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I realy don't have much experience with ether one but I did use a friends "tree lounge" once and I liked it alot. For those of you who use tree stands do you like the fixed or climbing stands? I think I would go with a climber and probable a Tree Lounge. It was very comfortable, even with my bad back, and easy to climb with.

Awesome pics. I to liked the mearns. I didn't know that they have made there way to the Catalinas ether.

Nice finds! I think I might try going up on Mt. Lemmon sometime, haven't been up there much but it would be a good escape from the heat. I was out in 33 on Tuesday and saw a pretty good buck still waering headgear. He was running with another deer that didn't have any antlers. They were a ways out so I couldn't tell if it was a buck who dropped but I bet it was.

Whats your excuse GameHauler? I put my time in working out in the heat landscaping I've wised up a little.

Hey, Tucson can be a wonderful place to live during the summer....... If you love staying indoors. Or if you have to get out, you better like getting up early and be back indoors before 9am. I hope your AC is working because its HOT down here.

Sorry I forgot to mantion where it was. We lived and worked out of a little town called Loa. Its abot an hour and a half southesat of richfeild. Capital reef national park was about 45 min to the east.

Thought some of you might enjoy these. I took these up in Utah the past two summers while working for a freind on his phd study on Sage grouse. We worked 7 days a week but some days we made sure to finish a little early for some fun. Sorry about the quality, I used a cheep camera and I had to scan them in. I also regrect not taking more pictures. The first pic is the type of area we were in and me doing some radio telemetry. Sagebrush step, Utah's breading grounds for pronghorn. This next pic is me with probably a day old chick. We would catch them and then put small radios on them. We fallowed the hens and chicks as they moved to higher country and often times they would spend most of their time in aspen like this Thats about all the somewhat good ones I have from working. We used atvs a ton and I wish I had pics to share with you. I almost killed myself many times with those things. I would go through a tank of gas at least once every two days sometimes a tank of gas a day. Now I'll share pics I took on the time off.

WOW!!!!

Hey Scottyboy, You're right its a must for any bird hunter to run your dogs on sage grouse. It can be tuff for a lot of dog being on sage grouse for the first time. i saw a lot of experienced dogs strugle. We would host the Utah Ckucker foundation members who would bring their dogs and help with a grouse count. If your ever serious about going. Let me know. Not sure I could go but I could tell you right were to go and maybe hook you up with some locals. Theres a few populations in Utah but the mountian we were on had the best habitat and number of grouse. During the right time of the summer you could find 100+ grouse in one draw, no kiding. For those dogs used to small quail, when a big old male sage grouse, sometimes in groups of 20+, gets up right in front of them their eyes will turn into dinner plates. I'm not sure if you all know but there are certain places you can hunt Sage Grouse and this moutian is one of them. In Utah the tags, you get two tags, are first come first serve and there not to hard to get, and out of state prices aren't to bad. Nevada has a hunt but they don't allow out of stater hunt.

Just found this one. It's one of our work-trucks loaded with the atv I used. My wife, who was also working up there also, used the truck and I used the atv, at first I would keep the dogs in the truck but because I was on the atv so much and I would never have the dogs with me when I would see grouse, so I began strapping their kennel on the back of the atv. Worked great but the dogs sure and some bumpy rides when I would ride cross country. Ever once and awhile they would get sick of the bumps and eachother and the would nip at eachother. But overall the didn't mind, they loved working up there as much as I did. Good times. O, sorry about the camera strap thats in the way, my mom took the pic and we still can't break her of that habit.

Most of my time off was spent fishing in small streams. This first pic is of a decsent brown that i cought. I think that steam had to much fish in it because the fish you did catch were pretty skinny, but they were healthy non the less. Another stream I like to fish was flyfish only with native cutthroat with these. They are called Tiger troat. I can't recall what they were a mix of but they are unable to breed so they would take over the streams but they were planted for sport. They fought realy well and with a 4 weight they were tons of fun. This is about the bigest you would see. This was one of the biggest streams I liked to fish. It was stacked with fish. This was a high alpine lake, really hard to get to so I only got to go once. It held realy big browns but the day i went it rained as soon as we got there and it was pretty hard to flyfish it so I have not pics of fish from it. Thats about all I have I'll finish with a nice pic of some scenery looking up from one of the stream. That about sums it up. I regret not having taken more pics. Thanks for looking.

That first bear looks like a brute!!!

That is strange. I wonder way in the world elk would choose to be down that low.

Thought I would share these with you. I found this shed while working up in Utah and I'm glad it survived the trip down as well as it did. You have to be gental with this one. Its not the biggest I've found but I love the way it has weathered. And with all the talk about wild boar in AZ a while back I thought I would share this Boar skull I found a few years ago down south of Tucson. Only saw a live one once and that was years ago. Enjoy

Those are some nice bucks and good looking mounts!

That looks like so much fun. A little on the dangerous side but fun.

Hey NeoLaquachi, did you find it in 33? Thats your normal stomping ground isn't it? Thats were I spend my free time. Taking my last final on Monday, so come Tuesday I'll be out looking for some sheds. Maybe I'll be lucky enough and find some brownies. Hoping to find this years sheds from these two. Great Find!! Congrats NeoLaquachi!

Personaly, from those to choices from I would go with Leica. I don't have much experience with both of those but if it going to be the only pair you have the 10-15X is a little more versitial. some situations the 15X allow might be to powerfull. Just my $.02, something to think about.

How did you find that thing? Did you smell it first?

I've been messing around with my camera phone and getting it conected with my comp and finnaly got it working. I'll have to start useing it more. The quality is pretty good if I have it on the highest resolution. Here are a few pics for you that I just got off. The sheep was killed by my father-in-law back in the 80's. One side was shy 1/4 of an inch to go B&C.

You might come upon some snakes on an October hunt. I seem to see the snakes start to disappear around the beggining of October but there are always some out year round. I have come across them while quail hunting in December and January but they are far and few between. All depends on the weather. If its warm out they will probably still be out. Like younghunter I've been out quail hunting in Jan and seen them, they will be pretty slow though. I saw one out once, it was way cold but it was right after a rain so I'm sure it got washed out of its den. It was to cold move or even rattle. My dog ran by it no more then 2 feet away. You could have walk right over it and I don't think it would have done anything...... I still stayed at least 10 feet from it though.

I just need to figure out how to blur that out without it being to noticable I haven't done much with photo-shop or altering pics but have you tried just zooming into that area and color the pixels to match the surrounding area?

Thats a good idea younghunter, I might start doing that. I've always wanted to start a feild book and make note on ALL my trips out but just haven't gotten into the habit. When I shot my cow elk a few years ago, I got home to find out that someone did not load the film properly, this was back when we used 35mm, and I have not pics of the experience. I just about cried, it was my first big game and it was with a bow. I wrote the whole experience down, now I just have to remember where I put that disk.

Hey younghunter. thats what photo-shop is for.

Sadly yes I have to keep it outside. Its even at my parents house, no room for it in my apartment. I made sure its in a self place. Its in a very shaded area under and out of the rain. It will be safe. ...... I hope.