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Tagged out on my first elk during the late rifle bull hunt. Moved to AZ from Texas back in 2016, hunting western big game has been the most challenging, humbling, and rewarding experience I've had as an outdoorsman.

In my experience Midland works way better than even the longer range Talkabaouts.

Buck my friend shot on Saturday 104 6/8"

Just filled my freezer up at my brothers place in Texas. Insane the amount of deer there. Every time I go I am blown away. Anyways, wanted to post this as I bet some of you guys are looking for meat. He has a few does hunts with cull bucks a very real possibility (see picture below) if anyone is looking for meat on a budget and a cool experience seeing boatloads of deer. Great for kids. This will be for like 5 deer a person and any hogs you see and maybe one of the 5 deer is a cull buck. Bring the ice chests! Here some pictures of what I was looking at all weekend. Just a very small sample. Call him at 325-347-7679 if interested.

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What is the average cost of a hunt like this?

I might have to do this, my buddy just went and brought back 7 deer back. He dropped 2 off at my house and I made some amazing jerky out of it. Hands down great tasting meat. I think he shot 3-4 hogs which were all small 30-40 pounders but got one big one about 300lbs.

why don't the rest of ya 'all just go back to effen town. stay there. lee

So I am clearly bad about jumping on this forum to report anything of note. Following the pic I posted on August 6, and then two weeks of ATV repair deeply corroding into my free time, I did get out again to explore the Antelope habitat of unit 6A. Subsequent scouting did little for me in the way of finding more or better Antelope, but it did eliminate some large tracts of land where we wouldn't be spending valuable season time. Opening morning arrived and we spent about half of day 1 in a multi mile area in the vicinity of where I had seen the August 6th buck. We saw a total of three Antelope and 60-80 Elk. Nothing to attempt a stalk on. The afternoon of day 1 we set out for higher ground in the hope of glassing up something for an afternoon stalk. We found a mediocre buck with a 1/2 dozen does. I was a bit ambivalent given the buck wasn't very big, but hey, it wasn't my tag and the shooter wanted to give him a try. We'll never know what went wrong, but that herd had moved on by the time we got to the hill I thought we could shoot from. We never did find them once we were prowling around within gun range and that was the end of day 1. Day 2 started out heading toward a new area I wanted to check. The route into this new area entailed passing down a road that was in the basic area were I photographed that Buck early in August. Viola! Guess who was standing about a quarter mile off the road! He was on the move at a leisurely pace and after about 30 minutes of cat-and-mouse through the broken junipers, we got a decent shot window at him at 290ish yards. Season over! I looked back at the pics I posted here on August 6 and I'm positive the buck my tag holder harvested is the same buck I photographed. Quick field tape put him in the high 70's. He was right at 15", but what really helped him score was strong fronts. Thank you to all of the forum members that PM'ed me with advice. good input was appreciated. Interestingly though a lot of the advice I got was from Elk hunters that had hunted the elk rifle season in years past. I did see Antelope in some of the areas that forum members directed me too, but not nearly in the numbers that were mentioned in PM's. I think 6A Antelope are a lot more spread out in early September then they are in late November (IMHO). Likely a lot of them are in the timber, and I honestly mostly never found those groups. Interestingly, at least to me, was the fact that I had 3-4 days of glassing in the area where we harvested that buck and I only saw that one buck and maybe a half dozen does. When I caped him though his face had deep bruising on his skull. So he wasn't the "boss" buck of the area because he had been fighting and apparently lost since he was by himself. This doesn't necessarily mean his nemesis was bigger, possibly just meaner. I just found it interesting that given hours of glassing in that area that I never spotted another buck, and not much for two bucks to be fighting over. So in sum we had a successful hunt. filled the tag with a nice buck, I wouldn't though consider this an easy tag to fill. I logged a lot of time glassing and frankly saw few antelope. I had a great time hunting this area, it just isn't an easy antelope area to hunt. Thanks again to all the members that PM'ed with advice. Feel free to reach out if you think I could help because I would gladly reciprocate. Just apparently reach out far in advance since I don't log in here regularly enough to reply in a timely manner, (insert smiley face emoji here).

I let the attack on my integrity go once, notice I never doubted or insisted that you source your bold faced lie about "1,000 tags." And truthfully, you can't source it anyhow other than to say, "well that's what I heard in a parking lot." 👍 Great bibliography there. But I'll go no further, as since you have decided to sink to insults and name-calling, I'll finish here knowing I won the conversation. Your uneducated opinions on the process are astounding. One more time, for those in the cheap seats. THE ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT RAN THE SURVEYS ON THEIR WEBSITE THROUGH THEIR PUBLIC OUTREACH OPEN COMMENT PERIOD! Outside of that, I won't suffer the opinions of fools. If you think Wayne Pacele's extracurricular activities are going to slow down the HSUS, you really don't have a clue. So enjoy the view below ground with your head stuck in the sand. Meanwhile, myself and others will save your hunting rights as well. You can thank us later. ✌️

Here’s a couple of the bucks we shot in 13b this year. Had a fantastic 2018 despite the poor drought conditions. Happy Hunting

SPF and meet up

I’ve checked those out but I can get them really cheap with a guide discount

Flatander no. I gave Myself that name .LOL. I was maried to Her for 35 years and We split up cause I did to Much hunting and spent too much $ doing it. We will prob . get back together ,but She is now back in Ohio. She will get tired of no SUN. She is a Great lady and another message for You young Guys don't let hunting screw up Your marriage if you have a good women..............Counselor BOB!

That’s not true. Oregon’s stamps make money. Not a lot, but they make money so don’t misrepresent it. This is true. Your odds don’t change much going up or down a point if it doesn’t bump you into the bonus pass.

Is that the same ex who gave you the nickname “One Shot Bob”?

It's one extra point for that draw that does not renew. Whether you draw or not, it goes away. It has nothing to do with wealth, if I have $20 extra to put towards a draw so that makes me wealthy? Come on. This isn't the tag grab for the rich everyone cried about in 2008. When will anyone be happy? The point creep you speak of really wouldn't change any different than we have now if that super point expires every year. It's actually no different than the loyalty point right now. Keep putting in, you keep it the loyalty point. Keep buying the super point, you have it every draw. And once again, this isn't about habitat it's about public education outreach. It's about informing the non-hunting public about the scientific methods of management the AZGFD uses (the North American model of Wildlife Management) and how the AZGFD has the best interest of all wildlife species in mind already and has it under control. Feed the public that info for a few years and they'll believe it, especially because it's true. That way when the animal extremists start pushing their signature petitions based on emotion in everyone's faces, the non-hunting public will just decline to sign them. That's what this is about. Hunters won't donate to that cause, so we have to figure out a way to fund it differently. Super bonus points are it.

Im sorry but I’m lmao @ not recognizing a picture of yourself and deer

I like a great set of 10x42s and a great set of 15x56s personally. 10s in a chest harness always, and they ride a tripod when glassing under 1 mile. 15x56s always on a tripod for glassing out to 3 or so miles. And a great spotter for taking a good look at anything.

Man, it was indescribable. Sheer panic and jubilation at the same time. I was thrown out of a life of selfishness and worry free living into a life of discipline and sacrifice. Since she was a baby I was terrified of what the teen years would bring. I was sure she would see me as the enemy instead of the father just trying to protect his little girl. I am blessed to say that the day has never come, and my daughter and I are best buddies and have an amazing relationship. I can't believe the little lady this kid has turned into. We are so proud of her! Tonight we took her out for her 16th birthday and presented her with a ring and a tiara. Only to drive home the point that she should always value herself and never let herself be put into the position to be used by others Aurora Jean we love you to death, you are the most amazing little surprise we could have ever asked for. And when I look at you to this day, just like when you were a baby, you simply take my breath away.

Not at all. There really nice. I've had this one since this summer and thought the glass was super sharp comparable to NF and tracks good. No complaints with it. I agree just alittle heavy depending on the rifle setup. Thanks

First learn how to locate deer. Get a tripod and a pair of decent 15s. Since your new I highly suggest you take a Duwane Adams glassing class. Write down tons of questions before hand and pick his brain. Spending $300 on his class will save you lots of money in the future. He is a living legend and a heck of a nice guy.

Great job. That's a really nice looking buck!

Sweet! Just the drive to Wyoming would be more fun than the whole Disneyland trip...for me

Lots of great information here. A lot of people glass hard early and late, but while they are back at camp eating lunch seems to be one of the best glassing hours - from noon to 1. I've definately seen more deer right around noon getting up from beds, stretching their legs and repositioning than between 8 and 11 or 2 to 4. Bedded bucks can be really hard to pick up, especially the older smarter ones. One year I was looking for a particular buck that seemed to only move into the open stuff at dark, and was already back into thick bedding country by sunup. I got positioned to glass the bedding area on the back side of the mountain early in the afternoon - this was a rut hunt, btw. I picked up only one doe bedded in a relatively open area all afternoon. I just kept watching her, and just as the final 30 minutes of hunting light approached she got up and walked up the hill. Sure enough, the buck I was after stepped out of some really thick nasty oak/scrub brush maybe 30 yards below her and followed her up the hill. Now he's hanging on the wall - Point being, no matter what angle I had, there was no way I could have ever seen him bedded although I had been within 250 yards of him all afternoon. In the rut, glass does. In October, November and early December, well I won't be much help. I can't seem to ever find them on early hunts. Just be meticulous, focus on shadowy areas, and ask yourself where you would be if you were the deer. Slow your glassing down to a snail's pace, and then some. If your glass is moving, you can't catch movement. Sometimes, you'll hold your glass on one spot and be sure there is nothing there, and all of a sudden, something moves, maybe an ear twitch, maybe a rack that looked like branches turns a little... IMO, and I'm by no means a great glasser, the key seems to be patience. When I'm not seeing anything, I try to force myself to work a grid on a single hillside moving the glass just a little bit, overlapping the last area I looked at by at least 20 yards and each time I stop the binocs either counting to 15 slowly, or imagining myself walking over and identifying everything I can see in the binocs - focusing not on what I can see, but where in the picture a deer *could be* that I can't see and watching those hidden areas for any type of movement. 90% of the time I'm not seeing anything, it's because I'm trying to look at too much area, too fast. I'm looking for deer standing out in the open or moving around in the obvious spots. Those are the times, as I'm trying to teach myself, slow down, work a grid, let the optics sit perfectly still and pick apart every rock, blade of grass, limb, shadow, etc. Once I'm sure that little patch has nothing, move the glass just a little bit along the grid I've decided on and repeat. The best glassers I've hunted with are masters of self control and patience, and that's why they end up finding deer that most of us pass over. One more tidbit I've learned that seems to help in glassing situations. If you are glassing and pick up a doe or whatever, watch that deer intently. You'll see that if you watch for maybe 15 minutes, once or twice it's out in the open and clearly visible. The majority of the time, if you didn't already know exactly where it is, you would pan right past it. You can pick out a little bit of a leg, maybe the horizontal line of a back, maybe an ear, or a moving shadow behind a tree. For me, this helps to remember that even if there is a deer in my field of vision, it is probably only obvious around 5% of the time. The rest of the time it is partially or fully obstructed from view. Knowing this helps me to slow down and focus on details. Godspeed, Jason