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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="088085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Saskatchewan Trophy Hunts</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saskatchewan Trophy Hunts"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Andy Milam"><U>About Andy Milam</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="hunting videos"><U>hunting videos</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hunting Trips"><U>Hunting Trips</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hunting Articles"><U>Hunting Articles</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A>   |   <B>Andy's Photo Album</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="089d2e83.jpg"> <div> <B>      </B><A HREF="home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Andy Milams Hunting Adventures"><U><B>Back</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="08a07073.jpg"> <div> <I>Andy's Photo Album</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><IMG SRC="25ac75a0.jpg" border=0 width="455" height="346" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>This is the earliest picture I can find.  1973.  I shot this monster 7 point the same year I took my first deer ( a spike) with a bow.  I was trying my own taxidermy work at the time.  I've since given that up.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3a54bae0.jpg" border=0 width="331" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This photo was taken in 1983.  This was a result at my first attempts at rattling.  I rattled in the buck on the right at 9AM after sitting in the rain since before daylight.  As soon as the rain stopped I clashed my little forkhorn muley antlers together and he came charging in.  I still wasn't convinced that the rattling had done it until that afternoon in the same tree-stand I rattled in the buck on the left. </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3a64aae0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This was my first really nice buck with a bow taken in Llano county Texas in 1986.</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="25347ae0.jpg" border=0 width="327" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Fall of 1989 around my house in Blanco, Texas.  My young daughter Kellie with me.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="21ac2450.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="325" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Fall 1989 Webb County 6x6 grossed 154".  My Dad got us invited on a 1 1/2 day hunt. I knew what a rare opportunity it was as I was bowhunting a ranch closeby and knew the bucks were starting to rut.  I wouldn't get out of the blind all day. Rattling and grunting brought this brute in.  It was the first really big buck for me.</B></div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="3a74aae0.jpg" border=0 width="330" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>A nice fall gobbler taken in Brady Texas 1990</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="25fd76f0.jpg" border=0 width="471" height="367" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>We took this 110# alligator gar bowfishing at Choke Canyon Lake summer of 2001</B></div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="223da580.jpg" border=0 width="474" height="344" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Mary & I with a nice buck on our Frio County, Texas  October only lease</B></div> <div> <B> the first year we hunted there October 1991</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3a861cd0.jpg" border=0 width="353" height="461" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>October 1992 with some hogs and Steve McCarty with his rack. Our Frio County Lease</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3a964c90.jpg" border=0 width="356" height="457" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>My Frio County 8 point October 1992.  Missed Pope & Young by 2/8"</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="140da620.jpg" border=0 width="474" height="354" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>December 2002  I took this nice 6x6 on a day lease for bow-hunters in LaSalle County South Texas.  The first article that I ever had published was about this hunt entitled</B><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Buck by a String"><U><B> " Buck on a String"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="224db550.jpg" border=0 width="475" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I got lucky and took this fine fellow deer hunter in December of 1992</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2250cae0.jpg" border=0 width="268" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>My Mexico Buck taken in January 2003</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="208fe5d0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="349" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>After 20 years of bowhunting, my first P&Y October 1993 taken on our October only lease in Frio County Texas. The Javelina was a bonus as he came in while my buck was expiring.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="26e05ae0.jpg" border=0 width="261" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Another shot of P & Y #1</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="261d8520.jpg" border=0 width="472" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Pope & Young #2.  Taken on our October only lease in Frio County Texas October 2003</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="209ff640.jpg" border=0 width="511" height="356" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Pope and Young # 3  December 2003 Taken on a dayhunting lease for bow-hunters, the  Martinena Ranch, Webb County Texas.  I was the first person in Texas to take 3 Pope & Young whitetail in a single season.  Ray Sasser included a chapter about my season in his book " Texas Whitetail's" 1993-1994. I also was written up in Bowhunter magazine's February / March 1995 Issue, Inside Bowhunting.</B></div> <div> <B>I also wrote a couple of articles about my season.  The first was titled </B><A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Unbelievable Season"><U><B>" The Unbelievable Season"</B></U></A><B> and the second was more specifically about my hunt for the third P&Y of the year entitled </B><A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Quest"><U><B>" The Quest"</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="258f98f0.jpg" border=0 width="249" height="399" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Pope and Young #4 taken on lease in Artesia Wells, LaSalle County Texas</B></div> <div> <B>December 2004</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="227c1120.jpg" border=0 width="449" height="274" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>4 days later I took Pope & Young #5  on the Martinena Ranch, Webb County Texas December 1994</B></div> <div> <B>After the 1994 season I wrote a couple of articles, one titled </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="One Great Week"><U><B>" One Great Week"</B></U></A><B> about the taking of these two bucks, and the other </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ramblings From a Man"><U><B>"Ramblings from a Man, who's spent to many days in a ground blind"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22045ae0.jpg" border=0 width="325" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>My daughter Kellie hunted with me a lot in those days.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3aad5690.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="361" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Here she is with her first and only bow-kill.  I don't know who was more surprised, Me, her or the rabbit!</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="222da5f0.jpg" border=0 width="474" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I got really lucky on a spring bear hunt in Saskatchewan June 1995.  I was prepared to go home empty handed when I walked up on this monster around noon on my last day.  We were helping the outfitter pull out stands since it was the last day of bear season.  For the full story read </B><A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Canadian Bacon"><U><B>"Canadian Bacon"</B></U></A><B> in my hunting article section.  Final Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young score 20 3/16".</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22912b60.jpg" border=0 width="274" height="438" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A photo of the mount</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="22a12860.jpg" border=0 width="274" height="390" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Frio County 4x4 October 1995</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><IMG SRC="22b129d0.jpg" border=0 width="274" height="413" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <B>Frio County 5x5 Pope &Young # 7  October 1995</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="274c1390.jpg" border=0 width="449" height="313" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I finished off the '95 season with this 4x4 taken on the Martinena Ranch in Webb County</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="22dc12b0.png" border=0 width="449" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this fine Axis deer on a free-range hunt in August of 1996 on a Ranch</B></div> <div> <B>in Real County, Texas.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I wrote an article about the hunt titled </B><A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hunting the August Rut"><U><B>"Hunting the August Rut"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="269d54a0.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="330" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this nice 5x5 on our Frio County lease October 1996.  I didn't know it at the time but this would be our last year on our beloved lease.  One of our fellow lease members went to the owners and talked them into letting him start outfitting on their property.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3b0df5c0.jpg" border=0 width="479" height="348" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this nice 5x5 on my first out of state whitetail hunting November of 1996 on the Blue River Ranch in South Central Oklahoma.  I rattled this buck to a decoy set-up after a rare snowstorm.  I wrote an article about this hunt titled </B><A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Changing Tactics"><U><B>" Changing Tactics"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27028ae0.jpg" border=0 width="296" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this 146" buck on my first rifle hunt in several years.  I got him on the first day of a two week Mexico hunt.  Mary and I had spent the first day setting up and feeding stands for the hunt and decided to unwind by sitting on a rock outcropping watching the sunset and drinking Coronas.  I did carry my rifle and a grunt call.  I wrote an article about this hunt titled</B><A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Rock King"><U><B> "The Rock King"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27218ae0.jpg" border=0 width="280" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this nice 6x6 on a hunt on the Countiss Ranch in McMullen County in January of 1997.</B></div> <div> <B>I wrote an article about the 96/97 season titled</B><A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Still Rambling"><U><B> "Still Rambling"</B></U></A><B>. I also had accumulated enough video footage at this point to put out my first bowhunting video titled "Whitetail's at Eye level".</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In 1998 I was big time into selling my bow-hunting blinds, the Taj Mahal.  One of my first customers ran a bowhunting concession on the King Ranch called 4 Arrows Outfitters.  Since we had lost our lease in Frio county I agreed to spend the fall of 1997 guiding for him.  I did not do much bowhunting myself that year.  A friend, Johnnie Walters did buy me a hunt on another part of the King Ranch in trade for some favors I had done for him and I took my largest whitetail to date.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="276b9280.png" border=0 width="441" height="296" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This 158" 5x5 was my 7th Pope & Young whitetail, taken on the King Ranch out of one of my Taj Mahal</B></div> <div> <B>blinds October 1997.  Mary was in the blind and captured it all on video.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The owner of 4 Arrows Outfitters invited me on a invitational Nalgai hunt in January 1998.  I was lucky enough to get to hunt with some of the most famous bowhunters of our time. ( Chuck Adams was invited but did not attend).  I was also lucky enough to be the first and one of the few who took a trophy on this hunt.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3abd5490.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="329" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I wrote a couple of articles for different publications about this hunt.  One titled </B><A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Challenge"><U><B>"The Challenge"</B></U></A><B> and the other</B><A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blue Bulls of the Wild Horse Desert"><U><B> </B></U></A><A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Blue Bulls of the Wild Horse Desert"><U><B>" Blue Bulls of the Wild Horse Desert"</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>My time guiding at the King Ranch provided me with tons of great video footage which led to me putting out a second bowhunting video titled " Bowhunting Adventures with Andy Milam"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27cd54c0.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="332" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this bear on my 2nd trip to Saskatchewan in June 1998.  Mary got the shot on video, and it is on my Bowhunting Adventures video</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27ad5460.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="326" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>November 1998</B></div> <div> <B>I started doing my own hunting wherever opportunity arose.  For several years that was the Pine Springs Ranch in Oklahoma.  It was tough going.  I was a bit out of my element.  I managed to take this big 2x2 while walking in from a morning hunt.  I managed to get within 40 yards as he fed through a creek bottom and knew the ranch manager would like him shot.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="27ed54d0.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Some turkey and hogs my buddy Johnnie and I got on the King Ranch.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I did a little better on the Pine Springs Ranch in November of 1999.</B></div> <div> <B>I took three bucks in a 1 week hunt and two of them made Pope & Young.  It was my third year to hunt there and I had only taken the big 2x2.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="280d5490.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="329" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The first buck missed Pope & Young due to a brow tine having been broken off.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="282d5520.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="338" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The second made the book and became my 8th  Pope and Young whitetail.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="286d5490.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="329" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The third also booked and was my 9th Pope & Young.  He is also one of my favorite trophy's and</B></div> <div> <B>is full body mounted.  I wrote an article about this season titled</B><A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oklahomas OK"><U><B> "Oklahoma's OK"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>In 2000 I decided to do something different so I put in for New Mexico drawings for Antelope and Elk.  </B></div> <div> <B>My buddy Johnnie and I had gone on a Mule deer hunt on a ranch that a friend of his owned, in January of 1999.  We saw a lot of Antelope in the area.  When I got drawn for both Antelope and Elk I was quite excited.  I had made plans to hunt the ranch for Mule Deer again in September so Mary and I went there and put up some stands in the middle of the summer.  While there I talked to a neighboring rancher and got permission to hunt antelope on his place.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="289d5470.jpg" border=0 width="469" height="327" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Antelope hunt was first, August 2000 and I took this Pope & Young buck on the 8th day</B></div> <div> <B>of my hunt at 55 yards.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="28b17a50.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="421" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The Mule Deer hunt was next and I took this fine full velvet trophy on the second afternoon.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3acdf570.jpg" border=0 width="479" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Last but not least was the Elk hunt.  I took this fine Pope & Young bull on the 8th day on public land</B></div> <div> <B>hunting over a waterhole.  Actually all three were taken on waterhole's. To hear more about the hunt for these animals read my article </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gone Western"><U><B>"Gone Western"</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="17343ae0.jpg" border=0 width="323" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A photo of my elk mount.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="143df390.png" border=0 width="479" height="313" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Pine Springs Ranch - Oklahoma Fall 2000</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="290b92c0.png" border=0 width="441" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>A big hog summer 2000</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="28eb82b0.png" border=0 width="440" height="299" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Marble Falls Texas 2001</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In June 2001 I bought an outfitting area in Saskatchewan so my personal album slows down but my albums in the Saskatchewan bear and whitetail trophy galleries are really incredible.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3ad178e0.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="398" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this 146" 4x4, my largest 4x4 to date there in November  2001</B></div> <div> <B>The following summer after all my clients were done for the year I took a beautiful chocolate boar.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3aedf420.jpg" border=0 width="479" height="322" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>June 2002 my second Pope & Young bear.</B></div> <div> <B>It was fall 2003 before I took another whitetail but it's my best buck ever!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="3af17a30.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="419" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>November 2003 172" gross 164 5/8 net Boone & Crockett</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I shot another buck in 2004 but wish I had let him go for another year.  Can't take those bullets back!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="296aa400.jpg" border=0 width="426" height="320" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>November 2004</B></div> <div> <B> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.amazingcounters.com"><img border="0" src="http://c6.amazingcounters.com/counter.php?i=1289248&c=3868057" alt="web counter"></a><br><small><a href="http://www.flowerdeliverydeals.com/proflowers.html"><font color="#999999">ProFlowers Coupon Codes</font></a></small></div>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>