that big valley- just turn your camera sideways and get some sky above those mountains and you will be on the cover of TB I guarantee it!

Doug, how sweet it is...with all you are going through this year with recovering, and now with the fires all 'round, to be able to get it done like that has to be a real kick in the pants!!!!

Good for you, friend!

[Alsea]

Alsea you need to smile. LOL  

Talondale

I was smiling...lol!

The skeeters were so bad that night I didn't dare risk taking my headnet off, even for a few seconds. It stayed on until I got back to the pickup six hours later. As it was, plenty still got through and chewed me up anyway. We're having a fierce bug year out here on the coast...

[hunt it]

Nice elk guys!! If I had elk like that in my backyard i'd neever get outa the tree - till I was outa tags atleast.

Doug, Well done on the goat! Now get back out there, I wanna see a big elk with an arra hole in it! Happy huntin.

[Doug Campbell]

Hey thanks everybody and congrats to the other sucessful hunters this fall. Feels good to get back at it now if only we'd get past these fires. Haven't seen an elk in the area for quite some time and they evacuated the intire drainage from us up. Not looking good, the Derby fire to the east is 209,000 acres, West Boulder fire 6,000 acres, Trail Creek fire like 16,000 acres all within a few miles of us. Gonna be ugly this winter.

Sat on top for a couple hours glassing for critters yesterday evening and got a couple of pics. The West Boulder fire that's now twice this big.
 

The Derby Fire a few days ago, it's calmed down considerable now but got within 3 or 4 miles of us before it did.
 

[kennym]

Dang Doug,that looks tough! How many months or years to good green grub for the critters?

[possumtrot]

I have not had much of a chance to hunt like I wanted because of my work schedule, but saw a few nice bucks this evening. Wind was wrong and was driving around just looking. Had seen a couple 25-28" bucks in this same location a few days ago and wanted to see if I could see them again. Did not see them but did see this one... John

[possumtrot]

Saw these as well..

[Doug Campbell]

Well back up on top last night this was Baker Mountain, our old elk camp spot. Saw one very confused raggy wondering around in front of the flames. For a few of ya that have been there I expect Cow Camp probably didn't make it thru the night.

[TexMex]

Wow, that is awesome picture!

[hunt it]

Doug,

I hope the wind stays in your favour. I was in Yellowstone few years back for the big fires and just west of Jackson Hole where the SCI ranch is. We would have lost everything if it wasn't for the fact we had over 50 firefighters staying onsite to help with fires. They did a great job of making sure their stuff and the beer didn't get to hot. Scary stuff, but its nothing new to those livin in that great wilderness. Elk huntin should be even better in couple of years. All that said I hope it dosen't do too much damage at your place.

[Doug Campbell]

Well after a sleepless night of watching my stomping grounds burn myself and friends headed up the mountian early this morning. We fought fire mostly putting out hot spots till about 3:00 this afternoon. The weather has cooled off and made a tremendous difference in the fires intensity. I think we're finally getting a break with moisture forecast for the next couple days. This fire is pushing 32K acres now and almost made it far enough east to meet the 210K Derby Mtn fire.

Probably more than a few of these poor confused critters wondering around.
   
I've taken several pics and posted em here.
  http://community.webshots.com/user/dkcampbl?action=publicAlbums    [IMG]

[Alsea]

Thanks for the pics Doug...

[RayMO]

Yes, indeed, thanks for the link.

Take care there Doug.

RayMO

[TexMex]

[Negissimo]

This is by far my favorite thread each year! Thanks for the pics!

Here is a nice bull we caught on trail cam. This wallow was very active last year so we got in early and put up the cam. Thought you would enjoy the second picture especially

[Huntrdfk]

That is amazing, great pics...

David

[the Ferret]

Wow that is one muddy elk, bet he smelled ripe ha ha