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Rich Higgins
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posted December 06, 2004 05:26 AM
We took first place.
I gave Tyler the Model 7, .243, Leupold Vari XIII 3.5 X 10. He called and shot 6 of the 13. NOT fur friendly. We had to skin all of them to submit at check in. Had to collect pieces to skin after Tyler hit them with a 75 gr. V-Max.
[ December 06, 2004, 05:39 AM: Message edited by: Rich Higgins ]
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DAA
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posted December 06, 2004 05:32 AM
HooAHH! Way to go Team Higgins!
Rich, am I understanding correctly that you had to check in pelts, not carcasses? That would certainly cut out a few stands, to skin 13 at then end of the day and still make check in.
Impressive, to say the least.
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 06, 2004 05:44 AM
Hey Dave,
Dec. is the fur hunt. Everything is skinned and the pelts are donated to ATA. We also have a novice hunt and a Ham hunt.
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Locohead
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posted December 06, 2004 06:04 AM
Way to go guys!!!! Did Tyler call in any with the funky chicken? Probably not, you guys must not of had too much time to get bored...Great job!!!!!
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Tim Behle
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posted December 06, 2004 06:18 AM
Way to go Guys! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Just try to save a few for the rest of us!
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Bryan J
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posted December 06, 2004 06:37 AM
Good job guys! Nice team effort congratulations to you both.
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 06, 2004 06:52 AM
Robb Krause, our third team member, is behind the camera. That's his rifle on the left that Tyler is holding and that's his badd-ass coyote hearse behind us.
Danny, Tyler did call in a coyote with the "funky chicken".
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Bryan J
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posted December 06, 2004 07:15 AM
Ooops! I do remember a pic with him in front of that rig. Congrats to you too Rob!
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Jeff Thomason
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posted December 06, 2004 08:21 AM
Nice Job Guys! That is a good lookin haul! Cool idea donating the pelts!
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Jay Nistetter
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posted December 06, 2004 09:19 AM
They Always Stop! They Always Do.
HoooWeeee! GOOD JOB FELLAS.
Aren't you guys getting tired of all those trophies? Wish I could have been at check-in to see all the long faces, but alas I was holding up my end of bar duties.
I counted 14. Was one a freebe?
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Leonard
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posted December 06, 2004 10:10 AM
Good job. Now, stay out of my areas, please. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I actually like Tyler's choice, on a contest hunt.
Maybe I can tell better, after momma gets off my new computer, the resolution on this one doesn't allow me to count, especially that mass, second to the left? So, what took second place? How many got away?
Again, good job...even Robb.
Good hunting. LB
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 06, 2004 11:30 AM
Leonard, you are a class act. I'm glad you're my friend.
We called in 15 and killed 13. One of our better averages. Tyler was smokin hot. No one missed at anything we shot at except me. I missed a runner at three hundred. Youthful exuberance.
The mass to the left is just a small coyote with it's head turned. Sorry about that. The male lying horizontal in front of me weighed 41 lbs. The male on the far left was 37 lbs. One female was 34 and another female was 31. Biggest bunch of coyotes I've seen in Az.
Two bobcats and a coyote took second place, 70 points. 60 -80 points usually wins these things.
Bobcat is 30 points. Coyote, fox and badger are 10.
"They always stop. They always do."
Jay that runner never saw your video
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posted December 06, 2004 11:34 AM
Great going team H & H. Jay you are right. No doupt those 13 have stoped.
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posted December 06, 2004 02:29 PM
Awsome guys! Great job! Looks like you all had a great time!
Hey...Make sure you save some for when I get out there next mounth!
Brent
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Tim Behle
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posted December 06, 2004 02:33 PM
It must be a good year for fat coyotes. I've caught a few of them this year. Sunday I caught the fattest one I've ever seen here in Arizona.
It makes for a quick easy skinning job though! Those lean ones with no body fat take far too long to get peeled.
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Jay Nistetter
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posted December 06, 2004 02:45 PM
Rich. Sounds like your byproduct did you right proud this weekend. Congratulations.
"Peel" one fer me Tim. Makes me laugh when I hear it called that.
How's yer Old Lady? Or is it 'Ol Lady? I keep fergetting.
Mine kept me out drinking every night and then slipped out shopping the following morings whilst I was a recovering. I'll find out next month how nice I was on Christmas presents for everyone.
edited One too many "s"ssss in the post.
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Bill
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posted December 06, 2004 02:59 PM
Team Higgins,
That is truely amazing. Congratulations.
Bill
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Steve Craig
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posted December 06, 2004 03:03 PM
Rich nice pile of coyotes. Tell that boy to slow that 243 down and load Sierra 60gr Varmiters with 42.5 gr. of IMR 4350. Hardly any hole to sew up unless you catch one a little thin. This has been my fur load for the 243 for 35 years now.
Nice job
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 06, 2004 03:27 PM
Bill, will we see you at the multi-club hunt check-in on the 18th? Tyler and Robb are going to team up and I'm just going along with the camera.
Steve, thank you for the recipe. You just saved me alot of time, bullets and powder. I've tried the Nosler 55 and 70 BTs and they're not much better on fur than these hellacious 75 V-Maxs. I had my scope on coyotes three seperate times when Tyler's bullet hit them. Big red balloons blown out the back side. Reminded me of some of the rockchuck shots on Daves video.
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Leonard
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posted December 06, 2004 03:39 PM
Hi Bill! You are a man of few words.
But, my main reason for responding is the use of the word; "amazing". (and, I know your heart is pure)
But, I have had my share of luck, in the past, and "amazing" is one of the more polite words, used. Sometimes, it's cheater or liar, and sometimes not spoken out loud. They just wonder, and do not believe it.
My point is that some people never believe you can kill thirteen coyotes, on a hunt.....until they do it themselves. Then, they believe 13 is possible, but not 15. A little later, they find out that fifteen is possible, but they can't accept twenty. And, so on.
Team Higgy has entered the realm of "amazing" .
Congratulations!
Good hunting. LB
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Krustyklimber
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posted December 06, 2004 05:07 PM
Cool.
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Bill
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posted December 06, 2004 07:21 PM
Yes Rich, I'll be there. At first thought I was thinking how nice it was that Team Higgins is reduceing there team down to two, givinig the other teams and clubs a break. But then I realized you guys are eliminating the nonpreformer, in this case the one who missed the coyote (poor shooter), so that there will be no escapees for the Three Club hunt. And then I realized YOU were bringing a camera! Humiliation and black mail, all on the same hunt. Maybe I'll see you at the hunt.
Leonard, I've heard of someone winning one, two or more guns at the same raffle, amazing.
Bill
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posted December 06, 2004 07:44 PM
I ain't saying nothing except....I have an idea where they were hunting lol. Good hunt Rich and Tyler and I can't wait to sit around another campfire with you two, God Bless.
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GUTPILE
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posted December 06, 2004 08:21 PM
Love it. I called two Saturday.........we missed. Saw 1 escape artist on the side hill. No shot. I though we did okay. I'm embarassed. Adopt an old man?
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Rich Higgins
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posted December 07, 2004 05:04 AM
Bill, I sat with you at last years PM gathering and none of your "raffle mojo" rubbed off on me. You're right, they don't need me. I was hunting with Byron and Jay last Oct. and missed that club hunt. Tyler and Robb took first without me.
Danny, I can't make your hunt next month, but next fall we will do the campfire at Wilcox.
edit: Danny I know where you are thinking. Wasn't there.
Gutpile, we can talk about adoption. Send pictures of guns and girlfriends that will be coming with you.
Byron, yeah that's pretty much my take on pre-front activity. When I lived in Utah the coyotes would be up and moving before snow storms, but in Az. they seem to be more active after rain. Jay has some good info-records on moon influence on activity. We need to talk him into starting a new thread.
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