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I think that's John McClendon's vidoes

Jim, First I'd like to apologize if I offended you. That wasn't my intentions. I also probably used a bad choice of words in "cheesy". However, I have nothing to retract from my statement in regards to what my adapter preferences are. In his post, he stated "........some opinions on them (adapters) to try and complete my dream optics setup." I gave my opinion because I own and have had the opportunity to use all 3 adapters. We're all in some need of some personal testimony of what may work for us and what may not. If I recall, someone else had the same concern regarding the binos falling off as I did. Which happened to be my only MAIN concern with your adapter. As far as them poking me in the chest, that's not the products fault when NOT being used as maunufacturers recommend. I tried to find "cheesy" in the Websters on-line but it wasn't there. At least not in the context I was using it. This is what I meant by cheesy. Your adapter does not completely secure your binos to it's reciever, leaving the possibility of the binos actually falling off VERY likely if your head falls forward or back. Which panheads have a tendency of doing, regardless of user error or not. I love the idea of being able to quickly remove and put in place your binos, trust me, I do. But, to me, there's something missing. And that's having the re-assurance that my binos aren't going to fall off under normal hunting conditions or circumstances. I also offered the suggestion that maybe you should incorporate some sort of locking mechanism, from the adapter to the reciever to negate this problem. Your product would cost you AND us more, but I know that I'm willing to pay more if it means my binos are secure. Surely I'm not the only person that has had this concern of them falling off. As far as the price goes, that's why I stated "....for the price you pay, it works fine." I meant that the Jim White adapter IS cheaper AND it still works fine. No doubt, it gets the job done. I hope all who are reading this understand that I'm in no way suggesting that all of your products are of this quality/functionality. My only experience is with your SLC adapter. I've heard fantastic things about your other products. Some may find your adapter works better for them. I, on the other hand find that it doesn't suit MY needs and I thought that I answered his question as best as I could. Happy hunting to you too and I would LOVE to try out some of your other products in the future. Jake

Very nice! Can't wait to go someday

Well, Lance had a late night last night so he asked if I'd post the pictures of our latest hunt. After playing with some cows yesterday in the wind and rain all day and packing one out, he's ready for some sleep (the baby). All together, we got to play around with 5 tags in 3 different units. The only unit with much luck on opening day was with a boy named Brent who was from Minnesota and part of the Hunt of a Lifetime program. Brent was a blast to be around. Brent has suffered from brain tumors most of his life, has left arm deficits, is wheel chair bound for the most part, and is blind in his right eye. We knew we had our work cut out for us. Brent managed to see some bulls that day but our game plan had to change quickly if we wanted him to go home with what he called, "a huge elk". Regardless, day 1, nothing hanging! Day 2 found myself on a point, glassing two units (sort of in the middle of two we were hunting). At first light I glassed up two bulls, one being a rag-horn and the other a beautiful, long-main beamed 6-point. I got a hold of Lance and told them to get over to me ASAP. In the mean time, our other two tags and Russ were sitting on the other side watching all of the action. About 3 minutes later I glassed up a third bull that seriously got me pumped up! A big 6 point with a huge whale-tail! I tried not to get Lance too excited when I described the third bull but I don't think I did a very good job at that. Here is the bull, about a mile away through the 15's. Lance and Mark got above the three bulls and I walked them in. The bulls ended up being a little closer than I thought and they started to get a little nervous. The bull started sneaking his way out but Lance happened to catch him heading for the back door. I watched the bull after the first three shots but the bull never flinched!!!! I thought that they were shooting at the other long beamed bull but come to find out, Mark just had a serious case of "bull fever" going on and he was missing by quite a bit. After the bull ran around and out of sight of Lance and myself, Russ and the other two hunters managed to pick him up from the other side. Amazingly, the bull came running back to us! How lucky were we to have this happen?!?! Lance stopped the bull between 200-250 yards and Mark's next shot hit it's mark. How cool is that? The 3rd day we found ourselves glassing in the same general areas. We found two bulls and after a long, hefty hike, we got real close but the wind changed and the bulls didn't hang out for long to see what the party was about. What a bummer after such a long hike! That afternoon we had a little easier hunt. That day, our Hunt of a Lifetime kid pulled the trigger a few times on a bull but didn't make it happen. When we all got back to Lance's house, he couldn't quit telling us the story. On the 4th day, Lance found 4 bulls at first light and the game was on! A short time after Lance found those bulls, I heard some shots not far from me. Sure enough, another buddy and tag #2 was filled! Sorry for the bad quality picture but this was with a cell phone. Shortly after bull #2 was down, I headed over to Lance to help keep an eye on the 4 bulls he had spotted. En route to the bigger bull we were after, a couple of hunters on horse back bumped the bull down a little further. It turned out to be better because we could get tag #3 in a better shooting position. Oh yeah, by the way, tag #4 got some serious blisters from the day before so he took a nice easy break at the truck all day. It took them about 3 hrs from the time they were notified about the bulls until they got to their shooting position. By this time the bull was in some thick trees and we knew it was going to be a LONG day waiting for this bull to stand up. About an hr later, Lance had to go help with the pack out of bull #2. I held the fort down on tag #3. Finally, about 2:30pm, the bull stood up and Jimmy (tag #3) was ready to shoot. The shot was 450 yards but it was pretty steep down-hill. He felt good about the shot and squeezed the trigger. Just over the bulls back! The bull looked around for a little too long because the 2nd shot went right through the top of his lungs! After waiting for a while and intentionally bumping up the bedded bull for a finishing off shot, Jimmy filled his first elk tag with a 60 yard shot! What a day! The right side of my face is still recovering from a serious sun burn. Here are a few pics of the pack out. Luckily we had some friends provide us with the four-legged mules! This bull was actually packed out on Day #6 but the weather and processing the meat before-hand allowed for us to do this. Day #5 found us with a recovering blister covered hunter (tag #4). With some serious team-work, we managed to get Jim Sr. to drop the hammer on a rag-horn bull. I don't have a picture of this bull but when you're not able to move very fast, let alone far, you can imagine how big the smiles were on all of our faces to get this done! While in the midst of shooting bull #4 (seriously, while we were shooting the bull!), we got a phone call from good friend Ryan to let us know that Brent, the Hunt of a Lifetime hunter, had filled his tag. Ryan happened to find a bull about .25 mile from the road. The bull was still about 300 yards beyond that point. Brent was an animal! With a little help from his father, Brent made the tedious hike. If I recall the story correctly, he was carried on his fathers back for a little bit also. They got everything set up and the bull was 350 yards away. Because of Brent being blind in his right eye, it made it difficult, or basically impossible, to find the bull in the scope with his non-dominant eye. Ryan had Brent get next to him while the rifle was rested in the fork of a tree limb. Ryan shouldered the rifle, lined everything up until it felt solid and told Brent to reach in next to him and slowly squeeze the trigger. Brent did just that and then "BOOM!" The rifle went off, the bull reared up on his hind legs and fell over! Wow. The only dissapointment that I have of this trip was that I couldn't be there to witness Brents hunt. Here's Brent, his father and all of the friends and family who made his hunt happen. What a bull to cap off a fantastic hunt! Here's Lance, Russ and myself with 3 out of 5 of the bulls at the taxidermist. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed! Jake

That's cool! ..........But I wonder if he "seen" anything that day?

I still have to wipe the tears from my eyes when I look at that picture. "Hey dog? Did you see the size of that chicken?"

Sweet!

Congratulations!!! Check your PM..........

I have all 3. I haven't used the Jim White adapter since I bought the Outdoorsman's a couple of years ago. Personally, I thought the Jim White adapter was a little cheesy. For the price you pay, it works fine but I didn't like the fact that your binos could easily fall off if your tripod head happens to fall forward. Not a pretty thought when considering what it's holding!!! Like I said, for the price you pay, it works fine. I ended up not even using the small receiver and just mounting the adapter to the tripod. I felt more comfortable with it that way, even if it meant taking the time to unscrew it every time. Not to mention that if you happen to carry your binos around your neck with the adapter on the binos it pokes the crap out of your chest while you walk. What would be cool is if Jim designed a way to cam lock (or lock in anyway) the adapter to the receiver. The advantage to the Swarovski adapter is obvious for you if you purchased the 15's brand new. It comes with it free now! Something to consider, anyway. And it works well too. I haven't used it too much but I had the same thought- if it would withstand the abuse. And that's only basing it off of it's functionality. This is why I like the Outdoorsman's. It's smaller than the Swaro, cheaper (if I remember correctly), manufactured well, very solid, and it's functionality seems simple with what appears to be less that could go wrong with it. Has the same idea as the Swaro except it has a knob on the top that sinches everything down on the small stud that sticks out like the Swaro adapter. The Outdoorsman adapter has a flat base and is fairly low profile so you'll never know it's there if you wear your binos around your neck. You can also fit your 15's and the Outdoorsman's adapter attatched in the purty new Swaro case cause it's not too bulky. PS The reason I leave my Outdoorsman adapter on my binos most of the time is because I have the Outdoorsman's pistol grip and it slides right into place. There are attatchments you can get to make it easily work with the Jim White head though. My $.05

Lets see the pics already!!!

I thought CWD meant "Cover With more Dressing"!

This is the first time I've seen a deer like this. As you can see, the buck on the right is larger in body than the other two. This buck's body was significantly larger than the other two. In fact much larger than what I'd consider his head gear should be. His right antler is jacked up. Even his left side was rather weak as far as I'm concerned. We'll get a better look at his teeth as soon as we cape him. Couple other things. His face just looked different. Almost like his eyes were sunken in a little bit further than usual. His head was big, blocky and white! Also, as my wife would say, his hair needed some serious treatment! It was natted and brittle- almost like an antelope. The underbelly of this buck was real bad with this. Nothing soft or smooth at all. I guess I'll say it like this. I thought that if this deer WAS in fact healtyh but old, he'd have a little more bone on top. Even if it's just a "frame". Just didn't seem to be a healthy deer if you ask me. I'm no expert but thought I'd ask if anyone's seen this before.

I heard it was from a town near Adobe

Nice job, Brian! I love seeing those big bucks that have been scouted early make it through the first hunt; then tagged by the hunter! Way to go

Nope, his nose was normal BUT, Santa sure did bring us some great gifts that morning! My brother said he's going to test the deer the old fashion way. Eat him and find out if he get's sick later.

This is my first coues deer Hat Trick. Pretty fun to say the least! I had the chance to help out my brother and his two boys on their hunt this morning. My brother was holding out for something a little bigger but amongst the excitement (deer tipping over all over the mountain) he couldn't contain himself and joined in. I'm glad he did cause it was a blast! We managed to leave two more bucks on the mountain for someone else to chase if they'd like. The picture of his two boys with the half dressed deer was funny because while my brother and I were taking care of the other two, we left them alone to "figure it out". They would laugh, get grossed out and then laugh some more. Hunt with your family as much as possible, guys and gals, there's nothing else like it!!!

Odds are in your favor! Keep looking. Put in for December next year ; )

The hooves appeared to be normal. I'll ask my brother about the tongue. Nothing abnormal in the chest cavity as far as I can remember. This area was new to us. So we didn't have all of the water sources figured out. That wasn't our utmost priority at the time because we were still finding deer. There were a couple of holes that were dry but with only a day and a half in there, we didn't go looking for where they were watering. I had an idea where they could have been watering but never checked it out. Sorry for rambling, but to answer your question, the only water holes near the kill site (about 3/4 mile) that we knew of were dry. The other two bucks appeared to be in fantastic shape.

My brother just called me. The buck doesn't appear to be old by looking at it's teeth.

Hopefully I'll let you know come friday ; )

Great, now there's gonna be all sorts of speculation about my buck now that everyone's seen it. It's typical when a buck of that caliber is shot that people start crying "foul play"!! Book bucks tend to stir the pot!

Anyone having issues posting pics? I tried it last night and again this morning and nothing.

Thanks, I got your PM. It still didn't work. I'll try again tonight. Thanks again

I think something is wrong with the site. I can't seem to post pics either. But I did send you a PM anyway with a question for you.