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Gilbert High School has a meat processing class that students can take as juniors and seniors where they get to slaughter and butcher livestock and game. Great program.

My buddy and I were able to tag these within 10 minutes of each other. Was a great hunt.

I've seen a few whitetail on the edges of sheep country in recent years. Always trying to hunt outside the box, I decided go in with intent to fill my '23 archery tag or get my butt handed to me and let go of the idea the terrain is worth hunting. Yesterday, I didn't even get to glass the more predictable deer country as a small 3x3 coues was spotted in the gentliest terrain on the sheepy side of the mountain. He bedded down at 730am right in the open. I decided to get aggressive under the cover of rain. I turned 1000 yards into 66 yards in 30 minutes and picked the perfect rock outcropping to pop out around. 20231222_082625.mp4 The rain had scent locked down and while I was comfortable to not be busted immediately, 60 yards is my coues limit and my gut told me this deer was not going to get up and feed towards me and the rock ledges. Turning 66 into 60 without cover took an hour and a ton of patience and frozen moments as he would snap his head in my direction. Finally, at 61 yards, he got up and as he shook off a gallon of water, I drew and released an arrow that went lower than I'd of liked. The soaking wet drop away felt significantly slowed my arrow prior to release. Thank goodness for the Lumenocks helping me understand this quickly and when he stopped at 100 yards to understand what hit him, I put my slider on 130 and put him down hard. I ran up and put another one in him as quickly as possible. Not the greatest part of the story but one of my favorite things about this forum is reading lessons learned. With everything soaking wet, this will go down as one of my heaviest pack outs of all time, in sheep country!

Just come back on foot just south of Ruby. No wait at all.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all members!!

Merry Christmas from down under!!!

Merry Christmas! Its been a long time, but I've always appreciated your help on here and around town!

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My wife learned to raise livestock and butcher by taking classes in high school in Portland OR back in the 80's. My how times have changed. Now they think meat comes from stores.

Love it. Wish all the schools had such a program. Thanks for sharing.

I’m talking about fishing. I don’t want to drive down knowing I’ll have to sit and wait for 1.5 hour at the border both ways

Great picture as always Doug. Merry Christmas.

That’s awesome! Congrats on filling your tag.

Merry Christmas to All

The stock showed up today . Early Christmas for me ! Just a test fit of the parts but it looks good. I'd like to add some blue to the stock to break it up but that's it.

My software license for spam defense expired due to a credit card I had on file that expired....got that updated last night....seems to have fixed the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Saturday the 2nd Muledeerarea33 and I seen a toad of a buck chasing does. He was a solid 100+ buck. Does didn't want anything to do with him. It was probably in the upper teens that morning and down by the border. Anyhow hope this helps.

First rule of fight club… dont argue with emotional liberals

If you support feral horses on public land, then you’re not a friend of most wildlife managers and sportsmen. As such, I will never recommend your business to anyone…..and I let them know why. Several hunters/fishermen have already stayed other places once they learn of your skewed feral horse beliefs. I like domestic horses and folks who use them……having said that, I wouldn’t care if feral horses (vermin) died a slow and agonizing death on public lands.

Lead poisoning is selective in a prescribed scenario.