Recent content by sambo3006

My 2016 Utah bull along with a smaller Colorado bull plus a blonde Alberta bear hide and a couple of Alberta bear skulls.

That is an awesome 5x5 and a great looking mount!

I don't think CPW officers would ask. I doubt that they would want to open that can of worms. I sure hope for the sake of Colorado resident firearm owners that this dictatorial crap doesn't pass.

49 second rifle elk for me. I'm burning more NR points than required (14), but this year was the year to use my points due to my available vacation time. I was 1 to 2 points behind better hunts that I would never reach with point creep. I usually sleep in the back of my truck, but due to the...

Mass and height do it for me. I'd rather have a buck with good mass and height with fewer points than a higher scoring buck with more points but lacking the overall mass and height.

I've seen some obscure cartridges (and calibers) 😀 listed. Very cool! The .32 Winchester Special was mentioned at least 5 times by my account. I have a 1949 Marlin .32 Special that I hunted with for the first time this year. No shot opportunities this year, but I hope to remedy that next year...

Congratulations on your mature bull! They don't all grow record class antlers, but a guy never forgets a huge bodied bull.

I'll be hunting my home state of Missouri as usual. Turkey numbers used to be phenomenal in the area I hunt, but have plummeted the last 7 or 8 years. It is a 2 gobbler limit, which I filled almost every year for close to 20 years, but I've been happy with one for the last several years.

I'll put my Simmons 1x back on that I used on a Utah muzzleloader hunt in the early 2000's. I can't see a front sight clearly.

She might have had better luck with angled ones in both situations.😀 On a serious note, I prefer an angled spotting scope for general usage, but a straight scope would be much more user friendly for a window mount.

I would leave the choice of weapon up to her. It will be her hunt that she has waited a long time for and she needs to go into it feeling confidence in her ability to make a shot. Best of luck to you both!

On nearly all of my mule deer hunts, I don't get to put boots on the ground other than a few days prior to the hunt due to travel distance (1,000+ miles) and available vacation time. Almost all of the hunts are general hunts or low preference point hunts. I've been fortunate enough to kill a...

Utah 2016

Member, sambo3006, shared this big bull in a fun thread called, "Let's See Your Best Elk to Date".