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Have 3 tags for my kids. 2 in 5bsouth 1 in 6a. Bugles have shut off by 7am in both units. All the big herd bulls we are seeing have 20 to 40 cows with them. We got lucky with one small 6x6 so far that split from the herd bull and his cows and called him into 46yds and he made his arrow count on his 1st archery bull. Bull went 15yds and was down. 2 more tags to fill. Hopefully its kicks in a litter better. Good luck everyone

Walmart -Mossy Oak. The Flagstaff store always has kids sizes.

I went through the same thing last spring looking for good youth camo (not much available on the market). I ended up getting leaf camo on Amazon to go over the top of whatever clothes my son wanted to wear. Both of us were pleased with our purchase and it worked great on the spring turkey hunt. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07XJ1W72M/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A2RGTFZ393WZ6G&psc=1

House is sold! The buyers did a fast close, rate lock was expiring. We parked at a rental for now. Downsized square feet by about 1100SF. It sucks, but it'll help weed out what we need vs what we want. Big gamble to see if the market dips or takes off again. We are flirting with the idea of just buying land and going from there. Anyone ever built their own house?

This year I again get the priviledge to go as a helper on two different sheep hunts up here in Oregon. Both of the hunts are in big river canyons, the Deschutes and the John Day. Here is the story of the first one..... Got this ram opening morning. There was a group of three rams that were hanging out right by the river that had two good rams. They were the best rams we had seen through multiple scouting trips. We decided to make a move on them opening morning, so I was sitting on them an hour before daylight. When it got light we got them located and made a game plan to get in range. Trevor and Hunter (tag holder) kayaked across the river and started climbing a ridge. My son Tate and I stayed on the access road where we had a good view of the rams and watched them bed down. Trevor had lost where they were and thought he and Hunter were a lot closer to the rams then they actually were. Thinking the rams were only 2-3 hundred yards down the hill, Trevor started looking over the rock outcrop they were standing on. The rams, being about 5 hundred yards, immediately spotted him skylined looking over the rocks. Up they got and away they went! Tate and I jumped in our vehicle and followed them around the hillside. They were on the end of a big ridge so all Hunter and Trevor needed to do was hop over ridge and they were able to keep track of them for a little while but lost them when they dropped into small side canyon. Tate and I had them all the way and climbed up the opposite side of the main canyon to get enough elevation to keep track of them as they came out of that side canyon and went up another, finally stopping and began feeding again about a 1/2 mile further up into a bowl. I radioed to Trevor and told him I had them located and they had finally stopped. He replied back and said “ yeah, we’re right on top of them waiting for the big one to stand up.”. I was completely confused, how could they have gotten that far down the main ridge to get above the bowl that fast? Then it hit me... they were on the wrong sheep! I jumped back on the radio and said “Trevor, I think your looking at the wrong rams!”. This time he was confused, he asked “are you sure? I saw those rams go right here and I think the big one is lying right below us!”. I told him I was sure, but if they were sitting on a big ram to really look him over because now we had options! After close to an hour of sitting and changing positions trying to get a better vantage point, I finally saw the ram they were looking at stand up. They were right, he was a good ram that carried his mass really well! While I was looking him over, I saw him jump then heard the crack of the rifle! The ram didn’t look hit but he ran about 50 yards sidehilling down and away from them then stopped and looked back. This time I saw the ram bow his head and short stepped straight downhill before loosing his feet and tumbling to the bottom of the draw at the report on the rifle. 1st ram down, and it has gotten me excited for next months hunt! ning morning. There was a group of three rams that were hanging out right by the river that had two good rams. They were the best rams we had seen through multiple scouting trips. We decided to make a move on them opening morning, so I was sitting on them an hour before daylight. When it got light we got them located and made a game plan to get in range. Trevor and Hunter (tag holder) kayaked across the river and started climbing a ridge. My son Tate and I stayed on the access road where we had a good view of the rams and watched them bed down. Trevor had lost where they were and thought he and Hunter were a lot closer to the rams then they actually were. Thinking the rams were only 2-3 hundred yards down the hill, Trevor started looking over the rock outcrop they were standing on. The rams, being about 5 hundred yards, immediately spotted him skylined looking over the rocks. Up they got and away they went! Tate and I jumped in our vehicle and followed them around the hillside. They were on the end of a big ridge so all Hunter and Trevor needed to do was hop over ridge and they were able to keep track of them for a little while but lost them when they dropped into small side canyon. Tate and I had them all the way and climbed up the opposite side of the main canyon to get enough elevation to keep track of them as they came out of that side canyon and went up another, finally stopping and began feeding again about a 1/2 mile away up into a bowl. I radioed to Trevor and told him I had them located and they had finally stopped. He replied back and said “ yeah, we’re right on top of them waiting for the big one to stand up.”. I was completely confused, how could they have gotten that far down the main ridge to get above the bowl that fast? Then it hit me... they were on the wrong sheep! I jumped back on the radio and said “Trevor, I think your looking at the wrong rams!”. This time he was confused, he asked “are you sure? I saw those rams go right here and I think the big one is lying right below us!”. I told him I was sure, but if they were sitting on a big ram to really look him over because now we had options! After close to an hour of sitting and changing positions trying to get a better vantage point, I finally saw the ram they were looking at stand up. They were right, he was a good ram that carried his mass really well! While I was looking him over, I saw him jump then heard the crack of the rifle! The ram didn’t look hit but he ran about 50 yards sidehilling down and away from them then stopped and looked back. This time I saw the ram bow his head and short stepped straight downhill before loosing his feet and tumbling to the bottom of the draw at the report on the rifle. 1st ram down, and it has gotten me excited for next months hunt! He ended up scoring out at 174 with 3 inches of deductions for 171 (unofficial until the 30 day drying period of course).

I lost my bugle tube on Friday evening in unit 8 it fell off my pack on a road by Wagoner Hill. Whoever found it put it on a rock about 6” tall in the middle of the Jeep trail we were on. Needless to say I found it Sunday evening. If whoever found it is on this site I would like to give a big thanks to them. They could have easily kept it, but to put in the middle of the road for me to find it was awesome. Not an expensive item, but very cool to have got it back. Again a big thanks to you if you on on this site!!!

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My father use to give us one just like that. And just a couple shells. Then send us off in the woods to hunt for dinner. Open iron sights and we could hit anything at 100 yards or less with it..my oldest brother has it now.. really nice rifle for sure..

That's a beautiful photo !

With some paperwork done, I headed north to the Grand Canyon yesterday as the forecast had lightning that afternoon and evening. No lightning, but a fair sunset. Image was shot from Yavapai Point on the south rim. Camped that night about a mile behind Tusayan outside of GCNP, and three bulls were bugling a little about 9pm. Clouds and rain were in the canyon the next morning, but no lightning despite the forecast. I could have tagged a cow and calf elk this morning if I had been driving 6 feet faster. That got the heart pumping.

Have the commercial Waring sealer. A little messy on liquids but we got around that by chilling wet items first. My ol lady is customer service director for Waring/Cuisinart. Part of the job means we get to test everything they sell even before it's on the market. Bread machines, food processors, air fryers, dehydrators...it's tough. And after putting them through the paces, they're used, we keep what we like. Just saying.

Been building mine for 10 years. Hind sight I woulda bought one already done.

In the process right now, Plans and permits took 7 months thru the county. Breaking ground next week. Lumber prices have dropped 35% from my first quotes. Concrete is still high. Not bad if you have the know how to do it yourself.

In that process right now ... getting permits and inspections is a PIA

SPF. thx for the chat Big Brown! Good luck on the hunt.

95% sure we will be there. Caliche will be using his marlin 30-30 bought by his great grandfather for his grandfather which is now handed down to him. Looking forward to it!

Too far away eh? Unless someone is making the trip up north. This would be nice to have. Would like to try some 565 in the prc.

Those were guides.

Growth looks good to me. NM Gila bull.

Stepped on this guy in 6b archery bull tag

14 weeks old and already hunting and doing great. Another client I have was guiding with his dog at 6 month old and was offered 10k for the pup.

Wired it!! Haha I'll weld it later..

Lark would’ve loved this.

Kudos to whoever placed the bugle tube to be found. I concur with what creed said. Some A-hole stole my pop-up blind that I had placed at a waterhole for the early elk archery season this year. 🤬