OpticNerd

Why do I feel like the top bull is giving me the finger? This must be the elusive FU Bull that ruins all your trophy pics by flipping you off with his antlers. I've heard the stories I just didn't believe.

Hoping to get youth tags as well. One for my 13 year old daughter and another for my 11 year old daughter. This will be the first hunt for younger if she gets drawn so we're all pretty excited to see what she gets. A 10 day coues hunt down south for the wife and a late coues hunt for me. Hoping for some good times ahead hunting with my family.

Do you guys see this concept working for hunting purposes? Either way I want one. Looks like it would be a blast to shoot.

Nothing like the draw lock. This thing is basically an arrow clip for your bow. You just pull the bow back and it automatically loads an arrow to the string. I believe the clip holds 5 arrows. I don't think it has a locking feature but I could be wrong.

I'm curious as well. Didn't the lake have another fish kill this past year?

How much does this setup weigh?

Look at all that red. Down 1560 tags. This makes no sense. Must be a typo because we all know the only thing the G$F cares about is making that money. This could damage their reputation as the money loving tag whores a lot of guys believe them to be. What in TARNATION is going on here!

Learn something new almost every day too bad every time I learn one thing I forget 3 others. This whole time I thought that if I can drive my truck on it and it was on a map it was conciderded a road. So the question I have now is how do I determine if a road has been maintained? Does it have to be bladed? I didn't shoot at a buck this last year because my dumb butt thought the little two track below me was a road and I couldn't shoot over it. Now I find out that a two track is not a road. SOB! I could have miss a great buck if I wasn't such an idiot!

Wow that's some cold pig hunting! Congrats to the wife. Was this close to Sierra Vista?

Nice! Nothing better than hunting with your kids.

This will definitely will raise money but I don't think I'll be buying one. On the other hand I would like to see some Super Tags being made available to help raise even more money. Sticking with the Super theme they could call it the Super Education Draw. Each unit will have one year long rifle deer tag available in this special draw. $10 nonrefundable Super Tag application fee per unit you apply for with a limit 5 choices. So if you only put in for 1 unit it's $10 if you do all 5 it's $50. Basically the same as the current drawing system which should make this an easy addition to the current draw system.

How'd the hunt go?

Not my video but so crazy I had to share. I've seen a few fights over the years but none quite like this. This is just brutal!

Dang looks like you were able to find some good bucks. Congrats!

It's amazing the quality phones are capable of producing now days. I still lean towards an actual small point and shoot over a phone when it comes to digiscoping but either will work great. The way you mount the camera to the scope is just as or even more important than the type of camera. Pretty much all modern cameras and phones produce excellent image quality but without a good scope mounting your pic/video quality will more than likely suffer. A good quality mounting system worked wonders for me when it came down to quality of the pics and video I was getting.

I got between 70-100 yards from a handful of bucks unfortunately my furthest shooting distance was 60 yards. If I remember correctly the buck you said left the country I was able to get 72 yards from and 45 yards from his doe. His doe is the one that busted me. Heck yeah good to hear! Glad you like them.

If so check out my new video. Just in time for all you archery hunters out there to feed the need until opening day in 2 weeks. Anyone else getting pump to see what goes down this archery season?

I use a 114mm Vixen telescope but I didn't do much videoscoping this time around. Thanks. Congrats on the tags and good luck Thank you. Thanks and good luck on your elk tag. Your not the only one dreaming of Jan.

Here's my all time favorite. I don't think I've ever seen a coues as burred up as this one. To bad his beams were chewed off.

Nice! Looks like some good genetics in some of those.

As a whole your probably right. I only looked at the unit I normally hunt and the numbers are down by a bit in that unit. The lowest I've seen in that unit in the last 8-10 years. Also think I remember unit 29 having some leftovers last year as well.

Really??? I was thinking the exact opposite. Numbers look to be at an all time low to me.

You're probably correct by saying this topic will never end but if by some chance hunters from both sides of the argument can make some sort of compromise we might actually see some common ground being made. The "I hunt the way I hunt and you hunt the way you hunt" idea is a flawed one and won't solve the issue. If anything this ideology only makes matters worse causing further divide between hunters. I know some of us don't like to refer to hunting as a sport but by definition present day hunting is in fact a sport. With that being said how many sports do you know of where you can tell your fellow players "I'll play the way I want to play and you play the way you want to play" and expect a positive outcome? I think we can all agree that applying this philosophy to any sport would cause nothing but problems for that sport. Knowing this, how can anyone expect anything but problems when applying this same philosophy to the sport of hunting?

Are you talking about the ethics section on page 10? B&C has also commented on long range hunting and they seem to be apposed to this trend. I wonder how long it will take the AZGF fair chase committee to state an opinion on this subject? I bet it's at the top of their to do list.