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I say 116 2/8". I also say that thing is bad a#$

Thank you very much for the kind words guys. Ernesto, my dad was taking the pictures. We hunted Saturday and this morning for his tag. He had a chance at another real nice buck but he got in the middle of some does and would not give him a shot. We will go back out in the evenings this week and see if we can make something happen.

What a pig. Congrats on a gorgeous buck.

Congrats on a great buck. That is the perfect buck to break the ole dry spell.

OMG! That is one heck of a coues. Save your pennies and get afull body mount for that absolute beaut. Congrats to the end of a great adventure.

What an amazing start to this season but I wouldn't expect anything less from the Mullins boys. Huge congrats and hopefully some day I will get to hunt with you guys.

Probably somewhere between 2,850 - 3,000 FPS.

That is a gorgeous mount and deer. I am looking at three coues mounted by Clay in my living room. They are all awesome. My last buck has the same offset turn as yours, I think that looks so cool. Man that buck is an absolute stud. Congrats on a fantastic buck.

Yumabowhunter more like yumagirlscout. Not only can he not pull a 35lb bow, he is trading in his 7MM for a 25-06 because he is scared of the recoil. I think his new name on the forum should be Brownie Leader. Old Brownie leader asked me if I thought a 22 mag would kill a deer because that was as much recoil as he could handle. Seriously though there are a lot of great people around here and it is always great to have good healthy debates, but we need to remember the rules of these debates. No matter how much our opinions differ we need to try and keep it civil and act like grown men and women. This reminds me of the Ron White story about when he joined the debate team and he got kicked off the team because during his first debate after his oponent got done with his side of the argument Ron's response was "well f*$k you then! Now thats funny right there I don't care who you are.

I wanted to say thank you as well. I always need a new CWT shirt.

Freakin great bull! Congrats and welcome to the site.

Man oh man that bull has the ultimate 3rds and 4ths. Unbelievable!

I do agree with the number of hunters being way to high. Three years ago my friend had a late 22N tag. We had scouted some and had a pocket of bulls nailed down in the bottom of this small rim. Opening morning we snuck down in the dark and got into position. As soon as it got light people started shooting straight over us at the bulls below us. We were 300 yards and they had to be shooting at least 700 yards at these elk. They shot over 20 times at these elk right over our heads as we are running for cover. That was one of many close encounters with the crazy amount of people. That year they split the two late hunts as they do now. There was 250 tags in each hunt and it was insane the amount of people. I looked at the regs this year out of curiosity and the first hunt has 400 tags and the second has 470 tags. I will be really surprised if someone does not get shot god forbid. 400 tags in that tiny unit, it is going to be absulutely crazy.

I am going to start calling ypu Christie. I know you wanna have some archery records but I don't think being the first transvestite to kill a p&y bull is the way to go. Just be a man Christie

120" even

You are a bitter old man with out the countries problems !

That was my favorite part about the hunt too. Making two new friends Mark and Troy. We also had the #1 guide with us you can see him in the picture. Ole Manuel (Ernesto's Son), he worked his butt off and kept up with us the whole time.

No I have not got it yet but I will get one tomorow.

Troy you are an awesome hunter buddy (espacially for a 13 year old). You stuck right in there the whole time and even though you missed some you were not getting down on yourself. All of us ran our butts off through those field and you were the one leading the way even when you were tired. It was 10 times better to watch you get your first pheasant than it would have been if I shot it. Any time you need some help or need a huntin buddy you and your dad just let me know. It was a great pleasure meeting you guys and hope we get to hunt together again soon.

Mark, I sent you a PM and I wanted to make sure you got it. Let me know .

I try to keep my dads memory alive and well. I named my son after him Steven Allen Phillips. I still have every single one of his guns all cleaned up and put in the safe waiting for my kids to get old enough. I have afew things that aren't worth much but they mean the world to me like : about 40 or so canadian goose bands from all the geese he use to shoot down here in Yuma when I would go huntin with him. He also had an Indian arrow head collection from my grandparents cabin in Idaho by yellowstone park, there must be at least 25. My favorite though is a 1967 Field and Stream magazine that has an article about him catching the Idaho state record Brook trout at 7 3/4 lbs on his fly rod. I want to keep as much stuff in my memory and in hand so I can show and tell my kids how great of a man there grandpa was.

I got word from Christian today that the Mullin's crew got it done in a huge way last night!

A real good friend of mine has three safes full of model 70's that all shoot great. That is his hobby is to get model 70's and get them to shoot very accurate. Usually if the gun is not shooting well it only takes a good beading job, a trigger and the right load. He has yet to buy one that he could not get to shoot under an inch. You can make your gun shoot no problem.

I had White Cloud Gunsmith in Phoenix do it. I will get a picture of the finished product up pretty soon.

My real dad was a maniac hunter like I am, although I only got to hunt with him for 8 years ( he passed away when I was 8 years old from cystic fibrosis). We hunted deer every single year and I never missed a day out in the field with my dad and grandfather. We would wake up at 4AM every morning and make a huge breafast and set off to glass all day. My dad was an awesome glasser and even at my young age he would always make sure I got to see the animals through his binochulars. He was a true outdoorsman, did not care about the scores just enjoyed being out in nature hunting and hanging out with his family. It has been 22 years since he passed and I swear those memories of hunting with my dad are the most vivid and valuable memories I have in my head. He spent every last minute he could with me because he knew they were limited and he made sure they were memories I would remember for the rest of my life. So next time you are headed out make sure to take a young kid out with you. You will never know how much you are doing for them. I have two kids of my own now a 3 year old and a 6 year old. I try as hard as I can to spend as much time possible out in the woods with them. You never know when your last huntin trip may be. You only live once so live your life to the fullest while you are here.