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tommy, so you're telling me I have spent all my hunting seasons with my eyes glued to binoculars, hiking the highest frigging hills i could find, and all I had to do was glass the flats for those ugly things!!! Man I need to re evaluate my hunting tactics, I guess that also means all those other little tiny deer with the large white tails were the wrong ones notice I said large white tails, not antlers!!! Congrats to your boy!!!! AG

Tommie, Congrats on the buck, I hope you guys are joking about that being a whitetail, I am pretty sure that is a muley. AG

OK Paul Harvey, Where is the rest of the story?

congrats, nice buck!! Was there a constrant stream of road hunters in there this year? The last 2 years have been pretty bad. Just wondered if the draw thinned it out a little. AG

I am riding the longest deerless drought of my entire life right now and it is because I became to picky, so if it has antlers on its head I am shooting first worrying about size later!!! right now my son thinks that hunting is just a good hike in the woods followed by alot of sitting and looking at tree's and then another hike in the woods back to the truck!! I think he wonders why I even carry a rifle with me AG

Chief, scottyboy stated that it was ALOT of the residents, not ALL, so if you are not a doper or smuggler it does not apply to you but if so "the wicked take the truth to be hard", I believe his point was that there are alot, not all, residents in southern Az who are not on the up and up with the laws, was it a poor generalization about Southern AZ, probably, was it meant as an insult, not likely. SO lets drop the piddly crap that we are all wasting our time on and quit trying to find reasons to take offense with one another and get back to the greatest of all pastimes HUNTING. AG

I usually just call them DINNER!, of course that was when I had a good luck streak going and killed one every year!!! If I went to work and told everyone that I was hunting "cows" I would have some mad employees, of course when I say cooz, they all want to know what the heck that is! , YOu say tomato I say tomahto, who really cares?!!! AG

Congrats Tommy, nice oryx . What did it measure? Oh by the way, there definitely are no elk in unit 24 ag

I used to hunt dove in the morning before school and then go to school and leave the gun on my front seat. I also took my bb gun revolver to school when I was a kid for a book report and nobody said anything to me about it but they did get me in trouble for writing a bad word on my book report-- It was Andy the Shut eye hunter, I have terrible hand writing , use your imagination. I shudder to think what would happen to my boy today if he took a bb gun to school however innocent it may be. AG

unfortunately the liability issue lies with your friend, with him not checking his ammo. IT is a good example for all of us to remember to check our ammo. I reload a lot and it would be easy to grab the wrong bullet box. That is a hard lesson to learn. I hope your buddy is ok. AG

My biggest fear the whole time was that I had Larks trailer and somebody would think I was related to him.

So this should probably go in the funniest thing thread but this happened to me this weekend at my wifes reunion in Eagar. My wife and I are looking at camp trailers and we decided we would borrow her aunts extra camp trailer for the reunion this year. Well we get up to Eagar Friday night and it is raining cats and dogs, so I called her aunt to see if we could just pick up the camper Sat. morning, ended up having to get it that night because they keep it in a friends shop yard and the gate was unlocked for me. She tells me it is the only camper in the yard so not to worry. So I drive down in the pouring rain to get the trailer with my brother in law. We pull up and go into the yard and pull up to the trailer. We get out and get the trailer all hitched up and I mentioned to my brother in law(as we cut the rope holding the wooden patio to the trailer) that it looks like someone has been living in it. Well we give it little thought and as we inspect the trailer we note that the regist. is expired, the wire harness is wrong and there are no safety chains, of course being the rednecks we are we don't let little things like that stop us . We pull the trailer out and park it at my inlaws overnight. The next morning we hitch up and drive it up to the reunion site and as well pull in my wife runs out and says "Dont unhitch it you have the wrong trailer!" and I am thinking yeah right I was not born yesterday. So then more people come out and tell me the same thing and I am still thinking ahh a coordinated effort to pull one over on me. Until my wifes aunt and uncle walk out and say that is not our trailer! Then I worried a little. I made my wifes uncle go back into town with me since he is a sheriff and would back up my story and help me get the right stinking trailer! I must say that my experience with grand larceny was exciting it sure is nice that it was in front of 80-90 of my wifes relatives!! The moral of the story-- There is always more than one trailer in the yard, so at least find out the color of the trailer you are picking up !!!

I was not going to put this in because I grew up in Flagstaff and some of you may know this guy, but it is hilarious so I will just leave out his name. We used to go to the Kaibab every fall to archery hunt and one year one of my buddies got a new coleman stove, he was not the brightest bulb in the box mind you, and he decided he would cook us all dinner on it. Well he goes in the wall tent and you can hear him working and then he pumps up the stove and turns on the gas, well we are talking and one of us realizes he has not lit the stove and the gas has been on for a good 10 seconds and then we also realize that he has never used a coleman stove before either. So let me summarize ssssssssssssss WHUMP!!!!! IT was dark and the whole tent was lit up so you could actually see this guys silhouette over the stove, we go running in and there he stands with no eyelashes, brows, or forehead hair, a dazed look and a burnt match in his right hand. At least the stove was lit. Later on that night we were sitting around the fire and he had his new boots propped up on the fire ring and we warned him he better move them but he said they were fine, of course then when he stood up and said All right who spit there gum out here by the fire, I just stepped in it we all knew what had happened, yep He had just customized his boot soles with pine needles and dirt, it was the new natural forest Bob soles. It just was not his night. AG

several years ago I was hunting in CO, I guess I was about 19 or 20. We hunted the am and did not see anything so the guy I was with bought breakfast for us and then we went back out. Well I had a large plate of ham and eggs and boy were they good..... for about 2 hours, then the food poisoning hit, we were glassing a ridge and I said I think I will go glass from the tree line, got there recycled my ham and eggs(still intact I might add) and then it smelled so bad I did it again. Well the other end of my digestive tract got jealous so you know what happened next, I am sprinting through the woods to find a place to "let mother nature out" as ultramag puts it and find a good spot. hunker down and proceed and then I hear this truck coming , I figure I am fine there are no roads in sight, so no worries, well the truck gets closer and closer and I am thinking what the heck, he must be offroad, well then I realize that I am about one foot off of the road at a curve, cant stop or there will be dire consequences in my camo's, so sure enough there I sit and the truck goes right by me, a guy with his two daughters( 16, 18) out hunting. The reason I know the ages is when I got back to where my buddy was, guess who was there talking to him. Oh did I mention that I was wearing my flourescent orange hat and vest? Life was good!! ag

younghunter, Are you the designated pellet catcher? , Congrats to you and what a good place to start. My first job was as a dishwasher and why yes, it did suck!! AG

The draw is posted!!!!!! YEEEEEHAAAAAW, Watch out Chiricauhuas Here I come!!!! AG

Hunterboy, you would be much better off looking at states like Colorado where you can still get over the counter tags. You probably would not be able to draw out a combo hunt for muley and elk in AZ or NM. Unless you went archery for elk and deer in NM, then you may have a chance. It is typically very hard to get a bull elk tag or mule deer tag in AZ. They still have them over the counter in Colorado I believe. Good luck. AG

Oh yeah Good luck to everyone else!!! ag

My father in law and I both heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard that they were going to be out last weekend. We were up in Eagar visiting and my inlaws have a slow connection so I just kept trying to call but I had to stop because the battery went dead in my cell phone and I left my charger in Silver City. I am going to have a hard time explaining 350 calls to the same number for one minute to my office manager She probably thinks it some sicko phone s.. thing, but if she only knew how much worse it was!! good luck to everyone AG

The pay scale for wardens not only sucks in AZ, but also in NM, I was talking to a warden during turkey season and he said that the starting salary in NM was around 27000. I have a good friend who worked for game and fish for several years in AZ and went to Oregon to work as a warden because his 1st year salary was going to be what his boss (25 years in position) made and his 2nd year salary was going to be about 8000 dollars more. They are way underpaid but where does the funding come from(from the tag price increases I think it is the non resident hunters! ). AG

Muleybull, If you do come and want to go to USO bring lots of toilet paper because when you are dealing with a butthole that big you are going to need it!! Good luck on both hunts ag

It is nice when the womenfolk have to wait on us for a change though, so enjoy it while it lasts ag

MULEYBULL. What kind of name is that? This is a Coues site!!! You need to contact Tommy(crazyaboutcoues) he sets up a lot of people with little or no experience in NM and they usually do well. If you can't get here and scout especially. He is a good honest up and up guy. You better make good use of your tag because I put in there and did not get drawn so you better make good with your STOLEN tag. We need to give nonresidents 1% of the tags haha. AG

Looks like I will be going to 15 for muzzleloader bull as well. That really breaks my heart AG

Not one person I have talked to has had their card hit yet. Might be a vicious RUMOR. but I still check everyday!! think it is too early yet, that or I am going to be doing a lot of fishing this fall!!!! AG