My New Mexico elk hunt (previously known as big bull down)

[C-Money]

Looking good!

[7mag.]

Boy Bone, it's too bad you don't have any decent animals in your shop to work on. 

[boneaddict]

Crap Charlie I'll have to look.  Thats the problem having it laying on your garage floor for the last year.   

Projects....oh boy do I have projects.

[Skyvalhunter]

Doug your garage looks like one big project!!!

[boneaddict]

You ain't kiddin' there.

[BLKBEARKLR]

Very nice Bone, cant wait to see cape on that form...

Joe

[boneaddict]

I tanned the dang thing about a year ago.  A...I hope it fits, B, I hope the hair doesn't slip. LOL

[BLKBEARKLR]

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 .. LOL

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

Joe

[whacker1]

Just came across the thread - Nice Utah Bull - What unit?

[bucklucky]

Modifacations and alterations is the fun part!!

[boneaddict]

I would just assume it fit.

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. 

[boneaddict]

it was NM unit 16, not Utah

[whacker1]

I see NM, sorry - I was following your travel through NM and lost track in the story.

Congratulations - excellent Bull. 

[boneaddict]

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.

[whacker1]

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).