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Losing one of our family pets can be tough. Sorry he is gone. My Milo is also 15. Seems like yesterday he caught his first deer.

Wapiti Wednesday. "Kickstand" says to get those elk applications in by next Tuesday to AZGFD.

My Dad's Siamese. She won't let anyone touch Her. If she doesn't want you in the house she will run your butt out. But yet every night she climbs up in his lap and suck his thumb and falls a sleep. By the way Dad is Doing much better. Shooting for Friday hopefully for him to go home, from the hospital.

they need to just hire the guy that built NM system. WAAAAAAY easier. applying/paying for one species at a time is just stupid. And then having to start all over with the SAME info.....just....stupid

Thought I would point out a few relevant items we came across at this year show. Athlon optics is coming out with a Garmin clone chrono in April for 350.00 Leupold is doing a rangefinder that will drop a pin of the ranged object in to your mapping software. outlier rifles has the craziest new design I’ve ever seen and new trend in barrel design with a locking collet style barrel tension. Seekins is similar as well as cadex. there are a bunch of new optics options hitting out of Japan. I’m testing currently on several. Athlon, Riton, tract, apex. sky is the limit on suppressors with way more than I can count Yankee Hill has amazing shotgun suppressors, dead air, huxwrx is amazing, annochoic has some solid tech and even now Dillon Aero has an all new design venting on the outside of the can and a 50cal version. MDT has a new bipod lighter than the groundpod called backcountry and mountain pods around 6 oz or under

After many years of being due on the second Tuesday, the deadline is indeed sneaky.

I’d hunt bait if it was legal. I’m upset they changed it. I have no moral problem with bait. I’m out here trying to kill stuff so I can eat it, not see how difficult I can make my life. I killed my first bull on bait. I also fish with worms.

Enough with the regulations and enough with the bureaucracy.

All the back-and-forth and opinions are hilarious… You guys really think game fish gives a flyingfuck what you think. the decision has been made.

I’ve killed quite a few bucks spotting stock and I’ve killed a couple sitting water whatever the situation dictates

Was a good Hunt.....

My shop buddy of 10 years died today from cancer. I got him used so I’m guessing he’s at least 15 years old. Either way, I miss my cat as much as a good dog.

I was lucky enough to have drawn the first hunt in the Picacho Mountains (37A east) six years after the reintroduction of sheep to the area. Because the area is so close to my home I chose to go about the hunt self guided. First call was to AZG&F to figure out what I had gotten myself into. Officer Smallwood, the manager for 37A, kept me on the phone for well over an hour during my first phone call to him. He gave me areas to access the mountains and information on where they had been seeing sheep. This was huge. In all, I spent at least one day almost each weekend from beginning of September until the hunt in the area looking for sheep. I managed to wear out a set of tires on my Jeep on that road. Hunted seven days. It was physically and mentally strenuous. At one point, we found ourselves up on the mountain as the sun was setting. Coming down in the dark with headlamps on, moving from cliff to cliff was no picnic. I vowed that if I was ever in that situation again, I'd sleep on top of the mountain and come down in the daylight. I had several friends help out. I was never alone. My hunting partner, Jeff was with me every day of the hunt. Made two new friends from this website. Luis (Lucafu1) and Patrick (PatrickJr) each accompanied me for a day. Solid guys. Helpful to a fault. In fact Patrick glassed up the Ram that I ended up killing, he prepped the cape/head and hauled the meat off the mountain for me! I hope to repay the favor someday. I am including pics from scouting as I had as much fun looking at lambs as I did looking for mature rams! I did not kill the biggest ram in those mountains, nor the oldest. That said, I am super happy with him and he is going to look great on my wall! G&F determined it to be a 6 year old ram (probably born in the Picachos the year they were introduced) He nets 164 inches. An amazing once in a lifetime experience! I totally understand the fascination and addiction to finding sheep in the mountains. I hope to be a helper on somebody's hunt in the future!

I'm very sorry for your loss. I will proudly own that I love cats as much as dogs. I was sitting in a meeting in Utah when my wife let me know our first cat we got together (first pet) passed over from illness. I was so thankful the room was dark because it took everything I had to hold it together.

We did not charter. I had family from Michigan that would spend a couple months down there in the winter and had some friends with a boat. We did most of our fishing from the dock on the canal. Not sure if the place is still around but there was a restaurant on big pine key that had a dynamite lobster Rueben that wasn’t to pricey.

Any talk about success rates with out mandatory havest reporting is worthless

You are mathing right. Don’t have anything.25 cal, figured I’ll help a guy out on here.

We got a pair of cats as our first pets together. I didn’t hold it together at all when we lost each of them…it will be really bad when we lose the current one or the dog. I wouldn’t trade it though.

Sorry for your loss. You lose a piece of your heart every time you lose a pet!

You guys are your own worst enemy

I would disagree, they water all the time during the day. But I do believe the pressure will push them to night watering.

Them critters got all night to get water. I don’t think your theory pans out. I think most of the time animals water at night anyways. Slim chance they’re gonna hit water during the day.

So people that enjoy hunting but are getting older and can't spot and stalk like they used to have to give it up all together? Because I know a handful of old timers that have few options besides sitting. Hunters are their own worst enemies. I don't agree with how others hunt so I will support banning it... SMDH.

I also don’t see a problem with the way things are ? Atleast everyone gets a chance to go hunting right now

My problem is I miss 8 years ago with little pressure, no AZGFD paid influencers and youtubers, no quota, and very few out of state plates....grin...