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I didn’t get any tags myself this year but I got invited on a few trophy hunts. Nobody gave me the ok to post them so I cropped people out, hope you don’t mind. Not sure how to insert the pics mid story either. first hunt was my friends dads rifle antelope tag. Opening day saw quite a few of them, one was pretty good I guess had nice cutters but wasn’t what he wanted (picture of it bedded) so the next day we see even more, some better. He made some stalks, trying to get close but Idk didn’t work out. At 8:30 I glass what appears to be a big one, but the heat waves were terrible. It took them a while to get to where I was, was nearly out of beer by the time they got around on him and they made a great stalk, Couple shots later and an 80” goat was on the ground Opening day, mid day I ran into town for supplies. Was at the gas station and see this dude about my age in camo. Asked if he was antelope hunting, he said yeah. Asked if he was solo and if he wanted help he said yeah he was down for some help. So after we killed the first antelope I text him and we end up meeting the 3rd morning. I wanted to go for that cutter buck so we do, but long story short he got out there in some incredible antelope rutting action like I’ve never seen before. bucks every where chasing each other off. he shot one. I drive out to him immediately but he already had it gutted, didn’t care about pics. was stoked af you would have thought it was a world record. Honestly was probably top 3 funnest hunts I’ve been a part of just cuz how cool the dude was and how stoked he was. elk season my homie has the muzzy tag, again. Lucky guy. I didn’t really do anything on this hunt tbh but I said Doug just go to that one spot, you know the one. He goes in there the night before the hunt and messages me says they’re there. Was about 8:30pm I’m in Mesa, thought to myself no way I’m missing this. Opening morning, bull read the script, couldn’t pass him he was too good, one perfect shot. Loaded him Up whole and to the processor. 352” I didnt see Flatlander post a story of how it went down so I’ll tell you what I saw. They glass up the rams and make a move on them. As they’re moving the rams get up and move south. I wasn’t sure if they’d get out of sight (idk if they ever did get out of the spotters sight, I might not have even needed to make that move. Wish2hunt and bonecollector would know) so I bombed out and try to get around to where they might disappear to. I see the rams on top of the ridge and I see the hunters like 60 yards from them, but the rams were slightly lower so they were out of their sight line. Eventually rams got nervous and bailed. Thought maybe it was over because I couldn’t hear the suppressed shots. But little did I know the ram was dead

You hunt? I mostly just go on my hunts to spend time With my dad.

Good for you man! You won’t regret the time spent in years to come!

He was probably watching you while you were at the carcass! I once found a fresh lion kill and ran back to my house to grab a trail cam to place on it. When I went back the next day the kill was moved about 30 yards and re buried. I got home and checked the camera and that lion was on that deer moving it 20 minutes after I set the camera, probably watching me the whole time! They will eat off them for a few days from what I’ve seen or till coyotes demolish it.

Very cool of you to help out. Love the goat in the first pic! Some of the coolest people I've met have been on hunts. When my kid Caliche killed his cow a dude and his kid showed up just to help us load her up in my truck knowing that we could probably use the help. That will stick with me. I regret not getting his phone number. Thanks for sharing

Yep. I like to hunt hard for other people, when I have general tags I mostly goof around.

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Got a ammo donation for the kids giveaway and have a few calibers that I need to trade for other stuff. Two boxes of 270 ammo for trade need 308

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Appreciate that. I’m also capable of going full trphyhntr out there though.

A lot of people appreciated your help this year! Good Karma

Appreciate the recap!! There’s a lot more to that callous exterior!!

Great recap man. Happy holidays....

Hello, cleaning out my safe of several nearly new firearms. First is this Christensen Arms Ridgeline 300 ultra mag. It was only shot to break in the barrel per CA guidelines. It has a Vortex Viper PST 5-25x50 scope ($1100 at Scheels) Rifle cost a little over #2000 otd. Asking $2500 and will throw in a box of premium ammo. I have other ammo that I would let go real reasonably. Not interested in trades. Other firearms will be listed shortly. Thanks for looking. Don. Located in East Mesa

Love the dreads

Well done ladies! Congrats on a fine buck and Excellent video!

I don’t know how old she is , but if she’s out of school do her a favor and send her to a good taxidermy school ….. I’ll tell ya what a really good thing would be for her if she really wants to get into it - is birds - if you sent her to a good bird course / or personal school - there are some great one on one or small class schools - And if she would specialize in ducks / birds she could stay as busy as she wanted and be very successful- she wouldn’t have to be lifting and dealing with big elk and buffalo forms and heavy hides - she could work on the delicate and very detail oriented birds - with quite a bit less “manual” labor - not saying she can’t do that too - but if she would specialize in birds and get really good at it - a lot of other shops would send their work to her - a lot of them don’t do birds and she wouldn’t be competing with them . And a good bird taxidermist is hard to find around here - I get more and more calls every winter for ducks and geese , people having a hard time finding someone to do them ….. and i take them but would rather not ….. I know she could do pretty well if she would specialize in that …… Just food for thought ……. if you want to bring her down to Taylor some time ide be happy to show her my shop and visit with her and answer any general questions she might have …… I went to an 8 week school in Iowa - between my “regular” college semesters at NAU one summer in 1997 I think it was ….

Ya, he where's a Sombrero now.

When you drove from Flagstaff to the valley, you didn't see 1 leo? Sure?

Couple tamales pan fried in butter til the outside is crispy and some over easy eggs on top. That’s what dreams are made of.

Yeah there is no way I would pay that. I just put in an order with the wife. Extra meat, 2-3 seadless olives. Sometimes a Jalapeño slice.

People usually bitch about the cost of tamales until they make em themselves!

That’s the problem, you spend $30 on a dozen and the theyre skimp with an olive pit in the middle smfh. Need to be referred to the good ones

Biden's America has even hit tamales. We just bought some from a co-workers mother. $25 a dozen. Absolutely delicious tho. I prefer to steam them to warm them up, then top with enchilada sauce and mexican queso shredded cheese blend.

Same here. I’ll probably see him around at some point.