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Thanks for taking the time to post all your daily travels and photos.....The whole thread has been way cool. Brian

Thanks again everyone for the congrats. Brian

I know where a few bunches in 24B are at. I'll let you know where they are. We found them in November. You won't have to travel very far either. Brian

That's awesome Jason! Congrats to the both of you. Hope you left one for me. Brian

Nice job. Congrats. You should boil the skull out with the arrow still in it. Would be pretty neat. Brian

Nicely done! Great Pig. Congrats. Brian

Thanks everyone. I'm pretty wore out today. Being in all that cold sure takes its toll on you. We are going to get back at it the first part of this week. Thanks again. Brian

Where I've been hunting the past four days they have been going nuts. Oh and by the way...................Buck Down Today Brian

Lol! After the last there days icebergs are a flowing. Cold with brutal winds. Good luck. I would have poked a hole in that muley. Brian

Get a date. it's been a dry spell. Lol. Brian

Hey Jason. Mark and I will be down there, deer hunting for half a day and then pig hunting the other half. We will be doing this for two or three days. We will have to keep in touch. Good luck to you guys. Brian

Went and checked my cameras today that I had on some scrapes for a week. Had some good pics in prep for January. Here is a good muley buck that came by a scrape. Kind of suprising as there are very few muleys in the area. Looks like he is tasting the air with his tongue as just before this pic had a pic of a muley doe in the scrape. Here are a couple from another spot. This buck checks the scrape nearly everyday. And another buck on another scrape. The daytime pic is from two weeks ago and the night time pic this last week. I have a lot of pics of this buck on this scrape. He is regular here. Brian

Liked and shared. Good luck! Brian

No new pics yet from this year. Just got some cams out this last week on some fresh scrapes that were barely made. Going to check them next weekend. Hoping for some good stuff. Brian

I don't mind all the bowl games, I like college football no matter who is playing. As for defense, don't think that word has ever been in RichRod's vocabulary (ask Michigan). Fun game to watch though. Brian

Well, with not killing and archery deer in January or August, I decided to buy a leftover tag for down south. I have not been rifle deer in a loonngg time. I really can't remember that last time I used a rifle deer tag. I went with a unit I was pretty familiar with over years past. The first day and a half was pretty uneventful with nothing really to talk about. The second afternoon is when things got interesting. At 2 p.m. my friend Mark and I were setting up to glass and before I even got my glass on the tripod he said he had a buck and he was way up in a saddle on a big steep rocky nasty mountain. So quickly we made a plan. He would stay on the scope while I would try to get up on a rocky knob across from him. An hour later, I had made it to the top of the rocky knob (after climbing in some precarious places). I finally picked out the buck feeding across from me at 308 yards, but there was one problem. I was looking directly into the sun. I could barely seem him through the binocs and I couldnt see squat through the scope. There was no way I could shoot him. So I called Mark on the radio and told him that I was going to have to wait until the sun went down behind the ridge before I could shoot. So I just laid there on that knob keeping track of the buck as he kept feeding closer. He got to 268 yards when he found a clump of dead burned oak trees and laid down. I could not see him buck Mark could through the spotting scope. So I waited for him to stand. At 4:30, I decided to make a move to get a different angle on him and hope to be able to see him. So I back down to the back side of the knob I was on and eased up the ridge till I was on the same level he was. I was now at 75 yards and he was still bedded. I tried and tried to pick him out laying there but couldn't. Time was getting late and I had to get him up. So I called Mark on the radio and told him I was going to get my predator call out and try to get him to stand up. First I tried a couple cow elk mews. That didn't work. Then I got on the call hard. That didn't work. Mark radioed and said that all the buck did was lay his ears back and get lower to the ground. It was getting darker and I was running out of light fast. So decided to roll some rocks down the hill. That didn't work. Then I decide I had to get him up so I start yelling at the buck to get up. I yelled and yelled and nothing. LOL. Mark said all that buck did was get lower to the ground. Time was up. I had 5-10 minutes of legal shooting time left and I was out of options. So I picked out the oak tree he was laying under and decided to put a bullet in it to get him up. I took aim and let her rip. Mark called on the radio and said that he didn't move. LOL. A couple minutes went by and finally Mark called and said he stood up. I still couldn't see him through the trees. Finally I could see him start to trot out the left side and as soon as he cleared the trees I put a bullet through both shoulders at 80 yards. He was still up and running so I put another one in him and he piled up. Here is a pic of him. Not the best pic in the world but we were not thinking alot about pics and just wanted to get him off the mountain as fast as we could as we were on a nasty mountain and a loonngg ways from the truck. Anyway, it was a good time and definately and interesting hunt to say the least. Brian

Congrats Tony on your beautiful ram!! Well done !! TJ is welcome to join me on my sheep hunt next year (that is if the world doesn't end in a couple weeks). Brian

Did you try and post your 17 pics here in the forum too? I am curious if it worked fine for you. Try it and let me know. No I haven't tried here yet. Brian

Good question. I just had the same problem on another site. Tried to post 17 pics, didn't work but it did tell me that 15 was the max. Brian

Awesome job fellas !!! Congrats Brian

Thanks everyone. It was a fun hunt. Now back to scouting for January. Brian

I'll take the other if still available. Info will be sent. Brian

I don't get to use it to often. Got to get the dust off of it every now and then. Lol

That is one awesome year for you and your family Jason. Doesn't get any better than that. Hope you have enough freezer space. Lol. On another note, Mark and I just got back to our motel room in Portal, Az after a long pack out of my buck I killed tonight right at dark. Brian

He has C. Brian