Official Post Padding Thread

[Musket Man]

Worked 15 hours on 4 beers and 5 hours sleep. Not sure if I should sleep or drink tonight? HAHA

 

[marcusvdk]

I say drink to sleep is the best route

 

[Musket Man]

Aslong as I can get in the truck and find the Snake River by 5:30am

 

[ivorytip]

im eating back straps from a young cow elk that was shot 3 days ago, little flour and fried in butter.... mmmmmm

 

[Winchester]

You guys have a season in August?? Wow

 

[ivorytip]

yeah aug 1st is bull hunt on desert and cow hunt around cultivated fields. gonna take wife out there on Tuesday to shoot her first elk, pretty close to home so its kind of nice. I wish theyd alter th ebull hunt a little though, some big bulls get taken every august.

 

[Winchester]

Very nice. Colorado doesn't have anything similar that I'm aware of. Great way to fill the freezer! Good luck on Tuesday!

 

[ivorytip]

thank you sir, more or less a depravation hunt, lots of alfalfa fields around the desert and they get destroyed by the elk, seems to be a lot more elk in there this year than usual. they are general over the counter tags.

 

[Winchester]

Ok, Colorado does have few hunts like that ... but they're a little later in the year and normally by drawing/lottery (not over the counter). Is the Idaho hunt only for residents?

 

[ivorytip]

no its a regular otc tag, all of aug its any weapon for cow, sep is archery only for any elk, first 7 days of nov its any weapon for spike, and last week ov nov to first week of dec is muzzy hunt for cows.

 

[Winchester]

Interesting system. Just curious sir, if Aug is only "any weapon for cow" how are some big bulls being taken in Aug?

 

[ivorytip]

ha, across the highway is different zone that is bulls during aug. sorry for confusion.

 

[Winchester]

Wow, I never knew any state had so much elk hunting in Aug. Very cool ... actually, I guess it's probably quite warm then I may have to research hunting in Idaho to get some Cow meat for my freezer!!

 

[ivorytip]

the heat is the big prob with it, i bet alot of meat gets ruined by people taking their time to cut it up or take it in. i had 100 pounds of ice just for one hind Q one front Q and one back strap of a calf cow and i barely had time to get it all cut and wrapped before ice was gone

 

[Winchester]

That's what I figured. It's good that you'll be hunting close to home so you can get the meat back to a freezer quickly. Guess you wouldn't want to backpack a few miles from the truck at that time of year!! You'd never get the meat out before it got ruined.

 

[Musket Man]

My 2012 antelope backstraps that were vacuum packed in my freezer were pretty good too

 

[Musket Man]

Sometimes it would be nice to sleep past 3:30am when I have a day or 2 that I dont have to be up early....

 

[Againstthewind]

Holy smokes, 3:30? you seem to be up late, too. I know you are an hour behind, but it still seems like 10:00 and you are posting. I occasionally have to be up that early, but then I need a nap about 1:00 pm. you are way tougher than me

 

[packmule]

Sometimes it would be nice to sleep past 3:30am when I have a day or 2 that I dont have to be up early....

I see it still took you a few hours to get going on the post padding though.

 

[Musket Man]

HAHA! i tried to sleep a couple more hours but couldnt so i got up. Sometimes i go a month or more only sleeping 4-6 hours a night. Just would think could sleep past 3:30 after a week of 16 hour days getting up at 5.