Mathews

Haha oh man nothing worse than running into quad tracks.. but nothing better than picking up sheds near quad tracks ironically

Started off the trip right picking up a small brown 6 point from the truck (In a hurry, no pics lol) Picked up a year or two old nice 6 and my dad picked up a big brown 6 that kinda looked like the same bull On the way to our afternoon loop my Dad spotted this somehow from the truck Evening walk was slow, I only picked a small white busted off after the sword and Dad came back empty handed The next morning was a LOONNGG walk and I got skunked, but my Dad picked up a hard white broken 6 point and my uncle showed up half way through and picked up the other side lol We went on a mini mid afternoon walk and came back with nothing.. We started the second walk of the afternoon around 4 pm and things were looking as bad as the last 2 loops with boot tracks everywhere.. I ventured down into a big canyon and things got interesting Picked up a decent hard white 5 point, hard to see the g2 and 3 Walked around the side of the small ridge and there was the match! This side had 6 with the 5 broken off, but I was stoked! Found the first shed around 5 pm, I coulda quit here and been satisfied with the walk, but I kept side hilling these small ridges and a few hundred yards later I ran into a brown! A small six in the bag and I was stoked, but I kept going back and forth looking for the match on the same ridge, covered in elk sign and I ran into this... thing! Not the biggest shed in the world, but a match to my 6 point and you cant beat the character! Riding on cloud 9 with 2 sets in the pack already I kept gridding these small ridges and ran into another!!!! A real nice chunk of brown bone, 6 pm now with 5 sheds in pack it was time to head back to the truck. I didnt get a half mile from the truck before I heard my uncle losing his mind! He had picked up a toad brownie across the road from where I was I'll try to get a better pic but its the one with the split g5, Dad got skunked looking for the other side to his brown six from the day before Next morning we moved to a different spot and it was my Dad's turn, my uncle picked up a 5 point brown and I picked a broken brown Few hours go by with nothing exciting and I get a call from my uncle that my Dad picked up a BIG brown 6, the one left of my uncles split g5 in the pic above, figured its around 8'' smaller than the one my uncle picked up, both huge, bad pictures dont do them much justice All in all it was a great 2 and a half days, but we were beat. Heres the hall for the weekend Hope you made it this far lol thanks for looking

Thanks man +1 on the boot tracks... ran into quite a few last weekend, but we were able to pick up quite a few when we could get away from them

WOW thats some good bone

Thanks fellas

Well Joelpresmyk8 decided to take me into a spot he had found a couple browns this year today. Started at sun up and he had 1 decent 6 point and a smaller shed before 8 am. The day was draggin on by 1 pm with no more sheds, compounded by the fact I didnt bring enough water. Well around 1:15 we made a random decision to walk out to the edge of this canyon.. Soon as we get to the edge we hear something crashing out of its bed down below us. I took off down there maybe 50 yards to try and catch a glimpse, of course im dreamin of it being a big bull knockin his sheds off as he crashes through some brush.. I walk around a bush.. AND IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Just like you imagine in your head, it happened. I see the first shed and start hoopin and hollerin while Joels telling me to wait to get it on camera, we walk down there and the other side is 20 yards away!! A little bit of brush kept us from watching a sweet bull shed both his horns right in front of us. Had to sit down and make sure I wasn't hallucinating from dehydration for a few minutes, don't think I'll ever top this in my life. Joel has most the pictures but I'll post what I got till one of us can. The bases were literally wet from whatever liquid is under their pedicles. View from the first shed View from the second back to the first More Pics 6'3'' for reference

Oh and we saw a lion cross the road in front of us lol don't see that very often

We're building quite the stack for you! haha Thanks guys

Thats awesome! Haha we've got a couple "shed" dogs aswell.. Useless is right lol

Haha random decisions is right, always works out that way for some reason... Thanks everybody, once in a lifetime deal like everyone's said

I love the black one lol sweet pics

Looks like you did pretty good! Nice job

That black one is sweet!!!

Hahaha right Never know when its gonna fall I guess, thanks! Lol me too

Yeah it is! Couldnt believe he was still packin Hahaha lucky is exactly right

Right on! Thats awesome man, kids' smiles say it all

My bracket has officially imploded Brian Ha you n me both.. but im still 98th% lol

New favorite!

Started a long weekend for me today and we started if off right!!! I'll post some pics in a bit

haha! ain't that the truth! things go a lot smoother! always gotta have a little smarts about ya! like phil robertson says... bees and ladies.... gotta use the right amount of smoke... LOL! James Haha gotta love duck dynasty

Not bad for the first 3 loops of the year These 2 browns were less than 100 yards apart, thought I had a set! Didnt know whether to be excited there's 2 more in the area or bummed it wasn't a set lol

Theres enough rabbits in that unit to feed the entire states coyote population

Nice!

Tell your wife were going Friday!!!

Thanks Hahaha my hopes are always high, thanks