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Dad called me today to tell me he emptied the rain gauge and after 4 days or so we had recieved 6.2 inches. To jpf, skeeter, and northernsask's dad well hope you got your rubber boots and water wings out cause that area has turned into a friggin slough once again this fall. Luckily we got all our crop off the day before the rain hit but other fellas will be done for the year. Even if the grain is dry the equipment would sink out of site. Good news for you Northernsask is that there will be crop left out along the park in places bringing that many more elk out to feed in Nov. Seems like the farmers up that way cannot catch a break, oh well do it again next year. Goin to be a real mess because many hunting areas will be difficult to access especially with no use of quads in the morning. I know the roads by my place are not travelable with a 4wd pickup so your basically hoofin it around in the morning. As for the bush hunters well good luck with that. Beaver dams will be running over, sloughs filled up and flooded and trails boggier than hell. Makes getting an elk out a lot more difficult. Anyways good luck to you guys and when u get back i wanna know everything.

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lmao,

Well I can atleast say thats something new to hear, I was un aware that Sask had flooding problems.

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I guess my dad had some things come up at work and it looks like he will be heading to Bertwell later this week if he is able to go at all, he seems pretty bummed out. It is going to brutal in that area with that much rain lots of guys won't be able to get to their spots just like last year. It was amazing the way the water was flowing in the fields by Somme.

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Ya that somme area is poor poor poor. The land is quite heavy to begin with and there is not alot of natural drainages in the fields for the water to follow so it just pools and its there till the ground soak er in. We are quite lucky because the river touches just about every piece of land we own therefore the water often drains down into that. I am afraid lots of guys will be calling it quits after this year. If anyone wants to rent land head up there. I have pics back home i will have to get of a 16ft diameter culvert bent 20 feet up in the airlike a horseshoe from the water levels this spring. Insanity. As for the elk, i heard of a husband and wife taking 2 bulls this morning off my neighbors land. My buds are prowling my land and having some difficulty with neighboring hunters and quads b4 noon. Hopefully they get that sorted out and kill some white ass.

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Hia,

Finally floated home from elk hunting (lack there of actually). I went up the Friday before elk season with my girlfriend to visit her grandma in porqupine. You might know them, Saufert is there last name, if im not mistaken I think a Bloski has something to do with the Almi campground where here grandma stays all summer?? I could be wrong. Anyway, yah, 7 inches of rain in her rain guage. The elk hunt was a bust for me and my buddy. We were meeting 4 other guys who have hunted up there for years and new the farmers and where to hunt. We met them and there was 12 of them, and they didn't want to show me and my buddy around at all (I'd never met them, they were 'supposed' to be friends of my buddies). So after we find this out it's 4:30 sunday, and we need to find some land. We went just north of the park( yacashyn sp?) gave us permission so we hunted that for a few days but didnt see a single bull, a couple of cows and a ton of deer but thats about it. We got sick of walking through the knee high water to get to our spot just to see nothing, and it started raining again today so we cut the trip short. Had a good time but no luck. The crew we were supposed to be hunting with did ok. they had a few spikers and one really nice 6x6.But , thats why its called elk hunting not elk shooting...next time.

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Ahh yes the swamp returns. Sorry to here JPF but a bad day of huntin is better than a good day at work. I know most of the sauferts they are a whole whack of them around porcupine. My family has nothin to do with almi campground at the lake so granny must be thinkin of someone else. As for yasychyns land I am pretty supprised you guys never got anything off of that. I am good friends with their boy kevin and when he was still around home he would crack an elk out there each year like clock work. I have hunted beavers with kevin down on the land a few times, looks like an awesome area being so close to the river and the park. weird nothin came out. I heard the meat shop in porcy is full of elk. 5 bulls have now been taken off my neighbors 1/2 section of land which is unreal. My bud got one yesterday morning up north of chelan someplace. And the other guys i had out on my place got skunked and went home. Oh and whats your little ladies name, i prolly know er. The last name suafert does not narrow it down because thats half the porcupine phone list.:D:D

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I'm not sure if you will know her, they lived in tisdale for a while and then moved down here by me. She's a Buekert anyway, her moms side is Sauferts and her dads was Buekerts. (steph Buekert) is her name.I was surprised that we had nothing come out of the park onto yacashyn's it looked like a really good spot to me. The draw was still open in the park so I wonder if there were guys patrolling the boudary trail pretty hard keeping them from coming out of the park??

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i have heard the name b4, my dad would know better than me. As for the draw hunters ya they do put alot of pressure on the elk but not as much as all of the regular season hunters drivin around likea bunch of squirrels. The elk still do come out of the park but often not where u expect and more so they go nocturnal. I have hunted both rifle and archery over the years and i have found that killing an elk in archery season for me is easier than killing a bull with the rifle because the are still in the summer patterns during end of aug and not nocturnal yet.

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Hia, small world isn't it? I spent a summer working with Kevin Y in Alberta. He used to tell elk and deer stories to pass the time. I haven't seen him for a couple of years. Any idea what he's up to lately?

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Hmm i think last time i talked to Kev was this spring sometime and i forget what he said he was doing now. All i know was he needed a little stepping stool to get into his f350, he's built just like his daddy.

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I can picture him driving it now :D. Wearing the same plaid shirt he's had for 10 years, an old pair of work gloves and two blocks of wood strapped to his feet ;). I should really get a hold of that little bugger and find out what he's been up too.

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don't forget the tight jeans and that he has a hair appointment once a week. Never have i seen the guy with hair that even came close to his ears.

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Yeah, that's a haircut you could set your watch to :D. I should send you a picture I have from that summer.Imagine Kev in his workgloves, molsen hat, molsen shirt, a pair of knee length jean cutoffsand his rubber boots sweating his nuts off in a homemade sauna in the middle of the bush. Priceless:D.

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I think maybe next year i'll have to try with my bow, it sounds like fun. Me and my fiancee spend a fair bit of time up there in the summer, maybe thatll give me a chance to figure out what the elk are doing and maybe arrow one

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JPF a bud of mine saw a buck 1 mile or so away from the land u were hunting maybe 3 days ago that was absolutely huge. He shot a 170 somethin last year so he knows what big deer look like. Did you see this buck at all in your travels? I am goin to get a bit more info from him and maybe chase that area around with the pointy sticks during thanksgiving. Oh and were u fortunate enough to hit the chelan bar?

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The crew we were supposed to be hunting with said they seen a monster whitetail but wouldnt let on where they seen it. Good luck on arrowing him. We seen tons of deer but no good bucks, not sure if they are just smart and hang back in the trees until dark or if there just werent any good ones were we were. We never did make an appearance at the chelan bar, we were supposed but we were always beat at the end of the day and shut'er down early so we could be up at 4am the next morning.