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My brothers and I made this for my Dad. Its from a deer he shot many years ago. The wood is from a 100+ yr old cotton wood cut down from his fathers house. He's never had anything mounted as its not his style so we wanted to do something for him.

just be careful of whose cam you take or smash... there are easily 4000 law enforcement cameras out in AZ right now. it won't be funny when you get caught stealing or vandalizing government property.

Not offended bud, just would have done it differently. If you are a Father, enjoy your day! Free bumps to help get this guy a gun for his daughter.

I don't use trailcams. Haven't in 3 years. Might use a few this year since it's the last year. I own 4 and they're in my shed. I can actually find deer with my own 2 eyes and take pictures of them in person. Novel idea huh?

WOW! Seems like you would have gotten first right of refusal, being as how this is on your own post??!! That’s not cool…

Another fire north of Heber and a bunch of fires in 27. Ban lightning

When I read that Biden signed that Juneteenth was a new national holiday, I went and passed the word around to all the ladies working in my building. All were very excited and wondered if they had the day off on Friday? I told them all that they could have the day off if they could tell me what Juneteeth was all about, and they couldn't google it. Not one could tell me, so they all had to work.

That is like $300 worth of lumber alone!

It won’t be me smashing your trail cam, it’s going to be whoever draws the same tag as you! Good luck!

Hey Mike this is happening right now!!! Cheers!!!

They aren’t banned, but good luck trying to keep one on water. I think hunters with the same tag you draw will do a good job cleaning out any trail cams left behind. We all know trail cams are used to find game, with the hope of harvesting that animal during their hunt. With this rule in effect do you think a hunter who draws a tag is going to let guides set all their trail cams at all water sources just because they now claim to be a wildlife watcher? Nope I don’t think so...LOL! All it’s going to take is a couple $40 cordless metal cutting angle grinders to solve any so called wildlife watchers. The AZGFD knows they won’t have to control this issue going forward, hunters will be doing 99% of it for them. Great win for all hunters, not so much for all that relied on trail cams to do their scouting for them.

We probably don't need a copy of it if you log in and it's already not there....that probably means Stan was able to delete the member and related messages before you logged in to check it out. Thanks for your quick action Stan! but if you get an email about a private message and it seems it has not been taken care of, then you can let Stan or I know and we can take care of it. Thank you.

Isn't that how most threads on this board go? Or turn into a pissing match.

A few months ago I sorta teased about needing a taxidermist for a lion. and now the rest of the story..... My brother is relatively new to serious hunting. He does have a few deer under his belt but has not been "serious" about hunting until the last few years. In the last few years he has been fortunate enough to have some pretty good success on the predator trail though. To date he has several doubles both fox and coyotes and even a 1 day Az trifecta (coyote, fox and bobcat all in the same day). Considering he only goes out a couple times a year he is doing pretty well. In March we made a run up to Strawberry to do some work on our cabin. We were hoping to get a day of calling in but with a big weather front coming in and the cabin work taking longer than expected our plans got a little derailed. Regardless of not being done with the work, we set out early(not really) to try to get in a couple stands before the wind got ridiculous. Big winds of 15-25 mph were predicted for most of the day. First stand, big beautiful area that should have produced. Nothing. DRY DRY DRY everywhere so not too high of hopes on seeing critters. Second stand was right next to one of the few water holes that had water. on our approach we kicked out a couple ducks. Made a big racket. They dive-bombed us a couple times showing their displeasure as well. Coolest sound ever. I don;t remember what kind of ducks they were but I have never seen them before. So I get my brother set up and I head around to set up the call and get in position. I turn on the call and start to get.. BAM!!!! 5 friggin seconds in he shoots! I keep calling for another 15 minutes and nothing. I stand up and look over and he gives me the thumbs up. I walk over and dead coyote. I don;t know if that thing was heading to water and just had the worst timing in the world or if he was camped there and jumped up when the call started but whatever, dead coyote. So we gather him up and head for our next stand. Wind is howling by now. We head down into a canyon and set up by a dry waterhole. With the canyon set the way it was and the wind blowing we only had 1 approach for coyotes. They would have to come straight over a mt against the wind. Easy path to circle around us and wind us. Pretty much a dead stand but we tried anyway. about 12 minutes in I gave up and was about to call it when I saw a flash on the hillside. Sure enough a coyote was trotting across the hill and heading to my right to circle us. I quickly adjusted and tried to get a shot. No dice. I thought about jumping up to catch him circling but was really just too lazy to do so. I sat and watched for a few minutes just in case he was stupid enough to take a short cut. He didn't. My brother was to my left and saw me shift and get on the scope so he also shifted and was watching the hill. The call was about 50 yds in front of him in a bush. As we stared at the mt for about 3 minutes we heard a big crash. My first thought was "dang wind just blew the call out of the bush". I look to my left at the call and... WHAT THE HECK???????????? What is that? cat. ITS A CAT!!!! LION!!!!!!!!!!!! Dang lion was on its hind legs stretching up in the bush swatting at the caller! I start my swing left and BAM!!!! My brother shoots. Lion flops and is down. I am on it now. Lion starts to get back up so I shoot to anchor it. "click" Not kidding. I had nothing in the chamber. For those of you who know my history with lions this is REALLY funny. For those of you who don't know, this is pretty much status quo for me and lions. It is truly a comedy of errors so many times. Fortunately my brother is a better student than I am a teacher so he fires again. Dead lion. I started screaming like a little girl "LIOOOOOOOOON!!!!!! We got a Liooooooon"!!!! I really don't know why as it was far from my first. but probably because it was so unexpected. And it was really cool that my brother was threre The best part....we had TWO cameras running. The worst part...BOTH cameras failed. I HATE tacticam. With a violent passion I HAAAATE them. They have let me down more times than I can count. Turns out he didn't need the second shot. Both shots were double lung kill shots. I wish he hadn't taken the 2nd shot because skinning it was a drag. it was like skinning a bag of chunky pudding. So now he pretty much just needs a bear to finish of his Az predator list. Not bad for a "novice". G&F says 5-6yr old female. It was the last lion for the unit before it closed. Overall a good day. Thanks to Adam for help with prepping it for tanning.

There is an outright ban but its only tied to aid and take. So you and your buddies that hunt can still put up cameras just cant share or kill the animal you find on camera forever! Dumbest thing I ever heard. The non hunting public can run trail cams all yearlong ! Wonder if they will share their pics on social media? Dont kill an animal they post or you could be cited and they could be cited also. There is so many unintended consequences to this ban. They could have done much better But when its an agenda driven ban by Chairman Commissioner Davis nobody thought it through.

Your way behind the times! Lol.

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Wasn't trying to Jack his post just had a gun sitting in the safe .put it out there and got offers .like all things for sale if you don't say ill take it and then pay for it its still for sale.sorry if that offends you

Dang, didn’t even get a shot at calling dibs…on my own post! Hahaha, if it falls through let me know, thanks.

I only use trail cams for my personal study of the "wild horse" migration.

Arizona is one of, if not the best state in the country for hunting access. That's due in large part to the efforts game and fish and the critter groups make to keep ranches open. There are lots of units with tough access but that's life. Ranchers have as much right to close their property as you have to lock your front door. We should all be thankful we hunt in a state like AZ. Don't like it? Try moving to Texas and finding a place to hunt without paying a mint. Or.. try NM or WY where ranchers get landowner tags. Or... NV where they have a special guide draw. Thats right... they set tags aside just for guys that use guides. We have it so good.

No sweat. Whats game and fish going to do? They cannot even give appropriate punishment to poachers. The big guides are gonna keep running cameras imo. Until game wardens start taking hammers to cameras.. oh wait they cater to guides. And yes the cattlemen did alot for hunters by putting in water. That was years ago when communities were close nit and everyone knew everyone. Ranchers welcomed good local folk to hunt their leases.. sometimes even the micro patch of land they even owned. Not any more. Cattlemen have done more to restrict hunting in the last 30 years than any tree huggers.

Hate to think how many times I've watched that movie. Such a classic.

I know you said vanes but I like Trueflight feathers.