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Texas 2006

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2006 Texas Trip YO Ranch - Wagon

Texas 2006 was a road trip - this trip took them south through to Atlanta, GA for to personally deliver a custom made gaming table.

From there they hooked right and headed west stopping in various locations along the way including Biloxi, MI where they found what could be described as a 3rd world country. The damage from Katrina remained almost as if it was frozen in time.

They continued west and landed at the YO Ranch in Mountain Home, TX for Ted Nugent's birthday party and a hunting adventure.

Photos from this trip are already online in some of the other sections of our website, more will be posted here shortly.

In 2006 our adventures took us to the famous TX YO Ranch.

Left to Right - Eric Saperstein, Theresa Tonte, Ted Nugent - 2006 Sunrize Safaris Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt at the YO RanchTed Showing off Whitetail Deer Relief Carving entitled "Whitetail Sunrize" by Eric M. Saperstein and a custom personalized walking sticked (Staff) by Stanley Saperstein of Artisans of the Valley December 13, 2006 to Ted & Shemane Nugent at the YO Ranch in Mountain Home, TX

2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Playing Acustic At LodgeWhitetail Sunrize by Eric M. Saperstein of Artisans of the Valley at the YO Ranch 2006

2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Lodge Concert2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Opening Whitetail Sunrize by Artisans of the Valley2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Opening Whitetail Sunrize by Artisans of the Valley2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent & Eric Saperstein Opening Walking Stick by Artisans of the Valley2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Opening Whitetail Sunrize by Artisans of the Valley2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent & Eric Saperstein Opening Walking Stick by Artisans of the Valley

2006's Hunting Trips included a Sunrize Safaris trip to the YO Ranch, a great hunt and an opportunity to present a hand carved "Whitetail Sunrize" panel and custom personalized walking stick to Ted Nugent for his 58th birthday.

2006 YO Ranch, TX - Big Jim with Sika Buck2006 YO Ranch, TX - Big Jim & Theresa Tonte with their Sika Buck2006 YO Ranch, TX - Sika Buck on Truck Rack

2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric is shown center with his 8pt Sika, and right with his 8pt white tail buck.

2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric with 8pt Sika2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric with 8pt Whitetail

Check out Eric's Feature in Browning's Trophy Case!

The image to the right is our page capture, the link above goes to Browning's website. You may have to flip a few pages in as their trophy case grows!

Eric M Saperstein - Artisans of the Valley Featured on www.browning.com in Browning's Trophy Case

Below are a few more angles of Eric w/ the Sika and Whitetail.

2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric with 8pt Sika2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric with 8pt Whitetail2006 YO Ranch Hunting Trip - Eric with Whitetail Doe

We debated about shooting one of these - however we determined that a mount that looked like that rediscovered at 3am during a venture to the bathroom would likely end up in it getting shot again! These four horned sheep are cool - but scary looking creatures!

2006 YO Ranch - 4 Horn Sheep 12006 YO Ranch - 4 Horn Sheep 22006 YO Ranch - 4 Horn Sheep 3

There are no hears of deer like this floating around NJ lately ... at least not when we're out hunting we've only seen deer congregated like this while taking a Sunday drive!

2006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 12006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 22006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 32006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 42006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 52006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 62006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 72006 YO Ranch - Deer Photos 8

These are the famous elk - one of which boasted a $25,000 price tag. Eric was tempered to shoot the biggest thing on the property (No thanks to our guide Brian who was more than tempting her to take a shot and put an end to the "Size does matter ... in deer ..." battle of the sexes. We finally settled on a few photos - pulling the trigger on the camera was free!

2006 YO Ranch - Elk Photos 12006 YO Ranch - Elk Photos 32006 YO Ranch - Elk Photos 22006 YO Ranch - Elk Photos 4

Next round - we're going to get a ram. Not wanting to shoot what we don't eat, we turned down the opportunity. Now that we know the meat can be donated to hunters for hungry, and/or a few Greek friends of ours that voiced their interest in this bounty.

2006 YO Ranch - Ram 12006 YO Ranch - Ram 2

2006 YO Ranch - Truck View Pushing an Ox2006 YO Ranch - Turkey

This is a small sample of some of the exotic game that is bread and maintained at the YO Ranch. The Fallow Deer in the pickup bed - next TX hunting trip we take that's a definite goal!

2006 YO Ranch - Exotic Photo 12006 YO Ranch - Exotic Photo 22006 YO Ranch - Exotic Photo 42006 YO Ranch - Exotic Photo 3

A few random group shots - these was prepping for the photo shoots w/ Ted and our bounty.

2006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt - Photo Shoot 52006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt - Photo Shoot 42006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt - Photo Shoot 32006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt - Photo Shoot 22006 YO Ranch Ted Nugent Birthday Hunt - Photo Shoot 1


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