Noel Arnold

The biggest bucks are in the cedar flats. Climb up on a mountin and glass the flats. There are not a lot of deer. But the ones you see are worth the effort. Noel

Allen, I have travelled in Mexico for 35 years. The Tourist towns are usually not a problem as long as you follow a few good rules.Example( Do not travel after dark down some back street ). I go fishing in a place about a two hour drive south of Rocky Point.This is a very remote place were they are having bad drug smuggling problems right now. I was down there the first of june and about 9:00pm after dark,a hummer drove up the beach with no headlights on. They drove up to are camp and about 10 federales with machine guns totally surrounded our camp. They went through are whole camp. After about 45 stressfull minutes they said everthing was ok and that they were looking for drug Runners. If the Surf fishing was not so darn good down there, I would be a little more reluctant. But like I said, the tourist towns are safer. Noel

Shot my biggest buck while he was eating barrel cactus fruit. This was a Nov. tag. I can not remember if the fruit is still on with the dec. hunt (Since it has been 13 years since my last fricking late hunt) Noel Arnold (Arizona native who can never get drawn for the late hunt)

Ernesto, I think you misunderstood my comments. I agree with you, Do not know why he poached the bear and lion, when he could buy a tag over the counter. I was just saying that maybe if they were deer or elk,I would understand his motives.This does not mean I agree with him. Poaching is illegal and wrong regardless of speceis. Noel

Hard to understand this guy. If he was shooting monster deer or elk, I would think he is the type of guy who is wrecking our great hunting traditions.(Guys That shoot animals illegaly and a few years later pretend they shoot them legally). This guy is shooting bear and lions.Who knows why he is doing it. Noel

I have come to prefer the oct. hunt. First crack at the bucks. The only thing is you take a chance of a storm ruining the hunt.I have found that there are a lot more people hiking or backpacking in a long ways.So the first crack thing can work to your advantage. Noel

I just Called the game and fish. It is legal to use radios for hunting. I had already known this . Although from some of the comments,I was questioning my self. I guess it then depends on how each person draws the line. As long as it is legal,then I have no problems with them.What bothers me more about the future of hunting is the people who go for the horns and could care less about the meat. Noel Arnold

I have hunted 32 for years. There are still some 190 inch bucks.Like Arizona Guide said get up high and glass in the flats. You have to have radios with earplugs.If you get lucky and take one of the few Booner Bucks,just remember you can not enter him in the books using radios. Noel Arnold

With 10 points. 6A Archery bull. Oct. unit 32 Whitetail. Praise the lord for the bull tag. Noel Arnold

I shoot 140 Grain Balistic tips in my 280 with good results. For whitetail I am usually shooting 300 to 600 yards. You never have a problem wth meat damage at those distances. I also never load to the max for accuracy. Noel Arnold

Hard to tell how much more he is going to grow.He is a good looking bull regardless of how much bigger he gets.Did any one else notice those big ripped muscles on that last picture ? Noel Arnold

I am 42 years old and a native. Started hunting when I was 10.I think out of the 32 years only three have been for Mule deer. I do not know how many I have shot because for a few years you could get a extra tag for whitetail in the southern units. I am guessing about 28 or 29. About five years ago I shot a 185 inch mule deer with my muzzleloader on a rut hunt by Wickenburg. Although it was a fun hunt. It still does not compare to all of my Whitetail hunts. Noel Arnold

A trophy is in eye of the beholder. I would say that most people who have hunted them a while would say that 100 gross is the start. I have lots of bucks that go between 90 and 99. But only a few that go over 100. My problem is I love to eat them so much that usually the first I see in the mid 90s I shoot. Noel

I just emailed my congressman. Very easy to do.Thank you guys for the info. Noel

Ultramag, I totally agree with you. I still for the most part like the surgery. But I have exactly the same side effects as you. There are times in the late evening that I have to close my eyes for about five minutes and let my eyes rest. Then resume glassing. One of the fears I have had is It could get worse with time. It sounds like yours has not after eight years. That makes me feel more confident. Noel

Ultramag, I think your right about not using the artifical tears. The longer I go without using them ,the less dependent I become of them. I also have good and bad days. I am 42 and I did notice that the natural loss of up close reading was accelerated.The doctor told me this could occur. If I Had to do it again, I would have second thoughts. Noel Arnold

Keith, How long ago did you have lasic ? I had it about three years ago. I had to use artifical tears for two years. I have had mixed results with the surgery. My main problem is in late evening glassing my vision starts to fade. Low light conditions in the morning does not seem to be bothered. It may be from the eye fatigue of glassing on and off all day. Noel

I Shot a big bear that made the book years ago in unit 21. I thought it would be bad. But after cutting all the fat off and grinding into burger with beef fat. It was not to bad. Pulled the trick on not telling company what it was until after they ate it.They loved it untill I told them. Back when you could bait them a friend of ours would shoot them every year. He would tell us that some were really bad and some were good. He felt it was what they had been eating. Noel

That Big tom makes the one I shot while whitetail hunting a couple of years look small. The best part is he just saved the lives of a lot of deer and elk. Noel

It looks like hunting is going to be a rich mans sport. I would like for the top dogs of the Game and Fish to explain how it can cost so much more money to run the dep. in one year. I can see little increases,but not like this. Noel

Couesi1, I do not think you read all of my remarks. Or you read only the ones you wanted to read. What Claude did was murder. And I think that most of the game wardens in the United states are great guys. But there are a few exeptcions TO THE RULES. And yes claude never should have shot the guys in the first place. Noel

I lived in Soutern Idaho at the time. My Uncle had sold the trailer to the guy that was hiding Claude. Most of the locals hated the game warden, and all of the rumors about what the game warden had done to other people are true. I guess the other game warden was a ok guy. Game Wardens are like any other profession. You have good and bad. He still did not have the right to execute them after wounding them. I do know that the game warden told Claude that he was taking him back dead or alive. It is to bad that the game warden had not been fired years before it had ever happend. I have total support for our game wardens in Az. But my dad who is a native, has told me about a guy who was a warden in Az about 40 years ago. He seems like he was a lot like the warden Claude shot. I guess he had pulled his gun on a lot of innocent people in Az. I think they finally fired him. Noel Arnold

Darton (Maverick) For the money is my favorite bow. 500.00 dollars for the bow alone. First bow to come out with the cam and a half. If you have the extra 200.00 dollars, buy the matthews. The darton shoots just as good.The only difference is the matthews will probally last longer due to the stronger parts. If you do not shoot year round, then the darton will last for years. Noel Arnold

The pictures must not do him justice. 110 inches without a spread is huge. Looks like he could have at least a 15 inch spread. Although you can see he has big mass. Noel

After reading 257stw and his comments. And also from my own experiences ,when you hike in a long way the type of people you encounter are usually more respectfull. Unless they drove there quads offroad for miles.Those people you feel like shooting there quads and make them walk out. Which will make them have a Heart attack because there in such bad shape. Noel