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Heres my OTC Buck, shot him Monday just after noon, took about 8 or 9 days of spot and stalk/sitting. Have a shed of his and last 4 months of cam pics. This is my biggest coues and my first archery coues...addicted.

Well I had the opportunity to shake the hand of one of our last remaining WWII veterans this morning. I thanked him for his service and noticed he had a POW license plate. He was an airborne soldier captured by the nazis in Sept 1944 during operation Market-Garden(A Bridge Too Far) and spent 6 months in a stalag. God Bless him. lee

Catahoula’s are some of my favorite dogs. Great working & Family dogs. They just need to be socialized well. My kids hang all over our dogs and I don’t worry at all.

If this guy makes it the next couple years he may have some pretty cool looking antlers....... We all know that cows fart, but I have proof..........

Heading up to 4b to set up camp for my nephew's first trophy cow elk hunt. Lol If anyone up there needs help or just wants a s'more, give me a shout. Actually I dont have any s'mores so please bring me some.

4b is on FIRE....wait. not this year for once. Worked 3 bulls this morning and one hunter. Bugling was sparse but pretty good for the first couple hours of light once we found the active boys. Unfortunately none of them had cows. The hunter may have but that is a different issue.....

Zeiss Conquest HD5 3-15x42 RZ600 reticle in excellent condition. $525.00. - sold Zeiss Conquest 3-9x40 #20 Z-Plex reticle in excellent condition. $275.00. Both scopes include the original box and paperwork. If you want to have a look at either, we can find a convenient place to meet. I am in north Phoenix.

Anyone know if there is a processor drop-off in Clint’s Well during early archery hunt? I see it for 2017 on their website, but no 2018 info and couldn’t get them on the phone. Thanks!

I have no Clue but in for some pictures

Stud buck congrats man.

Man, you are right Bro! I grew up there & wouldn’t spill the beans cause the good spots are slowly dwindling! Not that this helps, but this buck was killed In there last year. This is the gun smiths brother.

Very, very cool Pat! That is a great Pronghorn buck. Congratulations!

I heard they're going nuts

Apache Maid will be a zoo.

chico, PM me if you're having problems finding elk. Always like to help the juniors.

Coues hunting Ended with a 'dang what just happened' yesterday. Found a spot in unit 1 with a pocket of coues deer. Hunted it every weekend and finally got into shooting range when a very good buck jumped cover at less than 20 yards and this guy watched from 45 yards than when I went to pull back he ran.

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.

Got my first tag in about 15 years or so. Rifle unit 1! Bedded a herd last night and found them this morning. Got with in about 140 yards broadside shot and let it fly! Miss. Follow up with a second and third, both great hits, and dropped him in his tracks. Very excited for my first ever. Not a trophy record book but a trophy for me! His tops curl in and almost make a heart. My girls will love this!

Heck, Taylor drew a 12AE late rifle tag with 1 BP. So I know miracles happen.....to other people at least.

I remember going to Hawley Lake as a kid. Such a beautiful place. Visiting the White Mountains in those days ignited a fire for trout fishing that I don't think will ever go out. Hopefully some of those youngsters will catch the fever.

I can’t say that I can do XXX discount on anything because profit margins are between sucky to crap to literally losing money on firearms. Some product lines have very strict minimum pricing policies like sig, glock etc, while others like ruger do not have a map price. In the current market more so in NFA (suppressors) some places have amazing deals on cans, sometimes better than my cost on them in the first place. Capitol armory comes to mind with someone who sells cans at good prices and sometimes is right at or close to cost, but you’ll have to pay for the transfer at the dealer like you would any firearm but NFA items are a bit more money. If you find a can you like feel free to shoot me a PM and I’ll check on the cost of it for you. I also search online as well to see what others are selling it for. If it’s only a couple bucks more I’ll tell you to get it from there and save the sales tax which I have to charge you. A great example of the lack of profit in firearms is a ruger 10/22. I don’t recall the sku off the top of my head for this model as it was a couple months ago I did a price shop on it. It was a basic synthetic 10/22 that you could buy at sportsman’s or wherever for about 229-239 or so. My cost on it was 224.90 before shipping. For $5 more I’d tell you to go to sportsman’s or wherever and get it right now as opposed to me ordering it. Another example is last year a dealer in Vegas had a blowout sale on some surefre Ryder 22A suppressors, they were selling them for $199 and free shipping. I went to check out my cost on them, it was $209 at sports south (wholesaler).

Got my first Coues yesterday! Been hunting with traditional archery gear 10+ years and coues proved to be a challenge. Been in Arizona for the past 3 seasons and finally got one!

Unit 7 is a massive unit With Antelope spread out from north to south from east to west. Try looking further north and even into 7E. I have not heard of any die off. I know from my experience in the unit, the antelope that stay in the small meadows, often are in the trees right at sun up.

Pretty sure my arrow would have flown right over his back!!!!! Congrats on a jaw dropper!!!

All of this can be quite confusing, and there are numerous regulations that cover these topics depending on which critter you may be hunting. There are federal regulations that are rather broad regarding baiting waterfowl or migratory birds. Don't even think about it. You can hunt around normal agricultural practices or food plots. Bears have had a prohibition on baiting for quite a while. Again, don't even think about it. These are state regulations, but again preclude virtually any baiting of bears. During the last year, additional state rules were promulgated that regulate the placement of bait for other big game. There are 4 things that are exempted. Those things are: (1) water (so you can place water out to bait in deer), (2) salt (you can use water softener salt or white salt blocks, or even organic sea salt if you wish), or (3) salt-based products manufactured for the livestock industry (so you can use a trace mineral salt block). Finally, you can hunt over a nutritional supplement that has been placed by a livestock producer for his livestock (so you can hunt over a molasses wheel, but you can't place the molasses wheel yourself). Cervid urine is another recent change (prohibition). The recent rules were intended to address potential CWD issues in part, and the cervid urine is that entirely. You can use a synthetic, but not the real stuff. If you use the real stuff, you are spreading urine from captive game farm cervids. Urine carries prions, which are involved in CWD transmission. Consequently, you are spreading captive cervid urine, which is where the most likely source of CWD may come from, around Arizona where no CWD currently occurs. Synthetics won't spread the prions or CWD. Hopefully this clears up some of this confusion. Brian Wakeling Game Branch Chief