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Thank you DesertBull!

Josh, buy me another dozen arrows, the wraps, vanes and broad heads as well as another quiver, and i will pack them... Bow only holds 3... XD-40 holds 12, I carry two of those magazines heck, you just went on a trip to Mexico and that couldn't have been 100% free......

Saw your article in Trophy Hunter on your ginormous buck, way to go dude!!!

Good point.......

Why do you do this to me? Why I ask, why? That's my most favorite vehicle of ALL TIME and to see something like this that I just can't have just kills me! I've had 2 of them in the past and know that one of these days in the future I'm gonna have another one. A good friend of mine once said it's like being in an Army helmet full of lug nuts driving down the freeway at 60mph cause it's so loud inside them things. But dang do I love them!!! The price says $24k in the ad but you're saying he's asking $16k? What gives?

Lions eat A LOT of javalina! Definitely!!

HAHAHAHA!! Now that's funny Chris

You only carry 3 arrows?!?!?! You carry more than 10 bullets don't ya? I carry at the least 5 and if my quiver held more I'd pack that sucker full. What would happen if you stuck a deer in a fairly bad place and he bedded down? Then you stalk up on him and fire the last 2 arrows into the rocks and it looks as if he's gonna live for another 12+ hours. Then what? You'd sure as crap be wishin you had more arrows right? I've never taken a hunter out that didn't have at least 5 or 6 and NEVER will I EVER take a muzzleloader hunter into the woods if he doesn't have at least 6-8 shots on him or a rifle hunter with an ENTIRE box of shells. I've seen that scenario happen one more time than I'd like to have seen in my several years as a guide. That stuff gets U.G.L.Y and an animal doesn't deserve to just lay there and die a nasty death. I'm not harping on you Casey, I just hate to see yourself get in a situation that an ethical hunter, like yourself, doesn't want to be in.

I guess I didn't make myself clear. This picure was taken the opening wknd of the Oct wt hunt in 21. I shot my deer the 2nd weekend and saw these pics at that time. I have NOT been back there until yesterday. From what sign I saw in there yesterday it didn't look like it was done anytime recently. There were no quad tracks on the road from the Dec hunt that I could tell and no footprints anywhere near there for the past month at least it looked like. I could be wrong but I really really think that this hunter pictured saw the cam and stand and came back after the hunt ended on Nov 6th. He could've taken it the next day after I'd been there for all I know. What's unlikely is that anyone else found it is what my point is. It's been there for 4 solid years and not in a place that would draw a human to walk thru there. It's not on a rim, ridge-top or even in a saddle for that matter either. Nobody found it in 4 years so I can't figure out why someone just happened upon it and had nothing else to carry so they took the camera and that heavy-butt treestand and pulled all the steps out of the tree too. That's what I doubt and it's obviously my own theory cause I'm one of the VERY tiny handful of people that even knew where it was to begin with. Just knowing that there's a new salt lick w/in 125 yards of mine all of the sudden my stuff dissapears makes me VERY VERY suspicious. Maybe it's not that guy in the picture, I understand that, but like I said, If I see another stand/blind/camera set up there I'm gonna start playing Monkey Wrench Gang.

You know I'm not sure why guys feel like they have to protect the indentity of an F'n thief. I don't have the slightest problem posting a guy's picture if I think he's the one that did it, I wish more guys would too! Thieves and vandals are the lowest form of scum in our society (rapists and murderers too of course) and need to be dealt with with a swift hand. I bullet to both knee caps and a SLOW miserable death to all of them! There's absolutely ZERO societal use for the kinds of people that take pleasure in making other's lives miserable by stealing from them or hurting others in any way! And I will say this, I will be going back from time to time and if I ever find a trail camera I won't take it. I will smash it into pieces but I won't take it. If I find a Double-bull blind, I won't take it I'll cut HUGE holes out of all sides of it and leave it. If I find a treestand there I'll drop a deuce on the seat and cut 9/10ths of the strap that holds it to the tree. I'll think of others I'm sure.....

OUCH! Hey Chris, I might take one off you for one I'd like to mount some day. Got one that had 4 3/4-5" type bases?

here's his stats.... Right antler mb 13 6/8, G1 1 2/8, G2 8 5/8, G3 6 3/8, H1 3 3/8, H2 3 2/8, H3 3 3/8, H4 2 6/8 = 42 6/8" Left antler mb 15 0/8, G1 1 5/8, G2 9 0/8, G3 7 4/8, H1 3 2/8, H2 3 5/8, H3 3 2/8, H4 2 6/8 = 46 0/8" Inside spread = 12 7/8" Gross total of 100 7/8" and nets 98 3/8"

You guys are silly...... Killer pics guys seriously!!!

If any of you think I'm bummed about the score of my deer I'm totally not. I only had a little "guess the score" cause I wanted to make sure that I'm not the only one that this buck fooled. Ya Andy did get most all of it on film. He told me he got it all done yesterday and that I'll have it on Tuesday. I CAN'T WAIT!!

Boy it's nice in here by the fire too........ And boy these antlers do feel nice. If you could shoot worth a crap you'd be sitting here next to me and could fondle our antlers together Feel not sorry for me, for I will be watching my trail cameras for yet another glorious buck to walk in front of it. This will probably give me an excuse to explore some new areas. Hmmm.... Things to ponder as I stroke my antlers for another 11 1/2 months. Did I mention I just killed a buck with my bow on Sunday? I think I'll sleep in tomorrow and when I wake up in my warm bed around 8AM and as I do I'll think of Tyson freezing his taught nipples off and the white flags he'll be seeing fleeing the hills in the opposite direction with yet another blown stalk. Sleep tight.......

OK, before I release the score of this deer I want you all to know that I'm not full of it. I've told a handful of people in the past couple of days and most of them call an immediate B.S. on me and still think I'm pulling a fast one on them. My buck gross scores 100 7/8". How's that for flippin crazy!?!?! On Friday night, when Andy showed me video of the buck, when i did the math I just couldn't get more than 103-105" and thought for some reason I was just completely missing something. Then Saturday when I saw the deer alive I about soiled my camos. I thought for sure I was looking at a 120" 3pt buck!! Maybe the excitement of it all had something to do with it, I don't know. This buck could've barely weighed more than 85 pounds if it was lucky. Probably less. When moving it I had ahold of an antler and Andy had one leg and we nearly laughed as it was pretty much effortless to carry him. In fact when we quartered him Andy commented that the he'd seen javalina quarters that were nearly as big... LOL!! But like I said before, I in no way regret shooting this buck. The experience of stalking a big buck like this and actually making it happen, with Andy, was just an unbelieveable experience! Thanks for reading............

Two of the absolute coolest pictures of a TANK coues buck I've EVER SEEN!!!!! Thanks for sharing man that is freakin awesome!!

Jason that deer is gorgeous!!!!! Congrats!

WOW!! Way nice! I'll follow Amanda's comments on the hunt. Take us with..........

Dude, once again you absolutely kill me with your replies!!!!!! Bwahahaha!!! Muley62, just sticking my Canon Powershot 7.1 right up to the lens of my 15x Shwerbinskis. Works awesome!

Seeing that these new Nov hunts are the week or so prior to the rifle hunts I can't imagine there's only gonna be 25 people in the woods. I bet it'd be a madhouse of guys scouting for their hunts. Then those guys with the rifle tags will be hunting elk that have been hunted for a while and will be that much more spooked and harder to find. I guess it's all about the opportunity though right? Not for me though. My two cents.

Dude that was HILARIOUS!!!! Great story Chris.

Giggity giggity drooooooooooool........... Give us some measurements on that HOG!!!!

HAHAHAHA!!! I wore the GRONG orange shirt the day before but just couldn't connect with it on dammit. I was really hoping to be wearing it when and if one of us was successful. Oh well, maybe I should of packed a clean on in the pack with me. Next time..... Thanks for all the wonderful comments everyone!! I just still can't get over how completely bad-butt of an experience that was! What a fall/winter for some awesome memories! I'm just totally stoked that two of my best friends were with me on the four last kills I made. Andy's been there for the last two archery bucks of mine and Chris Gravatt was there for my archery bull this past Sept and my coues buck in early November. Neither of which I have been in on any kills with them though. Hmmm..... Guess I'll just have to keep them close by when I've got another tag. Here's a couple live pics I took of him while I was waiting for him to get closer just in case I wasn't able to get an arrow in him. That patch of brownish hair at the top of his back above his shoulders is what I like to call, A NASTY BATCH OF TICKS!!!!! Holy lord that deer was COVERED in them. I cleaned out the head tonight and two of those yellowish Bott Fly (?) larvas were trying to make a break for it till I knifed them in half. You talk about nearly losing my dinner!!! Those things are NASTEEEEEEE!!

Mcfugledelooocious!!!!!!! Freakin awesome man! Any bigger pics so we can get a better look at all that bone!?!?!