Mark Sipe

Looking to purchase Radial X Weave Pro 200 arrows. Please let me know if you know where I can find some. They need to be at least 27 1/4" long. Thanks

Where are you located? I am in Tucson. If close, I will take it.

Lance, Awesome story. Way to stick with it. I think I like the story of your first bear better though ( sponsored by Smith & Wesson, Fruit of the Loom and Altherr Custom Game Calls - "Ruff Ruff"). Now that is a great campfire story!

Eric, Congrats to your Dad on a absolutely beautiful trophy. I seriously doubt this record will ever be broken. The state record Merriams measured 2 4/16" and has been the state record for around 20 years. Gould's are not really known for long spurs, so this is an incredible bird. My hat is off to Rick. Congrats again, Mark Sipe

I just wanted to give a big shout out to the Bowhunting in Arizona Record Book Committee for putting on a great banquet to honor the Arizona bowhunters and all their achievements. A HUGE THANK YOU to all the members of the committee and all the others that helped out and donated time and/or merchandise/services. Committee members; Mark Vancas, Chris Dunn, Marvin Zieser, Mark Ovitt & Bill Crum Bill we are all hoping & praying for your full recovery. Thanks to Corky Richardson for MC'ing he event & thanks to Pete Shepley & PSE for the use of their facilities. I also wanted to thank Arizona Game & Fish Commissioner, John Harris for attending & speaking at the banquet. It is good to have a fellow bowhunter on the commission. The best part of the banquet for me was seeing alot of old friends I hadn't seen in quite a while. Thanks Again BIA, Mark Sipe

Brian, Congrats on an awesome bird!! The stick & string is the only way to go for Turkey. Beautiful photos & video. Those Goulds Toms can be pretty aggressive some times. "Attack of the Goulds", I love it. Mark

Blake, For meal ideas & recipes my wife & I love the "Eating for Life" book by Bill Phillips. Lots of great tasty & healthy recipes. We subsitute wild game in the recipes whenever we can. For instance, if the recipe calls for ground turkey, we use ground venison, elk etc. I will be starting back on a regiment right after my Turkey hunt to prepare for my Elk hunt this Sept. Good luck to you, Mark

All, The 5th Edition of Bowhunting in Arizona Record Book is now available to order. Just go to Bowhunting in Arizona web site home page for order form & contacts. http://www.bowhuntinginarizona.com/index.html . This has to be the best record book in publication!

As others have said, "They Call Me Hunter" is a great book. I too could not put it down till I was done. There are a couple of other GREAT hunting books authored by men from right here in southern Arizona. 1) "Lucky Shot" Favorite Hunting Stories of an Arizona Sportsman by Layne A. Brandt. 2) "The Life & Times of Ollie Barney" An Autobiography by an Arizona Native Son by Ollie Barney. I highly recommend all three of these books. I have read the first two & I'm about half way done with the third.

Thank You all for your comments, i did work really hard just to get that post up and online, so again thanks a lot. . I am looking forward to my juniors hunt for javelina in unit 33 in a couple weeks! .But untill then there is always school .

thank you all for the nice comments!!

I am 13 and this is my first buck, I have been hunting for 3 years for a deer, and in the meantime, I have killed a javelina & a cow elk, but I had yet to get a deer until this year. My dad, my step sister, and I got up at 3:00 every morning and drove out to our hunting area and hiked to our special glassing point and waited for a buck to come. On the last day, we went out, and glassed for about a half of an hour, and my dad saw what looked like a doe, so he told me to practice getting it in the scope just like any other doe, then he looked for a little while and said to me " Matt, its a spike, its the last morning, if you want to and you have a clear shot, take it." I waited for a pretty good shot, then took it, a miss, my dad racked another shell in for me and I got back on him. I thought it was odd because the deer was just looking around, and wondering where the sound came from. Once I had another shot, I took it again, another miss. Just like before, he was just looking around, still had no idea where the sound was coming from. Then, on the final shot, I hit him in the neck, I didn't see, but my dad said that he did a flip down the mountain, and was down instantly. My shot was 287 yards and I shot him with my moms' 7 mag. Even though it was a very small deer, I was still really exited that I got it done. I have to say though; this was the biggest deer I have ever shot! The right spike measured 3 4/8" and the left spike was 3 1/8" long. I am kind of disappointed that my sister shot a bigger one. Next year Ill get the bigger one. Thanks for reading my story!!! Matt

Thats cute as heck. That sure put a smile on my face. Thanks for posting. Mark

WKLMAN, You got my curiousity up. Exactly what did you get drawn for? Mark

Snapshot, Yes, Thank you & Angela for your hard work & hospitality in hosting the Tucson CWT Get Together. It was great to meet everyone . My family had a great time & your place is beautiful. We just loved the views. CWT has a bunch of quality people. It is an honor to be associated with such a great bunch. Thank you Amanda for starting & running the nations premiere hunting forum. You are an inspiration! Mark