Biggest Buck Ever!!!

Hey everyone! Well just to let you know, I shot my biggest buck ever up in Malta last weekend. Vance and his dad think that it will score around 140. I have never scored a buck that I have shot. I usually just say a 4x4 or 3x3, which are just how many points the buck has. The buck I shot was a 4x4; it’s very thick and 19 inches wide. I’m going to get this buck shoulder mounted which is going to put a dent in my wallet, but I really don’t care because this is my biggest buck ever and it’s something to build off of for the rest of my hunting career.
So Thanksgiving went pretty well over at my Aunt and Uncle’s in Whitehall. There were around 16 of us eating dinner, so it was a packed house. After dinner, the girls went back to Helena to shop for Black Friday, and the guys stayed at my Uncle’s to hunt for deer. With me already shooting my buck, we were looking for a nice one for my dad. My Uncle said he had seen a nice buck the night before, but of course it never showed its face.
My dad, myself and our friend Bill went hunting today since today is the last day of hunting season. We went up to our usual spot and didn’t see a thing. If you recall from one of my old blogs, for some reason they decided to log right where our favorite spot is. So we decided to go and check our spot out since they are done logging for the year and aren’t going to start again until spring. Anyways, they weren’t in there today. After not seeing anything, we went to a different spot, and Bill ended up shooting a cow elk.
So when I’m hunting, sometimes I feel like the animals talk to each other. I know that it sounds crazy, but sometimes I’ll be walking and hear a chipmunk or a bird making noises and it makes me think. Maybe they are telling the elk that there are hunters coming. (LOL) you all probably think that I’m crazy or something, but just next time you are hunting (if you hunt) think about it when that stupid chipmunk is making noises and then you don’t see any elk.
Well everyone, I will talk to you all later!!! Enjoy my pictures!!!!!!

Malta Baby!!!

Well hello everyone! I am currently sitting in the Board of Regents meeting in the SUB in Bozeman. Jen and I came down last night because we had a meeting that we thought started at 6, but didn’t start until 7. So we had to hang out in the SUB basement for an hour, which sucked. The meeting was our MAS meeting, which is where the Presidents and Vice Presidents of all the colleges in Montana meet and discuss things like bills and money to give out. Today we will leave Bozeman around one o’clock and head back to Butte. Then when we get back to Butte, I’ll be heading off to Helena to go up to Malta to do some hunting with my Dad and Vance. Hopefully I can see a nice Whitetail buck to shoot. We will be deer hunting out of a blind, which is something I’ve always wanted to try. That’s how they hunt on the hunting shows, and I’ve always thought that it really looks like a blast. Then in between deer hunting during the morning and night, we will be bird hunting in the afternoon. I have never gone bird hunting, which again is something I’ve always wanted to do, since there is a lot of shooting and I love to lay the hammer down. Well everyone, next time I will post some pictures of the animals I shoot this weekend.

Done With Football!!!

Hey everyone, what is up? Well my first week off of football did not really seem like football was over. It was more like, I would say, Thanksgiving break or something. I went up to our annual hunting camp at Park Lake last Tuesday afternoon until Friday afternoon. I decided to head up on Tuesday because we didn’t have school on Wednesday, so then I would only miss two days of school. So I’m not very happy that football is over because I really think that we had good team and that we could have went to the playoffs this year if we hadn’t lost that first game to Mines. We would have been eight and three in conference and eight and eight and three overall, so I’m thinking that we would have made it in the top 16 in the nation. I heard that we are like 24th and maybe 22nd in a couple polls. Next year I think that we are going to roll teams up. We will be bringing back a lot of our offensive starters for the past couple of years. But we did lose some key guys on defense, like Skippy Sims and Joel Wilson. So enough about football, you are all probably sick of me talking about football for the past couple months. But that’s really the only thing that I do during those months; it takes up all of my time. So I can’t believe that it is already time to sign up for classes. Also I can’t believe that next year will be my senior year in college, but I do have two senior years for football. This pretty much means that I have one year of school to do in two years, which is always a good thing. It means that I can get a lot of hunting and fishing in. So this weekend I’m heading up to Malta with Vance and my dad to go horn hunting. I hear about all of these huge bucks up in Malta from Vance, so this weekend is his time to prove it to me. This week is going to be a really short week for me. I have school on Monday and Tuesday, and then Wednesday I will be in Bozeman for the Student Regents meetings. We will be staying there Wednesday night and then coming back Thursday for classes. Then hopefully we will head up to Malta Thursday after my class. Well everyone, I hope you all have a great week!!!! I’ll check back in later this week!!!!

Following The Pens!!!

Well good morning everyone! It’s a beautiful morning here in Butte. So this blog will have two main topics. The first is pens and how they get around, and the second topic is tires. So lately I’ve been thinking about pens, yes the pens that you write with when you’re at, let’s say, Target or Applebee’s. I first was thinking about this because I was studying for a test in the library last week and looked down and had a personal pen from Garry Bock in Seattle, Washington. Now I have no clue, not even an idea of how I went about to get this pen. Think about it next time you’re out and about and you write a check or have to sign your receipt. Look down and see what your pen says and where it’s from. It makes me want to start a track the pen website, like how people have track your bill. Sometimes on your dollar bill there is a stamp that has a website where you can type in the dollar bill number and it will tell you exactly where that dollar bill has been. It would be interesting to see how pens circulate. I would really like to know how many people my pen from Gary Bock has been with and how it really got to me in Butte, Montana. So now that we got that up in the open, I would like to ask: when did new tires get so freaking expensive? I blew a tire out on the way back from Helena on Sunday afternoon right outside of Boulder. Since my left arm was hurt from the game on Saturday, it was really difficult to get the new tire on. Then my truck came off the jack so I couldn’t get the truck high enough to get the new tire put on. My dad had to come and bring me a couple of blocks so I could lift the truck up a little bit with the jack and then lower it and set it on the block. So I could then put the jack on a block to the lift the truck high enough, it was a process let me tell you. My tires still had 20,000 miles left on them so Les Schwab gave me a $100 off and then another $100 because I’m a Montana Tech student. You can believe my excitement when I found out that I got $200 off. Well everyone, I will chat will you all later this week!!!!