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Mosberg mini thug, it's a 20 or 410 gauge pump smaller than the youth 870. I just picked one up. Best youth shotgun on the market imo
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Eating Brown Trout should be illegal................. Ha ha I agree! I just catch and release unless I need some tree fertilizer! I wish I could learn to like the taste of trout
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Great deal! Kudos to you selling hard to find brass! Just a FYI the tag of once fired doesn't show in the mobile app.
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May 10th this Sunday I just got reminded today that it's coming soon. Tell your wife's and mothers how much you love and appreciate them!
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Big cinnamon down (updated with age 5/8/15)
Couzer posted a topic in Black Bear or Grizzly Bear hunts
Stay tuned (updated) Thanks guys for your patience, this was a tough pack out last night. Ended up getting done at 3am. I am not the greatest at writing up a story but I will try my best. First off I wanted to thank my buddy Chad for pushing me and giving me hope that we would find this bear. Also its great to have friends that you can call at the last minute and have them drive out to where your at willing to help pack out all the meat. Thank you Brian, Rob and Tommy for showing up last night so quickly and saving me. It was a hot hunt! My buddy Chad and I have been talking about this hunt since last year. I was able to get a few days off work and we headed up Thursday afternoon to a spot that generally holds bear. We glassed these canyons and did not see any bears in the pears. After making camp at another spot, we found some sign so decided to setting in around this area on Friday. Well with still not a lot of luck we ended up in the first spot we started at on Thursday. We made the hike in that Saturday evening just over a mile to this glassing area. About 1730 I started glassing the furthest canyon away telling my self it would suck if there was a bear over there because it was 2 canyons away. I ended up glassing the whole are real quick just to make sure there was nothing black that stood out. Still nothing so I went back glassing that furthest canyon away and caught something brown going behind a juniper tree. At first I was thinking it was a elk because of the color so I kept my eye on it for the next few seconds and long behold this nice cinnamon bear came walking out. I got really excited and called my buddy Chad over. We ended ranging him at 1500 yards, and my heart sank realizing that this was going to be impossible getting over there in time before the bear disappears. Chad imeaditley started ranging the next canyon of saying I could close the gap in half if I got over there. I tried talking Chad in going over because I was not thinking I would be able to make it over in time, but Chad said "no" your going so GO GO GO! So I grabbed my gear and headed over onto the next canyon ridge and ran into a heard of javalina in the middle of mansinta wait high, ugggg I thought I was going to get bit as they ran all around me. They finally took of and I tried to calm myself down as my heart was pounding out of tiredness and excitement all at one time. I found the bear again and range him at 900 yards. I dialed my gun in, shot and missed a little to the left due to the crosswind I did not compensate for. The bear moved out of sight and I thought the hunt was over. As I turned around to find my buddy Chad, he called me and turn around, the bear is about 400 yards away on the bottom of the canyon. As I turned around, I could not believe my eyes, there he was staring in my direction 378 yards away. I quickly dialed my gun in and made the shot. I heard the thump that typically means I had hit him I saw him roll/fall/run down hill out of sight. Chad and I hiked over to this canyon and started looking for my bear not knowing if was still alive or not. We started high looking for blood and then dropping down into the wash with no luck. By this time it was dark and I was nervous about a bear jumping out at us down in this canyon all ticked off. As we continued down this wash in the bottom of this pitch black canyon that was over grown with trees and brush I spotted the bear laying on his side on the opposite side from where he was shot. We both became excited and Chad threw a rock at him to make sure he was dead. I picked up anther rock ( much bigger than Chads) and threw it to make double sure. We noticed a large trail of blood on the other side and realized he was done. It was a perfect shot, dead center in the chest. After 2 pack out trips we where back at our vehicles around 3am after calling a few buddies to help pack it out. Just the cape seemed like it weighed over 100lbs easy. ( maybe exaggerating a little as I literally was climbing out of the canyons on my hands and knees) Toughest packout by far! Apologize for the bad pics, it was late. The bear pic with his tongue out was my fault. I did not realize it when the pic was taken. -
Big cinnamon down (updated with age 5/8/15)
Couzer replied to Couzer's topic in Black Bear or Grizzly Bear hunts
Just got the mail, aged out at 13 years old! Woah never thought he was that old! -
What a bummer for sure! Sad to hear, I feel like we all lost a member of the CW family. I enjoyed seeing all the pictures that were posted of Julie out in the woods.
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Man this thread is going down hill
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West of reserve, not far from 27 most definitely Merriam's. +1Nice job 5 guys! I am still hunting them till the 20th this month. I saw a wolf on Saturday on the outskirts of Luna. Dane wolves
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Merriams I would say judging by the tips of the fan feathers. Sometimes those tips get dirty making them look light brown. I know if you cleaned them, they would come out bright white. I am no expert though. Nice mount
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I read somewhere those rios are hybrids, they have some merriams in them. Interesting to see how the hunt went
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Me to! Yea I shoot the 210's in my rum and they shoot awesome, but I won't go to the 215's just because I'm lazy and don't want to spend the time again finding a load. I would start with the 215's that way I'm not doing double work. Yeah those cans are nice, I shoot the light weight Yankee hill titanium QD, and no hearing protection needed. Awesome set up and love the custom shooting bench!
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+1 anything you can get a tag for. Javelina are tough just because everytime I buy a tag or get drawn they hide from me! Ha ha I still have not killed on of those stinkin pigs yet!!! Have you ever had a shot at them Vowell? They are small but like dad used to say,,,aim small,,,miss smallI don't think I've ever seen one when I've had a tag. I see them all the time in the off season. But your right, they are small, hope I don't miss when that time comes
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+1 anything you can get a tag for. Javelina are tough just because everytime I buy a tag or get drawn they hide from me! Ha ha I still have not killed on of those stinkin pigs yet!!!
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I agree with lance on this, don't do the 210's on a beast like this
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If you still have it in a few months I will try to buy it from you!
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Great deal for sure, I have owned few of these and they are great! If someone buys this I have a baker valve for it that I would sell cheap. I might even have a pto shaft air pump. Bump
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Congrats to you and your boy David!!!! Sounds like you got the turkey bug!!!! It sure is a hoot
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Great job to your kids Coach! Sure was a cold morning!
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Great job Mark!!! He shot a nice bird
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Smile is priceless! Congrats