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Got to help my nephew on his 33 youth hunt. These hunts are the best!

As a Gambels quail freak, I'll not be completely satisfied without a wet winter plus a nice kicker storm sometime in mid-late Spring (Call me greedy for wanting a double hatch!). But as an AZ native and general fan of rain, I say heck yes to every single drop! 👍

Holy smokes! Just looked at the radar loop, and it looks like Snowbowl is likely getting DUMPED on again! Outstanding, skiers!!!

Everything pictured is free to any youth hunters in need of this stuff. Kuiu bino chest pouch size L and XL, Leupold bino harness, Harris bipod, Limbsaver butt stock, sling, gloves, hats, small day pack, bird bags, Highgear Summit watch. Buck, Smith and Wesson, and small 2 blade pocket knives with parents consent. I’m in NW Tucson for P/U. 520-444-767one.

Oh boy, let it rain.. Greener then crap all the way to Phoenix and all around payson. The hood elk are fat.

Good luck to all the lucky tag holders! Be safe and post those trophies!!

Don't ask for pics. If you do, it may anger the beast. Fury, rivaled only by a famous roofer will be cast down upon thee....

Last year in unit 8 on the mid October cow hunt we got 2” two days in a row. Muddy arse mess. In Heber now, keeps dumping rain on and off… 38 and dropping. Hope it snows tonite, but still gotta run down the hill tomorrow.

Yes the Quail really need it badly.

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.

They’re predicting 9” next weekend (no lance kenyon)

I'll take the "WTF 2 with interchangeable collets" with the 223. PM In coming!

In for 7 tickets. Congratulations to the winners to come. My luck sucks. Great foundation

That’s awesome! Congrats to your nephew and you

Congratulations Young man

AWESOME!!!!

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The desert keeps greening up like it is, the javelina hunts will be a killer, the pigs will stand out really well. Deer too for the late archery hunters.

Winter rains definitely help the soil nutrient wise for spring bloom

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.

Thanks haha. Like most times I was by myself and usually take some video and just take some screen shots

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A few more finished and ready to go home.

I would be worried more about what’s going into my fruits and vegetables before I would lead poisoning.