The weather during the season was generally bad. We had several days of high wind each week, and we had nights that were 50's one night, and frost the next night. It really screwed up the way game was moving. This went on for 2 months, but between the odd fall/winter weather we did have some great hunting.
Over all a lot of game was taken and the new property was a great success for us. A few little things to correct at camp, but nothing that was a serious problem. Almost everyone, including myself really liked the remote location and the generator power. Using candles and flashlights or sitting around the fire was a really nice "feeling" for a hunting camp.
My other properties have been solid, and dependable places for very long now. One of them was shut down for renovation, and we hunted it anyway. We packed in all our own food, my cook Jamien, and the PH's. It had not been hunted yet this year due to the camp renovations. I sweet talked the land owner to let us in for a few days. What a great time we all had there. A little rough around the edges with the construction, but the hunting was awesome!
Anyway, I'm back and I'll post up some photo's. I recovered 2-270 TSX bullets the last week I was there from my 375HH and I recovered 5or 6 165 grain TSX bullets from my 30/06. Then a few partitions from the other rifles.
The TSX are still the best bullet on the market, but the frequent lack of blood trails is an ongoing concern. I had to track a number of animals a long way with only the hoof prints to go on. Several had absolutely no blood the whole way. Several shot with the 270 grain TSX bullets from the 375HH had no blood trail either. I love the bullets but really miss getting some blood to follow.
Most of the photo's I have are from a Canon 30D camera. It's so high resolution I cannot get a web hosting site to accept them. Therefore I can put them up here. They just take forever to download and then fail. I will have to work on that so I can post up a few of the great pictures I have from this season.
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