Elk Hunt with Sons
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Randy recalls the last elk hunt he and our two sons went on together on in 2006 [he was thinking at recording it was in 2005] in the backcountry of our beautiful North Fork of the Shoshone National Forest.
He also recalls a solo scouting trip, with mule, horse and hound, with a funny twist.
Photos included.
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Thank you for sharing this hunting trip and your solo trip. My mother passed, I was her caregiver for over 12 years and you got me to think about the times I shared with my mother. Thank you Randy.
Great looking family. Best times in my life were outdoors with my father hunting and fishing. Well done.
The best times of my life was hunting. Randy I get you 100 percent. There is in our deep soul something magical almost religious in hunting. Some experience it many don't. Some of us, you and I it goes really deep into the soul. The way the world is now we have been wounded severely. A sincere thank you to you and your wife. At least we have our memories.
I couldn't agree more Randy!
Randy, as usual you hit the nail on the head. So many precious freedoms and traditions are being taken away from us. I love your skill and your stories. Thank you.
Great hunting story. Listening to your story is a 10000x better than the canned hunting on the tv. That promote this crap of trophy hunting and long range hunting. Whether it’s archery or rifle hunting. Ethical hunting has been lost. I started archery hunting years ago and learned from older gentleman. He was a State archery champion. He told me yes you can hit a 3d target at 50 yards. But the speed of sound is significantly more than your arrow velocity.
Limit your shot to 25 yards! That is if you can get good enough to hit a snuff can lid at 40 yards. We all owe it to the game we hunt to be ethical.
God Bless and Thank you!!
The cow elk hunters here in Alberta are just like you describe. They hunt like shooting at a flock of birds
Randy, I'm pleased to know you, and greatly enjoy sharing your experience.
Great story.
Some of the trouble with the new age hunters is, they didn’t have fathers like you & my dad, to teach love, respect & reverence, for our beautiful wildlife.
People are losing touch with their primal instincts & it has become more about how things look, as opposed to how things are.
The hunt, the taking of the game, giving thanks & blessing the game, preparing & consuming the game, nourishes the soul deeply.
I don’t think some of the new fellers were taught how to immerse themselves in that part or taught to understand the deeply gratifying experience of it all.
These majestic animals are gifts to man. We are to demonstrate grace, dignity & thankfulness.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. I hunted with Harold Turner at the Triangle X south of Yellowstone in the early 90s. I trained horses so riding that country and seeing that game was absolutely magical. The amount of elk that was there was unbelievable the moose were incredible. Also by the time I’ve got enough preference points to hunt moose there was no moose left. I had to go south east about 60 miles to Hunt. I just recently hunted at the Triangle x 2021. There was hardly any elk left what a shame ballot box biology.
I've seen so many unrecovered animals now than I have ever have.
thank you again, and your spot on about what is going on. happened here in oregon.elk hutting USED to be great. thats my story, and iam sticking to it.
I never got a Elk but my cousins always get em so I get meat! I love Shoshone its wide open in places and easier to hunt than here in Western Washington is so thick except for clearcuts...
Paradise is lost, it will never ever be the same...
Great Show Randy.
Well spoken my man.............
Amen, Bro. Amen. Velkum to Lower East Slobovia! I have been on many deep Adirondack wilderness canoe hunts and could still do it, but. Will your car still be there? If so... You know... So... I go more locally for day hunts with my son any more. God Bless. Jerry
Thanks for watching and sharing your experience. So far, we don't have that issue, but the way things are going, who knows!
I've really enjoyed this hunting story. It reminds me of the times when my son and I went hunting before he joined the usmc. We'd have the times of our lives deer and Wildhogs.
Once we were hunting in coke and Nolan counties on the Barret ranch that the ranch house straddled. Mrs. Bobby Barrett said if a tornado watch or warning was issued for one of those counties, she'd just go to the other side of the house!
My son Ethan bagged his first deer on that ranch with his 243, and I still remember it like it was yesterday.
How true
Thanks for another fun video! What would you say is the best cartridge for elk? I’ve seen a lot of debate between 7 Rem Mag and 300 Win Mag, but want to see if I can get your opinion.
Actually, the .338 Win. Mag, better than either the 7 Rem Mag or .300 Win. Mag.
Thanks for watching.
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Amen, long range shooting of game is a rage, only way so many want to take game, and few who even know how to hunt! These 1,000yd moa rifles and TV and internet pushing em are a curse to what hunting=working to get into ethical range, for a sure shot, and a full recovery isn't even in many people's thinking!
Can you imagine the memories and stories about them thats in this man's head. Randy was taught by PO Aikley. Thanks Randy for spreading a little of that savvy with us.
Was he
@@austinorton8983 I rechecked where I got the information and Randy went to school to learn gun making in a program started by Aikley. My bad
Thanks. More by Les Bowman, than PO, but those two men and man more in my life blessed me with a unique education and mentoring.
Thanks for watching.
So Randy I'd really like to hear what you and others here think what the solution may be. Is it creating more ethical and moral youngsters to continue the traditions? Do we have a conservation problem that needs to be addressed? Is there a predator problem that is hurting the hunting? Are there simply too many hunters theae days?
What can we do? Do we buy land and build private reserves for ourselves and family and friends? Do we need to bring awareness to the issue? Im curious how we can improve things..
Wolves destroy hunting, everywhere. A highly REDUCED wolf population is the only way to bring back the once record herds we had. Then there was a study done by Yellowstone National Park, showing that 98% of newborn elk were killed by grizzlies in the first 48 hours of life! Game departments, which brought the wolves in are sure not going to admit that their policy back fired. Go to rangedex.com, Summer 2019 issue of Are Wolves the Problem. Also just do a search of "Wolves" in their Rangedex page. You will find many, many well researched, well written articles with suggested steps USFWS and all states involved should use to reverse the damage being done. Then, on top of the severe depredation by wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, grizzly and some black bear, we have the over selling of licenses in the areas already hard hit, with them waiting for 5-7 years to do feasibility studies on "what should we do", while the problem gets worse and worse. There have been a couple of people say I lie about this because WY is proposing unlimited elk tags. What they didn't read is that 1] it is proposed, not a done deal yet, 2] it is for only 8 of the 130 elk hunt areas, so just a bit over 6% of the hunt area for elk. 3] Six of those 8 areas would be on private land only. Lots of luck with that! 4] the areas with too many elk in WY are far removed from wolf and grizzly populations, and in areas with more private land than public land, unlike our area and around YNP, which is mostly public land. People need to be INVOLVED in their state with game management. Encourage them to return to the North American Model of Conservation, which brought severely depleted game animals from the brink of extinction in many cases, to premier herds. Encourage them to follow Alaska model. EVERY hunter, no matter what they are hunting, and even if they don't harvest anything, have to fill out a form, on phone or on line of what animals they saw in the area they hunted, the #, the number of male/female [as can be determined], etc. Based in, for example, 2023 reports from the field and from their conservation officers, the regs were set for 2024. Some areas saw increased tags for moose, some saw decrease or none, depending on the herd health and #. They don't wait for years and years pondering what to do and it works well.
Thanks for watching.
Hunting is definitely changed and not for the good. I feel that the modern generation has truly missed the point and will never realize what a true hunter actually should be. Mr Selby, I agree.
Love your stuff. About 4 years ago I had you put an a muzzle brake on my wife's savage 270. I am looking ti get a suppressor for her, what is the threading you did yo the barrel? Thank you. Robert Martin Billings, MT
Send me an email on this, Robert, as I won't answer this type of question on a public form.
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It's truly sad what has become of things in this country it seems most people just want to brag about how far they shot something
The bigger the ego the bigger the lie.
It is unbelievable that these shooters think they can responsibly shoot a big game animal consistently past 400 yards under hunting conditions.
Hello I'm new to your channel and have a question. If I use the lee hand loader which sizes the neck only will the ammo cycle in my outo loader some say no the shoulder must be bumped .3 if this is true why and why is .3 the magic number ?
Thanks and welcome.
Yes, that is correct.
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@@TheRealGunsmith so the shoulder must be bumped back .3 to cycle in the auto loader ?
@@TheRealGunsmith is the chamber shorter on the auto loader?
Yes your so right, it's to bad almost all the Western states fish an game departments have turned into such a bunch of wolf but kissers allowing them to decimate the elk population in many areas. I guess were the lucky ones to be able to remember what it was like before the wolf's.
"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine." 😉
Is there any good hunting left in the west?
There is, but it is harder and harder to find. Now, with CO releasing wolves, in time, their great hunting will go downhill.
Thanks for watching.
Can’t teach people to care .
Too bad your sons lost interest in hunting 18 years ago.
I hunt but my dad and son are not interested. 😢
They did NOT loose interest in hunting. It is our schedules not meshing. And our oldest son moved a long ways away. They hunt as much or more than I do, again, depending on their work schedules.
Thanks for watching.