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Very nice pictures of some sweet bucks!

Congratulations on a nice trip, they are a lot of fun to hunt and can be very difficult at the same time. Good luck on the next one! Nice job on all three!

Awesome video! Very well done.

Where'd you hunt? Do any good? Gotta be careful as it's extremely addicting!

Gorgeous rifle! Very nice for sure.

Wow! Now if that doesn't get you fired up you just have never been in the turkey woods in spring! That is a great video of some awesome birds and fabulous job slaying turkeys. Congratulations to you guys and good luck this year. Throughly enjoyed that.

Looks good! Always a great feeling getting your trophy back.

Great tent at a great price!

Awesome shots as always Doug! Great job!

Congratulations on your hard earned pig! Sounds like quite the adventure.

Two more-Rio and Eastern. Hopefully after the 1st of April that list is down to 1!

Made it back into good service and can add some more pictures and video. It was an action packed weekend and I cannot say enough good things about Charley Olson and Ben Balcer with Swamp Gobbler Outfitters, they are top notch and amazing guys. It happened very fast and ended up with Jaycie out in front of two of us and behind the other, she did a great job on waiting for the right shot and taking care of business. It wasn't the biggest bird in the woods but with the limited amount of time we had we could not be happier. He has a 7 1/8' beard and 3/4" spurs and gorgeous coloring. He will make a beautiful mount. We will be headed to Sonora, Texas the first weekend in April to try and do it again, I can't wait! https://vimeo.com/157154811

Beautiful work!

Osceola down! Had a great hunt. Saw some beautiful country, made some new friends, and Jaycie is one step closer to completing her slam. Got the shot on video that I will post when I have better service along with more pictures.

There sure is a lot of awesome critters stuffed in there!

Way to go all of you! Lots of fun and lots of great times in those hunts I'm sure. Congratulations.

Getting really close now! We are hunting with Ben Balcer and Charley Olson with Swamp Gobbler Outfitters near Okeechobee. They've had some bad weather for sure lately but this weekend is looking good! As of last week and weekend they were sounding off really good on the limb and intermittently after fly down. They big flocks have broke up and they've seen some toms out strutting so I hope we will have some good action. I will gladly take any and all information! Thank you for that generous offer. Oh and trust me she has already been talking about the Ocellated. I've got the camera charged and the tripod ready to hopefully get some good footage. Thanks everybody!

Dang nice shed, congrats on the find.

Very nice, congratulations to her on a super buck!

After drawing late tags last year I didn't have very high hopes going into the 2015 draw but was pleasantly surprised when the results came out as my cousin and I drew our second choice for another late hunt. Fortunately it was for a unit that I know pretty good and have spent a lot of time in over the years. Without waisting any time we got out to some of my old favorite spots and got cameras hung. I was a little disappointed in the lack of sign we found but wasn't to concerned as it was a late hunt! We had some pretty cool bucks on camera but nothing that got me really fired up, we had 21 days to hunt after all. Fast forward to the end of November and our plans changed significantly. My other hunting partner had drawn a unit 22 desert tag so I committed to helping him and the company we worked for picked up a job in Missouri so I sent my cousin to run it. We both thought no problem, get the sheep hunt over with quick and knock the job out in a hurry and we'd be in camp before opening day. As these things normally go neither happened and we got to hunt a total of 1.5 days before Christmas. We did pass up a mid nineties buck during that time though but we had both agreed to hold out for a giant until the last couple days of the hunt. While we were home for Christmas I spent some time discussing areas and strategies with another forum member (thank you by the way) and I had high hopes heading to camp at 3:00 am the next morning. I met up with John and we hiked into an area I had been wanting to look at for a while. It was perfect, snow on the ground and the air was still. Unfortunately that didn't last long and we got hammered with a blizzard. Another day lost. That evening John came down with the crud and headed home as he was in bad shape. That left me solo during the days and my dad in camp at night as he was hunting muley's in the flats with his bow. The next couple days were uneventful with a few bucks spotted and passed in some gorgeous country. The next morning I woke up to some fresh snow and decided I'd load up in the side by side and head over to retrieve our last camera we had out. As I was pulling out of camp John rolled in. I asked how he was feeling and he replied good enough since there were only three days left. We bundled up and headed out. After glassing our way in we finally made it to where we'd hike in to get the camera. John glassed the ridge above our camera and spots a buck rutting a doe. We look him over and recognize him from our pictures as a buck we named the barrel buck due to his large body. I told John to pack his gear and go kill the buck, he however was still felling under the weather and didn't think he could make it up the ridge so off I went. The rest was pretty uneventful. After a long cold ride back to camp that night we looked at our pictures and knew where we would hunt the last two days of the year. After a pretty uncomfortable trip back to where we were a few short hours previously we set up our glass and got to work. Not long after John says those magic words, "I've got a buck, a big buck". He was buried in a jungle chasing a doe hard and I knew this would be a little bit tricky to make happen. We set up some landmarks and agreed on some distinguishing names and off John went to stalk the giant. The next 4.5 hours were some of the longest of my life. The snow would move in and I'd lose all visibility, it would clear and I'd get lucky and re-spot the buck, I'd walk John into him and sometimes he'd get a shot and sometimes it would be so thick he couldn't see the buck which was less than 20 yards from him. We some how kept it all together and John was able to seal the deal on the buck we named Yeti. It was an incredible hunt and got even better when my dad was able to seal the deal with only minutes to spare on this nice archery muley! In tense situations emotions can get pretty hot but having good hunting partners like I do we always come away smiling. Most of these pictures are in this video but I had some live footage as well that I wanted to share. Hope you all enjoy. https://vimeo.com/150602643

Very nice! Sounds like a cool lion encounter!

Very, very nice!

Congratulations guys on the pigs and nice shooting with a couple of nice hand cannons!

Congratulations on a great buck! Really enjoyed the write up and the entire story. Sorry to hear about your grandfather's passing but as you know he was right there with you on that hunt.

Man looking at that add brought back a lot of memories! Bump for a good machine.