Flatlander

Must make a poppa proud.

Thanks guys. It was a thrill to share it with all of you along the way. And once I got out on the field, it felt like many of you were there with us waiting to hear about every day.

Southwest has their trailer in Ckint's Well. With these warm temps, be careful trying to transport meat. Southwest has always done well for me, and I used to work there so I know how they work when no one is looking. Mike is a solid guy.

What unit?!?! 😀

I can help

Happy birthday Hector!

Those are my old stomping grounds. Do yourself a huge favor when you get there and head straight to Reed's Dairy for a double scoop of huckleberry ice cream in a fresh waffle cone, best ice cream I've ever had, ANYWHERE!. If I lived there I'd weigh at least another 50 pounds thanks to their AMAZING ice cream. Was there last week, but I prefer the black cherry. I still have some manwaring squeaky cheese in the fridge. I miss the South Fork. And the Henry's fork. And the Middle Fork. And pretty much everything else about that place, EXCEPT minus 20 temps.

Awesome bull! Congrats to the boy!

Awesome awesome bull. That thing is sick.

Well this was a lot tougher than it needed to be. The first 7 came out as you would expect, #8 did not and broke off in the head. Fortunately a couple of guys offered me the tool I needed and CTracingraptor printed the ford procedure for both typical removal and extraction of broken plugs. I was lucky enough to have a good buddy who is basically a mechanic helping me and actually doing most of the work. I wish I could blame everything on a piss poor design but letting these plugs stay in as long as I did was a huge contributor. The truck runs great now and my miss has been remedied with just new plugs and it appears no coils needed replaced. I have to say that CTracingraptor is a class act. He not only loaned me the top but bough the plugs for me at cost and gave me a ton of other stuff to help with routine maintenance. His handwritten notes on the plug swap were invaluable. Welcome to the site and please let me return the favor some day! I am sure pics are sideways. Stupid iPhone.

Anybody have the Ford spark plug remover tool? I am getting ready to do my 07 F150 and am worried about breaking them off, as has been well documented.

I am confused by your comments about trust. This isn't a trust issue in my mind. It's a matter of letting others do work the same way I do mine. I don't believe it's unethical for someone to use the info I freely give them. To that point, yes Casey, I told them. I also told the tag holders from this year what I knew about the unit if they contacted me. But I sure as heck wasn't going to write up all the details in a public forum.

Those hunts are tough. This is not your typical AZ rut cow hunt.

I do several weeks worth of work on draw odds to identify what I consider not sleeper units, but opportunity/quality balanced units. If I posted up the units where I have taken nice animals that balance would go straight down the drain. I do the math, and I have seen the trends. For every dedicated hunter who spends 30+ days in the field per year there are 4 people who do little to no scouting, research or preparation. I will provide an example. Last year I killed a quality antelope. I had provided a months long post journaling my preparation and hunt. I never posted the unit in that thread. Between when I posted the pics and when apps were due, 6 different people sent me PM's asking me what unit I hunted because they had high levels of points and wanted an opportunity at a buck like mine. That unit only has a handful of tags. Adding 6 people with high point levels drastically changes tag availability in the bonus pass. Now imagine, those are only the people who had the stones to send me a PM and tell me they wanted to know so they could apply. How many people just looked at the thread and tried to piece it together from pics? How many saw me in the field and did the same thing? How many would have done it if I just posted it on the thread title? Multiply that times 10 if the unit was in the original post and could be found via Google for the next decade. Next month that story will be in Eastmans, how many people would it be if I had included the unit in that article? I would also cite the drastic rise in OTC bear hunters in 23 and tree stand hunters in the workman creek area as prime examples as well. I don't post unit numbers to protect my hard work. I do not hunt the well known units so if people see my success I think it would change my ability to get tags in the future.

What year is the bow madness

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Tell the truth, how many people clicked the link to check out wifey?

That hunt is going to be awesome. I love 5a, every elk I have ever killed was in that unit. Let me know if you need help.

Bigger bull??? That kid has aspirations! Awesome bull, congrats to him!

That's cause every year this thread comes back and we see last years Bulls all over again!!! Hahaha, not sure how this happened but it's pretty funny.

I didn't even need AP on Monday Night to win, and it's a good thing too. Who did I beat anyway?

All of it

How much for the truck?!?!

You can just send it to me

Dang. I never seen him, just heard about him. There definitely seems to be a little bit of a deficit of quality elk in the unit compared to years past.