JT’s 2019 season in review.
Contributors to this thread:General Topic
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
JTreeman's Link
So I did a 2018 year in review last year, I have included a link above if anyone is interested in looking back. Seemed that a lot of guys enjoyed it so I figured I would do a 2019. I didn’t start as fast last year, had some work projects do wrap up, so got going in March.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I’m not going to go into a whole lot of detail on any specifics, trying to hit the high points and share a lot of pics. I’ll be happy to answer any specific questions if anyone has them though. If you are looking for lots of dead critters you may want to check out now, I had lots of adventure but had a hell of a time getting animals on the ground.
I started the year in Argentina chasing free range Red Stag. It was a fun hunt, I made some mistakes on the booking and the outfitter wasn’t really as archery friendly as I had hoped. They provided what that said, I did a poor job of researching exactly what I was front in to. Still a fun trip, but really didn’t have very many opportunities for a stag.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Representative Red Stag from the ranch. These were all rifle kills though.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Got home from Argentina and apparently my Girlfriend decide we need a new big white dog while I was gone!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Next up was the Pope and Young convention in Omaha, NE. Good times with good people.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Some heavy hitters In this room over the weekend!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
They were nice enough to give Donald Trump JR the seat right behind me on Friday night. Im sure it was a high point for him ;)
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Next up was OK turkey season, I Don’t always take it super serious, but I was able to arrow 2 nice birds this season with limited hunting time.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Second OK bird
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I took a kid that works for me on a quick long weekend KS turkey hunt. It was tough, saw a few birds but couldn’t connect.
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Another KS set-up.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Turkey Camp.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
We didn’t have a lot of turkey action, but mornings like this sure make it worth it.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I found a little time to spend a weekend with my old man for some bass fishing. I really gotta make that happen more often...
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
No rest for the wicked. June found me on a 2 week hunt in Australia. First stop Ironbark Outfitters for water buff!
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
First evening out.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Buffalo on the flats
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I next fly 1/2 way back south to chase Chital, or as I would say Axis deer. I couldn’t connect on those string jumping bastards. Had a couple good opportunities and one miss.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Another Australian hunter in camp was able to get this nice buck though. He made a beautiful stalk and a great shot. Watched it all from across the creek drainage.
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I love the kangaroos over there. Super cool animals.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I didn’t have a hunt in July, but snuck our for a weekend in Utah to shoot Total Archery Challenge with my good friend Nativeokie.
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Park City is a fun place.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
John Dudley was begging us all weekend to let him take a pic with us, so we caved and obliged him Sunday. ;)
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
JTreeman's Link
The next weekend I was off to BC for a Stone Sheep Hunt. I did a thread about it when I got home, I’ll throw some pics in here, but if you are interested In the full recap I’ll insert a link to the thread.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Probably the best Hunt I’ve ever been on.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Home away from home.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
You can see the ram pretty centered in this pic about 95 yards below us. Slam dunk with a rifle.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
This is what I look like about 45 minutes after blowing the shot of a lifetime....
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
And how my feet look after 14 days on the mountain and about 1,856 miles!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I got home on a Sunday, and hit the road for Colorado antelope the following Friday. Fast and furious. Drive Friday, kill antelope Saturday, help my buddy find his Sunday morning and home Sunday eve!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
First Antelope. I guess I can accidentally kill something every once in a while...
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
I actually as a couple weekends without a hunt to finish out July. We took the chance to spend a couple days at the lat house and a good hike in S/E OK.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Wore the dogs out in the OK “mountains”.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
And a summer staple, range time.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Setting up the iguana bow. More on that to come....
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
A morning dove shoot wirh some buddies is a good way to start off a September!
—Jin
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
September is for Elk in my opinion, but I didn’t draw a tag, so figured it would be a good year for a moose. And a goat too. So BC bound I am again.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Moose camp. Pretty plush!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Moose valley.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
And Goat Mountain.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Spike camp. Hard to beat it.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Little small for a first day goat. Passed him at 25, might regret that later!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Top of the world!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
BC is incredible, and goat hunting is awesome.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
The view on Moose Valley from Goat Mountain. With a few goats thrown in for variety!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Yeah, this is where goats live, yeah, that is where we just came down! Yeah, it can be scary!
—Jin
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Nanny at 15 yards. Can’t see him, but a STUD billy directly behind her. No shot!!!!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
The weather went to crap, so basically pushed us out of goat country. But unfortunately It was just rainy and foggy. Not cold. The moose really weren’t rutting too good. Has raked and grunted a solid shooter bull into 30 yards, but couldn’t get a shot through the brush. This archery hunting is kinda hard!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Lower end of Moose Valley. Only one arrow loosed and no animals were harmed in my 4 weeks in BC this summer!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Home to Oklahoma just in time for some early season Deer hunts.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Hard for me to pass these guys, but I’m looking for something a bit older.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Hard for me to pass these guys, but I’m looking for something a bit older.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Stand time.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Was able to connect on my biggest Whitetail to date. Not a giant, but I was pleased.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Mid November rolls in and I find myself packing for Alaska. Kodiak island Sitka blacktails. First afternoon, you can see the boat below us.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Kodiak is another incredible place. My partner Bigeasygator in these 2 pics. Hella good dude to hunt wirh.
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
This hunt was covered pretty well in another thread too. So I’ll just throw out a little eye candy.
Skiff coming in.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Every once in a while the sun comes out.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
On the beach waiting for pick-up.
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Me trying to explain how I can have 4 deer at 15 yards and no shot!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Good times on the boat with and absolutely great group of guys. Doesn’t get much better.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Another evening pick-up with light packs.
—Jim
From: Jaquomo
19-Jan-20
That it? Geez, you hardly hunted at all!
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Finally the bigeasygator gets us something to pick our! Last day redemption. I came up short on this one too. I had some opportunity, but spent a lot of time trying to get my partner on a buck.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Almost jaq, we are only to November!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Hell of a week with a great group of guys. My hands are in my pockets because I didn’t have a skull cap to hold up...
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Ride home.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Got home in time to have my buddy Bake over to OK to hunt some deer for a few days. I consider Bake one of my best friends and one hell of a good individual. Look forward to many more hunts with him.
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
View from a stand in north central OK.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Some good sign in the area.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Bake was able to connect on a nice management buck on his last evening.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
JTreeman's Link
For December my best friend and I take a few days and head for Florida to hunt some lizards. I’ll put the link for the thread of this hunt in too. But a few pics just for fun!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Iguana with the bow.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Iguana with the blow gun.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Almost sunk the boat with 39 iguanas for the day.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Got home from FL and took a few more days in the tree stand and decide I was about spent on the tree time. Decided to try to kill a few ducks to finish out the year. Had a few decent hunts, but just not a lot of ducks around.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
—jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Ducks
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Spent the holidays with in StLouis at my sisters house with the family. Nice view of the arch from our hotel on Christmas morning!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
The fam...
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
My nephew Max. He is almost ready for a sheep hunt!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Back to the duck marsh to start off 2020 right.
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Still not many damn ducks around!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Little winter scouting. Starting to think about those spring turkey hunts already!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Started 2020 off with a couple shows. Spent a day at DSC with a good buddy and his grandson. Had a good time and met some good guys.
—Jim
From: Paul@thefort
19-Jan-20
Looks like a lot of fun Jim, but what do you do in your spare time? my best, Paul
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Next up Sheep Show in Reno. Fun weekend with some food friends. Luckily it’s only one weekend a year though ;)
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Pack races at sheep show. I did NOT compete!
—Jim
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
Funny you should ask Paul, I just got a 3rd job. Gotta keep it going for 2020!
—Jim
From: Overland
19-Jan-20
What an incredible year! Those BC hunts look phenomenal, harvest or no harvest.
From: JTreeman
19-Jan-20
That’s all I got fellas. Hope it was enough!
I completely realize I am one lucky SOB to get to do a lot of what I get to do. But in all honestly I’m not that special, lots of this stuff can be done by many of us. Get out there and make it happen guys!
Thanks for following along, hope to do it again next year.
—Jim
From: SBH
19-Jan-20
Geez Jim! Way to go man. You really got after it. Thanks for the post and showing us what’s possible. Just an incredible year!
From: HUNT MAN
19-Jan-20
Solid work once again Jim. Way to make it happen!! Hunt
From: t-roy
19-Jan-20
Another action packed year in the books! Congrats on another pile of great adventures. Kodiak was a blast!
From: Bake
19-Jan-20
Awesome year Jim! I’m ready to see your recap for 2020 already! And I too look forward to many more hunts and dead things!
From: Marty
19-Jan-20
Excellent job, it's not all about the kill, looks like you made memories for a lifetime in one year!
From: yooper89
19-Jan-20
I wanna be like JTreeman when I grow up
From: Brotsky
19-Jan-20
Awesome wrap-up Jim! Great photos and a pile of memories! That is one helluva fun year! Good luck in 2020!
From: Nick Muche
20-Jan-20
Great work Jim!
From: tkjwonta
20-Jan-20
Awesome stuff Jim, thanks for taking us along on the journey. Even though there weren't as many animals harvested as you might have hoped, you gave a tremendous effort on a whole pile of adventures. Well done!
From: BULELK1
20-Jan-20
Good thread Jim!! What a year man.
Sorry I missed ya @ the Sheep Show.
Speaking of holding a sign on the side of the road-------- I was coming home and got off I-80 for fuel in Elko Nv. about 0330 and there was this rolly-polly girl with a sign saying Wendover ~~ I can Syphon Gas...…
It took me about 50 miles to figure out what she was 'advertising'!
Thanks for sharing bud.
Good luck, Robb
From: Bou'bound
20-Jan-20
That gator is awesome. Some classic selfies as well nicely done.
From: midwest
20-Jan-20
Holy crap....I'm exhausted! You do more hunts in one year than 90% of us will do in a lifetime! Congrats on a great year, Jim, and thanks for sharing it here.
Hey, Robb....did you turn around? lol!
From: Bowfreak
20-Jan-20
How do you think he figured out what the sign meant? :)
From: kota-man
20-Jan-20
Good stuff Jim. Great “catching up” with you in Reno. Here’s to 2020!
From: shiloh
20-Jan-20
Dang!!!! And I thought I was a hunter!! Congrats on the hunts!!!!
From: huntinelk
20-Jan-20
Awesome Jim....thanks for making me feel like such an underachiever....
From: Treeline
20-Jan-20
What an incredible year! Congratulations on a pile of lifetime hunts!
Good luck in 2020!
From: Predeter
20-Jan-20
Incredible year, Jim. Thanks for taking the time to post it up. Gives me something to aspire to!!
From: njbuck
20-Jan-20
That is one hell of a year! What do you have planned for 2020?
From: bigeasygator
20-Jan-20
We have our agreement...next time you shoot first and I’ll pack 3/4 quarters of the animal!
Helluva season bud, and great catching up again at Sheep Show. Already looking forward to the next adventure!!
From: Ned mobile
20-Jan-20
Amazing!
From: hdaman
20-Jan-20
Simply incredible! Glad to see people making their dreams come true! Thanks for sharing.
From: elkmtngear
20-Jan-20
Man, that's an impressive schedule for 2019!
Truly livin' the dream...Congrats, Jim!
From: Ron Niziolek
20-Jan-20
Great stuff Jim. Too bad you don't get out more.
From: Jaquomo
20-Jan-20
Your "season" would be a lifetime achievement for most of us, regardless of whether you punched tags. Great year, thanks for sharing!
From: Native Okie
20-Jan-20
Awesome stuff, Jim!
From: APauls
20-Jan-20
Wow that's incredible. Like others have said that 's a lifetime of experience in a single year. So many cool places in there. Very cool.
From: GhostBird
20-Jan-20
WOW... YOU KEEP BUSY... CONGRATULATIONS ON ANOTHER YEAR.
From: M.Pauls
20-Jan-20
You’re out of control Jim. Have you sought out help? I think it’s time to plan a Bowsite intervention. We all like hunting Jim, but this isn’t normal. :)
Thanks for sharing, incredible season and awesome pics
From: Ironmike
20-Jan-20
Atta boy!
From: Beav
20-Jan-20
Incredible!! Thanks for sharing!
From: Mark Watkins
20-Jan-20
Epic year Jim! Congrats!
I obviously need to step up my game!
Mark
From: DEMO-Bowhunter
20-Jan-20
One heck of a season man!! Keep the memories rolling!
From: iceman
20-Jan-20
STILL my hero. :)
From: zabwelch
20-Jan-20
Awesome pics! Congrats on a great year!
From: wooddamon1
20-Jan-20
Living the dream, man! Incredible hunts!
From: cnelk
20-Jan-20
Perfect year
From: Zackman
20-Jan-20
I want to be Jim when I grow up. Unbelievable!!!
From: Shug
20-Jan-20
Living the dream
From: BOWUNTR
21-Jan-20
Awesome.... what a great year. Ed F
From: Quick Draw 1
22-Jan-20
Hey man, I was doing great until the picture of your feet! Seriously, that's an amazing year. Now I see what you meant at Sheep Show when you said you may need to tone it down just a bit this year. But 2019 will go down as one heck of an adventure year. Thanks for taking the time with all that. Alan
From: otcWill
22-Jan-20
Incredible season Jim! Thanks for taking the time to post
From: Hunterdad
05-Feb-20
What a year! I am truly impressed and proud of you. Love you, Dad.
From: IdyllwildArcher
05-Feb-20
Good stuff Jim.
From: 12yards
05-Feb-20
Wow! More adventure than I'll have in a lifetime I think! Looks like fun!
From: krieger
06-Feb-20
What a year!! Thanks for the pics and motivation.
