tomgobbler

after a NASTY night of wind / rain / sleet / and who knows what else we got up a litle late as it was pouring rain..... kind of draggin our feet as i was hopeing the rain would stop and it would get a little lighter as the clouds had the sun blocked and it wasnt getting light very fast. anyway we headed out to our spot the usally always had deer, wondering if it would be a great morning beacuse they had held up all night, or a terrible morning becasue they would still be brushed up....... we got to were we wanted to go and were hunitn along and at 6:40 opening morning we ran into 3 bucks together, i told him to take which ever one presented a good broad side shot and let'r'have it just as we had been practicing. i had hand loaded his 243 with barnes triple shock bullets. needless to say this buck stood still to long at about 65 yards and trace put the hammer down. the buck went about 30 yards and piled up, i asked were he had been aiming and he said right were you showed me too, and i said ok lets go take a look.... well when we got it gutted out we realised he had blown the heart right in two!!!! in the picture you can see the apex of the heart, and the base fo the heart and that is how they came out of the chest, two complete pieces..... a nice 4x4 for his very first buck! ( way bigger then my first buck) with DARK, dark antlers from rubbing on burnt pines.... or other burnt brush, from the wallow fire.... one happy kid, ( i cant get the grin off his face ) and and even happier dad. what a way to end what started out as a nasty hunt ( at least weather wise )

thanks guys! it was one incredible day! still ahvent gotten the smile off of his face yea its that gray, and yea pretty cool markings on his forehead... the antlers are really cool as black as they are from rubbing in the burn...

very cool! nice to see the kids out and knocking them down!

my son has just intered the boy scouts program and has started working on merit badges looking for any booklets that anyone might have lying around collecting dust, that your kids have outgrown and you no longer need. let me know what ya have and what you want for them thanks tommy

anyone not get a tag to fill the freezer with, or want to fill it with beef for the winter, i've got 4 head that i am graining right now, will sale in 1/2's or whole's.... i'll take it the local butcher here in town with YOUR cut specs, and it will be cut and wrapped how you want it. final price will depend on how big the animal was when it was butchered. these will range in the 700-800 lb range, nice and young, and nice and fat.... store baught does'nt even compare to fresh beef.... half a steer will run in the $800-$900 range, give-r-take a few.... drop me aline if you have questions. thanks tommy

jerry. yea i've been in scouting awhile as well, ( i'm an eagle scout with all three palmes earned) .... i'm in charge of the 11 year olds.... my sone just finished his tenderfoot, second and first classes.... so now on to the funner stuff thanks for the offer, i might be getting ahold of ya if i need something . thanks tommy

will be ready in a month or so as i'm graining them now, of course depends on how much you want ( how big you want me to get them first )

Anyone up for a LAST MINUTE antelope hunt in NM. i had 5 cancelations, the hunt is sat and sund AUG 25 and 26th, fully guided food lodging, landowner tag, license, everything. dicounted from $3000.00 to $2400.00 for each tag. hunt is in 3 weeks so need these wrapped up as soon as possible. 90,000 acre ranch, we shoot high 70's low 80 each year, 2 years ago took a 92" off of the ranch, with muliple 16" off of there each year. thanks tommy

only2 weeks left tilll the hunt anyone interested .........

sold 2 yesterday have 3 left......going once.... going twice.....

90,000 acres, 11 hunters, ranch is near clayton ( north eastern corner LOTS of goats) $1500.00 for tag only, but you still have to buy the Nm hunting license.

desert bull sent ya a pm on the tags

by the way there is a rossi 243 20 gauge 22 triple combo for sale on another sight if that eneterests you...

i've got one she could BORROW when is her hunt, i will be down in benson for the first oct whitetail hunt i could bring it down if you wanted to drive over and pick it up, then you get it back to me some time after her hunt..... its a remington youth model, my 11 year old, used it for pig, and will be using it for his deer hunt this year..... good luck tommy

single best tip, hunt them in the spring never mind i changed my mind stick to the fall so i dont have as hard of a time getting a spring tag... midday morning in the meadows..... generally there will be a hill on oneside/back of the meadow.... my bet is get between them and the hillside as that is the direction they will go when leaving the meadow.....

after 5 years i finally drew another wyoming tag, the last time i drew i ended up with a 15 7/8" with 5 1/2 " cutters, a really pretty goat. been looking forward to going back and finally drew it again. anyone else put in? good luck tommy

Call MIke Goodsen with R.L. Cox fur, he is alburquerque NM. you can either drive over and he will sort and give ya a price right then or you can mail them to him, he will look at them and call you with a price for each one, if you dont like the price he will mail them back to you at his expense... call first to let him know you are sending them if you go that route... he is very fair in price.

nice sheep jay! when you coming up this way?

a kid drew the youth pheasant hunt this last fall down in yuma and was able to harvest a couple of nice roosters, he wanted a cool display, what do yawl think? good luck tommy

i was guiding some turkey hunters over in NM and i came across this bear, told my buddy i was going to see how close i could get to it, i ended up about 6 feet away as it was turning over rocks looking for grubs, here are a couple of pictues of the "stock"... any ideas of what you think the size of the bear is? enjoy....

i got shot this guy a while back, and finally found a few minutes to mount it up, went to my sons 2nd grade class to do a presentaion and wanted to take it with me, so hurried and knocked it out to take it along. they are sure some crazy looking animals.

yea i've got 4 clients coming in, 2 for the first weekend, and 2 for the second weekend, got 2 birds to gobble last friday, didnt go over there this weekend as i went sky diving. will be going back over this week.

trophy, the pm sent was another guy sending me a PM... he is looking for racks not shoulders thanks. thanks guys i got one from rag horm so good for now. tommy

i've got a guy that wants to buy a set of antlers to put in his show room back east to show the differnce in our coues deer, something along the lines of 90-100 or so, please send me pic and price. thanks tommy

i young man of 10 or 11 got his first duck. so mounted it up for him along with another one for a member on here. thought they came out good, what do ya think ? tommy