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It must be up against a rib or something. That is sad.

dude scottyboy I loved the rambling. By the way beautiful gun

Well my season was good until my last day. All together was able to bag 120 gambells this year along with only 2 mearns which I will hopefully up next year. The reason my last day was no good. I got out and got onto a covey right away and decided it was a good idea to start chasing the quail and trip in a gopher and roll down the rest of the hill. Ended up spraining my ankle and had to hike back up the hill to the truck. But I still managed to get that 1 bird

Awesome job there Scott. Always love reading your stories and seeing your pics.

Looks more like a texaswhitetail than a coueswhitetail in my opinion

Thanks for the info running bird. The prickly pear in some areas were thin but overall most were average in my mind. I will be making 1 more trip down to try and locate some pigs before the hunt and have a few places I want to look at.

Well I spent alot of time glassing and alot of time hiking without finding a dang pig. I started off by Buford Canyon glassing some tanks for about an hour and never even saw a pig, deer or anything. I walked around the tanks afterward and found no tracks at all (to much cattle in my opinion). Here is a pic of the first area I glassed. After that we continued down the Klondyke road and noticed a sign-in sheet on the right hand side of the road. Went up there looked through it and found that 1 pig and 2 deer had been killed in there. The deer were taken in the October hunt. We went back in there glassed for about another hour did not see anything again. Started to hike a little bit and came across a berm went up top and there was a huge stock tank but empty and it looked to be empty for some time. So we moved on. We then went to go up the road to where my dad used to go for deer and we find out the hard way that the road is blocked off and it is all privately owned now. So we decided to head down toward Bonita and look around down there. We found an area that had a good view overlooking the flats. Glassed for a little over an hour without finding anything. Started hiking the washes looking for tracks. We hiked several miles and never crossed a set of tracks. So we decide to head towards Battle Mountain since my dad had heard good things about that when he used to hunt down there. So we go i and hike a little bit and come across a tank that is full. We walk around the tank looking for tracks and were able to stumble across a couple of tracks. The only problem is that the cover around to do any glassing and it is to thick to even walk through standing up. So this morning we continue down along the 266 and find an area that looked promising. We start glassing and within 5 minutes I find 3 deer 2 does and a little spike. We continue glassing without finding anything else for another hour. We keep going down the 266 and find an area that is covered in prickly pear and grass with some scattered mesquites. We glass for almost 2 hours and never see a thing. Now I am really worried about the hunt since my dad and I covered alot of ground glassing, hiking and driving. I did not want to do this but PLEASE WILL SOMEBODY HELP ME ON THIS?

COOSEFAN ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. I CAN'T BELIEVE ALL THE SKULLS FOUND THE BRUISER BUCKS SHOT THE SHEDS THE COUNTRY THE STORY. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. WHAT WAS THE RANCH YOU WERE ON OR DID YOU ALREADY POST IT AND I MISSED IT?

Well I am heading out early Saturday morning to go on my first scouting trip for pig this year. I have hunted these little buggers for 7 years and have yet to tag one. I will be back Sunday afternoon and will hopefully have seen and taken pics of some nice bucks a few pigs. Wish me luck.

You got me lauging so hard I started crying ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

Hey Scotty sounds like my dad and I will be going down for a weekend of mearns on the 4th and 5th. Will give you more details on it when it draws closer

I try my best to make you guys laugh

Never thought of that Ernesto. This pig season and deer season I wil lbe carrying an extra pair of gloves for sure.

Still no rain up here in the valley. I think we are on day 113 or something like that. Please send rain soon.

I do believe that elkhunter is right that this buck was poached last year off of an army base in Nevada. I may be wrong on this but the buck scored right at 200

What worked -new 15x56 Swarovski's -new bogen tripod -new bogen fluid head -wolf pack system that I got last year -POWERBARS What didn't work -scope -water bottles (need to put black sock around them to cut down on glare and not to soak my other essentials) -gloves (ripped opening morning had to wrap hands with extra shirt while glassing to limit skin seen) Thats about it good season for me even though I didn't tag.

Very nice Scottyboy. Love how you are so pationate about upland hunting. I to am like that I have only missed 1 weekend this year for quail and it was the first one I missed in 3 years.

Man I love that junk on that muley I might take that carp

Dammit Josh you made me ruin my keyboard.

For that guy I would say in the 100 to 105 region. That is the buck with my name on it Ernesto. Man great job on the pics what is your setup?

His G2's look good I would guess about 80 to 85 gross. I'd shoot him.

WOW!!! You are giving us rednecks a bad name

No Ernesto you are reading that wrong it clearly says "younghunter"

This is terrible. What a record to breaking

Hey muskrat how is the pig hunt going? Finding anything good?