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12-02-2023, 07:04 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Beaumont, AB
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Tag soup
Tag soup for this season, anyone else?
This is what I was after
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12-02-2023, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,158
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Tag soup as well. Passed on some up and comers on my own land. Haven’t shot a deer in 4 or 5 years 😡. Maybe Wainwright will be good to me
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12-02-2023, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Communist Capital of Alberta
Posts: 3,776
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Didn't even buy myself a big game tag this year. First time in over 30 years.
Watched my son get his first though.
That more than made up for it.
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12-02-2023, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: In the woods
Posts: 8,923
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got out 3 evenings for a total of maybe 6 hours. Saw 1 doe I could have taken if I could hit one at 1800+ yards...
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12-02-2023, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 417
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lots of tag soup
A lot of friends i talked to including myself all had tag soup,I pulled my bull moose draw after 8 years and couldnt even get out to try for it,Oh well its only every 8 years
Last edited by birdseye; 12-02-2023 at 08:37 PM.
Reason: spelling
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12-02-2023, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Whitecourt
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I passed up a lot of bucks and a couple dandies = Tag Soup (again).
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12-02-2023, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Caroline
Posts: 7,276
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Tag soup is an annual meal. Nothing out of the ordinary
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12-03-2023, 09:41 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 1,394
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Tag soup
Tag soup can be made using the stone soup recipe, just replace the stone with your tag.
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12-03-2023, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 530
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Tag soup and stew for me as well.
Had a doe tag for WT and Mule, but passed them on our land because the numbers are just so low.
Had a few chances at a couple decent WT bucks, but the deer gods said no, and things just didn't pan out.
I even had chance at nice WT buck out feeding in the stubble. Spotted him as I was driving to my pheasant hunting field. He was in a great spot, calmly feeding in the canola stubble. Easy stalk over a hill and he'd be 100 yards away. Parked the truck and made my way through the irrigation canal and up the hill. Crested the hill and he was no where to be found. It had been less than 10 minutes since I passed him in the truck. Where he went I have no idea. Its was stubble from miles on either side of the canal, without enough cover to hide a pheasant. Went for a drive three miles radius from where I originally saw him and could see any sign of him. Crazy thing is on the way home from hunting pheasants, about three hours later, I found about 1.5miles away, walking through a field with cattle. He was safe for another day. Crazy how they can just disappear, even without cover, just stubble fields.
No big deal....Still have sausage left over from last year.
Just great to be out in the field regardless of the outcome.
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12-03-2023, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2020
Posts: 935
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Tag soup here. Hunted very hard but saw very few animals that I had a tag for. Plenty others of course. There’s something to be said about luck.
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12-03-2023, 06:44 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Calgary
Posts: 695
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I had such high expectations for a productive elk hunt this is year. We watched the big herd dance around land 3 KM away where we didn’t have access.
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12-03-2023, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Mountain View County
Posts: 232
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Yep
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12-03-2023, 10:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 301
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Soup for me too. It's a first, but I’m kind of alright with it. Had shot a good sized buck on the 20th, and tracked it til i lost the blood trail, then again the next morning. I’m satisfied I found where the coyotes got to it today, but no antlers as consolation. Only fur.
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12-04-2023, 05:12 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2020
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I'm actually getting quite good at soup. Even though our season still has 4 days I'm preparing all of the ingredients. It doesn't matter, both of my boys shot nice whitetail bucks and one shot a bull moose so I have some soup bones to throw in too.
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12-04-2023, 05:46 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
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Ice fishing season is a long sit without pepperoni so I stopped this tag soup thing a few years back
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12-04-2023, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: A bit North o' Center...
Posts: 11,164
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Tag soup for me too...
Been enjoying being the go-fer on several successful hunts this year, I still get to help haul meat and butcher, though...
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12-04-2023, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 3,821
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Was a tough go for lots of guys this year with the warm weather and lack of snow cover.
I know many guys with tags hanging on their christmas trees.
I have a couple hanging on my tree too, but mine have bloody fingerprints on them
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12-04-2023, 03:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2018
Posts: 7,493
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Only tag I have left I chose not to fill it
My season went pretty smoothly but a little adapting on the fly to the conditions was in order
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12-04-2023, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Stettler County
Posts: 470
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tasty with habanero sauce
I am getting used to the taste of unused tags. I find that habenero or ghost pepper sauce makes them easier to swallow. I have not filled a deer tag myself in 4 years. Not that I have not had the chance , just that I am much fussier and find it more enjoyable to take others out and let them do it,
Dont get me wrong. I still drool at Big Buck nights and would throw the wife or kif=d out of the blind if a 175" showed up
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12-04-2023, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 6,927
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Gotta be 15 or 20 years since I filled a tag, so long I can't remember. I'm a very poor hunter. I don't want to get my hands dirty or hurt my back aiming the gun. My excuses for not shooting anything are vast and diverse. Too big, too small, too tired, too far from the road, forgot my gun, it goes on and on.
I had a great season. The weather was awesome, no slogging thru snow and 30 below like some years. Saw lots of game and really enjoyed my days out there.
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01-03-2024, 10:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2021
Posts: 21
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Me as well, but it worked out, my friend got the one I was chasing the day after I went home.
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01-04-2024, 08:45 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 1,714
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Well I got skunked on elk this year. It was real tough finding them for me. But came home with a moose. So no complaints.
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01-04-2024, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: In the Rockies
Posts: 2,940
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I've been eating elk tag soup for many years now...but I have a good system figured out. I hang them on the xmas tree first , for a few weeks , then it goes into the soup. So I'm getting good value from it.
As a flavor enhancer I was also able to add some w.t. tag this year. I find it a much richer broth that way..
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01-04-2024, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 6,271
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Got my buck this year only used my Ram bumper, did not have a tag. First time hit one in over 60 years of driving.
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