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Given my current condition with COPD, etc., I'm sure this will shock some of you, but I'd like you all to know that I volunteered for the vaccine trials for Covid-19, held here in the Glendale area. The vaccine was created in a Russian lab. I received my first shot today at 9:00 am, and it’s completely safe, with иo side effects whatsoeveя. I feelshκι χoρoshό я чувствую себя немного странно и я думаю, что вытащил ослиные уtr.

My Archery bull .Unit 18A,public land. So I hired James Fleming to do this hunt with. I have been talking to him since before the draw.A few thought I was crazy burning 9pts on a marginal limited opportunity area. I went with a gut feeling and it paid off.James knows the area like no one else.Day 1 was slow with only a few elk spotted and no shooters. sat water for 8 hours in middle of day till evening with only javelinas coming in. Day 2 up at 4 and into another blind for barely an hour when I received text bull spotted. James picked him up at 4 miles away and it appeared he wasn't moving to another zip code. He then disappeared into a sea of junies . we estimated where he might be and made the trek. About noon we lucked out and he bugled. We had to assume it was him as they weren't active calling at all. we estimated him to be around 500 yards away so we moved in a couple of hundred yards where we would remain on the ground for 4 plus hours. Around 5 he bugled once and on went the sneekee feet and we closed to about a hundred yards. we hung the cow decoy in a cliff rose, I set up and James got behind me about 20 yards. 2 cow calls set him off tearing up a tree(sounded like a train breaking limbs).he did this for 15 minutes without bugling and stopped. I was shaking like a leaf. More mews and I could hear him coming in on a rope. Still having not seen him his swords appeared( knew it was him at that second )above a juniper in front of me. he turned to get around the juniper and downwind and as he was walking in to a 3 foot shooting lane I was drawn and calm. I was preparing to shoot him walking but he froze with vitals exposed to look at the decoy . I released arrow and center punched him at 30 yards. At this point I practically collapsed.It was very warm and I guess years of frustration and missed opportunity were coming into into my thoughts.The arrow was complete pass through 4 blade wacem. we waited about 20 minutes to start the recovery. quite a bit of blood at first...but it tapered off.Fortunately his tracks were easy to follow in the dirt. This beast made it 500 yards and expired. James was as excited as I was. after lots of hugs and high fives we set about the work. we carried what we could.hung the rest and got back to camp at 430 Am. we slept for a couple of hours then made the 3 mile trek to pack out the rest.

Here is my 2020 archery bull, I believe they are still in the pre-rut. Opening day I passed on a 3x3, then Saturday I missed a 7x7 had to estimate his range and just grazed him. Sunday morning I was after a 6x6 that was with a 4x4 but they gave me the slip. A hour after that I let a spike and small 4x4 walk right past me at 18 yards. Wasn’t sure if I made a mistake on that one. Monday and Tuesday I headed home to fix my house air conditioner. Wednesday morning I headed back up. Got to camp and unloaded the quad to head back to a small water hole where I missed the 7x7. Got all set up around 5pm. Tried calling to locate the bulls and nothing. So I sat till about 6:10pm and from a distance I seen some cows coming, told myself there has to be a bull with them and sure enough he pops out and starts to bugle. Then from a distance another bull bugles. Then the cows come to the small water and before I know it the bull is there. I draw back while one cow is staring at me then the bull lifts up and looks at me. I release the shot and wasn’t sure if I hit him well. He runs and I’m cow calling him, he stops about 50 yards and in about 10 seconds he is down. So I call my 2 friends who where up there with me on opening weekend and give them the news. Now the fun begins while it’s starting to get dark. I finish about 10pm and back at camp about 10:50pm. Talk about a long cold ride back to on the quad. Thanks Austin Nagel, Steve Holowell , and James Guin

dang nice priced g21. If anyone wants 2 for 1, same lower for a g20 10mm.

Good luck finding a $400 Glock in todays world.

I live in Star Valley, units 22S and 22N border me, but not far from 23 or 4a either. So I have this fridge that I use to store my elk and deer in until I can get to butchering them. That said its empty now and pretty warm out. Early rifle bull starts Friday. If you find yourself in a situation were you tag out early and have more tags in camp and arent going to use a local processor and want your meat stored just above freezing hit me up. I will do it for $25 a day and cap it at a max of a 100. So if you kill Friday and are planning to stay in camp with your buddy until next friday than its just a 100. I only have room for one elk. It will also need to be quartered and in game bags. Texting me is best and we can go from there. 6023178084.

I was doing some googling for something else and came across a site about how the Thunder River trail in the GC came into being. You might recall I've mentioned the Big Saddle Camp here a few times. Here are some snippets about it and the N. Kaibab deer. It's a bit of interesting history. -TONY The story of the Thunder River Trail would not be complete without fleshing out the role that the Churches played in its maintenance. Big Saddle Hunting Camp was built by Hayden Church in the 1920s. His son Jack, and Jack’s wife Mardean, took it over and operated it until the mid 1960s. They also owned the Buckskin Tavern on the state line between Kanab and Fredonia. Although their primary business was the Utah Parks Company, which had concessions to operate mule trips in Bryce, Zion and the North Rim, they hosted hunters and guided hunting trips out of their lodge and several cabins at Big Saddle Camp during the fall. The Big Saddle facilities are long gone. The smaller cabins were wrecked and burned in 1967. The main lodge was left standing but cut into three sections and moved years ago to its current location at the junction of U. S. 89a and Forest Service road 22 just southeast of Fredonia. It now forms the core for the house just to the southwest of the intersection there. The Churches operated pack trips into Thunder River from Big Saddle via the Little Saddle route, mostly after hunting season. Their best known wrangler was Walapai Johnny Nelson, whose father was sheriff at Kingman. Johnny also was well known as a heavy drinker. Mardean Church (1992) recalled, "A great guide, people loved him, but had to fire him and rehire 50 times a season." For years, Walapai Johnny maintained the stash of cookware at Cove Camp just down from the junction of Thunder River and Tapeats Creek. His inscription is in the rock shelter beneath the large boulder overlooking the roasting site just west of where the Thunder River Trail drops out of Surprise Valley to Thunder Spring. The Churches wintered their Utah and Grand Canyon horses and mules on the Esplanade until the mid-1960s. For decades their trail hands did the bulk of the maintenance and even made some improvements on the Thunder River Trail from the canyon rim to Cove Camp. Their hands even did most of the work on the Crazy Jug segment before it was abandoned in the 1950s. In 1965, Rell Little told me about getting the last of the cattle off the Esplanade sometime in the early 1960s. Another rancher named Johnny Vaughn, who also operated a cattle lease on the Kaibab Plateau, noticed that there were a fair number -- at least a truck load -- of feral cattle down there that they could occasionally see from the rim. Representing found money, they decided to go after them. This they did by taking a couple of docile cows out to Little Saddle, and wrangled them down onto the Esplanade via the Little Saddle Trail. In no time, the wild cattle congregated around the domesticated stock, and the wranglers were able to peacefully walk the entire lot out to the rim with the cows in the lead. They walked the lot right onto the truck without incident, and, the way he told me the story, drove right off to the packing plant to collect their reward. That was the end of cows on the Esplanade over in that country. David Hansen recalls Kanab in the early 1920's: walking down Main Street, you passed the drug store, and about the only people you would see would be "the old-time cowboys sitting in the sun, boots and Bull Durham tags out their pockets, telling how they worked for Grand Canyon Cattle Company." With an estimated deer population of 50,000 on the Kaibab, the Forest Service declared open season on deer in 1927 or 1928, he recalls. "Any hunter could get 3 bucks only for $5.00. But the deer were very poor and not edible. They had very unusual horns. They were considered trophies." He recalls attempting deer counts. "We could stop on a ridge on those western slopes, riding through there and whistle and holler and hundreds of deer would file out of a canyon," he said. When the Forest Service declared open season, the State of Arizona filed an injunction and sent deputy sheriffs to arrest the hunters. Forest Service personnel helped the hunters dodge the sheriffs. Finally, a cooperative agreement was reached that allowed hunting only in October and November and required a payment of $4.00 for an Arizona hunting license. Hunting camps were set up. Two on the east side of the Plateau, one at Kane Springs and one at South Canyon. Three camps on the west side, one at Ryan (checking station), one at Moquitch and one at Big Saddle. Big Saddle was against the rim of the Grand Canyon. A short walk from the camp was Crazy Jug Point, which was a spectacular view of the Grand Canyon. These hunts were very successful, being the first attempt at managing hunting. All hunters registered into a camp. A Forest Ranger and an Arizona Game Warden were in each camp. All the deer were checked out with a special tag. All guns were sealed when entering two checking stations, Ryan and Kane Springs, and unsealed at the Camps. This was a safety measure to keep hunters from shooting deer along the road. Horns were measured and carcass weighed and measured. The Camps were under Special Use Permits to provide tents, meals, and horses to the hunters, if they so desired, also guides were available. So the hunters could drive in and have all the accommodations that they wanted, which was rather primitive, but satisfactory. In 1929, the hunters came, everything was very prosperous, good cars, and they enjoyed their stay in the Camps, even after bagging their deer. The 1931 hunt was different because of the depression. A lot of hunters could see a difference in their pocket-books and they were anxious to get meat. After two years of controlled hunting, the deer were still not in good flesh, the average weight in bucks in 1931 was 1351bs., the average weight 10 years later, was 1801bs. By 1941 the forage had improved considerably. However, which is usually the case with winter loss, nature seems to solve the problem, along with hunting.

Remington 700 adl, .223, brand new unfired, I have the factory scope that comes with it and the original plastic stock if buyer wants them. (Bipod not included) $400 Glock 21, gen 3, night sights, 3 factory glock mags and case $450 Located in Sierra Vista, will consider trades but mainly interested in cash.

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anyone need a g19 g3 $530.00. BTW they had g19 g5 for 560.00 this am, and sold out in minutes. https://www.dukessportshop.com/?s=Glock+19&post_type=product

Mine jams like this A LOT, shoot the first shell chamber stays open and won’t ever let the next she’ll out of the magazine

A guy on Rokslide is looking to purchase one.

Good job ..You look happy as heck..

Good prices in this climate! Bump for you

Awesome bull...congrats!

Pretty bull and love devil points. Congratulations!

Tower Plaza at 32nd St & Thomas. Took a $500K dept. to over $1mil in two years, and that was after they dumped handguns. I greatly expanded the long guns by bringing in Sako, Ruger, Charles Daly, Browning and Weartherby. Also added a reloading section -- the only one in the country within a Penny's store. I later did the same at the Woolco store at Cave Creek & T-Bird, which I set up from scratch. The days of the $49 10/22 and $99 M94.

I don’t understand why it was even necessary to chime in FC80....

I pulled this thread out of the mothballs, thinking some of the newer CWT members might enjoy this "look back at history'" contained within. Feel free to add your own memories of the Kaibab/Strip area.

Both my girls have been hunting since they were 10. The best times I have had in the field are with them.....until they shoot animals bigger than you ever have in 40 years of hunting....

Get a label maker, print a label and drop off your package. Eliminates dealing with stupid people.

kiui super down, super warm.

My 12 and 20 1100 shoot like a dream! Not cleaned much and never abused. Hoping they shoot well tomorrow or they’ll make a liar out of me! Either way. I really want to complete the 1100 collection! 410, 28 (I think rem made one?)

Here is my good friend Jesse with Dain Ellsworths ram taken out of the Peloncillo's in 11/03/2012. I wish you the best of luck on your hunt!