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I’ve read the hype about 3c. Spent very little time in there except fishing and shed hunting, but I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen a pic of a big big one that came out of there? Like 200 plus? I’ve looked at the guides websites up there and they claim it as a 180-200 hunt but honestly of the dozens and dozens of bucks I see on there pics very few break 170 and most are 150-160 bucks. Fine bucks of course, but curious if I’m missing something. You can shoot a buck like that every year in MT, WY or CO. Curious why someone would burn a dozen points on it?

I had an 87” antelope patterned on water. Blind set at 25 yards. The two bucks he’d been with all summer watered just after first light. He came over the hill about an hour later. Skirted my blind and bedded at 83 yards. I had an 80 yard pin that I was confident in, but had about a 10mph crosswind. Decided there’s no way he’d bed that close if he suspected anything and figured he’d get up and water later that am. He layed there for 3 hours, then got up and walked out of my life. Rained 3” that night. Ended up killing another good buck but will probably never have a chance at a buck like that again.

It’s not considered “stretching” data when there is no data to stretch. Essentially we start finding CWD when we start looking for it. States will ramp up their surveillance for it and all the sudden they find it and claim it “spread”. I 100% promise you that my home state of ND would still be CWD free if they went back to 2010 (or rather had maintained) surveillance methods, which was essentially not looking for it at all short of mandatory testing of all dead captive elk and deer. (Hence why they always “find” it in captive herds first). Follow the “wrath” of CWD and you’ll find the good ol days of deer hunting anywhere it’s been “found”.

CWD is already in AZ. It’s in every state and has been for centuries. They just haven’t looked hard enough for it. Game and fish found the third deer in ND with it back in February. About 1/2 mile from my house. Came in and shot 52 deer off the wintering ground. (Essentially the only deer in the area). Of course none of them had CWD. Completely wiped out the deer on my place for this year. I had several 5-7 yr old bucks coming up this year too. The game and fish is their own worst enemy when it comes to CWD. 25 years ago it hit the covers of magazines as the “end of deer hunting as we know it”. Short of the game and fish killing off entire counties it has had ZERO impact. Colorado went through the best years of mule deer they’ve had in a generation right in the peak of the CWD scare there. Wisconsin and Michigan have had some of the best deer hunting in modern times (due to QDM) right in the middle of CWD’s alleged wrath. As JayZ would say “we got 99 problems but CWD ain’t one”

If you bring your deer or elk back the way most people do, boned meat, cape and a clean skull plate it doesn’t affect you in any way. Has nothing to do with antelope or bears. They’ve been doing this for years in almost all states east of AZ.

That case is badass! Your grandpa musta been a cool son of a bitch!

175 nosler partition 🤭

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Weird request but I’m flying down to Vegas in early September for a muzzleloader deer hunt. Trying to figure out a way to ship some powder and primers down there since I can’t fly with them. Curious if anyone was in Vegas, maybe Caliente, Pioche, somewhere in that country I could mail it to and swing through and grab them from on my way to hunt?

Thanks. I’ll PM them in a bit. Thanks!

I was thinking I could but the actual UPS Store itself won’t ship guns so I’m guessing they won’t ship haz mat? I’m working that route?

Moose score is really the dumbest scoring system of all of them. That bull that he checked in has awesome paddle width but actually would get killed on score because he doesn’t have a brow fork. That would probably cost him 15-20”. Otherwise that would be a Boone and Crockett bull. The bull I shot had wonky paddles but giant fronts and was just plain bad a ss. I didn’t care one bit.

That bottom bull is a smoker! Kinda weird layout so I don’t think he’d score much but most of the bulls I’ve seen come out of those units seem to have kinda funky paddles on them. I’m guessing that’s mostly private land with all this ag fields?

I would definitely buy whatever jrn22 is selling. You’ll just have to wire some money to him in Nigeria and wait on him to release some funds..... in all seriousness, Lance is a good dude and the S&B is as good as they get.

Can you start a side thread to this one and just do that on all of Adams pics and repost it?

I’m guessing it’s a bowhunt. If he’s after a big buck and not just any buck that’s what it could take.

He was only there for a day during my hunt. His guide Brian Meyers was there the whole time and ran the coop. He is a heck of a nice guy. While I was there he helped skin and pack out 4 bison, all killed by non guided hunters.

I’ve killed a pile of critters on my “own ability”, including the mountain goat in my avatar, two shiras moose, 10 bull elk about 50 deer and a dozen buck antelope. I’ve had some excellent hunts with guides and some awesome hunts on my own. If logistics would have allowed it I would have loved to do it on my own. I had ten days away from work. It’s a two day trip one way so that gets me down from 10 days to 6. I weighed the options and a plane ticket and guide was cheaper then gas and time off for me in this case. I read your story and you killed an awesome bull. DIY is obviously much sweeter but in this case it didn’t work for me.

I guess I can’t speak to doing your own thing because I never did. I flew down from ND so I had limited gear and no help (planting season at home so I couldn’t get anyone to come with me) so hiring Russ was the only way I could swing it. I thought he was very fair, the hottest salt was already being sat by non guided hunters and no attempt was made to rotate me into it by them (I wouldn’t have wanted to anyway as I missed opening two days due to family stuff) which I thought was admirable considering I got there late. They killed several bison off that salt. I ended up bumping bison one morning on my way into a salt but beyond that I never layed eyes on one. Met some great people and had a good time though. I drew a WY tag this year so I get another crack at them!

Good luck!! If the weather is anything like it’s suppsoed to be in ND it’ll be nice and cool for you!! Mid 70’s as far out as the forecast goes! Good antelope weather, not good for growing corn!!

I hunted with Russ last year and didn’t kill. A majority of the non guided hunters did kill.

The plaque with the score on it is nice.

The problem with taxidermists is they make half of there money without lifting a finger and the other half takes all the work. They like to take as many of those first halves as they can get and worry about the second half later. I’ve had to repo animals from two different taxidermists. One in AZ and one in OK that I made the mistake of sending an antelope with after a NM hunt. I’ll never again use anyone else then my guy in ND or Mogollon in AZ

I hunted a muzzy cow hunt in there a day or two after those tornadoes. Giant swaths of massive ponderosas layed out like match sticks. Uprooted most of them. Root balls were the size of a house. Pretty cool. Glad I wasn’t out there when it hit!

There was a site called rut n hard or something like that where guys were constantly raffling stuff for just plain old profit. Not only is it illegal it got kinda ugly. They would continually extend deadlines because no one would buy tickets etc. What would you do for instance if you only sold 30 tickets? I’m guessing you’d punt on the thing and the guys who got tickets would be hosed. Bad deal if you ask me. Just throw the landowner tag on for sale and count your blessings.