rossislider

Have bolt cutters will travel.😄😄 You must have me confused with a different member. 😬😬😬

Up on the strip or where abouts are you at? Before I get jumped on, no I'm not asking for or about coordinates, honey holes, etc. Up north, down south, Coues country, elk hangout, etc? Curious how far it is spreading.

Beams are the size of his cavles. Awesome bull for sure!

Agreed! Well said, I've known Jed for a while and he has personally offered his help if asked. In fact he helped a buddy a few years back on a youth hunt. Can't say enough about this good guy. Agreed 100%. Jed is a great guy. He helped me on a recent deer hunt. He and some buddies walked up on us just as we found my deer in the binos. I think they were coming after they same deer, but we were already there and found the deer first. As such, he was a first class sportsman about it, unlike a bunch of other guys I have heard about in similar situations. Rather then try to beat us into position on the deer, he offered to stay there and keep an eye on the deer while we moved in on him. I didn't know it at the time, but he recorded the whole thing for me. Thanks to him I not only have a great video of my kill shot and walking up on my deer, but he had also been watching my deer for a while. He made sure to get me a bunch of video of my deer and his buddies over the months leading up to the hunt. Total class act!

Had one not show up a couple of years ago. AZGFD issued me a new one. I wouldn't worry about it.

After a hiatus for the past few years, the Arizona Elk Society once again held their annual Wapiti Weekend for youth. This year they moved it a little closer to the valley in what will likely be the new home for their annual Wapiti Weekend and many of their hunt camps, at St Joseph's Youth Camp up at Mormon Lake near Flagstaff. This was the first time my wife and I were able to take out kids but it hopefully won't be the last, the kids were begging to go again next year as soon as we pulled out of camp. The location was great, the kids loved the MANY planned activities, made a plethora of new "best friends", AES cooked and provided more great food than we could eat, and all the kids took home lots of goodies (fishing poles for every child from Cabelas, multi tools, lunch boxes, hats, hunting and fishing licenses, etc). We basically just showed up and let the kids have a blast! Huge thanks to Ken Turer, Steve Clark, Greg Godbehere, and the many volunteers from AES who made it such a great experience. I highly recommend you keep an eye out for the event next year as it will likely fill very fast. There were to many highlight and pictures to share them all, but here are a few:

Hey guys and gals, big thanks to all of you for the support of my son's skull cleaning business since he started it a few months ago. You guys have kept him and his free slave labor, me, (isn't it supposed to be the other way around?) busy with about as much work as he can handle. He has probably done 100+ skulls in the past 4-5 months and has really learned a lot and has greatly improved his techniques. While we were working on some skulls this past weekend we got to talking about a few things we have noticed that hunters can to to greatly improve the final product of their euro and wanted to pass some of it along. 1.Don't keep them in the freezer too long. Skulls will freeze dry over time and start to darken. I don't mean weeks or even a few months, but this will usually happen after a year or more. When this happens the final product will often take on an orange tint during the whitening process. This doesn't ruin your skull, but it is near impossible to get that bone white look. We have gone through the whitening process on some skulls as many as four times, but ultimately there is only so much that can be done. The sooner you do your euro or get it to a taxidermist the better. Even dried up deadheads come out better and cleaner than freezer damaged skulls. Example-The following two skulls were whitened simultaneously in the same pot with the same batch of peroxide. The only difference in the process was that my son has attempted to rewhiten the darker (second) one two additional times with minimal success. 2. If you are going to put it in the freezer for an extended period, DON'T remove the hide. The hide will protect the bone from freezer burn. We had a skull brought to us that had been in a freezer for over 5 years with the hide left on. The hide was badly freeze dried and nearly fused to the bone. After soaking in a bucket of water for several days to rehydrate, we were able to remove the hide and the skull came out very white and clean. 3. Try to keep it in an air tight bag while in the freezer. Easier said than done on a horned/antlered animal. But if possible it will serve as and additional buffer against freeze drying and burn. 4. Don't overboil. We have had several skulls brought to us to finish/salvage where the hunter had tried to clean the skull himself. They showed many cracks and weakened bone from over boiling. Don't let the water get to a hard boil. Keep the water at a low simmer. It may take longer, but the extra time spent will show in the final result. 5. Don't use bleach! People say bleach all the time as an expression rather than an actual step in the process. Bleach is harsh and terrible on the bone. Use peroxide. Again, Draysen has had a handful of bleach skulls brought to him. But at that point, not much can be done. 6. Don't rush the degreasing. Ungulates (deer, elk, etc.) really don't require any additional degreaing beyond the normal whitening process. However, pigs, javelina, bears, etc. have a lot of grease packed into those skulls. The normal process that you would use on an ungulate will have them looking fantastic at first. But after a week or two the grease will start to leach back out and will leave the bone looking greasy. This won't harm anything and it is purely a cosmetic thing, but just doesn't look as good. Eliminating 100% of the grease may be impossible. Believe me, we have tried and have consulted many other taxidermists. But you can eliminate most of it. These skull need to be left soaking in a mild degreasing agent for a week or more to slowly draw it out of the bone. There is no substitute for time in the degreasing process. I'll post more tips as we remember them and will post some pictures soon to show examples. Thanks again

That's a good deal for someone. The rifle off the shelf would run close to $1300. Another $350-$450 for the trigger and brake, plus a lot saved in load development. I'd be all over it if I didn't already have a 300 RUM.

When he asked the guys what he likes about archery, the correct response would have been, it is a lot like golf, but for men.

I think this was last year's tag. If I am not mistaken, the auction and raffle tags run each year from August 15th through August 14th of the following year.

Just posted: https://www.facebook.com/search/str/a3%2Btrophy%2Bhunts/keywords_blended_featured_posts?esd=eyJlc2lkIjoiUzpfSTY2NTM5NDI4MzUwMzczNTpWSzoxNTAwNDQ5NzkzMzMxNTA5IiwicHNpZCI6eyI2NjUzOTQyODM1MDM3MzU6MTUwMDQ0OTc5MzMzMTUwOSI6IlV6cGZTVFkyTlRNNU5ESTRNelV3TXpjek5UcFdTem94TlRBd05EUTVOemt6TXpNeE5UQTUifSwiY3JjdCI6InRleHQiLCJjc2lkIjoiMTAzMDMzNjU3OGQ5MzEwMjQ1NGFhYmFhMDA5ZGU2YzkifQ%3D%3D

Got to watch and take lots of pictures and video of this guy last week until the rain really picked up and sent him to the trees. Pictures taken from just under 1000 yards. https://www.facebook.com/sean.hatch.9/videos/vb.100000437830743/1610811498943429/?type=2&theater

My 12 year old son is looking to start his own business cleaning animal skulls. He is a smart hard working kid, and thinks that this would be a great way to earn his own money through his teenage years. I want to encourage his entrepreneurial spirit, but told him he needs lots of practice before others trust him with their hard earned trophies and money. To that end, we are looking for any skulls we can get our hands on for him to practice with. I will be assisting him through the entire process until he gets it down really good. We have done a couple of coyote skulls already, but we both need a lot more experience and practice. If you have any unwanted skulls that would be good for a practice cleaning from just about any animal (coyotes, javelina, deer, elk, etc) antlered or antlerless that you wouldn't mind donating, or even for a free cleaning (with the understanding that it is a beginner who is learning that will be doing the cleaning), please let me know. We are in Queen Creek, but I could meet in much of the east or central valley. I also get up north on occasion if you are able to freeze and save the head for him. Please, nothing that has been left out and is nasty, smelly, and rotten. Thanks

Sent you a PM. Check out the following post for a lot more information: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/73281-12-year-olds-skull-cleaning-business-new-pics-61917/

Saw this on the news this morning. I don't claim to know all the facts, but on the surface this lawsuit sounds like a bunch of ridiculous BS.

^^^I was going to suggest you go see Junior at Timber Mesa in Queen Creek. But he beat me to it.

I always thought they seemed kind of stupid. But with my knee and ankle issues (I'm one good ankle role away from my 9th surgical proceedure), finally decided to give them a go a couple of years ago to see if I could get a little additional support. I kick myself now for not getting some sooner. I sincerely believe they may be one of the most important pieces of gear I own. I feel comfortable moving through rough terrain at twice the pace I would without them, and feel so much more stable, especially if I have a load on my back. One my son's deer hunt last year we had to move at a near jogging pace to get to a deer before he disappeared. We had to side hill in loose rock hidden in tall grass. Never would have happened without the poles. These are the ones I use: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Diamond-Trail-Trekking-Poles/dp/B001V7YX8G

All do respect, but this sounds like hearsay. If your friend wants to tell his story and attach himself to it, lets hear it. But I've never heard anything but great stuff about the Ground Pounders Crew.

Interested, PM sent.

Subscribing to and using a VPN will get you around any Kodi crackdown concerns. Youtube TV for $35 a month will probably get you all the channels/shows/sports you mentioned. I think they will let you try it for a month for free.

My wife and I are taking our three kids up to the AES youth wapiti weekend next Saturday and Sunday. Any other CWT members taking there kids up? Looks like they have a lot of fun stuff planned for the kids.

What CO sensor/alarms are you guys using?

I've heard the ADA does a fantastic camp! We were hoping to go and help out at the camp, but our tags are taking us elsewhere. I'd definitely check it out.

3A/3C looks like it had some upwards creep this year and took 9 points to draw it in the max (even though I know a 12 year old that drew it with 2 points for his second time in three years). You could draw most any October Coues hunt with 5 points. Those can be great hunts where the deer haven't yet seen a ton of pressure. IMO the December hunts aren't all they are cracked up to be. They have gotten the name "rut hunt" but more realistically, they should be called a "pre-rut hunt" as most years you aren't likely to begin seeing much, if any, rutting activity start until the final days of the hunt. The biggest advantage of these hunts is you usually get an extended hunting period of 2-3 weeks. This year they ended up being much shorter than usual. You also get to hunt in nice cool weather.

I have a 7-08. Great rifle and caliber. However, it required the most work, by far, of any of my rifles to get a load dialed in. Several of my buddies have had similar experiences. But it was worth it and I am very happy with it.