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I hunted with the same man in 91 out of Dubois, Wy... We took a nice ram .. Then I had all brown hair and beard.. Time changes us..

Nice work!!

Beautiful Rams

Sheep make me sad cuz I can’t draw a tag. Very nice rams.

Oh WOW, CONGRATS ! ! !

All great pix. Love the pic of your horse.

Jerry

Nice pic! I love the original Trebark camo, it was my favorite back in the day 😁.....Hb

Neat pic Wyo’.

Mighty fine.






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GWB

Capitan New Mexico/Lincoln National Forest

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GWB

Cool beans Gdub. very nice bear. The dogs look happy as well. That part of the state around Capitan is really neat.

My submission from that neck of the woods.

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Double Diamond Ranch. South Fork of the Shoshone. Awesome place.

To me the Double Diamond is a top loading pack saddle sling load hitch.

To all it is a huge pair of knockers.


Anyway you look at it, Double Diamond is a good thing.

ingwe;
Top of the morning to you my cyber friend, I hope this first February Sunday finds you and yours well and keeping warm enough.

It would appear we're having a "windsday" as Pooh would have said and it's blowing in yet more cold, but then it is still just February.

Anyway sir, not that I'd ever attempt to correct you on any subject, but I'd opine that Wyo's grand ram would be a buster ram anywhere. This from a guy who has sheep hunted a wee bit in the past, but also gets to look at a fair few still on the hoof on the mountain behind our house as well as a number of buster rams which were in buddy's taxidermy shop minutes south of us back in the day.

I also appreciated the old camo in the second photo Wyo - very cool.

The careful observer will note a couple things about this photo of this guy's 7 ½ year old California from '91 - I had to dig up my compulsory inspection sheet to recall when it was - this getting old thing....

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The first is that WyoCoyote's choice of camo is quite similar to that young BC hunter's!

Secondly it's not a camera trick that my back is that bent - I believe I've mentioned the one brush with crossing over I had as a youth, but anyway a curved back and a couple fused vertebra are the toll I paid to go down that particular road.

Lastly the cap on the youngster reads SOSA - which is Southern Okanagan Sportsmen's Association - 40th Annual Sheep Count, Oliver BC

As it happened I had by that time been made an area leader - we take folks up the mountain, drop them off at various places and wander down to a truck parked at the bottom. On the way we count sheep, deer, etc. - we have area leaders to keep new to the area folks from going into the wrong area and doing double counts or just plain getting lost.

Anyway I'd been an area leader for a couple years so I want to say I'd been there for the 35th Annual, but there was no cap for sale as I recall. I've been on that count and an area leader for all the counts in the interim, barring two times for illness.

Next Sunday will be the 68th Annual - I hope they've got caps for sale!

Oh, lastly on the camo - I had pants in Trebark too.

When the girls started hunting, my hunting clothes were raided and this happened.





The girls unfortunately have inherited the old man's superstition about "lucky hunting clothes" which I know isn't logical in any way, shape or form....nonetheless there it is....

The pants got claimed by the other one - here we are two springs ago coming down with a load of firewood and she spotted a black bear with some potential. Her husband was following us taking the photos as we slithered up to have a closer look at bruin.



To end the camo thread on a winter's day, I'll offer a photo of the camo we made up for calling coyotes - this would be early '90's again and we either couldn't find snow camo north of the medicine line or more likely too couldn't afford it. This was the first coyote with that arm as I recall, a.22-250 AI built with a Douglas Air Gauged 26" barrel on a military 98 action. I believe I had $50 into the action, $10 for the cut up Model 70 stock I reworked to fit and had done enough side jobs to afford the barrel from IT&D as well as getting a smith up the valley to do final head space.

Please note photo appears below as it would appear my technical ineptitude has reared it's head along with the prevailing north wind today......

Thanks to one and all for keeping this fine thread going. It is in my view one of the finer moments our cyber 'Fire has enjoyed for quite some time.

A tip of the battered Bailey to you all and do try to stay warm.

Dwayne

This has been a great thread. It certainly took a turn for the better when "someone" ran out of pics of dead fish next to rusty rifles. Thanks to all who have shared pics!

Fellow Fire Folks;
Trying to get the aforementioned snow camo photo loaded once again.


And there it is and there he was. My goodness the lack of grey hair is sobering isn't it?

Recent photo of same guy decades later....


Thanks again all for the participation.

Dwayne