KGAINES

Congratulations on a successful season, great job.

That is an awesome deer, congrats on your success.

I was in 17a this weekend, seen more beer cans lining the road than ever before, they had a paintball war going on, I think it was on the cross u ranch, but that was down low, more trash than I have ever seen up there at least on the roads, but I didn't see much while we were out hunting, I also didn't see any other hunters while we were out either.

Two that just happened saturday, me and my brother are driving to back to set up our camp at about noon, I look out the drivers side and see a buck, our bows are packed into the back of the jeep, so we just kind of look at it, my brother says that is the robo deer, the tail flickers and it is looking right at me, I say no, then it hits me I am looking at a whitetail, with no velvet on his horns, yep its the robo deer, my brother gets out and snaps a picture or two and we leave, about a hundred yards down the road and hidden is the wardens truck, we are laughing about the whitetail in this unit which don't have any and it was huge even though it was a spike. Our trip was kind of spur of the moment and we forgot a couple of things so we had to run into town. Just before dark, we were headed back to town and there is a truck stopped ahead of us, but coming toward us, a guy is out the passenger side and trying to nock an arrow, arrows are falling on the ground and he is trying to pick them up, he shoves one in his pocket broadhead first, we are sitting there watching this whole thing, the truck starts coming toward us while he starts off the road, the truck goes by, a girl driving and beer on the dash, keystone to be exact, we wait as the guy is slowly STALKING off the side of the road, we wait, we wait some more the truck had parked behind us and was waiting also, now we see him headed our way so we drive on, as we pass him there is a camp a big camp, and just outside that camp is a full size whitetail target, we laughed all the way into town, the game warden must have missed out this time.

Great job, and congratulations Mike. I went up and hunted saturday afternoon and sunday morning, saw four muley bucks, one shot opportunity, one tree branch hit. I set my camera back up while I was there, so now I have a reason to go back next weekend.

My brother brought both his young sons for the last day of a rifle deer hunt some years ago, they were like 7 and 5, I took them with me to glass, later on the way back to the truck I ask them if they know what that is (it was a pile of deer scat), they both pick up a few and look at it for a while, then the youngest one asks me if I know what it is, I say nope, he says well let me tell you because I know what this is, now me and the seven year old are listening intently, these are squirtle nuts, I say what are squirtle nuts, he says these are squirtle nuts, now the seven year old jumps in and agrees with him, the look on these kids faces had me laughing so hard I couldn't hardly stand up, they took them back with us to show their dad, and started to notice every pile of deer poop all the way back to the truck, they decided that this had to be one of the best areas for squirrels around, their dad told them the truth and ended my fun.

WMK I want to thank you for your service to this country and the rest of the armed forces, Good Luck on your elk hunt and God bless our troops

Aliens, ask Lark, they do more than just mow lawns.

I hope he felt sorry for me, I would hate to think he told me where to hunt because he liked what he saw. DessertBull I am sure the guy was traumatized, but then he had to get a shrink to believe that he actually was telling the truth, I can hear the shrink now, how did you feel about that.

Maybe some of us have relative that might know how to build a still, it's probably on the internet somewhere, anybody selling bootleg moonshine that you can run instead of gas, it might be worth looking into, didn't they quit the gasahol thing because it was too expensive, and wasn't gasoline less than a dollar a gallon at that time, Fire up the stills.

I had a general javelina tag a few years ago and a five days before my hunt I tore a hamstring, I decide to go anyways, I could barely walk, heck I could barely sit, on opening day I would drive to high points and glass, my brother was with me to help out, but hiking was not an option, at least not like I usually do, well as I am driving I have a game warden stop me, he tells me it is illegal to hunt from a vehicle, I start explaining my situation, and he isn't buying it, I tell him that I am severely bruised and I can barely walk, he says really in about the most sarcastic tone possible, well not liking being called a liar sort of, I step out of the truck and tell the guy I can show him the bruise, he sort of stands there without saying anything, I pull the forest gump, I pull down my pants, my leg was bruised from just above my ankle to about halfway up my back, black and blue, the warden immediately points out to me every possible place I might glass, or drive to and find javelina, it was wet and rainy most of my hunt and I didn't get one, but I might have put at least one game warden into shock.

I filled up my compressor today, 5+ dollars, for a little less than two gallons, I remember running across town and back with 5 dollars worth and that was in a car or a truck with a carbureted V8 engine, I am going to have to start charging customers extra when I use air tools.

Did you guys see the story of the illegal that made a helicopter make an emergency landing by hitting the rotor with a rock.

Another reason to hunt close to home, at least in our own state first.

On kind of a side note, my aunt was struck by lightning yesterday, she is doing well the last I heard, but a prayer never hurts.

Dodger2, I am praying for your dad, I am also praying for you and your family, I hope your dad is out of the hospital asap. God Bless your Dad and your Family.

I have a fishing story also. We were at Alamo and it was late at night, we had been cathing bass and catfish through the night, I have a buddy from work who is from NEW YORK, he keeps telling me about the fish he caught back there and how big they were compared to the ones we were catching and how there wasn't nothing big in this small lake, my dad and brother were tied off to us and were in one of those plastic 12 foot bass tenders, I had my big baitcaster set up with a bluegill and set to click with a bite, were sitting there and we hear click-----click, click------click, I move closer to the pole and as it continues to click, like in jaws, I set the hook, my boat starts to turn in the water and it in turn pulls my dads boat with it, my brother has the lantern and my dad has the spotlight as I am reeling this fish in, I am getting it next to my dads boat for my brother to grab it and it breaks the surface, big catfish, my brother grabs it and my line breaks, he pulls it out of the water and tosses it into my boat, as I am looking at it I see my buddy almost out the back of the boat hanging on to the motor, he tells me he ain't setting in the boat with nothing that big, the fish was a 20 plus pound channel cat, 23 pounds was what it weighed on my scale, I had to stringer it up and get it out the boat before he relaxed, and then I had to explain to hin that channel cats were the little ones, he didn't say much at work that monday. New York sucks is what I he heard from me for years, but he always wanted to go fishing with me, he just kept his mouth shut.

Az4life you've got my prayers, I hope your mom does well and is out real soon, I feel for you and your wife on the loss of sport and my prayers are with you guys. Good Luck and God Bless.

azcouesdeer, I don't think it is by childs, I don't see any of the nudists next to that 120 class deer under the juniper tree that kaffer62 spotted

Lark how is it that you, I mean that you know the aliens have probes. At least they are on our side.

I know it, but they spelled sucks like graffiti slang.

How close to the border are you lark, if you would pay them they might mow the whole thing. Just Kidding, you need to set up a game camera so you can find the culprit, and then we can all hire them.

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/2...25/2116203.html I like the part where they say that this will deter them from killing cattle, I would think that they are just making the buffet line shorter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050818/sc_af...ce_050818172543

You have got off to an awesome start, great job.