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The area I hunted was in farm country, properties varying from 80 to about 300 acres. The deer I took was with archery at about 45 yards. Blew a few opportunities at less than 30 yard shots. The family I hunted with hunts with iron sight rifles on their property. I'm not sure if any of them even owns a scope. I have no idea what it's like in the western part of the state. Its a lot more open country, but I don't know how much of it is private vs public land I mean.

Not sure what the public land is like or how hard access to private is to gain, but I hunted on a friends place back in Nebraska a couple years ago and am going back this fall. You can buy two 'any deer' tags which act as your buck tags and unlimited doe only tags. Lot of deer back there and Kansas didn't seem to suffer from a lack of them either on my drive there and back

Went last year for four days. Never laid eyes on a living bull, orange everywhere and more guides than you can imagine using horses to haul people in away from the road. Only saw two people with dead ones. It can be done but it's real tough. We hunted around Delores, not far from Cortez

12 oz. curl

Happy birthday. Hope it's a good one!

Love the bear hug pic. Too cool!

Big ole brute. Congrats!

Happy bday. Hope it was a great one!

Awesome stuff there! Congrats grandpa

I was over in the white mountains last weekend. Only stayed for a one nighter but between the drive in at night and hiking and driving around on Saturday we must have seen at least 10 different bachelor herds totalling somewhere from 80-100 bulls. A lot of which are looking real good. I've never seen so many herds in a single day before. The guys with tags should have a great year I think.

I'd give another bump for desert Rat. They did a 2.5" leveling kit on my Jeep commander about 7 or 8 years ago. Parts, labor & alignment right at about $500 out the door. Just got a quote from them the other day for my Ram 1500 I just bought, and still the same price. They did good work for me and I'll stick with them.

Congrats! Best tag you could ever get.

The guys on missouriwhitetails.com are also very helpful and easy going. Good site for info

She's a pretty girl. Congrats.

Eric and cody recently did some work for my company too. Stand up guys and very talented with machine tools. I will be doing more business with them in the future.

Better add "must have no respect for the wishes of the person who invested their time and money to create this business entity and show an utter lack of regard for the environment they are trying to create" to the list. Seems pretty easy to just log off if you dont like the forum.

I mix it up big time. Usually start with classical in the morning as it helps stimulate the brain, then after I get goin a little bit its country and finish off the day with skynyrd, ccr, staind, five finger death punch, metallica and whatever else the youtube auto play brings up. I always considered myself more of a country guy, but lately it seems like no matter who I start listening to it drifts towards that super-douche sam hunt or some worthless american idol contestant who is now trying to be country. Cant stand that, so I've been leaning more on my rock side.

Guess I should have read that closer, 60#'er

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/72384-mathews-no-cam-for-sale/ This one just popped up the other day.

Man! Some of you guys seriously would argue over the color of crap. Geeeezzzz..... Lighten up and just try to be postive, it won't make your winky shrivel if you let just one comment or opinion go by with picking it apart. Good luck tag holders! I hope all your elk don't die of thirst before you get there.

It's going to be legendary I think so too. So much rain and snow, theres going to be some big bone running around the hills. Real disappointing to not get a tag this year, but the upside is I'll have lots of time to put into getting another archery muley. Good luck everyone, its going to be one helluva year

I think hes got a 16m x 1.0 metric thread which cannot be turned down, its almost the same size (.629"). The thread would have to be cut off rethreaded and recrowned if its a 16m.

Exactly my thought. A couple good scouting trips will get the fire lit for him. How old is he?

Im saying computers are only as good as the software they're running and the software is influenced by the people feeding it Information. if you doubt it, just try running a scheduling system for a small to medium size company (50-100 people) where the job progress information is entered manually. If i live to be a hundred it'll still be surprising how many people cannot add and subtract or even select the right department from a drop down menu. Anyone ever try to run a really big spread sheet in excel or a relational database in access (or access based erp system)? Dang computers freeze and take several minutes to save a few thousand lines of information. I know g&f probably has some pretty high powered servers, but they're dealing with hundreds of thousands, maybe as high as a few million, lines of data. I guarantee the guys operating the system spend days cussing it for being a slow p.o.s. and ripping the programmers a new one every time theres the slightest hiccup. I'll bet they spen quite a bit of time watching that stupid little hourglass thingy spin while they're praying it doesnt crash... again! Anyhow, if you guys think computers dont make mistakes, thats hilarious. The computer only does what the software programmer tells it to, and those guys are dang sure prone to making mistakes.

The system is not 100% computerized. You have thousands of paper apps which means either a) data entry or b.) scanning and visual recognition software. Either option requires human input, and whenever you put people in the mix your 'perfect process' turns to crap faster than miley cyrus' s panties come off at a five finger death puch concert. Maybe its not highly probable, but its no where near impossible either.