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My boy is raising money for a Arkansas snow goose hunt in February so he is welding up and selling some horse shoe art and Ocotillo sculptures. Can make custom size or colors. Sigle butterfly are $40 the double are 55$ the cross and prickly pear are $60. The Ocotillo pictured are a set of 5' and they run about $250 each but can definitely make taller or shorter.

you plugged the site for help 5 years ago. You got it, killed, and didn’t have the decency to say thanks. Now you’re back asking for more help. Sad

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Good day Fellow hunters. New here.....with gratitude like few have had. Took what seems to be about a decade to get this tag.....started the quest in my early 40's...now in my 50's (just for this tag). From Idaho (lived here almost my entire life). I am old school......after a decent respectable Coues. Got my 30+" Mule Deer, a decent 6x7 Whitetail (up north Idaho near Canadian border) and a nice respectable 25" Blacktail in central California....but need to close this quest/chapter of my life and trust me I have been waiting. Few understand it.....heck I may even be NUTZ, but this was my crack at hunting our great lower 48 in my life. I got the credit card notice and hardly couldn't believe it. FINALLY!! Yes, I can glass like a fool..... Yes, I can hike miles in steep country... and yes, I can pack (still Bow hunting Elk and get one every single year). I cannot afford the opportunity to blow this hunt as you could imagine. 9 more years and I'll be lucky to hunt at all. I've lived hard like most of you...and that's why you do this. You see, its you vs nature....and I get it...fully. At any rate. I could use some help. Hunts Dec 15-31. Pointers to general spots would be honestly appreciated. Again, not after the biggest buck on the hill.....I'll leave that to the generations that I pray don't videogame their life away...rather feed themselves with satisfaction of hunting and gathering in the hills, friendships built on hunting teamwork, and possibly a great Dad that taught a thing or two.. Lets do this! Blake

Can arrange a meet up next time we go down to phx if want to depending where you are

that kid will never be without a job!

We sushi'd a yellowfin and a skip jack on the trip back to the dock and they were both amazing.

Taste tested skip jack against yellowfin. Preferred skip jack.

this thread is funny, this guy ask for help is gone for 5 years and comes for more help 5 years later and never visit or contribute to the site from the picture doesn't look like his son, was most likely his hunt and knows people will help for a kid's hunt.

Cool to see a youngster working for something and not just have it handed to him. Keep up the good work dad.

Man did you call that!

Let me find some. Ok here's one.

One of my hunting buddies and I went on our first ever bear hunt this past weekend. We didn't target pears or acorns, or anything. We simply went to a place that we elk hunt and have seen bears and regular sign over the years. Luck shined down, and my buddy killed a nice sow on Saturday morning. S.

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Hey Russ. In my mind a big coues requires more patience and diligent glassing and probably farther shots on a smaller target. But after climbing a mountain and sitting all day waiting the boy has proved he has salt. I'd glass in am and evening and sit tanks in a blind during the day. Download some movies and games on a tablet to combat the boredom. We were sitting a tank one day when my son was like hey dad I think we need to go to a spot with more pizazz. Right then a BIG muley crossed the road down from us and we set up. He ran into some cows and I thought they scared him off so we went in pursuit. I told Caliche to stay in the truck and wait. It never panned out. When we got to the truck Caliche was like, Dad while you were gone a really big buck came and got water. Oof, I'm never gonna forget that one. On my daughter's hunt we did the same. Had a very nice coues come to water but we were after a muley so passed on him. I'll send you pins on both tanks.

It's my first time back on this site since then.

Acting… jeep gladiator ?? I feel like I don’t even know you any more

I'll put up a video touching it off this weekend.

I have had bad luck with pack covers personally. inevitably my pack would still get wet. I use dry bags now inside and just let the outside of the pack get wet. Nylofume bags are cheap, ultralight and work amazing as dry bag/pack liner. I have also used Hefty trash compactor bags which are also cheap and light.

A mile and a half with a deer on his shoulders. Sounds like the boy has grit. Congrats to you both and that's a fine buck.

Not discounting any work he put in to get a great buck. But if he'd done all that and still didn't get it, for whatever the reason, he didn't lose. The fact he was willing to put in that work shows he's a winner no matter the outcome. The work put in is a testamemt to the character of that young man. Congrats to the young man on a buck anyone would be proud of.

Thanks for the psa, but it can be both. This kid watched this buck for two years, cut a trail on a hillside that I am still feeling two days later. Has hours of video of it. Slept a quarter mile away from it. Put it to bed and most importantly worked for it. You can play a game and win on more than one level.

Sonora is where I learned this style of hunting (or maybe I should say keep learning this style). It takes lots of practice and you have to be willing to track for miles & miles. Some hunters will say "well your just stalking blind you don't know what you're following", and there is some truth to this but there is much a track can tell you if you just pay close attention. You can tell gender from the size and length of the track, body weight from the depth and splaying, body size from stride and overstride, (and my favorite) antler size from the way a buck navigates under and around obstacles. There are many subtleties to discern from and I learn new ones every time I go out. One of my favorite quotes is from an old tracker from Sonora who taught me a lot and has since passed, "La huella nunca miente, siempre dice la verdad," translation "The track never lies, it always tells the truth". Jose Lopez