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Funny...if he’d ordered accubond ammo and got hydra-shok nobody would be questioning the post. Makes perfect sense to me and I’d be unhappy too.

We gotta get rid of that rule. It’s worthless red tape. I don’t think any other state has a quarter mile archery rule. It’s utter foolishness.

Do you even sh!t bro? Freeze dried meals are way hard on the gut!

I'm glad a ribeye and a can of beans work's for me.

No.....if you ordered 20 rounds of accubond and got a box of 40 rounds but the color of the box was different and you didn’t like that the box of 40 rounds was bigger is more like it.

My wife has been making masks for some time now. Since I just got an antelope tag she made me a new one. Here's a few. Share your hunt themed masks if you have some ! Safe hunting to all.

These are Spoken For- Free Camo Package deal 5-Jacket and Pants Pair (4 woodland, 1 desert) size large and smaller If you have a pile of kids (Or just 1 or 2) come grab these before they out grow em like mine did! Take them all and regift To others. Again, these are free but will consider trade for 6.5 creedmoor with high end scope. North North PHX

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You mean pecking trees?

There are pigs there. Binoculars mounted to a tripod are the key to almost any AZ hunt. Bestof luck!

I loaded it up and put it on and couldn't believe how comfortable it was. You just don't know how bad your pack is until you try something like this. Going back up tonight to finish out my hunt so hopefully I get to test it packing out an elk next.

Look up the units on line and start driving some roads to check out the terrain. Get some decent binoculars and start glassing the hills. Once you spot your first animal, you just might get hooked.

I'd like to check some out for my son's first deer and javelina hunt in November!

Target shooting is never allowed on State Trust Land unless it's a designated firing range.

Haha yes I have real big world problems, for 10 plus years the pro packs have been 1 serving and vacuum packed so half the weight and size. Also more expensive so when I order and pay for pro pack and get regular 2 serving and pay double it’s a problem. The big issue was the photos and add was for 1 serving vacuum sealed pro packs and that’s not what was sent. The flavor is irrelevant but I did order stroganoff.

The poor guy at MH receiving the hate email from a customer who got exactly what he ordered:

Wtf am I reading

Thanks for the replies. Waited for him yesterday and they showed up after dark. I know where they are coming down from now.

Love days like this! Opening evening, lots of action morning and then evening, bugling like crazy and 7 different bugles. Pulled this one away from cows and across a canyon in a bugle fest. Love having these experiences with my children. He wanted a branch antlered bull and to have a great call in experience rather that passing and waiting for a larger bull. Not always about the antler size but feeling great about the experience. Would not trade the hours in the woods with my man cub for anything in this world! Also picture of Daughters first elk, OTC. She was so excited! Love being with her on this hunt and look forward to many more.

Every sign on state trust says no target shooting, but it seems as if know one cares.

Just got my MR Pintler pack in. What a difference between my Badlands 2200 and the Pintler. I picked up the box from outside and it almost seemed like nothing was in it. It's super light. I put my stuff in it and don't feel the weight at all. Very happy with the purchase.

Cool video. We're seeing a lot of bear activity this year for our hunt. I was sitting at one of our honey holes and had one pass me around 20 yards from me. The problem occurred when I spotted her cub 10 yards behind her bouncing around. I nearly crapped my pants. Seeing the bear didn't really scare me until I saw the cub. I just kept saying please don't see me please don't see me.

I texted my condor recovery program colleague at AGFD a little while ago regarding the disposition of the gut piles. Its an excellent question that I should actually know off the top of my head. They are taken immediately to either the Kanab or Flagstaff landfill and buried immediately, so as to not have them available for consumption by anything. To everyone who has made the switch, even if for that hunt alone, or packed out gut piles, I want to say THANK YOU! It may sound cheesy, but you guys and gals are truly my conservation heroes. The lead poisoning goes way beyond condors, though. Every year, 1000s (yes, thousands) of other raptors, including bald and golden eagles, are lost to the same lead poisoning as condors. All kinds of other scavengers, both mammal and bird, are killed by lead poisoning from bullet fragments every year. I was asked to take over the condor recovery program for our office because I hunt and use/understand nonlead bullets in all of my hunting rifles. My predecessor was neither and didn't think highly of hunters, especially those who didn't use non-lead ammo. That's not me. One of the biggest arguments I ever hear is that copper bullets don't expand on small game. My son shot his first buck last October (Coues) at 375 yards with 140gr Barnes TTSX in his 7mm-08. The exit wound was at least two inches diameter at that distance. Last January, he shot his javelina using my M1 Garand, loaded with Barnes 150gr VOR-TX ammo at 75 yards. The exit wound was softball sized. Both small-bodied animals with gaping exit wounds, indicative of full expansion, no matter the velocity. Anyone that is ever traveling through Flagstaff and wants to talk condors, conservation (in general), and non-lead ammo, just hit me up and I will buy the coffee (quit drinking 7 years ago November). All I ever do is present the science as we know it and encourage you to do your own research after that to make your own informed decisions. No judgement, no name-calling; just a good discussion about how we, as hunters, can truly be the ultimate conservationists (and free coffee for you at a good coffee shop). In something related, everyone is (or should be) aware that the EPA has set lead levels for what constitutes lead poisoning in humans. The following is the abstract of a study that was published in 2009 regarding lead fragmentation in the venison we eat. Keep in mind that lead poisoning is considered cumulative and builds up in our bodies over time and that several studies have documented lead fragments in game carcasses through x-rays over 20 inches from the point of impact. If you are interested in the whole article, I will gladly send it to you. Again, this is not intended to start an argument or even a debate; just to merely present some data and, hopefully, get people to think about the issue. I would like to point out, again, my offer for a good cup of coffee. Hunt et al.: 2009 Lead Bullet Fragments in Venison from Rifle-Killed Deer: Potential for Human Dietary Exposure "Human consumers of wildlife killed with lead ammunition may be exposed to health risks associated with lead ingestion. This hypothesis is based on published studies showing elevated blood lead concentrations in subsistence hunter populations, retention of ammunition residues in the tissues of hunter-killed animals, and systemic, cognitive, and behavioral disorders associated with human lead body burdens once considered safe. Our objective was to determine the incidence and bioavailability of lead bullet fragments in hunter-killed venison, a widely-eaten food among hunters and their families. We radiographed 30 eviscerated carcasses of White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) shot by hunters with standard lead-core, copper-jacketed bullets under normal hunting conditions. All carcasses showed metal fragments (geometric mean = 136 fragments, range = 15–409) and widespread fragment dispersion. We took each carcass to a separate meat processor and fluoroscopically scanned the resulting meat packages; fluoroscopy revealed metal fragments in the ground meat packages of 24 (80%) of the 30 deer; 32% of 234 ground meat packages contained at least one fragment. Fragments were identified as lead by ICP in 93% of 27 samples. Isotope ratios of lead in meat matched the ratios of bullets, and differed from background lead in bone. We fed fragment-containing venison to four pigs to test bioavailability; four controls received venison without fragments from the same deer. Mean blood lead concentrations in pigs peaked at 2.29 mg/dL (maximum 3.8 mg/dL) 2 days following ingestion of fragment-containing venison, significantly higher than the 0.63 mg/dL averaged by controls. We conclude that people risk exposure to bioavailable lead from bullet fragments when they eat venison from deer killed with standard lead-based rifle bullets and processed under normal procedures. At risk in the U.S. are some ten million hunters, their families, and low-income beneficiaries of venison donations."

Heck ya!!!!!!!!! Way to go guys. Looks like fun for sure. The first archery bull is the hard one, they come easy from now on.

LMAO that was the good old days. when AZOD was around those clown got butt hurt over everthing