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It's been a long season and it's almost over. I started guiding for Hunter Ross, Desert Safaris and it extended my season by a bit. I also drew my own personal Antelope tag after 18 years and a muzzleloader Ibex that took 17 years. Been a pretty good year....

Started off in Aug guiding Antelope hunters, took a couple of high 70 bucks the first day despite a horrible drought.





From Antelope I went into Archery elk. Killed this bull during a full moon over water.



I pulled up on a popular Glassing hill in the dark one morning. There was a wolf biologist that had been there all night monitoring some wolves. A bull bugled below us and I quickly found him while making small talk with the biologist. Something had the cows nervous so I Scanned out further, 6 wolves! The first that I had ever seen and was positive! I mentioned it to the biologist and he asked to see them. He slid behind my tripod and was excited, "that's sooo cool!! Those are the first I've SEEN in the wild!!" WTF!!!!! The wolves moved on and we slipped down and after an hour of working this bull, I called him into 45 yds.



My antelope hunt was up next. I was excited but had my sights set high, too high for the ranch I was hunting. I scouted a couple of days and found the best buck on the ranch. Fairly Long but no cutters. I was kind of disappointed, after 18 years I wanted something a little better, and to top it off my buddy got sick and wouldn't be able to join me. Opening morning I found the buck and made a move on him. I was shooting my new 6XC build. At 400 I dialed in and hit him a bit far back. Moving up to finish him I Learned a lesson about turrets, If you move, REDIAL!! DUH!!!
79 and change



From there I went to Muzzlelader elk camp. After 4 days of passing,on the last morning we decided on a 330 type 6x6. At 90 yards my hunter missed. No pic.

Next hunt was an aoudad hunt, My hunter missed 3 rams over 30" from 110 to 279 yds. gettin tired of missing...

In Nov we started hunting deer in west TX. I had quite a few mgt. deer hunters and we assaulted a bunch of old 3x3s

HUnter had picked up a ranch in the sand country. Growing up in the sand I knew of the potential of the ranch. On the first morning another guide, Chad Gay and I found this buck and another bruiser. We stalked to within 130 yds of him but were unable to get a shot in the shinery. On the third day we found him again with the 30" 4x4 and a big frmed buck with cheaters. Bedding him we stalked to 120 yds... The biggest typical I have guided.



The next day I got my other hunter on the big cheater buck. He couldnt make the shot at 250 yds. He left at lunch and HUnter went out and found him again with his client...

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Took some more nice bucks during the season but my camera quit on me so I didn't get pics of them all but here are a few.

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Here's a neat hunt that I really enjoyed, It was a mgt deer aoudad combo hunt. My client was well known PH Jofie Lamprecht. I really enjoyed listening to his stories and am proud to say that his Aoudad was only the second trophy he has shot for himself since he was 12 years old! After shooting a great ram, on the way back to the jeep we came across this old mgt deer and he made another fast shot!

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