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04-26-2007, 11:55 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canby, OR
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Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Hello,
New to Ifish. Just thought I'd post my pic from this last seasons Spike only hunt in the Snake River Unit. Same area and unit the family has hunted for a few decades atleast. I was walking back to camp from a evening hunt west of camp, and was just about to the old canvas tent when i saw a strange flash of hide about thirty yards to my left that looked awfully elky...so i scanned the area around me taking it for one of our horses figuring one got out. Kept walking to the tent and was about ten yeard from it, when out from behind our tent busts an elk, just one, and i'll be damned if it wasnt a spike, and we were on a spike only hunt!! Anyhow, it busts through our makeshift corral for the horses which is just a single line of electric wire, and takes off right in front of me about twenty yards in front of me when I pulled the gun up forgetting it was sited in 3 inches high and fired...Nothing. Cracked in another shell and pulled the scope up and relaized I was sitied in high so I held pretty low, and it was running away from me angled, at about 40 yards and landblasted it. I saw through the scope hair & blood fly and heard the crack so it was a connection. It Ran about another fifty yards away from camp and fell...first time I ever dressed an elk on FLAT GROUND! ANd usually I end up skinning them out with a flashlight in my mouth, or tthe last few by headlamp. Not this time I simply with the help of my dad and uncle drug it to a tree and we hoisted it up and began dressing it out, until I Had to walk back to camp and get the Lantern to finish the job! I've been on a lot of hunts in this unit where it ended up being close to a 24 hour day where I got one down miles away across a helluva a canyon and hiked all the way back to camp making it close to 24 hours...so this one shot from camp was absolutely amazing. I figure next year i'll just sleep in and hunt from camp!:smile:
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04-26-2007, 12:40 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Beaverton & Welches, OR, USA
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Congratulations, nice post and welcome! Don
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04-26-2007, 12:46 PM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Nice !! Welcome aboard.
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04-26-2007, 12:55 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Forest Grove, OR
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Welcome to the board
-jokester
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04-26-2007, 01:46 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hillsboro Oregon
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Welcome.
I have heard rumors but never believed them regarding an easy one  and now I know that is is possible. Good for you. You have kept all our hopes alive  .
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04-26-2007, 02:50 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: klamath falls oregon
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
i'll take 'em anyway i can get 'em, if they want to hang around camp it's just that much closer to the meat pole. 
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04-26-2007, 03:01 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Cool story I hope to hunt there this year myself(2nd Choice)
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04-26-2007, 03:38 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Gaston Or.
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Nice elk! Welcome to ifish. Dropkick Murphys,,,,,,sweet! BH
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04-26-2007, 05:00 PM
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King Salmon
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
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04-26-2007, 05:49 PM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Welcome aboard. It looks like it still had milk dripping off it's lips. Just the way I like em. Yum Yum Yum!! Just kidding by the way. I'm just jealous.
Congrats
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04-26-2007, 05:52 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
How can you hold that cold flashlight in your mouth that long, to dress out an elk?
In camp spike?
Nice story; we NEED more.
Welcome.
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04-26-2007, 06:31 PM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Eugene,Or
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
hey great story! I can't tell if I know you from the pic but i'm a Canby grad 2005.
Travis
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04-26-2007, 06:38 PM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Portland
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
It is custom her on ifish for new members to share the backstrap and tenderloin of elk they kill in camp....  
Welcome!
Jim
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04-26-2007, 07:04 PM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Vernonia Or.
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
That just is not right!!!!:grin: :grin: Welcome aboard!
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04-27-2007, 06:45 AM
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Sturgeon
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Welcome to the board!! this year you can write about the one you pulled out of the canyon:grin:
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04-27-2007, 08:03 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Forest Grove
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Congrads, wish they were all that easy. Welcome aboard.
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04-27-2007, 08:37 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Aloha
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Nice photo's, and welcome aboard! 
I can't wait for this season to start.
Scuba
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04-27-2007, 09:00 AM
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Tuna!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Good luck for sure.
Only 4 months till archery season, we need more elk photos and stories to get everyone fired up.
Myles
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04-27-2007, 09:11 AM
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King Salmon
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Beaverton,OR
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottishsetter
How can you hold that cold flashlight in your mouth that long, to dress out an elk?
In camp spike?
Nice story; we NEED more.
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Yes, WELCOME!
Many of us know the sore jaw that comes from clenching a mini-mag light in our mouth.
All I can say is, Thank the good Lord for LED headlamps!.......and pack mules.
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04-27-2007, 11:55 AM
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Ifish Nate
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Yip,
Hunt all the way back to the tent,then peek out every now and then just to make sure there are no "camp elk" hanging around...
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04-27-2007, 07:21 PM
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Chromer
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Nice eats!!!! Doesn't get any better---
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04-29-2007, 07:22 AM
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Steelhead
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: near DC
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Santiam338
Yip,
Hunt all the way back to the tent,then peek out every now and then just to make sure there are no "camp elk" hanging around... |
yes, sometimes the ones who stay around camp are lucky... a few years ago my mom was in camp one day and tagged a 5X4 bull...go figure
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04-30-2007, 10:38 AM
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Chromer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Vancouve, WA
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
Nice story welcome
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05-01-2007, 01:35 AM
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Halibut
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Clackamas County Oregon
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Re: Spike Only Suprise! (Pic)
I like a story with a twisted ending. Or is it a story that is the opposite of what is normal. Also a story with a lesson learned about holding low when a Rocky Mountain Bull gives you a Roosevelt Bull shot.
Imagine if that had been your first elk hunt in the Snake River Unit.
That spike might have been too teritorial for its own good.
Either way welcome to the ifish and the telling of a special hunting experience.
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