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Loved the video. Great that you two got the kill shots on film too!

Awesome! Congrats to your Bro!

Congrats on the tag!

Saw the lion up there in your camp as well. Congrats to the huntress!

Love the pic with Rica. She certanly is livin it up! Thaks again Doug for takin us with you.

"Rut" turned me onto chewin seeds while glassing. Spitz black pepper is where its at!

I also think Mullins spotted a black jag while hunting in Mexico a few years back. (?)

I've noticed a significant difference in horsepower and torque as well as increased mpg from putting a cw.com sticker on my truck!

Amanda, how many stickers have you given out total? Looks like cw.com is represented well!

That's super sweet. The first DVD from bulls of the San Carlos has a kill shot real similar to that.

Saw that buck in his camp when we were up there. AZ402 put a tape on him while up there also. Much congrats!

Here's mine!

Best of luck to you my friend. You will be missed by many here in Az. THANKS for all the support and contributions you have made in both time and money to the many wildlife organizations we have here. I hope you dreams become reality in Nebraska and if you ever get lost, make your way back!

Ladies and Gents, I just wanted to thank one of our sponsors here for his great service. I now highly recommend Cole's work and will be a repeat customer. I contacted Cole shortly after returning from my mule deer hunt in late November to ask some questions on his Euro mounts. The conversation went well and I decided to hire him for his dermestid beetle services. He is based out of Tucson and he met me halfway in Casa Grande (I'm in Phx) so I could drop off my caped head with him. I got a call from him last week to let me know my mount would be finished this week. He again, met me halfway to deliver my cleaned skull. The difference in boiling vs beetle cleaning is tremendous to say the least. My first surprise was at how white the skull was in comparison to skulls I've boiled and bleached in the past. Next was my admiration at how much fine bone is left intact on the skull itself. From the nasal passages to the area in front of the eyes that I normally lose while boiling. Thanks again Cole. Fine job my man! My skull is now ready for metallizing. Also Thanks for the support of the website!

Nice buck. Hopefully he keeps hitting your spot!

This hunt started a few years back with my good friend Jesse Novak showing me footage he had of some cool looking Aoudad rams. Jesse lives in New Mexico and spends a ton of time in sheep country filming desert and rocky mountain bighorn sheep. He always sends me dvd's with a lot of cool and sometimes HUGE rams that my friends and I drool over. He mentioned that hunting Barbary on public land is no "gimme" and it made for a rewarding and fun hunt. I really love the way these animals look. Their flowing chaps make for a great and interesting mount. So with that said, I sent in my money and later drew a New Mexico tag for 2011. Fast forward to the first week of February which had me packing my rig and getting ready for the long 11 hour haul to camp from Phoenix. I didn't have much time to waste as I only had a few days available to enjoy this hunt. So I drove straight through, stopping only for gas and food "to go" as I made my way towards camp. Once I left the pavement, I reset my tripometer just to see how far camp was from the nearest asphalt road. I arrived at camp at one in the morning and my tripometer read 28 miles! It was windy and brutally cold. It had snowed for several days straight a few days earlier but we were expecting "nicer" weather. I was fortunate to arrive when it was getting better. With that said, it was zero degrees at night, add the windchill factor to that and well, you get the picture. Jesse had a client tag a beauty of a ram a day earlier and told me that there was an even better one in the group. It could take several days to relocate him, if we even found him. Being as I didn't have much time, I told him I would be very happy with taking any mature ram as long as he had nice chaps. With that said, Jesse decided we should leave the spotters in camp, pack light, and he would bring the video camera. He said we would get into sheep early and he would get my shot on video. Little did I know, that was exactly what would transpire. Jesse wasn't kidding when he said this would be no easy hunt. We put a lot of miles in on foot just to get to where the sheep were. Weaving around private land to get to pockets that held game. The North facing slopes still had snow and it was so tough to walk through it without knowing what rocks and holes lay underneath. Between the terrain and the cold, it was some tough going. As the sun crested the horizon, we spotted mule deer almost immediately. The warmth of the suns rays felt so good and I started to really breath it all in. At exactly 7:15 Jesse spots a group of sheep two ridges over. It was hard to see if there were any rams so we crossed the canyon to get a better look... Here is a little recap of what I just said, as well as...the rest of the story... click here ---> We did end up getting the kill shot on video but I can't transfer the footage from dvd to my computer. I will keep trying and will update the post if it happens. Pics... The 280 Ackley does it again!

Thanks guys. It certainly has been a fun year.

Pics...

Great pics. I agree, nice muley.

Great story and pics. Congrats! Only you could pull off a prone shooting position with one boot in the air!

Finally!

I'm hoping to. Do you still have space at your table Bill?

Love mine. It stays in the rig if I'm out hunting/camping just in case I breakdown in the colder months. That way I can sleep in the truck and not freeze as I've done that before. I crack a window and leave it on although I too have issues with it at higher elevations. (I have the older model) I don't have the big tank and filter connections although I've seen it in action and it's a sweet set up.

Wow! Impressive.

Way to go guys! Great when things come together like that.