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My family and I went up past Woods Canyon Lake last week, for 4 days. It was crazy how busy it was. I've been up there multiple weekends for the last few month too, shed hunting. The amount of campers, and squatters is insane. We stopped at an old camp site (that some dipsh!ts left) and picked up 2 HUGE bags of trash. My kids hated doing it, but I'm trying to teach them respect for our public lands. I always leave the forest a better place than I find it. If I can teach that to my kids, I've done a good thing as a father.

If you have 10+ points this year you will definitely be guaranteed a 20b tag. With the same points you can draw the Oct rifle kaibab tag which IMO is a better hunt.

Underwear.

Chicken fried elk steaks with sprouts and taters and of course sausage gravy. next is smoked elk shoulder roast with dirty rice , roasted taters , and fresh beet salad. This one I smoked low up to 132 degree over two hours then let it rest back down to about 100 degrees then I seared it off in hot pan. It was a tough chew even sliced thin but it was great on flavor.

Chewing gum. Seriously, not much I wouldn't buy used as long as it is in good shape.

My hunting partner and I pick up more of other peoples trash than our own and bring it home. I have seen GnF and Forest Service look thru campsites and find evidence of who it was ie., name on tag, receipts etc.. and go log the info for tickets. Rare, but it happens. When we leave a site, we police it to make sure it is cleaner than it was.

People are pigs. I almost always have a garbage bag with me on outings into the woods. I can easily fill a tall kitchen bag if I wanted to. Unless there is a designated garbage can somewhere at one of our stops somewhere I take everything with me and then some and dump it at home.

Just curious, how many of you practice leave no trace ethics? Also, what are some examples of things do you do while you're camping, backpacking, hunting, etc? Couple of things we do to minimize evidence of our stay: dig our firepit as reasonably deep as possible and cover it up before we leave disperse all unused firewood and spread out the smaller remnants of the woodpile breakdown old firepits when camped in an already used site nothing more than paper products ever get thrown in the fire to burn dig catholes for human waste avoid adding artificial materials to freshwater sources aside from funky a** feet... when in high use areas we'll all spend 10min walking the area picking up any trash I've always been disappointed to see how badly the land is treated. Firepits are one of my largest gripes when I see how much trash people throw in the fire. Copenhagen and Skull folks are my favorite offenders!!! A couple of years back I broke down a large firepit in one of the wildernesses that had a personal record of 23 tins found in it. I think we as hunters have even more skin in the game when it comes to preservation and I see a lot of places that hunters are some of the worse offenders. With all of the extra traffic in the woods this year, I think it's a good conversation to start. I'd love to hear what the CWT community is doing to help take care of this joint and preserve our wild spaces.

Is there anything that you see it the classifieds that you will not buy used? I see boots and think, who would buy used boots? I think it's gross myself after some of the feet I have seen on people. Am I the only one?

(5) people with 9pts put in for 20b late rifle tag last year. (4) people drew in the bonus rd. 21 does not have a dec hunt anymore. They moved it to 20b last year. 21 is on the decline for big Muleys while 20b is in its prime. The 20b dec Hunt is more of a pre rut hunt until after Christmas. Jan is when they rut hard in there.

Covid-19 is natural selection or law of the jungle . When the population of animals, such as rats, cats, fox or whatever overtake there environment a disease or virus will accrue and reduce the population. There are more humans on the earth than the plant can support. We are running out of water, clean air and common sense. Mother nature will take care of the problem.

the other guy on the same hunt got 195 with a bow. im pretty sure rockys are about tame.

George Carlin’s take on this fiasco. The guy was strangely prophetic. Language warning... and ‘trigger warning’ in case we have some sensitive souls who don’t like the sound of the truth

Looks like I'm good to go.

This photo of my wife Ellen is circa 1990s at Roosevelt. We were fishing with Curt Rambo and caught 101 crappie to go along with my article. "Crappie 101."

Large out the front assisted knife by cobratec, drop point blade, great knives! Price includes shipped.

My issue is fires. Have had to put out roaring fires numerous times of people that have just left and didn't drown out the fire. One had flames over 2 feet high when my buddy and myself used our water and shovel to put it out.

How many points do you have just curious I'm thinking y putting in for this hunt as well

theres an RTIC in a dumpster in mesa, threw it there last night. left a bonito in it a year ago. youll need some bleach

f yeti Canyon cooler and there made up in flag.have retailers all over az well worth the money. can also order online

RTIC!

I tell you one more thing that drives me nuts and just gives hunters a bad name.. take your hides for a drive or at least a walk. We pulled into a camp 2 years ago on a rifle cow hunt the Thursday after the youth hunt and 6 (yes 6) hides laying in camp. Just disgusting to be that lazy and leave that for someone else to pick up or worse, more ammo for someone on the fence.. But yes, people are fkn pigs with their garbage and sh!t wipe.

That J John is horrible! Who Does that?

Welcome to our life, there are a lot of low life piece of shits out there. This weekend up here they wiped out or stores and 10 people in a family trying to us bathroom. We are not the smartest animal on this planet. Some valley peps are cityiots.. Cant wait for the fires they have to have. I want the 80's back

Awesome 👍 I thought when you agreed on a price and place to meet that was a done deal but I guess not. You could have at least had the courtesy to tell me that instead of just ignoring my messages. Good luck to whoever buys this shotgun, I hope you can get down there quick!