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Mine should be on its way, I hope. When dealing with African time you never know. Here is a list of prices from the shop that I am having my work done at in South Africa. The shipping home will be more expensive but my taxidermist here in Colorado jumped his prices and everything got pushed...

It appears that he hit the lion low behind the front leg. But it is hard to really tell.

I don't recall if Colorado ever had point banking, at least I never read about it nor did I even think of something like that. Cow tags could be had every year and the premium bull units took quite a few points to draw. Deer didn't go to a full on draw until 94 or 95.

Point banking is only using the amount of points that is needed to draw a tag for a unit that you have more than enough to draw that tag. So let's say that you have 20 points and you find a unit that you want to hunt that the max points is only 5 points. You put in for that unit and when you...

All point banking will do is to compound the problem of point creep instead of moving the applicants through the system. If I hadn't used all my points for both deer and elk a few years ago I would have over 20 points for each right now. I see no problem in drawing a lesser hunt with 10 points...

Once again, that's a great hunt. Warthogs are my nemesis. I missed one last year at 100 yards but redeemed myself with one at about 30. I should of also taken zebra, but perhaps that may give me a reason to go back. Did you get to eat any of the meat? While most of my meat went to the...

This has been floating around for a couple of weeks, just thought that I'd post it up about the wolves: https://www.vaildaily.com/news/colorado-tribe-only-wants-wolves-reintroduced-in-area-that-includes-routt-county-will-cpw-listen/

I'll wager that it was a canned lion hunt from a captive bred lion. They release the lion a couple of days before the hunt to make it as real as possible. The PH's problem was not backing out to let the lion relax some before getting close to the lion. The hunters problem was using a...

This is being discussed at length over on a African hunting forum that I am on. The big thing is that they are saying that both the hunter and PH should of backed out of there and let the lion settle down. Another thing that they observed is that the lion was chewing on a stick which most...

I'm sure that the animals will recover, hunters won't like the cuts that will need to be made but if the tags are extremely limited they can recover. Look at where the deer and pronghorn populations were way back in the early 1900 after the market hunters got done. After the winter of...

I was doing some work in a home that a old rancher owned near the Vail Valley. He had a ranch in the area along with one down in New Mexico. I was looking for the problem and opened up a door in the basement. You couldn't even walk into that room. It was full of deer, elk, bears, and cat...

I wished that I would of kept all the antlers from the deer and elk that I have shot. But I found that custom knife builders and others would pay a good price for them so most were either given away or sold.

I have often been asked about all the taxidermy that I have in my home and what I want to do with it after I am gone. I just tell them that for me it is the memories of the hunts and the fun that I had and that while they are important to me that I doubt that anyone else would feel the same way...