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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on August 17, 2006, 07:34 PM:
 
Here, as in the ranch where I live. Most of you know that I had some rabbit hunters of fame here a couple times. I was out putting up archery blinds today and the smell of deads rabbits still lingers. Actually at a couple places I about gagged.
 

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Posted by Brad Norman (Member # 234) on August 17, 2006, 07:35 PM:
 
Thanks guys. I really appreciate it!
 

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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on August 17, 2006, 07:41 PM:
 
Cal; you said you where putting up blinds. For Antelope? If so any big ones around in youre area?
 

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Posted by sparkyibewlocal440 (Member # 397) on August 17, 2006, 08:20 PM:
 
Cal,been curious about that Coyote pup you have.Did you get it before or after it's eye's where open?Is it wild as can be or is it sleeping on the bed with you guy's?How's it's relationship with the Hounds?.....Gary
 

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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on August 18, 2006, 06:09 AM:
 
TA, We have some nice antelope, but not big in the Arizona-New Mexico way. Our archery guys probably average 14" horn length and 74" P&Y score wise. The best thing here is we have alot of them.

Sparky, the coyote was caught with eyes closed and is doing good. It is pretty gentle, but not house trained so it doesn't come in. It plays in the yard, gets along with dogs and kids and is quite a kick. Watching it get to play with Nasa, Claimbuster and Q, that is some good entertainment. Watching Q pet a coyote without a swift hole in it..... Priceless!
 

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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on August 18, 2006, 06:37 AM:
 
Cal; 14" is nice. Yes you are right about haveing alot of them. When i was staying at motel in Rocksprings, i got an early mourning surprise. I awoke and looked out the window and there was a young antelope buck standing in parking lot. I saw alot of them south of greenriver and north to Pinedale.
 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 18, 2006, 08:29 AM:
 
TA, when Cal says he has a lot of them, that is no exaggeration. While I was up there on my coyote and eagle feeding expedition, I was totally flabergasted by one herd that was between 80 and 100. There may have been even more in that herd, as some were lying down in the tall grass.

I posted earlier about one big, bold buck that stared us down. He was an easy 14" and his horns almost formed a "heart".

Even a blind man could fill his tag on that ranch.

Cal, sorry about the stink. The turkey vultures should be showing up any day now. Maybe you should have suggested we pick up our kills and made a bait pile somewhere. I could do that next time!
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 18, 2006, 03:07 PM:
 
It was quite the experience going to Cals place. When I drove down his lane I had to stop to let a 70 class antelope cross in front of me and dodged several bunnies and a couple of jackrabbits for the remainder of the 300 yard drive. After successfully dodging the local wildlife I finally came to a stop in his driveway only to see him and the boys playing fetch with a damned coyote! Talk about priceless! LOL

Had a great time and got to warm up some barrels to boot. My poor old swift got branding iron hot within a few minutes so I stuck with the hmr for the remainder of the trip. Cal felt guilty shooting the poor dumb things with his AR so he resorted to shooting only left handed head shots. LOL When his barrel got to hot we took turns shooting the hummer and even had to stop a couple of times to let it cool. Ya, the rabbits were that thick.

Before the trip I bought a cattle clicker to count the kills but on the long drive between Douglas and Gillett I started counting road kill rabbits. I would guess it averaged 35 to 40 road kills a mile with the best being 111 if memory serves me.

Thanks again Cal, I really enjoyed my self. I will find a way to get even with you!

Good hunting.

Q,
 

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Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on August 20, 2006, 10:00 AM:
 
"AR so he resorted to shooting only left handed head shots. "

so how DO you tell if a jack is left handed?
 

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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on August 20, 2006, 10:17 AM:
 
That is only known by true jack rabbit pros. And I'd tell you, but then the info would show up on Jack Masters under a heading by Myron North or Guise and he would claim that he invented the technique. Kind of like Gore and the internet.

Actually, beware of shooting an AR left handed. The hot brass will bounce off of the window frame and go down the neck of your shirt and brand you. And believe me it is friggin hot and will leave a mark. I'm permenantly scarred with a reminder of hunting with Quinton.
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 20, 2006, 11:02 AM:
 
Doggitter, it is obvious that your lack of experience has contributed to your ignorance in the art of rabbit shooting. Cal on the other hand is a full time denner for Campbell Co Wyoming. His experience in denning Lepus townsendii (or Jack Rabbits for the layman) is nearly unsurpassed with his 20 years of field experience. Next year he will have a full 30 years of experience behind him and will be the definitive sores of all things rabbit related.

NOW that you have been enlightened how can you question whether he knows if the rabbit is right or left handed?

Good hunting.

Q,
 

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Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on August 20, 2006, 11:33 AM:
 
Just what does it take to become a master jacker?
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 20, 2006, 11:36 AM:
 
Just a few videos Andy.
 

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Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on August 20, 2006, 11:58 AM:
 
Its upset me for quite some time that some think they are better jackers than the rest of us. I just dont know where the line is drawn between a master jacker and a amatuer jacker. Maybe I will do a google search....

Q, can you recommend some good videos?
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 20, 2006, 12:14 PM:
 
Your Guess is as good as mine?
 

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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on August 20, 2006, 01:03 PM:
 
I have a couple Andy L.
 

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Posted by Cal Taylor (Member # 199) on August 20, 2006, 05:33 PM:
 
It's all in the technique Andy, Q even has a special chair and lights for jacking, and he jacks really fast. You've got to keep an eye on him or he'll burn up his barrel. I'm more deliberate and quite a bit slower, and I have no special chair, but I can do it right or left handed, which not just everybody can do.
 

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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on August 20, 2006, 06:04 PM:
 
I've heard rumors that you Wyoming guys went both ways, I just never wanted to believe it was true!
 

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Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on August 20, 2006, 06:10 PM:
 
Well, there you go. I guess you cant out jack a pro jacker. I will just have to be satisfied for now being a lesser jacker. I doubt I will ever be able to jack with either hand, but at least I wont burn my barrel out.

Curious about the lights? How does that aid in jacking?
 

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Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on August 20, 2006, 07:04 PM:
 
Please tell me the most important part. What type of sunglasses were you guys wearing?.
 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 20, 2006, 08:21 PM:
 
I just can't jack like those youngsters anymore since I burned out my barrel. Hell, it takes me a week to reload as it is.

Cal was the consumate host and opened every door (gate) for us. Anytime I can return the favor, you only have to ask.

Speaking of fashion statements, I didn't catch who the sponsor was but that night time camo Q was sporting for the video was the bomb!
 

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Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on August 20, 2006, 10:17 PM:
 
You guys are brutal, but FUNNY!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 20, 2006, 10:22 PM:
 
Oh, I get it, the "do rag" and the shades, right?
 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 20, 2006, 10:37 PM:
 
All right guys enough is enough I am up to my eyeballs in BS. Now this is a true story. NO KIDDING.

After all the jacking I did that weekend I was wore out as you might well imagine. Well I made it down the road until I was a few miles out of Douglas. At that point I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer so I decided to pull over for a quick power nap. I found a gravel pile just off the main highway so I pulled in. Thinking nothing of it I grabbed my bag out of the back walked around to the shady side of the pickup and stretched out. I was just about dozed completely off when I heard the crunching of gravel under tires so I lifted up my cool dude shades and it was some fella from the rail road. He just smiled and said “Just maken sure you wernt dead” LOL and drove off. I rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.

About a half hour later again I here the familiar crunching of gravel under tires so I rolled over to see who it was and this time it was a cop. Before I had time to properly introduce my self he bales out of his rig and says. “Do you know how much trouble you have caused? Let me see your drivers license”

At this point I am still trying to wake up and while I was handing him my CREDIT CARD I assured him I wasn’t drunk, I was just tired. LOL “Sir, this is your credit card,” he said while looking down his nose. Well I figured a sobriety test was sure to fallow and I was hoping Cal had enough cash to bail me out of jail.

Luckily it didn’t come to that. I quickly sobered up while he was running my plates but I was still at a loss as to what the trouble was all about. A few minutes later he crawled out of his car and explained the situation to me.

As it turns out the Converse County Sheriffs office phone was ringing off the hook with people saying they thought they saw a body lying by a Game and Parks truck. I believe the officer said that the only G&Ps rig that matched the description of my pickup was the wardens and no one could find him. A cop was dispatched to investigate and an All Points Bulletin was put out on the warden! Now that is funny.

Fortunately no tickets was issued for impersonating an officer or playing dead but the deputy did mention that Douglas had a lot of nice parks I could rest in. LOL

Good hunting.

Q,
 

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Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on August 21, 2006, 04:52 AM:
 
Damn Q, you got lucky. Around these parts, impersonating an officer, dead or alive, will get you in a sling!! Just be glad you werent still jacking. I dont know about up there but our wardens around here are professional jackers themselves. They would have been upset had you been trying to impersonate a jacking officer, not a dead one....

If you ever get in jail, call me. I think I can be licensed to write bonds there too by faxing in my Mo license. Wonder what the bond is for impersonating a dead officer?


 

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Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on August 21, 2006, 08:48 AM:
 
Those WY folks are real neighborly, aren't they? Something similar happened to me on the way home when I stopped for a nap. But not nearly so exciting as that!
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on August 21, 2006, 09:32 AM:
 
I have come to blame Wyoming for a bad trip, once upon a time. No other explanation works?

There we were, early evening, as remote as it gets and suddenly this guy's vehicle wouldn't move, like "Close Encounters"? Of course, it was January and we had just had some serious weather.

This guy got on the CB and was able to contact somebody, and a tow truck arrived within the hour....more or less?

He took us to a Jeep Dealer in Rock Springs, and this is where my buddy turned into a maniac. I almost had to physically restrain him from stealing the transmission from another Waggoner, and installing it in his truck.

How he thought he could do it without jacks and proper tools, is beyond me? Like, have you ever used greasy tools under a vehicle, in the dark, in sub-zero freezing temperatures, in the middle of a hick town?

And, with the local law enforcement just itching (undoubtably)... to bust a pair of Kalifornia dipshits, for jaywalking, much less stealing transmissions. This probably reveals more about my personal paranoia than (actual) negative experience with rural authorities....but anyway.

Crisis was diverted (or is it averted?) when this guy decided to try again and the vehicle (miraculously) engaged and moved! Probably some linkage bushing, whatever? Saved my manicure and some digital frostbite, so that was all the explanation I needed. No further problems, for the rest of the trip.

Sub-morale of story, membership in Auto Club is a good way to go; it has proved useful more than once. Be careful in Wyoming, and if you need to be there, do not breathe the air!

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by Rich Higgins (Member # 3) on August 21, 2006, 12:40 PM:
 
Q, Tyler and I know a fellow here in Mesa that gives seminars on duck and goose hunting. He blows those 150 dollar clear acrylic calls and he practices all of the time including while driving in his car. He was pulled over by a city cruiser and the cop ordered him out of the vehicle, made him place his hands on the vehicle and patted him down as he held his hand on his weapon. Finding nothing, the cop demanded "Where's the pipe?"
Seems the cop saw him stopped at the traffic light with a clear acrylic "pipe" in his mouth.
 

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Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on August 21, 2006, 01:26 PM:
 
Ok, what makes one a master quacker? What makes him a pro above the rest of us quackers....

Lord I apologize, the pigmys and all....


 

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Posted by Q-Wagoner (Member # 33) on August 21, 2006, 03:23 PM:
 

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Those WY folks are real neighborly, aren't they? Something similar happened to me on the way home when I stopped for a nap. But not nearly so exciting as that!

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You didn’t get caught jacking in your sleep did you NASA? LOL

Speaking of auto clubs Leonard this is another true story, NASA as my witness. On our jacking expedition I managed to lock my keys in my pickup on Saturday afternoon. I was pissed of course and went back to the room to try and summon a locksmith. There were 4 numbers in the “Wright” WY phone book for locksmiths. Twenty-four hour assistance blaaa blaa blaa. Well I drew a blank on the first two numbers and got some one on the third but he was out of Moorcroft and was not crazy about coming down to unlock my vehicle. One hundred dollars is what he quoted me so I said I had one more number to call and that I would get back to him one way or the other.

Anyway phone call #4 was a blank so NASA suggested using his AAA card. Great idea I thought. Well I called the number for roadside assistance and they directed the call to their Wyoming office. An answering machine picked up the call and said that their hours were 9 to 5 Monday through Friday and instructed me to leave a message. LOL I couldn’t believe it.

Last resort was to call the sheriffs office because sometimes they can help. They didn’t allow there officers to unlock vehicles for liability reasons but the dispatcher knew a guy that was pretty handy at that sort of thing so they sent him over and he had it unlocked in no time. The fella was a real nice guy and I tried to give him 30 dollars for helping me out but all I could get in him was ten.

It was an interesting trip for sure. I had a splitting headache the whole time, a fat chick tried to pick me up at the local bar on Friday night, I scared Cal for life, locked my keys in my pickup and was nearly arrested for impersonating a dead officer. What a weekend eh? LOL

At least the shooting was good. I hadn’t shot my swift in about 6 months and it sure felt like it also. I wasn’t up to par with my shooting but I managed to whack a few.

Good hunting.

Q,
 

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Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on August 21, 2006, 07:37 PM:
 
Q,

You tell these stories as if the rest of us should be surprised. Or, better yet, shocked. With you, I can believe every word.

You shoulda told that SO Deputy that you heard there were Mexican Taliban afoot

[ August 21, 2006, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ]
 

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Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on August 21, 2006, 08:58 PM:
 
Actually Q, I did know Cal has a ton of experience. I also knew he is a denning pro. And, since I have been enlightened about such for a spell now, I was asking how to tell, in jest, not his ability to tell. Thanks for the help though.
 

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Posted by claimbuster (Member # 904) on August 21, 2006, 09:39 PM:
 
Gee Q, I thought we were just shooting Jacks. Did I miss something?

Cal...thanks so much for your hospitality! I am glad I could help "stink up" the place. Damn, I haven't had so much fun in years.

Hopefully cold air will move in so that the stench will not bother your antelope hunters.

Good luck & God bless!
 

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Posted by claimbuster (Member # 904) on August 21, 2006, 09:44 PM:
 

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a fat chick tried to pick me up at the local bar on Friday night

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