Cowman

Like a kid in a candy store, nice work and good shooting! "Started up the hill..." What elevation did you climb to?

Way to knock em' down! "Whackin' and stackin'", I Love it! Cheers!

Going to be hard pressed to find a pair with the luck of your Pentax. My guess is those corn fed midwest deer will be easy to spot through 10's. Cheers!

+1 to ehunt and cummins rig. I was there too and it was MY hunt being impacted. I have a good feeling the new owner of this duck blind is a regular on here and am surprised he hasn't sent a PM or replied to this forum. I am very curious how his duck hunt ended. Believe me, our crew would have loved to converse with the culprit. Unfortunately, we had a lot of ground to cover and never again saw the folks we thought MIGHT be responsible. Who knows, maybe they were squirrel hunters. Was the 'high road" taken, no. However, we matched their punch, nothing more. No theft on their part, none on ours. However, a point needed to be made as it gets old busting your tail, sharing a resource only to have somebody else want it all to themselves. We knew what elk were there because we had watched them for 4 days from a long way off. Our bull, one of 15 bulls hitting that water, hit the trees at grey light everyday and watered at night. Before we barged through bedding areas potentially ruining it for everybody, we used a camera. Only out of respect to the other hunter we believed MIGHT be sitting that water did we NOT blow every elk in there out of the country. Believe me we could have, but that would be selfish. Plenty of good bulls there for 2 hunters to share the resource. When we approached the tank, we went to the opposite side from their blind, set our camera and left no impact on their hunt. Cover the flash during your sit if its truly a problem, remove tape when you leave. We could have lived with that. These duck hunters are lucky CnS didn't let me leave a fresh pile of chorizo residue on their chairs! To those of you who claim to be so much better, may the good Lord spread your patience. I have a hard time getting sucker punched and walking away. This is not much different than the dang hippie who hooped and hollered his way to my blind one night attempting to scatter my bull to the next county. He about became a floating duck decoy himself.

Quote "You gotta get out and learn the unit or get someone who already does." Agree 100%.

Drew this same tag last year and it took 15 bonus points. Killed that "Joker" bull. Like other units, come mid September, those bulls will not be where they are now. New bulls will "show up" daily as the rut progresses. There are some hogs in there but it takes high standards, experience with the unit, and a little luck never hurt. I had a big camp with lots of help. PM me if you want to know "the man" to call. Made all the difference on my hunt last year. Good luck. Glad to know you are getting after it and putting good use to a heck of a nice draw. Cheers!

I know a guy...

My wife just picked up the Diamond Razors Edge yesterday for her birthday. She LOVES it. 24" draw. Very smooth and economically priced bow. Starts her out in the 30lb range with room to easily work up to 60. I recommend it without reservation.

I have hunted in that yellow highlighted region. Many times. We are retreating. What a dang shame!

Bad to the bone! Nice work!

Nice work Standman! Appreciate the great reports.

With some great direction from "Standman" (many thanks Brian!), my wife and I hit up San Carlos on Wednesday in search of some Crappie. Morning started out pretty windy but it died down around lunch and the rest of the day was gorgeous. We fished the first half of the day way up the San Carlos arm and struggled. Found 65-68 degree water but couldn't get on any good concentrations of fish. Using minnows and jigs we had 5 fish, males and females, by 2 PM and I decided it was time to go find some different fish. So back past the floatilla we went and ended up getting into some shallow fish closer to Mohave point. Back in the bigger coves black males were up tight to the bank and females were off 6-8 feet. Ended with 23 for the day, 7 females. All but 4 were on minnows. Thanks again to this forum, particularly Mr. Standman, for getting us started in the right direction, it's been many many moons since I've been to that lake. Cheers and tight lines!

Casey, I've been meaning to ask you for a long time...why do you misspell the word "you" in the middle of your sentences? Haha. Cheers!

Here's to hoping we ground check him this Fall, with another 40 inches of bone! Cheers!

You just had to throw that Africa reminder in there... I'll be thinking of you while I'm on the end of a shovel. Enjoy.

That is one big kitty. Nice work!

PM sent

The bride is game on. PM sent.

Cowman??? Hope you are getting them for your Bride! Indeed, you nailed it. And as you know, she doesn't let go of a dollar very easily.

+1. Well said, particularly for a man who likes to "get bloody!" Cheers pal!

I have been keeping tabs on this forum for awhile and have been in awe at the number of cats killed, especially by Josh. Quite impressive to say the least. Here's a little story to remind all the electronic callers out there whats it's like to bring them in the old fashioned way, Open Reed Mouth Calls! Nothing like having a critter coming in, for you! Exactly a year ago, on the last day of my dad's December Coues tag, I glassed up a lion at daylight. He went over a ridge and we lost him so we moved in closer and set-up to glass. After an hour, I set-up to call him in. Keep in mind, my dad had a deer tag, I was only armed with my tripod and Duovid's. I set-up in a rocky bluff and went to making music with my favorite open reed mouth call. Long story short, at the 15 minute mark I looked to my left and had that &*@$% lion staring at me broadside at exactly 2 steps; 6 feet from my puckered cheek prints to his front paw prints. While I was unarmed, I guarantee you I would not have had the composure to touch off the trigger of any gun even if it was already pointing at that cat. He was in my bubble and I was terrified. Luckily, after a few seconds of pure fear, the lion blew out of there and I needed a fresh pair of drawers. My dad ended up connecting with that cat at 200 yards running but he wasn't hit good. After an 8 hour trailing by a friend of a friends set of hounds, that darn lion got away. Fast forward to this past weekend. I hadn't been out calling since that lion. Frankly, I wasn't sure I wanted too. But my good buddy and calling partner Travis (CumminsRig) has a special way of getting you back in the game. We headed out Sunday morning to some new country we had hunted before. At daylight we found ourselves in a classic set-up and on our first stand as the sun was cracking. Travis is over the hill looking southeast and on the call; I'm looking downwind and northwest. After 5 minutes of the sweetest injured critter wailing music you've ever heard, I see a stationary white speck on a ridge 220 yards out. Quick look through the binos and I have a bobcat staring our way. I immediately get into the gun and he is on the move coming to us. Afraid I will lose him in the bottom, I dumped him at 185 yards with my .22-250. One cat down! Travis, not knowing what I shot at, wisely lays back into the call and we are game on for the next critter. 5 more minutes pass and I hear the sweet "boom...whop!" from Travis's .22-250. He let's out a "whoop" and says "We got a cat!" I answer, "Nope, we got 2 cats!" Travis dumped his at 205 yards staring at him on a ridge. That's right folks, it's the 1st stand and we have 2 Large Tom Bobcats within 300 yards of each other. After an 1.5 hours of celebrating and pats on the back we get back to business. A few more stands later and we connected with a running coyote at 75 yards. Next stand and we smoked a fox at 210 yards. We ended the day firing a total of 4 rounds and connecting with 2 bobcats, 1 coyote, and a fox! Heck of a start to the New Year! So Cheers to all the electronic callers out there. There's just something extra sweet about an Open Reed Mouth Call and making your own critter music! Happy New Year! These were 2 of the bigger cats we have ever called in. I am 6 foot and Travis is no dink either.

That's one heck of a woman! And nice work Gino and crew! Surprised ol' Zip didn't trail him up for you. Happy New Year and Cheers!

Who's that stud next to your ranger?

Where are you located? New at Cabelas for $509. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...rset=ISO-8859-1 What is the best you can do?

Do you still have the FoxPro?