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Cactusjack, I understand where you are coming from and somewhat agree with you. However, you keep talking about how everyone is an accomplice to fraud by not turning abusers in. That is a very loose statement that you are using as everyone of them has gone in to a doctor and received a signed form stating that they are handicapped in some way that is 100% legal. In our minds, they are abusing the system but in fact they are going through the proper channels to receive the permit just like you did. So, maybe they are abusing the system but prove it. Good luck with that. I am kind of in the middle of the road as I see both sides of the issue. Just no solution. There are only so many days in a year that we can hunt and everyone wants to create another hunt for this or that. We are at a point that we have to steal tags from one hunt to give tags to other hunts. So there will always be someone that is not happy.

I used Dwane Adams map service one year up in the Kaibab. Different but similar. He gave us a few spots depending on if it was still warm and a few if it was cold. And how to hunt them. I felt it was the next best thing to hiring a guide. And luckily no one else showed up at the same spots. Now selling pin drops to a honey hole and selling several to the same honey hole isn't a honey hole anymore and I would be pissed and want my money back. Is he a licensed guide? And if not is that considered making money off hunting and against the law?

Brian, I hope you are doing well up north. And congrats on losing some weight. Good luck with the sale.

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.