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Lets see the pics.

Very nice bucks.

What elevation is that?

great looking buck. Are you going to go after him with a bow?

Nice looking sheds.

Last I checked 9-13-09 they still had velvet. It must be close....

Great bull. I like the eye guards.

fight fire with fire. Get a dog.

109 and 1/10"

great job and great bull.

I am in.

My brother wants to sell his pistol. Glock-19 in mint condition shot only once. $500.00 no night sights. PM if interested.

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Would you trade for a kel-tec P-11?

Who is it?

Does anyone know of a local tannery?

Is that time right?

I would support it.

I have a treestand and a gound blind. I have only used the treestand once. I thought it made too much noise, bark breaking off the tree, getting set up, and it took about five to ten minutes to get into position. I prefer the ground blinds. You can put them out before opening day, walk right into them and sit down. No noise ready to shoot as soon as you can close the zipper.

I have used fixed blades for years. I have always liked them, but last year I tried a new one. The undertaker broadhead, it worked better than I expected. I shot my bull at fifty yards. He ran a total of seventy yards. I saw him go down and he was dead before I could walk over to him. I would of waited the normal hour before aproching but I could tell he was dead. The broadhead left a hole on both sides the size of a silver dollar. When he hit the ground he slid on his side about ten feet on the ground. It looked like I had taken a paint roller and painted a ten foot strip. I don't think I will use a different broadhead for a while. I also think most broadheads out there will get the job done. Rather than looking at the heads themselve find one that shoot the best on your set up. All the fixed heads I have shot have come close to shooting like my field tips, but not as close as I would have liked. The undertaker broadhead shot identical to my field tips. You can see my bull on Youtube under (six minutes till broadside) he went down right after the video cut out. You can see the blood on his side right before he goes down.

With two thousand leftover Javelina tags. I think that is a good indication less people are putting in. I think most folks can afford the tag but not the hunt. We will find out.

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Well I am sure most of you knew I had an archery tag this year. I decided to drive up Wednesday afternoon. We had camp all set up and ready to go before 3. We started our scouting trying to locate a good heard bull. That night we came accross a good heard bull but were unable to see how big he was. It was too dark. Thursday we tried another spot and ran into about five bulls, it was too late in the moring to head them off so we let them go. Thursday night less action, almost like the animals could feel the hunt coming up. Friday moring the hunts starts. We are up at three in the moring hiking into our area. We get there a little early and decide to sit and wait until first light. We can hear two bulls sounding off back and forth at each other. I then try and get a closer look so I will know which is the bigger bull. I end up getting traped in between three bulls. Niether of them I can see. The elk start thier climb up the mountain, and we follow. The first hunt was a blast and educating at the same time. The wind was never in our favor but we couldn't help ourselves from chasing these elk. In the end the three bulls beat us up and we returned back to camp. We set up on a meadow for the late hunt and around five the bulls start to bugle. They get closer and closer. The sun begins to set. I don't get a shot the bulls decide to enter the meadow after dark. So with all this action I am pumped for Saturday. Saturday moring we decide to get ahead of the heard instead of chasing them all moring. Which we do. We call, we wait, the heard is moving up in our direction but really slow. We can hear two other elk off in the distance behind us. So we go after them. I come over the top of the mountain and am hit by three different bulls. One to my right one to my left and one below me. They are sounding off back and forth, so we join in. I decide to stalk the bull on my left. It took some time but I finaly get him in the open and forty yards away. Right then he looks right at me. I already had my bow drawn. But he is not broadside. I hold, he turns and shows me his side. Right as I let go of the string he takes off. My arrow goes right under him. He runs forty yards and looks back at me. I think he was rubbing it in my face. I grab my arrow and go to the next bull. The two other bulls have made it all the way up the mountain now and I have to run to catch up. I do and before I now it I am surrounded by a entire heard of elk. Bulls all around cow and calfs going to my right and to my left. I get on one bull. Don't know if he is the heard bull but big enought for me. He turns and gives me a thirty yard shot. I draw he looks right at me and takes off. He take the heard with him. That was the last of my moring hunt. We head back to camp. I don't know about anyone else but this hunt was going just as I had always wanted. Saturday night comes and we decide to set up on the meadow again. Same thing as the night before, we hear the bulls coming but we don't know if they will enter the meadow before night falls. Then I spot movment in the trees. A eight by six comes right out of the tree line and heads for the wallow. He is about 45 yards away but not broadside. Seven minutes later he turns, I fire, He takes off runing. I got him..... 14 years and it was worth the wait. It took four people to get this bull. I couldn't of done it without my Dad and Brother Christopher and Michael Coover. All the calling was done by and a special thanks to Jeff Wentworth. Here is the video clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L66ULhenDk You can seach youtube for it. the clip is tiled ''six minutes till broadside'' I will post a picture in a few minutes.

I think they were 53'' main beams.

I had a DVD made of the whole thing. I watched it about thirty times last night.