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Thought I would post him on the wall.

He made it home

Out surveying the other day and seen this guy chilling with the cattle near a stock tank.

Tempting. Not many of these around.

Details: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/6773/ Some good pics: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/photographs/6773/

I wouldn't call it laziness. I'm almost 70 and can't really hike 5 or 6 miles a day like I could when I was 45.

My body finally stopped hurting enough to type. Short story 27 days hunting two bull bison seen on the last day. Long story Checking my cc when I saw the spring cards getting hit. I saw the typical nothing, a week later for s&g I check my points and then I see I was drawn after a few cards were declined. I literally lose my breath for a moment. I immediately start googling everything, watch every video on youtube and post something about getting drawn and get some big time help from a couple of CWT members WHTMTNHNTR, Tom and Chewy. I spend the months talking, practicing with my bow and talking to the guys who previously had the hunt. After talking to about 20 previous hunters I discover a theme about the politics of the situation. 18 essentially said the same thing and two had glowing reviews of Jacoby. I decide not to play and go away from the group always being respectful to the group but doing my own thing. First weekend (5 days) I run into a giant wall of snow and that doesn't allow me to get much past Jakob Lake. I decide to try Saddle Mtn Wilderness. Saturday morning just before dawn I am just waking up I hear a clop of a bovine animal 30 yards from where I sleep, I grab my flashlight and see a smaller bison escaping up the hill next to my truck. Nothing interesting happened for the rest of the time except for stopping at Lee's Ferry for the first time and catching a few trout. Two weeks later I go for 3 days I get within 3 miles of the traditional area and see my first bison sign at some far off point. getting stuck and nearly getting in a fight with some californians that rented some pretty cool razors and were driving like they stole them was the highlight May 10th , nine days, My brother and step dad come and we stay at big springs cabins. Finally get to a marginal area stina point and timp point. Lots of sitting no bison. Me and my brother decide to look around a bit and meet some other hunters and discover the main guide does not like people on his trail cams. My brother took it as a personal challenge and the next camera he saw he started using his Fortnite Repertoire and did the "orange justice" than the "carlton" and finished off the day with a "Dab" We meet a couple of other hunters and they suggest the loser dance and I go retro with MC Hammers U cant touch this. Snow is still much to hunt anything but the three mile stretch that the majority of hunters are in, I do my best to stay away from them. Jacoby very likely has 80 salts with cameras so it is very hard to leave his grasp. The week ends drinking Bacanora with a couple of turkey hunters from Chihuahua and a retired game california game warden telling hunting stories and looking at successes on each others phones. It was a good evening. The final week I go solo (10 days). I head to the nameless point where we cut some fresh tracks and I left a salt and a camera. Nothing. I check the other eight cameras I left out there and nothing. I learn that the only thing I missed for the week was more snow. Total one Bison was seen for the all of the group of hunters and it was still deciding its gender. Sitting there thinking and watching the same piece of salt for a few days I decided if I am going to fail, I will fail the way I am best hunting. Thick cover stillhunting. I go to the deepest canyon I can find and find one of the super special areas that one of the paying clients is in. I leave shaking my head in frustration. Friday comes around and I hear three gunshots, for the first time its warm enough not to wear jacket. Later I learn, a gentlemen I met at Arizona Archery Club filled his tag deservedly. Saturday I hear four more shots but no reports of any more bison taken, first day without rain or snow. Last day, I am resound to the fact I will not fill my tag and tell my wife I am leaving around noon. the voices in my head are telling me to go by the park entrance which I do. (you will hear voices in your head too if when you go ten days solo) I wake early and pass the groups meeting place an hour before there scheduled meeting time. I get to dirt tank 1 about the time the remaining hunters are getting to their group session and for the first time in the morning I leave my bow in the truck (packed to go home) and take my WW2 model 70 instead. I work my way to the southeast corner of the small field and then I see a brown head pop up and ram another brown head. For a second I think I am watching a couple of bears fighting, then I realize they are not bears. The fight is going on for several seconds as I am just realizing what I am watching. All of the videos and studying is kicking in and I start figuring out if they are male or female. The vitals are out of sight but there eyes and horns have me pinned. I drop to my stomach and crawl to a flatter area. they stop fighting and it looks they are going to leave when they turn and head to the flat part of the field. The closest bull is about 60 yards and the farther one is about 80. after 27 days i no longer care about which one is bigger and am waiting to see the penis sheath to confirm sex and a broadside shot. the one at 80 obliges. I place the crosshair on his heart and squeeze. He buckles and starts jogging I place two more shots in the lungs in a few seconds. the bull stops and place my last shot and last bullet for that matter in him and he drops and is down within 45 seconds of my first shot. This is where the pain begins I get my truck 248 yards from the bison on snowy road. I take pictures and take my pack. I start about 545 and put the last piece in my truck around 300. It was the second and final bison taken out of 25 tags. This is also my eighth big game species of the big 10 all of them solo, seven with my bow.

Why they do it to Payson every weekend and no one feels bad, WA wa Plume exploded around 5pm, winds are calming down now.

Ruger LCRX 3" sold local

buy with confidence, he's a good guy. Ugly, but good guy.

There are a lot of fires going on right now. Rains are 3-4 weeks out, lots of lightning prior. This is not good at all.

Just saw it in another post.haha Thank you but I’ll pass, little far for me. (Florence) Good luck with your sale

Tom196, I believe he used this guy in Queen Creek. He was happy with the service provided.

I'm a camper guy that keeps trying to convince my wife a wall tent with a wood stove is awesome. She ain't havin it.

Or just fill up the nipple with powder and let it rip.....lol. Air compressor would be a safer bet though.

It was THE gun when I was young. Back then, it was the caliber to get or .270 or .308 or .243. Now most won’t go near a rifle unless it’s something sexy, ending in PRC or Nosler or WSM. I have a feeling it will go back to being very popular some day.

I completely agree. Great for a wide variety of NA animals and one of the more popular calibers for African plains game. If a hunter is travelling (by air) and their ammo doesn't make it there, guess which caliber is readily available? The list of reasons goes on and on.

Great caliber. Very under appreciated.

Deer are everywhere in that unit. Every buck our group has taken down there has been within a mile of a road. Good luck.

FYI: unit 9&10 are open for sheep in Oct Dumbass. My bad..I forgot y’all don’t read the regs.

Sad day for the game and fish and their actions. They could of made an example out of Blake and all involved, but chose to let him off light. 18,000 dollars is nothing and 10 years is a joke for killing all that he did. I can only imagine what else he killed and was he involved in that big bull poached in 4b last year? Makes you wonder. I guess things won’t get better until we hold the game and fish accountable.

You are wrong. They are small shank.

When I lived in Tucson, pre-Craig's Custom Rifles, I had Randy Lawson at Harry Lawson Custom Guns do all my work. Randy took over his dad's business several years ago and is one of the best, least advertised, around the area. I've heard nothing but good about Craig's Custom Rifles, but can personally vouch for Randy Lawson's work.

I'm very comfortable in my Kodiak canvas tent with good foam pads and a little buddy heater when it is cold. The dynamic changes dramatically when my wife or girls go. Like so many other things, I have found women do a lot things when dating or younger but once married and they start getting older they stop doing many of the things that attracted you to them. If your wife is going to go and you want her to continue going then I would try to make her as comfortable as you can reasonably afford.

I use Jake Peter's (fellow hunter) at Southwest ATV in Queen Creek. I highly recommend him if you are in that area.