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Ive been putting in my wife for about 5 years in Wyoming for Antelope. We finally got drawn in an area where Ive hunted before. She has dealt with my hunting for years. I told her Ive been putting her in. She said ok to it. So game on! Once she got drawn I had her at the range practicing shooting. Make the long drive up to Denver CO where my brother lives. Leave by 3 am the next morning and she is wiped out. Anyone that knows how to flip the pic please do. The next day we get there by 8am or so. Saw tons of bucks on the side of the road. Once we got into our unit they disappear. The only time we saw bucks and antelope was either on the other unit north of us or on private. Once I get to a high point I get out and glass. I glassed up some does and keep looking for a buck. I finial find him. Man he looks good. I range him at 1260 yards. If he looks good at that distance he is a shooter for sure. We make a plan to stalk. We go around and close the distance at 650 yards but if we lay down for a prone position the next hill will block our view. So no choice to make it 200 yards to the next hill. We get to 450 yards and him and all the does are staring at us. Once I point out the buck to my wife where the buck is at all of them take off. We are busted!!!!! We go after them but no luck. A mile back to the truck and the wife is getting flustered. Make it back to the truck so we can take the road to that bucks location. On the way there we spot another lone buck by himself and keep driving out of sight and then get out. We get to a shooting position and range him at 450 yards. I dial the scope and she gets set up. Mean while she is fluster trying to get set up. We haven't trained enough for different positions so she was getting upset. Once she said I see him of course he starts to run off. He keeps going well past 700 yards and over the hill. So we take the next road that goes that direction. No luck and we couldn't find him. Sad he was sooooo big.. But the wife is getting fluster and I realize we need to take every opportunity we can get. So we take the next road after him which was a 2 track road. We make it to the end of the 2 track and I spot another buck while in the truck. Im 1/4 turned from the buck and put my binos on the steering wheel. I can tell he is an ok buck and range him at 510 yards. I tell my wife I cant get out or he will see me get out. He is looking right at us. I told the wife to get out on her side and I adjusted the MOA on the scope before hand. She gets out and she is having problems left and right. She finally found him and got set up. I can see her finger reach the trigger and once I saw that I hurry up and put my binos on the steering (boooooom!!!!!) wheel. It caught me off guard. I quickly try to look and no buck running. She said did I get him? I responded Im not sure. I didnt see him run off. I asked how did your shot feel? She responded it felt really good. Well you probably got him them. We hiked up to him and 100 yards away i could see fur and horns. Ha ha ha!!! I was so excited for her. But she didn't get the rush because she was so fluster with scope and trying to find him. But nonetheless she got him!!! 510 yards one shot IMG-1920.MOV

Had a lot of excellent adventures together. Josie- February 2009 - 28 September 2021

Sorry for your loss. My blue is six now, 12 years is not long enough.

So sorry to here, lost my blue six months ago. Only dog I ever cryed over. Got a new mini blue. Hearts heavy for you.

So sorry for your loss of a best friend. Great looking companion you had. May you find comfort in knowing Josie cherished every moment. It looks like you did good on giving your dog the best life.

Another Liberty fan here. I think Liberty makes the Browning safes BTW. To my mind the Liberty safes are about at the sweet spot of cost/value.

Thanks for asking. We got into elk almost every day of our 12 day hunt. Unfortunately, she only has a 45 yard bow range, and we had bulls at 60 - 75 yards on a few different occasions. Had some cows in closer between 30 - 50 yards. Lots of bugling, but mainly at dark, just before dark, and just after sunrise. They shut down during the day. She had bugling elk coming in a few mornings and a couple of evenings. So, a lot of encounters, and excitement, but she never got to shoot. It was an awesome hunt nonetheless. We have a YouTube Channel called Catch n' Dinner. We'll be editing the footage from the hunt and posting soon if you want to check it out. My CO archery bull hunt is up already. Harvested a nice 5 x 5 just before we left for Arizona. Here's a link to the video.

Josie looks like one of the lucky few that lived the adventures with the companionship they're supposed to. Very sorry for your loss.

That’s a lot of cope. Edit: also, he must have lived an extraordinarily blessed life if not having a deer tag is considered a “tragedy” in his family

Pietta's 1858 Remington .44 cap and ball is a tack driver. Wanting a little more diversity I settled on a Taylor 45LC cylinder. Cost was around $270 with free shipping from Midway. Wasn't expecting $30 tax, my 1st purchase from them. I ordered it Thursday late afternoon with a delivery date of 5 Oct. Found a package on my porch Saturday, my cylinder had arrived in less than 48 hours. Like Christmas in September! Spring pig tag? Yes, please!

Sorry for your loss.

I would put the IMI stuff up against the mainline US manufacturers any day. With that said, if you don't need it, don't buy it, Prices will drift down, slowly. I am seeing more and more product in stock, and it is not blowing out anymore.

Sorry to hear about your loss

How about a predator bonus point. You shoot a lion you get a extra BP. You kill 10 coyote you get an extra BP.

I 100% understand the sentiment behind this. I have, multiple times said " I swear I am going to shoot the next doe I see, if I dont see a buck first" (of course that is just hyperbole). But the biology isnt there. More does = more bucks. The answer is fewer tags, plain and simple.

This is kind of a strange one to me. I’ve seen him on multiple videos with guys and it seemed like they were all very actively promoting coming to Az to hunt. I can’t understand what else he thought was going to happen?! I do completely agree with him in that it sucks to not be able to get drawn to hunt here every year now though…

This comment above is what I called bolded ignorance. I absolutely again would call your comment, not you, ignorance. I agree with the majority of the things you've posted so far and I'm not here to debate you. However, since it appears you called out my response, I will say this - I take great pride in my practicing of both archery and rifle shooting and the one shot-one kill ratios as the result of said practice and getting closer as an archer. I've passed on far more opportunities within 75 yards than I've released an arrow on. I can think of a dozen animals that were killed under 12 yards. I know my percentage of wounded game as an archer, and the one javelina that makes it about 5% still makes me sick 6 years later. All that said and even if I'm in the minority here, it is ignorant to lump everyone that participates in any one type of hunting into a category. A good portion of your other opinions support that line of thinking.

I agree. Neck injury prevents me from ethically shooting a bow. Crossbow permits are for hunters with disabilities. Nerve damage is hard to see so be careful talking about abuses. If you met me in the field you may think I am not disabled but I cannot perform the repetitive motion needed to practice. I have never fired my crossbow past 40 yards. Not even in practice. That's not why I bought one or get the permit. Still snuck to 10 yards to kill a Javelina with it. My #1 reason to obtain the permit was that I love to hunt Javelina in January.

1. How did he blow up his odds? What if the guys he applied with had more points than him? 2. Maybe he's not a bowhunter 3. opportunity vs. trophy is hardly science.... It is literally 2 different ways of managing wildlife. 4. What exactly do you want a commissioner to do? Doesn't everyone try and push their agenda?

Spent the morning listening to bugles everywhere. Got into some elk. Small groups of cows and lots of satellite bulls. Son was on cloud nine. No deer but ready to do it again next week

It actually is “that easy” if you hit them in both lungs

I think I'm gonna puke.

Sorry just saw this. Bugling has been very very sparse, mostly early morning contact bugles, but not much else. I was able to get this guy yesterday morning cow calling, which called another cow in to me that he was chasing.