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Nice job Delta Bravo you started yet another enlightening topic!

So my friend John and I get off work, throw some gear in the truck and head up for a weekend of bear hunting. This is the third time this year we have done this so we are getting pretty good at it. By time we get to the hunting area it is just to late. We end up varmit calling one spot but nothing came in. Next morning we are up before light get a little grub, make sure I have batteries for foxpro and we are off. We make 3 stands Sat morning and nothing is coming in but we find alot of fresh sign so we are hopefull. About 9 we are headed back to the truck and we are just walking real quiet when we come up on the water that we had sat and called first thing in the morning. I catch a little movement by the water, it looks like a cow which seemed normal there are alot of cattle in the area. Then he turned his head and there was a whopper of a bear, I raised up my 7mm-08 and put one in the boiler room. He took off out of there in a flash, I put two more into him before he crashed about 50 yards away. We were amazed at how huge this guy was. I remembered him though from a trail cam picture I got in September. Im no bear expert but i think this guy was 450 and 500 pounds. We had to use a couple of tow straps and the truck to pull him out of the canyon he was in so that we could wok on him. After the 4 hours of messing with my bear we kept talking about what we were going to do for the evening hunt. Since we found that the bears were eating acorns we figured varmit calling was a long shot at best we decided to sit another water that we had seen fresh sign on. So we parked about a 1/2 mile away, sneak in to our spot. Wind is perfect, woods are queit, and we get settled in. After the busy morning my eyes decide to shut for a quick nap. we weren't there 10 minutes and I hear John wisper BEAR, then BOOM. I see this bear rolling head over tail down the hill. He fell to Johns 338 Edge that he built this year. It was about a 75 yard shot. We look at each other in disbelief, It was an amazing day! We took abunch of pictures, rolled up camp and headed home to get these bears to the taxidermist. Both were boars and Johns was about 200 lbs.

Did it take that goat with Borderland Adventures?

That was a great story and an even better video. Congrats on a great archery bear. Thanks for the laugh!

He was shooting a 300 gr Lapua hollow point. It flipped the bear completely over backwards. The exit hole was huge. Made a mess of the bear.

There are a few bucks out there, I will shoot the breeze with ya

Addicting is saying it slightly!

What unit did you have the emu come in? I believe you could've taken it with your bow. I hear they have tasty meat too.

Thursday evening I'm on the road headed North for the opener of archery turkey and deer. I get in before the rain hits, run to a little spot I've been watching throughout the summer for turkeys. I set up my ground blind, check my trail cam, and put my chair in the blind. I set up a cot, a tarp and a little fire to burn a hamburger and call it a night. The alarm came quick, I got some clothes on and went to my blind. The turkeys were talking at 6:15 all around me, finally at 6:45 3 hens came in and stood long enough for a G5 to ruin here day. Took some pictures, picked up camp and hauled butt down south to meet up with my friend Matt Woodward of Borderland Adventures. I showed up around 2 on Friday afternoon, by 3 we were stalking a 160 class mulie buck with some smaller bucks in tow. Well they gave us the slip as well as a couple of other bucks that evening. Saturday we found ourselves glassing some mulies and whitetails. Finding multiple bucks throughout the day kept the excitement up. With five guys in camp there was alot of coins being flipped on who was to stalk first and where they would go, ect. ect. With the heat like it was Matt told me of a little seep that he remembered from a few years previous, so I decided to give it a try on Sunday afternoon. I set up in front of a mesquite 34 yards uphill from the water. With the wind going in the right direction I was very hopeful of something making an apperance. After about two hours and a little cat napping I opened my eyes to a doe standing there at the water. I was just enjoying the view when I caught a little movement below me. It was a nice buck slinking towards the water. When he got close to the water the doe left. He walked behind a small mesquite which gave me the opportunity to draw my bow. He took a couple of steps and stood in my shooting lane for just a second too long. I sent a muzzy into his heart, he went about 70 yards straight down hill before piling up. I'd like to thank Matt of Borderland Adventures for putting me into some awsome deer country and into some awsome deer. Over the three days with him we saw around twenty bucks. Both Mulies and Whitetails. Enough of the writing heres some pictures, enjoy. The buck scored 95 1/8 gross.-Jeff turkey1 (Small).bmp DEER2 (Small).bmp

About 5 years ago I saw my first buck WT in 37a and every year since I see more and more. Last year i watched a teener class buck rutting two does while hunting pigs. They are there... Not alot but they are there

There are some nice coues bucks in 37a... I see them every year hunting pigs

What would you be asking for the pups? Will they have papers?

Heres a few . The date is screwed up on the camera.

I had one stolen in 23 this last week myself. There wasnt anything big on there just a bunch of turkeys. What do you do...

The second to the last buck looks very nice, I would love to see a picture of him finished up this year. Great video!!

Here are few pictures from this weekend

I dont know the price on the ruger but the charse daliy has a nice 1911 for a very fair price. I shot one competitively for years. They come with more extras than most.... my 2 cents

I would like to pick your brain if you have hunted Ibex in the NM. I am looking at putting in for this and would like to know if any of you have hunted them. Thanks

Here is a few pictures from last week

Some are $100 some $200 whatever, if there are people in the woods with the equipment to take a lag bolted, bear box off of a tree 3/4 mile in the woods.... do you think they are going to have a pistol with them???? So if you walk up on someone cutting down your camera, are you gonna stop them? I would say some thing to them but is it worth a fistfight, gunfight, whatever??? There are always a W and a L. I think I can handle my own but there are plenty of people out there that can make short work of me. No doubt... Thats why when I put my cams out they are IN there, AWAY from the road, I make someone work for it. I know I will not catch someone stealing my cams. If I do it will be a miracle. I do carry a pistol when I go into the woods... If I saw someone taking a cam I would yell, swear, and try to make them stop but unless they threatened me or mine I'm not going to worry about a $80 Camera.( If you spend more than that on a camera, thats up to you..) Thats my opinion, maybe you guys that are like detectives can catch these guys that make guys like us ornery... Good Luck! It would be nice to have a forest all to ourselves but fact is that there are idiots everywhere, No respect for others, no respect for the chase! Thats my .02

I just dont understand the thinking in "I cant wait until I catch one of these Aholes" What are you going to do shoot someone over a $100? What if the Ahole shoots you? Everyone knows the risk when you leave trail cams out, I've lost two. I have found smoking deals on cameras over the years. I know over the years--- you will loose some. Is it worth the trouble? Do you really think you are going to catch someone?? Its a pipedream, unless you get their license plate number, social security number, and address you aint got shoot. All I can say is go further back, put them higher, and make them harder to find. Get a lock box, it keeps the honest guys honest. A thief is a thief! If they can... They will. There has been so much BS over these cameras, Unless you catch the guy cutting your camera down with the sheriff or on video what are you going to do? is it worth shooting someone over a camera. Getting hurt out in the woods or worse? Come on are we just talking tough are are we not thinking at all? I like my freedom...

If I were you I would try 22. There are alot of good-great bear areas in the early season. The Santa Ritas are rough at best. If I was going to put my time in 22 has the most bears. Thats my opinion, take it or leave it.