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When the deer draw results came out I was super excited to see I was able to draw a 36c late rifle hunt with my dad, tag 124 and 125 out of 125 permits! We have been in this unit many times in the past and have seen great deer. A little pre-season scouting turned up some bucks. Including a group of 7 bucks in a small rolling canyon that is hard to glass and gets overlooked by most over the years. We chose this to be our opening day starting point, which turned out to be the perfect plan. On opening day before even legal shooting light I was able to glass up deer across the small canyon and as light approached I could tell it was one of the nice 3x3s that we had encountered on our scouting trip. Once it was light enough to shoot my dad was able to drop his buck in its tracks at just under 200 yards on his second shot after narrowly missing just over the deer on the first shot and having it come 50 or so yards closer (he has done this several times over the years and calls it the “Alan method”). After several more days of hunting and many many days passing deer and a few really large deer narrowly avoiding getting shot at, me and my dad headed back to where he was able to get his shot. Almost in the exact same manner I was able to glass up another buck standing no more than 20 yards from where my dad’s buck had been. I wasn’t sure if I was quite done having the fun of chasing these little guys around but the buck just presented too good of a target to pass. After one shot he crumpled up without taking another step.

I am going to try something new this time which should make things cheaper for you all and easier for me. The company I have been using to make all our shirts for the last 15 years is CustomInk and they have a new way to allow individuals to order as part of a group. I create the design, give you all options for colors and products and you order and pay directly with CustomInk on our group order form. I will leave the order form open for about two weeks, after two weeks the order closes and all shirts/hoodies are printed and shipped directly to those who bought them. And they ship cheaper than I can! Shipping will be about $4.99 for 1 shirt/hoodie, $7 for two, $8 for three and $10 for four or more items. So you never pay more than $10 shipping regardless of how many items you order. I am working on the options for products you can buy. I added in some ladies hoodies, some longsleeve and shortsleeve tshirts, some performance shirts as well as the hoodies in a variety of colors. Once I have all the options selected, I will create a link to the order form and everyone can review the items and decide what they want and order directly. I expect to post that link either this weekend or more likely on Monday after I talk to their customer service rep to make sure I have everything done properly before launching. Thanks for your patience.

My 2018 Hunting included several firsts for me. I got my first bow and started archery shooting for the first time in September 2017 and my wife got her first bow in October. Feeling like we were shooting well enough to attempt hunting we got OTC Deer tags and on some vacation time the last two weeks of January 2018 picked an area we had seen deer in before while driving through. Since our ability to hike any real distance is limited and so far our stalking abilities suck, we found a water hole to sit to hopefully ambush a buck that might come in within our bow range. We saw quite a few deer come in, some does within 10-11 yrds from us! We both had shot opportunities at nice bucks but our inexperience along with Healthy doses of Buck Fever prevented us from connecting with only clean misses. We practiced all year and went back out to this spot on December 16. We got in and set up under a big oak about 7:15 and waited and watched, my wife just over an arms length to my right. About an hour later I saw a deer moving through the brush and trees about 70 yrds away. When it dropped into the bowl of the water hole at about 40 yrds I thought it was a doe due to limited visibility and not wanting to move enough to use my binos and spook it out in case a buck was following her in. When it went to the right past a big Juniper tree enough my wife saw it was a buck and tried to whisper "Shooter" which of course I couldn't hear but the buck did and stopped and looked straight at her. After a few moments it looked away and continued to the small water puddle back to our left. When it cleared the Juniper tree to my side I realized it was a buck not a doe. He stopped at the waters edge at 21 yrds and I released an arrow at 8:21 am. The sound of the Swhacker broad head hitting him was louder than I would have thought and seemed like it echoed! He jumped, kicked and took off tail tucked over the earthen dam of the water hole and we listened carefully and in a few moments thought we heard him crash. We forced ourselves to sit for 30 minutes before even going down to look for my arrow that I found covered in blood and buried about 6" in the ground. Following the blood trail about half way to where we found the buck down I saw motion to my left and had to run off what was either a coyote or Mexican gray wolf that looked like he was already scent tracking my buck! We found my Couse buck at about 60 yrds in a drainage double lunged. This is my first ever Deer, a Couse Whitetail and first Archery kill. He's not real big, but real Couse deer aren't big anyway!

After locating 3 bucks over 100 while helping a friend on a November hunt, we began this December tag with high hopes. We went down the opening weekend; Saturday and Sunday only due to school. We glassed 6-10 bucks per day, but nothing my 16 year old son wanted to take. He was fortunate enough to harvest a 200 plus inch (gross) mule deer last year and really wanted a 100 inch Coues. As the second weekend approached I was planning our trip down South, and he informed me that he did not want to hunt because he did not want to disappoint the guys at 'work". He volunteers at our Church, and with a million services for Christmas they could not get through without his help. We went back down the day after Christmas with the intention of staying until New Years. The first morning back was good. glassed several bucks in that 80 ish low 90 range. He asking is it over 100 Dad? "Nope". we met up with my best buddy around 3 and decided to go back to a different spot I have not glassed in a long time. 4 of us looking at one look and a friend of mine from work had to be "that guy" and walk a 1/4 mile to look at it from a different angle. He is new to hunting and called on the radio and said, "I have a buck that is big". I walked to his location and after some piss poor communication located the buck. At first glance I said "no, I don't think he is over mid 90's". After some coxing from a couple of buddies, and as the sun was getting low, he and I decided to have a closer look. We closed the distance from 1600 yards to 351. I relocated the buck making a half hazard attempt to birddog does, I said "bud, I still don't think he breaks 100, but look at him and if you want him take him. One well placed shot off shooting sticks with his 6.5 cm $400 cheap rifle, the buck was down. It started to rain and snow on us, but the pack out was awesome. After measuring this buck several times he is 101 and 4/8. Mission accomplished. Thanks for reading Whitey

This photo was captured by a pilot, just south of Ennis Montana, in the Madison Valley.

Selling these for my dad. Both guns are in like new condition with less than 20 rounds fired. 300 win mag-Black stock, 26” stainless, fluted barrel, Leupold dual dovetail bases. 270 wsm- Black, grey spider web stock, 24” stainless, fluted barrel, Leupold dual dovetail bases. $825 ea or $1125 with Burris Black Diamond 4-16x50 scope (currently mounted on 300 win but can swap to 270 wsm). Greg 602-826-7517

Good hunt with good friends. Always a good feeling to get it done with the bow.

What trigger? This is almost beyond my temptation threshold.

Kev those pictures were the first thing that came to mind when he mentioned Motel.

Double Dandy.

Sweet buck. Congratulations!!!

Nope, Right on.

Uh oh, here comes trouble..

I had 4 friends join me on this hunt, it truly was a group effort. I received some very helpful info on what to expect from Dirtbag (thanks Greg) and a few others that have experience in the unit. The Cabeza Prieta is as advertised.....It will humble you. I took this 9 year old class IV ram.

Same here. But basic design. Not alot of stuff

What is a "sal"? If you don't mind me asking?

Cactus Bounders on the prod...

Here is the underside of the base on the mount above. Kind of did it like it was the ceiling of a cave or something...

My first archery javelina, taken in unit 29. While hunting in Mexico, I was glassing for deer, when I saw a Javelina come out of a rock cave. That gave me an idea for this one.

A custom form we built and mounted a few years ago...

^^^^ he must have really screwed up to be exiled that far south and alone ^^^^^^

This guy was down in Eloy.

A bull got stuck in a canal in north scottsdale i believe about 10-15 years ago. Anyone remember that?