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Welp, 800 miles - FINALLY DONE! Due to super busy schedules across 4 hikers PLUS mother nature (The fires up on the north Kiabab torpedoed our planned finish last summer....), it took us much longer than anticipated, but last weekend my partners and I finally finished the AZT. Like many of you, I'm a native and love AZ. Doing this hike gave me an opportunity to see (and walk through) parts of the state that I had never seen. Many of them I am sure I will never see again! The real ball busters were Miller Peak, Superstition Wilderness (We did Roger's Trough to Roosevelt in one day. Ugh!), Rincons - Mica Mountain, the Mazatals, and of course the Rim to Rim. Many of the other sections were hard, but those 5 stood out. We of course hiked lots of easy stuff, too. Mexico Utah

You can’t reason with horse people. They’d rather all the native wildlife die so the horses can live

It helps to be both lucky and good

Birria tacos and fixings....

to the OP, burn your points in the other unit, go hunting... leaves one more tag for me with my .000001% chance

It truly is sad.

Kill them all

3a/3c was my go-to Unit for years. We'd put in for Cow tags and would get drawn three years in a row, then one year we wouldn't, then we'd get drawn two years in a row, etc. Opening day one of us would tag out on a Friday, the other on Saturday, and by Sunday we were headed back down the hill with coolers full of meat. Saw dozens of Elk all weekend. Five years passed before I got drawn for a Cow tag again last November. We spent 4 days in 3c glassing, covering ground, hiking, still hunting the thick stuff, etc. We didn't see ONE Cow, nor ONE Bull the entire time. What we did see is a HUNDRED feral horses, horse shoot everywhere, and Wolves howling frequently. That ecosystem is completely upside down right now. Sad.

Go spend some time in 3c, you will see hundreds in a day

Long overdue. Get em gone! https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/25/heber-wild-horses-face-removal-forest-service-disputes-protected-status/

1998 Ruger Vaquero 45LC 5.5" Barrel $550.00

That's awesome man, it's crazy to think one trail goes all the way from the border 35a all the way up to the kaibab. Congrats! How many rattle snakes did you come across?

If you can kill or hunt a 180" buck in this lesser unit that you can draw, that's a no brainer. Most will not kill or see a 180" buck on the late Kaibab or the Strip during their hunt. Especially if you haven't ever stepped foot in any of the units.

the horses are all from the apache reservation to the south, or descendants of those horses

I have 28 pts for sheep? Does it help to increase the donation amount to draw a tag? How many zeros to get hand selected? My friends wife drew last year with 4 pts,he wouldnt tell me how much he donated?

WIN THIS BEAUTFUL DEAD HEAD GUESSING THE 3 QUESTIONS. 1. What GMU? 2. What river road? 3.What optics were being used? Good Luck

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My Martini 218 Bee. Also have a Ruger #1 and Marlin 1894CL. Classic little cartridge.

A lot of 170-class bucks get killed on the Kaibab late hunts. That's the truth.

Last Sunday I started up my truck to see the battery light flickering. Opened the hood to see the alternator broken free from the bracket which caused one of the bolts to shear off at the bracket. I put Kroil on what was left 2X a day all week and Hunter came out today and removed the stud. It took him longer to take out his tools and get setup than it did to drill and remove the stud. Turned out he used to work for the guy I bought the alternator from. The alternator housing had cracked as Hunter pointed it out to me. I was fortunate that it happened at home and not in the middle of nowhere or on a hunt deep in Sonora. I''ll install a new alternator from Tucson Alternator with a new belt in the morning. The 10mm bolt that sheared off wasn't something that Ford stocked. Special order @ $55 each in a package of 4. Copperstate Bolt doesn't carry automotive bolts. Went down the stree to McFadden Daniels and got a hardened one for $3.

There are quite a few option. It's a standard bolt face. So you can do .308, 6.5 creedmoor, 6 creedmoor, 7mm-08 and a handful of others You can also swap out the bolt face and get different magazines to run others it would just need to be a short action cartridge.

It’s funny you say that, my dad had a hankering to get a “long range rifle”. I told him whatever you do don’t buy a Christensen, and if you’re gonna buy one, for the love of god don’t buy a used one. About a month later he calls and said he bought a used Christensen. It didn’t shoot worth a crap. He sold it for a $300 loss and I built him a rifle out of some odds and ends parts that’s the best shooting rifle I’ve ever seen for about $600 more then he paid for the Christensen

Went heavy on legs today (RIP me tomorrow). Leg day requires lean protein.

I wouldn’t know about vortex, I would never touch anything vortex lol 😂