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  1. 4 points
    Heres my OTC Buck, shot him Monday just after noon, took about 8 or 9 days of spot and stalk/sitting. Have a shed of his and last 4 months of cam pics. This is my biggest coues and my first archery coues...addicted.
  2. 4 points
    Sad that possible mental illness and or chemical imbalance/dependence can interfere with people sharing history and getting to know each other. I thought it was a good post.
  3. 4 points
    Sure. I’ll trade you for 21 Benjamins.
  4. 2 points
    the d-backs knew they had the toughest schedule and still DID NOT get a closer. out on your ear Hazen you silly loser. lee
  5. 2 points
    What a shame, really enjoyed the thread. Too bad trolls jumped in.
  6. 2 points
    Par for the course, every year same thing..
  7. 2 points
    Thanks Brian, it was great meeting you today and picking up that antelope for my son. Because of homework and shrinking daylight, we usually discourage him from cleaning skulls on school nights. But he had a light homework day and had all his equipment set up and ready to when I pulled into the driveway, so he got a good jump on it tonight. It still needs drying time and finishing work, but it is looking fantastic. Congratulations on a beautiful buck.
  8. 2 points
    Looks like it has pit in it to me. Cats are supposed to be good dogs too. Best dang dog I ever had was a pit mix. All how you raise them.
  9. 2 points
    So I’ve been off CWT since they switched the format and figured I better get back on here and update everyone on the hunt. It was an absolute grind, and I’m glad it’s over, but it was a really great time!!! I ended up buying a proof research 28 nosler and topping it with a 2.5-25x52 March. It was under 8# all put together. This thing is scary accurate with 195 eol Berger’s sitting on 86.5 gr RL 33. Anyhow, onto the hunt! I was lucky enough to have my 3 brothers along for it as well as my wife and my sister in law. To say I couldn’t have done it without them is an understatement! We picked out and area on google earth that I found based on the biologists suggestion. Her exact words were “it’s reallt hard to get to but you’ll find a lot of goats in there”. We all met for breakfast the day before the hunt opened and headed to the trailhead around 10:00am. The hike in to base was only 5 miles so I was thinking we’d be in easily by mid day. Boy was I wrong. Ran into another tag holder on the way in and he said “you’re going in there? You realize there’s no trail and it’s solid blow downs right?” On the plus side he did say they glassed some goats “way the heck back there” this summer!! We trudged on climbing about 2000 vertical feet in the first two miles. We followed the spine for a mile or so and then it dumped into the basin we picked out. I guess I have to say that I was a little underprepared for it!! On google earth I could see some blow downs, but I didn’t expect this! Literally every 30’ for the entire next 2 miles was a blowdown! We plodded on, finally making camp about 4:00 pm. We got a little glassing in that night and were pumped to find plenty of goats!! We glassed up a lone billy above camp a mile or so. We planned on getting a closer look at him in the am. We had to do all the bear stuff, hanging food, no chapstick etc. I had never dealt with that and it’s sort of a pain but I guess considering there was grizzly crap everywhere we needed to do it! The next morning we awoke to high 20’s and clear sky’s. We hiked up to the billy we had glassed. We found him not far from where we left him the night before. One of the many drawbacks of the blow downs is there was literally no cover to approach the goats with. While he was still way above us, I wasn’t sure how much activity they would put up with. Most of the goats I’ve run into on other hunts have been fairly stupid and just watch you from above within easy rifle distance. Realizing we didn’t have any choice, we just headed at him. At about 1000 yards he just got up and hopped over the ridge out of our lives. This made us realize this might be a little tougher then we expected. I wasn’t too bummed as I had gotten a pretty good look at him and he was the type of billy I knew I probably shouldn’t pass but also wasn’t a giant so I was a little optimistic that we would find a better one. It didn’t take long glassing and my brother glassed up a big group of nannies and kids. I had made a decision that I was only going to shoot a billy so we kept looking. About an hour later my other brother picked up some goats that we had somehow missed. It was two mature animals together. It didn’t take long looking to realize they were both mature billies. One had a Snow White coat and the other a kinda piss yellow one. The yellow one may have been a 1/2” bigger but the white one was much prettier. We decided whichever offered a shot would do. This time we were smarter and found a ridge to hide our approach. We picked a spot that we figured would get us to 500 yards and looped around to it. When we got there we peeked over and ranged them and it was 770 yards. I am capable of the shot with a decent wind read or a calm day, but the wind was literally blowing 3 different directions including straight up!! We pushed on and found a new location that got us what I thought would only be 100 yards on them. When we got there my brother ranged them and said 435!! Bingo. That’ll work! We slid into position, the only visible one was the Snow White billy. He was bedded with his left leg hanging off a cliff looking down on us. The obvious chest shot was actually blocked by his nose as he looked down so I decided to slip a bullet right past it and into his shoulder, hopefully catching some back lung and liver and breaking his close shoulder. With my brothers all locked on him I sent one up. He jumped up at the shot carrying his leg. I assumed it was a lethal shot but slammed another in his opposite shoulder as fast as I could. He dropped at this shot, anchored on the ledge he was bedded on!! Billy down! High fives all around! We didn’t realize that we were just getting to the hard part! It took us around 2 hours of rock climbing to get to him, and these billies were in some of the easier to get to stuff in there!! I was blown away with how gorgeous he was when we got to him. I had a lot of people tell me to wait for later season for better hair, but I’m in love with the dense look of his hair. It’s probably 3” long and dense. My first shot broke his close shoulder but wasn’t lethal due to the steep angle. I was very lucky to get a second one in him. His horns were awesome. I really didn’t know what to expect and wasn’t worried about an inch of horn either way but was really excited to see he was a mature billy. The biologist later measured him at 9” long, 5 1/2” bases and 7.5 years old. A really good billy for this part of Montana. We were able to get some pics on the shelf he was on but had to lower him with paracord to get him somewhere safe to butcher. With packs loaded with meat and a life size cape we slowly picked our way down the mountain and back to spike camp. The next morning we got up and loaded our packs and headed out. We had between 40-60# packs going in with our food and gear for 5 days. There’s a surprising amount of meat on a mtn goat and that combined with the cape (which weighed 40#) we all ended up with 50-70# packs on the way out. It took us 5 hours to go the 5 miles out. I can’t explain how demoralizing those blow downs are!!! I’ve never been so happy to see my truck!! We were all wiped out so we stayed in Cooke city that night. A giant ribeye and a half dozen Coors lights never taste so good!! I’m really lucky to have drawn the tag while I was still fairly young and somewhat fit. When we got home we butchered the meat, which looked and smelled excellent. I had heard so many horror stories about goat meat but I don’t believe what I hear as I’ve heard people say antelope, Sandhill crane, and sharptail grouse are all gross as well and they couldn’t be more wrong. My wife cooked up some tenderloin and backstrap that night and I have to say it was incredible. Similar flavor to antelope but maybe a little tougher. I was really thinking I would have to grind it all I to chorizo or jerky but we instead did all roasts and steaks with it. We got back to ND and turned and burned to the Missouri breaks for an archery elk hunt. Saw 25-30 bulls and had some close calls but no arrows in the air. I had to go back to work for 2 days to make sure the place didn’t burn down and now I’m off to Utah for an elk hunt! I love this time of year!
  10. 1 point
    Post up you're little guy pictures.
  11. 1 point
    Love my double barrel , it kills on both ends
  12. 1 point
    Remember the gun cost is one thing but the scope is the money pit, have both guns can't complain at all
  13. 1 point
    Been having the same problem with PMs. Some sent me a message a few days ago about a job for my son and I never got it. Fortunately he was able to find me another way.
  14. 1 point
    Trying to pm addicted about the 2200 back pack, it won't let me pm him
  15. 1 point
    It was a good thread until the resident troll jumped in. Too bad.
  16. 1 point
    Chris Favour Mount n View Taxidermy in Flagstaff.
  17. 1 point
    There are ways to do it by wrapping the bases but most people saw the antlers off individually and freeze dry them, then euro the skull and reattach the antlers to it.
  18. 1 point
    I have an old Remington 788 in .243 that I use only for varminting now, but I've taken several deer with it. For a cheap model it is an accurate, tack driving, low recoil machine. I love that cartridge. Good luck on your search.
  19. 1 point
    Poor man’s Unit 9. Should be a fun week. Enjoy the trip, wish I was heading out right now!
  20. 1 point
    Tough when the guys we want to use for business are out hunting! I'm sure these other guys do great work as well and I wouldn't let it go unfrozen for too long, makes it worse on everyone. Good luck or reconsider doing it yourself, it isn't that bad! One was Draysen's and one DIY.
  21. 1 point
    Look up Rossislider on the Forum. His Son Draysen does them.
  22. 1 point
    Showing up early enough to make a water run in would be the safest thing to do. Better than leaving a day early because you ran out.
  23. 1 point
    Better Juarez than SriLanka, Bangladesh or China. Just think how much better the economy in Mexico would be if we never started trading with Communist China?
  24. 1 point
    Use Hodgdon H4831SC, and start at 55 grains of powder. The 280 AI is pretty much a 7 Saum. They are ballistically equal. H4831SC is a known performer with the 280AI and the 7 SAUM. I'm running 58.5 grains of H4831SC in my 7 SAUM, with the 162 ELDX, and have AWESOME results. They like a lot of jump too. Try loading them like .030" off the lands.
  25. 1 point
    If you gonna dial, stay away from Leupold..
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