After several rain delays we were finally headed down to Irion county to take some whitetail does and it couldn't come soon enough. I have had the worst bow season that I think I ever had. It started with flooding before season started and I had to clean up camp and find all my belongings, this happens, we needed the rain so no big deal. Then season started and I found every way in the world to mess up a hunt, shifting winds, wrong stands, misses, the list continues but I kept at it. Three …
2015 New Mexico Antelope
It's finally time again to chase speed goats in New Mexico and as is the custom it seems, there was a mix of family and close friends but this trip featured a special guest. My seven year old nephew Cason would be along on his first big hunting trip. I couldn't wait, finally somebody with my mentality that I could act like a fool with. Armed with a slingshot I made him from a deer antler he had high aspirations of killing any and all game that came his way. The only real thing in any …
Remember Your Taxidermist
"Let's get out of here, I'm not letting him mount my deer" "What's wrong with it, it looks like a mounted deer?" "That's what's wrong with it" This is the conversation I had with a buddy once when looking for a quality taxidermist. Most folks don't look at a deer mount or any mount for that matter close enough to realize the difference in quality taxidermy work and just a deer mount put out by an untrained guy looking to make a few extra dollars but for those of us that do you need to …
