MrMogollon

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Located in Central Phoenix.

I've never looked through Twin Kowas, so I'm not sure.

What about BlackOvis? Not sure if you consider that a fancy name or not... but their stuff is discounted often and they make good stuff. Right now they have all of their merino baselayers on sale, and an extra 20% if you use code SPRING20.

Will be hunting Coues deer in December down south!

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Looking to sell a turkey gun build that I put together with a Mossberg 500. I'm trying to fund a sub-gauge turkey gun build instead. I love this gun - you can beat the living crud out of it, throw it in the backseat on a hunt and not have to worry about it. Parts list/upgrades below: Mossberg 500 - 12 Gauge (not sure of the exact model) Magpul Stock, with all of the extra parts and accessories. You can modify this thing to fit your LOP perfectly, and it comes with 3 or 4 different height cheek risers UTG Picatinny Rail Feyachi 2 MOA Red Dot (bought this on Amazon and pretty happy with it, but if you don't want this - I will keep it and you can take $50 off the asking price) Brand new magazine tube spring & plug/follower Cabelas Turkey Choke Tube (I believe it's .665", but can confirm tonight) I wrapped all of the polymer parts in Mossy Oak Bottomland and like the look, but its easy enough to remove if its not your thing. Asking $350 for the entire package. Bill of sale w/ AZ Driver's License is fine. Located in Central Phoenix.

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Looking to sell a pair Sitka Mountain Pants in Subalpine, size 35 regular. These have been washed and worn once, they are just not the right size for me. I have the removable foam knee pads too, just forgot to take a picture of those. Asking $XXX cash. FTF. Located in Central Phoenix.

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That's good to hear! Sounds like you were in the southern part of the unit. I will be near Mormon Lake so a pretty good distance away!

Anyone out in 6A this past weekend? I'm headed up Thursday for the hunt, and was wondering how vocal the birds are right now / how responsive they are. I have not been up in the area since last spring and was planning on trying to roost a bird the first night. If you knocked a bird down, lets see the grip and grins!

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Hoping to hunt Rio's next year! Was on the hunt with my brother when he took his Rio in 2021, but I still need to get redemption in Texas. Then Osceola's! I've been putting in for points here in AZ for some years now, and will hopefully get lucky at some point on Gould's!

A big group of my hunting buddies and I drove up to the San Carlos Reservation on Friday morning to chase turkeys for the weekend. We got to our campsite around 2:30pm and got the wall tent and kitchen set up. After consulting OnX, we figured out where each group was going and hit the road for a little evening scouting. It was the first weekend of the first season on the San Carlos, so we couldn’t actually hunt until Saturday morning. My hunting partner and I opted for a spot close to camp, hoping to minimize the drive time the next morning. We drove our road from about 4pm until just before sundown, without locating any birds (about 10 miles out-and-back with no gobbles). We had the windows down, heading back towards camp when I thought I heard a gobble. We stopped the car and listened for 5 minutes… nothing. I was sure I heard a tom! My hunting partner climbed back in the rig, probably thinking I was pulling his chain. He shut the door and BOOM - gobbles. Perfect. We had at least two toms roosted and were even able to see one of them roosted halfway up a ponderosa. We dropped a waypoint on OnX and made our way back to camp. After a good night’s sleep, we were up and at ‘em at 4:15am with coffee and premade breakfast burritos on the wood stove. While we were packing the truck, it started to snow (NOT IN THE FORECAST!). We made the short drive to our spot, parking 600 yards from where we had roosted the birds the night before, and heard the gobblers going off! That made it easier to pick a good spot to set up in the dark. The snow was really starting to come down as we made it into our spot and set up our decoys. I only started hunting turkeys in the past few years, so I was unsure how the weather would affect the birds. But I was convinced our toms would just hangout on the roost all day because I sure as heck wanted to be back in the warm truck! We made a few quiet yelps to let the gobblers know where we were and sat back. They gobbled for the next 30 minutes, without us prompting them. We felt like we were in a good position and made another quiet yelp sequence to keep them intrigued. 15 minutes before sunrise we heard some gobbles 100 yards to the north of where our birds were roosted. It was either another set of toms that we hadn’t known about OR our birds had gotten down out of the roost without us hearing them. It ended up being the latter! The next 5 minutes was chaos, with the gobbles getting closer and closer. Each time they gobbled, I could feel it more and more in my chest. I understand the thunder chicken moniker now! I began seeing movement 75 yards out, which was a feat with the snow coming down in droves. I didn’t know it in the moment, but I think the snow covered up our decoys making it harder for the three incoming toms to know where we were. They missed the “X” and were moving to my left. In doing so, they forced me to rotate my sitting position and turn my shotgun towards the birds who were in the open at 25 yards. Aiming at the middle tom, I squeezed the trigger and CLICK. While trying to be quiet at the truck earlier that morning, I guess I hadn’t let the bolt slam all the way closed on my 3.5” shell and had a misfire. Trying to not the let moment pass me up, I cycled the bolt on my shotgun and got another round in the chamber. With all that noise, the turkeys knew something was up. They were confused and fixin to leave, but not before I got a shot off! What a cool morning! I had my first tom on the ground after an exciting hunt and the pictures in the snow will remind of this weekend forever. Side note: we filled my buddies tag in a similar fashion on Sunday morning, after it had warmed up a bunch. I’m hooked - and we will be back in the turkey woods next spring. CHEERS and thanks for reading! -MM