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That is absolutely fascinating. Has anybody ever seen one close to that. Can you imagine the splat on the windshield.

Yeah got to watch a three way fight for about 40 cows. I wish there was just a little more light.

I do very little recreational calling while the seasons are going. The bulls are going crazy right now and these guys survived the first couple of rounds of hunts. Enjoy. This guy may not live. I just remembered there is a hunt going on right now in this unit. [arttachment=78626:DSCN0860.JPG]

I do not know how much danger was real or imagined, but we were hunting along the border in 36b. Around 10:00 am we heard 15-20 shots and I thought who was target practicing out here. We see a couple of the standard border crossers looking a little freaked hiding out on the Mexican side of the fence. We glass several deer and keep working the ridge line that goes parallel along the border a few feet away. My brother, nephew, and I get to a valley that goes to the north. It was raining and cold with my nephew wearing a bright orange rain pancho. I see these gentlemen walking in the valley below a few hundred yards away and farther north than we were. I grab my nephew and toss his ultra orange butt on the other side of the hill we were walking I snap a few pics and watch them head north with what looks like a black bag underneath the leaders arm. When they are out of sight I call 911 wait on hold for ten minutes then call my wife and give her coordinates telling her i think we are getting invaded. She gets a hold of Homeland Security and we thought this was the end of an interesting blurb to our hunt. So my brother calls our friend who we left sick in the truck told him what happen and ask him to bring us a couple of sandwiches and the AR-15. He does and we think all the excitement was over. We start heading back and about a quarter of a mile or so from the truck our friends face turns ghost white. I look over the saddle and see the gentlemen with the kevlar vest a couple of hundred yards away from us on the same group of hills, they doubledback. We kick are strides into high gear with the two smaller guys looking at us from just on the otherside of the fence. As we get less than a hundred yards from the truck, Justin Beiber's GMC pulls right up next my truck and two Mexicano looking gentlemen are looking at us from the driver and passenger sides. It was obvious they were not hunters. I do not have a weapon of any kind with me, our friend drops down the hill a little bit and cocks the AR, my brother slings his rifle and grabs his 40 and cocks it. My nephew who is right behind me has a nine shot 22 revolver on his hip. I slow my stride put my hands behind my back and tell him to give me the pistol and get under the only tree on the hillside when we walk by it less than thirty yards from the biebs truck. Apparently, the look on our faces, was one not to be messed with and they motored down the road a few hundred yards in a hurry all of this while the gentlemen with the HKs watched from a few hundred yards away. I posted the full set of pictures here a couple of years ago. I think the post was called "you be the judge" Border patrol find them immediately with a helicopter. We did not stay around to find out what the end results were.

Making it rain at the strip club, the gun store or G&F office. Any one of those places is not bad.

I thought is was mandatory if you had a 1 or 3c tag to drive around in the diesel of your choosing, slam the door, call three times, listen then go to next spot. All while the diesel is idling. You can substitute the diesel for a side by side if you choose.

No but I like cats better.

I got that guy at 1030 in the morning in a field standing with five other bucks. My longest shot ever 190 yards. He was so fat the meat processor charged me like he was an elk. The layer of fat around the meat was well over an inch. I have been back many times since that point and the population is not like it was. dang wolves.

Although it was with a rifle. Here is a deer from a few years ago. I have seen some very large deer there.

its a lot of fun. The Supai people become friends for life and I have not been down there in 15 years or so and I am still in contact with them.

I would like to turn myself in up until age 12 I shot at every sparrow on the west side of Tucson. Some kids would save their money for the ice cream man, I would save mine for Yellow front. BB's were a weekly buy and when I had a lot of ice cream money I would buy pellets. I was a chronic sparrow hunter. G&F when you are not buddy hunting could you help me find the error of my ways. If we are having a collection for the kid's fine I will chip in.

I have gone up to seven days hunting alone. It takes a couple of days to adjust to not having anybody around. Its a lot of fun remembering how to speak when you have talked minimally for a few days.

Played tag with these guys in 2012. Nothing like the feeling of being between them and a couple of gentlemen in a Justin Beiber purple 4 door brand new Chevy.

It happens don't freak. Tomorrow or the day after will be better.

To all that have a tag good luck and I hate you. The small guys are getting going all day. A few from the weekend. It was just a little to dark for pics of this guy. Lightweight fight In this corner coming in at whopping 175 inches And in this corner coming in at a lean 170 WINNER by TKO!

Matty absolutely but the next backpack trip is going to be in 36c in late December or early January depending on if we get our deer or not. We are starting just below the last house on the Santa Margarita ranch and going to the Coyote Wilderness Area. This stuff gets addicting, going down into the Black River area for our first attempt is a little like skiing or snowboarding a black diamond on your first try. Snapshot if I were in my twenties that would have been correct. Now that I have started my fourties I drink beer with weird names made in a style that can not be pronounced in the English language or must be abbreviated and I could only drink two or three before I got sleepy. He brought all kinds of things that were not needed, (besides our bows and rods) like three cans of propane, five cans of tuna fish, a full lantern. The wanna be wolves have the place eaten out and the fish have not migrated down yet. I did see a minnow and a crawdad right when we were about to leave so there is hope. A couple more pics.

Great buck. Congrats!

Sounds like a great time. Its okay to be lost once in a while as long as you're found. Did you ever put ever see your big buck?

Sounds like a great time. I did the same thing the first weekend and just practiced.

I do not think your question is on ethics, but the "Art of Hunting" being done away with through electronics. That is the mastery of our chosen passion through practice, trial and error, and woodmanship is lost to the ease of convenience and innovation. To that I say, Yes and No, more and more people will use electronics rather than practice but as long as their are people teaching the next group of hunters the non easy way then it will never die. Furthermore, as the electronic guys get better they will look for the greater challenge and start taking up hand calling. We just need to ask ourselves is an electronic called trophy better than a hand called one and is the end result more important than the journey.

Close(I am horrible at Mountain Names) its the hill by Borden Ranch Turnoff to the south of the high way. I am trying areas I would not normally hunt until next weekend hoping to find a giant. Some of the sunset photos I took on a big screen are very impressive.

I didn't see a single deer. Enjoy Never saw him but I did hear him Do I food stuck in my teeth?

I couldn't disagree with you more!!! The Hoochie momma is not the worse thing that has happen to true elk callers. Fox Pro is. Hoochie momma is second.

Can't wait to see pics from your backpack trip! You can count on it! If I survive, I have already completed negotiations with my wife for my next backpack hunt in January. I will be entering the Babaquiveries south of Santa Margarita and getting picked up at our property just east of the Coyote Wilderness 25-30 miles away. I figure if a few guys with a couple of milk jugs of water can do it so can I. The guys with the milk jugs always talk about the big deer they see.

I am going to be an "Urban Trophy Hunter" in 3b for the first week, gas is expensive. But the following weekend headed to 27 for a four day backpack hunt.