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I didnt know there was a contest this year i have entered evry year until last year.

http://youtu.be/Xi1OmIT6lls When watching I am above the cliff. thx Merry christmas

really nice buck casey!

This was a great Christmas present. I have hunted these desert critters a long time. I didnt tag out with my rifle coues tag but this is a great feat for me. Ya Baby archery Desert Muley!!! My Buddy Steve Bailey was there with me and helped out on the hunt.

I was there and watched all the games sat and I have also coached and played ball. I thought the Blue Ridge team was one of the best coached teams I have seen. very impressed.

congrats fantastic!!

Great job casey I like the story. congrats to your family

Here is my dads bull. We started on friday opening day and we were walking after some bulls when my dad fell. After that I knew we would really have to take it slow. I left mid day to return for family stuff but my brother Richard stayed with my dad. They sat a tank friday night and sat afternoon after quad riding. I got back up there sat afternoon and found my dad and brother in a blind on a good water hole. I sat with them across the way till dark. We had a bull working down to the tank answering cow calls a way off then we heard a shot all was silent with no activity after that. When I went over to help get their gear my dad told me he had fallen off his quad earlier that day. His shoulder was jacked up and he had a bruise and cuts all the way down to his hip. I asked him if he wanted to go home. He said no we could go try in the morning. So that was the plan, get up if we could not connect on one we would head back so he could go to the doctor. We were very limited on the areas we could go so we planned on the spot I figured was the flattest and easiest to get around. The next morning we awoke to the alarm. My brother was opened the door going outside to turn on the generator to make coffee, at that moment an trailer vibrating bugle came from 50 yards across the campsite! I jumped up and we went outside to hear bulls screaming from every direction. No generator need we made coffee on the stove. LOL. Dad was very very stiff when we got dressed and he grabbed his flashlight so we could start paralleling the bulls. He went as fast as he could holding my brothers arm going up and downhill. I was amazed that the heard was actually moving slow enough for us. Once the bugles stopped we dredged on. I would go ahead, cow call a few times then wait for them to catch up. After an hour I felt like the heard had slowed down really good. We had walked 1 mile from camp at this point. We were know behind them directly with good wind. I blew a couple mews and waited again for my dad and brother. Right before they arrived at the spot I was standing I heard a cash and then saw a bull running I mean running straight at us. You could hear him breathing heavily every step he took. I figured he would see us since we now were in an opening about 30 yards wide. But no he kept going full speed. I looke back at my dad with wide open eyes hoping he was ready. I actually got scared that the bull was going to run us over! He ran all the way to around 10 yards or less from us and stopped. He never saw us. My dad raised the muzzy and then the shot went off. The smoke had covered up the elk. He ran downhill and then bedded down immediately. I heard him coughing and said he was choking out but go finish him off. Richard reloaded the muzzy for dad and I then started videoing after my brother grabbed it from my pack. When dad got close the bull got up and took off. Now I was scared not knowing where the shot was. He didnt go far. He would stop every 150 yards or so. It took us 2 more times fro him to get another shot and double lung him. A nice small frame 6x6 was down. Chard and I went back to camp grabbed the truck and actually got to get all the way into where dad was with the bull. After field dressing him I realized that he wasnt coughing from a lung shot. the first went through the liver, his couging was from the blast of the muzzleloader! I know that evryone says to hold out on these tags but my dad has never really cared about the size of the animal. Which makes it a lot of fun. We had a great time. My dad ended up with a bunch of bruised ribs, 3 that were knocked out of place, a contusion the size of a basketball, and a lot of soreness. He has been into the chiro 4 times this week already but is getting around better now. We are selling the quads and getting a ranger now. Hopefully he can get drawn again to get some more fun in. thanks dad

My buddy Steve Bailey shot this great buck sat night. He was with 5 other bucks and his shot was 30 yards. He got on these bucks in a new spot within 20 minutes of hunting. Super stud buck who was growing double droppers. Congrats Stevey!!!

This is the same pack I use now. I used to use a badlands 2200, well I still have that pack. But the badlands did not fit me right. I got way sore shoulders with a load in it. My brother and I bought a blacks creek jim horn canadian and alaskan in 2007 after my dads sheep hunt. I like being able to adjust the pack exactly to my size. I think I paid 179.00 at sportsmans then I think they are still the same price now. Has packed out just about everything. 3 pigs, 4 coues bucks, 2 elk, along with my gear. But if you have the money those other packs are really sweet.

i used to buy into that stuff a while ago then gave it up after i had elk 30 feet from me in clothes that i had on at camp, slept in sweated in, cooked in the trailer in, probably had some skid marks in, but i had the wind right. I do use laundry soap that is unscented though due to my allergies.

+1

Steve is old school, his bow is from 1997. He always says if its not broke dont buy a new one.

My dad is 72 this year.

109 7/8 sweet

Exactly my arrows weigh 495 grains with head. Penetration is the key.

sweet post i like it

I also think the montecs are not good. I switched from them to the magnus snuffer ss and basically the design is the same but the blades come razor sharp and when you resharpen they are easy to work with. The g5's took forever for me to sharpen. Magnus fly like darts.45 yards through 2 ribs and the arrow broke on the way went out the armpit then stuck in the other shoulder

I will only use fixed blades after having problems with mechanicals. Especially on an elk where the bones are bigger and the chance of a deflecting shot is more prone. Opening in the quiver screws you up pretty bad also. If you take the time and tune your fixed blades they will group perfectly. Out to 60 yards no problem. I used the Magnus snuffer ss last year and they did a great job on elk and javelina. They dont have any of the advertising that most of the "rage" does. But out of the box you will slice yourself open if not careful. Much better than the montecs i used before. I havent shot a field tip for years now. Practice what you shoot in the field. Most huys nowdays dont want to take the time to get ready for a hunt with proper practice. I know some guys that shoot field tips then hunt with fixed blades or mech without ever shooting them at a target. Not too smart.

8 early arch bull for me 8 early muzz bull for my dad!!!

I believe if they had 19B as their first or second choice they wouldn't look at their third choice until after the first two choices were full. I'm not positive on this but I think in the 20% max point pool they only look at your first two choices. The 3rd-5th choices are for after the first draw and there wouldn't be any antelope tags available to draw. 20 percent pass, then 1st and second choice pass, then 3rd and fourth choice pass. You can still draw tags for antelope not being in the 20% pss.

This is the only thing they could do it sucks but I would rather people have no tag than go through what happened 2 years ago.

Well said Terry

GTT did a great job on my dec buck repair!