Elk tag filled!
 

Quite late in the season, and I never was able to get amongst them during the rut, but I'm so grateful nonetheless.

This guy let me sneak up to him and get within 30yds. No pass through, but he only went 40 yards.

My second elk ever, and lucky enough to get one two years in a row :sHa_shakeshout:

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Nice elk! Congrats

Great bull! Congrats!

What a great elk! Congrats!

Thats a great bull! Way to get it done with the bow!

Moved back to NB late this summer. Was pretty de-motivated leaving the Alberta Whitetail Deer Mecca for the colonoscopy capital of Canada for deer hunting. Did manage to find a buck this fall in mid Nov and sent an arrow through the cage at 17 yards. Small 8 point with a solid body. About 180 lbs FD

Pretty happy actually given the dismal deer herd here this year...latest reports since season closed Saturday was 4000 deer harvested, down from 8000 last year, down from 10K the year before ( early 90's annual harvest was typically 30K animals). The poor herd is in a tailspin and the hunters are going wild with Natural Resources folks and politicians, blaming forestry companies for unethical post-clearcutting practices of replanting monoculture species and spraying glyphosate to kill ALL competing species of trees/shrubs except the replanted softwoods. Combine that with crazy winter snow depths ( 400+ cm last year), coyotes, and cutting of wintering areas...and the deer are getting hit from every angle.

Two year..... 9 year Process
 

Story in a separate forum but I finally took a whitetail with a bow!

Last day for many, 1 week left for Strathcona Deer season. Lots of great animals taken this year thanks for sharing.

Maybe there are a few more to come.

LC

My 2015 bison I got on December 1. Its a cow but was extremely excited to harvest one of these animals with the bow.

another pic of the bison

Sneaking up and getting one of those outside of the rut is quite the feat......congrats on a nice bull.

Awesome bison! Great animals to everyone. This was the favorite topic of the season. Thanks for eveyone who posted!

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Try this first attempt at posting a pix.
Moose taken with a Bear TD Recurve at about 15yds.

Well how about that?!
I've been trying to get access for a couple of weeks. I could log on but not much else. One of my questioning e-mails must have finally made it.

Anyway shot this Whitetail two weeks ago. Same equipment.
Nice critters everyone.

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Congrats on the awesome animals! Love to see traditional equipment hunts. I aspire to do the same one day...

Now that is awesome! Congrats!

Thanks for the contributions from all and thanks for keeping this thread positive!

LC

My two Archery harvests this year:

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Beauty ram with a bow!! Was that in the Canmore bow zone? Congrats!

He is now official.

199 7/8 non typical gross
192 4/8 non typical net

Amazing ram, was it one of the bowzone draws or the ministers tag?

Great ram Chet.
Amazing feat

That's an awesome ram! Congrats

Thanks! Ram was a Nov 408 draw.

September whitetail
 

Got him September 17th
http://s1078.photobucket.com/user/ch...tml?sort=3&o=0

:D Outstanding job gang...well done, some world class animals and hunters here...should almost delete this post before too many more see it and realize how fourtunate we really are in Alberta...lol


Neil

Not much of a story to this one. I had been watching the herd all summer. Knew where they would be opening morning and beat them to it.
45 minutes into elk season I shot this small cow/calf with my Mathews Z7 Xtreme, Easton FMJ arrows and G5 montecs at 33yds. Complete pass through. She only made it 10yds.
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Shot this mulee on NOV 25.

Edit: sorry the pic is being difficult. Wont rotate on upload