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For summer time trips, I use a Eureka Zeus 1 Classic. It's an inexpensive freestanding tent that weighs 3 lbs and 7 ounces with poles, stakes , guide lines and in tent sack. It is 41" wide and 3 feet tall inside height. That is as small as I want to go these days. Its a single walled tent, but I have ridden out some storms in it and stayed dry. If I was heading out when there is a strong chance of really foul weather, I'd then look for a tent with a full rain fly. Or pack a lightweight waterproof tarp to sub as a rainfly.

I bet Putin pardoned him and then the two of them went bear hunting with no shirt and knives in their mouth.

:Based on what I am seeing, antler size for 2018 looks to be about par for the course, but recruitment in 2018 is not looking good. The quantity of evidence is minimal. so I could just be full of it, but it looks like coyotes are hitting them hard.

Looks like we have a few bivy fans around here. Now I am a fat 50 year old guy and not as adaptable as I was in my twenties. With that said, I have never felt claustrophobia until I tried to ride a storm out in a bivy a few years back. That night, I had to choose what I wanted to keep dry with me in the bivy and what to leave out in the rain. I couldn't move much in the bivy and began to feel like I was suffocating. It got to be like chinese water torture and I had to bail. I took what I could and dropped off the mountain. I came back the next day. While hunting my way back to my camp. Had some Muleys at a little over one hundred and twenty yards in front of me, but my shooting sticks were back at the camp. Without my sticks, I couldn't achieve a stable enough position to take a shot. An extra pound or so for a bigger tent and I would have been just fine. At this point in my life, I'll take a tent over a bivy, but that's just the opinion of a fat 50 year old who doesn't get out there as much as I did in my twenties.

I live in 19a and I saw antelope fawns with shaky legs start to appear a month ago. Today, as I drove around (89 and Perkinsville Rd) I noticed I was seeing no fawns. I saw lots of antelope as they are hanging close to cattle watering troughs. I am betting antelope tag numbers for 19a will be less next year. Just some thought I wanted to share.

If you live near a college, the classifieds/bulletins can be a treasure trove of great deals. Especially October-November. ColLidge kids spend all their parents money after a couple of months of weed and alcohol, they will sell a kayak or backpack for real cheap to have money for the weekend.

I've got lots of bulls on camera coming in to my salt lick, but with late rifle, they could all be harvested or in another county by the time of my hunt.

Well, I went out today and I, finally, saw a couple antelope fawns. They weren't hard to spot in the grass, with the buzzards and ravens bouncing over their carcass. The rain didn't have much of an impact around these parts.

Just get out and do it. Start off with short overnighters and you'll figure out what works for ya. Water is a big deal. Plus, riding out a long storm while hunkering down in a bivy is nobody's definition of fun.

rained good here in Chino Valley. I doubt it helps the water level in the tanks, but it will produce some badly needed food.

here in Chino Valley, the skies are still farting dust.

I doubt the first question would be an actual result here. A "raffle" entails selling many chances for a SINGLE tag. Thus the answer to second question. Hypothetically, if raffle chances are $5 each and they sell 1000 for one tag, the revenue is $5,000, which would be more than enough to cover the regular cost of that tag. Your other questions would be determined if this would come to pass. I am sure they would sell more tags at $5 a whack, but just the same, think about about the number of tags that would need to be raffled to get to the million to two million dollar range. It seems the people who gain the most are people who haven't been paying into the system by buying chances/points. I still have yet to hear a legitimate answer to the question, why tags? Why are people so insistent that stealing tags from our system is necessary?

Just staring at the southern sky with my fingers crossed here in Chino Valley.

I know zero facts, but I am already going to totally speculate and call it poison

rain, heck, I don't remember the last time we have had clouds in the sky. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing.

Man, you Arizona folk impress me sometimes. Sometimes ha ha

I have yet to hear a compelling answer to how cameras are a violation to the principles of fair chase and I have only heard stories of tanks with a dozen cameras. I have never, personally, observed any issues in all the places where I go. I guess this is where a bunch of conservatives turn around and behave/think like nanny state liberals.

It could be that my perception/observation is misleading. I hope so.

Yea, your right. Could be that there were some with their head down, but I usually see some fawns gett'n going with their moms, plus, in case you haven't been out in the flats of 19a lately, there is no grass to hide in, It's really baren out there right now.

at least !/4 mile from any developed water source is a big issue. I can be more receptive to the idea if 1) the dept creates a catalogue of water holes to which the rule is applicable. 2) I'd prefer the distance was reduced to 200 or 300 yards. I could put a cam 200 yards from a water source that won't ever see another hunter. I still haven't heard a case for it being in contrast to principles of fair chase

I am not a biologist, but if I see over a hundred antelope and not a single fawn, That can't be good.

Also ban Keystone Light, speaking of litter.

Water holes are typically dug out of dirt. You put water in that hole and the dirt around it gets wet. Wet dirt is called mud. Mud is the best medium for capturing foot prints. I can tell how many elk and when they came in by looking at the mud. The only thing more a game cam tells you is what the antlers look like.

I have lived in and hunted in AZ for close to a decade and I have yet to see any evidence of the problem that this big government "nanny state" measure is designed to solve. I am not saying that a problem doesn't exist, but I am saying it is very confined to a small number of areas and with limited violators. I have been racking my brain to understand how a game cam (that is not a "live" feed camera) gives me any advantage to filling my tag. While, in my circumstance, I still haven't determined how it is going to help me make a kill, I did realize how it may be perceived as an unfair advantage. Reading the latest gossip about an alleged poaching of a trophy buck did give me a realization. I am not a trophy hunter and I do not think about my time in the field as all part of an attempt to kill the biggest record book trophy. Reading about what people will do to get that record buck or bull shows me a different perspective. So now, I realize people view their hunt and hunting in general through the prism of trying to discover that record book set of antlers. If you are scattering cameras all over heck and creation to discover that big buck or bull, then I suppose that using the cam leads to an unfair advantage over other hunters who are, also, setting their hopes on getting that record book buck or bull. In this case, it is not a violation of fair chase, but rather something that is used in competition between hunters. So, is that what this is really about, competition between trophy hunters?

I took some pics of gun. I can't post them here, but I can email them to somebody.