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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #165 on: March 29, 2009, 10:20:08 AM »
Looking good!
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #166 on: March 29, 2009, 10:51:37 AM »
Boy Bone, it's too bad you don't have any decent animals in your shop to work on.  :drool:
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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #167 on: March 29, 2009, 07:06:32 PM »
Crap Charlie I'll have to look.  Thats the problem having it laying on your garage floor for the last year.   

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #168 on: March 29, 2009, 07:12:41 PM »
Doug your garage looks like one big project!!! :chuckle:
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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #169 on: March 29, 2009, 07:18:32 PM »
You ain't kiddin' there.

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #170 on: March 29, 2009, 07:32:25 PM »
Very nice Bone, cant wait to see cape on that form...

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #171 on: March 30, 2009, 06:11:06 AM »
I tanned the dang thing about a year ago.  A...I hope it fits, B, I hope the hair doesn't slip. LOL

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #172 on: March 30, 2009, 06:52:15 AM »
Well if it don't fit there is always the fun of doing the modifications to the form, that is almost as fun as running with a sharp pencil and tripping :P :P.. LOL

Cape should be fine, did you get it shaved down good??

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #173 on: March 30, 2009, 07:26:47 AM »
Just came across the thread - Nice Utah Bull - What unit?

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #174 on: March 30, 2009, 08:08:42 AM »
Modifacations and alterations is the fun part!!

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #175 on: March 30, 2009, 08:24:39 AM »
I would just assume it fit. :P

It was close, and lost more hair than I like to in the tanning process.  Nothing bad.  Mostly it was the matter of it being 90 degrees on the day I packed him out and then the trek home.  I salted the crap out of it, but would have liked to have had less meat and stuff still on the cape.  It was a matter of what was more important, get the meat out and on ice and get headed for home, or do a perfect job on the cape.  I had thought about doing a full mount. YEAH RIGHT.  We'll see.  I'll probably be wishing I had filled a couple of my elk tags this last fall.  If I remeber right, I might have one spare cape in the freezer but it will be smaller.  :chuckle:
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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #176 on: March 30, 2009, 08:24:58 AM »
it was NM unit 16, not Utah

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #177 on: March 30, 2009, 08:47:08 AM »
I see NM, sorry - I was following your travel through NM and lost track in the story.

Congratulations - excellent Bull. 


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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #178 on: March 30, 2009, 08:49:16 AM »
I've been dreaming about Utah, so maybe thats a good omen.  We'll find out here in about a month.  I'm behind in the points game since they just opened it up and I am in for deer in the Henrys along with a million others......fingers crossed.

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Re: Big Bull down
« Reply #179 on: March 30, 2009, 08:52:24 AM »
Good luck on the draw.

Do you have the link to your other bucks and bull stories you mentioned - I wasn't able to find them (haven't looked very hard).  The only one I followed were the tag you had this year (entiat or up that way).

 


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