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🤣🤣🤣. Everyone wants them, most can’t afford them. Especially while the economy is tanking, selling something that’s out of most peoples price range is going to be tougher than usual.

This year continues to be one for the books. My 12 year old son Max drew a muzzleloader bull tag in a unit many consider to be sub par for elk. I have assisted on 3 archery bull kills in the unit, so I knew that although trophy elk were tough to find they were there. The opener found us calling our way into a major dark timber bedding area that I had seen multiple large bulls on previous hunts. It was dead quiet. No bugles and after one calling sequence a satellite 5 point came sneaking in but never game Max an ethical shot. Yesterday, day 2, I decided to slip in to the edge of the bedding just after first light and wait. No bugles at all, so I decided to do a few soft cow calls. Less than a minute later this giant snuck in silent 52 yards below us and Max made a perfect shot. We had no idea how truly magnificent he was until we walked up on him 30 minutes later. Bull is an 8 by 7 with a 14” flyer point. Didn’t get to fully score him but a few quick measurements indicate 370-380”. 42” inside spread and total width with flyer 58”. Best hunting day of my life and one I will never forget!

Good luck to you youth hunters this coming weekend let’s see them pics

I had never hunted deer in Arizona before. I asked my friend how big Coues deer were. He said if you can see antlers, it's a good one. This was about 1985 near Geronimo's Surrender Site.

.300 Weatherby Mark5 Deluxe Leupold Vari-X 3 3.5x10 Gun is like new show room condition maybe has had 25 rounds down the barrel safe queen it’s whole life $2500 or make me a realistic offer

Anybody interested in a trade?

That’s a blast from the past! I liked his show and his weather/traffic on the radio in the valley. I didn’t remember the tournament drama but those were crazy years for me!

Unbelievable... she had to know these items would be important to people!

I’m packed , waiting for the kid to get out of school

What size tires are you running? Maybe someone on here has a set of chains you can rent or borrow.

YES!!! My children are all young adults now, but I'm fortunate enough to be invited to help on a 6A junior cow hunt this weekend. Packed and ready to head-out later today! Can't wait! Freaking love hunting with the kids!!! GOOD LUCK, KIDS!!!! S.

Thank you for the encouragement! My son, 11, will be starting his first ever deer hunt tomorrow. Any antlered in 20C. I might be more excited than he is... Anyway, good luck to all the youth hunters and their mentors. And be safe out there everyone!

I have one, the 6.5-20, only hunted one time with it, killed a buck at 275yds. Seems to work pretty darn good, easy to setup, I was shooting 500yds pretty consistent after 1 trip out practicing

Pretty good write-up on it. Lead weights and lie detectors: The scandal that rocked a Cleveland fishing tournament and became worldwide news (yahoo.com)

I wish you luck, Greg did not run a very good business. I personally had bad experiences with his outfit. Definitely bug his wife, she has to know something to where she sold it to.

What a dumb bitch.

Really brah? What a dipshit response. Most people that hunt can afford what they want. It’s an expensive hobby. The economy is tanking? Must be in the wrong industry

Disagree, my son just sold his a week ago for $2,150.00

Great price should’ve sold by now

I sat the same trail a majority of the time, my dad and some family friend have killed lots of elk on that trail and I killed my cow there last year. The day I killed my bull I had sat the trail for like 8 hours and I said “f this” and went to chase bugles. Worked out

I have had great luck with kuiu for my boy. Here is my system for buying that makes it affordable. I buy full outfit on my birthday code for my boy at 15% discount plus free shipping. Then every two years when he has grown out of it I buy again on same discount. I sell used gear for 20% discount off retail so I only pay 5% plus whatever increase is over 2 years. This keeps him in great gear for years at minimal cost after initial investment.

My first, and ONLY Coues deer. I am a muley hunter. Applied for the wrong number and drew a Coues tag back a long time ago. 2001 or 2002 I think. Being a Mule deer hunter, I had no clue what a Coues was supposed to look like. I saw this buck for 5 days and passed on him hoping for something big. On my last day to hunt, he was the biggest I had seen, so I hiked out and popped him. I was quite disappointed at how small he was. If I had only known then what I know now....and if I would have had the money to get a shoulder mount.....

If you drove the hwy from Bagdad to Kirkland jct, minus the private thats posted there are a bunch of herds right along the hwy! One of my favorite herds to hunt are found by climbing a hill in the wrong unit and looking across the hwy. if you have a quad the get to Scott's basin and shoot one! Pretty easy there as well as the mesas off of fr260.

Thanks to great loyal friends, I was able to fill my 40B Copper/Mohawk desert bighorn sheep tag on Wednesday. I had a bunch of pictures from around the area of some big monsters, but I wasn’t hunting for one ram in particular. I had a family vacation planned over Christmas (more important than the sheep tag), so I did not plan to be real picky and hold out for a monster. Also, my then 15 year old son had the same tag 3 years ago, and we had a hard time just to find two sheep in several days with a bunch of people helping us. I started the hunt with just 3 of my closest hunting buddies. (Thank you to all who planned to come out this next weekend and help.) We are bow hunters, so we were a little out of our element on a rifle sheep tag. We saw one of the other tag holders, and he had a dozen people glassing with binoculars that needed a wheelbarrow, and this did get me kind of worried. But my friends Lonnie, Mike (hoghntr on CWT.com) , and Steve are incredible glassers, and I was comfortable shooting out to 500 yards, so I thought we had a reasonable chance. Also, several people offered to be around later in the hunt, and that REALLY eased the pressure on me. Opening morning we found a ram that Steve had glassed up the day before at about 2000 yards. He was in the 150’s and very pretty. I tried to close on in him to 500 yards and take him, but he bolted up the mountain when we were at 550 yards. We checked on him several hours later and he was still at the top of the mountain. The second day we tried a new area and Steve saw a ram disappear around a wall at several thousand yards. We went out to find him but never saw him again. On the third day we tried yet another new area. Steve unfortunately need to leave for home. About 9am, Mike picked up three rams about 1500 yards out. They were small, medium, and LARGE. They disappeared around a ridge. Lonnie and I started hiking down a wash to close the gap, while Mike held tight trying to find them again. Lonnie and I had been out two hours without finding them when it started to rain. It had been warm and sunny, we were completely unprepared for the rain, so we crawled under rocks to wait it out. Shortly after the rain ended Lonnie found the small ram way up on the mountain. I climbed up a smaller mountain in between the sheep and us for a better look and hopefully a shot. I took a long time to slowly crest the last ten feet and look over. The ram on opening day bolted at 500 yards, and now I was within 300 yards of these guys, so I was being extra “STEALTH”. I glassed up the small ram looking right at me at 325 yards. He had probably been watching the “STEALTH” hunter for the last 10 minutes. I finally glassed up the last two at 225 yards, again looking straight at me. So much for STEALTH. I set up, ranged them, and dialed in the turrents on my scope. The big guy was facing me and would not turn. I knew that I could nail him with a frontal shot, but the medium ram was right behind him. Eventually the big guy started walking and stopped broadside. I was completely locked in with a good surprise break, the shot felt really good. At the same time, Mike was far below with his scope on a big ram. He heard the shot, and the ram just stood there chewing, not caring about the shot. Mike was looking at a different ram, but for a while thought that I had missed the shot. Anyway, after the shot, the large ram started running up the hill with medium ram. I was a little concerned that they were running together at the same speed, but when only one came out from behind a rock wall, I figured he was down. I reached him just before dark. He was several hundred feet up steep cliffs, plus a half a mile down canyon from the truck. We finally got him back to the truck about mid-night. There is no way I could have taken this ram on my own. First an foremost, I thank the Lord for blessing me with this hunt and all the people who helped me! Thanks Lonnie, Mike, and Steve! We had a blast! Thanks to Matthew and Robby for all the info and moral support. Thanks to a bunch of guys on this forum who provided me with tactics and other info. And last but not least, thanks to my wonderful wife, who sent us out with a truck load of great food and encouragement! Picture of ram from last summer. Photo credit: Matthew