3x3s Worth Shooting Picture Thread

[7mm-08]

Ha, well yes and no. It wasn't a fight and that's not his blood. We watched some guys shoot a doe and gut it. An hour later this guy showed up and was face f*cking the gut pile from the doe. Must have wanted to get a better smell of that bladder in the gut pile.

I was sure wondering what that blood on his face was from. Truth can be wilder than fiction!

 

[Glimmerman151]

This was a few years ago, lab aged him at 7.5 yrs old. 2024 Deer, I think his main beams were 24" & 27"

 

[MTbowhunter36]

Hunting season of '23. Saw him from the side and wasn't too excited until I saw him looking away.

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[Muleyhntr00]

 

[daiello91]

 

[mcr-85]

A couple 3x4s I've shot and one I found.

 

[Juan_ID]

A couple 3x4s I've shot and one I found.
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Dandies, but that last one.

 

[mcr-85]

Dandies, but that last one.

Yeah he's a different caliber than the ones I shot.

 

[WeiserBucks]

33" my grandfather killed in the 50s

 

[WeiserBucks]

 

[Glimmerman151]

My brother's 2024 Colorado deer. Super cool and almost black horns. Just a really unique look to him.

 

[Jaden Bales]

View attachment 851082This was a few years ago, lab aged him at 7.5 yrs old. View attachment 8510832024 Deer, I think his main beams were 24" & 27"

You look happier about the goofy one than the big framey sucker.

Did you turn in teeth for the '24 buck? Love to see a deer hit 7.5! That's awesome!

 

[Glimmerman151]

It was a rough go getting that big framed deer. I think i had 48 miles on my feet in a week.
I'll get the teeth aged for this years buck, but don't have the results back yet. I was pretty happy to turn up the buck this year, it was a nasty drought, cattle everywhere and the grasshoppers ate almost every piece of forage.

 

[Scottf270]

To Float or not to Float?

What have you guys done and what's your preferred method? For most DIYers I think a basecamp with a powered boat is less feasible so it comes down to float or basecamp for most. If you had to pick one, which would you do?

When first beginning the planning we were pretty set on a float. While a float hunt gives us the opportunity to cover more ground it presents a couple logistical challenges. We are two hunters with tags. Should a guy kill, the float stops for the amount of time it takes to breakdown and extract that animal which at best would be a couple days based on conditions and circumstances. This means who ever still had a tag in his pocket is more or less stuck with the animal as well until the float can continue. It's not a huge problem but certainly one we didn't consider when comparing the two approaches.

Another downside of floating that we hadn't considered was the prospect of striking and setting camp everyday in the dark. I've done this on backpack hunts for sheep but almost always in high country where it's generally dry and a minimalist approach is fairly easy and necessary. The prospect of locating a suitable site and setting/striking a potentially wet camp daily is less appealing to me.

On the flip side, I've been on a basecamp hunt that went dead. The bull we were after left the area and we spent the next several days hiking and sitting on ridge tops glassing up nothing.

I’ve only seen them in 3 point or better units! But wouldn’t mind one myself as well !

Up top new in unopened box - I’m afraid if I open it I’ll keep it haha! Funding a tikka 6 arc build

Good info, heading to Colorado for my lion hunt in a few days, taking a 44 mag carbine

In this case (and now Montana's proposed fee increase) it is not about supply and demand. The actual TAG has a supply or allocation and actually has value because the holder gets to hunt. So charge NR whatever the market will bear to keep the resident tags dirt cheap. Applications are different. They are infinite. This is solely a money grab from the unsuccessful applicants. The G&F departments are just looking for more and more pockets to pick that don't include their constituents. I would rather see higher tag prices while application fees stay minimal.

That’s a neat deer, like a goal post. Straight out and straight up

Get a guide, any good one will help jump start your learning curve, especially if only available 1 week a year.

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Ordered one. Thanks for the heads-up and discount code!

Shorten the season and you just force more hunters into those regions at the same time. Until they can control the number of deer taken by controlling the number of hunters in a unit things will continue downhill.

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A couple 3x4s I've shot and one I found.
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You look really young in those pictures.......lol!