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Wow, great bucks. Yours is no slouch either.

Tail wagging all the way up. Hopefully someone was at the bottom catching it.

That is horrible. It is never a good time but definitely not this time of year.

Wow! Great year. You guys literally killed it. Congrats to everyone.

Sorry to hear. I have the same rig and luckily haven't had any issues. Are you going to take it to the new Nash right there on Elliot and Ellsworth if needed? I drive by it almost every morning and was wondering how the service was. I have been taking mine to Western Powersports in Scottsdale to have it serviced and it is a pain. I could drive it to Nash. Good luck with the repairs.

Congrats on the bull. I hear this happening a lot when someone misses a shot when using a new or someone else's rifle. It even happened to me in Mexico a few years ago.

Way to go. That is awesome.

That is awesome. It looks like a great hide on it.

Great shooting. Congrats to you and all your sons.

The problem isn't about it being fair chase or not. The problem is that they are taking away one more little bit of our hunting privileges. And then they will go after the next low hanging fruit on the tree. And there will be a few that don't agree with that type of hunting so they will not have a problem with that being banned. And so on until they have all our hunting rights taken away. How fair is it to sit in a tree stand and shoot the first animal that unknowingly walks under you? Or doing a deer push? We are stressing the deer out and they are "scared for their lives". Should we ban them types of hunting also?

They know what is coming. I spent probably 20 days scouting on my last tag and saw tons of bulls all the way up to the Sunday before the hunt. And then all of a sudden they were gone. Saw a fraction of bulls and ended up passing on several smaller bulls and eating tag soup.

Good luck. That is a fun hunt. I have had the tag a couple times and have helped a few other times. I have seen some monsters while scouting. They seem to know when that late season hunt starts though and become scarce.

Both great bucks. Congrats to them both. They have set the bar pretty high.

Congrats and great write-up.

I would go to the bow shops in town and shoot several of them. Find what fits you and you like and then start scouring the internet and find a used one. Everyone will have a different opinion to which is best. Good luck.

Well apparently we need to start a new thread and have a CWT prospecting outing. I agree with the above post about learning to rope first on a dummy.

Cool video. I always love seeing them. Especially when you can see the vapor trail. Congrats to your son.

I also have the Zeiss HD5's on both of my main hunting rifles. I used to have Vortex on all my rifles until I had a low light situation that cost me a mountain lion and I upgraded everything.

Can you imagine if the other states had gone differently and the entire country was waiting on us to hand count all those votes. They would have an absolute meltdown.

Fox News was even talking about how slow Arizona is. Florida has about 3X the voters and had almost all the votes counted within a couple hours of the polls closing. I keep checking the numbers and Trump is slowly pulling away with every update. It is nice to see us back to red. Now to get Lake to keep closing the gap.

Those first pictures did that buck no justice whatsoever. I wouldn't even think it was the same buck. I have a 165 buck and was definitely thinking mine was bigger. Than those field photos showed up. Wow. Not sure about score but I wouldn't pass it up on the late hunt for sure. Congrats to the hunter.

Both great bucks! Congrats to you both.

Great thread! I have had this exact conversation with friends recently. I always thought as I got older I would have more time to do the things I like to do like camping and hunting. But in reality I have less time. I feel like most of my time is planned for me between my kids and grand kids. And if I am idle I feel like I should be doing something work related. Then add on top of that the fact that it is so hard to draw a decent tag that it is hard to get motivated to even hunt anymore. I recently picked up a bunch of brass to do some reloading and don't even feel like loading it because I will never be able to use it. Hopefully when the grand kids get old enough to hunt it will re-energize me. Only a few years to go.

I remember them from my Air Force days working on the jets. Every fastener had to be safety wired. GLWS

Awesome video. Great shooting. He looked like one of those fainting goats when he hit the dirt.