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Well got it done yesterday again like last year. I couldn’t pass on this one. Smacked him right at 27 yards quartering away and he didn’t run 50 yards. Scored him at around 110” and he’s a 2 point. Old deer too

Here is a video of how my family skins a Javelina. This is the best way to do it without cross-contaminating the meat with the musk oil.

Everyone got a Blackstone griddle like me for Christmas

You were told wrong. Heard the AZ 5 c’s mentioned many times in my life, never heard canyons and culture.

A friend sent this to me but he didn't write it. DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT ARIZONA? 1. Arizona has 3,928 mountain peaks and summits, more mountains than any one of the other Mountain States (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming). 2. All New England, plus the state of Pennsylvania would fit inside Arizona. 3. Arizona became the 48th state and last of the contiguous states on February 14, 1912. 4. Arizona's disparate climate can yield both the highest temperature across the nation and the lowest temperature across the nation in the same day. 5. There are more wilderness areas in Arizona than in the entire Midwest. Arizona alone has 90 wilderness areas, while the Midwest has 50. 6. Arizona has 26 peaks that are more than 10,000 feet in elevation. 7. Arizona has the largest contiguous stand of Ponderosa pines in the world stretching from near Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains region. 8. Yuma, Arizona is the country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce. 9. Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation, covering 113,909 square miles. 10. Out of all the states in the U.S., Arizona has the largest percentage of its land designated as Indian lands. 11. The Five C's of Arizona's economy are: Cattle, Copper, Citrus, Cotton, and Climate. 12. More copper is mined in Arizona than all the other states combined, and the Morenci Mine is the largest copper producer in all of North America. 13. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, two of the most prominent movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, were married on March 18, 1939, in Kingman, Arizona. 14. Covering 18,608 sq. miles, Coconino County is the second largest county by land area in the 48 contiguous United States. (San Bernardino County in California is the largest) 15. The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Sells, Arizona.. 16. Bisbee, Arizona is known as the Queen of the Copper Mines because during its mining heyday it produced nearly 25 percent of the world's copper and was the largest city in the Southwest between Saint Louis and San Francisco. 17. Billy the Kid killed his first man, Windy Cahill, in Bonita, Arizona. 18. Arizona grows enough cotton each year to make more than one pair of jeans for every person in the United States. 19. Famous labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma. 20. In 1912, President William Howard Taft was ready to make Arizona a state on February 12, but it was Lincoln's birthday. The next day, the 13th, was considered bad luck so they waited until the following day. That' how Arizona became known as the Valentine State. 21. When England's famous London Bridge was replaced in the 1960s, the original was purchased, dismantled, shipped stone by stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it still stands today. 22. Mount Lemmon, Tucson, in the Santa Catalina Mountains, is the southernmost ski resort in the United States. 23. Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch in Picacho, Arizona is the largest privately-owned ostrich ranch in the world outside South Africa. 24. If you cut down a protected species of cactus in Arizona, you could spend more than a year in prison. 25. The world's largest to-scale collection of miniature airplane models is housed at the library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. 26. The only place in the country where mail is delivered by mule is the village of Supai, located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. 27. Located on Arizona's western border, Parker Dam is the deepest dam in the world at 320 feet. 28. South Mountain Park/Preserve in Phoenix is the largest municipal park in the country. 29. Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located about 55 miles west of Phoenix, generates more electricity than any other U.S. power plant. 30. Oraibi, a Hopi village located in Navajo County, Arizona, dates back to before A.D. 1200 and is reputed to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in America. 31. Built by Del Webb in 1960, Sun City, Arizona was the first 55-plus active adult retirement community in the country. 32. Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona contains America's largest deposits of petrified wood. 33. Many of the founders of San Francisco in 1776 were Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona. 34. Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply military post Camp McDowell. 35. Rainfall averages for Arizona range from less than three inches in the deserts to more than 30 inches per year in the mountains. 36. Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain. 37. Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! In Arizona, you'll see them running up to 17-mph away from their enemies. 38. The Saguaro cactus is the largest cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern Arizona. 39. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona. 40. The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona. 41. The average state elevation is 4,000 feet. 42. The Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square miles across the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, but its capital is seated in Window Rock, Arizona. 43. The amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome atop Arizona's Capitol building is equivalent to the amount used in 4.8 million pennies. 44. Near Yuma, the Colorado River's elevation dips to 70 feet above sea level, making it the lowest point in the state. 45. The geographic center of Arizona is 55 miles southeast of Prescott near the community of Mayer. 46. You could pile four 1,300-foot skyscrapers on top of each other and they still would not reach the rim of the Grand Canyon. 47. The hottest temperature recorded in Arizona was 128 degrees at Lake Havasu City on June 29, 1994 48. The coldest temperature recorded in Arizona was 40 degrees below zero at Hawley Lake on January 7, 1971. 49. A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water. 50. The state of Massachusetts could fit inside Maricopa County (9,922 sq. miles). 51. The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in Pinal County 52. There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested. 53. Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal. 54. On June 6, 1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the production line in Nogales, Arizona. 55. The Sonoran Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in North America. 56. Bisbee is the Nation's Southernmost mile-high city. 57. The two largest man-made lakes in the U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located in Arizona. 58. The longest remaining intact section of Route 66 can be found in Arizona and runs from Seligman to Topock, a total of 157 unbroken miles. 59. The 13 stripes on the Arizona flag represent the 13 original colonies of the United States. 60. The negotiations for Geronimo's final surrender took place in Skeleton Canyon, near present day Douglas, Arizona, in 1886. 61. Prescott, Arizona is home to the world's oldest rodeo, and Payson, Arizona is home to the world's oldest continuous rodeo, both of which date back to the 1880's. 62. Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive limestone cave with 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms as long as football fields, and one of the world's longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet 3 inches. 63. You can carry a loaded firearm on your person, no permit required. 64. Arizona has one of the lowest crime rates in the U.S.A. 65. We've reached max capacity so don't move here!

It's for important stuff

Costco

Try Thatherton Fuels.

Nah. If he was that big i would have thrown my release or boot at them in attempt to stun him while I jump on his back and perform a sleeper grip.

I sort of smiled when I read this because of an experience I once had which was just the opposite. Circa mid-1960s, Sam Dudley and I were hunting spring turkey atop Cibecue Ridge on the WM reservation. I killed my tom the first morning, so while Sam continued to hunt for his bird, I went to a place where I had seen fresh lion tracks and started calling with the Circe jackrabbit call I recently sold here. Instead of a lion, though, a nice black bear came in. Fortunatley, I had bought a bear tag. It wound up on my wall.

The circle thing sounds great! that might end point creep for bighorn sheep tags...

Notice who will be the biggest and loudest complainers at the G&F hearings. It will be the guides or the wealthy clients of the guides. I wish some sort of compromise could be reached instead of a total ban. That is why a camera season made the most sense to me. If the only two options are living with them or going back to the days when we didn't have them, I choose banning them. Outfitters/Guides in a handful of units have nobody else to blame but themselves for this mess.

It sounds to me that the G&F doesnt like anybody making money by killing animals. Sounds like the first step of the antis to ban hunting. Use the evil money card. How many earth first and the like are infiltrated into the G&F now. So, why not just say nobody shall charge money to help hunters hunt. Everyone knows it is the guides for profit that are the problem with cameras.

In case a few of you dont remember or might still have been in diapers the predator hunting bans started back in the early 90's at the G&F meetings. thanks to a group called Earth First out of Tucson. They hammered the mesa office during one of the meetings it was pretty ugly a few fights broke out and alot of protesting about 1 mile south of the mesa office. I had my Daughter with me who was maybe 5 at the time as I went to all the meetings back then and this one was the board were asking for input I didnt have a baby sitter so took her. Had I known it was going to be ugly I would have never went. it was all over the news back then. Earth 1st was basically and antifa organization back then for lack of another term. They were a bunch of young yuppies, some with weapons and even some with explosives cut down/ or tried to cut down the big metal power line towers in the desert, shot at hunters while deer hunting in the Kaibab, damaged camps and vehicles when hunters were out hunting, put out road spike on the logging roads etc etc. out in seligman during the summer prarie dog shooting they would drive out in the flats right in front of you honking there horns and such. they were just Batshit Crazy. They ended up banning contest back then but mainly due to the tv coverage. then they allowed prizes to be giving away as raffle tickets. Don Martin( think it was don out of kingman) should remember that they had the best yote contest ever ie antelope eaters.. it seems to all slow down after that then came along the dog lovers and Jo arpio and his animal group Deputies they hooked up with the human society on animal abuse and the anti hunting predator thing started up again. and has been getting bigger and bigger. Not Blaming or saying that Arpio had anything to do with it but the TV stations started running all the poor poor animal storys about that time. someolder guys will remember the Term " its for the children" that was switched to the Term "its for the dogs/animals" no body cared about kids anymore it was all about pets and mean hunters. Because of all this the people aka HUMAN SOCIETY who used to BURN excess puppies and kittens down on 35th ave the old pound got huge and pretty much control everything with the public, not to mention a ton of political power. These dumbass's went after bass fishermen in the late 90s and early 2000s saying that catch and release was to painful, and cruel to the fish. Theres some history on how the predator contest ended incase some didnt know.

Great list! Very informative. Thanks for posting. Maybe time to add another "C", for computer chips or maybe circuit boards with all the companies making them in AZ?

I vote to ban 15x binoculars!

It wasn't meant to do either. It was meant to conserve wildlife by removing the competition aspect that has so badly infiltrated so much of what was once the moral practice of hunting. That is why the predators are still harvested. Offering prizes for mass killings harkens back to the days when commercial hunting led us to the laws and regulations we now have to conserve ALL wildlife. And that is the job of AZ G&F; to deal with all of the state's wildlife, not just that with targets painted on them. But then, I think you already knew all that. 😉

I joined the program called zeroguide fees before I put into the draw and it is a early membership where you pay 175$ a year and once you get drawn for the late seasons or strip tags you will get a fully outfitted hunt! I was lucky because it was my first year! And even luckier to have Josiah! Join it if you are putting in dude! 175$ for a 5500$ fully outfitted hunt! Fantastic deal dude! They do other states plus elk, antelope, and sheep too!

Update: we found him this morning. We are going to sound like idiots... but we drive to our hunting spot, park.... something really smelled and we looked to the right and we were parked 2 feet from him. Maggots everywhere.... we cut the horns off, punched his tag, and I went after another one. His shot ended up being perfect and even broadside I wouldn’t wish for a more perfect shot... it just didn’t bleed well.... he didn’t make it more than 200 yards, however the trick was he circled back away from where we last saw him. Ended up in a ditch on the side of the road. No elk deserves to rot like that... maybe Hillary Clinton.. but not an elk. We had looked long and hard but unfortunately we came up empty last time looking for him. A definite blessing to have found him today, but sad about the meat

Nobody likes getting catfished....especially on hunting tips. I'll stick around and let you guys know how it goes. I was able to get the whole week of the hunt off work so if nothing else I'll come back with stories of hiking through and around every nasty canyon we can find.

Besides producing very nice and accurate rifles, Todd is also a great person.

Selling some pelts to pay for my hobby.

In 40+ years of trapping and hunting coyotes I have learned that you can not cover your sent with anything and still move and breathe. If a coyote is down wind from you, he knows what you had for breakfast and what brand of sent cover you are using. It is vital to have the wind in your face or a crosswind . Not always easy a thing to do if you want to sit in the shade with the sun to your back. If you hunt with a buddy, set him up as a sniper to watch downwind 100 to 150 yards. 20% of the time a coyote will come in downwind pick up your sent and be gone and you will never know it was there. You learn a lot by reading tracks in the snow. Good luck

The wait is over, I'll be back in the desert in 2 days! Another chance to build on my past experiences but I think I have a sure fire plan this time . Still looking for javi intel in 34 a/b if I fill my deer tag. Have to say I bowhunted deer in IA, MN and WI this past fall, even had a close encounter with a 170" class buck but never got as excited as I am right now.