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Craig, Are you still looking for more DIY stories or is your next edition full already? Amanda

Cool!!!! Thanks for posting.

Which raises the question....should there be different draw weights for different big game? Maybe 30 lbs for deer and javelina but 40 for elk?

Good story!! There can't be too many cases where a guy meets an ER nurse during his hunt that takes him out to a great hunting spot! LOL!! Glad your dad is recovering and congratulations on your buck!

Thanks for the info Darr! I had heard they were considering the change but didn't know it went into effect already.

I actually think that seeing lone javelina or smaller groups (2-3) is often due to herds being broken up due to hunting pressure. Some hunter goes in and makes a shot and the javelina herd scatters and although most make it back together, for others it takes awhile to get back to the group.

The SW contest has several sponsors and they just sort of naturally divided them up as sponsoring a particular section but really all major sponsors are supporting all parts of the contest. So feel free to bring your elk down there. I believe the elk turned in will have a sponsored by the AZ Elk Society sign on them.

Quite the adventure! Congrats and thanks for sharing your new tool!

Well said Kent.....

Nice video and congratulations on your buck!!

For the Kaibab I think you are referring to the FY 09 expenditures only and I would have to find out more details on what that money was spent on that particular year. This Kaibab work has been ongoing for about 9-10 years now. And you can get a good history of what we have been doing on that project over time by reading the articles I posted a link to in my prior post. Water catchments come in all kinds of designs and costs vary. If you want to learn more about these kinds of projects and the costs and funding of them, you might want to learn more about the Habitat Partnership committee which reviews all the project proposals and their associated costs. AGFD actually has those project proposals online for 2011 (this is new and I think very cool). So you can take a look at those projects and get an idea for labor and materials and such for all kinds of habitat projects. http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/hpc.shtml If you are really interested in learning more about the costs/benefits of these projects and having a say in which habitat projects get funded, I recommend you get on involved with the HPC committee. You can serve on local habitat partnership committees so that the money is best spent on local wildlife issues.

congratulations and I love hearing the spot and stalk stories! Sounds like a long, sometimes frustrating stalk!

but they are part of a national organization and therefore ineligible.

Please welcome Colburn and Scott Outfitters as a sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com. Darr Colburn and Jay Scott formed their current business in 2008, but have been guides in various capacities since 1997. Many of you may know Darr and Jay from reading their outstanding blog, Jay Scott Outdoors. Colburn and Scott Outfitters (CSO) is a fairly small operation consisting of Darr Colburn, Jay Scott , and Janis Putelis. They focus on quality and not quantity. They guide hunters mostly in Arizona for elk, mule deer, Coues deer, Gould’s and Merriam’s turkeys, and desert bighorn sheep. They also guide hunters in Mexico for Coues deer and Gould’s turkeys. CSO provides fully outfitted hunts or they can custom create a hunt package for you depending on your needs. For their outfitted hunts, they use travel trailers, wall tents, dome tents, backpacking tents depending on where they are hunting. In certain units their elk camps are based out of a 3 bedroom 2 bath house with full kitchen. When I asked Jay Scott what made his guiding business different from others, here is what he said, “ I think there are many great outfitters for people to choose from in Arizona. At CSO, we focus on quality experiences and quality trophy animals. We never sub out any hunts. If you book with CSO you will get one of us. NO ONE ELSE! I think that our track record of putting big trophies on the ground speaks for itself. Our focus is quality hunts while hunting hardcore and having a great time.” He continued, “On behalf of Darr Colburn, Janis Putelis and myself, we look forward to the opportunity to help our clients harvest the trophy of their dreams. Our adventures can be witnessed on our blogs at www.jayscottoutdoors.com and www.colburnandscottoutfitters.blogspot.com. If you want to hunt hard and have a quality hunting experience give us a call!” Now, the fun part….let’s check out some of the amazing animals their clients have harvested…. Michael Park and his 435 inch Archery elk Alfredo Julian and his 390 Archery bull Terry Chapman with his 372 Archery bull Tim Aldinger's Unit 10 Archery bull and another great bull: some desert bighorn sheep Glen Hall's 176 sheep Ron Ardorfer's 170 sheep and some Gould's turkey pics from Mexico and some great Coues bucks:

I don't see how they would meet the legal definition of a qualifying organization....they don't meet criteria a or b as far as I can tell. 6. "Qualified organization" means an organization that is qualified pursuant to section 501©(3) of the internal revenue code and that meets all of the following conditions: (a) Its membership includes a significant cross-section of species‑specific wildlife conservation and sportsmen organizations from throughout this state. ( B ) It is not a member of, does not hold a charter from and is not a chapter of a national wildlife conservation or sportsmen organization. © It has been in existence for at least five years.

The ADA board was given very little information and only briefed once shortly before the bill was dropped. I was attending that particular ADA board meeting by telephone and they actually didn't get the phone thing going until after the briefing about the bill so I missed hearing it directly. However, as I understand it, some of the concepts were presented and the board asked for more details and those were not provided prior to dropping the bill. The ADA board was not given time to review or comment on the bill. This bill did not receive the support of the ADA board. I believe the AZSFW group was trying to keep this very quiet in order to keep anti-hunting groups from gathering forces to fight it. It's extremely disappointing to me that AZSFW chose to keep the hunting community out of the process as well. with regard to your question about the outdoor expo, the AZSFW has nothing to do with that. There are actually two large hunting/outdoor expos in AZ and one is the International Sportsmen's Expo (put on by the ISE) and the other is the AGFD expo.

Congrats and good luck with the deer hunt.

Nice....

Congratulations...wow a 5 minute lion hunt, that doesn't happen very often!

I think you are talking about Couestracker. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showuser=736

Member Fudipena asked me to post this for him....he will add the story. Congratulations on your buck!!

Clay, it's not big sweet.....I checked with the guy and it's from a different unit.

Gino sent this in to be posted....I believe you all already have seen Gino and Jason's bucks, but here they are together with Gino's trailer and a CW.com sticker. Thanks for the support and the pic Gino! That trailer looks awesome with the sticker and in case you missed the stories and other pics of these bucks, here is the link: http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29625

Wow! those are some great bucks you posted Jim and Dan....Wow! bet that hunter who shot that buck is happy Dan!