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So when my son was 11 he shot his first deer. A kiabab doe on the run at 180. Dropped in its tracks. I thought I can’t believe he did that resting on a burned out log. That was lucky. When he was 13 he shot a cow elk at 470 with a very serious cross wind and it went nose down neck shot . I thought I can’t believe I let him take that shot. That was lucky. At 14 This past weekend he shot a coues buck at 378 while light was fading off a bad rest of rocks. The buck was bedded and not much more than the top of body and neck showing. This time I had a good friend to witness the boy can shoot some. He squeezed the trigger and the buck rolled over dead never stood up. Right in the neck shattered the vertebrae. I thought. Maybe he’s not lucky. Haha. Good time. These kids are getting to be shooters. Saw an article on a junior shot a 130 at 750Yrds my son has had great success with browning x bolt vortex viper and Hornady led-x in his 6.5 credmore

I have two southwest wildlife coupons for $350 off a shoulder mount each. But have to be used seperatly. Would like to get $150 a piece for them. So you end up saving $200 on your mount if you buy one!

I got to take my 6 year old son and my 9 year old daughter out for squirrels. Thanks for all the help from my previous thread. I nailed 2 and my son got one. First shot and first kill! It was a tough shot and he tried setting up on him about 4 times. Arms getting tired, and bad ammo. Finally when the 22 went off dropped it from 40ft up. I couldn't stop laughing because I couldn't believe he made that shot!!! They really had a blast. My daughter had such a good attitude. When we lost the first one we chased she said happily " well at least we saw one" Ha ha. She got on a couple but couldn't make it happen. But she had a good attitude.

There is a PDF list attached. I adjusted things to make it more noticeable. Thanks for the heads up.

When your good your good!!

a place many know-Amanda knows it well-and a recurring 3am nightmare for me. blessed with each year past 16yo after a springtime hike gone wrong up there 1975. will never figure how we got out alive. lee

Man 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 :]

Due to avid reloader passing away. Everything must go! Unopened, sealed reload powder of all types, Primers, Brass, Projectiles. See attached PDF for list. Unfortunately no reload equipment. I purchased this from a dear widow who needed the money. I’m happy to break even. I am looking at selling the entire stock in one sale for $2,200. The safe is mine and not included in the sale. Only serious inquiries please. Included in sale is some reloaded bullets which can be used or broken down and reloaded if you wish. Either way I’m blowing this out. I want it all gone. Only serious inquiries please. $2,200 It might be easier if you provide your number and we can talk if you have questions. Thanks. Reload-Ammunition1 .pdf

It might be better if your a serious seller if you list what you have? Serious buyers are only serious if they know what they’re buying.

Plus one on adding a smoke tube to the pellet smoker. With the two there's nothing you can't do. Imo the best bang for the buck once you consider pellet dump and ash clean out is the camp chef. The woodwind version is nice but your paying just for the stainless steel which just gets dirty anyway. Even the traegers are made in china now and have the same issues as the camp chefs and gmg's. I got the 2nd to cheapest camp chef off amazon and will add the side burner later.

Haha I was joking with my wife last year when we were up there that the roads were better than most of I-17...

Good stuff!!!! Gotta get him a muzzle break, his teeth got knocked out😝

He's implying that this guy knows someone high up who keeps giving him the coveted tags why all the other vets get cow hunts and less desirable hunts. I think he should play the lottery myself. Trophy bull,rifle antelope,strip archery, all in one year. I'd be buying some powerballs for sure.

Congrats That pic is awsum. you should whats important in the front you and your son. too many people show the animal front and center and then the people in the back. The hunt with family members and or friends is the best part. Nice goat too looks like a FAT one Congrats

If anyone knows Daniel Brooks please thank him for donating his cow tag to OE4A. I don't know what circumstances led to him choosing to give it up, but I can promise that he made one very happy 10 y/o in the process. Hope to follow up with pictures after the hunt in November.

Yep, this will be my 9 trip to AZ to hunt Coues bucks in January. I have killed four in AZ and one in Mexico. Two of the AZ bucks make PY all DIY hunts on public land, except the Mexico hunt on private land but still DIY. A great time of the year to leave northern Colorado but now I still have a lot of WT hunting to do in Nebraska where I have two doe and one buck tag. I gave up on spot and stalk and mostly hunt from a natural ground blind or from a tree stand. Like most WT hunting, horn rattling and grunt calling can and will work.

Wow!!! What part of the body was that arrow in? Congrats on your successful hunt.

We set out on my son’s 4th Jr hunt this week. Plenty of scouting during the archery season paid off but also made for a quick hunt. Small hike into our first glassing spot and right at first light my son found 3 bucks. A friend was helping and thought the best buck was a small 2. Later we realized he was on different bucks. We had several bucks in this canyon now. After an hour my son pointed us to the bucks he found again and told us that was a tall 3x3 and he wanted to try and get to him. We closed the distance to about 600 yards and discovered his young eyes to be correct. A very nice 3x3 in full velvet. We managed another 40 yards before the canyon dropped away from us and set up for the shot. 569, one practice shot, 540, one hit. Unfortunately the buck took a nice tumble and luckily got held up on a century plant otherwise it might have found the bottom of the canyon. Most of the velvet was damaged in his fall. We didn’t realize exactly how steep and high these bucks were until we got there. It took over an hour to get down from the ridge and back up to the other side of the canyon. 1 hour+ to get 550 yards. My son loaded all the meat and the caped buck into his pack and we were back to the truck at noon. Quick work of his Jr tag. This is his 4th coues and his best to date. This deer is all his too. He found the spot, found the deer, made the move, handled the shots, and packed him out. He’s asked to have this deer mounted and I am really looking forward to having a memory of this jr hunt forever. Gavin is confident he can give us a velvet mount. Can’t wait to see how he turns out. Thanks for reading. pics coming

Good 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

Correct, when my son was in treatment and doing chemo and radiation for his cancer. He qualified for a tag donation, and received three tags before turning 18. He is now healthy and doing amazing now, for Gods glory! I will tell you this, my question for all of those questioning the tag donations.... Would you give up your health and ability to do as you please to become highly disabled through the military or have your son or daughter to have a terminal disease? Of course not, in the big scheme of life, hunting is just a by product of our enjoyment! So amazing to me, how personal people get when someone they do not know, donates their tag to a worthy cause. Please see the following link for qualifications. http://www.outdoorexperienceforall.org/

That’s not quite right, kids need to have some sort of disability but the state does not require it to be terminal. Thank God, since my boy received one of these tags this year.

Thanks! Man this bull and a young 4x4 buck from 19a 3 years back are my favorite hunts. Amazing how the determination level and fighting the adversity will grow the level of respect for the harvest. 👍

Times change i guess, the thread was from 3 years ago. Don’t tell me you’re a vanilla frosty guy too....haha

i want to hug it

Real motivated seller i see. Good luck bud