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My son drew second choice this year, a unit we hunted two years ago. Opening day came and Christian, my pops, Colby and I got to glassing. It was a slower than usual morning, only 5 small bucks. We had an interesting find, saw a pack of 14 maybe 15 dogs cruising the mountains. No collars, all dogs were a different breed of pit, boxer, lab, German Shepard etc and looks like none of them were tracking scent, sure didn’t look like lion dogs. They covered some good country so we decided to hit a different spot for the afternoon. That afternoon we hit up a glassing spot we seen some nice bucks in with some lions in the past. I glassed this buck right at 3:20 getting up from his bed 1030 yards. The boy and I grabbed our gear and spent the next 30 minutes going uphill to get in range. After the shot, it was even more difficult getting to the buck and even worse packing him out. The cat claws were amazingly thick and we enjoyed every moment of it. We know that when we are back in school/work, we would rather be out in the field getting cut up by catclaw.

So Max first deer was just a little baby 3 point. So we were going to hold out for anything slightly bigger this year. Hiked in a 1/2 mile and started glassing. It was disappointing, not even a doe. We moved up another 1/2 mile. We were at a high rocky point when I spotted and pretty decent forky. At 686 yards and just rocks and boulders on a steep hill we moved to the next ridge. We moved after he went into a thick of oak trees. This next ridge was a nice sitting bench. While the buck was still in the trees I ranged 5 different areas. The trees were 485 yards, dialed in for that, and set the gun up and put my hunting pack under the stock. I told Max to find a comfortable shooting position and set the gun up on that position. Best part right next to the location of the buck was tree in yellow fall colors. So real easy to find in binos and scope. After we got set up we both jumped on our binos and just tried to pick apart the oaks. After 20 mins some does started coming out. A total of 3 of them. After another 10 min of watching the deer come out, Max says that buck is in that open clearing again. I already knew it was ranged at 535yds so I quickly dialed for it. Max jumped on the 6CM 103 ELD-X. (Springfeild Waypoint, Suppressed) Lance got that round up to 3100 fps shooting less than 1/4 groupings. Ive shot 6" plates at 986yds with this gun. Ive been so impressed with it. The Buck was perfect broad side, and Max controlled his breathing and then shot. A perfect hit! He ran 10ft and tumbled. I said you got him! His excitement was "I got him??" He ended up being a 3x2

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Decided to keep it… Thanks,

I've seen a few in 4b today.

Grim for sure. Not sure what’s dark about it. With 150 tags available and 50k people applying, the math ain’t so good for any of us.

Next time think about getting some lead in the air for those dogs. Very dangerous when grouped like that.

Wow! Great buck! Congrats to her.

9 days and passed like 60 rams. It was filmed and played on outdoor channel back in the day. 10 Tags that year

Hi Richard , How you doing Good ole Buddy ? So glad You still care about me. Most the guys on here won't be hiking the hills like I do at 68. . They can only dream . Happy Thanksgiving!........................................BOB!

Also bumped up the 23n early archery and 23n early rifle tags 5 each so there goes another couple trophy bulls. Azgfd just can't resist ruining the few units left with age class.

My buddy had to turn in his tag in some one should be getting a call from Game and Fish

Yeah because you hunt till you get one. there’s only 1-4 tags per unit. It’s a 30 day once in a lifetime ram hunt, good hunters show up to help or it’s guided. It’s not a weekend coues hunting with guys like Naturebob. Try and get to the cabeza for a real desert ram hunt. If it’s not in your blood after that, you’re probably dead. I used to think exactly like your original post. Look at the top 30% of the mountain and you’re gonna find a toad right? Not always that easy

Ram Dick offs like they are hard to kill.. SMH Hardest part of killing a good ram is getting the tag.... If I ever get the tag Im going to use a blow dart gun to make it fair.

On thanksgiving Eve? Not a chance

I think your taxi needs a kick to the bean bag.

162” nelsoni 15bw aged 12 years. Yeah he’s a stud, thank you. But please, keep opening your mouth and inserting your foot. Cuz we’re all entertained

I enjoy hunting AZ actually headed South right now to chase deer. A few picture highlights...AZ has been good to me, and like I say, I really think I'm going to draw a rocky tag. Would be great to get both species of sheep as a NR.

Yep

That’s some good sleuthing right there

The only hunt that shows a non resident drawing with 17-19 points is 6007, 13b north

Nice avatar I think the biggest rule is don’t be an asshole dont butt into other people’s adds and most importantly , ignore people who do.

Welcome. As far as I know there aren't any prerequisites for new members posting. Just post in the Classifieds Forum so you will get the most views.

This morning at 6:30 the whole site was full in every forum with it. It got handled promptly.