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Cool deal! Congrats on his pig. I bet he had some nice javi cologne after holding him up like that!

Any coues in unit 28 is a cool deal.... ain't a unit with a lot of coues deer.....

I have the 3/4 HP and I don't understand how anyone would ever need anything more than that. You will never be able to put anything down through it that it won't handle and handle with absolute ease. Having owned it and used it I kind of chuckle thinking that you would be concerned with it. If the neck is something you're worried about just cut your meat a little thinner..... not a big deal. I would use the extra 50 bucks on getting some bags and tube attachments for your burger.

Its going to be difficult to find a decent pair of adjustable powered binoculars... I would definitely go fixed. You need to spend some time behind them and pay attention to the collimation to make sure they don't make you go cross eyed. The problem I had with lower priced binoculars is the eye fatigue; there is nothing worse than getting a headache and having eye strain while you are glassing. It will impact your effectiveness at being able to glass effectively. It would be best to find a store that will allow you to take them outside with an employee and glass at dusk.... you'll find out a lot by doing that. As mentioned above.... I would go in there with a dollar limit and don't spend time glassing with the higher dollar binoculars because you will want them. Stay to your budget. If you want to spend the money, go swarovski and they will be the last pair you buy for many many years.

Garys work is awesome. $75 for an elk head. Can't beat his quality and is usually quick to get it back to you. Definitely top notch work.

Very good looking buck. Sure is pretty. Congrats.

Packer, Thank you for replying. I will start sending my emails to the commission. Thanks for taking the time to reply back.

Hey Packer, Congratulations on your bull! What a stud that many of us would be thankful to have. I imagine you are still on cloud 9 after having taken him. Thank you also for bringing up the information that you did; it is good to know. I have a couple of questions: -Is there a possibility of stratifying the hunts more to have less people in the field at once which would help make it more enjoyable for those that would like to have fewer people to contend with? For example, cow hunts that don’t coincide with a trophy bull hunt? Or, reducing the number of tags per hunt, allowing more hunts, but having shorter hunts to still allow for the tag allocation to be met? - On your guess, what number of people would be needed at a dept meeting to actually sway recommendations? You say only 5 people may show up, which doesn’t show a great concern…. I would say that the dept needs to extend its method of receiving input rather than just at face to face meetings. The world is changing in communication purposes and just because folks do not show up at a meeting does not mean that they do not have concern. This is fact. Another question is not "why", rather “how” can you accommodate so many folks in the field and expect them to have a quality hunt with the tag increases? For example, unit 22 does not have the room to hold the amount of tags that are recommended for people to have hunting opportunities with fewer people. Take for example the muzzleloader hunt during the rut, 40 tags last year, raise it to 50 this year. Yet, the huntable area and elk habitat for 22 S is ridiculously smaller than units that have a substantial amount of elk habitat and their rut hunts have fewer tags allocated… That doesn’t make sense, especially when other areas have a larger population of animals. - Why not break the numbers down with fewer hunters in the field at once? Give out more hunts to hunt on, which would increase the draw results… With the same number of tags that you want to allocate, the harvest objective would be met, just over more hunts? - There are things that the dept are doing well and things that can be enhanced to better the system. I very strongly disagree that just because folks don’t show up to a meeting that they are dispassionate about what is happening and I do feel that the dept needs to get their opinion in some other manner than at these meetings and get better involved with the times that we are in with communication. The fact that you have many folks active in this thread shows the passion and imagine the number that "want" to engage in the thread but won't for whatever reason. - I see the tag increases and understand how you can make a recommendation based on several factors, but then again there are many subject to your opinion and recommendation that don’t feel like we have any choice but to “take it” and live with it. Maybe the mindset of “we have meetings to discuss it and no one shows up” needs to be “let’s figure out a new way to let hunters help with what they are seeing in the field” and take our word into the factor as well. Thanks

He is a very good bull. I would shoot him opening morning of my Nov bull tag. Pic quality is OK. Gets grainy when you zoom in but good enough to see he is a good bull

Wow. That's crazy. So much for a quality time in the woods for those that draw the 27 and unit 1 tags. You'll bump into people all over the place. Common sense should say to move the antler less hunt to not conflict with the archery bull tags during the rut. Give guys a chance to have a few less people in the woods. After waiting 10-12 or more years to draw a tag..... good grief. LoL on the 22's. Wow. Its way way crowded as it is. Gonna be a circus out there now! Unreal.

Not sure that the popular vote would work. Leftists can still bombard urban areas to dictate the election. The fact that Obama will appoint 3 new justices will result in the electoral college staying the same. Leftists are wise and deceptive and they know how to win an election. I would be for a single vote for every county in the country. Then the candidates would have to appeal to both rural and urban to get elected. As it stands now, if the GOP doesn't figure something out and appeal in some manner to urbanites then they will never win another presidency. The economy was the number one thing on folks mind per exit poll status. Obama has higher unemployment higher food stamp issues among a list of more..... and he still got reelected. People in the deciding states proved that despite all those failures, Obama still needs to be the president. The electoral college will still exist and it won't be changed. The GOP must appeal in some manner to urban areas in some way. I think the best thing to do is to have an ethnically diverse candidacy that relates in that way as the urban areas are the most ethincally diverse places in America. When they do that, we stand a chance. If they don't then this will be the result from here on out. Watch it happen. I'm GOP and I recognize that the diversity needs to exist. The USA has changed and the GOP is gonna have to adapt in some manner and that's not all a bad thing as long as we keep our morals and values.

Something needs to be done with it. I'm sick and tired of urban America dictating how rural America lives. The leftists have figured out that they can hammer the urban areas to be elected, change the country to have urban values and forget about the rural life. It doesn't sicken me that Romney didn't get elected per se. What sickens me is that the majority of people that determined this election have come from the urban areas that have nothing in common with rural life so we will be forced to mold to the needs of them, their ideals, values etc. It absolutely should not be about race and unfortunately it has become that. Look at the statistics of voters per race.... there's a huge trend. If the GOP ever hopes to have another person in as president, they will have to find a candidate that relates to the minorities. I don't care if the person is black brown blue or green, but it obviously does care to a lot of folks. I hope the GOP elects to have an ethnically diverse set of candidates run for the next presidential election or this will again be the same result. We live in a different time and place now. It has to happen.

I have viewed the Kaibabs and 15 SLC side by side. My eyes did not care for the Kaibabs too much. The edge to edge clarity wasn't close to the SLC's. The center image was nice and clear however. If you get a chance, do a side x side early AM or in the evening. This time of day will show you what you want and the difference. I prefer the SLC's hands-down. Always fun to be in the market for new optics. Good luck.

Hey All, While out last weekend in 22, I lost my camera. If you happened to find one or know someone who did, I would really love it back. I have backtracked and it isn't anywhere that I was at. It had a lot of pics from my son's first T-Ball season and family/friends' photos. If you found it, PM me and I will verify the camera. If you're dead set on keeping the camera as a finders/keepers type deal then I would gladly like the SD card back and can figure out a way to send it to me. Thank you.

Woohoo! Got my camera back. I appreciate all the help and concern. Its good to see those pictures again. Pwrguy..... Thank you; class act.

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Thank you for posting this. I sent you a PM.

Hey thanks for all the support and assistance folks. Its really really cool to see. Does anyone have his link that you can PM me? Shed hunter I replied to your pm. Thanks all!

Hey All, While out last weekend in 22, I lost my camera. If you happened to find one or know someone who did, I would really love it back. I have backtracked and it isn't anywhere that I was at. It had a lot of pics from my son's first T-Ball season and family/friends' photos. If you found it, PM me and I will verify the camera. If you're dead set on keeping the camera as a finders/keepers type deal then I would gladly like the SD card back and can figure out a way to send it to me. Thank you.

If his antlers grow like that due to an injury then his offspring shouldn't because his genes wouldn't mutate. If his genetics call for antler configuration in this manner then his offspring could possibly show similar characteristics. However, the cows he mates with could have dominant genes that could overshadow this defect and show normal antler configuration. Theres no gaurantees with genetics.... just probabilities.

Looks like its gettin rollin right now. High winds here in Payson. Must be the same over there....

How is Big Lake this weekend? Heading up to nutrioso on Thursday for a few days and feel the need to hit Big Lake a time or two with my boy and old man. Long shot on Pratt but has anyone fished it this year too? Any water? Fishable?

And i guess we should just forget about those "real hunters" who may be strapped financially to be able to put in like the "real hunters" darn people that have hard times fall on them..... boy lets give it to em eh. Real logical thinking there. Why dont you just forget about it and move on. Let folks apply when they want and let it be.

Happened to me last night..... would get halfway done and it'd kick you back to the home draw page. Had to tinker with it several times and eventually got everything submitted. I got to where I'd close out the browser after a successful entry and it went fine.

It would be nice to have the option to opt out of this. It would also save the outfitters and guides uneccessary postage fees for mailing the flyers to those that know for sure they are not using the service. Should be a win win I would think.