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Well, Peg thught I should rest one more day but yesterday had our house alive with daycare and I headed out by 11am and I was into pigs by 2pm. I was at a stand still for over 3 hours and never got a shot off. Had them at 40 yds but couldn't close the deal. Today was another day and I knew I didn't have a whole day in me so I left the house at 11am again. After 2 hours out I heard some rocks fall above me and knew it had to be pigs. I stood there for 30 minutes and finally saw a pig working my way. I couldn't get the range finder out of my pocket because I had other pigs off to my side. After 1 hour a pig worked in to my shooting lane and I thought it was 25yds but found out later it was 30. I have only killed an animal once at that range and pulled back and let an arrow go. I misjudged it and hit low. Found some blood and after 30 minutes I jumped her and got another arrow in her but way back. I waited another 30 minutes and then started tracking and jumped her again and finished her off with a perfect lung shot. It weighed 100 pounds by the time I got it back to the truck. This made number 32 pig kills over the years and all but one were arhery. I'm one happy guy tonight but don't know how many more of these archery pig hunts I have in me. Not the best pictures but I had to leave the camera at home to seal the deal.

Great story and pics. Now that's a buck to be proud of. How cold did it get that night? You certainly worked for that one. Congratulations! TJ

That was a great writeup and pictures to go along with it were awesome. Felt like I was there along side of ya. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on a nice buck. TJ

Good luck and keep us posted. TJ

That's the best one I've heard yet on the global warming issue. Good one Bill! TJ

Good luck! TJ

Good luck! TJ

Wellcome to the site. Your avater looks exactly like my 11month old Lexie. How old is your lab? ........not meaning to take away from the post just wanted to wish our new member to the best whitetail site on the web. TJ

Congratulations on a beautiful buck. Great story to go along as well. Thanks for posting. TJ

It just doesn't get any better than that. Congratulations to all of you and that is a great picture of you all. TJ

Congratulations Luke on your first elk. I bet you are ready for next year already. Congrats to all the other hunters. TJ

Another congratulations from another cwt member. What a beautiful buck. Thanks for sharing with us all. TJ

Kristy, way to go girl. I only wish I could even have the chance to pull the trigger on such an animal. Congratulations to you and Jeremy. I will stop by the next time thru town and hopefully get to hold your buck in my hands. WOW! TJ

Back at ya Shelvin. Hopefully I'll be chasing pigs around the mountain. Happy New Year! TJ

Did I say water leak? You must have heard me wrong and good luck on your lion hunt. TJ

Now that's a picture to be proud of. Where abouts are you? TJ

About 20 minutes ago I went down the street to a neighbor's house to check on a water leak and it was spitting snow. Mesa Drive/Southern TJ

If I had to go out and buy a new blind today it wouldn't be a double bull that's for sure. Mine is the old style and the rods have never gave me any trouble. I paid $480 back then. The new ones changed the rods, not sure how, but they are always breaking. It cost me $90 to send a new matrix 360, that I borrowed from a friend, back to primo and have them repair it. They would not warranty double bulls policy since they took over.For the money there are many blinds on the market under $200 that I would buy. I saw one in bass pro the other day, not sure the make, but it had sliding windows instead of velcro which I like alot and the material seemed like what's on my old double bull. TJ

I usually have plenty of cloths on but I also have a sport heater that runs on a coleman bottle of gas for 18hrs. I've timed the bottles and they actually run from 14 - 18hrs. Works great! Thanks for reminding me, I need to get it back from a friend I loaned it to a couple yeas ago. TJ

Lots of good advise here for sure. Put that with some practice of your own and you will have your answer whether or not you want to shoot thru or not. I've only shot once thru mesh and my result was good. My bull was broadside at 13rds and the arrow angled hard right as it entered the animal. Not sure if it was from the mesh or off a rib so I'm not much help with your question. I have this thing about an arrow touching anything that just doesn't quite set well with me. I'll leave that to those with more experience on the subject. I will tell you this, from my experience, you can leave the window open and not worry about whether or not the mesh will interfere with your arrow. I have spent hundreds of hours over the years in my double bull and I always leave my shooting window open. I normally wear black or dark camo and sit as far back in the blind as I can. I use a head net most of the time but not during low light conditions. I have actually had animals within a few yrds looking in not having a clue as to my presence. My setup consist of a harbor freight blanket for a ground cloth, camp chair with arms so I don't far out while sleeping, and plenty of gator-aid and water. I have taken more than my share of animals from my blind and would say deer are more apt to notice the blind out of all the species I've hunted and shot. Deer, elk, turkey, and a couple lions. If I can be of any other help please feel free to pm me. TJ

Now that looks cold. Thanks for sharing the picture Jeremy. I was hoping one of you Payson guys would do that since that area is my second home. TJ

Congratulations Josh on a nice buck. Sure looks like it has a big body on him. Thanks for sharing. TJ

Thanks Lark for that infomation. Now, why didn't I think of that? You're absolutely right again! TJ

coues hunter.....I hear what you're saying and I think I know where you stand from reading your replies throughout this post. You have some good points and so does everyone else for that matter but you have to remember, FAIR CHASE BY DEFINITION, was written back when we didn't have all the new technology and gadgets. I'm sure you probably don't use any of them since they would give you an improper advantage. Just saying! I don't know where I heard this but it must have came from a wise man: "as a group we could all attain a bit of balance in how we think and do" TJ

Sounds like the Ulmer family is on a roll. With the opening of their new store and Kristy taking a nice bull and now a coues along with Jeremy's other once in a life time buck it appears the stars are ligned up just right for them. When do we get to see Kristy's buck? TJ