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I don't think the nose is crushed. The bone looks intact. Looks like the cartilage has decomposed, pretty common for how old it looks.

Find where the bulls were in the last week of march through april and into may. Thats where the sheds will be. The benefit of being local is that you can see where the bulls are at during this time. This way you are walking in areas where you know bulls have been.

Looks great. Clay is the only person I will go to anymore. He does excellent work.

My thoughts exactly. pm incoming.

Leave it alone. I'd rather have a white rack then one that looks like its been recolored. Unless you do a really good job on it, its very easy to tell its been colored.

Still waiting on my card.

They opened the roads when I was there, so you must have been before me. It was pretty wet a few miles back towards Clints Well, but out north was bad. Part of it depends on if the cattle are in and if the rancher is pumping water.

You must have been in there before me, or after maybe. I saw quite a few old tracks from when it was wet. There used to be a good amount of elk in there, but not when I was there. It was dry dry dry. They won't be there without water.

Yes I did, all dry. The only one with water in it was the pump station.

I was in the northern stuff last weekend. It was extremely dry. Almost every single tank was dry. We need some rain asap up there.

My brother with 18 points finally pulled a unit 9 Muzzleloader Elk tag. It was the only thing he put on his application so it is what it is. He doesn't have a lot of time to scout and we also pulled two archery tags in another unit. After waiting since he was 12, he wants the biggest bull ever. (don't we all) I know we could kill a 350-360 bull with any guide service and by ourselves most likely, but he wants to hire someone to help out. Who would you hire? Here is my list: (not in any order) Jim Mullins McClendon Mossback Chad Smith-Vaquero Steve Chappell-is he in unit 9? I think he's only on the other side of the state. Jay Scott and Dar Colburn I know a few of these are sponsors on here and I know that both Colburn/Scott, Chappell and Mullins do a clean respectable job. I have no experience with Vaquero or Mclendon. Who produces the top end bulls? It's gunna be a fun fall.

Thanks for the responses everyone. I will be talking this over with my brother throughout the weekend. Please keep the thread civil, it was not meant to be a bash-fest. Thanks

thanks for the responses guys. I'm swamped with finals right now. Once they are over tomorrow I will send a few pm's out. I would like to talk to a few of you. Those of you that pm'd me, I will contact you tomorrow as well. Carry on with the experiences. Thanks

HaHa, sure wont be USO, still bitter about that. Isn't Moss a lot more $$$? I'm gunna have to do some price comparisons. Anyone wanna clue me in? PM might be best for that.

I will add him to the list to check out. I'm willing to look at any and all options.

Nice work. Can't wait to do that with my son when he gets older.

Waiting to the last day of a 5 week period to apply doesn't make you a procrastinator? Do you know what a procrastinator is? Varminter, Waiting for the results has nothing to do with procrastination. Do I need to pull out a dictionary for you?

You have a point but you must also keep in mind that there are a lot of folks that have to wait for reasons that may not be as apparent as procrastinating. Might be thata family doesn't have a credit card rather just a debit card to apply with and had to wait in order to have enough funds in the account to put all their kids in. Might be a service man or woman that just found out they'll be here to hunt this year. There's a lot of reasons that are outside the spectrum of laziness. To assume that everyone falls into the category would be a very narrow view of reality. I for one put in two weeks ago so this doesn't affect me, but there are things that happen and there's nothing that I can personally do about it. The draw will happen and the results will still come out. Rest assured I realize that. But the system being overloaded is because of procrastinators. There would not be a huge surge of people otherwise.

A deadline is a deadline. Don't move it back every year because of the procrastinators overloading the system. There is plenty of time to apply. Weeks and weeks. The transmission failing is not the fault of the owner. Failing to apply before the last day is the fault of the owner.

+1. Extending the deadline is a joke. It's all about the $$$.

time for a dummy cam and one set up to catch them.

The northern part was not closed off . One road that goes to the north part was.

That is one sick deer. Dream buck right there. Thats a heck of an eastern, let alone a coues.

Nice job on the buck. The picture would be better if his head was held more natural. JMO

Wyoming deer are in rough shape. They have had a few rough winters. Rumor is that this summer was exceptionally dry, leaving the deer in poor shape going into the winter. The snow has been pretty high this year thus making things worse. Huntin Fool has suggested for a few years to gain points and wait for the herds to come back. We hunted unit 90, one of the better units, 3 years ago. Best buck we saw was a 24 inch 3 by 3.