yotebuster

How'd you get two tags Bob? Didn't know you could do that in ND?

She thought it was pretty cool!

You are wrong. The Hopi tags are good for the whole unit. It depends on which hunt you're applying for. You have to read the notes. One of those on the leftover list appears to be the "Hopi Hunt in East Sunset, West Sunset, Meteor Crater, Twin Arrows, Two Guns, and Grapevine Hunt Areas in Units 5A and 5B North" That hunt is definitely not for the whole unit - read notes 4 and 6. I guess I'm wrong! I stand corrected!!

You are wrong. The Hopi tags are good for the whole unit.

What hunt? There's a big difference between the early and late hunts.

Are you talking about the Hopi tags that are leftover? No, the 3 4a general bull tags. Those are Hopi tribal tags. They give tribe members first crack at em and if they don't take all of them they turn them over to the leftover draw. What i wouldnt give to be part Hopi! You and 19,874 people can send a letter in and try to get one now. Good luck!

Those dirty suckers!!!! I got all worked up when I saw that and checked and they weren't up. They really are pulling heart strings this year!!!

As long as you only use a spear or longbow for archery season.

Do you really need 10?

It borders unit 12. Big bulls in 12 but like unit 2 it is checkerboarded so access is difficult

That's an awesome bull!

My self and my family have tc encores. They really shoot well. They come with fiber optic sights, but a peep sight is better through my eyes. Look into power belt bullets. They aren't the best bullet out there when you compare em to sabots, but the are legal in CO. It's either that or the old school Great Plains bullets. Also there's no pellets allowed so you need to use loose powder. I would strongly suggest blackhorn 209 as it is far superior to pyrodex (garbage IMO). It's a fun hunt, if you're drawing a unit that takes less then 10 pts to draw, shoot the first legal bull you see. Colorado is not a trophy state, even the best units in co (that take 15-20 pts) don't have the quality of bulls that even the worst AZ unit does. It's still a fun hunt, the raghorns think they're herd bulls (cuz they are) and bugle their tails off. Just don't expect a big one, if you shoot a 6pt you are in the top 1% of bulls that come out of there. My dad hunted the same muzzleloader unit for 15 years in co, they took 5 guys a year and shot atleast 4 bulls a year (they took 60 some bulls out of there over the years) and the largest one was a 260 5 pt. Have fun, enjoy the fact that you get to chase bugling bulls with a firearm and smoke one!

Haha. In all seriousness, if I were making a major purchase at BPS in the very near future, I would certainly take you up on it and I'm sure there are other guys out there like me. This isn't Craigslist or backpage, this is CWT.com, people help people out. The fact of the matter for me is, I hate BPS and don't ever spend money there. Hope you can work something out with someone

It doesn't give an option to put in under an outfitter for ibex and sheep if I remember right, not sure how they're gonna allocate that 10% of the tags if there are no peoe that applied under an outfitter. All around this is total BS

$245 for the 95 quart one???

The whole gun safe thing bothers me some. I have a fire proof safe that I keep every one of my "good" guns and optics in. However it started to occur to me that if there is a fire, do I really want it? I would maybe be better to get a rider on al my gear and have them pay out then to have them say that my swaros are still ok because they were in a safe, but do I really want to be using swaros that were cooked to 900 degrees? I realize it may keep them from physically starting on fire, but they may well still be wrecked?

NDSU!!!!

Bulletproof. My uncle had the same one on his ranch. It had an odometer on it and when they traded it off a few years ago it had 90,000 miles on it and they never touched it! They got $1800 trade in for it and it was trashed!!! They hold there value too. This one is worth every penny

Must be some big eggs those 10#er's hatch outa......

Really good hunt, rivals AZ units. Rut is hit or miss that time of year but this year has the earliest season dates they have for it so it could be good. Tough part is drawing it, single digit odds.

That brings up an interesting question, if there was a hunt unit for desert and you shot a ram like that, 1: would it be legal? 2: what would it count as for B&C, slams, etc?

After seeing some pics from this years Ibex hunt I realized I never put up pics from my hunt last year! I have to thank Addict from CWT for all of his help. Those of you that have met Zac know he is the love child of a Grizzly bear sow and an Ibex billy! He helped me out more then I can describe on this hunt! I also met Kilmanjaro from the site and PSEps. Scott did the taxidermy work on my billy and I couldn't be happier! I would HIGHLY recommend him to anyone looking for a taxidermist (he's out of Tucson, you can PM him on here or look him up at Global Destinations Taxidermy). Derek (PSEps) is probably the nicest kid I've ever met in my life, he stuck with us (after just meeting us) and helped us till the end (after multiple misses....) He knows more about ibex then I think anyone out there, and he's one of the most humble people I've ever known. I had some issues with the turret on my gun and missed more ibex then I'd like to admit. We ended up pulling it all together the last day with 264 yard shot on a beautiful coated billy. He isn't the biggest one on that rock, but it's one of the best hunting memories I have, and I got to share it with my brothers! I've got serious respect for the billies on that rock, and the hunters who go after them, they are by far the most spectacular animal I've ever hunted, and I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten the chance!

This is why you aren't supposed to drink the bong water.

How many did you shoot? Looks like you found some juvies that day atleast! I'm chomping at the bit for them to get to ND.