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HAHAHA! man i know i got a good kick outta that one, thanks KEVIN, really needed that right about now, actually everyone gets to see or hear of big sheds each year here all over in AZ but i'm more interested to see some HUGE sheds from other places, especially NM, i know they have some monsters out there and to see them sheds would be awesome, as far as rules go, i think maybe brainstorming it first and getting more and more ideas from diff members will help, a few of the things i was thinking of would be... well first off the obvious Highest scoring single, matched, typical and non typical racks. heaviest (lb wise or cir. wise) longest main beam (elk) most # of points ...just to name a few things off the top, any other ideas would be great to hear. DAN

this set was dropped in 2005, havn't heard of anyone picking up any brown antlers yet but then again i don't think anyone has been out looking just yet, but i'm sure a few are starting to drop their racks already, last year i found my first brown one right at this time (end of FEB) but i was able to go out a lot more last year compared to this year, work got me pretty tied up this time around but i'll still get out there though, good luck to everyone and lets see some monster sheds! DAN

Here's a set i seen earlier this year, was laying in a heavy traffic area so i had to go back and pick it up asap, would have been a pretty good set to keep but his main beam was broken off on the one side, still a good set from '05. DAN

nice looking pigs there you and your dad got, nice job! DAN

Whoops forgot the rest of the pictures... DAN

few pictures of some critters spotted over the weekend.... DAN

was waiting for someone to spot out that these were taken from up in the air, seen a lot of nice wildlife over the weekend, Nantac Rim had some good bulls but nothing DRY LAKE worthy, seen a lot of bulls with broken tines and antlers too so good to know that we've still got a rowdy bunch of elk, on Big Prairie we counted 136 antelope total with 31 being bucks and then on Ash Flats we counted 114 antelope total with 30 being bucks, 9mile area had tons of big bucks as usual and R-100 had at least 300 elk but few bulls, the main herd of R-100 bulls has moved west towards Yellowjacket area i hear, many sightings there recently. DAN

check out some of the newly added pictures in the SCATRW galleries.... http://scatrw.com/v-web/gallery/Gallery-1 http://scatrw.com/v-web/gallery/Gallery-2 DAN

hey Todd, WOW! hey congradulations to you and your buddy on two very nice bucks! sounds like you all had a good time and everything turned out nicely in the end, good job to the both of you! DAN

Hey everyone hope all is well on the homefront and everyone got a chance to go out and do some hunting, me and a few of my family were able to go out all 3 weekends of our season and at the end everyone got some nice kills, here are a couple of nice whitetails we took, the heavy buck grosses 99 7/8" and the wide buck grosses 104 1/8" with an 18 1/2" spread. DAN

thanks for all the comments everyone, i've been watching all the bucks coming in for awhile now and man there are some really really nice archery bucks and a lot of good hard horns too, this year was the year for wide bucks for me, i seen about 4 bucks that were all over 19" outside easily, i'd guess the widest guy i seen was probably at least 21" outside, the wide buck i posted had a 18 1/2" inside spread and his outside was just over 20", another one of our friends took a really heavy 3x4 that also had a 18 1/2" inside spread and that buck grossed 103", i'll see if i can get a picture of that buck to post, also heard of a lot of 4x4's killed this year as well on the San Carlos so i think it was a really good season for a lot of people. Aoo' Dish Neh says it all Ernesto! haha i liked that. Grim, hunting the San Carlos for the elusive Coues deer is just as exciting as anywhere else in my opinion, we have everything from the desert cacti bucks all the way up to the ponderosa pine bucks and of course everything inbetween, San Carlos is very diverse as far as habitat goes, like i said its got the desert floor creatures up to the deep woodland creatures so choosing the San Carlos could give you a lot of options, but of course there is the cost, i understand completely how a lot of people would like to give it a try but are held back by the cost, it is a lot of money and not everyone can afford it and thats too bad, i wish everyone could have a chance to come here at least once and have an experience hunting some of the big game San Carlos has to offer, if you want more info on the rez or would like to see some pictures of the land or any other questions send me and email or PM. good luck to all remaining hunters on their seasons, take lots of pictures to share with us all! DAN

thanks everyone! DAN

Been out a few more times scouting for some bucks and seen some good quality out there, hopefully get a few chances to pass up some of them for the bigger boys! we'll find out this weekend i guess, anyway out on the scouting trips been able to spot a lot of antlers all over so i brought a few back out that i seen, here are some from yesterday, enjoy and good luck! DAN

haha...........AOO DISH NEH don't really mean anything much, just a made up slang word me and my Hopi bro used alot to tease our Navajo roomate, AOO' means yes in Navajo so we used it whenever he asked us a yes/no question to answer YES to him, DISH NEH means sort of like "i said so!" in Navajo but we just added it for i dont' know why, but yea all it is is just a longer version of saying YES. DAN

jlhcoues, hey i'm glad you've had some good experiences hunting the coues on the rez, man there are some giants in all the units all over the place, lots of hidden pockets no one ever hunts, once the season comes around they just disappear! haha, thats how it goes i guess, me and a couple of my cousins are trying to score on a nice NT 5x4 with some killer mass but he keeps dodging us, see if we can't get him this year, going to try for some big muleys opening weekend though, the herd of elk along the rez line and Unit 28 just keeps growing and growing, hopefully soon enough there'll be a ton of them in there and just be all over the place, its a nice low land place for them to hang out i think, all in them pinons and canyons, well you should get back up in there again sometimes with your son and take some pictures of them bulls, don't forget the packframe for them racks! DAN

Man thats one nice rack there your son picked up! seen a lot of the elk along the southeastern border of the rez that share the same characteristics of that bull, not too much on mass but man they have some long and wild points! the area your son found those skulls is the same area where Mr. Agnew took his 454 a few years ago, we've filmed a lot of elk in that same area too that are very impressive, starting to look really good along there these days, anyway thought i would post a pic of a nice 6x6 that was killed in the same area as well, he's not much on mass but pretty good on tines with 63" main beams, he's the bull on the right in the pic. and one more thing, i think you're right about the elk wandering off the higher elevations to die, seen a lot of sick or wounded elk along the border too, hanging out by themselves down a little lower than the rest of the bulls, i bet if you do some good walking back up in there you can find some more nice racks. DAN

Here's a few pictures of some trophies of the past, first pic is of a really nice 4pt single shed compared to a set of mounted 110-115 gross sheds found back in the early 90's. the second pic is of the same bleached 4pt shed which was found back in the 90's compared to a non-typical pick up skull dating back to the 80s, it scores maybe close to 105 gross or so, no score on the single 4pt shed, maybe some of you coues experts at guessing scores can come up with something, last pic is of a couple of nice muley bucks, the typical buck measures 32" and the non-typical has an outside spread of 34 3/4", just a few pictures to get everyone a little more fired up for the season, happy hunting! DAN

congrats on a nice bull azhuntnut, i like his tine's, very long! your first pic of him sort of reminds me of the bull J. McClendon took awhile back, got the same shape to him, good looking bull, good job. DAN

nice buck Coues7, my first coues i killed was a 3pt that grossed 92", my buck is probably just a little bit smaller than the one you have pics of so i'd say he goes mid to upper 90s, possible 100" buck but i agree with others that he's a little narrow on spread and his beams are on the shorter end, but those tines of his are pretty long and even! i think the first pic you have up of him shows him best, nice looking coues though. DAN

always Drawing all the time, always up for any project big or small, i can do some sketches and i'll email them to you Amanda and maybe you can post them in the forum with the related topic, i was looking at that awhile back and was wondering if anything ever got done with that cuz i'd be interested in getting a shirt, well i'll get some stuff drawn and submitted soon. my cuzin-bro knows its all in good fun from us, just sometimes gotta be a mean apache to him from time to time, he's long gone now though but will be back soon so no more AOO' DISH NEH lately. DAN

well the 4pt shed does look like it could be from a muley at first glance but you really have to have it in hand to see the coues character come out in it, of course i'm not 100% that it is true coues, could possibly be a hybrid or even muley shed but from what i've seen i'm very certain this shed comes off a coues, to be a muley and that small with 4 points coming off the main beam very perfectly is sort of a far reach for me, either way my main purpose of posting the pic is just that, to get insight on what others think about it from the pictures i have put up, any way you look at it it sure is a very nice shed...... ...now, what does AOO' DISH NEH mean? haha, well it don't really mean anything at all, it's more of a Navajo slang word me and my fellow roomates made up and use all the time, in the Navajo Language AOO' means YES, and DISH NEH sort of means I SAID SO, so i guess you could say that it means..."yes, i said so!" but thats not what we meant it to mean, we just made it up to make fun of our Navajo roomate, tease him all the time, so we use it in the everyday to mean YES.....and the artwork at the bottom of my posts i did back when i was in Jr. High and later finished in HS, it belongs to AT now. DAN

nice pics Scottyboy, man them sheds sure are massive! i like the deep color to them too, cool shirt too, sweeeet! i was checking out all those shirts at the Tucson Mall the other day. DAN

nice pics LittleBear, man that 3x4 sure is a nice one for sure, good luck on them this coming season! DAN

well thanks for the entertainment CHEF, that was fun for sure, been a little slow lately......well that coues was pretty tough to see, that was one of my 10 guesses but i got him backwards, i thought his head was were his backend is haha, that was one of the blobs that sorta didn't fit in with the rest of the land, but my guess was down below in the shadows, don't know what i was looking at ? DAN

think i see a lil' guy too but not sure, its a lil' late and the eyes are halfway open. DAN