Montana Muleys

Yet again my favorite hunting trip of the year proved to be one of the most successful as well.  The Montana Mule deer hunt.  Pictured below are hunting party members, Pat, Ken, Dave (aka Old Guy), Ted (me), Dave, Danny, Sam and Erik.   As Danny Tumberg would say, our hunting trip concluded with 6 "fine specimens".

Pat

 

Dave

Ted

Dave, Danny, Sam and Erik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken and Pat

 Now that my hunting season has wrapped up.  Its time to do a little fishing!

41"  18lbs

First Weekend of Rifle Season 2011

The first weekend came and blew away.  Strong southern winds may have put a hamper on deer movement but couldn't keep these hunters below from shooting some nice Central MN Whitetail Bucks.

Adam Minten with his 170 1/2" Gross Green Scored Buck

Dustin Teberg

Erik Tumberg

The Rut is on!

Bucks in Rut

Last weekend bow hunting I had 4 different little bucks chasin does. Although I didn't see any big boys, Mitch Becker and Sam Zutter can say otherwise. In the past few days, both have put arrows through some impressive bucks! Here are a few pics.

Sam Zutter with his Green Scored 178 Buck.  Also shown to the right.

Mitch Becker with his Brute.

Farm South of NYM

After having another trail camera on our small farm South of NYM we have a couple decent bucks roaming the area.  See pics below

Cody Gronvold Buck

Remember that Cody Gronvold's double drop tine buck from last year.... well one year later and a trip to the taxidermy made a nice wall mount shown below.

Cody Gronvold's 2010 Rifle Buck

Cody Gronvold's Shoulder Mount

 Early Bow Season Buck

Congrats to Wade Salo who scored this nice buck (shown below) in early bow season!

Wade Salo's 2011 Archery Kill



Kindred Buck!

One day too late!  Just got back from bow hunting tonight and below is a picture from last night!  Going to try again tomorrow so hope he comes back!

Bucks in Bachelor Groups

Bucks are running in small bachelor groups and will soon branch off on their own, but for now, multiple bucks in one picture can be seen more often.  Pictured above are two 9 point bucks.  The one on the left is the Split Brow 9 and the one on the right is the One Brow 9.  I have several pictures and videos of these two near hit-lister bucks along with 3-4 different 2 1/2 yr old 8 point bucks.  Often 2-3 off them in the same picture (SEE BELOW).

 

 Below are a few videos of bucks taken over the last few weeks.  In the top video is a couple of nice 8 point bucks.  The Split Brow 9 makes an appearance in the bottom two videos and the One Brow 9 appears at the beginning of the bottom video.

 

Hunting ND

I was able to get permission to hunt some land near Kindred ND and after a few weeks of having a trail camera set up on some apples and a salt lick I've started to get a few incoming bucks!  Below are a few pictures including a nice main frame 8 pointer with a broken left brow tine.

Nothing beats a Cuddy trail camera!

I just purchased the new Cuddeback Attack IR trail camera (pictured above) and boy is it sweet!  One setting I love is the picture plus video feature.  The camera will take a picture and then record a short 30 second video clip which I found to be of good quality.  Shown below is a picture plus the video to go with it.

 

 

2011 Season is right around the corner!

Welcome back!  

Its been awhile since I've posted so I figure its time for an update.  With the 2011 hunting season right around the corner I have been able to line up several tags/locations to hunt!

The first tag I will be trying to fill is my MN Beer license.  I will begin baiting in the next week or two and will be spending my Labor day weekend  hunting bear!

I also have a MN Buck tag (bow/rifle/muzzle loader), ND Archery Buck tag and MT rifle Buck tag.

Pictured above is one of the first pictures obtained from my trail cameras this year.  At the time, only one camera was out.  The camera angle was adjusting higher for a better angle.  More pictures to come!