Your best/favorite photo from 2017
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: EmbryOklahoma
26-Dec-16
2016!!!! 2016!!!! 2016!!!! <----<< sorry
I love seeing others photos other than "hero shots"... sunsets, camps, family, in the field, from the stand... etc. I'd like to see your favorite photo (in your eyes) from the this year (non-hero). Give a little background about time of year, state and other info you'd like to add, please.
I'll get the ball rolling...
This was on the way to a stand my wife and myself love to hunt during November, here in Oklahoma. I couldn't resist the lighting and a bit of staging.
From: EmbryOklahoma
26-Dec-16
Talk about a headline fail. 2016 maybe? Lol
From: Paul@thefort
26-Dec-16
Last week while goose hunting with the bow. Sun was perfect and the zoom out to 70 yards was right on. I squeaked, he stopped, I took his pic.
From: Crusader dad
26-Dec-16
This is not this year but one of my fav hunting pics of all time. First afternoon of wi gun season three yrs ago. I didn't have any two man stands so when my son would tag along he would sit on the foot rest and I'd put my legs around him. He must've be warm and comfy because in this picture he is snoring like a grown man.
From: Crusader dad
26-Dec-16
This one is this fall. First week of November. We got permission for a new area and on our scouting trip my son found the shed in the pic. The next morning he decided he'd bring it with for good luck. We are halfway up a ridge hunting the valley below. I saw my first legit booner with him this morning.
From: casper
26-Dec-16
listening to the bulls bugle down in this foggy canyon this sept in Wyoming.
From: Charlie Rehor
26-Dec-16
Bucks die many ways!
From: Bou'bound
26-Dec-16
From: kellyharris
26-Dec-16
How can I do that when it's still 2016?
From: Brotsky
26-Dec-16
Definitely my favorite for the year!
From: Corn bore
26-Dec-16
From: drycreek
26-Dec-16
I would have to say my wife and I in Yellowstone in front of one of the many beautiful waterfalls. July of this year. This was our second trip, but I think I was more impressed with Rocky Mountain National Park, maybe because I had never been there, but mostly because we saw so many more animals.
From: EmbryOklahoma
26-Dec-16
Please read above Kelly... that's already been established. Maybe post a photo from 2016? At least we know it won't be a kill photo. :)
From: muzzy
26-Dec-16
From: Rob Nye
26-Dec-16
I found out why Bugs Bunny hasn't been on TV lately .
I found out why Bugs Bunny hasn't been on TV lately .
From: TREESTANDWOLF
26-Dec-16
From: cnelk
26-Dec-16
Alaska moose hunt
From: weekender21
26-Dec-16
Daddy daughter hunt December 2016
From: TREESTANDWOLF
26-Dec-16
Watched this guy slip into a timber finger from 80' yards away pushing a doe, right past my camera and right past the unoccupied stand on the right.
From: ACB
26-Dec-16
"Socks" never saw him in person , but lots of photos . He is gorgeous hope he grows old and I get to see him regular.
"Socks" never saw him in person , but lots of photos . He is gorgeous hope he grows old and I get to see him regular.
From: Mountain sheep
26-Dec-16
Where the big boys hang out
Where the big boys hang out
Paul, best photo of a fox ever, wow! Here's the Az strip where we took two archey bucks, 220" and 217". Most beautiful country and the best hunt I have ever had the privilege to go on.
From: Elkhuntr
27-Dec-16
adopted this Brittany over a year ago and have worked through a lot of issues from her previous owners, including being gun shy. here she is pointing chukar with antler sheds in the foreground.
From: Moons22
27-Dec-16
Nothing better than the sunrise from the tree.
From: HUNT MAN
27-Dec-16
Great thread Rick!! I call this one creeping in the shadows! Best of luck in 2017! Hunt
Great thread Rick!! I call this one creeping in the shadows! Best of luck in 2017! Hunt
From: The last savage
27-Dec-16
From: Zebrakiller
27-Dec-16
From: hdaman
27-Dec-16
This past summer my wife decided she wanted a new truck instead of an suv. Said she could pull her horse and haul her own buck when she finally got one. Fast forward to October and she harvested her first buck! And yes, it went in her truck, not mine.
From: glunker
27-Dec-16
New friends I met and bonded with at 10400' in WY. Saw 16 rams, we were fortunate to take the two largest.
From: Scooby-doo
27-Dec-16
"Time to Reflect"
"Time to Reflect"
Check out this little guys reflection from a hunt in Kansas!! Scooby
From: Castle Oak
27-Dec-16
September 2016 in Montana just after a thunderstorm.
From: carcus
27-Dec-16
The old man and me
The old man and me
From: carcus
27-Dec-16
From: Forest bows
27-Dec-16
From: T Mac
27-Dec-16
My son and his buddy John fishing L.I. Sound.
My son and his buddy John fishing L.I. Sound.
From: loesshillsarcher
27-Dec-16
My buddy from Wisconsin drew a sheep tag so I went to help out. I told him they were over there.
From: loesshillsarcher
27-Dec-16
My buddy from Wisconsin drew a sheep tag so I went to help out. I told him they were over there.
From: Fuzzy
27-Dec-16
lol
From: kylet
27-Dec-16
From: jdee
27-Dec-16
Coming to the call.
From: J. h2os
27-Dec-16
The super Moon
From: bear bowman
27-Dec-16
Visiting my daughter in Kentucky and got some time to hunt with her again.
From: Grunter
27-Dec-16
Took this during early November. One of my favorites
From: Buffalo1
27-Dec-16
This is a photo I took while bowhunting antelope in WY this past Sept.
It is a stagnant well- it captured our energy economy under the Obama administration.
From: Buffalo1
27-Dec-16
While on a trip to Texas Hill Country, I had the opportunity to visit an Ansel Adams photo exhibit in San Antonio.
This is one of the cameras that Ansel used to capture some of his unbelievable outdoor photos. It's crudeness amazed me - compared to what we have today. He was truly the master of outdoor photography and film developing.
From: Nick Muche
27-Dec-16
From: Fuzzy
27-Dec-16
So far it's this one but I hope after New Year's to have something better ;)
From: Shiras
27-Dec-16
The river that I grew up on. Middle Loup in central NE, took a solo fishing trip down it this past summer. I miss that place.
From: Shiras
27-Dec-16
Or this moose in a meadow from our hunt in AK. One of 38 bulls we saw (some repeats, but not many).
From: hoytshooter1
27-Dec-16
I have a few...
Wyoming high country in September
From: hoytshooter1
27-Dec-16
From a Wyoming tree stand
From: hoytshooter1
27-Dec-16
I think this is my favorite of my favorites
From: hoytshooter1
27-Dec-16
But, this is a very close second
Sunrise on the opening day of Wyoming archery Antelope season
From: Moons22
27-Dec-16
We're not very picky up here in MA.
From: ROUGHCOUNTRY
27-Dec-16
Dodging a bullet in 2016:)
From: ROUGHCOUNTRY
27-Dec-16
........and taking kids fishing on Christmas Eve
From: brianhood
27-Dec-16
Hunt Man.
Is that roger the human pack horse lurking behind you with an empty pack waiting to haul something? He is one hell of a good man to have with you.
From: HUNT MAN
27-Dec-16
Haha Brian ! This time I was the pack horse for this trip! And Roger made me Work for it! I owed him! Great photos guys! Hunt
From: MichaelArnette
27-Dec-16
This was actually taken during the 2015/16 season but it was technically this year. One of the most beautiful sunsets I've ever seen as I walked out of a stand after shooting the biggest doe I'd ever seen...I'm going to try to paint it
From: MichaelArnette
27-Dec-16
I snapped this one of my two buddies bugling elk this September.
From: Schmitty78
27-Dec-16
Me and my boy during Missouris youth season.
From: SBH
27-Dec-16
The twins burning time waiting for a Tom to show up
The twins burning time waiting for a Tom to show up
HUNT with his boy on his shoulders and a couple of my boys learning the ways of baiting!
HUNT with his boy on his shoulders and a couple of my boys learning the ways of baiting!
Great thread. Awesome pics guys. Heres a couple of my favorites from 2016. 2017 is gonna be great!
From: SBH
27-Dec-16
How do I rotate the second pic? When I click on edit image it only lets me do the top one......Help please!
From: joehunter
27-Dec-16
Last day in Colorado Archery Elk with my son - still smiling!
From: ACB
27-Dec-16
Hours before a tornado came though my hunting area .
Hours before a tornado came though my hunting area .
From: kota-man
27-Dec-16
Nick wins! I love that photo....
From: ACB
27-Dec-16
A couple days after the tornado. Same camera and the 30" red oak it was attach to was twisted off about 15 feet up .
A couple days after the tornado. Same camera and the 30" red oak it was attach to was twisted off about 15 feet up .
From: JTreeman
27-Dec-16
I don't know if it's my VERY favorite, but one of them from this year. Kodiak Island, Alaska.
--Jim
From: APauls
27-Dec-16
An interesting bull with a "triple" paddle on the right that's hard to see, and a little dropper on the left.
An interesting bull with a "triple" paddle on the right that's hard to see, and a little dropper on the left.
Not a "hero" shot but I just LOVED the view.
Not a "hero" shot but I just LOVED the view.
A couple I liked.
From: sdbowhunter
27-Dec-16
Here's before the sun peaked over the horizon
Here's before the sun peaked over the horizon
Buck thru binos with phone at sunrise
Buck thru binos with phone at sunrise
Watching him go down in sight
Watching him go down in sight
Sunrise from treestand once sun came up. Made it look like everything was on fire.
From: sdbowhunter
27-Dec-16
Glassing for deer
Glassing for deer
How you get a 4 year old 3/4 of a mile from the farm yard on the game cart.
How you get a 4 year old 3/4 of a mile from the farm yard on the game cart.
From: trkyslr
27-Dec-16
One of them... kodiak, Ak
From: trkyslr
27-Dec-16
This is also one of my favs from the year.. one of many pics from an awesome hunt with Ryan! Yaya I know it's a hero pic... here I'll add one more :-)
From: trkyslr
28-Dec-16
Ryan trying a natural setup after his first bird here in Cali.. these birds came into 20 yards and Ryan didn't take a shot.. when asked why he didn't shoot after the birds left, he said he wasn't exactly sure of the birds distance, so he passed.. I know more grown men who don't have that control and good decision making.. I was impressed!
From: EmbryOklahoma
28-Dec-16
Really good stuff! Great bond bowsite has. I love the people, my brothers and sisters that contribute. Some don't understand what we do, but it's nice to have a place to come to where we all understand the main prinicipal. That is we are bowhunters.
From: luckydraw
28-Dec-16
Yukon 2016. Waking up at a place called Grizzly Flat's in a small tent. Guide say's "Take a look. That's where we're gonna hunt sheep .'' The next afternoon I shot a 10yr old Dull Ram.
Yukon 2016. Waking up at a place called Grizzly Flat's in a small tent. Guide say's "Take a look. That's where we're gonna hunt sheep .'' The next afternoon I shot a 10yr old Dull Ram.
From: otcWill
28-Dec-16
Great thread, Rick! Too many great shots to pic one but here's one of many I took.
From: LINK
28-Dec-16
From: KC9
28-Dec-16
From: White Falcon
28-Dec-16
East Tx.
From: JayG@work
28-Dec-16
I'm not sure which is my favorite. This..
From: JayG@work
28-Dec-16
Or this one.. Heading in.
From: jsthuntn
28-Dec-16
Spring bear 2016
Spring bear 2016
Here is my Favorite of the year. My bride and kiddos on the way out from restocking a spring bear bait.
From: Crusader dad
28-Dec-16
I vote for nick muche bear and kc9 doe/fawn. Good thread and some very cool pics.
From: sdbowhunter
28-Dec-16
Taken the week before the super moon
Taken the week before the super moon
Was trying to get the moon in picture but at that time it just turned out as a bright dot
Was trying to get the moon in picture but at that time it just turned out as a bright dot
Sun set from tree stand
Sun set from tree stand
Pheasant keeping me company one night decided to sit with me up in the tree
Pheasant keeping me company one night decided to sit with me up in the tree
From: sdbowhunter
28-Dec-16
Sunset
Sunset
Sunrise
Sunrise
From: ACB
28-Dec-16
My 88 year old mother back on the stove on Christmas Day after having a mini stroke about 6 years ago to show everyone how to make giblet gravy the right way ." My favorite dish on family holidays. "
My 88 year old mother back on the stove on Christmas Day after having a mini stroke about 6 years ago to show everyone how to make giblet gravy the right way ." My favorite dish on family holidays. "
From: ACB
28-Dec-16
She is the one who cultivated my love of the out doors . No matter what I caught or killed she would come and talk with me while I cleaned and then would cook it for me as I was growing up . I will forever be grateful . My wife tells me I am a mommas boy and I stick my chest out with pride and say yes I am .
From: Nctrapper
29-Dec-16
This is not my photo
This is not my photo
From: writer
29-Dec-16
In December I guided this Marine, medically discharged, first hunt, first deer, took two days to get him out of his shell, then, BOOM! Hear from him several times a week now. He's wanting to bring his kids over fishing. Not the first time that's happened.
From: writer
29-Dec-16
Favorite pic while hunting.
From: writer
29-Dec-16
Think a few hundred of you guys participated in the Arrows for Addison project. The bouquet of arrows is soooooooooo cherished by her family now that she's passed. Literally takes my breath away when I realize how that one little girl, changed so many lives for the better.
OK, I'll stop sending photos before I get the file that has the shots of our new, and first, grandchild. :-)
From: oake
29-Dec-16
My oldest daughter and I in the stand early November
From: J. h2os
30-Dec-16
From: sitO
30-Dec-16
My buddies first "real" Pronghorn, and hunt I filmed. And the young man I helped guide on his first Turkey hunt.
Some great pics here folks, let's do it again in 2017!
From: MassBucks
30-Dec-16
My little man with my buck.
From: DaveHowell
30-Dec-16
From: Teeton
30-Dec-16
This is my friend Ron in the pix. We got to this old cabin on the last night that we were packing out. It was about half way. We got there about an half hour after dark. It was a good thing, as the sky opened up just about as we got there. That was the only time we got hard rain the 2 weeks we were there. Ed
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
The walk-up . . . I love the walk-up
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
Nevada
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
Glassing kudu, impala and reedbuck to see if any are shooters
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
Not even my buck. I didn't have anything to do with him. But holding 200 inches has had a profound effect on me . . . I want one!!!
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
Another walk-up
From: Bake
30-Dec-16
I can't pick just one. After being out of the waterfowl game for about 10 years, this hunt with some cousins of mine was a LOT of fun!!
In fact, it just might have rekindled my waterfowl fever
From: Cuts
31-Dec-16
Checking cameras one day in August and this fawn would not leave. Watched me change cards, pack my bag back up, and still never moved a muscle.
From: ahunter55
31-Dec-16
Our little Fancy this past summer in the back yard. 15 years +. She went to doggie heaven this fall.
From: Simple
31-Dec-16
My baby girl after a clean kill on a nice 10 point Indiana corn fed whitetail. She took a 150 inch 10 3 years ago which was the biggest in the house. Until I topped it the s year with a 17 point.
My baby girl after a clean kill on a nice 10 point Indiana corn fed whitetail. She took a 150 inch 10 3 years ago which was the biggest in the house. Until I topped it the s year with a 17 point.
My daughter after she took a 120 class 10pt.
From: Wv hillbilly
31-Dec-16
7year old daughters first buck. Happy New Years all.
From: Bigdan
31-Dec-16
From: dmanwarren
31-Dec-16
One of my last sits for the year just before sunrise.
From: Fulldraw1972
31-Dec-16
From: Toby
02-Jan-17
From: Wideone
02-Jan-17
Youngest son's first bird
Youngest son's first bird
My youngest has had great success with deer but none with turkey until this year. After his bird is down I took a jake so we could double up.
From: sureshot
02-Jan-17
FREEZING NOVEMBER FOG
FREEZING NOVEMBER FOG
One of those magical mornings in a treestand hunting whitetails.
From: NvaGvUp
02-Jan-17
Sheep Tracks!
Sheep Tracks!
James, taking a break.
James, taking a break.
On the way down off the mountain after I took my ram in WY, we had a small area along the creek that wasn't lousy with HUGE boulders. We took a break there and I snapped these two photos.
It wasn't until after I was home and started looking at them on my computer that I noticed the sheep tracks in the sand on this first photo.
From: ahunter55
02-Jan-17
30 yds. from my Deck
From: BoggsBowhunts
02-Jan-17
On a Goat hunt in BC
From: White Falcon
02-Jan-17
A quiver I had made by a person in South Africa, Anton de Wit.
From: moosecanada.com
02-Jan-17
Nova Scotia Moose.
From: EmbryOklahoma
02-Jan-17
Great pics!
From: t-roy
02-Jan-17
Late season, Iowa.
From: Bulls & Bucks
02-Jan-17
I can't decide either my 3 year old on her first time out or my wife and I with the first turkeys she ever called in
From: Bulls & Bucks
02-Jan-17
From: Bake
02-Jan-17
I can't pick just one. After being out of the waterfowl game for about 10 years, this hunt with some cousins of mine was a LOT of fun!!
In fact, it just might have rekindled my waterfowl fever
From: dg72a
03-Jan-17
The buck bait.......
The buck bait.......
Coyote problem....
Coyote problem....
From: Bowriter
03-Jan-17
Has to be one of my all-time faves. Sorry, it isn't a hunting picture.
From: Mr.C
03-Jan-17
From: Mr.C
03-Jan-17
YOUNGEST SONS FIRST WALLEYE
YOUNGEST SONS FIRST WALLEYE
From: cubdrvr
03-Jan-17
Just a summer storm
From: cubdrvr
03-Jan-17
Friend from North Dakota took this one. Light on skyline is from oil well flares.
Friend from North Dakota took this one. Light on skyline is from oil well flares.
From: LINK
03-Jan-17
Western Oklahoma sunset.
Western Oklahoma sunset.
Unedited iPhone pic.
From: EmbryO-klahoma
03-Jan-17
Rod... Wow! Great capture!
From: RedArcher43
03-Jan-17
My niece Emily on her first deer hunt...
My niece Emily on her first deer hunt...
A few pics
From: RedArcher43
03-Jan-17
My nephew Keith and his first trip to Canada
My nephew Keith and his first trip to Canada
A few pics
From: NvaGvUp
03-Jan-17
From my living room window.
Typical Reno sunrise from November - March every year.
From: NvaGvUp
03-Jan-17
Wifey took the first two of these.
From: Jason Stafford
03-Jan-17
Motley Crew
From: Jason Stafford
03-Jan-17
Quick lunch break while looking for antelope with my daughter Baylee
From: JIMBOW
03-Jan-17
locked and loaded in an African blind...
From: huntingbob
03-Jan-17
Took a week off just to relax after archery season.
From: huntingbob
03-Jan-17
Had fun just taking pics and relaxing.
From: Bowriter
04-Jan-17
A picture from many years ago...
From: SteveB
04-Jan-17
Fiery Morning on our lake from my deck
Fiery Morning on our lake from my deck
From: Bake
04-Jan-17
From: Basil1
04-Jan-17
Arnhem Land Northern Australia
From: Tatonka
05-Jan-17
That time of year................. :)
From: hmaxims
06-Jan-17
Last day of deer season 2016. Did some damage to my truck navigating a deep puddle off-road. Instead of getting pissed off, had some fun with it.
From: GF
06-Jan-17
Live-lining a bunker
Live-lining a bunker
Hoping for another one o' these
Hoping for another one o' these
From: GF
06-Jan-17
My shootin' buddies getting acquainted with their Christmas presents (Little got arrows, Big got a bow)
My shootin' buddies getting acquainted with their Christmas presents (Little got arrows, Big got a bow)
Some of you have already seen these characters, but you'll just have to tough it out....
Somewhere I have sunset-on-the-dock photo similar to the first of these, but of one of the boys... taken by and sent to me courtesy of Curt Gowdy Jr.
From: grizzlyhunter
06-Jan-17
Alaska P.O.W bear hunt.
From: sheds
07-Jan-17
great spring day 2016
From: Gene
07-Jan-17
Fishing for redfish at sunrise out of Barataria Louisiana with friends.
From: skull
07-Jan-17
From my front door in my old country
From: hunt4life
07-Jan-17
Kansas
From: Dutchd
07-Jan-17
After the storm on the prairie.
From: CAS_HNTR
08-Jan-17
Does this count? I took this inderectly as I hung the camera! Hah
Does this count? I took this inderectly as I hung the camera! Hah
From: t-roy
10-Jan-17
This one of my favorites in "2017"!! Does this one qualify Rick??!!
From: MassBucks
11-Jan-17
That's a beauty T-roy!!
From: Inshart
11-Jan-17
Sometimes timing is everything - on our way in to hunt elk in WY this year
From: elk yinzer
12-Jan-17
Fog lifting on a morning elk hunt after our 6th close call of the trip.
Fog lifting on a morning elk hunt after our 6th close call of the trip.
Pack loaded with my PA buck about to pack off the mountain
Pack loaded with my PA buck about to pack off the mountain
Finding a massive 6x6 on our elk hunt
Finding a massive 6x6 on our elk hunt
A little love for the mature does, my freezer was empty, and breaking a demoralizing streak of awful shooting last year.
A little love for the mature does, my freezer was empty, and breaking a demoralizing streak of awful shooting last year.
These are most of my favorite photos from 2016 aside from a couple great scenery photos from our elk hunt I won't post.
From: Shug
12-Jan-17
Me early 2016
From: TLowell02
12-Jan-17
Waiting for a bull in northern New Mexico
Waiting for a bull in northern New Mexico
From: IdyllwildArcher
12-Jan-17
Shug, you're not fooling anyone. We all know that was taken in 2013.
From: IdyllwildArcher
12-Jan-17
Frozen land meets frozen ocean: The Arctic Ocean just after freeze up, but before the first snow covers all the ice, near Point Hope, AK.
From: jst.pursuit
12-Jan-17
Here are a couple of mine favorites/recents. I tend to take a bunch of pictures in a week let alone a season so I will try to keep it to just a few!
