tomgobbler

yes 50% is correct. it depends on how much the steer ends up weighing at slaughter time.... mine are a little smaller them "most" i like a nice YOUNG and TENDER animal for my personal butchering so i dont let them get 1000+ pounds, i like to slaughter at the 650-850 range.... i've got one right now that is a rolly polly, probably 650+ range.... that is about perfect for my liking.... its a little less in the freezer and a little less money. ( which is ok for me as i dont have the freezer room either for a huge old steer.... ) so it will depend if you wanted it in 2 months and it gained another 200 lbs or was slaughtered tomorrow at 650.... for argument sake lets say you wanted the 650 and we took it in tomorrow.... you get roughly 45-50% cut and wrapped meat off of the animal. so you'de get around 160 lbs of cut and wrapped meat steak/burger/roasts etc... and the price would be around $680 for half, or $1360.00 for the whole 300+ lbs of meat... this price includes cut wrapped butchering everything.... so your getting a pretty sweet deal . thanks tommy

yes can do do any pose you want including the dead hanging mount. thanks

its about that time again turkey season is about here. i'm leaving thursday morning to head to SC for a few days. then my boy has a youth tag, then a bunch of others.... ANYWAY if you are thinking of getting a turkey mount done several things you need to do to make the mount come out better. dont shoot it while it is strutting! the fan gets demolished.... keep blood off the feathers as best as you can, wrap the head in paper towel and tuck it under a wind to keep it from getting freezer burned ( if you arent taking it to a taxidermist right away. ) keep the feathers as best you can. rolling around in the back of your pickup isnt real good on it.... these are a few things to keep in mind... anyway once again offering 10% discount to CW members on turkey mounts. i can do them in any pose, flying, struttting, gobbling etc.... if you any questions as to my mounts drop matthewp45 a line and see what he thinks, he has 4-5 of them i've done..... also if you ARE NOT going to mount it i can always use the skins as replacement skins for those who do not follow the above suggestions :) and i do NOT need the beard..... so you can keep that..... any questions feel free to give me a shout. good luck to all tommy

thoguht i'de share my experiance with yawl, on saturday my brother in law called and asked if i could go pull a calf for him, one of our cows was having troubles and couldnt get the calf out.... so i grabbed the calf puller and we hauled butt out there and found the cow, laying beside a cedar tree and she was all done in... she had all but given up, there was a hoof and about 3inches of nose sticking out....9 the same amount that was stickining out an hours earlier when he found her, no progress had been made in an hour) and no telling how long she had been there before that.... i thought there was no way that the calf was still alive, my hope was just to save the momma.... so we got the chain hooked up to a foot and started to comealong it out and pull.... got one foot out a little ways, could then start to see the other foot, so i reached in and wrapped the chain around the other foot and we comalonged it out and finally got both front feet and head out, and i looked down and saw an eye blink.... i thought there is no way.... so we pulled and pulled and pulled and finally got the rest of the calf out and onto the ground..... the cow was spent she had about had enough.... just layed there.... well i grabbed some tuffes of grass and started rubbing down / and trying to dry off the calf..... did as best i could with grass.... ( not a great job though... ) but it was breathing..... i told my brother in law we needed to go back to town and get some towels and a calf bottle and try and milk here and get that calf to get that first milk which is the most important, that i didint think momma was going to get up for quite awile... so we headed back to town, got her some water and hay, and towels and bottle.... ( took about an hour) well when we got back the cow was standing and had licked it off, but the calf could not stand.... i guess its front ankles were to sore from us pulling on them.... and now we could not milk her in the open range as she was staning and wouldnt have any of that. so back to town to get horse trailer and panels and we fianlly got her and the calf loaded and brough there to the house so we could tie her up to milk her of hold the calf up there... we tried holding the calf up there and he got what was there, althgouth it wasnt much.... ( first time heifer, with not much milk) did it again the next morning, calf could still not stand up on its own..... did this for a coupel days, and held him up to were his ankles would get stronger.... decided we should buy some supplement as her bag still didnt have much there.... so now we are feeding him a little to go with what ever he is getting from momma.... my 2 year old holding the calf bottle and my 5 year old feeding the calf... good looking bull dont ya think ???!!! when i first saw it never thought it would make it... both seem to be doing good.... now have some good chores for the kids to do, got to love having a little livestock around to give the kids some responsibility.... tommy

thanks jay, they are awesome quilts i absolutly love them....i dont go camping or hunting with out mine. all three of those are a differnet size, my b-day was a few days ago and i had her make me one for my sleeping bag, so it is the exact lenght of the sleeping bag, and then twice the width ( so that it will double over perfectly inside ) the first picture.... the other two are my kids, and so they are a lot smaller.... she can do anysize that you want. a few years ago she did me a great big one that when me and the family go camping it will cover across 3-4 of us in a tent.... so anysize she can do.

Since the paper mill shut down and my dad lost his job after 35 years with the company, my mom is offering hand made levi quilts for sale. we call them our "cowboy bedroll quilts" because she makes them spesifically to fit our sleeping bags. If you have ever tried to put a blanket in your sleeping bag when you go hunting or camping you know it never fits, there is ALWAYS an extra foot or so at the bottom that you have to fold back up and it leaves a big lump when you try to roll it up. Well these are made to fit the size of sleeping bag you have. they are made out of "old" wrangerls/levi's and top quality material on the opposite side, plus batting in the middle.... they make great and WARM camping blankets, they are very durable and can be machine washed. She can make any size you want, including bedspread size, twin, queen, king what ever.... she just adds rows of blocks..... she also makes "rememberance" levi blankets, when my grandfather passed away i had her make me a levi quilt out of all of his old pants. everytime i go camping/hunting he goes along with me.... Kids sleeping bag size start at $250.00 ( for hand tied, and $300 for machine sewn) and adult sleeping bag size $350.00 for hand tied, and $400.00 for machine sewn) a big bedspread we can qoute ya a price.... can do any color on the back that you want.... can also do patterens with blocks, or just random design... in the 3 pictures the red backed one is tied, and the other two are sewn.... these 3 specific ones are NOT for sale, will custom make it to your order. if this is something you are interested in drop me a line, they will last a long long time and keep you nice and warm on many a cold night.... thanks for looking tommy

check out this lion skull i just got through cleaning. it took a heck of whack to the head at some point in its life or possibly desease? it is shown next to a normal one... but the "hole" or endent is a good half inch deep. but it was NOT done at death, it was and older misshap of some kind... just thought i'de show ya some cool/odd pictures. tommy

trapping season is over, but bobcat season is not. you need to find someone with a "wildlife services" license. i have one but you are to far away. call the G&F and see if there is anyone in your area with one of these licenses and they CAN come and trap them for you. most will charge a small fee to come do it.

borax used to come in almost a square box, and was about the consistancy of flour, and would stick to the hides real well, and NOt let the hides stick to the stretchers... i ran out of my stash and had my wife get some more and it is in a longer retangle box, not the smaller sqaure ones anymore and it is different stuff, almost a sand texture instead of flour and doesnt stick near as well,... anyone else experiance this, or is there two different boxes and she just got the wrong stuff, she said she no longer could find the other boxes and this is what was in its place at the store... wondering if borax changed its formula a little bit...???

this year was going to be a little bit of a problem as my son had surgery on his toe 3 days ago, and was on crutches.... cruthces and lots of hiking in the steep hills dont work very well HOWEVER>>>>> opening morning, 7:30, i shot the biggest pig i have ever gotten, that thing was huge!! my son missed while they were running over a dike, went to second spot found some couldnt get him on them, went to third spot about 2:30 or so in the after noon glassed up 5 more, got him over to the top of the ridge crouches and all and he made a 150 yard shot in about 25 miles an hour wind and got his. was a blast, thought i'de share with ya. left home at 2:30 am drove 3 hours, hunted all day and just got home 9:00 pm...

after several years of applying finally drew a wyoming goat tag. with the last 4-5 years of severe droupt the horn growth was pretty poor, even though we saw 1000's of antelope and hundred of bucks we couldnt find anything very big. finally ended up taking this guy, and felt very furtunate to get him. also pictured the other two bucks we took.

congrats man! was good geting to hunt with ya for a little bit. thats a great buck, glad you made it back in there and got it done awesome!

are you talking just NON-res applicants with at least 11 points? because i know for a fact that is not true of residents, for NONresidents i have no idea...

thanks for letting me be a part of the game, it was an outstanding hunt, and we all had a faboulous time, jesse and i were as excited for ya as if we had taken it ourselves! it was really sweet glassing that thing come through the trees and then seeing it take a nose dive in the snow! Congrats again you deserve such a great buck! hope i get to watch you thump many more to come.

Anyone want to fill their freezer for the winter that wasnt able to hunting.........? i've got another beef ready for butcher 800 lbs........... would like to sale half or 3/4 of it, would kind of like to keep at least a 1/4 .... but i dont have to if someone wants the whoel thing. my freezer is pretty full with the 3 antelope, mule deer, fallow buck, and coues deer i put in it this fall, but my wife woudl rather beef, go figure anyway 1/2 a beef is going to run close to 200 lbs of cut and wrapped meat, cut the way you want, for $800.00 or 1/4 will run 100 lbs for $400.00 steak roasts and burger, ro what ever else you want cut up. first come first serve. thanks tommy

i've been 3 times and taken nice goats each time, i put in the draw each year and i do NOT pay the extra money, but i am only drawing about every 4th or 5th year becasue of that... so in about 15 years of apllying i have drawn 3 times, including last year. it is not a question of if you will get a goat. you WILL get one. we see several THOUSAND goats each day, on the place we hunt, lt is just a great time to take a couple friends and make a neat several day hunt of it.

yea i've shot one like that... pretty crazy....

sent ya a pm thanks tommy

just had a guy had to cancel his elk hunt. the regular hunt is $4500, plus the land owner tag of $4500 plus licenses and feees. this hunt was $10,000.00 DISCOUNTED to $5,000.00 BUT it startes saturday and runs through wendsday unit 15 in NM. fully guided lodging food guided everything for $5,000.00 you can not beat the price. just have to be here in two days.... call me interested. 928-243-8652

just had a guy had to cancel his elk hunt. the regular hunt is $4500, plus the land owner tag of $4500 plus licenses and feees. this hunt was $10,000.00 DISCOUNTED to $5,000.00 BUT it startes saturday and runs through wendsday unit 15 in NM. fully guided lodging food guided everything for $5,000.00 you can not beat the price. just have to be here in two days.... call me interested. 928-243-8652

i was out in my shop yesterday afternoon working on some bear and deer when my brother and my sister in law pulled up to drop of there kids so my wife could watch them while my brother took his wife out for an evening hunt. They have been out for about a week now with not much success, my sister in law is around 6 months pregnant and hasnt been able to hike the hills like she would of liked as you can imagine. Anyway they came out into the shop and asked if i new of anyplaces were we might could glass from with out to much of a hike from the truck, and i said yea i think so there is a finger ridge that juttes out over a canyon with lots of creases in it to glass from and be able to shoot across, that would be just a 100 yard hike out to the edge then we can sit and glass and if she shoots one across there you can go and get it... "here let me draw you a map"..... "on second thought i'll go show ya " :) so i dropped everything grabbed my stuff and off we went..... the night was going to be great when we got pulled over just as we were gassing up and were let off with a warning to slow down... who gets let off with a warning i never do..... anyway luck was on our side, as we made it to the spot i wanted to go we spotted a bacholor group of 6 bucks, 2- 4x4's a 3x3, 2-2x2's and a big spike.... ( she didnt care what she shot as the hunt was drawing to a close and she wanted to fill the freezer) BUT since there happen to be 2 big bucks with them :) ... any way she got set up for the shot and let one fly, one of the big 4x4s jumped and kicked straight out the back, indicating a solid hit, Down the canyon they went with the big buck having a hard time keeping up... starting up the other side.... watch him, dont loose him.... he has stoped.... cant shoot all the other deer pile around him..... watch him.... he is staggering.... DOWN HE GOES!! watch and make sure.... i dont see any movement... ok go over to him and make sure, we will stay here and guide you to him.... so down my brother goes and as we keep an eye on him from about 450 yards away, i dont see anymovement lindsay you have just killed a very nice BIG 4x4, congrats!!! she is exstatic as me and my brother are as well..... Now the fun part either back across this canyon or up the side he is on.... Wait Shawn there is a road in the bottom if i take the truck all the way out and around i'm pretty sure i can get a lot closer and it will be down hill, so off lindsay and i go to find our way around, 35 minutes latter i am parked 250 yards straight below the buck. We head up get pictures, do the dirty work and drag him straight down hill to the truck. Everyone is on cloud 9 and what a pretty buck. his forks arent realy deep, but they are heavy all the way up, and he is 25 inches wide. a great deer in anyones book!

the one is a "pet" farm yard goose... it was a lady's pet that she loved, and her dog got it one day.... i think i almost had to mount the dog as well the otehr is an exotic pheasant amherst i think? anyway a guy here raised some and this one died and he brought it to me

finished up a few more thought i'de share

nice buck, congrats!

my buddy torn his rotary cuff and can no longer draw his bow back, and wont be able to by the jan archery hunt. and would like to get a left over ham or rifle tag, what ever we can find after the draw comes out and the left over list is posted.... but would really like to not have to buy the archery tag, so how can he get his appilcation rejected? we thought we could just go in and "change credit card" info to a bogus number so that it would reject the application and NOT draw him the archery tag.... BUT when you go in to change the CC info and if you have an invalide number then it wont let you proceed until there is a valid # in there so that didnt work... any one else ever try to PURPOSILY get rejected??? thanks