CatfishKev

Super awesome advice on this thread. My daughter will have her first shot at her first game animal this year (youth elk). When the kids get drawn for there first deer I will encourage them to take the first legal animal just to set the bar. That being said If I have the opportunity to scout a unit and find a good buck before hand I will try and go back with the hopes of getting a "good" one off the bat but don't want to teach them to be greedy either.

Getting a bid for HD Or lowes is a joke. HD will will charge $1000 per window installed for a $200 window then pay the sub piecework of $80 per window to install it. We've seen a roof job we did for about $9k priced from lowes for about $17k. I feel bad for people that screwed over like that, there's just no excuse to straight up rip people off.

What a beast!

That's a beautiful buck, congratulations. Also a very well written post.

Yep it kinda makes me warm and fuzzy too. The judge should make it mandatory for them to at least have them confront a class of future hunters and make it be known that they are poachers and not hunters. to me this are not poachers, poachers might take the meat, this guys left them there, they are common criminals. Seriously? These guys shot a bunch of deer and left them for dead? Thats ten times worse! I wonder if they will actually have to pay off the fines, seems like the type of things douche types just seem to get off the hook with. They'll just move to New Mexico and do the same crap.

I like it up there. In my opinion it's a lot like Sierra Vista. Me and my wife would like to end up there in the next five years ourselves. I like the idea of being closer to elk and flathead fishing. Driving two hours every day would suck though.

That first pic is awesome. An Arizona sunset doesn't get any better than that!

I still say its a bear. The third pic with the feeding spike I think is actually the spike running away on the first and second pic. You can also see the spikes hoofs splashing as he runs away and he looks like he's trying to get away. Look at the time stamp, its one minute before the mystery face, they are listed backwards in time order. If its not a bear its for sure a chupacabre.

Thats whats up. It's always good karma to help a Steelers fan. Go Steelers!

Looks like a bears snout.

Congrats. Always cool seing kids hook into a flathead. And in today's day and age I totally get why your kids face is blocked out. It sucks that a parent always has to consider worse case scenario. I get pissed when I see Little kids walking home from school or to the store by themselves. Makes me wanna grab and shake the sh** outta some pos parents.

My buddy's about to buy a bow from a pawn shop for $80. I haven't seen it yet and im not sure what to expect for that price from a pawn shop but I figured I'd put my feelers out here before I meet him there tomorrow to take a look. We're in Sierra Vista. Thanks.

Thanks Nodak but I'd rather have him buy one that works lol. Blackout please text me some pics 520-227-6720 Thanks

I say get what you can afford. I know people mean well when they say wait a year buy once cry once. But what if you also need to buy a bow, spotting scope, rifle, rifles scope, a good pack or all the rest of the stuff you need to buy. Are you supposed to work overtime for 15 years so you can buy everything your ever going to need all at once? No, get what you need that will still get the job done not what you necessarily want and can't afford. The best way to do this is buy used. I got a kaibabs for $775 and a $300 pack off this website for $60. When you can afford the swaros get em, you've earned it.

Don't know anything about the bow yet. I'm gonna go look today. Just looking for more options for him. Where are you located?

Twigsnapper, pm sent. Curious your feedback on this company.

At the end of the year I'm giving my half of my roofing company to my partner. Even though he's a great partner and it's a great company my other company (Remodeling) has made me just absolutely hate owning and running a business. Mostly due to employees. I'm aspiring to be a part time guide in the next year or two and started doing pest control because I should have a lot of time off once I finish my route which would allow me time to pursue other interests. So, one of the things I'm thinking of doing is essentially selling insurance. It can be done part time and I know four other people personally that are doing it and doing very well. I've read a few bad things online about the company but they are mostly old threads and I think most of the issues are now no longer issues. And of course any big company is going to have a bunch of negative reviews online. I don't want to publicly announce the company or turn this into an argument about this company either for or against. If you are in the insurance world could you PM me? Thanks

That's awesome. 35a is on the upswing, or she's just been hanging out at rodolphos too much.

In this particular case you are only selling to people who have requested info on a particular product already so it's not cold calling. And although it may be taxing selling to people the only one I really have to depend on is myself whereas with the remodeling I've had to count on other people and that seems to be where all the aggravation is. I look at it this way, if any of these things I'm pursuing don't work out I can always fall back on being a contractor. But at this point in my life I'm just ready to try some new things until I find the right thing. Thanks for the input.

I'm a licensed roofer and remodeler (2 different companies) we routinely take half down just to contract the job but don't get paid the remainder until the customer is happy. And they always are. read the online reviews and ask around to other people who have used them. Also ask for cusomer references like realtors or general contractors they have worked with. Unfortunately looking at the ROC website just isn't enough these days. Most crappy contractors still don't have claims against them. The real problem is that 90% of the general public doesn't know how to tell poor workmanship from good workmanship. I can't believe some of the crap that ive seen that people were actually happy with.

I agree with rossisslider. The vanguard 264 comes with a head and it's affordable. I just can't justify $300- and up for something like that, too many other things that take priority for a dude with a grip of kids. This is the first year I started using a tripod and it's must have for me at this point, you won't regret getting one.

Sweet! Maybe that will drive the used prices down to $800 like the kaibabs go for and I can get rid of my sequoia spotter and upgrade.

So how do you determine what type you are or where you fall on the spectrum?

Last I heard prices were so low it wasn't worth keeping scrap from our jobs. Both places around sv closed down so now the closest place is up in Tucson. Poor tweakers got nowhere to go.

Well if I did I wouldn't have asked. I just didn't know if they had a way to automatically reject the second two apps once the first one was accepted. I don't want more than one tag I just want to get my wife or son drawn for something rather than nothing. I've never applied for leftovers so it's new to me.