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My boy and I are headed back on Friday. Shoot me a PM or text.

Probably just keep the one I got. Can’t afford any more and can’t afford to get rid of this one even if I wanted to (which I don’t).

After being on the Bab for 5 days I suggest Fredonia.

Congrats again. Definitely a unique experience.

For what it’s worth our 12AW tag hasn’t arrived yet either. At least the deer ones. My kid has a buffalo tag in the truck he is itching to use this weekend. None of our deer tags are here yet though. (4 in this house)

Fat girls need love too. #noshame #keephammering

You want some more of that beefalo don’t you?

Now that I think of it, there is one change that actually would increase draw odds. Make people choose to apply for a single once in a lifetime hunt (either rocky or desert or buffalo) Or apply for anything else. No bonus points for OIL. Thats why ID has the best sheep and moose odds in the country.

As a kid I can remember visiting my grandparents and cousins in Idaho and Montana. We'd all be outside eating homemade ice cream and reminiscing about old times when the conversation would inevitably turn to the time Grandma got chased up a tree by a moose, or when one got a tire swing stuck on its antlers at the cabin in Island Park, or when one chased my cousin Brian home after he fell off the snowmobile. Still today at just about every family gathering just when things start to quiet down someone will call out in his direction "MOOOOSE!" These experiences and many others shaped my admiration of the largest member of the deer family. When we would spend summers at the family property in Clancy, MT, the most prized of all sightings was a bull moose. Their huge black bodies, contrasted by wide flat, white palms in the creek bottoms or black timber are mesmerizing. While attending college in Rexburg, ID I spent as many hours as possible exploring the Big Hole mountains just outside of town. I hunted elk and deer there but was always distracted when an 8' ungulate would cross my path. One day in November while looking for a cow elk I watched a behemoth bull moose peruse the timber apparently roaming for a second cycle cow and I promised myself that one day when I had the time and money I would be back for one of the beasts. Those lean college years didn't allow me the opportunity to trophy hunt, let alone do justice to a once-in-a-lifetime venture. But I took note of the favorable draw odds, especially for residents, and committed that the day would come. Before leaving my native born state again I scrounged up the few hundred dollars to purchase a lifetime license ensuring that the NR cap for such a tag would never become a barrier to entry. So this year, 10 years removed from my post-collegiate departure, I decided the time had come to begin the process of grinding away at the 18% draw odds. I figured that even without a point system in Idaho the expectation was that I would draw a tag within 5 years. So imagine my surprise last Friday when I was greeted by this

Clay Goldman / Mogollon Taxidermy

He was in St Anthony. A little bit of a drive, but worth it. Idaho doesn't have any CWD cases yet but AZ doesn't allow bones or head tissue from any state.

Always knew that about you . . .

Its superb. Pretty exciting about that hunt. If you need any tips about the taxidermist I used to clean my skull and salt my cape or anything else just let me know. I'd be happy to help anyway possible.

How many nephews you got? Every time I look on here you are taking one of them to kill something. My mom kissed a fish before she threw it back once, can I claim nephew status?

Awesome glass. Way better than most anything Vortex. Great price for some reliable durable 15’s.

Relax . . . no one is implementing this before your muzzy bull hunt.

Honestly, that could be one season. A pivoting hammer, exposed primer and iron sites isn't that much more effective than a recurve.

Had to move into a new house so we could have big mounts

Brought him to his forever home yesterday

Yeah this makes me nervous

Yes, a decline in opportunity for the current generation. That’s what concerns me.

Freezer wrap and paper is pretty cheap. Works good too.

Nice buck Tony. The year was sort of random... 1965 was the year my dad turned 17, so the last year he would have been eligible for youth permits (had they existed and had he lived in AZ). It was basically just a way to distinguish between opportunity available to his generation and that available to our current youth. Its eye opening when you realize how much opportunity has declined in such a short period of time.

Ok, ok relax I was just rattling your chain Bob. I would be through the roof excited if we killed a buck like yours. No TV stars or trophy hunters in this house. Just a bunch of average, meat hunting, shmucks. Heck everyone knows I killed a dink on my 3C archery hunt.