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Great stuff Tony, I love it. Any idea how old he was or how much he weighed? Great shot with the wispy clouds, the vapor trail and blue sky. Best GWB | |||
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JGR those are some fiiiiiine bucks.....and a heck of a speed goat too. Nice swords on that CO buck Tony. | |||
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Geedubya, The guess-timated age was about 4 yrs. old. They weighed it at the processors near Ft. Collins, but I can't remember the exact weight. It was already field-dressed and skinned when it went on the scale; I'm thinking something around 170 lbs. or such. I do know exactly how much meat I got because I had it all -- except the tenderloins -- made into three different types of summer sausage. I paid for a total of 105 lbs. Norton, Both of the rear tines are between 18 and 20 inches long. Tony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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Whoops, just looked at the invoice. It was 125 lbs. of sausage. BUT...that included some pork that was added. Tony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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Very nice, Tony! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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A lot of what I do might not actually be called hunting as much as observing. I’ll have a gun, and a camera. A few I’ve taken over the last several years. GWB               GWB | |||
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Very nice pics. Thanks for sharing. | |||
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Here are a couple to get your pulse rate up.     Tony Mandile - Author "How To Hunt Coues Deer" | |||
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I'd probably be shakin' like a little girl and wet all over myself and ruin the camera to boot if I was that close to those critters. I need to get out (of Texas) more.  GWB | |||
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Very nice, Geedubya and Tony! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Didn't kill a thing on this trip but man!! what a place!!          Had to throw in this lovely lady....I show her off any time I can  ________________________________________________ Maker of The Frankenstud Sling Keeper Proudly made in the USA Acepting all forms of payment | |||
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Awsome buck WOW!
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Holy Crap how tall is that thing?
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All it takes is $$$
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Thats just a cool picture.
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You know, your right, and I just have not wanted to spend that kind of $$$$ just for a muley. I have killed muleys in Colorado and Nebraska. Same reason I only hunt doe whitetails anymore. I don't hunt for scores, I hunt for meat and if I am gonna spend a thousand $$$$$ for a hunt, it damn sure ain't gonna be for a white tail or muley. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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How do you guys know how much I paid? Access fee only, non guided DIY, except in Sonora of course. The antelope grossed 87", and was over 17" on both sides. | |||
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What would you spend all that extra money on? Moose?Goat?Ibex?Tur?Bear?Does you assitance from your president give you the cash to spend on hunting?Is this a new program?You have it figured out. | |||
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What extra money? "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I think if you will take the time and look at my post, I made no mention about how much anyone paid for their hunt. I have killed one pronghorn in Texas, it measures 75&4/8ths. And ity cost me a whole $42.00, $2.00 to put my application into the TP&W drawing and $40.00 to have it processed. I put in for the TP&W Mule Deer Hunts and I may get drawn one year, and if I do, the $130.00 for the extended hunt periods is the most I will pay to shoot a muley buck or a white tail buck here in Texas. I think the bucks you got are great, I just ain't into the numbers game. If that is your deal, Congratulations, you have killed some really impressive animals.  I would be happy with a small 4x4 Texas muley buck, just not for the $$$$ everyone I have checked into wants. If I just want to go shoot a mule deer, I can go to the Nebraska Panhandle, see some really neat country and do so for 1K or less, depending on whether I camped out or stayed in a motel. I do not believe that I have seen a D-I-Y hunt for a muley here in Texas for less than around $1500.00. For just a little more than that I can go on a bear hunt and I have killed more muleys than bears. As the title of the thread and the poll stated this is about what each of us as an individual is proud of. You are proud of the bucks you and your son have killed, and I am happy for you. That does not negate or dimish the fact that I or anyone else are not proud or should not be proud of our kills simply because they are not as impressive as yours. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Huntincats, That picture was taken on the Briscoe Ranch, say 5 miles south of Concan Texas, and six miles west of SH-83. Eight other guys and I have a 1,700 acre annual trespass lease out of a 50,000 acre low fenced ranch. I like it because there is no power or running water. It is far enough off the highway that you don't hear motor traffic, just the occasional plane or helicopter. It is far enough away from any town that there is very little light pollution. I've spoke with the lease manager twice in 7 years. Our group self-disciplines and nobody screws with us. We trap, snare and shoot hogs year round. Here are some more photos of that same trip. Bruce snared a pretty good hoglet. We loaded him up and brought him back to camp to skin out.     and one I'd take the night before with a 7-08 just about dark thirty.  Best GWB | |||
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Didn't mention, but it is quite a rush to ride up to a boar about 250 lbs. that is still alive and pissed off at being caught. Especially when your about 20' away and he hits the end of that 1/8" aircraft cable at full charge. He'll hit the end of the cable go flat out sunfish, belly up, and about level, come back down and do it again. Trick is to shoot him before he makes his charge. I carry a short barrel pump with buckshot. Much easier to hit them in the air on the fly.  GWB | |||
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Thanks for all the pics from your"hog camp' You guys are really serious about slayin those pigs.Pigs in the trap are just as dead and in the freezer.Love that ground meat and sausage.Keep huntin and let those internet guys keep dreamin. | |||
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I do like to kill hoglets. They are the perfect medium for testing loads and bullets. Ballistic gelatin, forgetaboutit. My personal best is 15 in two evenings. Shot on two different leases with my reliable ol' Sako 7 mag. A few photos.       Best GWB | |||
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Nice work on the vermin GW.......keep up the good work! | |||
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Last one, gonna call it a nite.......... My humble abode. As I mentioned before, we lease a 1,700 acre pasture out of a 50,000 acre low fenced ranch about 18 miles north of Uvalde, Tx. We are some six miles off the highway. No power or water. I purchased this camper for $100. It came with a refrigerator and a/c. Have to use a generator to power them, but rarely use it as I don't care for all that noise. I bring in my own water and ice. Use lanterns for illumination, Coleman stove and charcoal grill for cooking. Works for me. Small on the outside,  but big on the inside.  and a pretty fair view from my front porch “so to speak”.......... by day     or eve,    Best GWB | |||
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In a way, that is the pity of the whole problem affecting the AR right now. We all love hunting, that is or should be our common bond. the sticking point comes in because we all love it in our own individual way and for our own individual reasons. Too damn many of blank out the business about our being individuals and feel that everyone else should have the exact same feelings/goals/desires as they do when it comes to hunting. The fracture is compounded when those individuals start acting like those that do not view things exactly as they do are inferior and beneath contempt. Hunting is the most basic instinctual activity humans evolved doing. Instead of creating lines of division because of what another person wants to hunt or how they are willing to hunt, we should be damn Thankful that the hunting tradition is being kept alive by EVEERYONE that buys a license and goes into ther field in pursuit of game. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Randy To repeat my post from earlier "I don't believe people are trying to belittle or shame anyone by expressing concerns, disinterest, or disapproval in the first instance. Only when the likes of you take umbrage and climb upon your soapboxes for the umteenth time does the bantering start. Far better for all, to simply take the posts for what they are, expressions of a POV, and either accept them or dismiss them and move swiftly on with your life. All the whinging and bleating about how unfair, unnecessary, uncharitable it might appear to you won't change it or stop it. By and large I have found most hunters mutually supportive. Despite their differences of opinion regarding relatively minor aspect of what they do and how and when they do it." I also have a question. "Hunting is the most basic instinctual activity humans evolved doing" If a behaviour is instinctual in the first place how can it then become an evolved behavior? Whilst the process might evolve the instinct remains the same surely?. "Instead of creating lines of division because of what another person wants to hunt or how they are willing to hunt, we should be damn Thankful that the hunting tradition is being kept alive by EVEERYONE that buys a license and goes into ther field in pursuit of game." As society changes so do attitudes to certain practices that were once considered acceptable or the norm. That is social evolution. As certain behavioral oppotunities occur, high fenced ranch stock shooting for instance, that are socially or ethically marginal.So the minority that indulge themselves in these opportunities will become increasingly marginalised and critised by the majority. If you don't like that example how about the snaring of tigers to supply the chinese medicine market? Or is that acceptable and should we as hunters support it? After all it is HUNTING! | |||
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GW, Really nice place. Love seeing the pictures of peoples hunting areas. My place didn't have running water or electricity. I didn't like generator noise either so I hooked up a huge marine battery and some solar panels on the roof. Runs lights, radio, small appliances. I just bring jugs of water down too. The toilet is a composting toilet. Works surprisingly well. When I bought the place the pre-fab cabin was a shell, so I finished it out. Now it's like refined camping. Property is mostly mature hardwoods with trails running through it. Just a few open fields so the longest shot is about 100 yards. cabin  interior before (the guy left the chair so I built around it)  After      | |||
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Seems to me those who bleat the loudest are the ones who never post photos. The critical never seem to share their own hunting photos. Why? Either they have no photos because they might not really hunt, or they somehow fear they will receive a dose of their own critical medicine. You have to wonder. "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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You have a really good looking place there Scott.  I an sure you will make many great memories out there. Congratulations. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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Whit I suppose it could be a case such as mine in that they don't own a digital camera, don't have a photobucket account or the means of scanning old stylie photos onto their computers. I do have a few snaps on my cellphone but they are of poor quality and I judge that they would be of absoutely no interest to anyone other than those there at the time the snap was taken. I'd also have to figure out how to down load them. My father who has hunted for over 70 years, he has a handfull of photos and his gold medal heads. He has never been one for snapping every deer, fox, hare, rabbit , squirell or game bird that fell to his gun. But he can recall most. Which is good enough for him and the rest of the family. I personally don't mind if people feel the need to share their photo's be they good or bad. just don't expect people to enthuse about them as lets be honest here the vast majority of them are deadly boring. Pun intended. The moose on a noose being a classic example. Let me say first that I mean this in no way as a personal critism. Its not what one might deem a brillent photo either in subject matter, composition or quality. But I'm sure it does its thing for those that were there. As I said at the time a dead moose is a dead moose. I'm glad that you got it and enjoyed the getting. But seeing the photo did nothing to enhance that for me as an individual. Just my take on dead animal photos. | |||
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Scott That looks like some good country. Is there a specific reason why you have not boarded off the ceiling of the cabin? | |||
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And upon which unshakable foundations of credibility such legends are also spun! | |||
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Snaring is a very efficient way of controlling mammal populations in a specific area. I use snare all year round as a means of assiting in the control of foxes. Its a good method of management/conrol. | |||
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As a lightweight, in the figurative sense of course, I suppose one could always fall back on asking a friend. Or making claims of fighting tyranny, as a collective we | |||
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 Are you upset about something? We're making observations about our experience of fantasists, nut-jubs and the criminally under-appreciated on the internet. Have little self-esteem dude, at least in public. | |||
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