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3 pointsWell this weekend was my son Hunters first time out with a tag in his pocket. When it was app season I went through all the choices for him and he said he wanted to put in for deer, bighorn and turkey. I’ve never hunted fall turkey before but figured if he was interested we would give it a try. He was lucky enough to draw a turkey tag and a juniors Kaibab tag. This weekend was the turkey hunt and next weekend we head to the North Rim. Although we didn’t kill a turkey it was good prep for his true “first hunt” next weekend. It was great to spend some time together and see him start to catch the bug. He has a pretty full fall ahead of him as he was also donated a cow elk tag for next month.
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3 pointsGood news good news! 11 years ago I started this thread and I'm happy to say that it has come to an end. 2 weeks ago while buying some antlers off a man from Cottonwood I immediately recognized a set of muley antlers in the pile. I pulled them out and recognized them within seconds. I looked at him and said where in the heck did you get these?! He told me about buying them off a man from Camp Verde about 5 or 6 years ago. I then told him how they were stolen from my friends cabin and how the cabin had been vandalized so bad. I called my friend Ed immediately and told him that I had his Utah muley. He couldn't believe it!! Yesterday I met him and gave them back to him. Needless to say he was very very happy! Josh
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2 pointsHusband and wife Dan and Gail are located in Tucson... They have done more than a dozen animal mounts for myself and family... usually an 8 to 9-month turnaround time on rugs... always a fair price with half down and the rest payable when you pick up the finished mount... Give them a call I really don't think you'll be disappointed....... https://www.tbasix.com/
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1 pointHey Gents! Looking for some input on my recent 1st time use of Duracoat. After finishing the job and removing all of my stencils, there was a significant amount of the adhesive residue that was left behind on the entire job. I'm thinking that the adhesive reacted to the Duracoat because much of the adhesive that I have removed was pigmented in the color from the layer it was applied. I was painting in temps around 70-85 degrees and waited a solid 3 hours or significantly more in-between applications. I wasn't scientific in my measurement of the hardener and feel this might be where my mistake was made. Perhaps there was not enough hardener to prevent the adhesive from interacting with the last layer of paint??? Anywho, I'd like to find out where I went wrong and prevent a repeat of this mess. It has been a complete PITA to remove all of the residue!!!
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1 point2 full boxes of Remington Short Action Ultra Mag ammo. 165gr PSP. Best price I can find online for this is just over $40 per box. I'll sell both of these for $50 FTF. I live in Catalina, but can meet somewhere north of Tucson.
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1 pointMan tough hunt! Pre rut activity in end of dang September. Rifle hunt. Was getting nerve block in hip openeing morn cuz pain so,bad,night before i couldn't sleep. I had high hopes this procedure would help me get around a bit better so 1 day wasted and rain was coming soon. All night bulls screaming and the moon was bright. Sat morn bulls talking but not coming to calls. I managed to hobble into a couple bulls that were chatty and dang they were in thick stuff and maybe 50 yards.. I see a nice tall 6x6 with short points but tall so i get scope on him in small opening and wait to make sure all is clear but when he dropped his head to eat a rump was at his neck line... Then up out of brush comes a giant whale tail bulls head (350ish) he was standing perfectly beside the 6. 😕 My buddy whispered something to me and when i moved my head i think the sun behind me caused flicker cuz the 6 just spun head and looked at me. I got back in the scope and the toad bull was standing straight away only presenting Texas heart shot and sorry but i'd rather have good meat then the big rack. Sat. night i sat water and 1 fox visited & a G&F guy who politely backed out but i heard same guy walked right in on aquaitence in same unit opening morn of archery. 😡 Sun morn i fully expected to shoot 1 of those bulls from Saturday.. We saw 2 monsters driving in but juat not enough light for,my aging eyes then silence fell upon the woods. Sunday night sat water and thundering bull bugles echoed out 30min before dark but not in the kind of country i could try and pursue them in with bad leg and it was clear nobody was coming to water. Monday morning after a sleepless night from sorta warm weather and a annoying loud bull we set out to try and chase bugles. Unfortunately my leg was super bad, the block helped till anathesia wore off tjen back to pain so walking was super slow and every time we got to bugles they had moved 500 yards. I told buddy (bowhunter4life) i was done and i think it's time to go home cuz pain was too bad so he asked if he should go grab the truck.. I was frustrated, how can 1 go to unit 👉9👈 with a rifle and get no bull? so i said let me take some medicine and rest foot 30 minutes and he kinda backed off and gave me room to vent my frustrations a bit. Well while venting i chose to continue a conversation with i believe the bull who kept me awake the night before. we had just spoke with him and i had even raked his rub a bit while screaming at him and he wasn't so happy. I continued screaming the bugle loud directly at him and buddy hit cow call here and there 30 yards behind me and son of a gun suddenly the screamer was 100 yards off and on same level as i so i figured this bull was in play! My buddy came over and said he is close and i was like YUP! He says can ya do it and i said meds worked lets do it. Well we walked straight at bugle which was now in a draw 150 yards or so off. I screamed loud on bugle everytime he spoke and you could tell he was not very happy with me. Suddenly after a different squeaky bull spoke we saw a spindly bull (which i would have shot) suddenly dart from thick cover and just vanish we hit bugle and the bigger bull screamed back from dead ahead maybe 60-80 yards. I got down on ground and scanned with binocs then scope and could see what sure looked like legs, belly and lower shoulders of elk. I got super low and put scope on shoulder/chest cuz facing me slighly quartering left and i asked buddy to hit bugle.. Well as soon as Mike bugled the bull buggled and his belly and balls bounced confirming target and the 300wm barked!! He ran out with leg flying all over the place. We got on his trail and found 2 tiny blood drops of blood in 40 or 50 yards.. I was frustrated and was like what the heck man i just smacked him with a 200 grain bullet at point blank kinda range and i get 2 drops of blood? Just then buddy slapped me and was like right there he is!!! Maybe 10 yards to my left. L.O.L. When Mike went for his truck to see if he could get in to us i rolled the bull over and found a busted arrow shaft and broadhead that was festering out of upper shoulder. So he is not the biggest bull but i am dang proud of him. I absolutely love this bull and the fact that i received the tag the day before the hunt started and have never hunted elk in 9, i had a nerve block the morning the hunt started, i still have post op foot! I'm way blessed to have a friend willing to drop everything and go help and a wife willing to let me drop everything and go hunt. Blessed Blessed Blessed and so very thankful. i know many people that donated tags this year were just wanting better antler/horn growth but in this case i believe it was illness so please pray for the donor. Thanks As you can tell by the boiling pot i am playing catch up with my own personal harvests so i can make room for meat, heck i even did my bison after these and it was from 2016 :]
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1 pointLove my camp chef.. Much easier to clean than Trager plus the side sear box is money! Now they have side griddle ad ons and a pizza oven add on for The Camp Chefs.
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1 pointGo with Mike Vicarro with Ahead of the Game. I have known him for 30 years. He gives you a time frame and is normally done early with the animal looking great. He has done three animals for me and multiple for my friends. You won’t be disappointed.
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1 pointNo elk or antelope tag here, just a ton of awesome I wanted to share with my friends here at CWT, starting with my best hunting partner Frank tagging out on a nice mule buck opening weekend with his kids and wife in tow. Most of my trips were by myself and the critters around me, but his early success provided a great glassing partner and voice of support through some frustrating times. I gave up on my tree stands this year after getting tired of waiting for the action to come to me, and set my sights on any spot and stalk coues willing to take an arrow. As usual, lots of great things happened along the way. My javelina tag was filled at the end of a long day of deer hunting. Without the need of a call, and with plenty of suspense as the herd came and went from 10 feet - 10 yards under and around the junipers, I waited for a good sized boar that needed my draw to change his course of interest, and I put an arrow front and center as he looped around back to the herd. With one success out of the way, we kept on and made sure we capitalized on Drake's favorite part of January. After many more cruising bucks and lonely does spotted, I had a day by myself that I'll never forget. I finally found a buck that wouldn't leave his doe's side, a great deep and unique fork with a manzanita-colored forehead. I stalked to 45 yards without an opportunity to get closer and the wait began for him to get up. 1 hour and 45 minutes later, a side by side with loud voices pulled up in the distance and he had enough. He rose, I drew, I released, and he jumped, far. I was left with a hand full of tail, and nothing else to show for the most ideal coues stalk I've ever had an opportunity on. The heartbreak was immediately overcome with a feeling of great success. I thought about it over and over again in my head, and I wouldn't have done a single thing different. That's just the way it goes. January 31st and 5 days later, I found myself back out on the mountain with Frank and a fresh motivation to tag out. We started the day with "deer," "I got bucks," "more bucks," and "there is the buck from last Saturday!" None wanted to settle down with the does in the stalkable country just a few hundred yards in front of us. We moved a mile further along the hunting route, only to find more does and bucks segregated. We ended up getting a really good idea of where the bucks had bedded themselves so I moved in for the heck of it, only for them to get busted by a rummaging Coati I elected not shoot at 10 yards, based on how close I thought I was to the bucks. More defeat that was out of my hands. Then, on my walk back to the area where it all began, I spotted another good fork that had just snuck into a tree line. As I moved to get the wind in my favor, a second deer rustled around at the base of a big dead oak. Although not much, I saw bone on his head and I moved in for a closer look. I weaseled my way under a big shady juniper and next to a prickly pear that put both of my last sightings into shooting range. 5 minutes later, the small buck walked along the tree line right towards me. His raised and lowered his head multiple times in confusion to the new object in his domain. He kept coming closer and ultimately, we were face to face with only a prickly pear between us. Seeing the wet of his nose, I drew from 5 feet away as his head went behind a pad, he quickly stared again. I waited for another pad to clear his vitals and his next step was one of his last. This is the smallest buck I've taken but my motivation to do so was the biggest there is. I knew that going into this hunt, I would not have an August season this year, and who knew when after that. My wife and I have been blessed with greatest gift of all due in late August, and I couldn't be happier to miss the rest of this year's big game seasons. I've been waiting for this for a very long time, and I look forward to sharing our journey in the field together for years to come. As I've done with hunting and shooting, I may be asking for a lot of pointers along the way!
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1 pointAmanda everything looks fine on a pc and works fine. (well except my home pc still wont connect so I cant read the forum unless I am at work cox is still f'd up as we discussed) anyway back to the problem peoples are having. I am assuming on phones? the add is huge on a phone and you have to scroll sideway. other than that everything works perfect ie search etc etc. to fix the ad I think you need to convert the ad pictures to a PNG file instead of a jpg or gif. we had this problem on azbasszone many years ago when the resolutions of computer screens changed like every month. there is also a code that you put in the script to make the file use the aspect of the image to consider with the users screen size. Phones were made for Fagbook, they didnt care about old forums. now the forum companies are trying to make them phone usuable. which is a pain due to so many different phones and NO STANDARDS like with a PC. I dont know anythign about this type of forum just V bulletin. but they all appear to be the same. there might even be a fix for the JPG and GIF images as well now. I believe it use's percentages instead of using a certain dedicate picture size like you have in your code. My phone is an I-phone 5s from long ago. I have no clue how to do screen shots or I would post up a few. I am smart phone stupid and want to stay that way. If I do remember anything else on size issue I will let you know
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1 pointThe calendar deal is stupid. With my note book, i had to scroll back to 1952 for my friend, i think i have one of those hand syndromes now. Checked my phone and it had arrows to click month by month back to 1952. Got it done, but wtf.
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1 pointThank you all. Here is a better picture of her dreaming about all the critters she is going to encounter with daddy.
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1 pointCubs scored what 2 runs in 22 innings of do or die baseball? - Not good. Go Brewers your 2018 NL Champs and losers to any of 3 AL teams that may advance unfortunately.
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1 pointJust go to any unit and fire a 6.5cm at a random mountainside. The bullet is guaranteed to only hit a monster buck.
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1 pointSorry for just complaining and not being more specific: I did not like how under "unread content" (which is how I keep up with new posts) there were individual posts instead of threads. Also how if you clicked on a thread it scrolled you down to the bottom to see the most recent post. It appears that this has been changed back to how it used to be and is no longer a problem for me. Thanks!
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1 pointUnit 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.
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1 pointUpdate: Please welcome CWTs newest huntress and outdoorswoman. Baby Brooke was born August 29th at 7lbs 14oz. Momma and baby are perfect and I'm finally set to get a taste of what I have been watching so many of you enjoy over the years. The envy is waning. I again, can't wait to share our journey along the way.