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Great find! That horn has some serious masssss!

Howdy all. Thought I'd post a couple pics of the ram I shot last month on BLM land. We spotted 5 rams about a mile and a half away and I made a long stalk and took my ram at 240yds. He wasn't the biggest ram but I'm real happy with him. He'll make a beautiful mount.

Nice mixed bag with the stick and string!

Just thought I would share this MONSTER that my buddy arrowed this past weekend. He got it on the second day of the B-zone archery season in northern CA. This buck will rank very high in the velvet catagory for Pope & Young as a 3x3. He would also make B&C but the velvet is not going to be stripped. A couple of measurements; 26"+ mainbeam. There are only 6 or 8 bucks recorded in B&C that have 26" or longer mainbeams. Green gross score-157. There are only 30 typical Blktails that net over 140" as 4x4's, that includes eyeguards, in B&C. This buck should net over 145. 6"+ bases. There are only about 30 typical Blktails in B&C with a mass measurement of 6" or more. Trophy of a Lifetime!

He looks real good Kirk! Summer capes are always going to be a bit on the ragged side...but dang who's lookin at the cape, what a lotta bone! Congrats again my friend.

Great trophys Jason...congrats! Awesome country. Griz, wolf, wolverine...sounds like an awesome place to hunt. Someday maybe.

Beautiful ram!! Congrats to your Bro. What unit? I gave up on Wy. sheep when the point went up to $100

Congrats on the high country muley!

You crack me up He say's they are Tule elk in the first two sentences. Read the articles and don't just look at the pictures I remember being told that

Decided to lace up the boots throw on the "Just One" and hit the hills for a little training for my backpack hunts late Sept. and late Oct. Got to my spot just before light and to my surprise the Tule elk were bugling. I could see one large bull feeding up through the oaks about 400yds away. It just so happened that I had my Foxpro FX5 with me and my .204ruger in case I decided to try call up some yotes. Well it just so happens I have some elk vocals loaded on my Foxpro so I snuck out and set up next to a big oak and started up some estrus cow calls and some bugles. In no time I had a bull coming up behind me another charging in in front, the big herd bull screaming to my left and 2 other bulls bugling from across the hiway. Cows started coming off the hill to my left but the herd bull wouldn't budge. A 5x5 charged in from in front and started checkin the cows while the bull from behind showed up. He was ancent and huge bodied old dude, I'm guessing 10yrs old. He was short beamed and very heavy and busted off on his left side above the 2nd point. I sat there and messed with a bunch of elk for almost an hour. What a thrill! After things settled down I decide to head up canyon and try and call up a yote. I was just about to sneak over a saddle and peeked over the top and there 15yds away was the oldster. I dropped down and got out the camera and got a few pics. Unfortuantly the wife busted the good camera so all I had was the 4x zoom digital. The pica are ok and you can see the mass of his antlers and some of the scars on his body. Enjoy a west coast elk. Oh I almost forgot. Here's a special pic for Coosfan. Enjoy Jim!

Looks too round for a coyote track though. How big is it?

Nice goat...congrats!

Wow...great, great buck!

Pure Columbian Blacktail, west of the B&C boundary of I-5. Arrowslinger slinger is lovin the Stika Gear. Had to go out and get some myself.

Hey Nathan. I usually don't head out for pics until the rut starts up in Nov. Main problem is that I need to get a new camera before hand since the wife dropped the camera I use for wildlife pics

Arrowslinger put the spot and stalk on the monster in one of our NorCal wilderness areas. He arrowed it after an 18 hour storm in the high country. Outdoorwriter will be interviewing Arrowslinger for an artical on the hunt of a lifetime.

115 2/8

Hey Casey I can carry a handgun...a concealed handgun at that. As far a the lions...I wish. And you AZ residents are good people...except around application time

The prison I work at is up by Sacramento. Just got off a 16hr shift...need some sleep cause I've got to be back at 2200 No shortpants I wouldn't think about forgetting the fine folks at CouesWhitetail.com...great bunch.

Hey guys and gals, I haven't been around much for a number of reasons, none bad. I started a new job on Jan. 2nd of this year working for the state of CA. as a Correctional Officer. I've been working a lot of hours. The prison I work at was built for 1700 inmates and we now house about 3500 dirtbags. What free time I have is spent with the wife and boys. Austin is 12 now and completed his hunter safety course this spring and I will be trying to get him his first buck this fall. Hunter is 8 and just likes tagging along. I've been taking them out coyote hunting and thinning the ground squirrel populations on some ranches and farms. I must admit that I have been spending some time on a couple other forums, one is strictly a predator/varmint site. As CouesWhitetail is mostly AZ residents the sites that I most frequent now are heavily Californians, no jokes please . I have meet a number of members and have some monthly get togethers 5 minutes from my house. I have also hunted predators, varmints and hogs with some of them. As far as this year goes I wasn't lucky at all on the draws, 0 for a whole lot. I did put in for mostly the most difficult to draw areas because of the lack of vacation time. As far as hunts, I'm going to try and hunt blktail and bear in CA. and mule deer in ID. I also have a free range Aoudad hunt scheduled for March '08 in NM. Hope you are all well and God Bless, Mike

Oh my what big teeth you have....awesome animal. Thanks for posting.

Way to hammer them cats! Congrats.

Very nice. Keep em coming Christian.

Very nice buck. It's great when you finally get em back from the taxi

I've got the Swaro ATS65 and love it. The angled scope, though a little harder to get use to, is very versatile. I have also found through side to side comparisions, the 65 vs 80mm scope during hunting hours, is that the 65 is more than bright enough.