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Great story, I really enjoyed reading it. It's great to see our children growing up learning things past down from their parents and will hopefully be past down to their children. Look at the smile on that kid! Fantastic job with the pictures, hats off to you and your daughter.

Bought a meat grinder about 6 years ago and never looked back. I must get about 10% or more meat in the freezer, not a hair in the meat, nor bone marrow smeared on my steaks. In a weak moment I took my son's cow elk from his youth hunt to processor about two years ago.... worst tasteing animal I ever had, and it was killed and cared for the best way you can. For what I spent on that "butchering" alone I could have bought at least two moe really nice meat grinders! There probably are some processors that do a great job, but I sure haven't run into any. There has to be people on this forum who know who does the best work in their area. As far as the processor batching their work together; lord only knows what happens after you have dropped off that animal you just spent so much time, energy, effort, and money on. To me it is worth my time and energy and sometimes getting a little help on bigger animals and just do it myself.

Five below

Nice job, nice deer. Thanks for sharing. As far as the easy shootin' from just off the road, heck i'd rather be lucky than good any day of the week.

Nice deer, thanks for sharing.

Very nice deer, thanks for sharing the pics. How big around are the bases? They look huge!!

Maybe he could go even faster if he had a nosler partition helmet and boat tail shoes!

Cool!!

I'VE DECIDED TO GIVE YOU ALL A COUES RACK TO LOOK AT FOR CHRISTMAS. THIS GUY WAS TAKEN OFF OUR RANCH IN SOUTHERN AZ MANY, MANY YEARS AGO. THEY JUST DON'T GROW THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!! HOPE YOU ENJOY THE PICS, AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!! GRANT.

Great pics, and good luck. Can't wait to see if you harvest that toad!

I THINK THERE SHOULD BE POINT RESTRICTIONS ON RIFLE AND PERHAPS MZL LOADER HUNTS AND LET ARCHERY SEASON STAY AS "ANY ANTLERED DEER"...MY .02

WELL THE LAST TWO GUESSES WERE RIGHT ON THE MONEY, I MEASURED HIM @116 GROSS AND 112 1/8 NET. BY FAR THE SMARTEST DEER I HAVE EVER HUNTED, WHEN I FINALLY GOT HIM I JUMPED HIM OUT OF ONE OF HIS BEDS @ 20 YARDS AND WE PLAYED CAT AND MOUSE AROUND A ROCK OUTCROPING FOR AN HOUR. THIS DEER HAD OBVIOUSLY BEEN SHOT @ MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS AND WAS VERY HESITANT TO BLAST OUT OF COVER AND RISK BEING SEEN. CURIOUS AS TO HOW OLD HE GETS AGED @ TOO. CANT WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN.

THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS DEFINITELY A SHOOTER....I'D LET THE OTHER ONE GROW A COUPLE MORE YEARS

IT'S GUYS LIKE THIS THAT ARE GOING TO RUIN IT ALL FOR US!!! IN NEW MEXICO I HAVE SEEN QUAD TRACKS ALL THE WAY BACK IN WHERE THERE IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO FOOT OR HORSE TRAVEL, NOW THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT TOTALLY CLOSING ALOT OF THE FOREST SERVICE ROADS THERE!!! SADDLE UP IT'S GONIG TO BE A LONG RIDE IN!!!

DONT KNOW IF THIS REALLY PERTAINS TO YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION, BUT LAST YEAR WHEN WE WENT TO ALASKA FOR A CARIBOU HUNT I WAS INTRODUCED TO TAPE WORM CYSTS. TALK ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IN YOUR GAME MEAT...YUK!!! THEESE PARASITES ARE SIMILAR AND LEAVE LITTLE WHITE PUSS NODULES IN THE MUSCLES...YUMMY!!!!! I DID A BUNCH OF RESEARCH ON WEB ABOUT THEM AND KEPT COMING BACK TO THE SAME WEB SITE...ALASKA G&F DEPT. ANYWAY THEY ARE HARMLESS AS LONG AS YOU "FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS" I POSTED A LINK TO THE DISEASE INFO PAGE FROM ALASKA G&F, THEY SEEM TO HAVE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING LISTED THERE WITH SOME GOOD PICTURES ETC. HOPE THIS HELPS WITH OTHER PARASITE QUESTIONS OTHERS MAY HAVE. I FOUND IT VERY INFORMATIVE! http://wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.main

A 200% INCREASE IN ONE YEAR SEEMS EXTREME, BUT WHAT PRIVILEGES ETC. DO YOU GET IN EXCHANGE FOR THE $300?

ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS!?!?!

COME ON BILL, YOU'RE JUST BEING MODEST, I THINK I'VE HEARD MORE HUNTIN' STORIES FOR THE LAST 20+ YEARS ABOUT YOU, ALEX, AND MY DAD THAT COULD ACCOUNT FOR MOST OF THOSE MOUNTAIN RANGES, AND I KNOW I HAVE NOT HEARD ALL THE STORIES. YOU'VE HUNTED THEM ALL HAVEN'T YOU. JUST KIDDING... A BLAST FROM THE PAST "LITTLE" GRANT MACLEAN...I'M NOW 37!!!!

29 COUES DEER KILLED ON POST IS JUST A DROP IN THE BUCKET FOR THAT AREA. THEY HAVE MORE COUES IN THERE THAN ANYWHERE ELSE. DRIVE THROUGH THERE @ DUSK AND YOU WILL WILL SEE MORE COUES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT!! THE BEST COLLECTION OF COUES DEER THAT I HAVE SEEN HAVE COME FROM THERE... MORE THAN 15 DEER @ 100" OR BETTER!!! AS FAR AS THE PUBLIC HUNTING THERE, IT REALLY SHOULD BE OPENED UP, IT REALLY IS OVER POPULATED AND THERE ARE SOME TROPHY DEER IN THERE THAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD PAY BIG MONEY FOR, MAYBE THEY SHOULD ISSUE SOME GOV. TAGS IN THIER UNIT? I WOULD HUNT EXCLUSIVELY @ FT. HUACHUCA IF GIVEN THE CHANCE, BUT I GUESS I DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT EVEN THOUGH I WAS BORN THERE!!! GRANT.

C'MON COWBOY YOU KNOW YOU LOVE THAT MULE, YOU JUST GOTTA GET THE TUNA CAN OUTTA HER! P.S. SAW MY DEER TWICE AGAIN LAST WEEKEND, CAN'T WAIT TO DROP THE HAMMER ON HIM.

DON'T TELL ME THAT PHYLIS MULE TOOK YOU ON ANOTHER RODEO!!! GRANT.