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Awesome! Congrats Scott!!

I would look not so much at max power but at zoom capability. Older and cheaper scopes have a 3x zoom range (3-9,4-12, 6-18 etc) I wont buy a scope without a minimum 6x these days. There are just to many good scopes out there to compromise on this. A 3-18 would be ideal for a kid. All the benefit of a 3x on low end with top end to make 3-400 yard shots more consistent at the range if nothing else but to make them confident at 250 yd in the field.

I always set my zero at 100 yards. Then based on the hunting situation I can adjust it as needed for quick shots. Typically I will put it 2moa up which gives me a decent point blank range out to 250 or so and anything beyond that Im gonna dial anyhow. I get really nervous about a zero beyond 200 as it puts yornrifle toonhigh at 100. 3.5 high at 100 is a wounded critter for a lot of animals.

Wow! Incredible bucks!! I'd keep being picky if its landing you bucks like that!

Agreed, younger bucks seem to have long narrow snouts. I know this buck is at least 8+, most likely more. I have a shed from when he was a yearling that looks like it had been laying out there for a decade You have his yearling shed? I'd like to see a pic of that!!!

There is absolutely no blood left in the antlers the second the velvet is gone. Technical they start shrinking the second they strip velvet and it continues essentially forever although it slows to unnoticeable levels fairly quickly. They fall off due to osteoclast activity at the pedicle/antler interface brought on by dropping testosterone levels. The osteoclasts attack the bone and resorb it until the antler falls off.

I have a 5-30 and like it.

Awesome pic! Moose are incredible critters!

Cementum annuli aging is actually not accurate at all. Scientific perhaps but not accurate.

Wow!! This is awesome!

If you hold one of those you'll instantly learn two things. 1: you don't want one. 2: English stocks are why the English lost the war! They look cool but they are made for carrying not shooting!

You apparently don't remember this bad boy!!!

Those are big bucks for any Wyoming tag let alone a leftover!!! Congrats!

These are my two archery bucks from 19a. They are just offset wall pedestals hung touching as my wife is good about all mounts except fake habitat (foam rocks, craft store cactus etc) so I did them like this and really like how clean it turned out.

I got out the other morning for the first time this year and shot a quick limit. First flock of 3 shoulda been my limit but one made it away. Second bunch I got one more out of and that was it! Done in 20 min. Best eating there is!! Sorry to hijack your thread but I just love cranes!

I've got some homemade silhouettes that I don't use since I bought my full body's but they're in ND so it would probably cost more to ship them then they're worth. When do you need them by?

That's coooool!!

Yes, that thread is pretty entertaining.The whole drone issue is topic that seems to be somewhat polarizing. Maybe we should all lock arms in solidarity. But wait, that's a different thread. What brought this to mind was I was looking at a GPS track on a map of someone tracking/searching for a lost elk. In the terrain they were in, the tracks that took them 6 hours to walk could be covered in less than 1 hour and the "thickets" that they still wondered about could be easily viewed from above. In this case, not using the drone for scouting, hunting or harassing but to aid in the recovery of a big game animal just makes sense to me... But then, I also don't drive down closed roads in the forest. Silly me. As far as being able to see an animal from a drone, depending on the terrain of course, an elk tends to stand out like a big, fat sore thumb. It was just a thought.... I agree. I have one to mess around with and wouldn't hesitate to use it for a lost animal if needed. Haven't wounded anything since I got it knock on wood. I remember as a kid riding in the loader of a tractor raised up looking for a dead whitetail in a cattail slough. In a situation like that it would work perfect. I guess it's up to the individual whether it's worth the ticket if it's in a state that it's illegal in.

Not sure how you will find a stud with a plywood backed wall. Stud finder won't work. Might have to just start feeling around with a small drill bit I guess as I'm not even sure you could pound a small nail into plywood well enough to feel a stud. I have a moose head and an elk head that are hung on plywood as our house is SIP panels and all walls are plywood with drywall over them. They are rock solid but my taxidermist uses a special bracket he makes out of metal that will take 4 screws and the mount locks onto it.

Well I have been super lucky in the draws this year so logistics for this years season were a little tricky. I got it rolling this last weekend in Wyoming with antelope. This was a solo hunt but kind of fun in its own way. I made it down Friday mid day and spent the day scouting. I saw a few other hunters so I kept working my way further from civilization. I was sleeping in the pickup and had a full tank of gas so I had no reason to leav until I killed a buck. I honestly must have looked at 1000 bucks!! I took pictures of a ton and found a few that I thought were high 70's and one that I thought was around 80-81. I hunted a day and a half looking for something bigger and decided to go back to the best one I had found. It took a little work but I got him killed Sunday mid day. His ivory tips weren't visible in the spotter so he ended up being longer then I expected (15 1/2"). He has awesome prongs that are just a tiny touch shy of 7". He ended up grossing 83". I'm extremely excited about the hunt and the best thing is I have a pile of awesome hunts lined up for the rest of the fall. Next stop is Utah elk. Then on to Montana for Shiras moose then to NM for another antelope! Rounding it all off with antelope in MT and whitetail in my home state!!! Love this time of year!!!

You could kill a buck like the ones in the first pics in any unit in the state. Those are probably 60-65" antelope at best and are available everywhere. Just find a unit with some public land and go hunting. You can still buy a preference point for this year so be sure to do that as you'll be opened up to a lot more units you could draw with one point. The unit I hunted was one of the premier units in the state and takes a bunch of points to draw. The main reason you'd wait for that is to get a high scoring buck. It's still nowhere even close to the quality of AZ as I truly did look over atleast 1000 bucks to find that one. If you glassed 20 bucks in AZ before season you'd find one bigger then the one I killed. The cool thing about Wyoming antelope is there's a million of them so if you just wanna shoot one then pic a unit with a bunch of public (or private access for a fee if you are capable) and go. You literally can't mess it up and you will kill your bucks.

Haha. Sort of. I'm self employed and have an awesome wife.

"Hunters" should get as many as they need to have an ethical and enjoyable experience. I think you are confusing us with "poachers" who shouldn't get any bullets.

Congrats! What unit out of curiousity?