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Thanks ZJ, I'm going to take some pix this week and put them up here along with whatever details I can get about it.

Not so much a recipe, but I like to take one of those 5 pound packs of bacon ends (leftover smoked pork belly from making bacon) and grind it in with lean elk. About 2/3 elk and 1/3 bacon ends. Best burger you ever tasted.

Great looking buck. I hope he comes around in August and we get to see you with him on the ground. Welcome to the forum!

Bump.

Only put in for one deer tag this year - youth 23 for my youngest. BPs, leftovers and archery for the rest of us. So far we have an archery antelope hunt in NM (me), early archery bull unit 1 (my oldest), unit 1 cow (youngest), and 2 unit 24 NM (Ft. Bayard) late youth deer tags. Gonna be fun to fit it all in. Hoping for leftovers in 32 or 29.

I like this style - keeps some extra shells handy. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Butler-Creek-Alaskan-Magnum-Rifle-Sling/734605.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Drifle%2Bsling%26x%3D10%26y%3D6%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts&Ntt=rifle+sling

Link doesn't work for me.

Long time since I lived there, but I always love Flo's.

Absolutely, yes.

Actually, it makes perfect sense if G&F is trying to increase hunter opportunity. ERB hunts run about 90% success as opposed to LRB being 20-30%. Every tag taken from ERB can put 3-4 tags in the LRB hunt without affecting the annual take. Hunt quality for the late crowd definitely would suffer. This kind of reminds me of what has happened to coues hunting during the rut. Using 24A as an example, there used to be 350 permits in late December. Now there's 50 or less and the remaining 300 got doubled and then some in earlier October/November hunts. So now you've got 700+ tag hunts early on where hunters are all over each other and the animals are hard to find and only the lucky few get to hunt the rut. That model has pretty much ruined 24A for me. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Unit 1, 3a/c & 27 bull hunts.

Great mount. I loved reading the story of this buck and seeing him now on your wall, so well done is just awesome. Congrats again on a great buck and kudos to Weller's.

Bump. IMO, this is one of the best spotting scopes ever made.

Nice!!! He's got some serious spring! 6'4" at 14 - and still growing? And I thought my boys were tall - lol.

I think the first time I burned my hand by grabbing a door knob in my garage in Cave Creek - from the inside - was when I decided to live in the mountains and visit the valley in the winter.

+1

That's awesome - seems the only cats I get are at night, and moving fast.

Very cool pictures. Love the gobbler and looks like the bulls are growing fast.

Sweet gun, does it shoot 3.5" shells?

Prayers sent.

Man - that looks awesome. My youngest has a cow tag in unit 1 though. My oldest son drew unit 1 archery bull second year in a row.

Happy Birthday fellow Gemini.

You guys rock! I spent the day working on a project - turning my back porch into a game room with a pool table, air hockey, etc.. This project started back in December but got side-tracked by the need to help build a new gym for my wife and her partner. Then came the broken shoulder, still coaching little league baseball, taking the boys turkey hunting - it's all coming together now. I can't throw a baseball yet, but I can hit to outfielders, coach my team, and God willing I'll be shooting my bow again this week. We had a great time today - my boys worked hard along side of me, Carrie made an amazing dinner and watched a great movie together. It was a very good day. Thank you for the Birthday wishes.

Looking at buying one. Anyone have real-world experience with them? I'm looking at the .40SW version.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whisky, whisky makes my baby...get a little frisky... Rain is a good thing!

I saw an article on CNN where they were basically saying that life in the Florence, Colorado Supermax prison would be worse than death. This place is called ADX - for 'Administrative Maximum'. The argument was that he'd be on the appeals list for a long time if given the death penalty. So, for this guy, arguably the worst of the worst, he either has appeals and protection in a "regular" death-row prison, or gets to go to a prison where he has basically 3 to 1 guards, nurses, psychologists. We're treating this guy like royalty. IMO, he should be sitting in a 8x8 concrete cell, and have a pressure-cooker bomb go off in the middle of it. If he dies immediately, at least he's dead. If it takes a long time, he'll start to figure out what he did to other people