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As luck would have it I had the opportunity to do some bear hunting with the cousins last weekend. Combined my wife's cousin JW and I have killed over 20 bears in AZ between state land and the rez. Let me just say if it wasn't for the passion in are hearts I would sitting right under my ac unit at the house this time of year. It doesn't much matter where you go for bears in AZ, this time of year chances are it will be over 100 degree's sometime during the day of your bear hunt. And it was all that plus some you know it's hot when you are in the saguaro's and prickly pears for a bear hunt in August. Remember saguaro's do not grow over 3800' elevation. Between JW and I we have 8 kids in which 5 teenager's 2 preteen's and the newest hunter to the family a 1.5 year old. He has 4 and I have 4. As we get older are focus is certainly towards the kids getting out to hunt and us guiding them to success in all aspect in life. We started with looking up high 4500' plus and we located one bear opening day but are shooter was in school till 3 and wasn't arriving till that evening. Saturday was hot with no bears located. But we had the oldest teenager down in lower country and he spotted 2 bears. So I decided to move down to help him on Saturday evening. I found a nice black bear right at dark (as usual) with no chance to close the gap before time would run out. So we opted to go home and come back Sunday evening to get it done. So that was 3 we saw in the same area. We were able to close the gap Sunday evening to be in the heart of them and like clock work one bear showed up for the party. JW and his oldest were able to close the gap and get into shooting position I was watching from 1000 yards away on another ridge. I could see the bear and them in my bino's . Then boom and the bear just stood there then boom, boom, boom. The bear had enough and he booged up and move off to a deep canyon. the kid was heartbroken that he missed. So with about 15 min's of safe light left I started looking around and located what was to me a jumbo chocolate in the pears he was at 1124 yards and there was no way to close the gap in time but he was to be numero uno on the hit list. We called the bear line and unit was to close Weds. Between work for us and school for him we knew we were running out of time. I was able to get out Monday evening by myself and had a beautiful solid black one at 207 yards the only thing this bear was missing was about 150 pounds to match up the chocolate one I had saw. So I passed on him which is pretty hard to do. In my heart I really wanted the kid to get one first and I didn't want to booger it up in their. Finally the last evening of the hunt Weds we all were able to get in position for another evening And as luck would have it the same bear he missed came back out and the boy took it as a personal mission to seal the deal on that bear. He glassed it up him self then stalked it and was able to harvest that bear that evening at 150 yards with us old guy's watching . It was like passing the torch off or kung fu master when you snatch the pebbles from my hand it will be time for you to leave. Some of you older reader's will get this. 17 years old and pretty much did it on his own . He originally found the bears ,his dad and I where just their for back up. Now if you have ever taken a bear in the evening with no roads in sight you know how the REST OF THE STORY GO'S needless to say we arrived home around 1:30 am. And again I was happy too be part of it. And for the 350# chocolate I saw well my chocolate addiction will carry on. Thanks for the read, Pete

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I posted this in the other thread as well, but I thought it would fit in well here. My dad found this on our property in Aravaipa. General consensus was a lion kill. Shame.

My wifes bison hunt from April is up on YouTube on The Mountain Project Page. Check it out and let me know whatcha think! Thanks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K34Vz5e2tSA

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A large group of friends are planning on hunting Sept 1-3 at a ranch in the west valley. I would like to find a kid or boy scout group that would be willing to come out for a few hours in the morning to clean birds for anyone willing to pay. Please give me a call if you or someone you know is interested. Thx, Adam 928 595 1554

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I thought at sometime you will resort to this!! Adam loves shooting doves and making poppers out of them. But he hates nothing more then cleaning them Good opportunity to make some money for the youth. This is a Win Win for sure

This is why I hunt 4B. Big bulls everywhere, no people anywhere.

I did not catch one but my friends did.

Well if you don't get a chance to scout just hit the roads in your chosen area around 4 in the morning and walk them listening for some bulls. Then get close and see what daylight brings. Some of the best scouting can be walking roads at night listening to the elk.

Just pick a spot on the map and jump on it. You will find deer

I would agree that podcasts and social media have basically ruined our little secret of leftover tags.

There isn't a theme with a pink background....must be your monitor. Did you try the theme with the camo background? I like that one but it doesn't have as good a contrast with the text. You can select whichever theme appeals to you and looks best on your devices. Look at the bottom middle or bottom left of the forum for the word Theme with a little down arrow button on the right and click on that and then you can see the theme choices. Each theme has a different color scheme. For some people a light color scheme works for them, for other a dark one. You can select the one that works best for you.

I like that you can read the first couple lines of posts before clicking on them.

Great video, Kevin! And Britt did awesome, as always. However, I think your kids stole the show!

Here's my all time favorite. I don't think I've ever seen a coues as burred up as this one. To bad his beams were chewed off.

That Utah buck is sweet heres one my daughter found while spring turkey and varmit hunting 2 years ago. its a couple inches under 300. was the highlight of her life. she has found 1 lope dead head with one horn 4-5 spike bulls and a few varmit skulls. this one she spots a ways away from were we were walking and started running and yelling OMG OMG OMG. I figured she was chasing a cat or bear as she had her phone out taking pics.

Utah buck

Worst fishing I ever have up there is end of july and Aug. But a bad day of fishing is still better then being home