Red Rabbit

I would think that most people with a high number of bonus points will still put in for those hard to draw hunts as they would not want to jeopardize their chances of drawing, falling out of the top BP pool, or falling behind in BP. I would suspect that any who do not apply, and maybe do BP instead, will be those with few BP or apply for cow elk hunts.

I must have been an old dog this year

Looks like you need to be near there come next archery season. Hard to tell in the photos about the buck in the back, but he has my initial attention.

After the winter storm cleared yesterday, a morning trip to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon was made to photograph the red rocks with white icing. Hope you enjoy. Doug~RR Courthouse Butte-Lee Mtn area off of Jack's Canyon Road Chapel on the Rock Ridge off Munds Mountain Steamboat Rock & Mount Wilson area Soldier Pass Area Ice Cream Rocks in Oak Creek Pool right above Slide Rock Slide Rock on Oak Creek- where many a britches are wore out in summer East Pocket/Secret Mountain Wilderness above Slide Rock

Good news; it has been reported on other forums that the dog has been found!

Thanks for the replies. Stan- glad that the pics could be a Calgon moment for you. Chris- Aside from a few photographers, Slide Rock and the creek banks were void of people. No snow bunnies like on the old beer commercials.

Sunday, February 15, is the last day to send in your entry for the Coues Buck Contest. So, if you or your youth entered the contest last fall and killed a buck, be sure to get your stuff in to me. If you do not see your field photo in the contest thread, one of us forgot. You will need to email me your best field photo, gross score, and link to the hunt story you posted. Thanks. Doug~RR

Sunday, February 15, is the last day to send in your entry for the Coues Buck Contest. So, if you or your youth entered the contest last fall and killed a buck, be sure to get your stuff in to me. If you do not see your field photo in the contest thread, one of us forgot. You will need to email me your best field photo, gross score, and link to the hunt story you posted. Thanks. Doug~RR

Sunday, February 15, is the last day to send in your entry for the Coues Buck Contest. So, if you or your youth entered the contest last fall and killed a buck, be sure to get your stuff in to me. If you do not see your field photo in the contest thread, one of us forgot. You will need to email me your best field photo, gross score, and link to the hunt story you posted. Thanks. Doug~RR

Sunday, February 15, is the last day to send in your entry for the Coues Buck Contest. So, if you or your youth entered the contest last fall and killed a buck, be sure to get your stuff in to me. If you do not see your field photo in the contest thread, one of us forgot. You will need to email me your best field photo, gross score, and link to the hunt story you posted. Thanks. Doug~RR

Here's some comparison pics from today's Sedona trip. Seems the +1.7, +2 EV blew it out a little. Perhaps +1 would have been better. +0 EV +1.7 EV +0 EV +2 EV +2 EV and darkened highlights w/ PSE7 Doug~RR

did you see this one? http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/u...rue#Post2790064

You might find some useful info here: http://www.backcountryhunting.net/forum/index.php http://kifaruforums.net/index.php The latest Backpacker Magazine annual gear guide should give you some useful ideas. You can read the ratings and reviews of most items on rei.com

I measured 26" in the backyard this morning from Saturday's and yesterday's storm. Some melting on Sat/Sun and settling has occurred. With the snow pics, you may want to take a series of pics and overexpose +1 to +2 EV to get whiter snow instead of gray. Sometimes, putting the white balance on "cloudy" helps a little. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorial...sing_snow.shtml

Had a pleasant, albeit windy, Sunday near Sedona. Oak Creek was swollen and more suitable to kayaking than trout fishing. Hunted some Gambels this morning and then took some side roads to get near Bear Mountain to shoot some photos this afternoon. Fortunately, we did not get drawn into a vortex. Doug~RR

CS, Bear Mountain is a gun/archery store in Mesa.

Being that that is a popular area, someone will hopefully find the dog (and the dog will come to strangers).

From what I have read and have been told, the orginal problem was that Sportsmans was not paying it's bills (and building new stores instead) and thus vendors were not shipping. Recently, end of 2008, a very wealthy farming group from Canada has purchased Sportsmans and are clearing up the credit problems. Add to the election of Obummer and the resulting gun/ammo/reloading buying spree and hoarding, everyone's shelves are nearly empty. I would imagine that Bass Pro, Cabelas, and the local mom and pops are not much better in terms of commonly used components. Midway and Cabelas are backordered on primers.

Did you put your camera over an existing natural scrape, or did you make a mock scrape? If you have had cameras over both, do you notice a difference in how many times they are frequented? Wonder what the doe is looking at? Maybe that buck is around from 9 minutes earlier.

Could bump up an old thread about one's first coues hunts. Still lots of room for everyne to add their story and pics of their first coues hunt. Neo L's was pretty cool. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...ic=6772&hl=

I hear the Edge Pro is very good. http://www.edgeproinc.com/default.htm I am using the Spyderco 204 http://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=77

here are some tanneries. My taxidermist in Flag has used Golden State in CA, and one in Victoria, TX http://taxidermy.net/suppliers/tanning.php

Reminds me of the Dwight Schuh line of packs, currently by Fieldline.

What do the pictures show after the catch and before before contact is being made? Seems the contact on the right side would tend to lift the right side leg and hence the toe. Likely, this is an after the fact photo, imo.

Dave and Larry, A pair of nice bucks for you. That extra beam sure has character. Doug~RR