2006-Hunt for the Mountian Monarch
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I'll hook you up with my buddy when you're ready. We'll have him build one for you.
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RB,
The Monarch of either place is gaining the advantage over you with your indecision. Make your decision today and FOCAS. We will be together for the "Potter Monarch" with Dad. What a better way to celebrate our past hunts than for us three to share the Monarch hunt together. Hunt with your wife the first couple of days in your new found dream and then join us in Potter.....It will only be more anticipated. The Monarch will still be on our mountain, that you know! But by all means...make you decsion now.
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The Monarch of either place is gaining the advantage over you with your indecision. Make your decision today and FOCAS. We will be together for the "Potter Monarch" with Dad. What a better way to celebrate our past hunts than for us three to share the Monarch hunt together. Hunt with your wife the first couple of days in your new found dream and then join us in Potter.....It will only be more anticipated. The Monarch will still be on our mountain, that you know! But by all means...make you decsion now.
Bro
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Then again FOCUS
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That is why we make a good hunting team Bro...Thanks Joe.
For all following along, "missedagain" is my brother Joe and another one of the guys that will be on the hunt for the Monarch. We will get him..../ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif
I don't really have to focus much on the hunt here other then placing the stands in good spots on our place, it will be luck of the draw if that big buck makes it off the surrounding property and runs in front of Janet. He and some other bucks now bed and find safety in there though, so I think all the bucks have to do is get past the opening morning crowd up top and we may be in business, plus we need to be sure to get on stand early and stay on stand during hunter traffic times. Not like the hunting in Potter where there are alot less players in the game and we need to make it all happen ourselves. You are right Joe focus on each, or be successful at none.
2006 will be a YEAR TO REMEMBER!!!! One way or another...I told you guys this is going to be a ride.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
For all following along, "missedagain" is my brother Joe and another one of the guys that will be on the hunt for the Monarch. We will get him..../ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif
I don't really have to focus much on the hunt here other then placing the stands in good spots on our place, it will be luck of the draw if that big buck makes it off the surrounding property and runs in front of Janet. He and some other bucks now bed and find safety in there though, so I think all the bucks have to do is get past the opening morning crowd up top and we may be in business, plus we need to be sure to get on stand early and stay on stand during hunter traffic times. Not like the hunting in Potter where there are alot less players in the game and we need to make it all happen ourselves. You are right Joe focus on each, or be successful at none.
2006 will be a YEAR TO REMEMBER!!!! One way or another...I told you guys this is going to be a ride.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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RB,
It's been a long time since I was looking so foward to hunting in Potter. The closer it gets the slower the time is going.
My buddy George took a 9 point on his property on Saturday and he saw "the biggest buck he has ever saw alive" just after his killing shot.A 10 point that came in 8 yards from his tree stand as he stood in disbelief. Since he filled his tag I may have to go over there for the first day or two instead of Indiana. He's has seen many more shooters. Anyway no matter what Potter still will be there even if we all get lucky before the first Saturday. We can reminisce while tilting back a few. But, as my name suggest may tag probably won't be filled.
It's been a long time since I was looking so foward to hunting in Potter. The closer it gets the slower the time is going.
My buddy George took a 9 point on his property on Saturday and he saw "the biggest buck he has ever saw alive" just after his killing shot.A 10 point that came in 8 yards from his tree stand as he stood in disbelief. Since he filled his tag I may have to go over there for the first day or two instead of Indiana. He's has seen many more shooters. Anyway no matter what Potter still will be there even if we all get lucky before the first Saturday. We can reminisce while tilting back a few. But, as my name suggest may tag probably won't be filled.
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Indiana seemed to have less big buck sign then in the past in the areas I hunted thru although i did see one nice one, Dad said there are a few around though...might just want to hunt local and save the legs for Potter.
I can't wait either...I'll e-mail you some thoughts on the plans as we get closer, just to help build the anticipation. I expect Dad will be making his first post here in the next couple days. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I can't wait either...I'll e-mail you some thoughts on the plans as we get closer, just to help build the anticipation. I expect Dad will be making his first post here in the next couple days. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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I can see by your name you learned to shoot from your brother. I surely do hope you're at least better looking than him. Then again, that's not too hard to accomplish. My lower, rear extremity can even pull it off. Hope to meet you soon. It would be nice to meet someone from that family who doesn't idolize me....yet! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
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Bh,
Great my brother posts here some to talk about this buck we are after and he meets you right off the bat... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif, I might have to fill him in on a few of you guys, and explain how some things aren't that funny until you know a poster a little bit, or in your case what they actually look like. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jestera.gif
Can we get back to talking about deer now??
Great my brother posts here some to talk about this buck we are after and he meets you right off the bat... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif, I might have to fill him in on a few of you guys, and explain how some things aren't that funny until you know a poster a little bit, or in your case what they actually look like. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jestera.gif
Can we get back to talking about deer now??
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Bucket,
I don't know about better looking, but definitely thinner. Hope to meet you someday too. It may take some time for me to idolize you though, my standards are high. As far as shooting , well I'm just plain impatient and don't wait for the best shot. Johnny has me beat in that family trait. Good Hunting.
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I don't know about better looking, but definitely thinner. Hope to meet you someday too. It may take some time for me to idolize you though, my standards are high. As far as shooting , well I'm just plain impatient and don't wait for the best shot. Johnny has me beat in that family trait. Good Hunting.
MA
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Can the MOD please delete this entire thread....LOL /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jestera.gif, I don't care that it has been going since early in 2006 anymore..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jestera.gif, oh wait I am the MOD.
Shoot early, Shoot often....but now if i could just get that horseshoe of yours, I'd be all set.
Shoot early, Shoot often....but now if i could just get that horseshoe of yours, I'd be all set.
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RB,
I think I need horseshow replacement surgery!
MA
I think I need horseshow replacement surgery!
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Horseshoe...I need spellcheck...Bucket, spelling is another trait that I did not pick up! Horseshow surgery would be very painful VS. horseshoe surgery!!!
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MA,
Hey if they graded on spelling and grammar here bro, we would all be in trouble. Grade on content and then on a curve!
Hope that old Monarch up there is finding enough does around to spend his days with now...guess they always have, haven't they. We should be good for years to come.
Hey if they graded on spelling and grammar here bro, we would all be in trouble. Grade on content and then on a curve!
Hope that old Monarch up there is finding enough does around to spend his days with now...guess they always have, haven't they. We should be good for years to come.
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RB,
While I was up turkey hunting out of my Sullivan County Camp last week I saw a rub similar to your Big Boy's (maybe just a tad smaller /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif). It was about 40 yards from where I have a ladderstand out since early ML Season. I've taken several decent bucks from this stand but this rub is one of the best ive ever seen. Wish I woulda had my digital along. I will be in there bear huntin so maybe I'll take a pic then. Man, seein those great rubs really gets me all out of whack!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Sounds like you have some great options there ahead of ya. Nice your Bro missedagain ( I like that name! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) is also in the quest for the Mountain Monarch! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif:
While I was up turkey hunting out of my Sullivan County Camp last week I saw a rub similar to your Big Boy's (maybe just a tad smaller /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif). It was about 40 yards from where I have a ladderstand out since early ML Season. I've taken several decent bucks from this stand but this rub is one of the best ive ever seen. Wish I woulda had my digital along. I will be in there bear huntin so maybe I'll take a pic then. Man, seein those great rubs really gets me all out of whack!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Sounds like you have some great options there ahead of ya. Nice your Bro missedagain ( I like that name! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif) is also in the quest for the Mountain Monarch! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif:
Rooster, gosh I'm sorry I have to be the one to do this, but.... he's DEAD. Yep, the Monarch is DEAD. I was up there in Potter snooping around the woods, and came upon that exact rub that's in your profile. I knew it was the same rub because you left that glove on the ground for reference (send me yer address, I'll mail the glove back). Anyhow, not 100 yards from that rub, in a blowdown, lay the Monarch. I gathered it was him by the "MM" that was faintly visible as the Mountain Monarch brand on his left hindquarter. Autopsy revealed that this guy will be documented as PA's first Mountain Lion kill. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
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11/21/2006 ...One last update prior to the season kicking off.
Eventhough I am no longer heading over to camp for the opening days to hunt the Monarch, I still very much anticipate the planned hunt for this buck in week 2 of 2006. Being up at camp with my Dad and brother again for the first time in several years will be be reward enough and I know we will still give it all we got on our week 2 days just like we would of in week 1, probably more effort if we all got buck tags hanging on our backs. Regardless, we are all committed to our week 2 plans (first Saturday thru second Tuesday), no matter if all or none of us fill our buck tag in our various week 1 spots, we are meeting on the hill for those days.
My second post of this thread is proving to be much more important to me during the course of year than the first post about the buck itself. The fact that once again I will share spots whose names strike deep in our hunter’s souls and that all of our time staggered childhoods share. My Dad, my brother, and me in a place that caught Pap’s eye way back in the 30’s and a place whose mention still stops us in our tracks and floods are minds with memories.
I wish the Monarch the best in his avoidance of the few week one hunters he will encounter so he can be part of our long awaited reunion on the hill. I have no doubt he has watched a bear driver pass in the last couple days. Hopefully he has held true to from, and not ran across the open flat or drew attention to himself that may bring a few more hunters after him. But I also know he is not the only one around there should he fall to an opening day rifle. I do hope if he gets taken it is to a life long hunter of the hill, but even if he should fall to a hunter that has never stepped foot on that mountain before or knows of all its lore or of this buck, I wish him an honorable end, quick and painless, and hope he gets the proper respect as he is dragged from the woods and taken around for display. I know he did his job this past Fall in keeping generations of mountain monarchs around and I got ALOT of comfort in that.
This buck has paid me back ten fold over some of the frustrations he has caused me the past couple years from the mistakes I have made hunting him. He has brought the 3 of us back to that Northcentral PA mountain that means as much to us as our family name. Somedays I hope I never tag this buck, today is one of those days. Monday, December 4th I will likely feel different on that as my legs weaken and breath quickens from my climb into his laurel choked homeland.
Wish us luck.
Eventhough I am no longer heading over to camp for the opening days to hunt the Monarch, I still very much anticipate the planned hunt for this buck in week 2 of 2006. Being up at camp with my Dad and brother again for the first time in several years will be be reward enough and I know we will still give it all we got on our week 2 days just like we would of in week 1, probably more effort if we all got buck tags hanging on our backs. Regardless, we are all committed to our week 2 plans (first Saturday thru second Tuesday), no matter if all or none of us fill our buck tag in our various week 1 spots, we are meeting on the hill for those days.
My second post of this thread is proving to be much more important to me during the course of year than the first post about the buck itself. The fact that once again I will share spots whose names strike deep in our hunter’s souls and that all of our time staggered childhoods share. My Dad, my brother, and me in a place that caught Pap’s eye way back in the 30’s and a place whose mention still stops us in our tracks and floods are minds with memories.
I wish the Monarch the best in his avoidance of the few week one hunters he will encounter so he can be part of our long awaited reunion on the hill. I have no doubt he has watched a bear driver pass in the last couple days. Hopefully he has held true to from, and not ran across the open flat or drew attention to himself that may bring a few more hunters after him. But I also know he is not the only one around there should he fall to an opening day rifle. I do hope if he gets taken it is to a life long hunter of the hill, but even if he should fall to a hunter that has never stepped foot on that mountain before or knows of all its lore or of this buck, I wish him an honorable end, quick and painless, and hope he gets the proper respect as he is dragged from the woods and taken around for display. I know he did his job this past Fall in keeping generations of mountain monarchs around and I got ALOT of comfort in that.
This buck has paid me back ten fold over some of the frustrations he has caused me the past couple years from the mistakes I have made hunting him. He has brought the 3 of us back to that Northcentral PA mountain that means as much to us as our family name. Somedays I hope I never tag this buck, today is one of those days. Monday, December 4th I will likely feel different on that as my legs weaken and breath quickens from my climb into his laurel choked homeland.
Wish us luck.
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