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12-04-2015, 11:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Edmonton
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My 2015 Bison
This was a great hunt and couldnt have gone any better! We traveled up on Nov 30th. Talked to some locals then carried on and set up camp. That evening we came up with a game plan and then racked out. Opening day we were on the road before sunrise. We dvove a little then walked a little. Did that a few times. We seen nothing. We were looking for any bison shaped objects and I seen something about 1-1.5km out. We stopped and glassed the object and it was a bison. We started the stalk( even though everyone told us to shoot them close to the road). We looped wide down wind. In doing so we last sight of him. It was great to have 3 heads working together. It was a give and take of ideas that worked perfectly. I noticed a gap in the bushes and pointed it out to Matt and as I pointed it out I seen the bison through the gap!
We shifted our direction and started to try to close the distance. He was feeding and moving at a steady pace. I was forced to move through the open with only small bushes to place beteen us as cover. We were able to close the distance. I made the last leg on my oun. I snuck up to around 120m and waited for the perfect shot. I let loose 175grains from my 7mm rem mag placing the bullet there I wanted. The bison took a few steps and wobbled. I moved from the prone to kneeling and let out another round. He ran off behind some brush and we lost sight of him. Everyone thought that it looked to be good hits and we let him sit for 30min. A verry long 30min!
We walked to here the beast had stood when shot and found blood. Following the tracks and blood through the snow we came accross him dead only 50m from were he was shot. The size of these animals is amazing. We were almost 2km off the road. The hard work had now started. We were able to get the truck within 200m and the quad right up to him. As a team we skinned, gutted and quarted the animal in 4 hours. Loaded the bison up and headed back to camp for a drink or so.
F&W stopped by the next day to register the bison. He was a great guy to deal with and was a positive experience. Thank you for that. We had the rest of the day to gather fire wood and do a little more driving around. We were about 50km to 100km from the NWT. We only seen one bison and that was all we needed to see to get the hunt done.
Thank you to everyone that gave advice and helped throughout.
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12-04-2015, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Congrats on your success. I'm sure you will never forget that hunt. Pics?
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12-04-2015, 11:56 AM
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Congrats!
Yup, they sure are huge...
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12-04-2015, 01:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Edmonton
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I don't know how to post pics. If someone would like to post them for me I could send them.
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12-04-2015, 02:34 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mrai
I don't know how to post pics. If someone would like to post them for me I could send them.
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I can post it for ya!
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12-04-2015, 05:13 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Pics please
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12-04-2015, 06:37 PM
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Awesome! Photos would be great!
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12-05-2015, 07:38 AM
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12-05-2015, 07:41 AM
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Great animal,congrats to you.
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12-05-2015, 08:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
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Very nice indeed
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12-05-2015, 09:01 AM
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Great job
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12-05-2015, 09:30 AM
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Great story great pic. Thanks for sharing.
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12-05-2015, 09:42 AM
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very nice animal - congrats
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12-05-2015, 10:00 AM
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Very nice bull too you. A lone ranger! Are you getting a mount done? Animals are huge! Had ours in the truck in 3.5hourss
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12-05-2015, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Amazing!
Wow! What an amazing story and great pics!
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12-05-2015, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Thank you LA for putting the pics up. I am getting a head mount and the rest of the hide tanned.
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12-05-2015, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Thanks for sharing! Memory of a lifetime. Gee those suckers are big Glad you could get the quad right up to him.
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12-05-2015, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Yup, pretty big brutes these fellas are, Congrats on getting yours and thanks for posting up the pics...nice to see!
Awesome
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12-05-2015, 01:24 PM
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Very nice! Great bull!
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12-05-2015, 06:20 PM
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Very nice bison, thanks
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12-05-2015, 06:33 PM
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Cool !!!
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12-05-2015, 08:41 PM
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Sweet!
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12-06-2015, 04:28 AM
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Congrats.
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12-06-2015, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Nice to see some positive posts on the bison hunt. Congrats.
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12-06-2015, 06:31 PM
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Congrats!
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12-06-2015, 07:00 PM
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Kudos to u nice job
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12-10-2015, 04:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Edmonton
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Thank you all for the positive comments!
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