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The Continental Divide Trail was such an epic experience for me that all I could think about was doing another one. Went through the lottery process and got a permit to hike the PCT over the next six months (or however long it takes me). I'm almost 80 miles in now (Julian). The weather has...

I'm going to have to stock up on a bunch of these: And yes, I did eat several of these (and similar) while on my hunt...:cool:

so much FUN!! I bought this hunt in early 2018 for April 2020. Like everything else that covid screwed up, 2020 turned into 2021, which then turned into 2022, which turned into 2023. Five years was a long wait, and I didn't think I was ever going to get to do it, but I'm sure glad now that I...

Initially purchased this hunt in January 2018 to go in April 2020. Less than a week before I was to get on the plane, the outfitter called me to say that Prime Minister was shutting down entry due to covid. She asked if I wanted a refund, but I instead chose to wait until 2021. Well, 2021...

Don't like this extension for applications--I think my already slim draw odds just got even slimmer... :confused:

For a hunt of a lifetime, I could not have scripted this any better. For as long as I can remember, I’ve fantasized about doing a backpack hunt like this, and I almost waited too long to the point that I would have been either too old and/or too out-of-shape to do it. I was incredibly lucky to...

I'm pretty busy right now, but I eventually hope to post all the details of this hunt in the 2022 Hunt Adventures Forum. In the meantime, here are a few pics of my recent stone sheep hunt in British Columbia. Aged at nine and a half years; 37" long with 14" bases. Was running...

In the "Post Up Your Draw" thread I mentioned that I'm currently hiking the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) (https://continentaldividetrail.org/cdnst-interactive-map/). A few asked that I post some pics if I get a chance, so here we go. I became obsessed with the idea of hiking the CDT after...

I applied for this hunt and initially failed to draw. Yesterday, NE called me and said that a couple of the originally successful applicants had backed out, and that I was next in line if I wanted it. There was no way that I was turning that down. The problem is, the property that I had in...

Lots of gear in this tent, but doesn't look like anyone has been around for months.

for a barbary?

Staking out a dead head for four months: pretty awesome. http://www.wildlife.state.nm.us/wildlife-crimes-net-74000-in-restitution/

selling, please send me a PM. Rifle only--don't need a scope. I messed up while divvying up my father's estate, and hope to be able to make amends with one of my nephews... Thank you.

I've got one--a 22" ram that I walked right up to, startled us both and didn't end well for him. Other than him I can count the barbarys I've seen when it gets really windy on less than one hand. I'm looking at the forecast for this weekend and wondering if I should change up my game plan...

Can someone tell me how close the camping area is to the gate? I'm helping a friend next week and we're try to decide whether we want to camp there or go someplace else.

I think this might be a sensitive subject, but I know of a couple (saw them both again today), about four and five miles from the nearest road, that based on the spider webs, etc., I don't believe anyone has visited them for a couple years. Are there really slob hunters that go to the trouble...

Does outstanding work.

I'm going to be helping a couple huntresses on their cow elk hunt in 53 in a couple weeks. One is my former employee on her first hunt ever of any kind, and the other is a close friend who is 1 for 1 on her only cow elk hunt. I don't know 53 very well, so I drove several areas of it today...

it was an epic adventure. Dease Lake float plane to where our guides were waiting with horses to go another four hours into the bush. Lesson learned: next time I'll take some horse riding lessons before I try something like that again. It was a 10-day hunt, but I shot mine on day 4, then my...

Did I miss anything? :-)

LAST EDITED ON Sep-12-17 AT 08:19AM (MST)[p]I realize I'm addressing a very select group here, but I'm looking for advice on which of these two sheep should be attempted first. Is either of the two generally more physically demanding than the other? My thought is that if I go for a slam, at...

This is a little bit of a continuation of my previous question: http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID22/4001.html In a few weeks I'll be headed to BC for a Canada moose hunt. I'm taking my 300WSM. I've experimented with several loads and narrowed it down to two: 180-gr Accubond or...

Not the record bighorn that everyone wants to see, but I was very blessed to be able to take a gorgeous desert ram: I've never ever considered going for the grand slam, but now that I've got this one I'm going to have to seriously consider actually going for it. Maybe doable if I put off...

As one of you already texted me: yes, I'm having trouble sleeping. Got my 300 WSM dialed in with 150-grain TTSX bullets at just under 3,200 FPS, point-blank to 310 yards. Forecast is for low 90s (gotta find something to complain about). ;-)

Evacuating homes. Looks like it's going to be a bad one...

The NM lottery gods smiled on me this year and I drew a OIL desert bighorn on the Armendaris Ranch. I'm trying to decide which of my rifles (25-06, 7mmRemMag, or 300 WSM), I should go with (I shoot them all reasonably well out to 500 yards). Or should I use this hunt as justification to get a...

My boss just gave me about a 10-pound chunk of deboned frozen whitetail (he goes to Nebraska every year). I still need to thaw it out to see what it actually is (he can't remember), but I'm already thinking sausage will be the way to go. I was disappointed the last time I tried to make...

So I've been reading and rereading President Obama's last EO swipe at us bitter clingers, and I'm still not sure whether or not I'll need to re-sight my 300 WSM with some non-lead bullets for this upcoming NF/BLM barbary hunt. Assuming Trump does not nix it before then, is there anyone out...

I'm doing some research for an MBA project. If anyone out there still happens to have a copy of either of these reports, I'd be most indebted if you'd be willing to send me a copy. Thanks in advance. My research partner actually sent a direct request to NMDGF and for some reason they want...

First year in forever that I didn't draw either a deer or an elk tag. I hate to sound so ignorant about such things, but where do guys find a list of cow elk landowner tags for sell? Could be up to four of us interested. Much thanks.

I took a couple first-time deer hunters out with me this past week to an area in 16 where I've seen decent numbers of deer the past several years. I was talking up this hunt quite a bit last year when I had them both attach to my application. But when I started scouting the area this past...

Not saying I'm going to do this as over the years I have developed a justified fear of flying (lost a close friend and had three separate near misses myself), but is there someone out there that you guys would recommend to do a unit flyover? Based on my summer schedule, there is no chance that...

It's no secret that I'm the world's worst turkey hunter. The five days that I've spent turkey hunting this year have been one gobbler after another fleeing my turkey calls. I've often heard fellow hunters refer to these sinister fowl as "thunder chickens" but it never occurred to me that it...

Had the privilege of helping one of my employees on his first barbary sheep hunt. He and his buddy and been working Unit 30 since Monday without seeing any. After driving down from Rio Rancho half the night I met up with them in their camp at about 12:30 yesterday afternoon. I got a sense...

Earlier this year I ran across these guys: http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID34/5944.html#.VFXlsxYZKQI Hoped to see them on yesterday's opener. With a new job, I was only going to get one day's shot at them. The sun was setting when this deer stepped out into an opening...

Had a great October thus far. First, got to help my buddy with his OIL Rhodes Canyon hunt. We were hiking down into a draw when I spotted a couple oryx sneaking out of the same draw below us at about 800 yards. As I was trying to keep an eye on those two to see where they bedded, my buddy...

would you shoot? I have this tag rifle tag in November. Both are bigger than any muley I've ever shot, and if I see either without out the other, I won't hesitate to pull the trigger. But if I see them both at the same time, I've got a dilemma. I think I'd go for the tall narrow one, because...

LAST EDITED ON May-30-14 AT 09:37PM (MST)[p]Words can't express how happy I am to have it back. Temporary spot for now--hoping to get a pedestal so that I can keep in my office. I specifically requested a mount that could be either wall or pedestal. Must be getting dyslexic: Make that "2013...

I could get used to that every year...

Sometimes good things happen in spite of ourselves. This all starts about five years ago on my Rhodes Canyon OIL, when I shot an oryx at about 20 yards as the sun was going down the first evening. I knew immediately that I'd hit it a little too far back, and it ran a couple hundred yards into...