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Wow - awesome video, and 3 for 3 on some amazing rams. I really get how chasing some of these non-native species can become so exiting. I never thought about Auodad as such an awesome trophy ... until now. Great job. I love your videos.

Are you willing to ship, or local pick-up only?

Yes and no - with a paper application, if you apply for both Jr. and general hunts, you have to include a check to cover the more expensive general tag. If the youth hunt is drawn, you get a refund for the difference. When applying online, They charge you for the actual cost of the drawn tag.

I came across this while checking out some YouTube vids of shed hunting - They find some great sheds, but check out the closing scene, around 13:35. Kinda different, eh? What happens on mountain, stays on the mountain.

Hey, thanks guys. Now it's time to get it done, or have a great time trying. I truly appreciate your support.

As a UofA alumni, I just can't follow their sports teams. It seems every time they make progress, they find a way to stick an ice-pick in their ear and shove real hard.

Now THAT's funny. I wonder who else got the context. Nicely played, sir.

Wow - that's compelling.

Looks like an engineering masterpiece - shoots darn well too, from those groups you posted. Is your wife jealous yet?

Another vote for the Leupold Ultimate Slam. They really did a great job matching that scope to modern muzzle loaders. Have one on my Knight long range hunter, and absolutely love it.

You guys are smart, and this probably goes without saying, BUT...The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obabacare, is a thinly veiled attempt to get you to disclose as much about you, your family, your beliefs as possible. And any information you provide WILL be used against you, by design. You will be asked by your doctors about whether you have guns, how they are stored, history of depression or anxiety, the types of prescription drugs in your home. This isn't a false flag. People I know closely are in the middle. Government taking over health care is right in line with them taking over our education system and our banks. I am so grateful to our soldiers and what they have sacrificed so much for, but my fear is, these men and women who have given so much, might have done so in vain. Ask yourself this, if we truly live in free country, just how free are you? Are you free to decide who you marry? What about what you eat, the kinds of things you can and cannot do on your private property, the education of your children. I'll put it the other way, name one thing you are FREE to do as an American that is outlawed by the most oppressive governments on earth.

I'm trying to get my son to jump on this, but he seems to think he needs a giant old ford 350 to get from point a to point b. Teenagers have no common sense.

Trust me, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.

The great news for you is, there are tons of great bows for youth shooters these days. I got the Diamond razor edge for my boys because at the time, it had the most adjustability, from draw length to weight. They could shoot that bow from age 8 to almost 18. Many bow companies now have bows that are extremely adjustable, because of (IMO) the success of the razor edge.

It's been a very long time since I was up there last, but we used to fish wooly boogers and "egg sucking leech" patterns for bigger trout. San Juan worms in the rapids, and when you could find a long shore line with a quick drop-off of sand, rebel 3-inch minnows on the spinning rig would keep you busy all day. Drag that off the edge of the shallow, sandy bank to the deeper water and you got hit every time. Since the rebel doesn't dive deep, we'd use a real big split shot at least 2 feet ahead of it so when it fell off the shallow edge it would stay close to the bottom.

Classic, biglakejake. I hear you loud and clear.

Wow, that's some really great footage you got there and put it all together very well. Thanks for sharing it with us.

I've learned the hard way. If you share your success on the web, your honey holes will be compromised. People have become very resourceful. From a picture and a few words from your story, they piece together exactly where and when it happened. I have no problem with that, it's just the way people use the internet to expand and learn. That said, for me hunting is a very solo thing. I don't get mad at the people hunting around me, I try to find ways to get more isolated when it starts feeling crowded. I can't imagine walking up to a hill where someone is already glassing and set up next to them, any more than I can imagine walking through an area I know someone else is glassing, yet I've had both happen to me on more than one occasion. My take is this, if my biggest concern is the guy who got there 10-15 minutes earlier, then I'm not hunting the way I want to be. We've all done the get up early, head to your spot only to find yourself looking at the tail lights of someone who had the exact same idea you had, but got there first. That's a pretty good indication that your thought process leading you to that spot is, for lack of a better term, lazy. And I'm not throwing this out there like it's everyone else doing it but not me. I've been a lazy hunter too. I've missed hunting a spot by a couple minutes because somebody else got there first. That's a telling sign. If you love to hunt, and you truly want to separate yourself and get totally into the spirit of the hunt, you really can't do it if you're standing in line behind 3 guys trying to do the same thing, like your wife sent you to supercuts, and you're looking around at dipsh!ts exactly like you doing exactly the same thing for the same reason. Hunting is an amazing tool for self-discovery, but only if you recognize it for what it is, and not for what it is portrayed through the tv shows and commercials. It is a vehicle to find or recognize the real "you". It's not about all the buying of stuff that makes you a better hunter, it's about you finally realizing that you aren't at war with the world around you, but placing yourself right in the middle of that world as a giver and taker of life.

One more for rockymountainatv.com. When I needed tires for my Polaris ranger, I was amazed at the deal I got from them. Great customer service too.

My prayers go out to his family, and those who were closest to him.

Now that's a huntin' partner.

I've been using over-the-counter calls for the past few years, and have had decent results. This year I bought one of Ammon's slate calls and it is really nice. It's hand-made mesquite and crystal with a great looking striker. The sound is superb, as is the artistry. If you are looking for a good call, give Little Creek a try. There's something cool about having a hand made call vs. something you can just go buy off the shelf.

I'm not a Kimber hater, but I think Sig makes a better 1911 sub-compact. I was dead set on buying a Kimber, but I think Sig stays more true to the original 1911 platform. I chose Sig and wouldn't trade. Hard to go wrong with either. Both are great pistols.

I'm raising three sons and a couple of my best hunting buddies have mostly daughters. Their girls have no trouble at all "keeping up with the boys". If anything, I find girls are more willing to listen and learn, as boys sometimes have a tendency to get ahead of themselves and assume they know more than they do. Some of my favorite hunting moments on this site, and just in general are young ladies getting it done. Be it elk, deer, javi, turkey, even bear, the gals are putting up some serious trophies - and it's not just the kiddos. Some of the best archery coues and elk I've seen were taken by lady hunters. TJ, to your original post, I grew up in a similar environment. Family usually got together on Thanksgiving and Christmas - we'd go shoot and catch everything that moved (Southern Oklahoma), so the meal consisted of rabbit, squirrel, quail, catfish, crappie, bass & crawfish that were too big for bait. The boys did the catching, Grandma and the aunts did the cleaning and cooking. A couple of my cousins though really threw a wrench in the works. They were both girls and would rather be out with the boys doing the killin' and catchin' than the cleanin' and cookin'. My take is, I am really glad to see moms and dads taking their sons and daughters out and teaching them every aspect of it. The kill doesn't end when the animal is down, and I intend to teach my boys as much as I can about the animal from the way it lives, to they way we make good use of it to the best of our abilities. And I see other dads teaching their daughters the same things. Hunting doesn't draw gender lines. Some like it, some don't. Some like certain parts more than others, but I've seen as many great female hunters as I have great male game chefs.

A buddy of mine recently drew a coveted sheep tag and was lucky enough to have with him a man who has studied lions in AZ for many years. They were amazed by the lack of sheep and concluded that the artificial water catchments meant to benefit the sheep were actually attracting lions. Their observation was that sheep can live and thrive in areas with little or no standing water. Lions cannot. So by creating water catchments in sheep country, you actually depress sheep populations by encouraging and supporting their primary predator. I found this interesting as it relates to this thread.