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Jim- my pops didn't get the goulds tag either! 19A is infested with pigs!

donniedent- that's hilarious!

That's a fun tag to have. I spent quite a few days out in 6B along Sycamore canyon and often saw bears during the spring season while I was out shed hunting. They seem to spend quite a few of their time at the very bottom of sycamore canyon in the cool shaded rocks and also there's plenty of water/feed there too. Best of luck.

I just ordered some, should be fun putting those stickers on my buddies trucks and quads.

I believe that at the top of the BP page it says that the points are updated as of April 2011, the deer results came out later on. I'm sure the BP's will become updated after the spring results are posted.

Congrats guys, those are some great leftover bucks, I like to see you guys get it done year after year!

Yes does do carry the genetic make up for antlers, they do carry that genetic code and can pass it on to their offsprings. Same way for humans in terms of sometimes a woman's son would have the same physical size/looks as that woman's father or grandpa.

it was coosefan, jim mullins and he got a whopper of a buck!!!

Last year I did not get a buck so I was really getting an itchy trigger finger this year, I wanted to shoot any deer that had test*c*les! I was not able to make it out opening day due to work, no worries since I took Monday and Tuesday off right? Saturday- my dad and I hiked up a nasty hill to where I killed a buck 2 years ago, we glassed for a few hours turning up does. Decided to hike farther up to check out the next canyon. Of course once we got to the top, set up tripods within 20 seconds I located a buck, yahoo! We watched him and slowly two more bucks showed up...I was on cloud nine as one of the bucks was certainly pushing the infamous 100 inch mark, it's been a few years since I've taken a buck of that caliber. We glassed them up close to 9am, watch them feed, spook, bed, feed, spook, feed, spook, feed, spook and they keep working their way up to the top of the opposite canyon, finally about noon the bucks decided to bed down and off we go. We got up to the opposite side roughly 190 yards of where we last saw the bucks. During the whole hike I was telling my dad to be very very quiet as these bucks seemed very spooky, once we were about 200 yards away from the bucks, my dad managed to kick out a full size dead yucca that probably weighed 100lbs and it went tumbling down the mountain about 50 feet….so much for being quiet! Once we got settled in, I was able to pick out an ear flap through the thick oak/junipers and we watched that one little ear for over 4 hours. It was decided that this was the smaller buck, I told my dad I’m gonna shoot him when he stands up, my dad said “what about the big buck?” I said, “my finger is itchy, any buck will do” my dad said “you should set a time-window when the little buck gets up, wait a few and see if you can find the big buck,” I said “okay, how bout 5 seconds?” my dad said “yah haha whatever.” The sun set and the buck was still bedded! I told my dad to make some noises, my dad started to shake a tree, nothing…I told my dad to bark…WOOF WOOF…..nothing, I said “mountain lion, coues deer hate mountain lion” my dad started to MEOW, RARRR, MEOOOWWWW…..dang the deer really is not moving! Finally the buck gets up and moves 2 feet to the right, totally thick oak there, can’t see him! CRAP! I look through the 15’s and saw some sticks moving….wait…those are antlers….holy crap it’s the big buck! I told my dad to continue his weird noises and the big buck gets up and I switch over to the rifle, DANG he moved 2 feet to the left and we can’t see him anymore. I really hate hunting thick country. I took us almost 3 hours to get back to the quads in the dark, probably did close to 4000 feet in elevation going up those hills. Fast forward 2 days and 30 does later. I was about ready to quit and thought we should glass from the road on Tuesday which was my last day of hunting. My dad made some comments about me being a baby and that we should hike in to this canyon….more hiking huh? I was sick of hiking, I have a bad cold where mucus is flying when I cough like dove at a pond in the late evening in August. Anyways we hike in the dark, get to glassing spot, we are in a canyon I’ve been in 20 times and never seen a buck and maybe 1 or 5 does in the past. I started glassing the ridge and saw a deer moving through the oaks…..deer is skylined…..whoa you have got to be kidding me, it’s a buck! I walked over to my dad and started to “pssst” “psssst” and finally I said “ HEY DAD” we got a buck here, 230 yards or so. We played cat and mouse with the buck, trying to locate him in the thick stuff and trying to get a shot off as he went from tree to tree, I could see his ears before a clearing and waited, waited, waited with nothing happening. I thought maybe he’s bedded down so I moved over to the right about 10 yards… and found the buck bedded down, made a good shot at 230 yards for a dirt nap. I’d like to thank my wife for letting me go hunting and taking care of our son! I’m thinking about taking this little forkhorn rack and make a coat hanger for my son, it’s the first buck taken by me since he was born. I had a good time on this hunt, I certainly learned to not hunt the country you can’t handle….but as a friend of mine always said….if you don’t question your insanity, you’re not hunting hard enough. This last picture says it all, the hunt was pretty much like this...both of us were on a different page which made for alot of funny moments and absolute confusion and the result was a teeny buck and great memories.

Casey- those bandannas stop my neck from burning up and when we are right into the sun, I put it over my head and the hat ontop, stops from burning my ears and hearing aids...for some reason the hearing aids can't get too hot otherwise they'll malfunction.

Josh- congrats to your dad , I have a 3 month old son now, I'll have to remember that he can make his own little fire! Nice buck!

Thanks for the comments, I'm trying to figure out how to do this coat rack, anyone have ideas?

awesome pictures, I too have found that those who are successful have hiked atleast one of those ridiculous mountains!

For my senior pic, I was able to hold on to a european mount, my buddy did the same with his bull elk, apparently a european mount is less "violent" as showing the animal with flesh on it. Might want to consider that...or even a shoulder mount if you got one.

Wow, I was super estatic to get the pics on my phone and finally made it back home from Idaho where I can access a computer, Phil- huge congrats to you and Jaycie! It makes me very proud to pass on the rifle to another great hunting family! Being 10 years old, Jaycie can have 7 more of these hunts, I can't imagine the damage she'll do on those big bucks! Great story and pics

Jim- every year I pick up a leftover tag, I spit on my tag after the first few days, pull my hair out, talk about hunting units like 22 and 23 where it can be so much cooler and then every year I go right back to the same unit!

Dan- looks like you took this bull in your shed hunting spot! Not your usual elk hunting habitat! Congrats on a fine bull!

If you do draw the tag, you sure won't have problems finding the bears. The biologist on Fort keep a very close track of these bears and they are very helpful. A few years ago during the spring hunt, a bear was hanging out around the cemetary so the biologist gave a heads up to the hunters and one of the hunters was able to harvest this bear. Good luck!

yes sorry it is sold

price reduced to $800 I have a pair of Swaro 10x42 SLC that I'd like to sell. The swaros are in great working condition, it is missing two objective lense covers, the eye cup cover. I do have the original box along with the original warranty (which you can use for yourself later on) This pair of swaros has a small scratch on one objective lense, the pictures shows the scratch. When you look through the binos, you won't notice the scratch at all. I'm selling for $800 firm I am looking to get a smaller power binoculars, trades are welcome Scratch on the lense

I believe cameralandny.com has a few 15 swaros for sale on the demo market, they are going for $1800 or so.

savage- I'd assume whitemountains rez since echo lives on the white mountains.

WOW! I got a pic of this bull in text but the field pics shows just how big he is! Congrats Brian and congrats to Justen!

Casey- ebay scares the crap out of me and i have no idea why!