2010/2011 Hunting stories and pics

[kneedownnate]

Turkey season is here, rabbit will be open around the end of june I believe, pig and jack rabbit are both open year round.  If nobody has any pics or stories from this year, I'm sure there'll be some soon 

[IronClad]

i'll letcha know after june bought a new gun over the weekend and plan on doin alot of huntin this year !

[kneedownnate]

Right on!  I don't have to wait till june to see what gun you bought, right?

[IronClad]

haha right on that one no pics yet due to still during my 10 days but its a Savage 111 FCNS in a .270 flavor but i dont have my license right now so no point in getting it till after june =\

[Rockcrawlintoy]

haha 10 day waiting periods are so dumb.

[IronClad]

here ya go ! picked it up sunday and got it sighted in best i could dealing with a little bit of wind. real fun to shoot!

[kneedownnate]

Oooohhhh, very nice 

[Coastie]

Sweet,  get your self some butler creek scope caps they are awesome

[kneedownnate]

Came home to a small buck in my yard tonight.  Pic came out poorly cause the neighbor kids spooked him off before I could get a good pic.  Small body, small rack, but if he's still here when bow season opens and I find out he's been in my garden, I'll be borrowing a bow and gaining some meat 

[brainlessfool]

  Small body, small rack,

hey, thats just how I like me wemans!

[possume22]

i like small bodies big racks and tight cracks

[kneedownnate]

Didn't get a pic since my hands were slimy already, but I caught my first salmon of the year.  Not huge but enough for a few meals, and the meat looked good.  It was kind of a pita to get in cause I was using a light 7' rod and was standing on a submerged rock shelf out on the river, and every time I got him near me he'd take off again.  Woulda probably been a 2 minute fight on my salmon rod with a net nearby, but it seems like it took 8-10 minutes before I tired it out enough to pull it i and grab it by the tail.

Got there right about fishing light and the hole was absolutely full of very active fish, but another guy had floated across the hole in a boat and was limiting me to a more confined area than I like to fish in the hole.  My friend also missed out too.  Told him saturday I'd be outside his house at 4am, showed up at 4:05 and waited 30 minutes and he never showed, so I finally had to jet off by myself before it got too close to fishable light.

[kneedownnate]

Headed back out tomorrow morning 

[IronClad]

not really "hunting" but just got back from hayfork doin some scouting.. saw a bunch of does and some small forky's  =\ didnt see anything worth shooting unfortunately. was nice to hit the mountain though

[Daddys Lil Country Girl]

i didnt know you were a hunter... archery opens up this weekend. pretty excited only bucks ive seen been in town.. think there is too much goin up past inskip for any deer..seen does higher up...see how the river is.. hopefully some big boys

[Caboose]

Came home to a small buck in my yard tonight.  Pic came out poorly cause the neighbor kids spooked him off before I could get a good pic.  Small body, small rack, but if he's still here when bow season opens and I find out he's been in my garden, I'll be borrowing a bow and gaining some meat 

Haven't been hunting in a while and am not familiar with all the game laws, but if they are damaging your property (IE your garden) cant you shoot them?

[IronClad]

i didnt know you were a hunter... archery opens up this weekend. pretty excited only bucks ive seen been in town.. think there is too much goin up past inskip for any deer..seen does higher up...see how the river is.. hopefully some big boys

yep been a hunter/fisher all my life.. even used to shoot archery tournaments up in redding all the time

[Daddys Lil Country Girl]

you get ur a1 tag?

[IronClad]

Nah my bow needs work.. re strung all my arrows need to be redone and whatnot so decided to sit this season out and just do rifle.. id much rather have meat on the table haha

[kneedownnate]

not really "hunting" but just got back from hayfork doin some scouting.. saw a bunch of does and some small forky's  =\ didnt see anything worth shooting unfortunately. was nice to hit the mountain though

Holy crap, we weren't that far from each other!  I assume you went out 36 so we likely took different routes, but I was fishing the trinity, which isn't terribly far as the crow flies.  And yes, I did catch a nice salmon, again on the lite rod - about 8 pounds 

[IronClad]

Holy crap, we weren't that far from each other!  I assume you went out 36 so we likely took different routes, but I was fishing the trinity, which isn't terribly far as the crow flies.  And yes, I did catch a nice salmon, again on the lite rod - about 8 pounds 

Ya went up 36 through wildwood and cruised around the hills then went into Hayfork and saw my dads friend scott and my uncle

Right on with the salmon.. i almost brought the rods with us  but forgot when we left oroville at like 3:30 am lol didnt really have a whole lot of time to stop and fish anyway.

[kneedownnate]

Funny, I left my house at 3:30 too, then ended up replacing the first fuel pump of the day at 5am    Have you checked out hayfork summit area down to... whatever the hell creek dumps out at the bottom of the hill heading toward hayfork?  That's my pigeon area, and we've seen some nice bucks up there, but the local yocals like it up there too so it can be a bit sketchy!

[IronClad]

ummm not to sure..  We're probably gonna end up hunting on my dads friends ranch ( big creek ranch) or up behind my uncles house. not to worried bout the locals though since my uncle has that town on lock down haha

[kneedownnate]

I'm going to assume your uncle and family are in the small minority of non mouth breathers in the area    We always stop there for gas on motorbike rides, and it's always amusing to watch reality set in for the new guys who've never witnessed that which is hayfork   

[Stocker]

Have you checked out hayfork summit area down to... whatever the hell creek dumps out at the bottom of the hill heading toward hayfork? 

Probably Summit Creek... runs along the south side of the highway for a ways. Carr Creek comes in from the north side as you come into the valley.

ummm not to sure..  We're probably gonna end up hunting on my dads friends ranch ( big creek ranch) or up behind my uncles house. not to worried bout the locals though since my uncle has that town on lock down haha

That's a helluva nice ranch, and a good connection to have. I'm somewhat familiar with the area from doing telephone work around there for several years.

[brainlessfool]

I'm going to assume your uncle and family are in the small minority of non mouth breathers in the area    We always stop there for gas on motorbike rides, and it's always amusing to watch reality set in for the new guys who've never witnessed that which is hayfork   

hayfork anything like Happy Camp?

[IronClad]

I'm going to assume your uncle and family are in the small minority of non mouth breathers in the area    We always stop there for gas on motorbike rides, and it's always amusing to watch reality set in for the new guys who've never witnessed that which is hayfork   

haha my uncle looks like straight up hill folk. dirty no teeth etc but he's a hell of a guy (GAVE me a warn M12000 over the weekend) but whatever you do dont ever end up onhis property without permission lol

Probably Summit Creek... runs along the south side of the highway for a ways. Carr Creek comes in from the north side as you come into the valley.

That's a helluva nice ranch, and a good connection to have. I'm somewhat familiar with the area from doing telephone work around there for several years.

Yeah my dad and his brothers were born in weaverville and grew up in hayfork working for scott and other people. Its nice to roll into town and get some fairly exclusive hunting area's where the only thing deer have to fear are the lions

[kneedownnate]

Probably Summit Creek... runs along the south side of the highway for a ways. Carr Creek comes in from the north side as you come into the valley.

That's the one, Carr creek!  You can go in at the summit and hunt down to carr creek, or vice-versa.  That's where tim shot one of his little bucks and his friend shot but couldn't find a large 4x4 years back when 4 of us were up there.  If you remember, it's the time they shot a total of 17 times, 9 bullets hitting tim's deer    They said it kept getting up so they kept shooting, and the 4x4 did a backflip after the other dude shot it, they watched the area but couldn't find the buck anywhere.

I'm drawing a blank on which one big creek ranch is    That isn't the one off the road that connects all the way over to big bar, is it?

[IronClad]

Its on big creek road off HWY 3  it eventually turns into a forest route/jeep trail. he also owns property off east fork but i dont think there was ever a sign up for the ranch

[Stocker]

Where the East Fork dumps into Hayfork Creek? That's Sam Jackson's old ranch, isn't it?
I heard that Scott bought it several years ago.