DesertBull

Consider yourself very fortunate to live in Show Low. Good fishing, hunting, skiing, camping, hiking, etc. There are still big muley bucks there. Getting better since the Rodeo fire too. If I were you, I would take up archery (if you don't already) hunting to pass the time between tags drawn. It could be awhile, especially for Elk and Antelope. Oh yeah, stay out of the casino!

That is a great buck. Congrats! That last pic really shows his width.

INSURANCE!

On those depredation hunts, doesn't the G&F tell you where they need elk taken from? I think if you called them, they will tell you right where the problem elk are at.

I find no difference. When you are concentrating on the target, you don't even notice which way the pins are oriented.

I recently upgraded my site to a Trophy Ridge Matrix. I like it. Pins are very bright. Best part is that you can adjust the site without any tools, then lock it down after you have it dialed in.

Where can I find a list of upcoming 3D shoots? Thanks!

I would have drawn them a map. Straight to sherriff Joe's tent city.

.223 Ammo is cheap. The cheaper the ammo, the more you will shoot. The more shoot, the better you will be.

I have a Buckskin too. 2006.

Thanks!

I have a Reflex bow. Good value, good shooter. I would like to try out that new Reflex Ridgeline bow though. Looks like they made some improvements; parallel limbs, quality strings and cables, etc. I just don't shoot a bow well enough or have the time to dedicate to practicing with it to justify spending $800 on a new Mathews or Bowtech when a bow like the Reflex or Diamond is half the price. Today's mid-priced bows are better than the the top of the line bows of 10 years ago.

whoa. not good.

WOW! That's great. Congrats to you!

Been seeing quite a bit of muley rutting since the last storm / cold spell blew through last weekend.

NICE!

Don't you think it would be much easier to just vote in a new Governor that try and change the whole system? I don't fear the unknown as much I as fear the 7 ear ring wearing, 37 tattoo sporting, Hybrid car driving, hemp shoe wearing, North Scottsdale vegan voter having a say in the game and fish laws.

Most people don't hunt. You want some lifetime member of PETA or a greenie in Paradise Valley voting for the Commision? Anti-hunters would love to elect a barn full of commissioners.

I believe it used to be this way, but people started complaining that the prisoners had access to your SS number, address, birthdate, and possibly the dates that you would be away from home, they stopped doing it, I THINK.

Actually, Colorado is the exact opposite. They went from OTC deer tags, to limited numbers and a drawing. Their sportsmen were fed up with dwindling deer herds and declining quality and got their G&F to listen to them, stop selling too many tags, and manage the resource instead of the revenue. Now Colorado, once again, has one of the top mule deer hunts in the country. Now, sportsmen in Colorado have started to hammer the powers that be on their farce of a landowner tag system. They recently got the rules passed that prohibit the land owners from selling to tag brokers who then turn around and mark up the price and re-sell them. Next up, they are trying to remove the provision from the land owner tags that allow the purchaser to hunt unit-wide on a land owner tag. Right now, if you by a tag from a "rancher", you are not linited to hunting the ranch, you can hunt anywhere in the unit that the ranch resides. The Governor of AZ has succeeded in populating the Game Commission with individuals that are in favor of managing our wildlife as a source of revenue that they can tap into (see the recent posting reguarding the legislature's attempt to raid the G&F coffers) when needed instead of managing it with biological reasoning. Notice the reaction of the commission when the legislature passed the recent non-resident caps. They were furious. Why? Maybe because the NR tags sell for 4x the cost of a resident tag? Notice also that they were not real keen on trying to get the USO court ruling overturned. They put up a good show when it originally went against AZ, but it took a liberal congressman from Nevada to actually get anything done. Were they really (secretly) happy that they were going to be able to sell unlimited numbers NR tags? Who knows? Notice also the timeline of events in the last year or so. First, the Commission and G&F lobby for increased fees. They use then current license and tag sales to justify their need for higher prices. Then, once that is passed, they start in with hunter recruitment campaign. This is designed to sell more licenses and tags. IF they had increacded tag sales first, their budget numbers would not have looked so bleak and they probably would not have received the price boost that were looking for. So, now they have not only increased the price of tags and licenses, they are on way to issueing many more tags and licenses to further increase the revenue stream. I am not against the G&F making more money, as long as it used to manage wildlife with sound biological principals and with those that are paying the bills having some say. If they just want to fill the bank so that it can be later raided for some general budget shortfalls, well then, they can pound sand.

My browser locked up when I hit "submit application". $10,000,000,000 worth of business in conducted per week on the web, yet every year the G&F departments (not just AZ either) can't complete a simple transaction. Maybe they should take some of that money they use on chub minnow rescue and update their Commadore 64's?

Pentax already had some ED glass binos (The SP's) and they are awesome. I wonder what the improvements are?

NICE! Just goes to show you can still kill animals with an "old school" bow (overdraw, cast riser, and aluminum arrows!). Who needs $1,000 Mathews?

That's cool, but if you ain't got pics, it's all just rumor! Just kidding. Congrats on the deer. We saw some bruiser muley bucks going nuts on Saturday, after the storm went through. Two 4x4's that I would guess at 160"+. My friend shot a pig on Friday evening.

They changed the web page again. It now says, "..Mid January". Looks like more problems with the online apps.