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That's wild, congrats to him! Do you know what his points were at with each draw?

No goat for me. 21 years in a row now... what drives me nuts is reading the recap reports and seeing the tags I apply for going to 3+4 - 3+7 range point holders.

Has it been confirmed that they are doing the sheep draw before the goat draw? Or do they go at the same time?

Beware of this terrible guide... but I won't tell you who it is...

It takes the tag out of the hands of someone who genuinely wanted it and gives it a one way ticket to the reissue goat rodeo.

This one? I believe that's Donnie Thornberry

I missed this thread back when you posted it but just caught up and congrats on the hunt! I cashed in my WY deer points last year and had a similar experience as you did. It was my favorite deer hunt I've ever been on. Post card scenery in every direction you look, and a shockingly small amount...

This story kind of has both: I got this buck on my last day of hunting for the season. His head was behind a dead tree, but I kept catching glimpses of his antlers through the branches. I could see his mass and the dark color of his antlers so I had it in my head that he could be a pretty nice...

I agree with the sentiment of your post in the sense that the social media culture of hunting is annoying, but I will also say that buck is awesome. Love the mass and trash. It wouldn't surprise me if he gross scores in the 210-215 range, but I also think it's pretty much impossible to score...

He offers a "natural bone" and a "paper white" color options but I actually chose the natural bone. I think my phone camera might have a color enhancing setting turned on or something, because I actually didn't notice how bleach white he looks in those photos until just now when you said that...

Thanks everyone, I think my plan for now is to save the cape of a future buck if I'm fortunate enough to get one. I enjoy the sentimental aspect of taxidermy so I'd prefer to use a cape that is also associated with a memory of a hunt for me, even if it's not the same memory as this buck. But I...

Honestly after getting him on the wall, I agree. If you look at the field photo, you'll notice that he's not very wide so my thinking was that getting a mount that didn't have his ears would be the best way to make his antlers look the best. It worked, almost too well! Because now I'm kind of...

There was never a moment that I wasn't thrilled to get this buck, but I will say that he seems to look bigger/cooler every time I look at him. I didn't even notice his spikes at the base until I walked up to him. I picked him up from the taxidermist this weekend and if it wasn't for the spikes...

I don't know much about 67, but I have seen more grouse this year than the last three years combined. Not sure what that's all about. I also have never thought of them as critters that will consistently be in the same spot year after year, but definitely could be wrong on that. My take on...

Agreed, there are plenty of exceptions and I don't automatically place judgement on someone based solely on being from the front range, it's just a trend that's pretty hard to ignore that *most* of the front range crowd tends to be pretty insufferable. In my experience, it's generally the non...

+1. The vast majority of the front range folks that I encounter are every bit as bad as the coastal yuppies.

I feel like it's a repetitive thing to say, but for sake of sharing my experience I will still say it: the amount of people in the woods is out of control. I drew a muzzy bull tag for an area that I live right next to. Lucked out and scored a muzzy buck tag off the reissue list to accompany it...

Unfortunately this was the year that closed all of the National Forest land in 29 because of the fire that wiped out all of those homes in Superior. I spent a weekend scouting the unit in the summer and it certainly didn't make me very excited to hunt it. I didn't think about how the close...

Not really sure what you're even trying to say here but.... good try?

My favorite part of this whole thread is Iddogguy casually dropping a photo in the comments that makes the two bulls in the post look like last day meat bulls lol. Absolute dream bull :love:

I drew deer 141-1 :D this will be my first out of state deer hunt

In my opinion, shortening the OTC hunts won't do anything at all. When you drive through OTC units on the last weekend of 2nd season, 90% of the camps are packed up and gone anyways. CPW will literally do anything OTHER than limit tags. I don't understand why they don't up the prices & lower...

Hmm.... all of these "almost 200" bucks look a lot bigger than my collection of 200"+ bucks that I don't post pictures of because I don't like attention.

Got my points for sheep & goat. Up to 20 now for goat.

I wouldn't consider myself point rich by any means, but I'm looking to cash out in WY and start looking for decent hunts that I can draw every 5 or so years. I'm all in with 14 this year, and if I draw, then next year I'll be all in for elk.

wow :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: i think i need another cup of coffee. Thank you!

Same number of animals/tags, but the people applying would be dispersed between species. So today, when 10 people apply, each one is applying for all species, so the odds are 1/10... if everyone only applied for 1 species, and 2 of those 10 each applied for something different, that brings the...

Did you include a link? I'm not able to see it

Drives me nuts... the amount of people who have a sob story about the website crashing at the last minute is unreal to me. And they're all convinced that the website is the problem :ROFLMAO: the best way I have found to respond is simply "that's weird... the website was working just fine 3...

The NW corner is getting the most hype because the brutality of the conditions there has stood out more than other places, but Western CO as a whole is having a very rough winter. If your main concern is winter kill, there won't be a single quality unit that doesn't see noticeable effects of the...

I'm part of this movement every year!

Every year I tell myself this is the year... here's to hoping for moose or goat! 3 & 16 has got to get me somewhere, right?

Best of luck! I have never been in there from the 444 side, and I don't have a map in front of me right now but if I remember right, I think that would limit you to a very small portion of the wilderness. If it's anything like the parts of the wilderness I have been in, I wouldn't expect to do...

I think you'll see a higher response rate if you ask more specific questions. Do you live near the area? Been far back in HCW before? The best broad spectrum advice I have to offer... once you and your friend have a game plan, spend a weekend rehearsing it this summer. Some of those trails are...

Feeling overwhelmed with gratitude this morning. It appears that AZGFD decided to give me my tags for free.