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I wish we had moderators like snipershide. Start posting crap to be a jerk and get the ban hammer!

I do plenty of scouting from my chair. Three programs, Topo, On-X Maps and Google Earth. Once I think I have some good Ideas I get my butt out into the field and physically check the spots. Are you going to complain about this new site for about 5 pages then purchase their product also?

I agree these sites dave has publicised suck, but Lance is correct. Stop publicising . I didn't know this $hit was out there until now. Stop spreading the word.

I think he secretly has an interest in pushing people to these sites. His super ultra secret spot where he has hunted for 25 years blah blah blah. Free advertising.

Are you a woman?

We had a lot of friends come hunt this morning. Everyone got a limit pretty quick out here.

Last year was my oldest son's first pronghorn hunt, and this year it was Nick's turn. He's going to Creighton in Omaha, so I drove up to Albuquerque and met him at the airport there on Thursday night. Quick 4 hours of sleep, and we hit I-25 for the 2 1/2 hour drive up to the hunting area (Lancetkenyon and Zeke-BE know where it is... LOL). We rolled into the property right around 7AM and began seeing pronghorn immediately. We glassed for just a bit upon getting there, but then drove on into the ranch headquarters to say hello to the owner and thank her for letting us hunt there. Like last year, she was gracious and we had a nice chat. She mentioned that there seemed not to be as many pronghorn this year as in past years, but after hearing other reports and seeing Lance & Zeke's reports here we were optimistic. We had already seen one nice buck early in the morning upon getting on the property, and he quickly did what basically ALL others had done last year; As soon as we stopped the pick-up, he and his squad ran out to about 3/4 mile. When I got out to glass them with the 15s, they proceeded to run even further! So anyway, with that in mind I had a brought along a secret weapon. A couple of years ago when I had an archery bull elk tag, I had bought one of those fabric pop-up cow elk decoys. (Her name is Miss September! Got a good laugh at that when I bought the decoy....) I decided that I would try holding her up in front of us to try to get closer to some of those spooky bucks. Well, after visiting with the ranch owner we drove off and quickly spotted another nice buck and some does. He did his usual antelope-thingy and was in the next county in short order, but I hadn't had time to break-out the secret weapon yet. We drove up on a large knoll and glassed all around, and I eventually a nice buck popped up at about 1/2-3/4 of a mile out. I broke out Miss September, and held her up in front of me and started walking directly towards the buck with Nicholas walking right behind me. I walked a steady pace, stopping every 50-75 yards or so and the buck never broke his stare. We proceeded along closing the distance, and when we were at about 500 yards I was thinking it was actually going to maybe work. We are not big on super long distance, with about 400 yards generally being our max shot distance. Well, we kept strolling and eventually got to a nice little tuft of grass on a little mound of dirt. I stopped and check the range-finder, and the buck was still staring at us from just about 350 yards. The 30-06 is zeroed for 200 with 180gr. PSPs, and I told Nick to hold just slightly over it's back. He got on the bi-pod in between Miss September's legs and let it rip! The buck bolted for about 50 yards, then stopped and started to look sick. Within about 5 more seconds he was down. 9:30AM on opening day, and it was all over! Went and got the truck and drove right to him (we had met up with a ranch hand just prior to that and he said it was no problem driving across the pasture....). Anyway, two hours later and we were done cutting it up and enjoying a couple of sandwiches. Overall a GREAT hunt!!! Drove back last night so that Nick could spend the weekend with his mom (really, the other way around... lol). A 36 hour round trip for me, with only 4 hours of sleep but lots of great road-hours with my boy! He was nice enough not to nap it all away, and we had a great time the entire way! Getting done early let's me spend a couple of mornings at the dairy shooting doves before I leave for archery deer in Utah on Tuesday morning! I'm blessed! S.

So you complain about one site.....then bring attention to another site where people can now easily find it and go get the info? Ever heard of maybe keeping this info to yourself and quit propagating the downward spiral of leaking more info that you would prefer the masses NOT have available from their armchairs?

Look at the prominent Democrats that were invited to the funeral, yet, McCains running mate, Sarah Palin, was not invited.

I must be a hypocrite also. I was forced to vote for McCain for years, even if I had to take a long shower afterwards, to wash off the disgust I felt for doing so.

If creepy Joe Biden delivers a eulogy at the funeral, and says "I'm Joe Biden, and I love John McCain", it pretty much sums up John McCain as a politician. If John McCain was a staunch Trump supporter, I guarantee you that there would not be one democrat that would attend his funeral. A nation of hypocrisy.

John McCain's first wife was seriously injured and crippled in an automobile accident. She was confined to a wheelchair for a long time. In order to advance his political aspirations, John divorced her, and married an affluent, and well connected woman, 18 years his junior. Even Ronald Reagan was appalled by what McCain did. Don't lecture me about class, especially towards a man that obviously has none. I didn't say anything negative about him, I just said that he was dead. Do some research on John McCain's history. McCain may have been a Patriot at one point, but that was before he was corrupted by the cesspool of Washington D.C. I feel bad for his family. I have been there.

Just picked-up my son Erik's pronghorn from last year. Jim, Cody, and team did an AMAZING job!!!!! It really looks SO beautiful!! Thanks for the outstanding work, guys!! 👍😉

Doing a little scouting last week for the evening fly and this little guy came along...

I tried something new with some Dove last night. I marinated the Dove in Italian dressing for about a week. I cut the Dove into small pieces. I added some mild jalapeños and bell peppers from the garden. I cooked them for about a minute and they were done. They tasted Amazing!

You practice and practice year round for the one day to come. The day a toad of a deer that you’ve been dreaming about ,waiting for and chasing comes within range and you choke to buck fever. I hate it but at the same time that rush is so addicting.

Splendid goat..

I had my first stalk of the season yesterday evening. Went out after work and turned up a buck I have pretty well patterned. I got to 58 yards of his bed but didnt have a shot. I decided to play it safe and back out since I was losing day light quick. I would rather take my chances than make a bad shot any day of the week.

I certainly respect his service. The issues that I had with the man is although he was a Republican, he could have been a closet Democrat, and when he was sick, I didn't see him being treated at a VA hospital.

Real Classy remark.......he was a good man and even if i did not agree with all his principles and policy I still admired him for his courage and all the good things he had done for this country. I use to consider myself a republican, still vote that way but I am tired of all the name calling and petty behavior, nothing gets done. Now I just hear both sides blame each other and point fingers.

about 35 miles. i like my bed.

Thanks for keeping us informed on what is going on Sirroyal. 40+ cameras being taken in northern AZ in the last couple of weeks is no small deal. The message needs to get out and forums like this are a perfect way to get the message out to the hunting community. Most of us would not even know what happened if you guys didnt inform us. Hope they catch this loser !!

dove makes good chorizo too

I make my own Italian dressing but that's how I did them last year. Made kabobs and everyone ate! (Even the people who "hate dove")

Next time I will add some cabbage and a little chunky salsa.