thegunsmith2506

That looks like a pretty big bear! Thanks for posting

Thanks Ernesto! Actually the Taxidermist is my wife. She is just starting out, and hasn't done a lot of mounts yet. Some are better than others, but for some reason I really like this one, so I kept him in my den. Do you have any pics of that 45 pounder? That is a whopper for an Az yote! When I skinned this one he had lots of fat on him, which made him harder to flesh and mount. Here are a couple of pics of this one when I called him in.

Thanks for the info! I wasn't sugesting that we have 50lb coyotes, I was just saying I hear people say they kill them all the time, and that is what made me curious. All of mine range from 15 at the smallest to 38 at the largest. Average I would think is 25lbs. The picture I used for the taxidermist to use as a reference was of an alert coyote. Several people have said he looks too "surprised", but to me he looks pretty natural. I guess i see a lot of surprised coyotes. At any rate... I am happy with it, and that is what matters. Thanks for the nice comments guys!

Im over by Prescott, but would be willing to ship it if you are interested.

I started weighing them a long time ago just for fun. I keep hearing about all these 50 and 60lb coyotes, but I have yet to kill one. Out of more than 50 coyotes 38lbs is the biggest so far.

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That fox looks great! I am pretty sure there is a thread with pics of that mount, look back a few pages

Not sure what Winchester you are looking at, but Cabelas had a few used Winchester Coyote lites. I really like those rifles. I think they were in teh $400.00 range

I really like my Dead Coyote choke. It shoots a lot better than the Dead Dog I tried, but all guns are different. If you look a few pages down, I posted some pattern testing I did a while back. Best thing you can do is buy it and try it out. If you can spare the extra cash, but 2 or 3 different tubes and try them all. Good Luck! BTW The Bargin Cave at Cabelas had a ton of tubes a few weeks ago.

+1 on a good pad, they can make a huge difference!

nice story. thanks for posting

Awesome pics! thanks!

We had 166 elk pics this last week. Here are a few.

Wife and I drew 19a. Can't wait for October!

We went out and checked the cameras this weekend. We had 263 pictures of game animals off of 2 cameras since mid June. I think I finally found a spot to put my treestand for the archery cow hunt. Both cameras took over 2000 pictures with all the wind, so the batteries went dead last week. Here are a few of the pics.

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Awesome bear! Congrats!

Picked up the cams today, they have been out since May 31st. Here are a few of the pics we got on one of the cams.

Just wanted to let everyone know to be very careful of Bowhunters Superstore International. I placed an order with them last year and it took 3 weeks to get my stuff. This year I placed an order just because they were the only place I could find the broadheads I wanted. It only took a week to get my package, but it was just an empty box. It took 6 weeks of calling every day to get my stuff. The lady in the customer service dept would tell me my stuff was in the mail everytime I talked to her. She finally just stopped taking my calls all together. When I finally got through to the owner, he didn't even care. Never even apologized. I got my stuff, but will never order from them again.

there are a few of us over there

Awesome! Nice shooting

Thanks guys. Finding all the cheap parts was the hardest thing about it. I found some great deals, the upper I bought was all parts with no barrel. I had to put it together. Here is a link to where I got the upper. I had to call him to get a better deal on a parts kit upper, and shipping took 4wks. The lower took about 8wks to get, but it gave me time to build and machine the upper. link to the upper http://www.rguns.net/