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No. It was killed in NM a few years ago by Mike Gallo, who I think is the same guy that killed the deer in this thread. Until then, two bucks from AZ were tied for the B&C world record. I believe CWT member Marvin Zieser (stickflicker) still has the P&Y record while another NM 'lope is the top SCI one.

I killed my very first deer, a buck with 12" spikes, in the Catskills in 1960 with a Marlin 336 30/30.

Bighorn sheep lottery tag raised over $109,000 for sheep research and management For the Arizona hunter whose ticket was pulled for the 28th Annual Bighorn Sheep Tag Lottery, it represents the hunt of a lifetime. For the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, it means more than $109,000 in funding will benefit wild sheep conservation in Idaho. The lucky winner of the 2019 Bighorn Sheep Tag Lottery was Andrew Tomlinson, a resident of Prescott, Ariz. The Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation held the drawing outside Fish and Game Headquarters in Boise on July 31. Tomlinson was one of around 1,000 people from across the nation who bought anywhere from one to several hundred chances. The winning ticket was drawn by Idaho Fish and Game Director Ed Schriever. In 2019, the lottery raised over $109,000, the second-highest total ever, and the highest for a year in which the lottery tag cannot be used in Hunt Area 11 in H ell’s Canyon. This year, the Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation donated all of the lottery proceeds to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

So the story goes...

Likely pros at sheep, huh?

Great buck. 👍

Not likely to happen even though we have sold out the soft-cover version of this one. I'm fully retired now, and doing the necessary rewrites and associated tasks would require lots of hours again. Why? Because it would all have to be put into the PDF files anew -- a major task. In the real world of book authors, they write the text and send it to the publisher to do all the rest. Not so with How to Hunt Coues Deer. When I did the original, I also did all the scanning of photos and then had to transform every image, including the digital ones, into print-ready tiff files. Then I had to edit the articles in the TALES section. A few were not too readable as sent to us. 😉 And of course, I also had to write the rest of the book from scratch and take some fill-in photos of equipment, etc. Once those things were done, it was on to the design and layout so everything fit on a page properly. Wherever text wraps around a photo, you're looking at least 10-15 mins. of work. The photo section took me about 8 days to size and caption them and then to do the layout. I did both for the covers and the inside pages using MS Publisher. The printer then converted those files to PDF files for the actual printing. IOW, everything about doing an entire book by yourself is a labor intensive endeavor. So now you know more than you wanted to know about why there will be no 2019 edition. 🤣

According to Leopold, the year was 1937.

It was already known that the lower-48 grizzly bear population was in severe decline in 1966. So it's unlikely a USFW hunter would be out and about killing them. And if that was the case, it probably would have been "news" in that time frame. About 10 years later, the grizz was added to the ESA. The only modern-day killing of a "last grizzly bear" anywhere that I can recall was the sow in Colorado where it attacked a guide who wound up killing it by stabbing it with an arrow. It happened in 1979 in the San Juan Mts., where I was living at the time.

Anytime you use a WA lens and have something closer to the camera, it will appear much larger than a similar item farther away. I'll try not to get too technical, but it's commonly known as perspective shift or perspective distortion. The three things that can affect it are the focal length of the lens, the distance from the subject or the angle you shoot it. As an object gets closer to a lens, the image will appear distorted because of how the angles of light enter the lens. The closer you get to something, the difference of the angle increases between stuff at the center of the frame and the edges. This sort of perspective shift is often seen in pix where the hunter sits three feet behind his trophy or where an angler holds his fish at arms in length in front. Again, in tech talk, it's called a forced perspective, i.e. wanting to get that exact effect. It's an age-old photographic technique that has seen wide-spread use. 😉 A "normal" lens is generally 50-55mm, and it's called that because of how everything appears as close as you can get to what the human eye would see. Anything less, and you're getting into more of a wider angle. Focal lengths that are longer tend to compress objects more. For example, if you shoot a bunch of telephone poles with a 300mm lens in an almost direct line, they will appear to be only a few feet apart in the final image. Now, in this thread, the only images that appear more toward normal are the ones where one rack is sitting inside the other. Both are on the same plane from the lens, so less chance for perspective distortion. Same for Houston's front-on bear rugs shot. His other are skewed because of the angle he took them from with a somewhat WA lens.

If you have any questions about anything in the one above, just ask. Some of the info in it is dated, so don't bet the farm on anything. 😉 And good luck on your future adventures. You're certainly going about it the right way. A little bit of knowledge goes a long way.

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Yeah, I suppose so. But that was the only one I've ever seen, and I've hunted the southern units dozens of times for about 55 years or so for quail, deer and javelina.

I used the info that was included in Jim Heffelfinger's article, which he linked to on the first page of this thread.

About 20 years ago, my oldest son and I got leftover Coues permits for 30B. We hunted at the southern end of the Dragoons. The first morning, we were glassing a promising looking canyon off a long grassy ridge that had few trees on it. I looked to my right and saw something black moving through the tall grass about 400 yards away. At first I thought it was a cow but decided it wasn't moving like one. So I swiveled my binocs in that direction and saw that it was very big bear. He eventually wandered over the ridge and out of sight. I never expected to see a bear south of I10 except perhaps in Unit 29.

Likely something in the way of "STD Destroyers" Motto: Get rid of Serious Termite Destruction.

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I could be wrong on this (really? 🤣), but I believe Burke was the OWNER of those antlers and not necessarily a hunter who killed that bull. IOW, they were indeed sheds. Edit: The sheds were found by Burke in the Springerville area. when he was a teenager sometime between 1908 & 1914.

Quite a bit of difference between cattle and feral critters. The latter are unregulated and serve no useful purpose, while regulated cattle produce beef for our steaks and support the people that own them.

He needs to file a complaint with the Maker. Seems he got a brain and a penis but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Aha, that puts my brainwaves back in sync. 🤦‍♂️ I did recall that it had something to do with a concert but couldn't remember whether it was for getting in or a back stage visit. I didn't even think about the shirt bit. It's been a long time since I have had any contact with him.