2025 WapitiTalk "Meat Pole"!

[WapitiTalk1]

OK, please post up your 2025 "Meat Pole" offerings. Small game, fish, big game, predators, winged creatures, etc., are all welcome additions to our meat pole; they don't necessarily have to be edible

[Trumkin the Dwarf]

First!

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[WapitiTalk1]

Nice work mister

[Lefty]

second week of march, 81 degrees ,,, southern SD
a good morning

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Nice batch o Snows

[Lefty]

Nice batch o Snows

We had a few mid days of 10-30 ross come in perfectly, all too often we waited to long,,,, the birds got too close

[WapitiTalk1]

Nice batch o Snows

Remember old Lefty resides in one of the biggest migratory flyways ever. I spent a few years down thataway in my high school years……… epic.

[wawhitey]

Birds and tree rats

[wawhitey]

Can we at least have a no squirrels rule?

[wawhitey]

Hell, i can shoot some pocket gophers in my lawn

[wawhitey]

Oh crap, those were bunnies not squirrels. Just saw trumpkin and jumped to conclusions. Okay, half credit to mr. The dwarf!

[Lefty]

Nice batch o Snows

Remember old Lefty resides in one of the biggest migratory flyways ever. I spent a few years down thataway in my high school years……… epic.

The SE Idaho big migration thing has been gone for years. Too many birds staying in Canada and Montana. Snake river use to have 50,000 geese. We dont even get ducks like we use to.
Not complaining,( well not too much).

Now the birdies in the pic,,, thats SD, Long ago stomping grounds. I May go back in the fall kill some coyotes and fox,,, and ducks and geese

[Lefty]

Hell, i can shoot some pocket gophers in my lawn

Post em up ,,, I hear they taste like chicken,,,,

[7mmfan]

Well, I guess I get to post the first big game on the meat pole for 2025. Killed this guy on Sunday. I'll post a story shortly.

[WapitiTalk1]

Boom! Nice work mister.

[Lefty]

Killed him with a belly full of berries!!!

My buddy Tim says there is no such thing as a bad tasting bear!

[Thegreatwapiti]

Well, I guess I get to post the first big game on the meat pole for 2025. Killed this guy on Sunday. I'll post a story shortly.

Congrats!

[Thegreatwapiti]

Filled my elk tag tonight! I shot her out of that box blind that I built this summer. It's 1:30am right now. Im drinking a beer.

[Tigger]

Yahoo! Cant wait for the WapitiTalk pot luck!

[7mmfan]

That is awesome! Great work!

[juglow]

Sept 5, 7:30AM, 35yds shot, 560gr arrow tipped with Iron Will Single Bevel, complete pass through.
Never hunted the unit before.
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[Thegreatwapiti]

Congratulations!

[7mmfan]

Now we're talking! Good job guys getting the meat on the ground.

[RanchoSueno]

First mule deer, with my bow at 40yds

[Thegreatwapiti]

Nicely done!

[Swede]

September 9, 2025

Shot at 40 yards with 55 lb. compound bow and Walmart three blade special broadhead. Hit broadside just behind shoulders on bull's right side. Arrow stuck hard into the hide on the left side.

[RanchoSueno]

Heck yeah!! Way to go Swede!

[Tigger]

Congrats you two! Awesome hunts! Can't wait to hear the detailed stories.

[7mmfan]

Well done everyone!

[Thegreatwapiti]

Awesome Swede!

[WapitiTalk1]

Darn good work Juglo, Todd, Chelsea, and John! Congrats. Mule deer buck with a bow, how awesome is that!

[Lefty]

Darn good work Juglo, Todd, Chelsea, and John! Congrats. Mule deer buck with a bow, how awesome is that!

[RanchoSueno]

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... and delicious! Mule deer pot roast was most definitely the bees knees

[Swede]

I like your buck Rancho. You made a great shot on him.

[Lefty]

New phone on Monday,, Sadly the only resonable pic of the elk has me in it. This pic was suppose to be only for my daughters

[WapitiTalk1]

Dandy bull Dennis. Congrats!

[Deanmac]

Lefty, I like it. It should win a monthly photo contest

[Lefty]

Dandy bull Dennis. Congrats!

Well 30 seconds earlier I had his grand dad at 13 yards with no shot,,

[Tigger]

Question: What photo contest would Lefty win with this photo??

This should be good....

[Lefty]

Question: What photo contest would Lefty win with this photo??

This should be good....

I almost hate to share this,,, But did win "wildest hair" on a waterfowl photo contest,,, I ddint know that was a catogory,,,

Well Tigger you opened up this can of worms ,,, I have some suggestions

"Best looking guy over 65 years old"
"Fattest Elk hunter"
" The Only Idiot Solo hunter in Grizzle country"

[Lefty]

And thats what you get for face camo when 3 bulls are singing below me

Ao one more picture contest choice

"Lamest face camo job"

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Boss, you better get back soon! This place is getting deader than a door nail. Even ole Swede seems to have clamed up.

[Lefty]

Boss, you better get back soon! This place is getting deader than a door nail. Even ole Swede seems to have clamed up.

Soome of us hunt where we dont get service

[Lefty]

Sunday dinner Julie said
"Dad come kill some turkeys "


Some say elk hunting is like turkey hunting

[RanchoSueno]

Patience paid off in full this November

[Lefty]

Patience paid off in full this November

A real dandy

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You da woMAN Rancho! Congrats. Now you qualify to tell us which is better eating, muley or whitetail. LOL!

Swiss steak with brown gravy and I'll bet you can't tell the difference!

[WapitiTalk1]

Patience paid off in full this November

Boom! Great buck RS.

[7mmfan]

Great buck! Im hunting whitetail for the first time ever this next week. I'd be over the moon with a buck like that.

[RanchoSueno]

Thank you guys! I appreciate it!! He's hanging in the cooler still but I will most definitely update on whitetails vs muleys. I'd have to say that forkhorn muley taste awfully delicious. He's most definitely my biggest buck so far and I am super grateful to have nabbed him with my bow.

[WapitiTalk1]

Out after late WA Blacktail (no luck yet) but have been able to whittle out some time for steelhead fishing

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[Lefty]

Been a bit slow

Daisy has been perfect

[7mmfan]

I get to be on here twice this year! I got my first whitetail over the weekend. It's no Ranchosueno buck, but I'm pretty fond of him. I was fortunate enough to get a permit that someone else had returned to WDFW just prior to the permit season opening. I made some quick phone calls and accommodations and headed over middle of last week. I had private ground access but there was so many mule deer rutting on that ground that the whitetail seemed to be staying away. I accessed some state land through their property and found a sweet little aspen/brushy bottom that had the right look. Sat there most of the day on Wednesday and finally right at dark spotted a whitetail, but couldn't tell if it was a buck or do. Found myself right back there in the morning in heavy rain. When the rain letup about 8:00, the deer started moving. I saw a doe move through, then not to long after a buck came through the same opening clearly trying to trail her. I move my sitting location to get a better view of that side of the bottom and immediately spotted another buck working the brush line below me about 200 yards away. I got setup on my shooting sticks and spent the next 15 minutes just keeping track of him until he stepped into an opening I felt I could sneak at bullet through. One well placed shot and he went about 25 yards in a large semi circle before tipping over. The deer was quartering away from me. The bullet entered mid-chest and exited low on the front of the chest on the other side, taking one lung and splitting the heart in two. The bullet exited right through the knee of the offside leg. Virtually no bloodshot meat.

Having the private nearby was nice. I was able to drive to within about 300 yards of where he lay and make a quick drag to the truck. Easiest packout I think I've ever had. Felt like cheating.

[RanchoSueno]

Congratulations to all three of you!! And what a cool dark rack 7mmfan!

[Tigger]

Well by golly, I get to be on this thread! I hunted 8 out of our 9 day season and on the last day was rewarded with this guy. It was an 83 yard shot with a shotgun (this is our last year of shotgun only). He went about 35 yards with a double lung hit. My dad and my son also got similar sized bucks (okay, theirs were just a tad bigger if I am being honest!). Cannot wait for my dads summer sausage!

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Congrats to Tigger and 7MM. Way to go guys

[RanchoSueno]

Way to go Tigger!! Great buck!

[7mmfan]

Nice one Tigger!

[WapitiTalk1]

Boom! Some great bucks guys; great work.

[RanchoSueno]

Freezer Queen last night with the 350 legend

[Tigger]

Nice! The ranch will be flush with meat this year!