Sky Island junkie

maybe offensive talk affects the nutritional value of beef the same way fear does?!

Holy smokes! At times I’m glad my dad isn’t around to see this shoot show!!

Can’t blame you for not taking chances with kiddos!

Wife and I were glassing from a little knob in 35a and about 10 or so came walking right below 80 yards or so. One of them saw us and they scattered. 2 of them that looked as if to be brothers were behind a big boulder, I gave kind of a friendly wave and the younger one waved back. The older one backhanded the one that waved back in the shoulder! We laughed for days about that!

Short answer is no. They headed back to Scottsdale. If I remember right they were so shook up they didn’t think about it until I mentioned it

Great buck! Congrats!

A few years ago an acquaintance and his buddy had wt tags in the Whetstones. They hunted the west side somewhere and were home by Saturday. He said Saturday morning they came across several immigrants in the dark in a wash. One of them ( likely the coyote) spoke perfect English to them asking if they were hunting and after a couple minutes of small talk they parted ways. After chewing on it a couple hours they decided to break camp and go home. Burned their tags. Wonder if G&F has taken this into consideration when deciding on tags numbers in these units?

You’re right what I ranted about was not talked about here. Had a conversation with a guy yesterday about some advice about his hunt after Thanksgiving in 36b. Gave him some spots in the 2-6 mile range off the border and he freaked out about being that close. I asked him why he even put in for that unit and he really didn’t have an answer. I hear that all the time, not necessarily from guys on here but in general.

Yeah yeah yeah. Guess I got off on a tangent.

All I’m saying is for the most part the ones coming across the border are good people and it’s not their fault that this country get its shoot together and fortify the border. Remember the 500 drug runners that may cross daily are supplying 500,000 white tweeter pos drug dealers in this country! We obviously don’t want to stop the activity!

Cracks me up the fear I hear in people about the border. Some of the best hunting is within a couple miles of the border because we are afraid to go down there. I’ve actually had more trouble in northern units with theft in camps than in the southern units. It’s possible I’m in the minority. If you’ve ever worked with the Mexican people, most are very grounded, honest, hard working people. They aren’t the criminals, ( drug runners aside but they definitely don’t want to cross your path) our government officials are the criminals! So go out hunt in your country!! And stop letting high fuel prices stop you from scouting more. Cut back on something else and burn the fuel! The climate change dip shits want to see us use less petroleum! I’m done!

I was in 35b a few years back and came across 4 BP agents on horseback about a mile off border. After asking what critters they might have seen, they were pretty tight lipped. The guys rode off and the guy bringing up the rear said the 3 guys ahead were hunters and they had seen a few. I chuckled to myself and thought to myself good for them! One of the perks of a shitty job! Especially now!

Foxtrot. Juliet. Bravo

Congrats! Nice buck!

Javi tag that’s getting donated!

Makes sense

Where I’ve been, haven’t seen any more activity than usual. Kind of shocked considering all the hype.

Eberlestock j34 just one. Been the best all around pack for me.

Yeah next year he’ll be just a regular ol bull. Poor bastard was left kinda defenseless to finish out the rut this year! Guess it would be hard to not come up with some kind of excuse why not to cut off his antlers while he was out!😂

Congrats to you guys on harvesting one out of a pretty tough unit! True team effort, that meat is going to taste great! Welcome to the addiction!!!!

These bright nights will keep getting darker as your hunt approaches so should be more active by Friday. I’ve been watching a group of bucks for a guy who has that hunt and they were somewhat predictable until this moon then yep they crawled into their underground air conditioned condos!

Good luck today guys!!

Cool old buck! Congrats!

I’ve heard that leg injuries can cause antler weirdness. I killed a buck once that had a big knot the size of a tennis ball on his lower front leg. I packed that leg out with me and at camp cut into it and found that the bone had been broken and healed and the bone had grown heavier around the past break. The cool thing was between the bone and the skin was a large capsule with a half dozen shards of broken bone. Both antlers were fairly normal. I’m so amazed at how resilient animals are!

Struck me funny reading the end of your post. Made me remember tanking up yesterday. Gonna have to start carrying the little stickies with me!