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they were not kind to draw archery hunters

the price tag seems excessive. i do always find it humorous that hunters always want to lighten their weapon by a pound or two, but rarely lose the ten or twenty pounds around their waist

I drove by it this morning it looked open.

It looks like I am with you on planning alternative means. Honestly, I am kind of excited about it. I have left an opening on my wall for a velvet bull so I will focus on the June and July OTC elk hunt to fill the void.

I am with you on the practice and the draw. I now choose my hunt number by the best odds. I do prefer my bow over any other weapon.

Nothing from my side. To everybody that was drawn congrats and I Hate you.

Red Sparky I am with you on the cj-5, I have a 78 with a v8. Personally, I just love to hunt it does not matter the style of weapon as much as the hunt. Admittedly, I am primarily a bow hunter that will change the channel when the hunting channel shows an elk being taken at 1100 yards or not open the thread on a forum talking about an 800 yard shot at a deer. Filling a tag is not as exciting or interesting to me as the actual hunt. My opinion only, I am sure there are many that feel quite the opposite.

Kidso, being the owner of a 454 casul there is no "just" when you pull the trigger. It kills on both ends and the flames that come out of the porting can light a cigarette at ten feet. I shot a Javelina with it at fifeteen yards once with a 300 gr hollowpoint the bone fragments were 12 or so feet away and cleaned of all tissue.

I may have seen more big game twenty years ago, but success has been recent. For me its not technology, or anything like that. Its that fact I have practice my passion for twenty more years. I always have my binos, but they secondary to my style of hunting. I mainly still hunt or spot and stalk in close quarter areas. I have yet to shoot a big game animal over 200 yards and I have 7 of the big 10 solo with my bow.

High risk. Higher reward. That guy gambled and got caught.

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nephew, brother and stepdad nephew posing with "his" bull nephew with his first archery bull he was twelve him packing out his first deer youngest daughter showing me how to fish. I took her squirrel hunting once, she had a bead on a squirrel with her sisters 20 gauge, drops the barrel and ask "daddy is this squirrel a mature animal I only want to shoot mature animals. I responded yes haley its the oldest squirrel I have ever seen. She aims again and then drops the barrel and ask me if I am sure it is a mature animal. I tell her you do not have to shoot if you do no want to, she handed me the gun. Oldest daughterand her best friend showing me how to hunt. they're dorks. The last time my dad, my brothers and myself went hunting together my dad and his dad in the white mountains circa 1959

My limb just split on my Mathews Monster, can anybody suggest a good pro-shop to get it fixed fast? I do not trust or like the local shop.

I can not speak on the lower part but I was on 300 road this afternoon by deer springs 15 miles or so south of Heber and it was open.

My favorite landings are Point Loma and HM Landing. Pick a weekend that will be warm and you will be fine. I try to schedule for during the week that way there is less people on the boat. Take cash. Rock fishing is a good way to start, you will get hooked (no pun intended) and it does not take a great ocean fishing skill set. After you go ocean fishing, freshwater fishing feels like you are fishing for bait.

Because we as hunters are not organized like our adversaries. It is against our very nature to yell at somebody that they our wrong for what they do, when they are yelling at the top of their lungs we are wrong because we do not agree with them. If we ever organized and tried to take center stage to fight these people on their battlegrounds they would pick an easier target. Sort of a Hunter PAC. A great offense is a good defense.

Congrats on the Javelina. I have some black and silver QED (Quality Electrical Distributors) to replace that nasty old CED shirt.

my brother had a pit bull in his yard that would not leave and got threatening. he grabbed his nun chuks after a slap no more issues.

3b north muzzy and 3b archery bull for elk and 3b south archery antelope. The animals are backwards, I found big bulls in the cedars and big antelope in the pines.

To call me a turkey hunter would be an insult to turkey hunters everywhere. I have a personal goal of taking all of the big game species in AZ unguided, no dogs and with archery equipment. So i am trying to calculate, in concept, the shortest time it would take to draw both.

This is going to sound borderline insane, but you got me thinking. Maybe I shouldn't waste my points on Goulds and just go straight Rio's.

I'm trying for rio's or gould's i am not prejudice. Bob I will make you a deal you tell me where your honey holes are, when I draw a tag, and I will let you know how the hunting is. Just think of the peace of mind you will have knowing that your sweet spots are still sweet.

let me preface what I am about to say with I am a well accomplished hunter, however, when it comes to turkeys I know kids that are better than me. I am the worlds worst turkey hunter, please let me know where it is easy and I want to hunt there. I have taken four turkeys all in the archery season all hens, all luck. I think I will have 15 points for the next spring draw and want to take all of Arizona's species including sub species that is the main reason I keep trying to hunt Gould and have not stopped hunting turkeys all together.

I have had a few things the last few months seriously alter my fall and winter hunting plans. Everything from Job loss to my fathers recurrence of cancer to my bow snapping a limb as I am pulling back on a cow elk the week before Christmas. The job loss was a good thing I was unemployed for what amounted to the time it took to have lunch and i went from a sniveling reactive company to a company that is proactive with a good team and leadership. The only drawback is I have minimal time off. My fathers cancer i am hoping was caught in time but if it wasn't we will spend the quality time that we missed over the last four decades. Me and my brother altered our 5 day back pack plans from Mexico to the end of the Babaquiveries to day trip flats hunting. The last item was icing on the cake. My bow broke at my favorite time of year causing me not to hunt deer in December and finishing my elk hunt with a thud. I posted a topic in the bow section about which shop to take it to to get it fixed. I had several quality answers and went against the SUPER majority by not taking it to Ross Outdoors (I am sure they would have done a great job) and took it to the new local shop, Desert Country Archery. They replaced my limbs at no charge, informed me that my string was on the verge of breaking and then replaced the bad string with one of my old ones and tuned it until the end of January when my girl will go back into surgery and get a new string. I was very impressed with the gentleman's passion for what does and I will be back. My girl before going into the ER. I knew it would take a bit to get the limbs from the Midwest with the holiday timing. So I knew I was going to miss some hunting time. It was easier for me to quit smoking cold turkey than it was to be inside the house with fresh snow on the ground and the start of the new year. I finally got out the second weekend and headed down to Tucson to see my Dad and hunt with my Brother. I saw one Javelina fifteen minutes into the hunt and then nothing larger than a rabbit for the next day and half. My brother and our cousin on the other hand saw several bucks and one that was giant(so they say). We had chased a buck from 2006 to 2009 down there that we named Mondo and this buck had all of his characteristics according to my brother. The name Divo stuck for this buck. I was immediately made reservations to be down the following weekend. I take a modified day off on Friday and head down the hill. I get to Oracle about day break and see a very good buck get hit by a car.I thought wow, you do not see that everyday. I get to the edge of the unit with an S10 blazer in front of me and then see an even larger buck get hit squarely and die immediately. I think to myself is this a good omen or bad. Once again I do not see another animal larger than a rabbit. The next day I was expecting my luck to change and it did immediately. From the time I put gas to dinner that was great. i had a few gas rewards. We get to our hunting grounds and start working the flats. I am twenty minutes into my walk thinking what happen to my mojo, its lost. Is my brother telling the truth or exaggerating on the size of the deer. Then I see what I thought was Javelina escaping. I head that way and look to my left and see my first deer not hit by a car in the unit. I see antlers and my internal barometer is saying shooter. Sneaking through the mesquites and palo verdes was easy and I closed the distance in moments. Just then I lose sight of him and think he went the other way, I move up slowly and he shows himself for the second time within range and broadside. I assumed first pin I was wrong., way wrong. I was so wrong the deer went around a small mesquite and then faced me to see what the rukus was. I grabbed another arrow settled in moved two pins down and released. The buck takes off crashing through bush. I walk to where the deer was and see blood immediately. I text my brother "I shot Him" he does not respond. I wait a few minutes and then I see him and he says "there's twenty pigs over there" which I respond "F%@! the pigs!" get over here. (Any law enforcement reading this I was referring to Javelina please do not pull me over) . We start trailing and see this within a few yards. I am a slow tracker very meticulous to every detail when blood trailing, my brother on the hand goes very fast. He is ahead of me and the blood gets even better and then I hear "there he is" We see this and start our happy dances. This is my first buck since 2012 (I thought I was a trophy hunter for a couple of years) Glamour shot Spirit fingers A little more realistic view This is not the largest buck I have taken but he is the oldest and the coolest. He has his front teeth and wisdom teeth and nothing else. Oh by the way this is not Divo he still lives and is much larger.

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