mattys281

Im really starting to believe that posting pics anymore is not worth the headache. There are some on here that can't help but find something to complain about. Its no wonder that most of the original long time members stopped or hardly post at all anymore. I like pics and stories as much as anyone but it's just not worth all the arguments any more. Its become old. Its best now to just keep them to your circle of friends and family like it used to be. Brian Don't let a couple kids ruin it for everyone else. As I rarely get to hunt these days, I've kind of taken to living vicariously through you guys and your adventures, so keep 'em coming! Congrats to the shooter, that's the buck of a lifetime!

I hear what your saying. There might be a couple critters in asia that may perk my interest . But my stance is I would rather have a room full of north american critters and maybe a few red stag and tahr thrown in for good measure than to hunt Africa. Please don't misunderstand what I am saying as I do not look badly at those that hunt Africa Asia or anywhere else in the world for that matter. In fact I respect em for it! But for me north American game is where it's at. I don't play the lottery I'm just gonna work hard and earn it despite what the government does to try and stop me! Lol I'm in the same boat. I have little or no desire to hunt Africa. At least not as long as there's so many animals in the states that I've yet to harvest. Although with the luck I'm having drawing elk and antelope tags, it's probably alot faster/easier to fly over there and shoot some critters than it is to wait it out here. Not to mention the way they keep raising tag prices, it'll soon be cost competitive as well.

As if there was something else you'd rather be doing on a sunday afternoon than staring at tail.

At first glance I thought hybrid, but when you zoom in on the pic the facial markings are 100% coues. Looks like a big ole nanny coues doe roaming with muleys. Btw, great pics. You have a real knack for capturing these critters.

I imagine that thing must hit like a bowling ball dropped from the tenth floor. Big bullets! Sweet looking rifle though.

I've never been in one of their stores, but I do think a sub sounds good this week. Guess I'll have to give it a try.

They're all a bit cluttered for my taste, but I am more than a little jealous of the resources these guys have to throw at their hunting. I cant imagine how much denero one must have to drop that kind of cash on hunts, much less all the mounts. To heck with the animals, congratulations to them on being hard workers and dang good businessmen.

Way to stick with it! Persistence is what bowhunting is all about. Congrats!

Thats my thought too. Id bet the farm that those deer were moving plenty during the day, just not there.

I saw this one on another forum this morning and had to share. Too good to let it go!

Fix it! At 70k that toyota is still wet behind the ears and should go at least another 150k. Tell your mom to tune into dave Ramsies, keep her paid of vehicle until it absolutely dies and put that money into growth mutuals, not the pockets of toyota financial services. I havent made a car payment in over 3 years. Best feeling in the world to not only keep the money you earn, but also be able to sleep at night knowing that when something does eventually break down you have plenty socked away so you do t have to sweat it. Debt is always your enemy, fear it and avoid it!

In the words of cousin eddie, "he's got a little bit a leg hound in 'im. If he latches on to ya, its best to just let him finish..."

It's ok, I know that bull. After his second divorce he just gave up and switched teams. If you knew his ex, you wouldn't blame him a bit.

It's a good unit. You should do well. Hunt during the middle of the week if you can, weekends can get crowded in 33.

Cleaning out the closet & the garage a little bit & trying to get rid of some of the stuff I never use. saws are gone Next is a Kobalt 150 psi compressor: MOTOR IS SHOT - I think. It'll fire up, but pops the breaker after a few seconds. I disconnected the belt and spun the pump by hand, it moves freely. I think the motor is gone on it. If somebody wants to replace the motor, they can get a pretty good compressor pretty cheap. $100 as is! Manfrotto pistol grip head. I love this tripod head, but it's a bit heavy so I rarely ever use it any more. If functions fine, but has some scrapes and worn paint on it. It's bounced around on my backpack for many, many miles and never let me down. Gone Folding shooting stick. Used it once, didn't like it. Paid $25 for it on amazon.com. $10. Taurus P917 9mm, 2 factory 17 round mags, 2 15 round promag mags + the holster it came with. I bought this brand new through a private sale a couple years ago at a gun show. Probably has about 250-300 rounds through it. One of the promag clips will not load the last round. The slide stays open as if it is empty. $450 o.b.o. Mauser win .308. This thing has a pretty nice trigger, 3.5lbs. Don't know who did the work to it, it was like that when I bought it. I've put probably about a hundred rounds through it with no issues at all. gone Couple of cheapie bushnell scopes. $10.00 each, or if you buy something else and you want one of these you can have it.

I've pretty well sacked my vacation time for the year already, so all I have to work with is the weekends, which means any legal deer I see better duck! Mostly though, I'm hoping to get my kiddo on one. She'll be taking my honeyhole tree and I'll wander off and find some place else to sit.

Sounds to me like they're just choking the supply to try to keep a shortage going in order to keep the price up. De beers did it with diamonds for almost a century. Oldest trick in the book!

Those deer don't look happy that their drink turned into a mud puddle. Hopefully it's filled up a little by now?

No doubt. Between my camping shed in the back yard and my hunting room/office I had things settled in pretty well at my old place, but we moved into a smaller house last year and I lost my hunting room . Now I have stuff tucked away everywhere it seems. After my wife's last costco haul, I lost the space I had in the pantry under the stairs so I have to get rid of some of it so I can condense it into my upstairs closet. That's not grounds for divorce is it?

Live in avondale, work in tempe. Can take smaller items to work if someone wants to meet on that side of town. Priest & southern in tempe, avondale blvd & buckeye in avondale.

Glad your dog made it. Guess toads go on the 'cool, but dead if found in my yard' list. Thanks for the heads-up.

Incredible country! Thanks for sharing.

You have some blacktail pics you can share? Im hoping to hit northern cali for one next year. Need one for the deer slam.

Congrats to your son and your family. That is fantastic news!

My experience is the same as greyghost's: I've been running a couple salt licks since '06 and so far have only takin two deer off of them, one of which never actually approached the salt, he was following a couple does that meandered by it. So after 9 years of hauling thousands of pounds of this crap (most of which is eaten by range cattle) and spending weeks in treestands and/or ground blinds, it's netted two deer in the freezer. Real unfair advantage there. I wouldn't worry yourself too much over the ethics of it, salt is a great way to get trailcam pics of buck in the early months, but I've seen that they tend to use it less and less after the rain starts. At the end of the day, if you chose a great site for your salt lick, there would be deer passing through regardless if you have salt there or not, and if you chose a site that deer are not using, then the salt is not going to make them magically show up. I've abandoned several sites for this reason before nailing down the couple that I have now. As for the outfitter that you mentioned, spending $4-6k on a guide that has 80-100% success for his clients is going to do a lot more to increase your odds of success than hauling a bag of salt into the woods ever will. But salt's unethical, that's too cute.