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Boom! Just got hit for elk 5 min ago! Early rifle or early archery

I will be in the Phoenix area today 2/15 and have this pistol and ammo with me. I have for sale, a rare Dan Wesson 445 Supermag with around 100 rounds of ammo. All of the stretch frame Dan Wesson's are no longer produced and the 445 Supermag was one of, if not the most sought after calibers. Also capable of shooting 44 mag and 44 special. For a comp, there are two currently on GunBroker for over 2k each. $1600, now $1400. Located in Flagstaff. Face to face sales only.

Mesa but can travel to meet if interested.

Will be Phoenix today 2/15 with this pistol. Reduced price to $1400.

I was able to shoot a good pig this year on our first day of hunting in 19b with both my kids with me. We started by walking a canyon that always has good pig sign, with hidden water sources and "pig caves" that the javelina dig in the loose soil walls. After lunch we took a stroll down another canyon and caught a group of 5 leaving a water source. I aimed at the last and largest pig at 50 yards and dropped it. A fun family day out with my kids, and I am counting down the days when I get to watch them behind the trigger.

( Sold) Ruger SP 101 in 9mm Luger. One moon clip included. $550. Located in Flagstaff. Face to face sales only.

This is what an AR pistol looked like pre brace for decades. No one ever thought hunting with it was cheating or unfair and anyone who ever shot them would agree. Nice work!

H&R youth model 410 shotgun. Works great, but the kids outgrew it. $175. Located in Flagstaff. face to face sales only.

I am genuinely curious but what was it like before and when did it change? I mean other than the price hike. What have your Wyoming antelope experiences been like?

Numbers are definitely down. In 22 I saw probably a thousand antelope across public and private in the unit I hunted. In 23 and 24 that number was probably a few hundred. Very noticable.

I would suggest looking at the north east units. Most of them take 3 or so points to draw in the regular draw and are guaranteed tags in the special draw. Also you can put the high point tag first choice and the easy one second in the draw and still build points. You are not going to drive around looking over a ton of antelope to choose from but you will definitely have opportunities on multiple bucks. My strategy in those units is look for large sections of land with limited access. If you can find sections that require some good hiking to get into, it will eliminate 95% of the competition. Here is a quick example I found. Hunt area 22, a unit I've never hunted. This big section is over 10 square miles with legal access from only one county road. It's a 2 mile hike just to get into the upper section.

I would guess 81". I think his mass and hook shape hide his length.

I wouldn't get to worked up by some of the responses here. On any hunting forum or page asking for specific spots is generally faux pas, especially when it's your first post. Take the time to contribute content here and people will be more willing to help out. I think the hunting knowledge and general caliber of people is better on this forum than any other. As far as bear, I would stay out of 19b unless the prickly pear crop is good. There are some awesome slopes to glass in 19b that are loaded with prickly pear. There also that big canyon over by Drake that I'm sure hold bear but I've never hunted it. Personally I would suggest the 17s. Both my bears came out of the 17s. I think the state record actually came out of there. With the units you are asking about why not look at 20a as well. There are a lot of bears in there too. The easiest way to get a bear is to sit water. Just find a tank with sign and sit it. Preferably multiple days in a row. Kill any legal bear you want, especially your first. Most those units never hit their quota. Even a small sow is more meat than a deer. Also my last big bear would be the closest north American game to beef I have ever shot. My family has absolutely devoured it. I have antelope, deer,elk, and bear is the first choice in our household.

About a month ago I picked up my dream spotting scope, a Leica apo televid 82 and have been enjoying glassing every morning. About 2 weeks ago I glassed up a bachelor heard of bucks in an out of the way spot and a big buck in the group caught my eye. He was a 180+ buck that is just uncommon in this area. Well after that day I never saw him again and switched my focus to dove hunting with my kids. This morning while walking a field looking for dove 2 1/2 miles from where is saw the buck originally he strolled from behind some cedars at about 80 yards. I guess I might have put the shotgun down and bring the bow out.

I know this buck didn't get this big by making mistakes and is probably a nocturnal drinker but there is only one water source within a mile in any direction so I decided to sit it this morning. Could have plugged a rag horn at 7 yards but no sign of the big buck

Great deal for someone. These are on my chest Everytime I hit the woods. Easy to free hand and on a tripod you will pick up deer a mile away. Also the 15s were discontinued so these are getting harder to find.

I have never been much into professional sports. I have to admit, super bowl Sunday is normally my favorite day to javelina hunt as there is normally not another soul in the woods. My 8 year old son however fell far from the tree, especially with football. My dad's regaling stories of wining Kansas state highschool state titles and college career has had him enamoured. K state and K U have long been admired in our family as we still have quite a bit of family back there and nearly everyone has come from one of those two alma maters. Well being a young kid, anything Kansas and sports is good, so he began to root for the chiefs about 3 years ago. I don't have the heart still to this day to tell him that the chiefs aren't actually in Kansas. Much to the dismay of my Arizona family and my wife's family who are die hard Steelers fans, he has stuck to his guns and had bragging rights over us for 3 years. He is so passionate he asked if there was some way he could go see the chiefs in person next year. I thought this could be an excellent learning opportunity for him and agreed as long as he can figure out how to pay for his own ticket. The wheels in his head began to strip when he tried to figure out how he could buy a $500+ ticket on $2.50 weekly allowance. I told him to get creative. About a week later he came and asked if he could go shed hunting with me to earn some money. I agreed and told him any morning he wanted to go shed hunting just come and wake me up early and I would take him. Well after about 6 weeks of my daily 5am wake up call by him, he sold his first batch of antlers. Total profit $703. Enough for a bottom level ticket.

Very annoying. Those are some of the main areas I enjoy hiking and exploring. They are typically closed in the winter for 4-5 months for snow and now they are going to close them for most of the summer when the fire danger is high. When is the public allowed to use public land?

Well the shed hunting has slightly tapered off for a bit. The warm weather and opening of forest roads has produced the yearly influx of campers and hikers and our success rate has dramatically fallen. We did glass up a shed over a mile away though 15x binoculars. I couldn't tell if it was a small elk or big deer. Well after a tough hike up a treacherous cinder cone we discovered it wall a small deer shed but our first brown deer of the year. We have a place in Montana are headed up for the summer and plan to do a bunch of shed hunting up there. It will be a fun challenge. We are in the area where the show Yellowstone is filmed. In the last season where the old cowboy died sleeping on his bedroll under the stars was actually filmed in our front yard. The area is abundant with whitetails, muleys and moose. My son is dead set on finding some moose sheds.

Haha. That's just a baseline for the bare minimum, bedroom, laundry, dishes. I always give them ways to make more if they put more effort in. My 6 year old daughter made $5 yesterday scrubbing toilets and showers. Weeding the front yard completely always pays $5.

That's awesome! I feel grateful that for my son we have had a steady rate of finding them. About 1 every other day. It keeps the attention span of an 8 year old engaged enough. I keep telling him that if you keep at it long enough you will hit the jackpot on occasion. My best day ever pre kids was a $2000 day. I have also done 150 miles in a row with only a chalk deer shed to show for it. Awesome work by your son!

Good point, and ya, probably only a 6 hour drive or so. I'm just waiting for tickets to go on sale so I can shop around. Some places have some for sale now but I think that's just season ticket holders trying to sell their tickets.

He wants to go to Arrowhead. The only close game in the division however would be the Raiders in Vegas. Cardinals would have to be a playoff game and I don't have high hopes of the Cardinals making the playoffs. We could take an Amtrak from Flagstaff to Kansas city but that's a 24 hour train ride with a good chance of sitting in an open air stadium during a snow storm. Broncos would be the only other close option but with their diehard fan base I don't think we would get any break on prices going there. An opinions are welcome, like I said, I am no expert on the NFL and have never been to a game. I never knew going into this year how hard it was to follow a team not in your area or division.