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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Dr. Ed Ashby on December 31, 2006, 10:31:00 AM
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Ray, now this one's better than the hog picture - the elk's prettier ... and you're smaller!
It's raining cats and dogs this morning. Gave the Old Boy (that's me) a morning off. If it's still pouring down this afterneoon, think I'll be giving the big guy another free-pass this year. Just geting old and lazy, I guess; or perhaps I've just done my share. That's well enough. He's given me many pleasant hours this year (and last). I also like the thought that he'll be out there passing along his good genes to many more; ones that (I hope) will be there to provide me many more pleasant hours of fun - if'n the Lord's willing and the creek don't rise; and I happen to get back here during season again.
I'll be in touch soon.
Ed
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I like finding brush piles like that to hide in when I'm deer hunting too...oh wait that's not a brush pile...that's an elk rack. Nevermind.
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Now THAT'S a HOG!! :thumbsup:
Killdeer :archer:
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how the heck did I end up here two times??
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Cause yer Special... LOL Nice Elk
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And I still can't see the header pics :(
Don't know why or how they've gone. One day they were there, next day, there they were'nt.
I know it's down to browser settings, but can anyone tell me which ones & how I gettem back?
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Had to look twice to find Ray in the picture!
Nice Elk. Good food.
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Chort- I never knew what good eating was till I tasted elk steaks. I'm going to start buying cow tags every year....don't like going without it!
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That's an Elk? :scared: I thought Ray was climbing up a huge Mesquite tree :bigsmyl: :wavey: ...Van
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I couldn't tell where the tree ended and the rack started :bigsmyl: Lookin good Ray.
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Hey where is that elk from, NM, AZ?? It's a real pig anyhow, good shooting/hunting.
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Talk about shooting the bull!
Congratulations!
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9 mile...he is from NM- one of the 16 units in the Gila...1999.
That was a good year for the Zipper!
He's a toad, for sure. The pics don't really do him justice. You should see the one of the mounted head with me standing next to it...in this picture it looks like I am sitting way behind the elk, but in reality my left knee is just behind his head- 11 inch bases and 20+ fronts...
Come to think of it, I can post the mount in a pic I have on photobucket... he was so big he wouldnt fit on the wall in either a super sneak pose OR a 90 degree head turn...too wide and too long!
(http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e322/rayhammond123/elkmnt.jpg)
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Wow Ray, good for you!
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Ray, you are the man. Thats one dandy Elk.
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Ray,leave the bow,...take the canolis!!!!
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I've known Ray since 1985 or so. Ray, who's that trim dandy standing with your elk. :)
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That was me the next summer, Cliff...after training/walking/working out for a year in prep for that hunt and for a year after I was really slim and trim- lost down to 200 lbs.
Then I injured my feet (Plantar fasciitis) and have shot back up there again...don't look like that any more, I assure you!!
Alex, that's my big problem now...if I wudda took the "bow" instead of the canolis I might not be as big as a house!!!!
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Awesome bull! Was that one of those once in a lifetime tags? Gotta be a big story to go with a big bull like that?
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Nope, LV2, a regular public land draw tag- this is why NM has been on the short list for many years along with AZ, UT, NV, WY...limited draw units mean there is less pressure, fewer hunters however you want to say it...so bulls get the chance to grow up.
we were there for the second hunt (and hit it just right in the middle of the FRENZY as I call it, with bulls just going nuts) and we got into big bulls every day.
I never saw a bull littler than 250 inches that week- everything I ran into was a shooter and ran into several every day...simply the most amazing hunting experience I've ever had!
The tags are more expensive now, but they can still be drawn.
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Amazing Ray! Who took the picture?
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Camera with self timer if I remember right.
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why did you shoot one with an uneven number of points? After deductions -its what- a 230 class bull?
Can you chew the steaks on that thing?????
:bigsmyl:
congrats :)
:campfire: :archer:
ps: cow elk taste better than bull elk - and someday I will shoot a bull elk and prove it!!!!
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I know, I know, Brian. Believe me, when he was about 5 feet away from me as I cringed behind one of those junipers waiting for him to walk past so I could shoot...that's all I was thinking was...."should I...he's so uneven...maybe I should hold out for something a little higher scoring?" - N O T T T T T !!!!!!
:scared: :smileystooges: :saywhat: :knothead: :biglaugh:
And at 10 1/2 years old, he ate better than anything I've ever had...can't wait to shoot some cows!!!
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I had been wanting to ask you where you shot him. That is a great bull. Maybe I'll draw the Gila this year.
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:biglaugh:
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Ray, I've had the plantar fasciitis myself and it's no walk in the park. If you haven't got it under control yet I wish the best for you. Great elk BTW!!!!
Joe
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whooeee, OH at work
I've only felt one other pain as bad- eye got scratched badly one time....other than that this stuff is nasty.
You don't realize until you injure your back or your feet just how they affect everything you do in life and how important their health is to your quality of life.
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Hey Ray,
plantar fasciitis CAN heal. I have had it off and on for years. There isnt much you can to speed it up except to try and get rid of the inflammation. I used a plastic soda bottle filled with water frozen
and every night sit down for twenty minutes or so and roll the bottle under your foot and just let the round part sit under your heel. If nothing else it does make it feel better.
By the way, you got me drooling over one of those antler risers. Do they shoot as good as they look?
Are they the same geometry as their other bows?
Ill bet that riser has some serious mass.
thanks,
brent
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If its built by Bob Thompson it shoots fantastic...I have never held one, Brent so I don't know for sure but I suspect that they have exactly the same geometry and limbs would be interchangeable.
I may be wrong...and I may never know as they are scarce as hen's teeth...but I keep hoping.
I would think it would weigh a little more than the wood risers but not too bad. I'll let you know
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Ray's mount is what I call a 'Jaw Dropper'.
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Thanks, Terry...
Lloyd Johnson of Master's Wildlife Services in Washington, GA did a fantastic job on it for me!
A once in a blue moon animal deserves to be remembered in a special way and Lloyd is the man for that, believe me.
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If I killed a critter like that I`d have to remodel the front room. Mainly the front door cause I don`t think it would be wide enough to get him inside.What did you do Ray cut a hole and drop him through the roof?
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Believe it or not he will ONLY go through a double door...thank goodness my house has a double door in the front and wide hallways.
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is it the clothes or do the antlers make ray look small.....LOL....(i started to say does this rack make my butt look small)
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It MIGHT be that the antlers make my butt look small...but actually that was taken during a very short-lived "thin" phase in my life! The only other one I can recall was in the late 70's when I rode a bike 15 miles a day and ate nothing but TAB and four corner Cheese Nabs for a year.
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i know what you are talking about ray!!!!!
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those Antlers are so big , kids want to climb them like a tree... :thumbsup: