As fred bear put it best "Any animal you shoot with a bow is a trophy" and well your doin better then iam. I have yet to bag a deer with my bow, i had a good shot on a nice 5x5 last year but rain washed away all the blood trail so i wasnt able to find him. But i want to make up for that this year.

Shoot my first deer with a bow was a 5pt and I will always remember that deer, They don't have to be monsters to be your monster!! Everybody looks at that question differently and only the man or girl behind the bow can make that decission!!! Walt

Well said Walt. The shooter is the ultimate judge on the quality of the animal.

Check this monster out!!! Seen him on some land just by where i hunt. Im goin to see if i can get permission to hunt there so i can try and get a poke at him.


i know this has nothing to do with the contest but i figured a little eye candy never hurt any boyd. Few nice elk i seen while out scouting

I dont thinkhe likesyou taking pics of him.

Wow Buddy that must be nice to be able to see elk like that. Ive never seen one, the times i tried to go up to elk county i never saw nothin so *shrug* i happens. gotta move on

So Anyhow i agree any deer with a bow IS trophy weather everyone says it is or not. Killing an animal with your bow is an accomplishment.
Ryan.

WOW what a deer. I think that deer alone would win the contest for our team. When does your season start. I can catch a Red Eye from Philly airport the day before and we can hunt that deer the first day of archeryNice Elk too. Always wanted to hunt Alberta!!! You have some MONSTERS up North!!!!

Hatchet Jack

Yah he's a big boy. Im thinkin he will score 180-190's. But i still have to get permission to hunt that land but if not i still got that other 8x6 to go after which i think will score 170's so either way i got a few monsters i got my eye set on. As for those elk yah they are huge they actually just opened up an elk season for where those big boys are this year cause there are soo many of them, and im hopin to get a tag for one next year out there, not to mention its on an army base so its not like they see lots of hunting pressure cause this will be the first year they are allowing hunting on it.

As for hunting Alberta and us having some monsters. Yes we do have LOTS of monster's due to the amount of land and the lack of hunting pressure in lots of areas so there is lots of trophys. I hunt in three different places and only one of them do i see maybe a few other hunters, but between the other two places i have over 20 sections of land to hunt all to myself so lots of big boys runnin around

Very nice pics and great looking land, just beautiful! You're a good photographer and must have a great camera. Respect.

Yah i do love takin photos when im outdoors. I need something to fill my fill of the outdoors when im stuck in the city. But i do love Alberta for its geometrey too, to the west i get to hunt in country like this


Then to the east i look forward to the prairies

And to the north i got this to look forward too