GreyGhost85

Spend some time around beaverhead in 27. You'll be sure to see some Ron. Unit 1 is starting to get over run with them too near the 27/rez border. Just so happens that bighorn sheep inhabit the exact same place as the FERAL horses in 1 and 27. Would we rather see bighorn sheep or feral horses on the landscape? there are around 70k bighorn sheep in the country vs 9.2 million horses, around 50k of which are FERAL, not wild.

Man, this topic went south fast! Love it! I am a horse owner and grew up in a ranching family and I HATE the feral horse plague. Cattle are regulated. When a cow escapes, the rancher loses money. Does it still happen? Yes. There are a lot of people that make money rounding up rogue cattle and selling them because the have monetary value. Horses are not native, plain and simple. AZBH88, do you shed a tear when you see people mowing down herds of FERAL hogs? If horses looked like hogs, nobody would blink an eye if they were shot

Costco has good ones for around $20lb. Bought some a few weeks ago and they were fantastic

Glad I'm not the only one.

I don’t think it would help the highest point holders as much as you’d think. I’d bet that the majority of them either only apply for sheep or have burned all their other species points. All it will do is get the next wave of guys that have 15-20bps for elk, antelope, deer and sheep into the game. There are quite a few guys with 35-50bp’s for bison too.

Or friends and family....Guaranteed

There are 13 people with 20+ BP's for Javelina. if the "combining BP's" talk isn't just trolling, those people have been in the know about this potential proposal for a LONG time. there is absolutely, positively no other way that people would knowingly buy bonus points for 20+ years for javelina. I'd love to see a list of names of the guys that have those points......

I wanna know who the bastards with 29 BP’s for Javelina are

I have stopped hunting them as well because i can't stomach the taste. i've tried it every way and it always tastes like a javelina. The last time i killed one i shot a little guy intentionally, probably 25lbs live weight. i took extremely good care of it, made sure not to handle it much, touch the meat with the hide, etc. i took it home and trimmed everything that even remotely looked off and made a pot of HOT green chili out of the whole thing. It tasted fine for a few days but about day 3 or 4 it started to taste like a javelina again. I once boiled a skull in a turkey fryer pot. i cleaned the pot about a million times and stored it. 6 months or so later i caught a flathead and had a big fish fry in said pot. every single piece of fish tasted just like that javelina smelled. never again...

Where are you located?

Do you have the 22LR cylinder?

I’ve been shooting a .264 win mag my whole life. They are hard to beat. I load 130 eldm’s at 3300fps. Coues poison

if you want to keep it quiet, stay away from an AR-15. They are LOUD. Plenty of cheap bolt action 22mag and 17's being made anymore. Look at Marlin or savage. I have one of the first Marlin 17 hmr's ever made. probably got it around 2003? Shoots amazingly well and i've killed several coyotes with it out to about 200 yards.

Was the billy on it’s own rope or hanging off of you? Just the way the rope was rubbing against the rock in all those different spots and how your descender was hanging up and knocking you around. You’ve got some balls man! I bet you took a deep breath when you hit the ground. Crazy recovery and huge congrats on that amazing animal

I’ve been a tower rescue and rappelling instructor for years and that made me pucker up a LOT! Glad you got him down. That looked hairy

Hard to get much smaller than an XDS in 9mm honestly. Might need to look at the 380 route if you want one much smaller. The Ruger LC9 is probably a little smaller than the XDS i guess.

Hard to beat a springfield xds

....i’ve bought too many guns from you...

This was probably about my 10th consecutive late bull hunt that i had wolf problems. The last few years they have been in places where you wouldn’t expect to see them. There are SO many more than the “experts” will admit. Good thing ours are 70lb domestic dog hybrids and not 150lb canadian gray wolves.

No. The regs were signed, sealed and delivered before the hunts even started. Regs have been out for a week or two.

Well, our hunting "party" was fortunate to draw 5 tags in the same unit for late bull. Getting two bulls on the ground and taken care of is daunting, five seemed downright crazy. Out of the 5 hunters, 2 of them would be happy to just get bulls on the ground (both guys around 70 years old) and the other 3 were were going to hold out for good bulls. With all the snow on the ground, it made access to some of our spots impossible but it did push a LOT of bulls into some other country that seemed to have basically zero hunting pressure with much more forgiving terrain. The first morning started with spitting snow, fog and wind. My dad called us pretty early and said the two older gentlemen in our party had both knocked down bulls and they needed some help. The rest of the day was spent trying to get two bulls broken down and into the trucks through a blizzard. The storm put down a lot of snow fast. we had to get out of the country soon before the roads were impassible. I didn't take any photos of these bulls because we were in such a hurry to get them taken care of and the amount of snow coming down would have made it tough anyways. One of them was a broken 300" type 6-point, the other was a raghorn 5. Nothing too impressive but they were happy. We woke up to about 8 degrees and around a foot of snow on Saturday. We headed back to the same area the two bulls were taken at the day before and immediately started seeing bulls. We spotted 8 or 10 on a near ridge (500 or so yards away) but nothing too enticing. I swung and started glassing the opposite direction and found a bull that needed a closer look. Just when we were packing up i took another look at the near ridge and suddenly there were a lot more bulls that were standing up. 3 of them would have been shooters. I just got a look at the tops of what i thought was the biggest bull and we decided we need to kill him. He had a 340" type 6-point, and a 350" type BEAUTIFUL, palmated 7x7 with him. I had to talk my brother out of shooting either of them because the one looked to be bigger. It was hard watching those two bulls walk away. The biggest one bedded after all the other bulls left the country and we could just see his tops. We decided to sneak in a little closer and ended up getting to about 410 yards where we'd wait for about an hour for him to stand up. He finally stood and walked through a very narrow shooting lane and my brother was able to knock him down. When we made it up to him, we found out that his eyeguards were extremely short. He probably doesn't score as high as the 7x7 would have but he is an ancient bull with incredible tops and main beams. I've been around a LOT of bulls on the ground and this one was probably the oldest. Hunters throw around the term "past his prime" "he's digressing" or "he wouldn't have made it through winter" FAR too often, but this bull was most likely all of those. He was bony, hips protruding, his spine looked like a razor back and his teeth were in BAD shape. Now that my brother was tagged out, we decided to bring Forest and Heather into the same area the next morning. Right away we found a bunch of bulls including the 7x7 that was running with my brother's bull. they were on the move and Forest had to shoot fast. He hit the bull and it bolted. we figured with the fresh snow it would be easy to locate. 5 miles and just some pin pricks of blood is all we found, until our buddy got on a high knob and was able to glass him up again. He made a giant loop and ended up in the same spot he was when he hit him initially. It looked like he basically just burned him and top of the shoulders, he'll be fine. After relocating him and realizing the wound was extremely superficial, we decided that we needed to get Heather on a bull that we had glassed up while pursuing the wounded one. He was in a great spot. We made our way around to him and got to 475 yards and waited for him to clear the other bulls. Heather made a fantastic shot through the middle of the shoulders. The bull didn't even twitch. He has great main beams, wide and good tine length on everything but his left G-5. Heather was thrilled, as she should have been. We spent the rest of the day taking care of this bull. The next morning we went back at it trying to relocate the 7x7 or find another good one. We glassed up a LOT of bulls again, including the one he killed later that day. We made a move on a 340" type 7x7 but he busted us. On the way back to the truck, I glassed a few bulls that were BIG. There was really no way to get withing shooting distance as they were bedded in a big PJ flat. We decided to try to push them off the thick flat and into the open flats. I made a loop around them so my scent would push into them and they SHOULD have left the country the opposite direction as my scent. Well, they didn't read the script and ran the wrong direction into some country that that would have been impossible to hunt. This was definitely not their first rodeo. There were around 10 bulls in the heard and 5 of them were no-brainers. The biggest at a glance looked to be a 380"ish bull that was busted past his 4th on one side. At this point the day was winding down and we decided to get a better look at a bull that Forest passed earlier that morning. We were able to relocate him and we decided he probably shouldn't have passed him. we worked our way into position and Forest shot, hitting him a little far back. All the bulls in the heard headed north. We looked around for an hour or so and scattered in all directions, not finding any blood or a sign of a hit. The smart old bull button hooked the rest of the heard and headed the opposite direction. Forest glassed him beddded under a rock outcropping about 250 yards away and put him down for good. He had 8-10" busted off his left fourth is why he decided to pass him earlier. This elk hunt was a blast. I've been on a lot of them and i don't think i've ever seen so many good bulls. We probably saw around 150 bulls in four days. Till next time

A red ryder BB gun in about 1990... i still remember how excited i was but disappointed that it didn’t have a compass in the stock like in the movie....

Lol. Exactly what i was thinking

Nice job Woody. How about a story?

I feel like having early rifle before archery is a win-win. The outfitters complain about it a lot because they make most of their money on archery hunts and the rifle hunters take some of the cream off the top. The rifle hunters that have waited 20+ years for a tag get first crack at the bulls before they are busted and the archery hunters get to hunt more of the prime rut. I'm probably in the minority but if i were to draw an early rifle bull tag, I'd rather it be before the archery season.