DesertBull

Welcome back! Now, where are the pictures?

Once in a lifetime? It's my second one in 7 years. I can tell if an animal is big, mature, and worthy of hanging my tag on without a tape measure or a score sheet and I am not hunting to get my knob shined, my picture in a magazine, or my name in the record. To each his own, but that's not for me. I also didn't say anything about not scouting or using binocs, if you knew me and know what I do, you would know that I am ALL ABOUT SCOUTING.

Who cares about the friggen score? If you like the animal, shoot it, if you don't pass. It's your hunt, not some joker with a record book and a score sheet. The G&F wants to outlaw salt, baiting, lion hunting, ATV's etc, etc, etc, Well, I want to outlaw tape measures!

That should be a slam dunk At least you should harvest a 90 incher JINX!

Yes, let's stop talking about elk tags. Let's talk about my unit 18A muzzleloader ANTELOPE TAG!

I wonder what their ratio of "I support opportunity hunts" to "Leave the hunts alone" correspodence is? I wonder of they would tell us?

I've shot both quite a bit. IMO, the 7mag kicks harder but not much. Ballistically, they are both about the same, but you can go up to 175 grains in factory ammo with the 7mag. The Weatherby is made for handloaders. At $25 a box, you'll shoot the 270 more, which is always good.

You mean like the "Chicken Ranch"?

Have you lost your friggen mind? Did you see the thread with his trophy roomSSS ? Tony doesn't need to hunt But what about the part where he says "getting a real 9-5 job"? That's what makes me think he has gone looney tunes on us.

Have you lost your friggen mind?

I don't think the Dec hunts are easier either, just more desirable conditions to be out in the desert. December also gives me more days to hunt. With the hunt taking place over the Christmas holidays, I usually have more time off work without have to burn limited vacation days. Kids are out of school also, which makes it easier. Most of the hard rutting takes place in Jan anyway. What if they just cut those Dec hunts to the week between Christmas and New Years instead of 2.5 weeks and left the tag numbers alone?

I finally got on. All it said was, "NO SOUP FOR YOU!"

Why did the Dept screw up the bear hunts? Is this more of their opportunity / recruitment or is it because they want to stop killing bears? Sept is far away the best month to chase them, yet all of the general hunts are now in August and October. They moved all the Sept. hunts to archery only.

Yes, unit 24, first hunt. Now, tell us how you managed to get through!!!

I still cannot log on. It just sits there and spins, round and round and round and round and round and round andround and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round :blink: :blink:

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WHAT THE FLIP IS GOING ON OVER THERE IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT?

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I got lucky on this one. Although the guy did steal my salt block.

When they say it is a "barrier" to hunting, that is G&F speak for "it will cost us a few dollars, so screw that."

As I said in the other thread, I think there is something going on with the position of the eyes. The ears, nose, antlers, and hide all look fantastic to me however.

NM makes all deer hunters report their harvest or they cannot apply the following year, why can't AZ do this? I would rather have to draw an archery tag then have them take away the December / January hunts. I think it stinks, but honestly, most other western states (many of which have deer numbers far greater than AZ) have already gone to draw tags for archery. Depending on how many archery tags they issue, I can imagine that there would be quite a few leftover tags that could be had after the draw that would not require burning bonus points. So, if they do go to a draw, would you also have to choose which season you hunt or would the tag be good for all archery seasons? There are a few southern AZ units that have no early archery hunts right now. If they went to a draw and added these units to the early hunts, I would apply for them.

I have several pics from late May with antlers poking through of desert muleys.

I think the hard horned buck is just physically much bigger and more mature than the velvet one. Notice how much bigger it's ears, chest and neck are. The only thing that might be questioned is that the velvet bucks eyes are more forward facing (like a predator's eyes) and the hard horned buck's eyes are more side facing. Either way, they are both fantastic, IMO.

For what it is worth, this bill is not solely "W"'s bill. Our own illustrious Senator, John McLame is the driving force. He even teamed up with old buddy Terrible Teddy to bring in on board. It will be the swift end to his Presidential hopes. W does support it however and therefore needs to be impeached. He is charged with duty of protecting the Constitution of the USA and the country from intruders. Closing the border is the first thing that needs to be done, then we can decide on what to do with the criminals that are already here. Yes, they are criminals, they have broken the law. It would not be that hard to cut the illegal traffic by 95% or more. Use the military, the NG, the border patrol, local law enforcement, fences, radar, satellites, etc. We, as citizens of the State of AZ, passed a proposition to stop state aid to illegals and to force state workers to turn in illegals when they try to apply for it. Our great Governor has refused to enforce it against the will of the people. Hispanics voted for the bill by a vast majority also, so don't bring out the lame "race" excuse. The ones coming over illegally make it so much harder for the ones wanting to do it the right way. Rewarding criminal behavior is wrong.