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.....You know i really have to thank the wild life managers at the Game & Fish for giving alot of datta on the sheep areas!! and i talked to a couple of hunters from years past the had taken sheeptags in the unit!!....Hats off to you "Steve Stayner"!! thank you everyone!

well i used a custom made rifle in a 30.06 cailber! i used Fed, Prim, vital-shock in 165 grain!! the rifle was in a 700 action made buy "Doyle Shamley"! from Shamley Arms out of eager AZ ,....and my beast freind is 44 years old hits the gym every day eats right! but most of all he works cardio and legs!! legs!!!!!! an do more legs!!!!

Thank you Jay!! and thanks for in info, you offered me! it was truly a hunt of a life time!!

thank you!!!

Thank you trophyhnter!

OMG! yes it was!! i aint going to lie! it was emotional!

YUM!...of corse i'd have to try it first to see if my family would like it!

Yeah i chose my rifle! i told myself if i cant sneek up on him with a close bow shot id use my rifle!! the country was really rough and the sheep new i was already in the canyon!! id take onr step forward an slide three back! cusing small rock slides!! i was "PROABLY THE QUIET ONE"! lol! soooo once in a life time!! you know!! no regrets!

Hey Chef, any suggestions how I should cook this mutton? I have never eaten it before, but I don't want my first taste of it to be a disappointment. And I know, this is right up your alley!!.....HELP, a recipe would really be appreciated!!.....Thanks!!!

Thank you guys for your servise to our country as well! Great storey!! congrats!!!!!!

My hats off to you! very, very nice write up! it brings back the past in a big way for me! Yes when time was slower and us as kids didnt have cell phones or video game!!..... just think how much time we would have lost hunting birds if our parents had cell phones! when it was time for dinner!! lol!...i hope you take the buck an have him mounted so you can look up and remember the hunt with your buddy!! good times!!.. WOW! nice! thanks for the write up!!

Thats cool!!....As long as i have been hunting i could never tell the taste differance between a 110''inch or a dink?..Congrats on the buck!! i'd have shot it too!! My wife is a better shot then me! thats why i listen to her!

The Mexican Army has been coming over into the US for awhile now!..some of them do gard the drug shipments thats no new News! As hunters we are better to be a Mall Cop! ""PAUL BLART""! abserve an report! those weapons strapped on there back aint for playin around!....belive it or not they are highly trained ! we more so then most of us hunters anyway!! i know there are some speacil forces retired guys out there hunting too! But They aint playin!!.....any way the OBAMA said " WE DONT HAVE A BORDER PROBLEM"! so we dont need our amy on the border! and Janet Napolitano confirms it as well!! they said we have nothing to worrie about it!! .....just becareful out there guys!!! they play for keeps!

Awsome Buck!...congrats!! Nice job!.... !

Well still hard at it with finding the RAM i want! i think i found him! we are going back up after him for a closer look in the morning!..here a couple of pictures of a ram me a my wife snuck up on! an my buddy was out hunting deer with his son and forgot about deer to watch this big ram! hope you enjoy!! I'll keep posting pictures as we get closer and closer to the hunt!! The Ram im after is not pictured! i hope to some tomarrow! thought you'd like to see this smaller ram!

Thanks Domingo!! Yeah i told Ben we would go help if we fill my tag right away!!

Well went out to go look for sheep yesterday!! found "Haystack!" now i got to find the needle! ....man was it hot a steamy above the canyon!! and very green! feed every where no sign of sheep in spots game & fish had on maps but! no sign of anything moving out there on a full moon extremly hot day!what should i expect!? heck my jeep was vapor locking! had a hard time getting out of there!! but i still have a long ways to go before hunt!! it was just to look at country trip!....just cant belive how green it is out there! water everywhere! grass up to my knees!! it awsome out there!

thanks everyone!!!! .....gbocardo!! good luck with you and your wife on your hunt!! you still got a couple of days!!

I first got familiar with this area last year on a coyote hunt and I saw this huge buck stand up out of his bed after hearing my first set of squealing from my electronic caller! So I made a mental note and when time for putting in for deer came around, I put in for that unit! Low and behold, I drew the tag! After a couple of scouting trips and watching this big buck grow in the velvet, I figured this was going to be a cake walk. Well, as usual, I was wrong! The unit only had 75 tags in there and I didn't think I would see any hunters in this particular area, but as luck would have it, it seemed like all 75 hunters showed up in this area opening morning!! It seemed like every little vantage point was covered by hunters all but the knob that me and my cousin were sitting at, and sure enough we found that big buck and 6 other ones along with it running on the flats, like rabbits, a way from us!! I've got to be honest with you, it was disheartening! So we glassed the rest of the day and talked over the next morning's plan. My cousin Brian and I along with my wife, decided we would show up the next morning on the opposite side of the valley on top of a rocky bluff, next to the cut where the bucks ran through the morning before. With a slight breeze in our face and the sun to our back, we snuck up onto the bluff and started glassing before the sun started to come up. A while later, my cousin was glassing across a little valley to where we were the morning before and said 'he's got deer' and I asked him 'any horns' and he said "a nice wide 3x3 and 2-2x2s coming our way in a hurry! You better set up"! So right in front of me, there was this big table size rock that I laid my rifle on and asked my cousin for a range. He said "350 yards". So I put my gun turrets at 350 and he told me 'the buck's following the rear about 100 yards behind the other 2 smaller bucks'. As I was watching the big mesquite tree where my cousin told me the buck was going to pop out of, I held my cross hairs right to the left of it and waited for the buck to appear. When he stepped out from behind the tree, he paused for a moment and I pulled the trigger and he dropped in his tracks. After taking a bunch of pictures and field dressing the buck out, I loaded him on my back and headed for the jeep! Now I am use to hunting white tail and packing them out, big mule deer are a different story!! My back was killing me and I was cramping up bad, but I got him back to the jeep and here are a couple of pictures of my little adventure and one of my most memorable hunts and to a Perfect Plan!!

I used a custom made 30.06 from Shamely Arms he lives in Eager AZ,! its topped with a LeatherWood scope/Hi-luks with turrets that goes all the way to a 1000 yards! the bullets are Fed, prim, Vital- shock trophy bonded 165 grain! its a tack driver!! very heavy tho.! but will worth the carry!! ..thank you guys! lots of fun!!...my wife used the same rifle a week before on her hunt she took her whitetail at 584 yards with it!! and last year i took mt 85 inch boone an crockett with it also at 501 yards!!....i love the rifle!! very smoooooth!

LMAO!!.........thats too funny!! but your right on that one! OMG!

Thank you guys!!... i love the support on this web site!!

Let me just say! i didnt think id make this hunting trip!! But i came out with a filled tag! thanks to freinds an my wife for maken it easy to get up to the mountains!....But no bear this time!! BAD BEAR JUJU is real! LOL! but i got my turkey!! an had a blast! thats all that matters!! AN A BIG THANKS !! to Shane & Stacey!!

My wife took her buck opening day a little after noon time!She was shooting a custom made 30.06 made by Doyle Shamley from "Shamley Arms"!! We had found the little group 3 bucks at day break! We were short of time so she elected to take the 2x2 that was broken on left side! We had her set up a couple time's until the buck stood up at 584 yards and with one shot dropped the buck! i very proud of her! congrats to my wife! it was not the biggest one on the mountain! but it was her's and she had ben getting ready for this shot all summer!! : )

Thanks guy's! i never belived a 30.06 could shoot like that eather! but the guy who bilt it did a wonderful job with the sit up!! turrets and mil-dot scope! barrel etc,! then i read the story of Gunnie Sargent Carlos Hathcock!! he did amazing things with the 30.06!!...and my wife can flat out "SHOOT"!!