I've often wonder this myself. I've never weighed quarters when I got home, but wish I would have. On our opening week hunt, our guest hunter, Beau Baty, shot a bull. Given Beau weighs everything for llamas so that each side of the load is balanced to the pound, this seemed like a good time...
Part 6 of 6 - My buddy Ray shows us how to have fun, even if you nearly destroyed your rig in the process. The 24 mile trip out was 4.5 hours of the finest examples of "white knuckle" driving I've ever experienced.
https://youtu.be/IsvHUYuZooo
Good luck, Dave. You will have a true experience, for sure.
I drew the West Yellowstone tag in 2013 and I echo what Carl said about getting the animal taken care of in the field. It was -30F the morning we headed out and it never got above 0F that day. The meat stayed warm even after we got...
By this time this day rolls around, I'm in need of a new Potral vein for my liver. One of the roughest hunts ever for my liver.
Part 5 is below.
https://youtu.be/O5KFlDvIjMk
Time to relocate the rams from yesterday. Once we got the images from yesterday loaded to the camera, the biggest one had 10 rings.
Part 4 is live at the link below.
https://youtu.be/kcmYnMwnXo0
Having to count rings when nothing is obviously full curl is not only nerve racking, but sometimes the outcome sucks. One of these Rams should have gotten a ride back to camp. Marcus' language was better than mine, so we used his audio.
Part 3 below.
https://youtu.be/SyPSs4iozWY
Last month I was lucky to fulfill a forty-year dream; a Dall Sheep hunt. I had offered it to some friends, as all our episodes are self-guided public land hunting. They all declined and told me I was crazy to not take an offer like this. Eventually, I decided it was a once-in-a--lifetime...
I use chopper mittens, as the rag wool liner can be replaced and make it dry and warm. They also have a lot extra space to include a hand warmer when it gets really cold. That extra space allows me to get them off really fast and when I do, I have super warm hands with no loss of dexterity...