You are a great mom for getting them started on the right track and showing them where food actually comes from that shows up on the dinner table. Every farm kid grew up knowing what it meant to...

Great caliber for mule deer! Good luck on your trip and shoot straight!

I have a couple friends who live in the Olympia area and really like it. The do get lots of rain, but when it was 20 degrees below zero in February a few years ago and my buddy was mowing his lawn...

That's a great job and story. You guys sure earned them!! It just amazes me what those big bulls will put up with to avoid people!

Great pictures and story. Congratulations to both of you!

That is a fantastic animal and a great elk! Now that is a hunting trip. What bullet was your boy using in the 270 Winchester? Was it a hand-load? :cool:

I hope you enter it into the B&C...

Tell the little man happy birthday! They sure are fun at that age, and are like miniature tornado's everywhere they go! Happy birthday to Mr. Guy Eastman. Great magazine, tv show, and wonderful...

Wow those are beautiful animals!!

Sorry for your loss and good for you for getting back out there hunting. Your father would want you to go forward and continue doing this wonderful thing that he shared with you called hunting and...

I already told you nice bull, but that really is a nice bull Matt! Sure is neat country isn't it!! Gets treacherous in the wind after a short few years when hunting though! Every time I hear a...

A Ruger #1B in .280 Remington with a premium 26" barrel and a Leupold 4.5-14x40mm on top, a Zeiss Conquest, or maybe a fixed 6x42mm Leupold with the LR dots. Custom wood on it with some nice figure....

You don't even need a smoker to do this, and it works great with just standard Weber BBQ. It is not quite the same, but I have done a lot of roast in this fashion. I take a large roasting kettle...

I do not. It is just Brinkman briquette smoker, nothing fancy. It has a gauge on the lid that says where it is at in the the warm, ideal, or hot range. All I know is it was in the ideal range...

I agree. I think it's a great tribute to the animal and honor to have them entered into the B&C record book. He sure is a beautiful moose!!

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He got this guy just a few days ago in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness area. He is 7.5 years old and about 9" both sides. Don used a 300 WSM in a Winchester Model 70 with a Zeiss Conquest scope. ...

Wow that roast looks great also! Nice job. Good think I am munching on deer jerky right now.

It did taste fantastic. I ruined an elk roast smoking it a few years ago. I put too much water in the container in the smoker and cooked it at too low of heat. It got so that it literally fell...

I had about a 3-4 pound roast that I sprinkled with blackened seasoning. I put it on my smoker that had nice glowing gray color charcoals. Before I put the meat on , I filled the water container...

Sorry to hear about the friends in your life. Especially harder for the younger fellow with the family. Horribly senseless and hard to understand a purpose behind it. Prayers for their families.

Great moose my friend. There should be a lot of great eating there!

That is a terrific buck. Distance, cartridge, rifle use? Must have details. Tell her congratulations.

Oh Shane, that was pretty funny!

Tough old gals weren't they!! Somehow I imagine Miss Bickel is a trooper herself! I'm glad you could see the humor in it.
David