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It’s a 20k hunt anywhere else and most people’s bucket list animal. Getting to kill one for free in your back yard, priceless lol

Do you know how to skin a deer skull? If not, I just posted a video on my Instagram page showing you how to do it. @bigbrownstaxidermy

I have four of these in my shop with varying grit. Buffers, grinders and wire wheels. Incredibly blessed .

You know if they deny access to national forest then the aholes shouldn't be able let there fricking cattle graze on our lands. Probably eastern libarals fxxks

Good shape has a bushnell scope with turret used for shooting squirrels pretty clean just sits in safe $350

To see this moisture already and have a lot of points for 2026. 2025 rut hunters are in shambles

Chefs Choice electric that has three different wheels. Works great for kitchen knives. I was never good at using a stone. I can only get a knife so sharp with one which is never really sharp enough. I have an outdoor edge with the replaceable blades which eventually get the job done but doesn't take the place of a real knife.

We are trying to kill the deer, not pet it. respect as very little to do with it. Have you ever seen predators kill a deer or elk?? They eat it from the back end forward most of the times. We are better than animals but we are still trying to kill them. Every time I make stupid decisions (buck fever) it is at 50 yards and under. I'm a much more respectful person at 700 than 25 if the metric we we are talking about how, is howcalm we are and how well we can make a "good shot". I've seen plenty of wounded animals from people at 100-300 yards. I'm kind of sick of this holier than thou attitude that people have for other hunters. The real sign of respect and integrity come from WHAT YOU DO AFTER YOU HIT A DEER, do you chalk it up to miss, poor shot? Do you track it until you find it or do you give up after 5 minutes? Do you even go look for it? Do you check for it for multiple days? To me that is what shows the moral and ethical side of a person. That being said in todays world/internet its best to leave off yardage. I"ve never seen much good come from it. Congrats on a fine deer and a heck of a poke.

With 2 new grand children coming this fall my wife decided she didn’t want to hunt. It never was in my plans to give her tag back, but she told me she wanted to spend time with the new mothers and babies. So I headed to my draw unit by myself. My son and his wife decided to come visit for a couple days and my wife made the trip up with them. needless to say very little real hunting happened that opening weekend. After they all went home I spent a few days by myself putting everything I had into finding a decent deer that my friend had pre scouted. Lots of driving, still hunting. Glassing and enjoying the woods. I got lucky right before dark. I saw a group of 4 bucks, 2 big bucks and 2 small bucks. Thinking it was the group I had seen opening morning I made the quick decision to shoot the one that was in the opening. Either of the two big bucks I would be happy with. It actually was a buck I had never seen before. It took me a while to find him at night and with flashlights and by myself I took a few videos. These are the best screenshots I got off the video. Here are a few pictures from that trip

A few years ago we sold our home and our plan was to wait until prices came down up here on the mountain before we started to build. Well it didn’t happen so we built last year. Anyway during this time we had invested some money into my remodeling my parents “little” house (580 sqft) so they allowed us to live there rent free for the next 3 years. It was the first time I hadn’t had to pay rent or mortgage in our 25 years of marriage. My wife was ok if I invested some of that money saved into my personal and emotional well being. I was able to get CO vouchers the last couple of years. I shot a good buck my first year, but I hadn’t seen anything over 170” to shoot until this year. I’ve always been ok going home empty handed but when this deep forked buck gave me the opportunity I decided to take it. A couple of random bucks screenshots. My first CO buck a few years ago. this years buck.

I tried to send you a PM, but it said you can’t receive them. I have a DPMS AR I’d sell. It has a quad rail and a flat top. Maybe 100 rounds fired through it. It just sits it the safe. $500 I’m in west Mesa, near Bass Pro.

You guys obey trespassing signs?

*European fxxk. My cousin is in charge cattle operations there. The owner has been trying for a long time to eliminate people off of her land. If I were an a position of authority, I would suspend all state trust leases until some access was permitted. That goes for all ranches (big bo).

We need new roads that bypass the private to reach the base of the mountains.

Don't ask for pics. If you do, it may anger the beast. Fury, rivaled only by a famous roofer will be cast down upon thee....

Can someone explain wtf is being talked about here? Big deer? Post some pics

Fixed? 😁

Biggest deer for the year. Same bet I had with my nephew last year. Putting AI to good use. grok_video_2025-11-17-16-06-13.mp4

The glamor shots. Post script. I almost forgot about the bet I had with my middle brother. He lost. Read the hat.

I'm sorry but trying to see if you can hit an animal at 750 yards is not ethical. If you cant sneak within 3 or 4 hundred yards then why are you hunting? I know I'll get a lot of pushback on this but show a little respect to the animal and work to get a clean ethical shot. Obviously you weren't skilled enough to do that the first time. This is what gives hunters a bad name.

I hope you were able to see the aurora earlier this week. This is what my camera caught here in Flagstaff just before 10pm.

Covid shutdown brought out a new class of campers and hunters. State also has 3 million new residents. It sucks but we’re going to have to clean up other peoples trash if we want these areas to stay open and it still may not be enough. My favorite shooting spot in the desert is getting trash on a regular basis now. Myself and friends have been trying to keep up with it to the point I have pallets on side of my house waiting for bulk trash. Eventually I’m sure BLM will say enough. Times change.

Used on one Coues hunt, excellent condition. Also includes rainfly. $400 602-690-8395 will only respond to texts or calls.

My son shot a javelina on a youth hunt a few years ago. He used my M1 Garand with 150 gr Barnes Vortx ammo. The shot was 75 yards and left a softball size exit wound. No problem with expansion at all. I made the switch to Barnes back in 2008 and have never looked back. I used to be the California condor recovery program lead biologist. Feel free to reach out to me anytime. I encourage everyone to look for and read the Minnesota DNR's test results for lead vs non-lead bullets. They did it right. The lined up euthanized sheep and shot them with various kinds of bullets: non-lead, high-end and low-ed rapid expansion lead core, high-end and low-end slow-expansion lead core, muzzleloader, and shotgun slugs. They x-rayed every carcass and were finding lead fragments up to 24" away from the entry point. IMHO, MN DNR did the best test out there when the non-lead bullet craze really started taking off and there was all kinds of skepticism. I also have research articles regarding lead fragments in the grind when meat comes back from processors. Take all of this for what it is or isn't worth to you. I just like to pass on the data I have access to and can share those reports/articles with anyone interested.