Non-Typical Solutions

After I recived the gift of the skull I sat around the campfire visiting with family and friends........and it does suck he is dead. He really doesn't have that wide of a spread, his left side is useless as far as scoring goes. But that right side makes him one of a kind...........can't wait to check my trail cam in a few weeks to see if something new shows up for me to start obsessing all over again.

Had the opportunity to get out in the hills for a couple of days. Dish water was frozen solid on Monday morning, turkey were gobbling as the sun came up and the coyotes were letting us know they knew we were around. The day was absolutely beautiful as was the following several days. First day finds. Cole with his own freak skull from this week. My favorite hiking partner with her find of the 3rd day. We had hiked all day long she had come up with nothing. We get 200 yards from the truck to end the day and she finds this cute little white tail antler. Totally made her day. My only brown of the trip but most important was the great time I had with my wife and boys. I love getting out there seeing the great things our great Arizona has to see. Last, the two freak bucks side by side.

Defintely.......prayers for his family.......too young......

So you are joining my wife in making fun??? We already tore up all the options we could imagine while out there.......you guys are lots of help......

I can't ask for the sheds, in both cases young kids found the sheds and I would never ask them to give them up. I know what it is like to find a shed and it doesn't happen every day. I feel fortunate that the finder of the skull gave it too me so I have my pictures and I have the skull, all is good.

Wish mine would recognize an antler.............dang nice find....

Ever since getting pictures of this buck on trail cam, I have been obsessed with finding him when I had a gun or bow in my hand and a tag. [ Not being that great of a hunter he has played ghost. My buddy and his family went camping last summer did some hinking. Look what they found................I believe these would be from the spring of 2010 and 2011. Both found the same weekend about half a mile apart from each other. Now my obsession has just gotten worse. I have a trail cam picture and my buddy has two years worth of drops off this guy. Killing me..........I don't have a deer or an antler off this guy but it has been fun trying to catch up with either. Droptine Update A friend of a friend of a friend found this skull and recognized it from my avatar here on coueswhitetail. Needless to say there is a strange emotion involved with getting this skull. Very thankful for the gracious giver who got it to me, yet feel just a little cheated in not getting to see this buck in real life. So what now? Droptine is gone. I set up trail cams again, looking for the next obsession.

Unfortunately it is the same buck.

Check out the original portion of the story for the update on droptine. Not exactly what I had planned but nature has its own way which I respect.

Dang what did I miss?

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/21724149/2013/03/19/principal-cancels-honors-night-in-ipswich Yet another wussification of our kids............

Nothin wrong with that......nice find....

My hopes are high for a trip hunting.....great finds........

Wouldn't this be just funner that heck........... http://www.leaderandtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11122:video-of-the-day--jeff-gordon-test-drive&catid=12:local-news&Itemid=40

Keep walking it.....it will happen.....plus 1 on I would rather be taking my AR for a walk today than working

A 6-year-old boy was suspended from the James McGee Elementary School in Pasco, Wash. for talking about his toy Nerf guns with classmates. The Pasco School District decided to overturn the suspension on Thursday after speaking with the child's parents. On Feb. 28, Noah, a first-grader, was sent home after another student said she thought he had a gun with him when he talked about his toy Nerf guns that his family had recently bought him during a vacation. The young girl who had overheard Noah reportedly stated that she felt her "health and safety were threatened." Noah was immediately suspended despite not actually having any toy gun, let alone a real gun, with him. Noah's father, Mike Aguirre, says he still punished his son for talking about the Nerf guns with classmates at school. School officials said the issue is covered in the district's discipline handbook which Aguirre disputes, saying that there is no provision prohibiting students from talking about guns, toys or not. The parents met Monday with district officials which resulted in Noah's suspension being downgraded to a "disruption," instead of a threat, despite no evidence of a threat ever being established. The parents also felt their son was singled out, pointing out that other students involved in the conversation received no punishment. "After a review it was determined that no disciplinary action is warranted and all record of the incident will be expunged from the student's record," a school district statement sent to the Tri-City Herald said. Just last January, children talking about a toy Nerf gun in the Bronx caused a lockdown at two elementary schools and a large police response. The same month at a Long Island high school, a 6-hour lockdown was triggered due to a student's toy Nerf gun on campus. In two separate incidents, two 6-year-old students in Maryland were suspended for simply making gun gestures with their hands. One said "pow" and the other simply made the gesture while playing "cops and robbers."

That gal is pretty high on herself............how dare we call her on her superior knowledge of the constitution or anything else government for that matter...........

Hitting the hills myself this next weekend hoping to stumble into some antler.........nice finds and great huntin partner there...

This is well worth the listen and a man who speaks about things that I believe in: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/dr-carson-hints-white-house-run-exciting-conservatives/

Great pic...no doubt a daisy BB gun on watch as well????

If you are just sitting around with nothing better to do here is a link to that full talk given by Hunter in 1966. There is alot of reference in the talk to being responsible for ourselves and the freedom it allows us........ http://www.latterdayconservative.com/howard-w-hunter/the-law-of-the-harvest/

I messed up one of my pelts.....let it get too dry before i tried to reverse it back......waited one day too long and probably should have soaked it in water or something, I tore a big hole right at the neck......dumb mistake on my part.

Quote from church today Howard W. Hunter at a BYU devotional in 1965: The government will take from the “haves” and give to the “have nots.” Both have last their freedom. Those who “have,” lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who “have not,” lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got “something for nothing,” and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift. Under this climate, people gradually become blind to what has happened and to the vital freedoms which they have lost.

Good stuff CC...............unfortunately we live in a country founded by geniuses but run by.................idiots.........................

Probably that drone.......looking for poptart weapons on school kids......