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my buddy has a bushnell legend 1200 arc rangefinder. 5-1200 yards, bow and rifle mode. brand new, never been out of the case. new from cabelas delivered w/ tax is 414.36. Realtree camo. 300 obo call mike @ 928-595-9464

what r u gonna do when they outlaw whatever it is that u use? And what if i don't like the way AZGFD has been managing our game? I never hired anybody. I always hear the old hunters talk about the good ol days when there were a lot of deer around. There's a difference between managing game and selling tags.

there's a difference between fishing touneys and hunting to put food in the table. Think again.

I run a couple of small business just to make ends meet, Have a family, participate in church activities, etc. I have limited time to hunt; baiting helps me maximize the few moments i have each year to hunt. Please don't take that away from me. I could go on...i'll save it for the other thread....

Lobo, One day you will learn that views like that is what is hurting hunting. There are lots things I don't agree with about hunting. I'm not about to list them. When they outlaw MY trail cameras, they will come after something you like and enjoy next. I'm not going to be there to help you in your fight at that time, neither will any of the other trail cam users. You will learn that outdoorsmen and women need to stick together no matter the issue. Ever heard of divide and conquer? You are doing the work for the anti's with those comments. I sure wish the trappers were still around to help us in our fight now, but they are gone. I was too young to help them in their fight, wish I could have. Ryan thanks for saving me some typing!!!!!

i'm tryin my best to make it. told the kiddos from my sunday school class i'd take em if i could get off work. I'll say hey if i can.

i'm liking it already. I don't know what's going to be in the video window, but i hope it's some good wildlife footage. Awesome hunt vids will always bring me back lookin for more.

you gotta be kidding me! that's incredible!

if u wanna comin in hard and fast, put out some timothy hay. They can smell the stuff for miles.

congrats!! looks like ya had fun!

Just read in the arizona repulsive that a bill is being introduced to ban hi cap mags-anything over 10 rounds. I think we gotta take this one seriously.

Name calling and everything goin on here....(i think it's all in good fun, though) http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID19/1124.html

stick an arrow in that sucker!!! nice pics anyways

call me bro. i just talked to a lady who thinks she's got 'em. I pm'd you my number.

someone's got one for sale in the campfire section of the forum.

pm sent.

tree stand is sold pending funds!!

I have a gorilla king kong tree stand for sale for 75 bucks. It's big and cushy, and i think i have some climbing sticks for it somewhere, too. It's similar to the King Kong Lounge, which Cabelas has for 149, but it's an older model. I hung it one time, and sat in it for a couple of hours. I'm switching to ground blinds, so i don't want or need it anymore. I'll post some pics when i can find my camera.

Here's a pic of the stand. the platform measures 24W by 30L. The back cushion is on the in the pic on the platform of the stand. You can sit dark to dark in this stand, no problem. It is very comfortable.

Gotta go with pwrguy on this one. You've put your time in, now it's time to draw the tag and hunt with confidence. I know a guy who drew i think it was a late 13b last year only after 3 years of putting in, and his wife drew on her first try. He brought home a legit 200plus muley. No guides. According to him, not too much scouting either. He told me he went up a week or two early, got to know the place, and pulled a big boy out from under a big time guide. Good luck.

I think you kind of missed the point of the whole thing. Each paragraph is a generalization of my observations. None of the paragraphs about the 3 types of hunters is true exclusively. It is my point of view, based upon actual re-occuring true life experiences in the field. I didn't give a lesson on different types of hunter's morality, just different types of hunters objectives in the field, and how that effects their own hunting standards. I've only known a handful of trophy hunters who weren't snobs, and like i was saying, snobbery is good. Brings me to mind the sound of a yelping dog.

it seems how hunters view hunting stems directly from their reason for taking up the sport. Trophy hunters sometimes will have a different view than meat hunters. Then there are what i would call "sport hunters" who may have a different reason to hunt than meat hunters and trophy hunters. Trophy hunters are like dry-fly purists. They are the snobs of the sport; they make the cover of the magazines, yet don't often care to help a youngster or newbie on their way. A cocky, stingy lot, they are. (I'm not speaking exclusively, because there are exceptions, but i'm speaking genereally.) Many of those boys are not likely to help out someone who's inexperienced unless cameras are pointed their direction. They have high standards, and expect everyone else to hold to their line of thinking. But they also make the sport enviable. Their expertise is good for hunting, because it raises the bar, on everything from equipment that is manufactured to the quality of hunts themselves. Their success draws people to hunting, and gives us all some respect. Kind of like what lance armstrong did for cycling. By the time Lance won his 7th tour, everybody and their brother had a bike hanging in the garage. Lance was good for cycling, and good for bicycle manufacturers. Pro hunters much the same way. Professionalism demands a "space race" for our sport. Better gear. Better opportunity. Better hunting. It brings more respect. These are the guys that poop their pants at the mere mention of the term "gutshot." And cow tags are embarrassing. Meat hunters have a different view. Their camps are fuller. Their smiles are bigger. Their hearts are warmer. It's all about filling the tag and filling the freezer. No snobbery here. Youngsters and newbies welcome, lots of back slapping and hand shaking. No big egos, no thousand yards shots, no twenty five hundred dollar guns. Just grandpas '06, a pair of work boots, an army surplus jacket, and some remmington core-lokt ammo. They probly don't stray too far from the road, but they are brothers. They're attitude is more along the lines of, "i don't owe that animal a thing, it's dinner on the hoof, and if it's brown, it's down. Sport hunters are like wannabe trophy hunters. They do the best they can. Most of them don't have the time or money or talent of the elitest hunters. They're the average joe's who'd like a crack at a big boy at least once in their lifetime, but will settle for something "decent" today. They are the core of hunters, the middle class of us. They might be the guilty ones of taking a shot that's a hair too long, but if it pans out, there's no regrets. They probly carry a remmington 700 or winchester 70, topped with a leupold vx1 or vx2. Got a decent Ford truck and a quad; and if times are good a camper in tow. Probably wouldn't shoot a spike, but aren't necessarily holding out for a booner. Just something decent. Maybe a bit insecure about their trophy room, but maybe not. Maybe just as proud of the 140 class muley as Bobby-big-time's 210 stud from the Strip. Sport hunters are the heart and soul of hunting. They are the consumer. They make it happen. There's a lot of opinions here. But there's a lot of objectives. Different objectives will make different standards. And that's not a bad thing. It's when you impose your standards on everyone else, that hipocrisy begins. Year before last i took a 17 year old out to get his first mule deer. I got him his first elk 2 weeks earlier, and he was lucky enough to have a 22 muley tag in his pocket. A local, if i mentioned his name, 3/4 of the folks from the payson area would know him, tried to run us out of our hunting spot. Tried to intimidate me, and acted like i was from another planet and had invaded his territory. We hunted on. We got into some deer, but i couldn't get the kid to connect. The next morning local boy shot a forker from an adjoining ridge from where we were hunting. He had to be 20 years this kids senior, tried to run him off, and then went and shot a forkhorn. That's about as classy as gut shooting a cow elk a thousand yards away while standing in the back of your truck in the middle of a road. Back when antelope were protected, my great grandfather's ranch was in forclosure. The great depression caught up with him and dinner was needed. On his way home, great gramps stopped his horse, pulled his thirty-ought six out of the scabbard, chambered a round, and brought home a speed goat for dinner. When he got home, his son asked him, "What would you have done if you had seen someone coming, especially an officer?" Great gramps replied, "I would have waved them around." His son questioned further, "And what would you have done if they didn't go around?" To which great gramps replied, "They had BETTER go around." And he meant it. God had provided food for the supper table, and if it was the last antelope on earth, his kids were having dinner. Your point of view is a reflection of your objective as a hunter. I'm just sayin'.

rangefinder is sold pending funds.

I have a spare rangefinder if someone needs one. It's good for bowhunting, doesn't quite get out there for rifle hunting. It's a bushnell yardage pro 450. I'd like 50 bucks for that. I also have a 17 foot grumman canoe for 350. I'm not sure i want to get rid of it, it just seems we don't get to use it much, and i could use the money else where. Both items are used, and have signs of normal use. I also might like to trade a tree stand for a ground blind. I have a nice gorilla king kong that i never use. It's pretty cushy. Lemme know.