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I like that idea 300ultra!!!

Takes a lot of snow to move the Coues down.

Hahaha

We run a 6 month turn around at my shop!!!! 😊

Thanks for the info guys. Very much appreciated.

Well I have had a dragonfly forever but dumped it for weight. Been running a Kelty that's light as a feather. But when I am hunting with big eyes, tripods, large 338 edge rifle it's just not cutting it. Off season the Kelty is great but when getting down a gritty for a couple days of hunting was thinking I should upgrade back up and was liking the features of the outdoorsmans for the couple days I might carry my rifle and all necessary gear.

Hahaha some of you guys crack me up! You guys don't think tanneries have rush tan services??? I can get a two week rush service! You pay more but you can do it. And last time I checked ups delivers faster then 2 weeks each way. More like 3 to 5 days. SOOO essentially you can have capes back in 22 days or so. I advertise and stick to a 6 month turn around time. However a lot of my early antelope and elk go home around the 3 to 4 month mark just because they are first in line and we are chomping at the bit to get started on the new work. We are currently starting to mount this years early archery elk and I use one of the best tanneries in the US. Staying on top of your scheduling and getting the work done when it's there will result in fast turn around times. You do need to be careful about some quick turn around times but in General it doesn't take 6 months to get tanning back. One of the old taxidermy myths to keep customers from pestering if their project isn't done yet. Hahaha

I would like to see the data that shows our wildlife numbers are down. Can some one please post those? I hear lots of people complain but haven't seen the proof.

Whoa nice Coues buck!!! I'm surprised not a single hybrid comment with that forked G2

I'm not sure how many years he had waited but my buddy Jason's grandpa finally drew a rocky tag this year! We were excited but worried at the same time. Pushing the 80 mark in age and not in good health it was sure going to be a challenge. We scouted hard but knew we were VERY limited in being able to get Jim close enough to shoot. We found one big group of sheep early on in our scouting efforts but they needed to move a few drainages to the west for us to even have a chance. Sunday, before the opener we got lucky and they did just what we needed. After a quick long distance confirmation Monday morning that the sheep were still in the right spot, the game was one. I am sure if someone would have been watching us they would have been scratching their heads. Portable shooting tables, lead sleds, you name it we had it to get the job done. Luck was certainly on our side and Jim was able to harvest his ram on opening morning. Obviously we couldn't get him up to his sheep but he was happy none the less! Thought you guys would enjoy seeing a happy old timer still getting it done!

Jody finished up our Arizona season this morning with this 128 and 3/8 STUD!!!

Cmc skull works. Cole Vanwinkle

My hunting buddy Jason scored big time yesterday on a buck we had been watching since 2012!!! Rough taped him at 124 gross inches!!! I will post some more pics when I get them off Jason's camera!

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You hybrid critics are getting rediculous. Last time I checked don't mule deer generally fork on the g2's???? Well not sure. Even the deer I shot this year which doesn't even have forked anything had a hybrid comment??? Here's a couple live pics for you hybridizers!!!

Nice!!!

Figured I post a cool collage of some of the mounts we picked out to take pictures of. Some of these I have posted here before but was kind of cool to have them all together I thought. Any ways, hope you all enjoy

Check out this big desert muley that just came in!!!

DIY public land. AZ.

I have not measured it but my employee did. He got 217 gross inches out of it. 184 main frame and all the trash adds up quick!

^^^^ I AGREE

Nice work Cole!!!

Check out his non-typical we are remounting!!!

Well, didn't work out quit like I had planned. But finally pulled the trigger late afternoon opening morning after some serious cat and mouse. Didn't get off the mountain till way late. Here is a quick pic for now!!! Super pumped about this buck. He was dirty sneaky and taught me a lot! UPDATE: Sorry for the delay, had a few more tags to help on and hadn't had the chance to get to my computer for awhile. since I haven't posted up an entire story in awhile here you guys go. Hope its not too long winded and hope you enjoy! It was the end of August and scouting was in overdrive (never stops really but was in high gear). Had a few bucks from the year before that I was excited about seeing this year. Of the four deer, two had disappeared, one just didn't turn out like I had hoped, and I hadn't made it all the way to check on the other. I had spent a lot of time in the spring looking in new areas checking out deer before they shed their antlers. I had produced one buck that was pretty interesting. Early September I took my dad into this location for a morning of glassing. I sat down and set up my binos and looked where I had last seen the buck we were looking for in the spring, and to my amazement there was a deer in my field of view. It was a little buck, THEN out stepped a big framed deer. It was long distance but this thing looked giant. He gave me about 30 seconds as he walked straight towards me then turned and disappeared over the ridge top he was on. I knew I had to find this deer again. My father and I spent the next three mornings looking to no avail. I am not sure how many trips I made back into this location, looking at it at different angles, but I could just not turn him up. My good friend Jason had joined in the effort as well. About to throw in the towel on this deer and focus on something else, We (my father, Jason, and I) made one last trip in, and to our amazement, there stood this AWESOME buck. Game on!!! The next couple weeks things got frustrating again. The country was almost devoid of deer. One doe or spike here or there seemed to be it. To top it all off we could not re-find him with any regularity. Look as we might he was elusive. After spotting him a time or two we started putting together his habits. He would bed ALL DAY. First light......... bedded. Evening prime times.....Bedded. Seemed like about 8:30-9 AM he would stand up and either switch beds maybe 15 yards, or simply turn around and lay down again. Before I knew it time was almost up. Wednesday, my father and I searched the hillside with little to show for it. It was NOW Thursday morning and my small team (Dad, Jason and I) were perched up high tearing apart the hillsides as soon as we could see. Jason on one point just in case he moved, and my father and I on another looking into his bedroom. We had not laid eyes on the buck for over a week and we were all nervous. 8:30 my father says he's got a deer. Turned out to be a spike but was some motivation after not seeing deer the last couple trips in. I panned to the left up the canyon maybe 200 yards and there was the back half of a deer sticking out of the brush. Just when I said I have another deer, it bedded down. One flash of antler as it did. "Got HIM!!!!" We camped out on him the entire rest of the day. Two times he got up for a total of maybe 10 minutes. That was it. Stared him down until we couldn't see and made the hike out. Tomorrow was the day. Friday morning..........We added another player to our team. As the hillside took shape, Jody and I were set up across from where we had the buck the day before. Range to last known location was 625 yards. 338 edge set up for a prone shooting position, all we needed was to see him. Jason and my father were on the high point long distance look for a broader view in case something went haywire. Hour one....No deer. 8:30.........man he should be getting up anytime to stretch. temperature was rising, stress was high when I finally spotted movement, 100 yards up the canyon from the last known location. I got him Jody!!! Aaaaannnd he's gone into the one little basin/bowl we cannot see into from our vantage point!!!! That quick. We signaled the other crew and Jason joined us to make a move up the canyon 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile so we could see into the bowl. We decided to go up the backside of the finger that we were on so as to not alarm the deer of our presence. A long while later we found ourselves back at our starting location. That side of the canyon was bluffed out and we could not find a way through. 11ish, we found ourselves very close to where we thought the deer had gone. 300 yards to the center of the hill. We took shelter in the only shade we could find in a small cave formed by a giant rock. 12, we were out of water, except Jody, she had one gulp left. We knew the deer was right in front of us and no one wanted to give up. We also knew that with a quick phone call my father could get some water to us up the canyon. 1PM no deer, 2PM no deer, 3PM no deer, 4PM no deer. ME...guys you sure you don't want to head out, get some water and come back tomorrow and try again. THEM If we were going to do that we should have done it when we ran out. Its PRIME TIME ALMOST lets STICK IT OUT........4:05PM I look at the same tree I had been looking at for I don't know how long and something moves in the left side of my binos, I pan over, ITS HIM. I GOT HIM!!!! The shadow had moved just enough that I was able to see through a small tree and make out the whole deer. He had been laying there the entire time. We just couldn't make him out. I ranged him, jumped down on my gun while Jody and Jason watched. Through my scope I had one opening to shoot through, his neck was exposed to where it joins the body. I settled on the base of his neck and squeezed the trigger. HE'S DONE. HE DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH. HEAD JUST FELL ON THE GROUND. We had a short lived celebration. We were so down on water that we couldn't manage much. Made the call to my father for bring water, and slowly made our way to the deer. Jody and I, this was only the second time she had ever been with me when I harvested a deer!!! I measured him right at 118 gross inches. Net 113 and 6/8!!!

WOW. Love the dark antlers on that buck!!!! Congrats