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Josh, Thank you for all the nice words but listen my friend I was enjoying hunting with you and Alexa much more than you will ever realize. There was zero guide stress and you all were very refreshing and anxious to learn and always in expectation. The ultimate client that every guide wants but now your a friend that I will always look forward to helping. God answers prayer ! God bless you and Alexa thru the Holiday season! Let me know if you guys need anything buddy!! Your friend, Josiah 20201122_080351_00.mp4

Hey folks! Before I go into detail of my adventure. I just wanna give a few shout outs to everyone who helped and landed a hand to me! Thank you Josiah for helping me on this trip! You're an amazing guide and I hope to see you again soon and hunt with you again at some point! Thank you Damon for leaning as much as offering me your quad! I am sorry I couldnt text you that I didnt need to use it! I lost your number because my phone broke Dave, thank you for some scouting advice back in july! I meant to follow you up on some more pointers but same issue happened with Damon! Last but not least another Dave I met in Peoria! Thank you for allowing me to buy the ammo I desperately needed! It saved my behind! Thank you all! My elk trip was good. Only there for 2 days and saw only 3 elk. 1 bull and 2 cows. Got within 30 of the bull but by the time I saw him he was already running But here we are with my deer hunt story! 11-19-20 I had left a little late but got to my unit around 430 PM drove down the FR22 to camp and I lost phone service. Google directed me to another outfitters camp and we didnt even know till hours later! So I eventually made it to my actual camp right down the road! Almost got myself a nice steal from that first camp lol! 11-20-20 OPENING DAY I met my guide Josiah who was amazing! We left camp at 530 and got out to glassing before shooting light. Saw deer EVERYWHERE and even my biggest buck I had ever seen and he told me it wasnt a shooter. I was mind boggled! But I trusted him! Heard a shot hit a deer near us right at light. Saw 60 deer that morning passed 8 bucks too! Then passed another 2 that evening with seeing another 40 does 11-21-20 DAY 2 We had set a trail cam on a water hole and saw a 210 plus buck on it! So we wanted to sit water that morning. We get there and passed a cool drop-tine buck but the other side had 2 points but still really cool! And saw about 30 does in 3 hours! We decided to stay sitting on the ground with little water, a few small snacks, and no blind or anything all day! So much action. Saw like 10 or 11 bucks that day! And countless does about 100-120 more! Heard some deer fighting that night too! Really fun! 11-22-20 DAY 3 TAG FILLED My guide Josiah was teaching me a lot about hunting, life, God, everything in general! He was an awesome dude! We prayed before every hunt and it made me think and reflect on new things on a new level. And that's a great thing. We decided to leave camp before 5 AM and get there set up with a blind and chair and food before 6 AM. We were prepared for another whole day at the water whole this time! We said prayer at 6:50 AM opened the blind and 2 minutes later I see movement to the left and a doe comes down to water and then a buck. It was so dark all you could see what a silhouette of the deer and some horn. I put my cross hairs on every buck and wait for Josiah to say shoot or dont shoot. And he said shoot...that....buck. I didnt hesitate, I trusted him like family! So I shot immediately! Hit him really good with the .243 bout 100 yard shot! He went around the small hill behind the water with his doe. Then 2 minutes later that doe was hoofing it back the other way! So we left the blind to check and this was our result. After we got pictures we did the gutless method and all the guides helped me at camp because I never quartered a deer before so they taught me! It was a ton of fun! 11-23-20 HEADING HOME Well our guide left early because he had to take care of somethings at home! So me and my girlfriend left that next morning! We packed up tied the skull to my ice chest to show it off to all the cars on the way home. As we headed back into Flag we got into a hit and run. Almost was fatal buck I luckily swerved enough to only get my back quarter of my truck dented. We came out okay. The driver took off into a forest road and some nice folks chased them back out but then that same car hit another on the highway right next to mine! So they had no choice but to pull over! They were just scared! They were younger than me and I'm 19. So we called the police and they helped us all out! Nobody was injured thankfully! But God was protecting all of us in that incident! For all the cars going 65 I would say damage was pretty minimal! But here is pics of all the highlights of our adventure!

Congratulations on your buck what a great experience glad you were not hurt from the accident

If I hike my butt off this next week and shrink from the 30 to a 28, I will let you know.... Good seller.

Figures. I'm drunk and can't make it there.

22 RIFLE DEER HUNT IN THE BOOKS..

garynutz is probably his next screen name

nutz...

in 5 days this month and I found these carp sheds Idk why, but I recently decided I needed some sheds and now I have some

I was was able to connect on a nice buck the last day of the Nov. hunt. The best part was having my son w me behind the glass giving a play by play of were the buck was as I was getting ready for the shot and after the shot. He even helped pack out two quarters.

Congrats to Clay Kelly & Destry Guilliam (GUILLIAMS GUIDE SERVICE) & To Mr. John Tanner guided by his son Thad Tanner... on some good ole bucks!!!!!!!!!!

...in 18A. Pretty durn excited to finally be leaving in the a.m. I have almost 3 weeks off over this 5 week hunt to fill my "Any" tag. Rather determined to make it happen this year after last year's less than desirable outcome. Eddie

With all this crap going on, any recommendations on what body armor to get? Pros / cons to a plate carrier ar500, ceramic, kevlar balcs cuts? Regular kevlar vest?

I would not consider the separation a "failure" either. Either blowing up on contact or failure to expand, yes.

Old but still good lookin'!

Man sorry to hear that. Hope he finds a good home and someone doesn’t hunt him too hard. Sometimes it’s not the dogs fault.

My German shorthair had a similar problem, so I solved it with a set of rubber boots.

I have several recovered bullets that look like that. They are Sierra GK bullets from 30-06 and 270. Since the Elk or Deer shot died soon after being hit and the bullet and copper jacket was under the skin on the off side I never considered it a failure. Did your son's deer drop soon after being hit? What was the range? The lead portion of the bullet looks nicely mushroomed like it should. Deer died, bullet did not fragment/shatter so not seeing a 'failure' here.

You never know who’s gonna show up exactly, but I think possibly, *hopefully*, the first weekend I’ll have a crew so big that even jimmy John will be jealous. But I think we need all the help we can get.

Location is queen creek az.

I agree with capitalism and making money. I just don't tend to take advantage of fellow outdoorsmen on this site.

Because sideways pics drive me nuts, let me present this:

here you go, thats a cool looking buck really tall

Yes it is, especially with a hot load behind it, that just happens to be the most accurate one.

In Tucson we have many types of criminals, illegals, leftists, antis, drug addicts, idiots, and that is only the mayor and council. Add in the board of stups and enviro wackoos. Tucson is a perfect example of what happens when dems take over and bring their socialism from mexico and kali. Tucson is a "welcoming city".