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Not sure what bothers me more, the fact that he poached it or the fact that his head was being sold for 20 grand.

Today was the day Axisworks called and said it was time!!! Huge thank you to the team at Axisworks. Eric is a great dude and has a great team. I dropped in this afternoon and picked up the new and improved 257 Weatherby Mag. Time to dust off the reloading bench and start pumping out some ammo to do load development with.

One of the two labs we had pass away was from them. She was the best!

I do not mind wiping out the catclaw areas! But they usually come back thicker in a few years. Now we have to hope the rains come early but not too hard all at once.

Hey guys, let’s stop bickering and get back to the real discussion. We are better than this. This fire is so incredibly sad to see so many areas burn so quickly. Not a lot of time for animals to get out of the way. Hope it saved some islands of vegetation.

Those studies are false. picture this: if Covid wasn't blown out of proportion and plastered all over the world, if the government never shut anything down, if the news never mentioned it...my life would have not changed a single bit. Like I’ve said before, all the people that I know who “had it” lived. No hospital needed. None of those “sick” people infected their children, Wives/husbands/boyfriends or girlfriends or grandmas...So from my experience this is all a crock of shoot. People die from all kinds of illnesses and this is just a new one that’s causing all the tp hoarders to freak out. So if I compare my experience with it to the studies I would have to say that those studies are 100% false. now if I believed what the media was telling us then I would be scared, I wouldn’t leave my house. I would inject myself with bleach..just like trump said.

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I think the only reason Wildwoody lives in Star Valley is to complain about city folks and weekend camping.

https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/whitetail-deer/the-dumbest-poacher-of-2019 The Dumbest Poacher of 2019 Spencer Neuharth Jun 17, 2020 Earlier this month, Dugan Traversie entered a plea deal with prosecutors for his role in a poaching case that dates back to last fall. Traversie was ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution to Timber Lake Elk Ranch, one-year probation, and one year without hunting. Since the judgement by the U.S. magistrate seems light, I’m tacking one more punishment onto his crime: I’m declaring Traversie the dumbest poacher of 2019. Traversie is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He held a buck tag for the reservation’s deer season, which started on November 2. But, five days before gun opener, on October 28, Traversie got a head start on the season by poaching a whitetail buck with his rifle. It wasn’t just any buck, though. Traversie shot the deer on the Timber Lake Elk Ranch, a high-fence game farm within the boundaries of the reservation. The property offers 100% success hunts to wealthy clients for everything from pheasants to mule deer to bison. “Located on 8,000 acres of pristine western South Dakota prairie, the Timber Lake Elk Ranch has grown to be one of the largest privately-owned elk, buffalo and deer herds in the world with more than 700 head,” Timber Lake Elk Ranch’s website states. From outside of the property, Traversie shot the 28-point buck through the ranch’s 8-foot fence. He then crawled through the fence, took a picture with the whitetail, cut its head off, tossed the head back over the fence, and left the carcass to rot. Traversie cached the rack under a bridge for a few days with intentions of retrieving it before deer season opened. The buck was already “spoken for” by a client who paid $20,000-plus to hunt the deer. The ranch managers brought in the whitetail on October 18, but late that month they noticed it had gone missing. When they went on a scouting mission to locate the buck on November 1, all they found was its headless body. A picture of the buck from Timber Lake Elk Ranch’s website. Since they didn’t acquire the buck until October, this was likely taken at the deer farm in North Dakota where it was purchased. It didn’t take long for them to figure out who the poacher was, though. On November 3, the day after the Cheyenne Sioux Tribe’s opener, Traversie posted a picture on Facebook of him proudly holding the buck, claiming to have shot it the day before. The image went viral and reached hundreds of thousands of people, with one post getting 1,900 likes, 1,100 shares, and 650 comments. The image was immediately met with praise and skepticism. For every five people lauding this buck of a lifetime and congratulating Traversie on his harvest, someone would comment on the deer’s unnaturally white antlers and elk-like spread. Before law enforcement even got involved, the online hunting community was questioning the legitimacy of this would-be record book whitetail. The debate was short, though. The same day Traversie posted a picture with the buck, photos started circulating of the deer’s headless body at Timber Lake Elk Ranch, along with older photos of the buck in velvet from the ranch’s website. According to the investigation carried out by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Cheyenne Sioux Tribe, Traversie fessed up when law enforcement reached out. Throughout the process he’s cooperated with prosecutors and shown remorse for his actions, which led to a lenient plea bargain—despite the potential for a $250,000 fine and five years in prison based on initial charges. “I am very, truly, truly sorry for poaching the whitetail deer when it wasn’t deer season,” Traversie told U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Moreno. “I just ask for the opportunity to prove to this court that it will never, never happen again.” The $9,000 restitution is the amount that Timber Lake Elk Ranch paid for the buck from a whitetail farm in North Dakota. The case has been filled with moral and legal conundrums, like how the Federal Lacey Act, wanton waste laws, and other game regulations are applied to wildlife that’s raised as livestock. But that doesn’t change the fact that Traversie killed a whitetail out of season, trespassed, wasted a whole deer, and still felt compelled to post that grip-and-grin to social media. Now more than ever, Pat Durkin’s old Wisconsin proverb rings true: “Deer make people stupid.”

Yeah I've been wanting to check this tank out, always seeing deer nearby. Wasnt untill I got back to the truck I realized I should have put a quarter in the track for comparison. Was a fat cat for sure.

How right your are. So I've heard back burns have worked down by the lake and tonto. Basically 4 peaks is moon scape, 3 bar wildlife area gone, El oso whipped out. Wildlife will be tough to find for a few years anyway. Good news is must of the scare is over, tons of smoke in good old Star Valley today hard to breath. Just a lot of burning in the middle, Mt orc doesn't look so bad , gonna be covered in whitetail and hunter's this year. Your right I do feel better. Hug it out

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2020/05/25/cdc_best_estimate_implies_covid_fatality_rate_below_03_492459.html

This is a total bs number. It’s not 0.5% mortality. It’s 0.5% of severe cases that are bad enough to get tested and require some sort of medical attention. Antibody testing showed that in April over 4% of LA county more than 400,000 people had already had the bat flu and most had no idea. They just got over it at home: also in April, antibody testing showed that up to 25% of NYC had already had it and over 20% of New York State had already had it. Why isn’t this in the news? It was never widely reported on mainstream media, even though it was coming from credible sources like the cdc and UCLA that did the study in LA county? A couple doctors in Bakersfield, both ER docs who were highly trained in infectious disease, had a press conference on it and the video was almost immediate removed from YouTube as ‘false information’. According to those docs, the covid mortality rate was approximately 0.03% in California at that time. when you have multiple experts that are all educated experienced and qualified to evaluate data and surmise conclusions, but the government, the media and major platforms like YouTube and Facebook all agree that they’ll only give air to one side of the argument, what do you call that? Sure sounds like conspiracy to me. So then the question is why? What are they going to gain? Chase the money and political power (although I repeat myself there don’t I?). as for hospitals being overwhelmed in Az, that’s total bs. Sorry, I’ve got a brother and his wife that both work in the medical industry in the west valley. Their hours were cut and their hospitals were almost empty. I took my daughter to the ER in Prescott Valleyba few weeks ago, it was a ghost town. Not one other person in the ER, we were in and out in about an hour. Their ‘covid unit’ they had set up in the parking lot was also completely empty. the data shows its highly contagious and most likely we all will get it (and many already have and just don’t know it yet), but the mortality rate is less than 1/25th of what the government claims, and that’s been proven by antibody testing in Europe, Asia and the good ole US of A.

Got me , I'm f ing jerk who hates flatlanders, totally wrong, not flat landers just idiots, like myself. Was commenting on the post about why do we fight fires , everyone has insurance, well my point was supposed to be all insurance on homes doesn't cover forest fires. And yes I'm a very angry I live in star valley and I'm fat and blind. Didn't mean to offend anyone but if I did, so be it..

My last 2 cents. You go to poker night with del and the next week you get a letter stating he came down 2 days after poker night with China flu. Your other buddy you carpooled with to poker night calls in sick because he isn’t feeling well either. meanwhile you kissed your kids goodnight the last 5 days in a row and oops they are exposed to the China flu. And they didn’t do anything to deserve this. They are staying home from school and not playing with friends and doing everything right and your poor choice of not wearing ppe spills into their reality. Excellent display of logic and deduction.

yep only flatlanders start fires up there. no local chain draggers or idiot lady broke down on her quad or sancarlos guy out of work.... yep all valley folks

No thanks. Not interested in a mask. Everyone I know that had it lived. No hospital needed. I think if you’re scared you should stay home or wear a mask.

I have a Tacoma and a 6.5 cm does that count?

Reminds me of a couple of Poachers...i mean posters on here.

And all the sudden.....crickets chirping...............

Been goin for over a week now. A lot of the country it’s burning needs it. Just need to keep it on that side of the highway

hoghntr, I did the taxidermy on that antelope and I'm flattered from your comment "Best looking mount I have ever seen for non traditional style". If you or your taxidermist is interested, I have another wagon wheel available. I bought two of them at an antique store and paid $90 each for them. If you or anyone else is interested, I'll sell it for that same price (they don't make them anymore). I'm attaching a pic of how I finished the back of the mount. I took actual antelope hooves and made a depression in the rock mix before it hardened.

Boat is aged like a fine wine but she still floats. May have a small leak but there is a pool where the boat is so it can be tested before it's purchased. 30lb thrust minn Kota trolling motor, plus 2 long oars (the 2 small blue oars are not included) anyway asking $450 obo