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Opening morning 12A West we got a late start but she tagged out @ 7:50 AM. Kids hunts are so much more fun than my own!

We had such a great time on my son's first big game hunt. The youth camp was AMAZING. Everyone was so nice. They were so willing to donate their time to help all the youth have a successful hunt and the food was delicious. My dad was able to go with us on this hunt but he is used to hunting near Flagstaff in the pines so this was very different for him. Opening day we went out by ourselves just to see what we could do. We got a few pointers from the people at camp on where to start. My dad was not used to glassing he is used to hiking with little glassing. In 22 it was all about glassing and little hiking. We saw a couple white tail doe but nothing else. Day 2 we decided to have a mentor go with us. (He was amazing!) We were able to get on a couple bucks in the morning but they were already being stocked by two other hunters but we waited to see if they would come our way. The two othere hunters missed 6-7 times before the deer even ran the opposite way. Others are missing left and right. My son was getting discouraged because he couldn't even get a shot. I gave him a pep talk and he was ready again. Sunday was the last day we had our mentor. Same thing happened we glasses a buck and by the time we were ready to stock someone was already shooting at him and missed. We went back to camp dropped our mentor off ( he had to get back home) and grabbed a quick bite. We went back out by this time it was HOT we knew they would not be moving around so our best bet was to hike and jump one. We walked a couple miles up and down ridges and were heading back to the truck when a velvet spike jumped out of nowhere. We got my son set up on his shooting sticks by this time the buck was on the other side a ridge and moving fast my dad whistled and it stopped and looked. My son said "I have a shot" we told him to take it. 300 yards away, 1 shot dropped him where he stood. I was so proud of him. I am grateful my dad was able to be there and to pack that deer out a mile back to the truck 😜. I am grateful to our mentor and wish he could have been there to see it and i thankful for everone at camp that helped with whatever they needed. Now we are in Flagstaff helping my other son fill his cow tag.

probably a mercenary in syria right now.

Just an update with my other son. He got his cow last night!! We are going to be eating pretty good.

If you are available today or tomorrow, I can slap it on, mount the scope, and bore sight it for you. Have all the right tools. Mounted probably 100 or so scopes and bases over the last few years. R700s are easy. Cost you a 12 pack of Redbull. PM me if you are interested. I am up near Sportsman's Warehouse area, I-17 & 101.

Selling my Limited Collectors Colt Heritage Walker.For $675.00 I purchased this revolver a year ago to help a friends wife who wanted to dispose of some guns after his passing. This Walker is like new never shot and the cylinder never turned. Several of these are for sale on Gunbroker. None are for sale for less than $1100. Revolver is cased and comes with a leather bound 347 color page book. It covers the history of Colt revolvers. The only negative is the wood case has dried which has caused some wood separation. This could be simply repaired by someone that has the right knowledge and tools. For this reason I have discounted the price. It is legal to ship direct which I am willing to do. The charge for this would be actual which I believe would be approximately $30 to $40.00. I will be driving up to Cottonwood tomorrow so if it is purchased by someone between Tucson and Cottonwood off of I-10 or I-17 I can deliver for free. Text Phil 520-975-0830. I can send additional pictures or answer any questions.

some difficult research trying to back myself up on 'Navajo coke'. finally got to the bottom of it by calling an old native fellow at the Hubbell Trading Post. originally started off as Mission Beverages strawberry soda. i knew it as strawberry Crush. i can not substantiate my bullshit. the gentleman at the trading post said Mission fruit drinks were quite popular but had never heard the term. lee

You assume too much , Yotemuster. But that's what closet libs do. McCain and Romney call themselves Republicans too, thank God half of them went bye bye. I figured you out years ago, I'm even less impressed with you now that you've come out. Get a clue.

Don’t, I repeat don’t, look through any of lance’s scopes!

It all started with the credit card update and then the morning check to see if the cards got any hits.Boom $650 hit on the card and now the waiting game began to see if it was the wife or I that grew the bison tag. Weeks later and I find out I am the one that drew the tag and the homework began. Started watching every video I could find on bison including everything the game and fish had for us.also sent out a few pm messages to catfishkev and idgaf. They both handed out info on the hunt and catfishkev was gracious enough to let me jump on is bandwagon and use his trail cams that he had. politics up there made us come to conclusion it would be best to have our own information. catfishkev made the first trip up to place trail cams. He placed 6 cams on different locations. My turn was next and I headed up with my dad and son to meet up with another hunter that catfishkev new and we checked cams and went over the pics for the start of his hunt which started sept 13th. After viewing the cam pictures we learned that we had a lot of bison coming thru different locations with some at night and some during day. The other hunter took that info and just couldn’t make it happen during his hunt. i also Sent the cards to Kev so he could view them and also see what the bison were doing. Seeing this cam pics made the weeks before my hunt even longer and to top it off I was unable to make it for opening day and weekend for my hunt. From day one of getting drawn and looking at graphs of herd movement and what time of year the herds were moving to different places from there gps collars I had my eyes set on the east side of the unit. All the cameras on the east side said different and that the bison just were not there. I had e mail game and fish to ask about any information I would be missing on the hunter meeting that takes place night before hunt. I got an e mail telling me I didn’t miss much and was told over the last week or so there was some movement on the east side. 5 days into the hunt and I arrive on the plateau worried I would not have a place to hunt. Went to the east side and checked out first spot. Cam didn’t work but there was very fresh sign that wasn’t there 2 weeks before. Decided to sit there for evening sense there was not any other hunters. Sat from 3 to dark and only saw deer. On way out I stoped at another camera location and man had that place changed. For over a week there was bison at that location everyday and nobody was there hunting them. That night I reviewed the cameras and saw there was a guide checking cams too that day and he had placed a ground blind in the location due to what he saw on cam. That morning I get to location and there is nobody there and I had the spot to myself so I thought. Hour into sitting with sun up I hear a truck driving up close. Said to myself no way is somebody going to walk up on me after seeing my truck. Few minutes later I hear foot steps hour after sun up. I look over and see it’s a guy my age and an older man with crutches. Start talking to them and find out that the hunter Dan is a wounded warrior that received the tag a week prior to hunt. He had met up with the Guides up there and they had sent him to this location. After I found out he was a wounded warrior and he had a hard time getting around I decided I was going to leave the area and let them hunt it telling them that there are bison coming in everyday. They turned and looked at me like I was crazy and asked me to stay which at first I was still going to leave still but then decided to stay and hunt with them. Told the wounded warrior to take the first shot if anything comes in and i will see what happens after. 0930 comes around and they are at 90 yards and closing. The heard came In and it was a mad dash to the water then the fight for the first licks of the salt. That’s when the real stress started and had to try and identify a cow bison out of the herd. I can hear the other hunting trying to figure out which one to shoot and I was doing the same. Boom they take a shot and the herd scatters. son jumps out of there blind and says well he shot let’s go look for blood. As he was doing that I decided to Pursue the herd and I went around a clump of aspen and they’re were standing there 80 to 100yards away. I dropped to the prone position and put my crosshairs on the first bison I see. She was starring right at me facing me for what seemed like an eternity. She then turned broadside and one shot dropped her in her tracks. I guess the east side of unit was calling to me because that’s were I made it happen. Turns out the wounded warrior missed his shot and didn’t get a bison down. The wounded warrior and his son stayed with me after my harvest and helped me break down the animal. I couldn’t tell them enough how much I appreciated that and if they were not there I would be having one heck of a time getting it done. I gutted her and flew back to camp to get my saw and my dad to help out. The whole time the other hunters stayed to watch over my bison tell I got back. We finished the bison and his son help me load everything into truck and I was back to camp. Long drive back to gilbert to get meat taken care off and hide and head to taxidermy. all in all I had an amazing time from start to finish and I met some great people along the way that were very helping in every way I could imagine. I am very grateful for being able to harvest a bison and share the memories with others. Catfishkev without your help I am pretty sure it would of never happened and I thank you. hope you all enjoy the long read! And catfishkev and idgaf thank you both again. trail cam pics are location I harvested my bison plus I threw in a nice deer! All cam pics are from catfishkevs cams that I was lucky enough to be able to share with him

Congrats

Hey now! Don't lump all of us rednecks in with slobs.... It is Coors Light in a different can. I put my daughter through college with the money I saved buying the cheaper label for 18 years!

How many lineal feet do you need? I might have enough that I can give you some. I have 2 3/8 oil field.

Love the 23 youth hunt. Good job congratulations!

this will age well.

Congrats on a beautiful buck Kam. Sounds like a great trip.

Awesome! Congrats again to your boy Justin

Hey!! We did meet at the camp. You helped us glass the day after your son got his buck. I was with my dad, my son Joe, and Marvin. We were there when that kid missed those two bedded bucks. everyone hopped into our truck to look for them. Congrats on your sons first buck!!

Awesome...congrats!

Well done guys congrats

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE the Jr. hunts!!

I agree with the "you are over thinking / over worried about this" group... I grew up and live in 36a and I have hunted, played, camped, explored etc in most of the southern units year round for over 30+ years now . These units get a bad rap in my option, yes there is a chance you may see illegals or worse smugglers, but it's nothing like it was years ago... and when it was bad nothing a "clam head" couldn't handle. Yeah take a side arm for peace of mind if you need to, as I do when I travel up to the northern units around all those tweakers and weirdos lol, but focus on your hunt have fun and report back your successes. 1. Since there's much better board security now with the new administration, is there much issues with illegals on the Buenos Aires National Refuge? NO, currently you will probably see more BP than illegals 2. Are there a lot on Javelina in this unit? YES 3. With illegals crossing, is it dangerous to sit water as it seems illegals are more prone to hitting water as they travel? sit water without fear 4. For this area, what's a decent coues buck I should be looking for or could expect? 70's class / 80's shoot!

If I did that....I get myself caught! Lol

Badass. I’m think that’s what she’s going for. I’ll give Bret a call.. he’s close to cabelas.