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My doctor suggested it. I had no expectations. All I can say is my knees no longer hurt and I can pull back my bow again after tearing two of the four muscles in my rotator cuff. Possibly the placebo effect, but I like the results.

My daughters ended coming out to 5.00 a pound for processing.

We got the grinder from harbor freight for like 50 bucks. So far (since 2020) it's done 8 elk with no issues.

I did the bone broth with the elk i shot in July. It was a miracle worker on my torn rotator cuff.

I took my daughters quarters in. Weighed in at 202 lbs. Got maybe 80 lbs back. We normally do it ourselves but we were all tired. Go back to doing it ourselves on the next one.

Congrats you must be well liked. This declaration takes merit out of the equation (next in line) and allows for this type of speculation if the tag was earned or given.

We need a freedom of information act request. I bet he did not even put in for 32.

Maybe he purchased point guard plus🤔

Doesn't seem like it matters

Congrats nash! Okay the question everyone is thinking and no one is asking. Who spotted the most sheep?

A friend won the state wide coues tag. I got to tag along on a few trips. Go to 27 in February.

Most places have 30 tags or so. For me it's alot more fun to see elk acting like elk. The road warriors and sxs,that go with September and rifle hunts, for me, make hunting less fun.

My favorite hunt. Congrats!

I'll take it, but I won't be in tucson until the 12th

Do you still have the model 70 stock?

My daughter after a dozen years, decided to start hunting again. Her fiance passed last year and has moved back home at our request. Her sadness has been apparent. First time putting in, in that time and she gets the coveted 37a late season bull tag. Fortunately, for her, there are few people that know late season elk as well as me. 🤣 Scouting was difficult, my usual spot on had 10 broken bulls in it, so I decided to check other areas that I know. Wednesday, I find a spot with a herd of about 25 bulls, but a guy in a gray single cab Toyota pulled behind and these elk acted very skittish. I wasn't comfortable focusing on them. Yesterday, I decide to go to my original spot and 15 bulls are off in the distance. One weird one with a double main beam I wanted her to take. This was the final dress rehearsal. I had everything timed from house to shooting position, including pee stops and circle k shopping at two hours and two minutes. Everything, for once, goes perfectly. Then the unexpected happened. A newer Ford started following us down a two track with very limited access points. I speed up and he speeds up. This causes me to go way closer to our hunting spot than anticipated. My brother took off his jacket and asked to be let out too discuss hunter etiquette. We get to a spot where a tacoma is better than a full size ford and leave him behind but very close to the hunting spot. We get to our spot and I see a silhouette of a man a few hundred yards from us. I curse out loud(very loud) then glass the field and find 15 elk bodies to our left and 850 yards into the field. The silhouette was 90 degrees to our right. I go through options in my head and for a brief time my daughter was not my daughter she was a hunter. I tell her 'let's c'block the m'fer'. The terrain and visibility was in our favor with him having a slope in front of him. I tell her let's cut across the open field into the little valley keeping the hill between the hunter and us and getting closer in the progress. We set up 3 different times before I dare not get any closer in the wide open. I'm anxious and texted Flatlander this Pic. He knows this spot in 37a Then I started texting ranges when they get to 500ish yards a fog bank rolls in and my rangefinder reads 7 yards. Last night my daughter said in a stern voice "I am shooting the first bull i see. I am not a trophy hunter". As we are in front of 15 bull elk, she says I like the gray one and the one way in the back. I am going to shoot the last one. I tell her weirdo is in the middle, a 4x6 with a split main beam, and there is a giant in the way back in the herd to the right. The fog lifts a little and the ones up front are under 400. The first ones cross at 307. Some broken small bulls. She let's them pass. She's set up and ready. I am thinking she is going to shoot weirdo as i swing the binoculars to the front of the herd. Boom! I ask her which one did she shoot at. Then Grey falls, not taking a step. After a few seconds it trys getting up and she puts a second round into his neck. Then he'll breaks loose. The elk just next to Grey make it look like Grey ran off. We stand there in disbelief. Then we look where she shot and see antlers sticking off the ground. Elk are running in every direction with this batch looking at its leader just lying there as we get closer i see this. as she walks up to it. My brother comes and we pose for a pic. this fat old 7x7 was shot at 705 am and we got the last piece out at 230pm. She did the majority of the field dressing

I did

We went back to the scene of the crime yesterday to get an Xmas tree. Paloverdes make the best Xmas trees. Midday, he was there leaving, as i was driving in. He was giving me stinkeye to the point that my wife said that guy hates you. Lifted new ford with an led bar and brush guard, couldn't make the turn to go up the hill, that a stock Toyota could. I guess, I c'block him again for the evening hunt. He didn't know our intentions was to get the tree my daughter saw on the way out and would take us 20 minutes.

Not quite yet. My coues hunt starts in a couple of weeks and since this will be my first rifle hunt in a dozen years. My goal is very, very high.

When i post a successful hunt, I get 15 PMs from people that do not post anything, saying how I'm screwing up there odds and the unit.

I found them down under

I've seen a few in 4b today.

I bought 10 boxes. They shoot well. My daughter will be using them on her elk hunt Friday

Basic rule i live by. Hunt where others don't. It could be too far out or so close it's overlooked

Talk about timing. my internet just went out.