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I wanted to let you guys know about this awesome app that is new to me. It is called "Topo Maps". It costs $8. You install the app, and when connected to WIFI (not cellular Internet) you download all the maps( make sure to get the hi-res) you need for the entire U.S. You can plot points one water tanks, glassing spots, whatever you want. I feel that if you are at the spot you want to mark, you get a more exact location rather than finding it and guessing. Once a map in downloaded, it is saved and so when you need it, it loads immediately. The best part is that when you have no service at all, it tracks you and can tell you exactly where you are as long as you agree to let it you your location. This is great to use when it gets dark and you marked your vehicle, you can see how close you are and where you must go. I was hunting this weekend with some hard core guys and they use this, one mentioned how this app replaces his $300 GPS. If you do get the app and plot points on places you keep secret, make sure to have a passcode on your phone so that if someone steals your phone, they won't know where you big bucks are!!! And it should save you some money, since you pay $8 for all topos when a single paper Topo is $8. Someday the creator will add forest service road numbers to the maps. Hope this helps, play around with it and let me know what you guys think, this might just be the greatest this since sliced bread!

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This year I spent more time out scouting and glassing than I have in the past 9 or 10 years. This is probably because I became MUCH more independent once I got my drivers license. It was always a hassle for my dad to drive me to a friends house so I could go out on their hunts. I had never seriously scouted before in my life. In July, I felt the need to go glass. My buddy from school, Reyes, is an avid hunter and he didn't mind going out. He had an area that was much closer than areas I knew of. We went out and found some small bucks. Reyes still had his archery deer tag and we figured that we should keep watching these small bucks so he could kill one in August. We went out more and just saw small bucks. Fast forward to Archery season, we got out and right away I found a buck that we had never seen before. With him were two other bucks and one was a whopper. Reyes and I debated on how big the buck was, and I got tons of video of this buck in the following weeks. At one point, we got to 90 yards of him but no shot. Reyes had the first youth hunt in this unit and we knew he would have the first chance at this buck with a rifle. Reyes killed a buck in the area a couple years prior that looked VERY similar and so we named the buck we had found "Geno". The other buck that was with him, we named "Wacky" because his right side was a big fork and an extra main beam. Reyes also killed a buck that looked exactly like Wacky but the left side was messed up, not the right. Wacky: For comparison, Reyes' buck that must be Wacky's father Geno: We later found a good buck that we named "Tips" because all his tines appeared to tip in. There were some smaller 3x3s and one very large 2x2 that seemed difficult to keep track of. Needless to say, we had a good amount of buck Reyes could kill. His hunt came along and the bucks we had been watching DISAPPEARED. Three days of hunting and couldn't find any of them besides the forks and a couple small 3x3s. His tag went unfilled. I went out a couple of evenings with my buddy, John, while his father and daughter had tags. We were able to fill both of them and I videoed both killshots. We had found a really good 3x3 with long G2s and I kept in the back of my mind. Spent some time around Halloween glassing and narrowing down areas where I wanted to take my 23 year old brother on his first deer hunt. He never got into hunting but now that I am addicted he wanted to try. Tall G2 buck: On opening evening, I was able to find the 3x3 with long G2s at 118 yards bedded. We had to circle around to get a shot. He got up and our first shot was at 250. My brother was rushed and forced to take the shot off of a Bog Pod (not ideal). He missed and missed again at 300 yards when I whistled at the buck to stop. He ran over the hill and almost instantly we heard 3 shots come from the other side. We believed that someone had killed the tall G2 buck. My brother decided hunting wasn't his thing after Saturday morning so we called it. My junior hunt was next. I went to a spot I hadn't been to in 2 years and found a buck that I would absolutely shoot. Here he is I took Thursday and Friday off and left Wednesday night. I set up camp in the dark then figured out where I wanted to go for Thursday. Checked out a spot in the morning, saw tons of deer just not any bucks of decent size. That evening, John told me to go into the canyon where we had seen the tall G2 buck to see if he was even still alive. I honestly got there and didn't think I was going to see much in this tiny canyon. Saw some does and spikes. I laid down for a nap and woke up to a text from John asking I had seen anything more. I started glassing and found more does then out of nowhere I find a group of 6 bucks. I had never seen any of these bucks before except for one, the Tall G2 buck. Got some good video of him and also noticed he had good sized devil horns coming off of his bases. While videoing I heard a lot of commotion coming from the cut to my left. I thought it was a lion dragging a deer or something. I saw a dark animal dart across and opening and then I figured they were pigs. To my surprise another came out and I identified them as Coatimundi. These were the first I've ever seen in person! Too bad I was videoing the buck so I couldn't video them a little. The bucks worked a long ways down to an area that would make in tough to get a shot in the morning. More pics of the Tall G2 buck: John took off of work Friday since he couldn't hunt on Saturday. He knew of a really nice area we could hike into and hopefully find a good buck. We didn't end up seeing anything of any size but did see tons of deer. We wanted to go back into the canyon where the Tall G2 buck was living. I texted Reyes at noon and sent him photos of the tall G2 buck. We hiked down to the canyon and found a good outcropping that I could shoot from. John and I were planning to glass some then take a little nap. Right away John finds some bucks way down in the bottom. It was 12:30. He points out a buck that caught my eye. (FYI I have always wanted to kill a big fork) This buck had a big fork on one side, and was 3 on the other. I weighed my options for roughly 30 seconds and decided I liked the buck and wanted to kill him. John is such a good guy that he wasn't going to get in my way, even though he should have talked some sense into me. We hadn't really even glassed the whole canyon to see if the tall G2 buck was there. I started taking video of the buck while he was raking a tree. The buck moved up out of frame and started sparing with a small fork but I never adjusted it, and that is my fault. John told me the buck was at 258 yards. We waited 5 minutes until the buck gave me a perfect, clear, broadside shot. He was still sparing with the fork when I touched it off. John immediately told me that I hit him and he was rolling down the hill. He rolled into the bottom and out of sight. I'm very happy with him. He means so much to me, I look at him and all the work I've put in comes to mind. The shot was perfect. The 110 Accubond out of my 257 Weatherby Magnum that my dad had worked up and perfectly hit high shoulder on the left and broke the right shoulder. My father put in so much time getting this rifle and load ready for me. He believes this is one of the best, if not the best shooting rifles he has ever worked with. And I can't thank him enough for that. I just wish he was there to see it in action. And a big thanks goes out to John. He has taken me under his wing and has helped me more than I can even describe. I'm excited for what is to come in the future! Good luck to everyone who still have tags! Like 5 minutes before I shot

Bro, he's trying to sell an item, how come you have to be like that?

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I noticed that I had my SSN in but not my dept. ID so I entered it. When I did, all my previous draw results came up. Nothing about spring 2016 though?

Go get geno

I gotta buddy that was out promoting his woodpecker decoy and had a fox come up to grab the decoy. Right then a lion came out of nowhere and grabbed the fox. The lion with the fox in it's mouth looks at the camera as if to say thanks. Pretty cool video.Yes i need to see this! Pleeeeeease I'll see if I can dig it up and post it. My dad always tells me about this. The guy worked with my mom and he also did our tile at our old house

You are correct, someone did take off the antlers before we went through. I hope whoever was driving is ok. That truck tossed the elk a good 40 yards. Sad to see an animal go out like that.

My father helped a family friend, Tommy, apply for his first time in AZ. He wanted to hunt elk. My father put him in for a unit that we knew fairly well and he drew the tag. My father also offered for us to help him during the hunt since he hasn't hunted elk in 50 years and when he did, he was hunting off horseback in Montana. Tommy made a scouting trip up there and found some elk, plus a campsite he liked. He headed up last Tuesday to scout for the hunt. Tommy had elk walking through his camp almost every night. My father and I get up there late Thursday and are at our favorite glassing spot early on Friday. Found lots of antelope and my dad glasses up a nice little herd of spikes and cows. They are about a mile away and we take off. We get to 800 yards of where the were and we can't find them. They moved further east and a truck on a nearby road spooked them, out of the county they go. Tommy and my father had an uneventful evening sitting a well used fence line while I sat on a hill and got pounded by rain and hail. I saw tree cows but were to late in the day to make a move. Next morning at our favorite glassing spot again, I find some elk way off, 3 miles or so. My dad stays back to make sure I don't bust these elk. I drive around to a nearby road with Tommy and we start heading towards the elk. My dad lets me know where to walk so I run into the tracks. He cannot see the elk as they went over. I find the tracks and start following. I assumed and shouldn't have that they were on the backside and if we got to the top, we could shoot. When we almost go to the top, Tommy and I look up, we see an elk at 300 yards. It sees us as soon as we see it. To the next county they go. Another uneventful evening ensued. It is now the last morning my father and I could help, we wanted to leave around noon. Lots of nice antelope bucks again. Finally some elk. I take Tommy around in the truck again. I didn't have service so I never got my dads call, he was trying to stop me because we spooked them with the truck. When I did get service, he let me know what I'd done. I saw some elk running through the trees a long ways out. Wind going straight north, we got the wind right and started heading west with Tommy in my back pocket. After a good 40 minutes I get to an outcropping and see an elk. Start working in. Tommy told us that he can only shoot 300 yards. We get to 350 and I tell him there aren't any more trees to cover us. He must shoot now. Finally a cow separates herself and is quartering to us and to the left. I give him the go ahead. Cow drops. I'm just happy it finally happened. Tommy did really well for being 71 years old! Props given to my father for doing the majority of the knife work, and because he had Tommys Filipina wife over his shoulder yelling in his ear every time he left a little piece of meat on the elk. I would have snapped if I were him. But now she has more protein than she can handle. Florentina, Tommy and I Hind on my back

The new anti venom used by hospitals is called Crofab and is 60k per dose, an average sized male human will require 2 doses. Right now, I dont think it is covered by any insurance. So you will be out of pocket Here is my favorite snake pic I've taken. He came over a dead branch 1.5 yards away from me when I was sitting in the ground during a coyote stand. His 5 foot skin looks nice on the wall

I wouldnt even bother trying to save the meat tomorrow. It can't be saved. You could maybe pull that off in December but not where you are during this time of year. I'm just going to leave it at that.

I'd shoot that big fork in a heartbeat. I have a 33 JR tag as well.

Saying that missing and wounding animals is not part of hunting is like saying that injuries are not part of football. It happens, all you can do is try and prepare yourself better so that in critical situations, you come in clutch.

When my father and I went up north around the Fourth of July, I was able to do a couple sets and on my second/last set I was successful in harvesting this coyote. First coyote with my Mossberg MVP, first time shooting off our new Easton shooting stocks as well. Never killed anything in Nikes either! Haha I had lots of trouble getting anything(coyotes) to come in around Tucson. Yesterday, August 1st, I got my buddy Reyes to come out. We did a couple sets on the flats looking for coyotes, but it got too hot and we decided to get to higher elevations and possibly call in a fox. On the second stand, I missed a fox with the MVP. Reyes wanted to do one more stand. I had him pick out a wash he liked, he picked a shady one. "If I were a fox, this is where I would want to be" is what he said. I told him when we sat down that this stand was "all him" because everything was within range for the shotgun. ~2 minutes in, I heard a branch break up on the hill to our right, I knew that was a sign. Not 10 seconds later, I see a fox go across that same hill. I told Reyes to get ready and that they are coming. The fox circled UPWIND and stopped. Reyes could see the fox on the other side of the Foxpro. I had my phone on my lap ready to record. I put it up and the fox started running in. I kept telling him to wait, as soon as the fox got to 30 yard I said, shoot him. He did. Reyes' 2nd grey fox. Our summer is over and now we must go back to school. My family has 3 deer tags, and many friends do as well. It should be a busy fall. Good luck to all.

I shot a large cow with my 308 at 351 yards. Mine was with a Berger bullet, but I would look towards the Nosler Accubond

if you shoot a trout with a shotgun are you a hunter or a fisherman? ROASTED

No sir Thanks bud You'd think once they get to Tucson they can get a ride elsewhere and don't have to walk any further north.

Yes, with locked gates. Access is run through my father, he knows everyone that has access and they hardly go in if they do at all. We are considering it a lost cause. Anybody who would have gone in wouldn't have walked around the pond anyways. Too far north for illegals. If they didn't want to be seen in private property, then they could have taken the SD cards, but that might be hard for them to think of if they never use trialcams.

Love it. Toss up on weather, it can be warm, cold or pouring rain. don't waste your time going to saddlebrooke or biosphere no matter what people tell you. Good luck, plenty of pigs all over.

It was in fact trespassing. And these cameras were not very visible that had to actually walk around the water to see them, and why someone is hiking over a mile into private property to walk around a waterhole, is beyond me unless they are only looking for cameras?

And I know some of you may be thinking, "what dumbass puts two cameras on one WATERHOLE!?!?" Well I was testing one of the new cameras to figure out the correct setting and we had multiple bucks coming into this waterhole. I later found out that Bucks were coming in and my first camera couldn't see them. We don't have any intentions of hunting deer on this property because it is simply too flat and in a unit we don't normally hunt deer. On this property we have been fortunate to get photos of muleys, javelinas, coyotes, bobcats, and badgers. Too bad we can't even put cameras on it anymore, in fear of losing more. Here are some photos of a buck we have been watching grow over the past 1.5 months. He isn't a toad but I loved watching him progress, it's a shame we won't be able to see him finish up

I've always wanted some, I sent an email to outdoorsmans saying that if they developed one, people would buy them, never got a response. I would look at the KUIU hip belt pouches

My father and I will be headed up to do a fishing trip with a side of prairie dog and coyote hunting. We plan to mainly fish lake Mary. We have never fished it before. We are looking to catch a bunch of firsts, first pike, walleye, catfish(me), small and largemouth bass. I am by no means an experienced fisherman, mostly ever catching stocked trout. I honestly can say I know how to fish in Alaska more than I do here. We will be renting a boat. Maybe some tips on what we should be throwing? Thanks for any help! I know it is the weekend of the fourth, it was the only weekend my dad and I had days off that worked out. Maybe it won't be too busy? We should be up there from mid Friday to the morning of Tuesday.