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Agreed and when treated properly and when time permits of course I will give them their desired information. But with that same respect when not treated properly, I will either ignore the requests or they become the brunt of jokes.

Relax, not making fun of noobs as much as the redundant trend of questions. I have taken many noobs to some very good spots for little more than a thank you and a sandwich on a tail gate. Also, at the rate I post I will not be a premier member for another nine or ten years.

You missed a post. The one where they have not shot a bow since their last unit xx september bull tag and need advice on which bow to get.

as long as something has value their will be thieves. brown sheds are going for 12 dollars a pound. Their are more junkies in the white mountains than just about anywhere per capita. My brother once had a elk stolen that he had shot that morning. He caught the guy eventually and made him cry.

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No tags for me and only one person I know got a tag. I am kind of glad, i have been wanting a velvet bull for the wall and this will give me the chance to try for one on one of the otc hunts. Forgot to mention I even have bonus points for Javelina.

There is a third component to antler growth where g&f is directly involved and that is Time. I remember a statement put out by the g&f commissioner many years ago and how they have a conservative approach to tags. g&f has deviated from that a bit but the core is still there. I may not be a premier member, but I will put the content I add up against most.

Just out of curiosity Did you get an elk tag?

To offset some of the crankiness on the this thread get a hold of me the day or so before the season and I will take you to some of the areas I hunt. Everywhere in unit has the potential of a good bull. some of my resume photos. these pics were taken in June, October, and November (anybody can take pictures of elk in september)

Trade you info on unit 1 for info on whitetails in Indiana. I am in the unit at least once a week.

Maybe game and fish should not release the results until the day they write in the regs, April 20th or so. If G&F was such a big laughing stock then not as many people would want to hunt our elk, deer, sheep, buffalo etc and I could get a tag.

looks like 3b

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.

a couple more

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.