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Tessa was able to kill this giant lion yesterday with the help of Grady Lefebvre and his buddy Josh. It was a long day but well worth it when it comes to hunting with hounds Grady is a bad butt.

Buddy and I went out for pigeons and Eurasian today. After getting a few, we set up some spinners in a farm field and holy crap was it a blast. The dog got a great work out, she retrieved probably 25 or more of our 63 birds. She slept like a champ. She did get a little overwhelmed with all the birds falling. She would be retrieving a bird as others were falling. Overall though, she did wonderful for her first time doing anything like that. It was a freaking blast!

Sold my 45acp so don't need these. 3 boxes of 50rds, Federal tactical factory ammo.. $30 per box. Located in Mesa.

Hello all, we have AKC 6 puppies ready to go to their new homes. They have been Vaccinated and Dewormed. The Sire is a silver lab and the Dam is Yellow. 1 Chocolate Male $600 Sold 1 Silver Male SOLD 2 Yellow Males Both Sold 1 Chocolate Females -- 1 Female Sold Thanks for looking Located just south of Florence, AZ Text 480-338-4575

This bobcat came in this morning, covered 300 yards in 5 minutes or less. He weighed 24#. Biggest i have seen in a while.

I’ll take this. Will send PM

I also ordered a Geissele braided buffer spring. Hopefully that does the trick.

I think I'm gonna order these and give it another try.

Long odds there.

Cormorant.

Because they’re not playing today.

Why isn't anybody betting on ASU to win today?

Just sharing. https://youtu.be/BiflHFit40w?si=JnIy-4kss-BZKGpo

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Haha. I think my telling of the story may have come across a little more intense than I meant. I was more shook after the fact just thinking how quickly things can go bad and how lucky it wasn't a time sensitive injury like blood loss or something. After the first few minutes, he was fine pain wise as long as he didn't try and walk. We weren't under a time crunch and had plenty of daylight. We sat, drank some water and came up with a plan. I headed back to the gator at an easy pace as to not hurt myself with no intention of hunting and only shot the javelina because I was in view of the side by side when I came across it. The whole thing didn't add more than a minute or 2 of getting back to my friend. I guess the shot echoed down the canyon and his first words when I got back were "tell me that was your shot". We are still friends.

I was able to fill my tag on day 4 in 19b this year. Typically I apply for a tag for ham and always pickup a leftover rifle tag. With my kids schedule this year, I opted for just one hunt so I decided on the rifle hunt. I had a good buddy from Prescott also apply and was drawn. On day 4 of the hunt, we were struggling and not seeing much sign. We decided to walk a long canyon that ended in a tank close to a road. After walking almost 2 miles up the canyon we had discovered pig caves, fresh bedding areas and hidden water with sign. We knew we were getting close. My buddy was in the bottom of the canyon and I was on the rim. I pointed out another hole which I thought was a pig cave and my buddy, in the bottom investigated. As he was climbing the side of the canyon a rock slipped and he went tumbling down. His leg caught another rock and bent a way no leg should go and I heard a loud crack. After his initial panic, he scrambled and straitened his leg back to its natural position. I scaled down to him. Only a 15 foot deep canyon with deep walls. After a while we decided to try and see if we could at least get him out of the canyon. It was a struggle but we finally did it. He could not put any weight on it without completely crumpling. He was trying to use his emptied gun as a support but it was not working so well so I decided to try and use my saw and make a crutch out of some deadwood near by. It actually worked pretty good and were able to get up and out of the canyon the rest of the way. I told him to stay put and I would try and get my side by side as close to him as possible. Of course we were in an area that zero cell service. I dropped everything except my rifle and a water bottle and headed back to the vehicle. As I got to within 200 yards of the side by side I came across a javi herd working their way up the canyon. I aimed on the lead pig and dropped it in its tracks. I quickly threw it over my shoulder and got back to the gator. I was able to find a small 2 track that got me close to my friend and off roaded another couple hundred yards to get to within about 100 yards of him. By this time, a lot of pain had subsided and we were able to get him to the gator with the aid of the crutch. A heck of a hunt and a humbling experience. My friend is a combat marine who did 2 tours in Afghanistan and a loose rock turned a short hike in gentle terrain into quite an ordeal. I learned his leg didn't break but dislocated and tore tendons and ligaments which need to be repaired. After this hunt I have decided to buy a spot gps.

Was able to go out opening day for the HAM hunt and got this guy. 9mm 2011 at 47 yards. Couple follow up shots as he ran away made it about 25 yards.

We had a tougher than usual day on this hunt. Friday we glassed all day without any breaks, didn't see any pigs early on but found flocks of turkeys, mule deer and coues deer everywhere. About 4:30pm Friday I was able to glass up a herd 3 miles out. I knew there were hunters about 1000 yards from the herd but it didn't look like they have seen em yet. We drove a bit closer and started the mile hike to the herd. We only need to crest one more ridge to see the herd and try to get a shot when we heard 4 gunshots. Guess the hunters did find the pigs or another hunter did. We stood there to check for any pigs running in our direction and no luck. We started the long hike back to the ranger and when we were about 500 yards away we got a strong whiff of the javelina skunk smell. We stopped and I looked around and found a group of 4 trotting up a hill side. It was almost sunset so we started moving quickly to cut them off and we were able to get to 75 yards. I told my wife to shoot the last pig in the group and this guy took the bullet without moving much. Stood for 10 seconds with broken shoulders and lung shot. He was a tank of a javelina, he ate well!

The past couple years I've been trying to fill my javi tag using my late grandfather's .50 Hawken (CVA actually). This year it all came together finally. Used an 1858 New Army for the follow-up shot. Enjoy!

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Opening day took us a while to find some pigs. We spent most of the morning looking over deer, the muleys were rutting while the coues were not. The first two herds we spotted were no where to be found when we got to where we last saw them. We regrouped after the two failed stalks and hit the spotter for long range glassing. It didn't take long til we spotted a third herd. The third herd stayed around long enough for my 72 year old pops to get within range. His shot was 27 yards and the sow didn't go too far.

Here is a 120" buck taken last year in Sonora, MX by Buck L. Buck was hunting with Jason Sherwood of High Desert Outfitters. The other bucks were taken by a father/son duo in Sonora, MX and they hunted with Goodman Outfitters. View the full article

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