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Hello from Paul
Janke of Lonetom Outfitting.
Another year has
passed and 2008 is here. To recap the 2007 hunting season here at
Lone Tom Outfitting, we had a lot of good hunts. As usual, my hunts
could not have been a success without the help of my dedicated guides that
put 100% into the making of our year.
Luke Selby has 2
years in with Lone Tom Outfitting, and he is a top notch guide and
horseman. Gary Von Schmidt also returned, and has guided for 9
years. A veteran guide like Gary, with his experience is
irreplaceable. I look forward to working with the guides again in
2008.
Also, Gerald
Morris and Joe Brown guided some special hunts for Mule Deer and
Elk. And a big thank you to Marcia for keeping everything at the
lodge running smoothly.
The Lion season
went off with 100% harvest for 13 clients. Many nice trophy Tom Lion
harvested, and 4 Bobcat.
Luke and I had
several day rides and fishing trips into the Flat Top Wilderness
Area. We finished our young horses, with Luke riding Dollar, and I
trained Marlin. They are turning into good mountain saddle horses.
The archery season
was great. 5 hunters with 5 Elk. Opening day, 2 bulls were
taken. First we had 3 hunters from Detroit. Chad Bristol took
a nice 6 point, scoring 296 points...Pope & Young. We also had
an experience with a bear that Jim Perras won't forget, since the bear
tracked up his Elk before we did.
Next, we hunted
GMU 2 with Mark Stephenson from Texas, who took a good bull, scoring 337
points, with a 31 inch brow tine. Very nice trophy!
New for this year,
we had 2 Antelope hunters on the Butler Ranch, and harvested 2 nice
trophies. If interested, I will have Antelope vouchers for 2008
also.
On the hunt at my
main camp at Fowler Peak, we took 6 bulls for 6 hunters, with 2 of them
being dandy - 6 point bulls. The 2nd season hunt at Fowler
Peak, we harvested 2 bulls for 4 hunters. Other bulls were seen, but
no opportunities were presented. Then a big snow came in, and made
hunting difficult, and so we finished with 50% on that hunt. Also
had 3 hunters in a drop camp that moved to lower elevation because of the
snow. Vito Centofanti from Minnesota took a nice 5 point bull, so
they were 33% on that camp.
November 2nd we
had 3 more hunters from Minnesota at Fowler Peak camp. The Elk
seemed to have migrated after the big snow, and hunting was poor, with no
bulls killed.
On our leased
ranch for Mule Deer, we had 3 hunters who took 3 nice buck deer, with 100%
there.
November 26th, we
started our Cow Elk hunts. 26 hunters killed their Elk, putting meat
in the freezers. If interested in a December Cow Elk hunt, by all
means give me a call. Licenses are available for the coming season.
To add up our year
here at Lone Tom Outfitting, we harvested 13 Mountain Lion, 21 Bull Elk, 3
Mule Bucks, 2 Antelope, and 29 Cow Elk.
I was on the South
Fork last week on my snowmobile, and saw over 300 Elk with lots of Bulls
leftover, so I am looking forward to another good year in 2008!
See you next
season!
Paul Janke
  
 
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