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  1. D_Walt

    Son’s 2022 Mule Deer finally home

    We got my son’s mount back from his 2022 Colorado Mule Deer. Quite pleased with the mount. A touch over 34” wide at the tips of the beams. For reference, the whitetail on the right is 20”+ inside and scored 174
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    Daughter took her friend hunting

    With all the influencer threads threads going on I figured I’d post a quick story and pic about my daughter “influencing” her friends to go hunting. We are very fortunate to have access to some fantastic hunting grounds and I encourage my kids to bring their friends to hunt. We’ve had quite...
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    How steep is too steep?

    How steep does a mountain have to be before you just say “nope”. Screen shots below are of some steep areas I’ve hunted, one area I went up with my teenaged daughter week before last in her muzzleloader hunt. She was asking how much steeper of a hill can you actually hunt? My response...
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    Daughter’s 2023 Muzzleloader hunt

    My daughter was lucky enough to draw both a buck tag and an elk tag for the Colorado Muzzleloader season in the “kids draw”. She is 16 going on 17 next month and already has a few mountain hunts under her belt. Due to school commitments we weren’t able to get to her unit until Wednesday...
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    Muzzleloader season decisions

    My 16 yo daughter drew a muzzleloader buck and a bull tag in the second draw. I know the unit really well and have hunted it 10 of the last 15 years and spent a week scouting every year in the summer during that time, but have never hunted Muzzleloader season. She won’t be able to hunt the...
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    NR’s chance to put $ where our mouths are

    With all the tag cuts in the West this year it seems that us Non-Residents have an opportunity to put our money where our mouths are and make a donation to a wildlife department or organization in a state that you won’t draw a tag in this year. Seems like a reasonable thing to do, some of you...
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    Non-hunting vacation- Washington, DC

    The wife and I have decided to take the kids to DC this summer, going to be there 5 1/2 days in late June. Kids are 13 and 16, both have a very strong interest in history, and I figure we might as well show them a little of how/where our government works so they can have some context to my...
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    Wounded deer

    With the recent thread about deer lost to wounding, I thought I would share this to show how tough a wounded deer can be. This video is from a couple of weeks ago, one of my son’s friends (middle schoolers) wounded a buck on the property we hunt in South Texas. We found some stomach...
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    34” wide Colorado buck

    My 12 year old son was fortunate enough to draw a Colorado second season buck tag in the “kids” draw this summer. The tag was in the unit next door to the unit where my brother in law, my Dad and I had drawn 2nd season buck tags. My Brother in law and I got there Thursday evening before the...
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    Colorado 1st season success

    My daughter drew a 1st rifle bull tag in the secondary draw for a unit I know well. She has been extremely excited about it for months, she was even more excited that the hunt would take place over her 16th birthday (which is today). We made the 1000 mile drive Thursday night and found some...
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    11 days And counting!

    11 days until my daughter’s Colorado elk hunt, finished dialing a 7mm-08 load over the weekend. Settled on a 140 TTSX over Power Pro2000MR because it was available. 2945 fps. I think this load will work. She’ll turn 16 while on the hunt. We have her 1st rifle CO elk hunt, then my Brother...
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    Awesome Javelina

    I’ve been trying to find a way to make Javelina taste good, not just merely edible. Not gonna lie, I’ve cooked a few that tasted like a combo of feet and skunk juice. We have an abundance of the stinky little buggers and I have cooked them many many times - usually “edible” is about as good...
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    Stock tank bass

    Some fun fishing in the stock tanks this afternoon; I restocked our tanks in 2018 with bass, catfish and bluegill after a bad drought a few years before had them dried up for the first time in 50 years. My son caught this one today, not as big as the one that got away though😉
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    Looks like a good rain in NM

    Looks like parts NM has been getting some good moisture all week, any of you guys that live there had any significant rainfall?
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    Happy Disappointment Eve! - draw results tomorrow???

    Seems the consensus is the NM draw results will be out tomorrow, that would make this “Disappointment Eve” - the last night of dreams of NM elk for the year. 95% of us NR’s will be seeing “red” in the Morning. Good luck everyone and here’s to hoping there is “green” in your near future!
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    Fired up the smoker when I got home

    Smoked a backstrap and a ham roast for dinner, it was outstanding. Kids made quick work of it! Since my wife wasn’t home when I started cooking, our “vegetables” consisted of two kinds of potatoes, jalapeños and refried beans.
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    Persistence pays off

    My daughter had seen this buck for few seconds back in October at our south Texas hunting grounds and had been looking for him ever since. She passed many other bucks with the hope of finding him again, he showed back up this morning and her aim was true. Not bad for an 8th grade girl.
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    Camping in Grizzy country

    For those of you who frequent grizzly country and set up a truck based camp; do you set up a separate cook tent/area and if so how far do you set up from your sleeping tent? It has been two decades since I camped in the GYE and back then we thought we were tough enough we’d have just eaten a...
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    Corona Saturday

    Trying to keep ourselves entertained today, a few fish, a rattler and a bunny...keeping freezer full
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    New guy from South Tx

    Hello, new guy from South Texas here. Been lurking for a long time figured I might as well sign up and join the conversation. I’ve been hunting Colorado and New Mexico for the last 12 years for deer and elk as well as whitetails down here my whole life. My wife and two kids (daughter 13...

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