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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.

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.