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Saw a rutting mule deer yesterday, also saw whitetail does by themselves and my wife shot an 80-85" whitetail that was with 2 does, I think things are just getting started in unit 21 anyways

Are spikes breeding much if at all? If you shoot a spike your saving a big mature deer to breed more.

Be good to maybe start a different thread on your buddy's tent as opposed to the not so subtle hi-jacking of this dude's attempt to sell his Alaknak. (I'm assuming no malice on your part, it just seems like bad form, IMO..... )

Seemed to work for the people who felt they were seeing too many trail cameras.

Tough muzzy hunt this year. Way different then my 2015 muzzy hunt but I was able to get my good bud on a decent buck. In over 10 days hunting hitting different units we only seen 5 bucks. All without does and 0 rut activity. Got this guy yesterday all by his lonesome. Not too bad for his first buck Good luck to the rest of muzzy hunters.

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If I had the answer I wouldn’t have asked at all. I agree with you. I just didn’t know

I say regular MD. Most of the mulies down where I have hunted for the past 20 yrs have spindly 3 pts on both sides with eyeguards.

I am sure if you fact checked the whole list you could find a few wrong facts. I was curious about the ones you brought up so I looked them up. I did a quick search and read that Kitt Peak is the larges binocular telescope in the US. Looks like there are bigger telescopes in the US. I got this from the Az state library Arizona's Five C's are: Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus and Climate. Here is some interesting info on the San Pedro. I grew up down there and had no idea how much wildlife that river supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro_River_(Arizona)

but....If a coues has a forked G2 it HAS to be a hybrid and if a muley does not have a forked G2 it HAS to be hybrid. come on man! it's common sense. This one is CLEARLY a hybrid. It's antlers are even 50/50

Looks like a regular mule deer

In 20A seeing some does, no boys no horn porn out here in God's Country. Had a doe at 20 yards yesterday, I think she liked the smell of my juniper soap.

I think we also need to have mandatory reporting. Without that the harvest numbers wont be accurate for tag allotment the following year.

All this is kinda silly with out accurate harvest data right?

on the topic of radios... So in my truck we installed a Midland 115 model... and my brother bought a midland 40 watt for his jeep (yet to be installed)... In my ram, i fabbed a bracket and added it under my aftermarket light switch bank. its supposed to have a 50 mile (unobstructed) range. ihonestly havent played much with it. Slightly disappointed with the progrsamming features (its difficult to toggle through the functions and make adjustments) when i first put it in the truck i would ride home from work... they are supposed to be able to sync up to the handheld radios (which is why we bought them) . the little bit ive used mine, there's a set of kids in the vicinity and the 3 mile coomute i could hear the kids playing with their handhelds the whole rifde home (in gilbert) so at least thats promising. We did take a trip to sedona with my inlaws (3 vehicles total) . i gavce them two hand helds and figured "we got the truck mount" ... but one of the micro tuning adjustments was off. I could hear them on the hand helds, but they werent picking me up. Not sure if its easier to match the handhelds to the truck or vise versa. Havent had time to play with them, and no one around to help,... so i was sitting int he truck trying to tie them togethor and gave up. ha ha. Probably someone with more technical skills or myself with more ambition could get it done. (comes complete with a small wire antenna, and on my deer hunt, was retty impressed with the 'sticking" it had as i scraped the top of the cab with low branches) Im guessing the 40 watt with my brother is the sdame deal. My brother hasnt installed his yet. HE's reluctant on where to mount his and stuff like that (he normally rides with the doors off for a good portion of the year and he doesnt want "free stuff" laying out in the open for some scum bag. the 40 watt is supposed to have a 65 mile (unobstructed) range. His didnt come with an antenna, but he did find a "puck" tyoe antenna that has a pretty solid magnet as well (also his hangup in mounting, because he doesnt know where to put the antenna for switching between hard, soft and no tops). Had the chance to test out the walker razor radios. The walker razor is a noise cancelling headphone that in it self is pretty cool. There is a couple of draw backs,. The headset itself is about $40 each. But for an additional $35 there's a two way radio that mounts to the headsets. 3 of us took them ut to try... The VOX feature didnt work (automatic talk). well it did, bt with road noise, it would lock the channel open. We turned this feature off and just used the PTT on the headset. At high road noise (doors off, 75 mph) i could have a normal conversation with sitting in the back seat and them in the front. Typically on road trips or whatever, if the doors are off, there's no talking between the front and back seats without a lot of shouting. Looking at the reveiws for the walker razor two ways, there's lot s of complaints about the boom mic breaking... but it might be how people treat their equipment. its an electronic device... not a rock to be hammered on etc. We havent had the chance to test the range of the headsets at any great lenghts. We went out the saturday after thanksgiving, and the ambient temp wehn we started was about 30 ish... so that was a nice bonus of having toasy ears as we ran down the road. Everything can be found on amazon.

I have a new box of the albrs and a partial box that I will have to count if you want them. Send me a pm Brent

Picture's ?

It ain't the covid it's the liberals.

All the portals I manage are good to go. My wife and daughter's were easy, just mine gave me a hard time.

I have a 16.6 ft Wenonah Adirondack canoe Id be willing to sell. Its made of Royalex material, been stored in my garage, never sat in the sun. Only used a couple times. They have changed the material, but royalex in really awesome. Canoe is light and has a wide beam

I would speculate this topic will be spun in a way to generate money for azgfd. imho if I had to give up a piece of hunting eq a trail cam would be first. a good pair of socks and a jet boil have lended a hand to the taking of wild game More so than a camera on a bush. i think sxs are the achilies tendon to hunting. I would never take the right of hunters who use them just because I do not.

What i can't wrap my head around, is why sportsmen would support taking away something from other sportsmen, just because they "don't like it". Level the playing field? Get out of here. Whats next, being upset because someone has 3 friends hunting with them when you have only 1 or 2? It being "unfair" because some one has swarovskis and you have Vortex? (That warranty though). Life isn't fair. Life isn't equal. Deal with it. But to go after a tool someone utilizes, but you don't.... Sounds a lot like socialism in the hunting community to me. I support all legal methods of hunting, even if I don't participate. I dont hunt with a muzzeloader, but im not trying to get the 500+ yard muzzeloaders banned. Very childish and immature behavior.

Last year, 12AE late, opening morning, 90 minutes into the hunt.

Thats what I should have had in the back of my truck