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ya i wanted to see a train of them walking a trail like ive seen online but the most we saw were 3 at a time. funniest was when we glassed up one taking a shoot lol. that poor guy has to walk 10 days in the desert and cant even take a dump without someone spying on him. edit: i could not believe how worn down some of those trail were right along the border, you could have rode a mountain bike or a motorcycle down them no problem. makes for some easy walking when you get on those trails too

i hunted in there from monday to yesterday evening and didnt see it. what rig were you guys in?

ya ive heard you guys talk about the bachelor groups on the early hunts. ya, i wanted to move to a completely diferent area to try and change my luck just like your saying. but it was my first time down there and i was seeing more deer than ive seen hunting carp in the kaibab so it was a little hard for me to get away from the area i was in. helped capture a few of these guys. that was a first for me. i glassed up illegals everyday we were there.

look for me i'll be the guy with 2 huge bucks hanging in camp!....hopefully

How many CW members do we have going on this hunt? I've never been down there before but Im sure it will be fun. Not Sure what rig we will be in, but it will be me and my dad with tags.

im fired up. cant wait to get down there. my neighbor hunted there the early hunt and didnt do well. saw lots of does i guess. it will be my first time hunting this area, excited to see some new country

well the record high all time for the month of october in phoenix happened in 1980, and the record high for november was in 1914. global warming for ya

yellowjacket pride! good luck bro, im jealous as can be

whoa! nice quality. i lived up that way for years and never fished that place.

hopefully we all have fun, get monster bucks and no problems.

i thought i read it was legal but you can only use rimfire?

saw 3 groups of carp does this past weekend and none had any bucks with them, not even a little spike or fork horn. are you still seeing the bucks chasing does at all? side note, had about a 20 yard shot at a nice coues and the sucker took off right as i was about to draw on him.

if it's the 3rd time its happened it doesnt sound like it was this guys fault. find a better tank further from the road i guess. why would they stop to talk to you? were you flagging them down?

after seeing a couple posts about the increase in tags and number of deer seemingly decrease, i have wondered for years what it is that they do. besides drive around in brand new trucks, and building new facilities. i know they write tickets to some and stock rainbow trout in certain lakes. i would assume they manage some waterholes? Ive seen the numbers of tags increase for about all species over the last 10 years, as well as the cost of the tags, do we have more deer to hunt now? Im into fishing too, and i noticed that when ever they do a project they ask for donations and people to donate their time, why? and if this increase in tags is just a money maker for the azgfd at the expense of the quality of hunts for us? (no rant, serious question)

thanks for the response brian. for me, your response raises more questions. you mentioned all the different org's that you work with to raise money, and also mentioned grants that some of these org's have secured, and special auction tags and what not. however the response kind of makes it sound like the game and fish doesnt do much conserving on its own and that is left to private organizations who must raise their own dollars. many people are under the impression our tage fee's and licenses go to pay for salaries, brand new 2500HD Silverado's and multi million dollar facilities and little goes back into the wildlife.

i wish it was that easy through the azgfd for the quality tags.

wmat does not sell deer tags last time i checked

nice job josh, yellowjacket pride!

saw 11 muley does and 3 coues does that were not with bucks yesterday and 1 giant buck that was by himself.

saw 14 does yesterday, no bucks with them

awesome. beautiful ram.

I was fortunate enough to get drawn when i was 15 for 15b west. got a 162, but i would have to disagree on the not passing of a 160. definately depends on the unit, but if i had a unit like say 22, i would be passing a 160 for sure, because ive seen toads there. theres quite a bit of diference in looks from a 160 to a 167 imo. 167 is a great sheep. im proud of my 162 but id wish it was a little bigger, it was 12 years old though, so i guess thats the trophy.

saw that thing on another site. what a beast. he was a serious fighter. what did he age at?

bring on the story and pics. congrats