This is the beginning of the 2011 story of Dry Dogs Dream Hunt.  More posts will be added as time goes on, but for now here is what has transpired so far.

It all started back in the Spring of 2011 when we were all faced with putting in for any special coveted big game tags we might want to play with this Fall.  Myself and several others opted to apply for limited entry elk tags and we did just that.  While others, like Dry Dog, applied for limited entry deer tags.

In the state of Utah whenever you apply for a special tag and don’t draw out, you are given a point for trying.  That point is then applied to next years attempt and it gives you a bit of an advantage over someone with less numbers of points.  It’s sort of like having extra tickets in the drawing bucket during the raffle drawing.

Well, Mr. Dry Dog had two points as this drawing was going on.  So, add to those two, his one “ticket” from this years drawing and BINGO!  He draws the coveted Crawford Mountain, late muzzleloader hunt for Mule Deer Bucks!  It’s the same hunt that the Chosen Five went on in 2010.  Have you read that story yet?  If not, check it out “The Chosen Ones 2010” is the name of it on this site.

Anyway, Mr. Dry Dog, decided to go along with our choice of “harassing” techniques and had himself a shirt made up.

I’m sorry about the quality of the picture.  The Weasel took it with his phone camera and emailed it to me.  But, notice how the shirt is worded…”The ONE, The Proud, THE CHOSEN”!!!!

For sure, he was the only “one” chosen from those of us who applied for this hunt and it is for 2011.

As the progression of the summer has gone on, he has worn that shirt at many special occasions where gatherings of Willow Creekers have been in attendance.

And suddenly, we find ourselves only two weeks away from the beginning date of his hunt!  Time flies!

Next Saturday, Nov. 12, we are going to have ourselves a planning meeting in preparation for Dry Dogs Dream hunt.  Tracker and Bones are hosting this meeting and everyone is looking forward to attending.  We already know that my old camp trailer is going to go on this hunt, as well as Tracker and myself to be in attendance with Mr. Dog.  Many others have also voiced their intent on being there even if  just for a day or a few nights stay at the camp.

There is something very special about this hunt and the area that gets my blood pumping.  The site of many, many very nice bucks offers a camera some incredible shots at these magnificent animals.  And to have a rifle and a tag, makes it just that much sweeter an experience.

More will be said as time goes on about this hunt and Dry Dogs desire to “fill a wall” with a trophy mule deer buck!  I’m sure he has already had dreams of 30 inch spread horns standing in his sights.  Sites like these:

33 1/4 inch spread.

35 inch spread.

36 3/8 inch spread.  All three of these pictures were of mounts found in the Cabelas Outfitter store in  Utah.

Yes!  A Dream Hunt to be sure!

Bears Butt

Nov. 6, 2011