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I definately agree with Rembrant about the getting permission to use someones buck for advertisement, i really had no intent on using the drawing for the shirts, it was just a drawing of my own i had from back in the days, just wanted to put something up to maybe get the ball rolling more and to get more of us into the idea and reality of CW shirts. I personally thought it would be nice if anything else to put Amanda's killer Mexico buck on the shirt, if not then i guess a generic monster would do fine for us. anymore suggestions on the subject would be nice and i'd be honored to help with a drawing for the shirts. DAN

Just thought that i would start up a fresh post on the whole T-shirt stuff, i remember we were all talking about it awhile back and i said i would do some kind of drawing but i still havn't, i did however dig out a drawing i did back in the HS days, the quality of the drawing is good still and just thought i'd post a pic for everyone to see and maybe get the ball rolling a little more on some shirts because i know i definately would like to have one, anyway here it is... DAN

Those are some nice looking elk right there!!! DAN

i wish i seen a buck this big before but not any this big yet, treestand is right i did the drawing off the king buck with the double main beam, nice looking rack, this drawing just been laying around for a bit, anyone interested in it hit me up and we can work something out, measures 9" x 12", lead pencil. DAN

man pretty good looking sheds right there, and the as they lay pics are very nice fo sho! can't wait to get back out again and find some like that. DAN

Nice Couch....and awesome racks too. DAN

finally made it out for the first trip of the season for racks but didn't go as planned, took an extra person with us who cut the trip pretty short but you know anytime out in the hills is a good time, we still picked up 8 racks anyway, plan to head back up again SAT, this time no one to hold us back! DAN

Thx for the Bday wishes and stuff, hopefully i'll get a bday wish this weekend of some brown horns! any of you guys remember what things were like when you were 24? DAN

nice pictures everyone, i think once most of this snow melts everyone will be out for a big rush and pick up some nice racks, still good to know that there are some people who won't let the snow stop them though, good job guys! DAN

incase anyone is wondering how San Carlos Lake is doing right about now here's some info for you...fishing is really starting to pick up very well right now for Crappie and Bass, especially Crappie! everyone's been out around the Old San Carlos Point and Mohave Point areas catching plenty of fish, i think everyone is doing much better from the boat out in the little deeper areas but i've also heard from a few guys that they're doing just fine from the shore as well, was out yesterday and there were about 40-50 boats in the one area so i'm sure fishing was very good, here's a few pictures of what the water levels are looking like as of right now....if you got the time get out there and do some fishing! DAN

most of the guys i talked with were using minnows and some jig baits and rubber worms on the bass, there's the Lake store there where you can purchase pretty much everything you need for the day out, minnows are also available there, here's the fees on the fishing... $5.00 boat fee $3.00 second pole fee $7.00 daily fishing Persons under 12 may fish without license if accompanied by adult with license. DAN

some fine coues there, you and your family got some nice trophies for sure! good job on them all. DAN

well i think the bragging rights thing will work out better than an actual contest, started off with some good buzz but quickly died down, it would be nice to see some killer racks and have some sort of challenge and find out where the biggest and baddest coues and elk are dropping their racks, but yea i think for bragging rights sounds good to me. DAN

Any thoughts on a Shed Contest? maybe something along the lines of what the Whitetail contest was with categories related to shed hunting? seems all the sheds posted here on CW are Coues and Elk, it'd be nice to see how big the biggest sheds in AZ and surrounding areas are this year, seems a contest would bring more pictures and knowledge of whats lurking out there in the woods, just a thought, anyone else with any thoughts? DAN

man i really needed that today, some good laughs...i'm with josh on the finding giant sheds, i usually find one good set maybe every 3 yrs, the rest are either busted up or only the single side, i think the biggest set i've ever found would have been about a 380 bull, hoping to find a 400 class set one of these days to get mounted, and i have yet to pick up a good coues set, anyway seems this could be something to look forward to for everyone, i'd really like to see alot of the big racks that go under the radar each year around the diff areas cuz i know some guys pick up some monster sheds all over. categories i'd like to see are... COUES *highest scoring single (typical) *highest scoring set (typical) *highest scoring single (non-typical) *highest scoring set (non-typical) *heaviest (lb wise) *most deformed/unusual *smallest in size (ie. spikes, buttons, etc.) ELK *highest scoring single (typical) *highest scoring set (typical) *highest scoring single (non-typical) *highest scoring set (non-typical) *heaviest (lb wise) *most deformed/unusual *longest main beam thats what i've come up with so far, if someone would like to add throw in your .02 cents, another thing that would have to be a rule i guess would have to be all the antlers entered would have to be from 2006, meaning picked up between now and the contest end.....older sheds would count so long as you actually hauled them out during this contest run. thats all i have so far, more input and thoughts would be nice to hear though, and as far as someone maintaining entries and such, if anyone who has tons of time on their hands would like to take the lead that would be awesome. DAN

HAHAHA! man i know i got a good kick outta that one, thanks KEVIN, really needed that right about now, actually everyone gets to see or hear of big sheds each year here all over in AZ but i'm more interested to see some HUGE sheds from other places, especially NM, i know they have some monsters out there and to see them sheds would be awesome, as far as rules go, i think maybe brainstorming it first and getting more and more ideas from diff members will help, a few of the things i was thinking of would be... well first off the obvious Highest scoring single, matched, typical and non typical racks. heaviest (lb wise or cir. wise) longest main beam (elk) most # of points ...just to name a few things off the top, any other ideas would be great to hear. DAN

this set was dropped in 2005, havn't heard of anyone picking up any brown antlers yet but then again i don't think anyone has been out looking just yet, but i'm sure a few are starting to drop their racks already, last year i found my first brown one right at this time (end of FEB) but i was able to go out a lot more last year compared to this year, work got me pretty tied up this time around but i'll still get out there though, good luck to everyone and lets see some monster sheds! DAN

Here's a set i seen earlier this year, was laying in a heavy traffic area so i had to go back and pick it up asap, would have been a pretty good set to keep but his main beam was broken off on the one side, still a good set from '05. DAN

nice looking pigs there you and your dad got, nice job! DAN

Whoops forgot the rest of the pictures... DAN

few pictures of some critters spotted over the weekend.... DAN

was waiting for someone to spot out that these were taken from up in the air, seen a lot of nice wildlife over the weekend, Nantac Rim had some good bulls but nothing DRY LAKE worthy, seen a lot of bulls with broken tines and antlers too so good to know that we've still got a rowdy bunch of elk, on Big Prairie we counted 136 antelope total with 31 being bucks and then on Ash Flats we counted 114 antelope total with 30 being bucks, 9mile area had tons of big bucks as usual and R-100 had at least 300 elk but few bulls, the main herd of R-100 bulls has moved west towards Yellowjacket area i hear, many sightings there recently. DAN

check out some of the newly added pictures in the SCATRW galleries.... http://scatrw.com/v-web/gallery/Gallery-1 http://scatrw.com/v-web/gallery/Gallery-2 DAN

hey Todd, WOW! hey congradulations to you and your buddy on two very nice bucks! sounds like you all had a good time and everything turned out nicely in the end, good job to the both of you! DAN

Hey everyone hope all is well on the homefront and everyone got a chance to go out and do some hunting, me and a few of my family were able to go out all 3 weekends of our season and at the end everyone got some nice kills, here are a couple of nice whitetails we took, the heavy buck grosses 99 7/8" and the wide buck grosses 104 1/8" with an 18 1/2" spread. DAN