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Age 10 and 11.

My son's first deer age 10. Second deer at 11.

Nah, this is still money in the bank. They’re gonna be fatter and healthier going into winter. Won’t have to move much all winter. Go into growing season primed. the way it’s shaping up, could be wet all winter

To see this moisture already and have a lot of points for 2026. 2025 rut hunters are in shambles

Custom Ruger #1 .270. Custom wood, case colored frame, lever, quarter rib, rings. Checkered steel grip cap and butt plate. Accurized and custom trigger. Shoots great - sub 1-inch groups with several factory loads. $3700 for local sale. In Queen Creek area. Was told it would cost $6000+ to do it again. Scope not included. Many more pics available Hate to part with it but divorce requires you to do stupid things...

I agree. It will be good for all animals to have good browse. Should have good fawn/calf recruitment. Quail should be healthy. Hopefully it continues.

Great job... I'm on the struggle bus in a crap unit that is as crappy as ever typing from my tent. Got a bit extra motivation now. Thanks.

Winter rains definitely help the soil nutrient wise for spring bloom

Water in late fall and winter doesn't make anything grow. Other than water being easily available to drink, it's not any benefit to feed growth for elk. Maybe for deer down south where it's still warm. Im not saying moisture right now hurts, I'm just saying moisture from March-July is what really matters.

Can’t wait til March and April and get enough moisture. Need it all through winter and continue through April.

They came out with the 2026 recommendations if anyone is interested. https://azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20161307/AZ-Hunt-Recommendations-Nov-20-2025.pdf

A few years ago we sold our home and our plan was to wait until prices came down up here on the mountain before we started to build. Well it didn’t happen so we built last year. Anyway during this time we had invested some money into my remodeling my parents “little” house (580 sqft) so they allowed us to live there rent free for the next 3 years. It was the first time I hadn’t had to pay rent or mortgage in our 25 years of marriage. My wife was ok if I invested some of that money saved into my personal and emotional well being. I was able to get CO vouchers the last couple of years. I shot a good buck my first year, but I hadn’t seen anything over 170” to shoot until this year. I’ve always been ok going home empty handed but when this deep forked buck gave me the opportunity I decided to take it. A couple of random bucks screenshots. My first CO buck a few years ago. this years buck.

Sorry for all the scams and nasty stuff under my name. Thanks to all my buddies who hit me up to check, then posted about the scams. Thanks to the admin who got it sorted out quickly, and texted me personally. Screw the scammers! Glad everyone was on their A game.

Flashgun, you're very correct. these winter rain help the spring growth tremendously!

Looking to sell a Remington 700 BDL in 22-250. The rifle has a heavy barrel and it shoots lights out. It has a Simmons 6-18 scope that can go with the rifle or not. The second photo is a cold bore and then a 5 shot group immediately following. The first photo is 3 shots right after the 5 without cooling. All were shot at 100 yards from a bench on bags, no bipod or lead sled. Asking for $1000 obo. I’m in west Mesa, near Bass Pro.

You’re probably right because I’m a little retarded but that doesnt make any logical sense to me. that an 700lb animal could grow optimal antlers without an optimal body going into the growing season. Rain in June and July don’t make any sense to me either, they’re almost done by then. This isn’t the frozen tundra. stuff will grow, waterholes are all full, there’s more in the forecast for next week. It already can’t be as bad as the last 2 years

This is good rain! All the food out there is amazing.

Youth hunts are fixing to start very soon . I've been doing the kids giveaway for a few years already and have just one winner with a deer taken with the gun she won. Past or present put up some pictures of the kids using the stuff they've won on there hunts at the range or anywhere. Pictures are worth a thousand words and the smiles on the kids faces make it worth every penny.

This moisture means nothing for next year. . Give me some moisture in March and April and I'm with you.

Yes I do. They're getting gray just like the one we kept. Good dog's 👍.

Sitting in my elk camp now around the fire dealing with the last 3 days of being rained on chasing a few bulls around with my bow got me missing the warm southern weather. I started the season off with killing a solid buck on the opening morning. I found this buck on the 2024 late December hunt helping my dad. We opted to not shoot him last year as he had half an antler broken off. I kept tabs on the buck from February on. Opening morning I went to where he had been frequently spotted and never turned him up. About 9:30 with not seeing much I decided to change spots and go look for my backup buck. To my surprise the first buck I found in the new location was the buck I was initially looking for. I had never seen him in this area. After watching him bed I snuck in and shot him at 227 yards. Hit him mid body. Slightly panicked I scrambled to reload the muzzleloader. Shot again in a rush and made a bad follow-up shot knocking a chunk out of the top of his back. He went and laid down and I watched him expire about 5 minutes later. My apologies on sub par pictures as I’m not good at solo photography deal. Went over and quartered the buck packed him out and all was wrapped up before 1:00pm opening day. Following that 2 weeks later I took my Mom on her whitetail hunt who turned 66 on opening day. It was slow. Didn’t see any mature bucks. We hunted 3 more days until one of the bucks I was looking for finally showed up. Nice 100”ish type 3x4. We played cat and mouse with him but he unfortunately disappeared on us. A while later my mom found a nice little 3x3 across the canyon that she said she would be more than happy to take. We snuck in to position and set her up 290 yards from the bedded buck. After 3 1/2 hours the buck finally stood. She heart shot the buck and he dropped where he stood. She was extremely happy as this was the first coues she had taken in the last 10 years. She’s taken a lot of time off hunting to help take care of family and grandchildren so this ment a lot to her. Couldn’t of been more proud of my mom. it was a tough 4 days on her hiking the hills getting after it in the October sun. Currently still a busy season going on as I am on a late archery Bull elk hunt and my 10 and 12 year old kids have rifle bull hunts after thanksgiving. We have one late December whitetail tag left to fill this year and can’t be more excited for it.

dang! That’s awesome! This one I got is in an AR platform mainly bought it as a predator gun but sounds like I’ve got a new deer rifle too! Thank you!

Up for my dad's muzzleloader elk hunt in 6a. Dad has a cow tag and Nick from another site has a bull tag. I'm playing chauffeur and guide. I'm running 4 blinds as dad is 75 and Nick is in his 60's. So dad's in one spot Nick another and me another just to see what's going on. No point in me going back to camp . Saturday I had a group of elk at 730 and another at 830 am . It's just me and im already done hunting elk as I had the general cow hunt here a few weeks ago. Tagged out on my hunt on opening day. Dad had 9 bulls at his spot at 5 pm but has a cow tag . Nick hasn't seen a elk but has a bull tag. Raining like heck today so going to spot and stalk tomorrow there's water everywhere! The picture is the group infront of me at 730

Back at camp after a wet walk. Missed our road back to the sxs but came out on another road. I figured out where we were and had dad stay put and went to get the sxs . We are soaked! Caught something not right and found a spike bedded with some cows 100 yds from where we parked . She caught me out in the open . Off they went ! It wouldn't have made any difference because my dad wasn't with me and I still needed to get the sxs and pick him up . Wet and cold but warmer now in the trailer running the heater

Did not win any thing but Mike did her rifle for her 14th bday