yep i understand that, the terrain is different depending on where you are. here the woods are dense in undergrowth and small trees, brush and hilly etc. you can sorta see in one of the pics a little of what i trying to describe, it's hard to get a real long shot unless your on a gas or power line clearing. gotta be in decent shape to traverse the hills, hollers and undergrowth.
Nice!!!Well, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. We're out hunting for meat to feed the family for the year. Collectively, we took a muley doe, a buck, and a small moose. Good eating.
That sounds familiar. I grew up and hunted as a teenager in Ontario which is very similar. I recall all hunting was done “in the woods” out there. Lots of standing and waiting as I recall.
That's right. Stalking, tree stand sometimes a shooting house. We do have some clearings and plant green fields and like you mentioned, watch from the tree lines. Around here the quantity of hunters are decreasing, i guess not the younger generations thing. Deer and pig population tends to get out of hand, so the insurance companies, IMO, got the state to approve baiting in certain applications. You mentioned prairies, I've done some of that, I go with a group yearly to South Dakota to help rid the population of prairie dogs for the raising cattle. So wide open territory, seems like you can see forever, tree are few and far between!
@TROGDOR!!! tell me more about the ground clearance - things looked relatively flat and calm. Been on any backwoods logging "roads"?
Ground clearance was pretty good! Things look smooth in those pictures but keep in mind that's when things were calm enough to snap a picture while driving! I took some pretty steep embankments up and down, some rough troughs driven over, some of which were hidden by the vegetation so there was a jarring surprise a time or two. I did hear a little scraping one time but I kind of had the sense going into that one that I was pushing it.
Thank you kindly. One thing to know about that "small moose" is that it's still an excellent meat animal. We have a pull scale between the hook and the gambril on our game pole so we are able to weight whatever is hung from it.
Great pics.Previously, I've hunted with RAM Trucks, exclusively. My last was a 2019 RAM tradesman 4x4.
I was a little worried to see how the Maverick would perform.
My hunting location is in Northern Alberta, somewhere near the Peace River. I drove down from the plateau all the way to the river basin repeatedly. Why repeatedly, because there was a bull moose that was taunting me on the way down and up, just over a gulley and ridge with lots of deadfall, making extraction nearly impossible. I had to catch him close to the trail.
I was after white tail, muley, elk, and moose (and some birds).
It was a successful hunt.
The maverick was used to scramble up some quite steep embankments and to ford a little water.
It hauled all our gear up (my son and I), and all of the meat back down+gear less the food and water we used - oh - and without a pop-up blind that was destroyed by weather. C'est la vie!
I couldn't close the tail gate with all animals loaded so lots of straps and tarps had to be used, but other than that, it was everything the RAM was.
There is one real weakness that I've noticed with my maverick, and that's the paint. Any little rock off a vehicle in front will just cause massive damage to the paint. One rock bounced and caused three seperate gouges in the paint across the hood. There's even on from a vehicle in front on the side of the passenger's door. I'm not really sure how that works. This truck has taken more paint damage in 8 months, than my previous vehicles have since 1996 (combined). The paint is really, really, really cheap and terrible. Very fragile. Worse yet, the "matching" paint pen doesn't even come close to matching.
But - aside from that gripe: wonderful truck so far!
No this was culling. We take them back to a cleaning station. If we field dressed them the entire area would be nasty. We took over 20 audad out of that one stand and none ran more than 40 yards. So would be a touch sit with that stuff rotting in the heat of Texas.
Those are some of the best hunts.Well, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. We're out hunting for meat to feed the family for the year. Collectively, we took a muley doe, a buck, and a small moose. Good eating.
Ah I see! That's a totally different world from here! The only thing we "cull" is coyotes and ground hogs!
Ya depends on the area. We cull any adult male deer that are not of good genetics. So they don’t breed. We also have to many doe so those get culled.
