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Mady good for you, Congratulations!

Sorry to hear about your camera, awesome buck

Awesome presentation of American history. Tony, thanks for sharing.

Welcome PJ! We know who is in control!

Thanks, nice Muley Buck!

Great story. Congratulations Angie!

I think we need to all split up into groups so we are not in the same area. Anyone out there better at this then me?

Congratulations to all of you, glad to hear the success.

.300 RUM 180 grain Accubond bullet does the job for us for coues at about any distance that we shoot. Much the same of what you said, too. Great gun and this 180 grain works for elk too. Just our choice, Thanks.

Too funny. Not quite the whitetail you were wanting!

Please don't try to look too deep into this, I am not saying "Trophy hunters" hurt anyone, I consider myself one from time to time (probably less then I want to admit). When I hunt, I try to get a bigger animal then the last one, to me that is trophy hunting, to others it might be trying to get the biggest racked animal in the unit, to another it is just getting their first animal. That is not the point here nor the reaons I said what I did. Its ALL part of the reason, not the reason. As it pertains to the fact that more people are not hunting in AZ today than years ago, this is just my personal opinion, that in this discussion only, I feel that "Some" people have focused (including myself from time to time)more on trophy hunting, that they didn't have time to take a kid hunting or enjoy a hunting camp with their family and so on. Trophy hunting today is much bigger than 30 years ago and "most of the time" it requires a different "focus" then just going hunting. Trophy hunting itself doesn't hurt anyone, and that is not what I meant. But I can testify that I myself have probably neglected my responsibility in taking a kid hunting or a hunting buddy or what ever the reason is so maybe they wouldn't find my favorite hunting hole or take up my time or whatever the reason is. I will say that I feel that if we take 1 more person with us hunting then we do, we will make a hunter for life! Sorry, if I lead you too feel I was picking the "Trophy hunters", I wasn't.

The way we have progressed into "Trophy hunters" has hurt all this too. Rarely do you see families out there together during a hunt. When I was a kid, when my dad hunted, all of us were in camp or hunting. It was also used as a vacation. We would go up for a whole week together for archery deer. Some of the best times of my life. As far as the application drop off. Economy hurts it, but so did the fact that you can't apply online and put it on your credit card. The online app process also made it real easy for the anti hunters to apply and get tags and not use them. A few years back when you could apply online there was a big push for them to get more tags. I haven't heard much about this today, have you? It is what it is, be positive and make it an adventure no matter what you do. Good luck to everyone on your tags.

Congratulations Johnny. nice pictures too. Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations to everyone. Looks like you all had a great time. What a perfect way to build family and friends! Sorry we missed it.

Hi CouesWhitetail fans please help us with what we think is going to be a good change for our new website. I'd like to have your opinion before we finish. Here is a snap shot of what the home page will look like. This new site is not live but here is a view of it. We wanted to have some fun with this so just reply to this thread with your opinion. The Good, Bad and the Ugly! Then on Sunday February 20th we will have a drawing of everyone who posted, the first name we pick will win your choice of one of any of our Havalon Piranta knives, an extra set of blades and holster. Our goal is to showcase our "Premium Gear" with the first category. Premium Gear is products or manufacturers we use and highly recommend, then below we will have 50,000 more products in our "All Gear" category. Thanks for your time and appreciate your opinion. Click on photo to see it larger. Eric

Congratulations, tried fishing for them there once and never caught one. Thanks for posting.

Congratulations Ana. Love to see the girls out there getting it done! Awesome.

Good for you Awesome job!

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A big thanks to everyone who participated in helping us with some great ideas. Once we are up and running we will have many of your thoughts added to our website. We tried a lighter version but didn't like it. Here is what we will probably open with. The turkey will be in next years photo line up and we will try to make them match the season as we go. Here is your ideas that we changed and will be adding, Red add to cart buttons fixed the MonsterMuley link changed the elk ( my designer choose the other one, I think it was Hartford elk!) Will be adding some kind of clearance button Weekly specials Customer Reviews Now, we placed all the thread #'s in a box and picked a winner, that winner is Double Buck Taxidermy, please send an email to sales@SantanaOutdoors.com with your shipping information and the Havalon Piranta knife of your choice. Again, appreciate all your input and hope to see you in the field. Eric

Thanks. Our Avatar will be one of them. Appreciate the input. Eric

Thanks for all your input. Great recommendations, keep them coming. We are working on some adjustments based upon your opinions and will post it later. Thanks. Eric

Bill which model do you want? I do have a nice little camera that's works well for the cost. Its the Stealth Nomad IR lists for $180 normally sells for $99. I can let go for $80 each. Like this one but camo http://www.stealthcam.net/HTML/sc_nomad_ir.html Thanks, Eric

Wow, that is great for a trail cam. What kind of trail camera is it? Thanks.

I had to change mine to the IBP basic and it works.