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Three of us own Bull pacs. They were developed in Idaho for packing out Elk quarters. I have packed out several Coues bucks whole by folding them in half and lashing them to the frame. We have also packed many an elk quarter over lot's of miles with these packs. They have a built in shelf that stabilizes the load and keeps it from slipping down wich makes it real easy to lash on quarters or a whole whitetail. By far and above the most compfortable pack I have ever had on for carrying a heavy load. I also have a badlands 2200 that I carry lashed to the bull pac frame wich go's on someone elses back if the bull pac frame comes into play. Bull pacs are the best I have ever owned.

I think I might have the answer: Dig a moat the whole length of the border, use the leftover dirt to build up the levees around New Orleans, fill the moat with Florida alligators. Unbelievable mess!

Whats up Jeff? I have alot of cool pictures taken before the digital age, that big coues being one of them. Some day I'll scan them so that I can post them. I have quite a few of Mace also. It was interesting following the controversy surrounding that buck he killed in November. Mace is the finest hunter I have ever had the privelage of hunting with. Great instinct and unbelievable vision. Lots of memories, in 2003 I remember hitting the dirt when he amazingly saw the whaletail of a big 5 in an aspen thicket on the Escudilla at about eighty yards while on one of those ground devouring walks of his. Judging from those pigs you glassed up while with Harry and I at hackberry vision is in the family. Must be those light absorbing blue eyes. Scottyboy, Sorry for butchering your post. Try unit 29 in the Portal Paradise area for a coati. Unit 32 also has quite a few. The one in the picture came to a varmint call in unit 32 this past January. At first all I saw was his tail and my heart leapt through my throat as I thought I was going to introduce Mr. Mt. Lion to Mr. Muzzy. He bounced around like a monkey at thirty yards before finally stopping long enough for a shot. I doubt I will ever kill another one, they are a lot funner to watch while alive.

A good day, and good friends. My wifes biggest buck. The body size was incredible. The canyon he lived in was so steep that we had to stuff rocks under him to hold him on the hillside. After pictures I pulled out the rocks and he tumbled about 150 yards to the bottom. I just wish he would have kept tumbling up the other side! My daughter Kyla with her first harvest. She will only shoot javies "because they're ugly" Scratched off the list. My sons first Turkey.

This picture would be pretty good if the drag had not been so long. This picture would be pretty good if the drag had not been so long. New Mexico Muzzleloader hunt. Nice tom. My daughters first javelina, and a big one! I like a nice european, I do my own and it saves cash for? My son, successful again. And Again.

Grab bag of pictures, some are pretty good. http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g196/big...cal&media=image

100 grain glue on four blade muzzies on a 16/64 Beman shaft. Shoot like bullets.

The RMEF has that Arizona bull mounted, or possibly replicas of it's antlers. If you look at the advertising for the great american elk tour in Bugle magazine one of the mounts shown is the same bull that Jackie found. What a toad.

Once something is taken away by the G&F it is never given back. When they ended the multi - unit whitetail hunts in the southern units they told us that we would never see that opportunity again, regardless of rainfall / population.

Wow, The next Clapton!!

This coyote was taken in the pasture behind my home. I set up along a ditch and my friend Harry got on a coaxer. He came up a fenceline on the first set and I broke both shoulders at thirty yards. Total time of the hunt from the time I walked out the front door ten minutes max. Ironically Harry called in my first bow killed coyote about 15 years ago. http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g196/big...1-R1-035-16.jpg

Thanks guys, I Have had the fortune of quite a few good opportunities over the years. The few that I have recovered have all had quite a bit of skeletal damage as well as severe internal bleeding. Coyotes have an amazing will to live and I have seen several run out of sight that had broadheads blow through them in what I felt were perfect shots.

Just in time for this weeks march in Phoenix! Subject: Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants - 1907 Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. ? "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Nice Shooting!! I think that bow is worth more than the "monster off road vehicle" Glad to see you got your priorities right.

Couesdiehard, Guest worker visa's are available to those who put in the effort. I have a friend who work's the family ranch for three months every year. He is a good man, very proud of his heritage, and speaks perfect english. He comes here to make money, not sponge off of the welfare system. What prompted me to post this was two nights ago while standing in line at the grocery, the four adults in front of me paid for $297.00 in groceries with the "magic" D.E.S. card that they watched the cashier swipe with awe. When she told them they had to pay cash for the case of beer, "No Comprende" eventually an interpreter was found. I once worked at this same store and saw plenty of white trash also load up on what the system had to offer, but at least they spoke english, were US citizens and at some point had probably contributed some tax dollars to the welfare fund. Makes me sick to see the protesters waving the red, white, and green flags in our streets while our boys are fighting and dying for the RED, WHITE, and BLUE.

A statute is in place that you can be cited for if you place salt blocks on Forest service or State land in a manner that sterilizes the earth. You have probably noticed that a lot of the blocks that are being placed close to the roads are set into tires and tubs.

We all need one of those. Stick it right beside the one that says " There is room for all of Gods creatures, right beside the potatoes and gravy".

I have a PSE Carrera also. I like it and thought I shot it well until my buddy bought a Switchback and consistently drills the Mckenzie turkey target at 100 plus yards. I can't even see that far. His form isn't all that great. I think the Switchback must be an extremely forgiving bow. I am a PSE fan but know of nobody that has bought a Switchback that regrets it.

I got two of those! Smarter, and mind alot better than most kids, and they have never asked for a cell phone!

Sambuckalong, I would also like to thank you for your commitment to keeping this great country free. My hunting partners son just returned from two tours in Iraq. In years past we have found quite a few sheds in the country just below the rim on both the Eagle Creek and Blue River Drainages. With no snow to have pushed the elk off you will probably find that elk are still using the meadows up on top. Mature bulls tend to stick to the south facing slopes in the mountain mahogany through the winter and early spring. Good luck and God bless.

Great looking pup!! I raise Chocolate Labs and have two females. One is six months and the other is three yrs. We breed the female once a year or every other heat cycle. She recovers beautifully. Her teats dry up and she doesn't get that gravity thing going. We kept one of her pups from her last litter. Extremely smart, good dogs. You can actually train them to find shed antlers. They recognize them by sight. Quite a few people back east use them for this. A stud dog that we used this past litter will find a tennis ball wherever he is taken. His owner backpacked into the Black River last year and his dog found two balls before the trip was over. Who knows where they originated. But he knows a ball by sight not smell. Be sure and register your dog, it's easy to do online and maybe someone will want to use him for stud and you can get a free puppy or cash. We sell our females for $550.00, males for $500.00.

My son killed is first elk with a 6.5x55 shooting 140 grain Trophy Bonded Bear Claw factory Federal loads at a rated velocity of 2730 fps. The shot was thirty yards and impacted the center of the shoulder. The recovery distance was about sixty yards. I could not find a piece of bullet that weighed over 25 grains. It basically disintegrated, but the damage to internal organs was impressive. I contacted Federal because I was disappointed that the bullet did not hold together wich is what it is designed to do. The professional response from the engineer was that in their oppinion the bullet performed flawlessly. The elk died shortly after impact and more importantly was recovered. He stated that they cannot duplicate bullet performance every time even under laboratory conditions let alone in the field. I found it hard to argue with him.

How did the buffalo and elk ivory hunters nearly exterminate both species before the invention of copper jacketed, accubonded, interlocked, tungsten filled bullets etc. etc? Probably good shootin. Theres been more elk and deer killed with good old Remington Core Lokts, and Winchester power points than with all other bullets combined. Personally I like a bullet that is found under the skin on the far side. When that happens you usually find the contents of the chest cavity on the ground after exiting his nose. Just my two cents.

Kinetic energy of an arrow can be derived by multiplying arrow velocity x arrow velocity x arrow weight divided by 450240. Your mom's setup produces 30.2 pounds of kinetic energy. Bowsite.com published a recent article stating that in the authors oppinion 25 foot pounds of kinetic energy is the minimum for deer sized game. He was talking about eastern whitetail. I think your mom's setup is fine. I would reccomend shooting fixed blade broadheads at broadside deer only. She should get complete passthroughs.

Losing an animal is a very heartwrenching moment in every bowhunters life. Unfortunately it seems to happen to everyone at some point in time. One thing to consider is that wild animals are very tough and have a strong will to live. Your buck could have very well survived. I once shot a forkie that piled on impact and slid down the mountain about fifty yards. He struggled to his feet and slowly staggered off. We followed good blood to the bottom of the canyon, up the other side, jumped him from his bed and lost him. Two weeks later a man I know killed a forkie in the same area with a heart shot. When he butchered the deer he found a three blade rocky mountain broadhead buried in his spine. Same deer, were sure. A friend shot a big mulie a little high behind the shoulder. The broadhead was sticking out one side, the fletch the other. While tracking the buck the next morning in the flats he noticed several coyote tracks trailing the buck. Eventually the coyotes caught the buck. All he found was his arrow broken in two, the scene of a tremendous fight, and deer tracks going one way, coyote tracks the other. The guys that set up the mobile coolers during the elk hunts get quite a few elk carrying old well healed arrows and broadheads. It sounds like you gave it your best effort to recover the animal. Be at peace with yourself. I put what I thought was a great shot on a big carp one morning, only to finally find him two weeks later, HUMPING a doe!!