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+1 you know the thief.......

porn hackers have landed..........

keyboard commando - hardly worth the effort to ignore

dead rabbit in a cage trap since leg holds are illegal on public ground....... long time back I used to use a cliff-lok snare and cat-nip along the trails.

The Outdoorsman makes a bracket for mounting 2 spotters side by side - pretty pricey. Per someone that has used it makes the tripod prone to tip over due to weight and makes you cuss with a pistol grip, again weight. Per a rumor Vortex is looking to design something similar for their spotters too - wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

I have a Rancho Safari ghillie suit and a 4'x12' strip of camo burlap, this lets me build a blind pretty much anywhere - clip out some branches under a tree, dig a flat spot for my stool and string the burlap in front of me. The chair is the heaviest item. Nice thing about it is when I leave no one can tell I am hunting there, have lost a few spots because I built a blind out of brush and trees. I also wear Scent-Lok when I am sitting water. I know people say it is BS, oh well it works for me.

Now is a good time to scout for next year. You will be able to see what survived the hunts and there are not near as many people out. The big boys will be by themselves and grazing through to day to make up the calories lost chasing girl deer, plus there may be a doe or two that wasn't bred. I saw a couple bucks still chasing does on the 28th & 30th. And get high as in climb hills, won't do any good to smoke a left-handed cigarette and try and glass in the creosote - can't see vary far........but you are closer to the cookies in the truck.......

Nice attempt but I don't see it happening since G&F has got a taste of how much money they can get for racks. Takes a lot of funds to pay for all the overhead that has nothing to do with game management.

nice buck, and the other is either a fox or coati......

Need more brush behind the blinds so the sun doesn't spotlight your movements. I haven't bowhunted coues but have made about every mistake that can be made sitting water for desert mule deer. I try to set up at least 40 yds from water and build the blind or make my spot under a tree 2 to 3 weeks before I sit it, otherwise it is an ugly coffee table. Ugly Coffee Table - you go out for the day and while you are gone someone comes into your living room and adds an ugly coffee table - you notice it right away when you come home. Same thing for deer with a new blind on water, the closer you build it the uglier it is to them.

Shoot the 20 yds in the backyard and when you start busting nocks you start shooting each arrow at it's own spot. A couple times a month take your burley out to the desert and set up longer ranges and different shooting scenario's - uphill, downhill, etc. Practice with the same arrows you are go to hunt with, for me it is Gold Tip XT Hunters.

I've had the pleasure (yea, right) of butchering a couple hundred chickens in a day. Had a big tub of boiling water, actually it was a 55 gal drum cut in half with a propane torch under it. It would be - off with their head, dunk them in boiling water by the feet for a minute or two, pull feathers as much as you could then burn the pin feathers off with a torch, then gut them. Did this 3 different summers, sure was glad when Ben and Ester got rid of the chickens.

There is a .300wm BAR for sale on the Sportsman's Journal right now, no BOSS but is scoped. http://www.azsj.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19818

I usually make steak sandwiches out of the TL's, flour, s&p and fry - makes for 2 good sandwiches. I turn the backstraps into green chile and make the rest into sausage of some type.

Since there is no price I'll open the bidding at $100............

will lead to lots of shooting out of a rig, people driving roads and looking for eyes - too easy to poke the gun out the window and let her fly - and uneducated killing deer by accident.....

No need for a gun that kills on both ends here in Az, get one you can shoot a lot, put out the money for a tactical scope, a RCBS Rock Chucker kit, couple hundred pieces of brass, primers, powder, bullets and start to practicing. Trigger time is what you need for long distance shooting, and if you have to grit your teeth before you touch off a round you aren't going to want to shoot much.

Pretty tough to round up but I found a 30-06 and 300wm BAR at pawn shops here in the valley, turned friends on to them. They were all set up with decent scopes and the guys paid a lot less for theirs than I did for mine. If you see a pawn shop just pull over and look, takes about 5 mins - and you don't have to pay the sticker price, they are willing to dicker if you have cash in your pocket.

If I see a fresh cow pie or pile of deer or elk droppings I walk in it to get a little cover scent on the boots

Biscuits and gravy is a staple at our house, except I like OE eggs, the yolk mixed in with the gravy tastes great.

Not sure what part of the country you are hunting in. I like the creosote flats and palo verde hills. The big boys will feed in the palo verde then head out and bed in the flats and water is usually within 3 miles.

Pretty humbling to be outsmarted by a bird with a brain the size of a pea isn't it. There is no "best" call, just the one you can work best. Diaphrams are great because your hands are free, box and slate calls are easier to learn to use, all take practice. Shock calls like owl hoots and coyote howls are supposed to make the toms gobble back so you know where they are. The rest is up to you.

Some great bulls there

I make up bacon burger too, 1lb of bacon with 3 lbs game. Makes good hamburgers, cheeseburger macaroni, meat loaf and the like. Been known to buy the steaks at the store that are ready to expire so the go real cheap, take them home and grind with bacon for burgers. May have to try the salt trick, I cool the meat if it starts getting sticky. I have an old refrigerator on my back porch that is my meat locker - pull the racks and stack qtrs in it to age until I feel like butchering or slide in SS bowls with grind to cool down.

Pee Wee McDougal was the Sheriff before Tim, knew him well - he chewed my butt a couple times when I was drunk in HS and he took the beer and made us go home. Went to school with the Brody boys - Pee Wee yelled as us a couple times and took our beer, and knew the others and their kids. I left that country in 1980, joined USMC, get back every now and then. Lander ain't what it used to be. The conservationists have taken over due to NOLS. When Paul Petzol first started the school it was city kids that wanted to learn how to camp, now they seem to be the anti-hunting, anti-oil, save the bunny crowd. A lot of the old ranches have been bought up by Nature Conservancy crowd, places where I fixed fence and cleaned ditches for FFA don't allow anyone on them now, except for the NC crowd.