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Who here really thinks hunting with a crossbow gives a hunter an unfair advantage over a compound bow.? They are way more cumbersome to load an arrow, especially in a hunting scenario. Get out cocking rope. Makes a nice loud click. Put rope away. Get a bolt out etc. All while trying to see the animals location. . Hope that bucks not laughing to hard. Now I'm walking around with a cocked, loaded crossbow for rest of day. Not to mention hazards of getting in ,out of a the truck. Take one out while walking thru the woods for a few miles, they get heavy and awkward . Let alone problems dealing with the rugged terrains. Kinda heard the ridiculous theory that crossbow hunters are killing more deer, than other hunters. All archery hunters just love the new quota system. Its ok to limit number of deer harvested during the otc archery season. They even added extra days to hunt . They still give out thousands of rifle permits. Why not give a quota system for crossbows. Unfortunately I can no longer use my compound bow. Due to arthritis in my left thumb., hand. Its very painful just to hold a bow , let alone draw. To be honest I'm having problems just gripping a crossbow or a rifle to get a steady shot. Practicing with shooting sticks helps. Did you see the list of tags for the hunter pool. Giving out thousands of tags for numerous species. Why not make some of those tags, available for a season for crossbows.

Read the fine print, when you see a bold highlighted statement. I fell for it. The 35 DOLLAR course is over 4 hrs long. 50 question certification test. Once you start your screwed. Mvd FREE COURSE is 20 min video and 20 questions to get certified. I feel like I got scamed by the AZGFD . Extra 15 for a certification card. The only possible upside. Possible cheaper insurance if I ever want to make my quad Street legal or if I go to another state where a certified safety course is required

The four little words not highlighted before free ohv course (they are not the)

Do not take test above. Go to mvd for free test . Otherwise 35 fee if you use one of these, and takes 3 hours.

Anyone take the new mandatory test? New 2025 law effective Jan 1. Take course / test or no OHV decal.

Hunted unit 8 since the 80s. First time I ever saw a herd of wild horses 🐎 😳. At the cattle guard, just before Whitehorse lake. Just stood in and along the rd. At least 15.

Might explain what I saw during elk season in unit 8. Just turned off the 9 rd onto 139. Couple trucks along rd. Could see guys in woods,coming back to truck. Looked to be carrying 22 auto rifle. All asain total 4 I could see. Guessin squirrel hunting. The next 8 vechiles, trucks, quads, side-by-side I passed were full of asains.they where on every side rd. for miles. Seemed weird to me. I hunted 8 for yrs. It was first to see that many Asians. Everyone in full camo

Bed of truck for 30+ yrs..still do depending on hunt. 10x10 Coleman for 10 yrs. Teepee tent last 10 or so. Never s fire , no beer on most hunts.⁹ Picked up a 10x10 cabelas outfitters xwt. Probably sell it. To much for a few days. May try Alaskan guide #6 , always seems to get windy and small 2- 3 pole tents suck. New insta- pop tents might work but not in colder weather. Anyone got experience with either 10x10.

In the coming days, much of the focus will shift to the shooter and security lapses. The shooter was not an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents, according to two officials who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the U.S. Secret Service counterassault team. The heavily armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the person at the center of protection. Law enforcement recovered an AR-style rifle at the scene, according to a third person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. An AP analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos from the scene of the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a person wearing gray camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a building at AGR International Inc., a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump’s rally was held. The roof where the person lay was less than 150 meters (164 yards) from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target. For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M-16 rifle. The AR-15, like the shooter at the Trump rally had, is the semi-automatic civilian version of the military M-16.

Eyewitness tells BBC he saw gunman climbing up building with rifle, tried to warn police From CNN's Jessie Yeung An eyewitness outside the rally where former President Donald Trump was injured in a shooting said he saw the gunman climb up a roof and tried to warn police. “We noticed the guy crawling, bear crawling, up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us,” the witness told BBC News on Saturday after the incident. “We’re standing there, we’re pointing at the guy crawling up the roof. … We can clearly see him with a rifle,” he said. He added that they notified police in the vicinity and that officers “didn’t know what was going on.” “I’m thinking to myself, ‘Why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage?’ I’m standing there pointing at him for two, three minutes, Secret Service is looking at us from the top of the barn, I’m pointing at that roof, just standing there like this, and next thing you know, five shots ring out,” he said. CNN cannot independently verify his account. John Miller, CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, said the testimony raises many “serious questions.” “There’s going to be an extraordinarily, excruciatingly detailed examination about who knew what, how was this communicated, and who determined to take what action or not take what action,” he said.

Guess I should just put in for the MD hunt and while scouting early just drop into the WT camps to ask if they have seen any muleys!

I wanted to give unit 8 a try this yr. I prefer to WT hunt. Unit 8 -- hunt number 1079- 50 tags. Oct. 25 -Nov. 3, 7 days. I figured a perfect hunt as only 50 tags. Great time of yr. Etc. Guess what! Unit 8 -- hunt number 1011 - 300 MD tags. Nov 1 - Nov. 7. So if I'm lucky enough to draw unit 8 . The last 3 days of my hunt, I get the pleasure of 300 MD hunters ruining my hunt. Not just coming in days early scouting and setting up camps , but actually hunting! Is AZGF CRAZY, or just to dumb to see they are really screwing the WT hunters. I did contact AZGF, and actually got a reply. I was told its been overlapped for yrs. by a day or two to accommodate the systems program to give hunters 7 days to hunt. I'm the first guy to ever contact them about this issue. They didn't really see it as a problem.