2014 Year In Review

[Sandman]

Hello all,

I've been putting off cleaning up my hunting room since deer season closed till today. I've done a camera dump and thought I would review my 2014 hunting year (some pics have been posted before) ...

Like most I shook off the winter we had and started 2014 with a little shed success;



Spring 2014 turkey hunt was a good year for me. I filled my first tag with the largest Tom I have ever harvested after watching him destroy my decoy;







I was fortunate to harvest another nice Tom to end my season;



As spring rolled into summer I turned to helping one of the farmers who has given me permission to hunt his 250 acres. He is 77 with over 500 head of sheep. I helped with the hay season and cleared his laneway to his back fields that has grown in and was causing issues getting his combine through;





I had gotten out of the habit of carrying my camera and have missed some great photo ops. The few times I had my camera I did get some good pics;

















Summer faded away and I decided to get ready for the upcoming season by picking up a M405 and retiring my ExoMax and Camo Vixen;







In preparation for the summer to fall scouting I picked up another trail camera and a DIY security box;





My cameras were working well and one of the properties produced some potential fall targets;



















Complete with a Alfred Hitchcock moment;



Another one of the farms I hunt showed very little buck activity but hundreds of pictures of does/fawns;









I spent some time with RJ with a little maintenance to one of the properties he hunts;





The outing came with free tractor rides to boot;





I travelled to Northern Ontario for my first moose hunt in 12 years or so and had a great time with a successful fill of our cow tag;





I bow hunted more than ever during the 2014 season but it was a strange one for sure. I passed on several does with fawns as the fawns were so small that without mom I didn't think they stood a chance. I really only had one potential harvest and judging from my shot and miss I guess he needed to get a little bigger.

As Christmas rolled around I decorated my Redneck Tree;



I completed my season with a full day of hunting with a number of forum members and will post the entire day in a different thread.

This is the first year in probably 10 years that I didn't harvest but it was probably one of the best experiences that I have had in all my years of hunting~!

Looking forward to doing it all over again in 2015 ............


Cheers all,
Robin

[RexKay]

Just completely awesome Robin. Fantastic pictures!!

[bubba]

Thanks the pictures and your story was great only wish it was longer, Beautiful country up there in Canada sure hope some day to see it, like at a boo fest, you truly have a piece of heaven up there. Man that was nice..............

[vixenmaster]

Oh yeah i was right wid you on all of yer work n such very nice pic's. Thx fer sharin

[slider]

The Turkey picture in the old foundation was super!

It was a tough year here in Ontario but so far in 2015 the lack of snow will help the depleted herd.

Great pics and great review...thanks Sandman!

[mr meat]

Great pics and story!!

[Fletch2]

Thanks for sharing looked like an awesome year

[wabi]

Looks like a great year!

[amythntr]

What more could a feller ask for

X2

Anthony

[Starvin' Hillbilly]

Thank you for sharing! . . . i really enjoy this forum . . .and my Excalibur!

[Waif]

Great post. Congrats on a wonderful year.
The barn pic a stunner. Not taking anything away from the others though.

[bubba]

After looking at your pictures again those moose are huge... never seen one in the wild, how much meat did you get? I bet it only takes one to fill a freezer. Also never had the opportunity to eat moose meat, I hear thou its some good vittles ..........

[WalknTall]

Great pictures and story line Robin!

[Sandman]

After looking at your pictures again those moose are huge... never seen one in the wild, how much meat did you get? I bet it only takes one to fill a freezer. Also never had the opportunity to eat moose meat, I hear thou its some good vittles ..........

The animal was 487 lbs on the hook skinned - The butcher says to take a 1/3 off and it's a pretty good idea to the amount of meat ... Not sure if that's correct or not.

We split between 5 members and I certainly wasn't complaining with my share. Forgot just how good moose meat was~!

Cheers,

[Steve_Guelph]

Great post Robin. Thanks for sharing.

Steve