Bannanaclip
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I was on Mt Baring Mountain Goat hunting
Hells yeahAugust 24, 1982.
The pinnacle of my hunts, Wyoming Unit 5, 14 miles in from trailhead @ 11,500'' solo hunt, and one for the books!.
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I had two kids and a new house payment of $380 a month trying to figure out how to make ends meet. I was also stuffing away $35 a year to pay for my ANNUAL out of state Wyoming antelope tag and I'd just purchased a new 4WD Chevy LUV to get me into the mountains.
...so I'm easily old enough to be SS's Daddy...
I've heard about those antelope hunts!I had two kids and a new house payment of $380 a month trying to figure out how to make ends meet. I was also stuffing away $35 a year to pay for my ANNUAL out of state Wyoming antelope tag and I'd just purchased a new 4WD Chevy LUV to get me into the mountains.
...so I'm easily old enough to be SS's Daddy...
Shoulda pulled out.Sperm.
Yep Wiffy. Me and your Pops had a few fun adventures back in the day!I've heard about those antelope hunts!
The day I was born...August 24, 1982.
The pinnacle of my hunts, Wyoming Unit 5, 14 miles in from trailhead @ 11,500'' solo hunt, and one for the books!.
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Here's the Non-resident fee out of 1982 Wyoming Regs. I drew a moose tag when they were 150 & also the first year, they went to 300.Poking holes in stuff. Looks like June 17 was a good day!! Also killed my first moose in Jackson Hole on Dec 31st, at -29 degrees. Froze solid before I got it home to Idaho
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I was in jr high trying to date the wrong girlA junior in high school dating the wrong girl
You should visit a therapist, Bessie. You're getting too emotional.T'was Still Pulling What I Thought Was a PISSCUTTER at the Time Out of the Back-Woods!
Thinking How Crappy The Mule Deer Hunting Had Really Become!
Now Looking Back I Wish I Could Go Back To 1980 and Not Dealing with all the BS That goes with today's Hunting!
The first chuckars I remember hunting on purpose were on the Lake Bonneville benches between Alpine and the month of Amican Fork Canyon. That would have been between 1967 and 1970. We pretty much had it to ourselves. We would also go out past Dugway to the Old River Bed and Keg Mountain. Never saw anyone else hunting either deer or chuckars out there. I can still picture my Grandpa Barnes hunting with us in his 80’s. I haven’t killed a chuckar in years,but used to say after chasing them, deer and elk hunting was easy. My memory may be off a little on the price of tags.?BacDoc, That store clerk was pocketing some good money selling you a combo tag for $30 in 1982. ?
Pretty cool that you were into chuckars back then. They didn't become a thing for me until 1990. I wish I could go back in time when they were less popular.
You was a Jehova Witness, I would have never guessed that.?I was knocking on doors in Pennsylvania !
Knocked on the doors of a few Jdubs !You was a Jehova Witness, I would have never guessed that.?
It was definitely different for a kid that grew up a mile from the beach ! My first time back east. I did knock on Larry Holmes door in Easton Pennsylvania. Funny a white lady answered the door. I believe it was the maid. He was very nice to the Elders. He had a LDS doctor and liked us because of him. Their you go Homer a Missionary story just for you !BigJohn
Back in the 80s it was probably a good place in most of Pennsylvania.
Depressing times watching my dad’s 200 unit apartment complex get wiped out by variable rate interest on 5 of the 7 buildings. Mom refused to let him lock in at 7%. Net worth went from about 24 mil in todays dollars to 1.5 and was lucky to salvage that. Grew up working there since age 12 and it ended up sold for chump change to Indian doctor group. Great year to graduate college with construction degree zero jobs. I moved from IN to TX to frame homes a few years and met others in the same boat. On top of that met ex who would end up stealing my hard earned life savings and dream property. Changed my life forever. Lol what a miserable year. Thanks Jimmy.I was in Debt!! Trying to recover from four years of Jimmy the Peanut Farmer Carter's presidency. Runaway inflation and paying 22% interest for a car. Sad part is it's looking like we didn't learn our lesson and we're headed down the same road we were on 40 years ago.
Well at 61, I sort of have that. Laundry list of broken parts, worst of which are feet, but I am managing OK. 4 years plantar fasciitis in left, partial torn Achilles’ tendon in right. If either of these flare up I can’t hunt. Oh and pacemaker from atrial flutter about ready for an upgrade. But last four funerals I attended were for guys younger than me so I ain’t complaining.Wow, Zim; but if you have your health now, you have everything. Bottom line.
Thank you for your service.9 years into what ended up being a 36 year run as a State Parks Ranger/Supervisor/Acting Regional Manager. Lived in an old ranch house built in 1941 on a historic ranch site from the pioneer days which was incorporated into a headquarters for Spring Valley State Park. I think about that time they transitioned from an LE shield (I wore #30) to an LE star ( I wore #9). I would do it again as I raised a family of 4 kids in the Nevada outback (residing within the various Parks). So many fond memories of the people met along the way, adventures, struggles, predicaments, job challenges, and dynamics involved in management of some wonderful and beautiful areas of the great state of Nevada! (pic was from a ways further in the future).View attachment 71640