Gr8 White Jr

I finally came across some pictures from a few Christmases ago of my Grandfather's barn full of sheds. My grandfather is the one person I love and admire more than anyone else on this planet. He is one of the last true american cowboys. In 1950, the night he graduated highschool he sattled up his horse and road for the high country to pursue his dream of working the cattle drive. Long story short, he worked his way horse back from Phoenix to Seligman where he aquired a job as a cattleman. He lived his dream life for the next 15 or so years before coming back to phoenix to start a family. Now he is a retired Payson resident and his passion is still to cover miles of country upon horse back so that is what he does. He rides between 3 and 5 days a week and has a new hobby now of collecting sheds. He finds between 400 and 600 lbs of sheds every year which he sells every winter to make room for the upcoming spring of shed hunting. He also finds finds quite a few skulls every year as well. Anyway I thought I would share some of the pictures taken. Keep in mind that the pictures were not taken for the sheds but of my Grandfather and I on Christmas day so sorry there are some left out. You can still see most of them in the back ground. Also keep in mind that this is only one year of findings right before he sells them.

You guys crack me up! Even if this wasn't the greatest hunting site on the web (which it is), I would still spend countless hours reading here just to laugh my a$$ off. The comedy here is priceless! Coosefan, glad everything worked in your favor with your swaros! That is as good as it gets when it comes to customer service. Its too bad that you missed them though after all that wating and anticipation. Oh well, it gives you something to look forward to for tomorrow. -Tracy

Hmmm.... Very good point Kgaines but if the goal was to hold on to our money to gain interest then the only thing that should be affected would be the date of refunds being mailed out. Then again how would they justify mailing out refund checks in August if the draw was over the last week of June. Who knows! It is what it is I guess. -Tracy

Hey Tracy, Good to hear from you. I used to work with you and your dad at D.R. Horton and talked hunting all the time with both of you. Look forward to talking again. Pat Pat? As in DR Horton CSAM Patrick? Is that you? How the he!! are you man?

Hello and welcome!

Some thing that has had me wondering is why it is still taking untill the second or third week of July to complete the draw? When the elk and antelope were all included in the same draw the results were always available by about the second or third week of July. You would think that the results would be available at least a few weeks earlier since there is so much less data to process. Just a thought. -Tracy

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's all squared away with that. You never know though, he always has some kind of project going on. -Tracy

I do remember measuring but for the life of me I can't remember what it came out to. Huntn Coues, thats a pretty cool bull there. Looks like they could be from the same gene pool. -Tracy

Here is a picture from last Christmas of one of the sheds my grandpa picked up last year. Even though it is pretty weak on top, this one stood out to me becuase of its huge G3. You don't see that kind of length in a G3 very often.

Not sayin' your WM buddy is wrong, but as far as I'm concerned, I've had "inside" info many times before and it's NEVER accurate this far ahead of time I'm to the point I don't believe anything I hear in regards to results posting....and that's even if it comes from the person in charge of the draw! I do hope it's earlier than the 22nd though! Couldn't agree with you more!

Welcome!

Actually that is your girlfriend's necklace...accidently put it on that morning when we got dressed. It was dark and our cloths were all mixed up all over my bedroom floor. Oops, did I say too much?

Him? Guy? Hahahaha! LMAO! At first glance you sure would think so.

Thats awesome! Cool find!

Cool pics! That buck on the left is gong to be a wide one. Thanks for sharing! -Tracy

Younghunter is right about what bull it is. Last year he finnished out with a 4" 7th point. His tops really make his bottoms look short, especially when he finnishes off. This is a couple of pictures of him from last year from latter in July. Lance I agree that his tops make his bottoms look weak. IMO his bottoms aren't too bad at all. The average mature bull elk is going to have a distance from his bases to the tip of his nose of aproxiamtely 17 to 18 inches. Keeping that in mind, look at the 1st picture where you get a side profile of the bull. Cover up the top part of his rack in the picture and just look at his bottoms in comparison to his head. Not bad! -Tracy

Definitely a very nice bull but if there aren't many cows in that area he probably won't be around come the rut. Thanks for sharing! -Tracy

After trying several attemps with my trail cam last year all i had come up with was a picture of one coues doe. It was very discouraging but I tried again this year in a totally diferent location and I finally got a good turn out. I left my camera out for 6 weeks but the battery lasted less than a week (cheap Moultrie). Still it took 161 pics in a period of four days. it kills me to think of all the shots that the camera missed because it was dead over the last five weeks. I bought a solar panel yesterday and I am going out next weekend to set it up. Well here are just a few of the pics. -Tracy

Im one step ahead of you. I had the camera pointed northeast and I was getting glare in the morning. Now that I have changed the angle of it, it is pointed almost due north. I didn't think the solar panel would work with a regular baterry so yes I did buy a rechargeable battery. Thanks for all your help! -Tracy

I thought it was only Uncle Rico who could fire a pig skin over them mountains.

Thanks for the tip! Squirel problems never even came to mind but now that you bring it up I will definitely wrap the wire. Great idea! Thanks again! -Tracy

Great pic! Its very odd how far down toward his nose his base is. Its almost between his eyes. Thanks for sharing!

Here is one more pic that I didn't post earlier. I think its pretty funny! SAY CHEESE FOR THE CAMERA!

Allready done! I moved the camera about ten feet further back. I also put it at about a 45 degree angle to the trail that its on as apposed to the 90 degree angle i had it on before. I put it a little lower on the tree too. I don't know if it will make a difference but I stacked logs and brush to create kind of a bottle kneck to the salt. Can't wait to see if my adjustments will make a difference. I will definitely keep you all posted. -Tracy

The first time I had ever seen a gila monster was out near Robin's Butte. It was a little further east by Power's Butte. That is a really neat area!