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Gorgeous!!! Thanks Doug!

Hey Bill, Glad you enjoyed the camp. I had fun glassing with you and thanks for sharing some of your favorite spots! I think the camp went great and was very successful. We got some first time hunters some javelina and everyone seemed to have a great time. I will post a writeup about it soon. Thanks for your help out there!

Congratulations on another great time in Mexico! It is certainly hard to sum up 6 weeks of hunting in a post! I really enjoyed your slideshow (for those that didn't notice, click on the first little thumbnail in his post to see slideshow). I loved the pic of you with your bow doing the the thumbs-up with your buck in the background. Cool. Bummer about shooting the wrong buck, but way to stick with it and I can imagine that hike out was quite an adventure! Thanks for sharing your time down there with us!

Great buck and great mount!

Have a great one gentlemen!

here is some more proof of our little coues deer using secret tunnels! I love putting cams on mine addits!

Awesome video! Amazing moment to catch on trail cam!

Well, the guy that makes the CouesWhitetail.com stickers for me is from Alabama (he goes by the name Bubba --- yes, I really did go hunting in Alabama with a guy named Bubba!) and goes back there for two weeks every year to hunt deer. He invited me along and so I got to experience what it's like hunting there. I wasn't sure I would like it since it's not glassable country...it's pretty much all thick forest where you either still hunt or stand hunt and you can generally only see 50 yards or so. But I really enjoyed it. The forest is predominantly planted pines with hardwood bottoms. The deer seemed to bed in the pines and feed in the hardwoods. I couldn't believe how many deer there are out there. You couldn't take a step without seeing deer tracks, rubs and scrapes. We got there around New Years and it was pre-rut with lots of activity at scrapes. The second week we were there the bucks were chasing does. So, like our Coues, these deer seem to rut in late Dec and January. I was surprised too how small these deer were. They were larger than coues, but not that much larger. I was able to pack out the boned-out meat in my pack without much trouble. But then I didn't shoot a really big buck either.... The deer season in Alabama is a few months long and you can shoot two deer a day! Those can be two does, or one doe and one buck. Up to three bucks a season, but pretty much unlimited on does. The hunters out there told me the insurance companies have put a lot of pressure on the game and fish to reduce the deer population in order to reduce collisions with autos. The hunters also told me the deer population is nothing compared to what it used to be so I guess the intended reduction is working. I ended up shooting three deer and a hog. One deer I snuck up on and shot at 15 yards. Another I was sitting on the ground tucked in some brush and shot her at about 30-40 yards. And then the third deer was a buck that I shot from a ladder stand at about 250 yards (it was a regenerating clear cut so you could see pretty far). I am not so much into treestands so I spent alot of time still hunting or sitting on the ground waiting for the deer to come by. When I got too cold or bored, I would go for a walk to warm up or to hunt another spot. The views were almost always limited to small sections of the forest, so of course I set up in places where deer trails merged or there was a rub line or something like that. I took a couple days off from deer hunting to pursue a hog. One of the local guys out there was kind enough to take me to some private property that he knew had hogs. We spent one day walking all over looking for sign. Hogs do a ton of digging up of plants and can leave some big turned up areas. They also wallow in mud and then rub on trees. I thought this sign was pretty amusing. They essentially are painting the trees with red mud! here are some pics: That evening we caught up to the hogs but there were in such thick stuff we didn't get a shot and eventually they smelled us and moved off. On a different day we had just a short time to find them and started near that same area we had heard them before. We walked the creek bottom until we saw them grazing out in a field adjacent to the hardwoods. Snuck up and shot one at less than 100 yards. It was a young boar and he weighed maybe 130-150 lbs. The meat is supposed to be excellent, so I am eager to try this! There were deer rubs and scrapes all over the place. Here are some pics of some of the largest. this rub was on a fairly large magnolia tree and if you zoom in you can see tine marks about 5 inches above the main rub. I very much enjoyed all the southern food and great hospitality while I was out there. Fried chicken, fried okra, collared greens, biscuits and gravy, boiled peanuts, etc. All great and interesting food. I made a new hunting buddy out there in AL and he invited me for dinner at a couple family gatherings and we enjoyed some great venison backstrap and all kinds of excellent food. What a treat. I was invited to stay with Bubba's dad at their nice house in Eufaula. It was a nice luxury to get to take a hot shower and sleep in a warm bed every night since the temps were sometimes 18-20 degrees at night. Eufuala is a beautiful town and they have some amazing mansions there. here is one that I drove by everyday on the way to the hunt area. And here are some deer pics. a doe I shot: and a buck I shot: and here is one of the bucks Bubba got, it had some nice mass to it: I had a blast on this trip! The hunting was excellent, the hospitality outstanding and it was just fun to try something very different. I enjoyed hearing and seeing all the different birds they have out there. They also had different critters like opossum and armadillos out there. I am hoping to get back there to turkey hunt this spring. Saw lots of turkeys while I was there, but mostly hens and young ones. Many thanks to Bubba, Bill, Sandi, Jeff, Bobbie, Tom, Denise and others for making my trip so successful! You all were so welcoming that it made my trip that much more enjoyable. Thank you.

Someone donated a Dec WT tag to Outdoor Experience 4 All and Sadie got a nice one using that tag. I think she shot it yesterday in 6a. For those who want to learn more about OE4A, please visit: http://www.oe4a.org

Well jim and I are having fun at the western hinting and conservation expo in salt lake city! Jim brought 11 heads and almost all are over 120. And we have 12 skulls that range from 106 to one from san carlos that nets 136...wow!

If you know of a woman interested in learning how to hunt, she may want to attend the upcoming Women's Javelina Hunting Camp that CouesWhitetail.com is hosting during the HAM hunt. This camp is funded from a grant from AGFD and two great youth organizations are helping out on this camp too (Youth Outdoors Unlimited and Outdoor Experience 4 All). We will try to provide 1 on 1 guiding for each novice woman hunter that signs up. All food is provided as well. YOU and OE4A are going to cook all the food, so all the ladies have to do is to go hunting!! Pre-registration is required and space is limited, so get those ladies signed up ASAP! For more info, visit this page: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/womens_javelina_hunt_2011.htm

Yes, there is still email notification of PMs. The new software is almost identical to the old, but it has added features and better coding to make it run more efficiently. You can change settings in your user control panel. Use the drop down menu by your user name in the upper right to see what you can adjust. There are tabs within each option too, so look for those headings within each option to see the breadth of options you can change. Thanks for the support guys. I know it's not good now and I will get it back, but since I am not home much over the next week, it will take more time than I would like.

According to our calendar here on CW.com, Mike's birthday would be the 18th and he would have been 31. Wow, I just can't get over how sad this is. Rest in Peace Mike.

I now have a white background, and would be happy as a pup if I also had a place to look to see if I have a new PM. There probably is one, but darned if I could find it. Bill Quimby Bill, if you look at where your user name shows in the upper right corner of the forum, you will see a white arrow on the right side of your name. Click on the little arrow to open the drop down menu. You will see several choices, one will say Messenger. That's how you look at PMs. In addition to that, before you even open the drop down menu, look at the little blue box just right of your name. You will see a 0 and a small white arrow. That is where you can see if you have any notifications (like a PM). If you have a PM, the number will not be 0, it will show how many you have. And if you click the little arrow it will drop down a menu to tell you what the notifications are about. This way as soon as you log in you can look at the notification area and see if it's a 0 or not and that will tell you if you have a PM or some other notification that you should look at.

Congratulations!! Way to stick with it!

It's funny, I bought the upgraded version of our old skin about a year ago because I knew the upgrade would have to happen eventually and I didn't want to get caught without it. But I was holding out to wait until the bugs and stuff were out of the new software before I upgraded. But in the meantime, the the lady that was gonna install the skin for me changed how she does business and now I can't get the skin from her. I am still hopeful I will get the upgraded version of our old skin from her. But it will take time. Our old skin seemed to work better for everyone.

Mike was a member here for almost the entire history of the site. This is really tragic news. His family must be devasted. If someone has some photos of Mike, please share them with us.

Yes, you can change to the IPB basic if you want white background. And Bill there is a text link that says View New Content in the upper right of the forum, in about the same location as the old View New Posts text link was in the older software. If you click on View New Content it shows all the threads with active posts since your last visit. It's just like before only it's called View New Content instead of View New Posts.

Wow, that is terrible news. I am so sorry to hear that. We will pray for him and his family.

It works just fine....NOW GO SHOOT A PIG!!!!!! Thanks Jeremy!!

This won't be the final skin, but just a stop gap measure until I get a better one set up.

Yeah! finally I got something right! The Deep Blue is pretty cool looking. I will add more skins as time goes on and then you guys can select which one you like by using the drop down box in the lower left corner of the forum.

Ok, I installed a new skin so it's not so boring using the default that came with the new software. I set the new Deep Blue skin as the default skin. It's probably not the one I will stay with, but it's a lot better than the default! Anyway, if you look down in the lower left corner of the forum you will see a dropdown box that let's you select skins. Right now, there isn't a lot to choose from (just the IPB basic and the Deep Blue). But as I get some more skins, they will show up there and you can choose which you like best. If you are not seeing a blue skin with black background, then you might want to go select the Deep Blue skin and see if you like it.

Sorry about your loss DB!! that really sucks! I hope you get the gun back.

Do you own a Leica CRF range finder? Well now there is a great product by Jim White which will allow you to attach your rangefinder to your tripod for added stability and more accurate readings for those long range shots. As with all Jim White Products, this is a high quality machined part and it's made in the USA! If you are interested in more info or buying one, look at the bottom of the adatper page: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/adaptors.htm on a tripod head below: