elkhunter

rattlesnakes in Oct and the worst feeling is when another person happens to hunt the same area as you are hunting and or someone shoots the buck you've been scouting for a couple of months all of the reasons are natural reasons

Again beautiful mount! The key words of the hunt came when we were glassing, "I got a deer....wait....it might be a buck....it's a buck....holy #### it's a big buck!!!"

It's been a few years since I've been in that area, however I know the northern third portion of the unit has more glassing areas. If game and fish dpt recommend a spot for hunting, don't avoid it due to several people, just work harder in that one particular area than most people will. There won't be many muzzy hunters on your pops hunt so competition won't be high. It probably will take you about an hour to figure out where you guys will want to hunt as you drive around the unit. It ain't as glassable as 6a but still a few spots are good for glassing. Might want to send a pm to WHT MTNMAN, he grew up in the area, nice fellow, he'll give you some description about the unit

Does the tripod legs move freely? I had a velbon tripod in the past and loved it and it had a locking mechanism where the bars touch the legs and the legs can be set at different angles, is this the same tripod?

bet he became more of an ambush hunter than goin after critter, what a cool picture

anything in the .308 caliber round including the .300 win mag, get a caliber that's easy to buy shells from any store

Here's a buck that got away in 08 Here's the same buck in 09' Also got away from me A cool buck that got away a few years ago

I have the Leupold 4.5-14x with BC reticle and I found it very helpful out to 500 yards, the only downside is I spent about a month and half coming up with loads that matches the drop on the reticle, as of now each yardsage 200,300,400,450 are dead on while the 500 yard reticle is 6 inches high on average, but that can be counted for when shooting

I'm hoping you have good Zoom on your camera otherwise you're just a dumb**$ getting that close, it's true, elk guides have a lifespan of 39 years on average

goin to Africa correct? Have a good time, read Peter Capstick books on the plane

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I shot a pig in the past in the head with a .300 win mag, so boiling the skull was not an idea, however I collected the canines and tried to make a necklace or a strap for a cowboy hat. Needless to say, they dried out too much and when I tried to grind them down into appropriate size they shattered into several pieces and boy did it stink! Whatever you do, don't use a grinder, use drill bits instead and be sure to glue up any cracks for they break apart pretty easy, goodluck

Bob went to see his doctor and said "Doctor I am interested in getting castrated" The doctor looked shocked and asked the man if he had spoken to his wife about it, Bob said "my wife and I agreed that this is what we want to do and we waited quite some time for this" The doctor said "okay, your surgery will be in 2 days" 3 days later Bob was limping down the hallway to get a bottle of orange juice and he noticed another man limping too, Bob asked the other man why he was limping, The man replied "I got circumsized, my wife and I been wanting this for a long time" Bob looked startled and in his head he was thinking "OH S#$%, THAT"S THE WORD!!"

they're online too, spring draw link

That's good news, been waiting to hear your stories again about coues hunting. Have a safe trip back and goodluck on that last hunt.

Jim- looks like you got a new truck? Who's driving your Ford truck that you had back in 2009? I was driving in phoenix in the carpool lane doin 68 or so, your ford blew by me and had the mullins sticker on it, I couldn't see who was drivin.

Casey- I'm sorry you think the arrow in the head pictures look bad, not everyone gets to see an unicorn javelina

No deer for us, never went after them but we did tag out 3 pigs, Sister, Dad and I on 3 seperate days, it was the year of head shots for us Sister's headshot pig My texas brain shot pig, he was facing almost directly away from me slightly quartering Dad's pig

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hoorah- Ian takes one for the deaf team, I gotta meet up with this kid and we can start a hearing aid/cochlear rampage on the woods

call works under 30 yards of the herd in most cases

sent you a pm

Great write up and awesome photos, I remember that area very well as I romped there alot when I was at NAU a few years ago, you were ontop of those big boys no joke! Congrats on the fine buck

2010 is underway, I just wanted to say real quick that I got this pig today 1/2/10 and my sister (Stacy/AZarchery) got hers on opening day, we've been having good success in the last two days. This morning we went after a herd we've known for quite some time, about 8 years but we were not able to harvest a pig from this group in 4 years, the terrain is pronghorn country with small gullies that holds some food for pigs. The herd has grown outrageously in the past 4 years at a whoppin 11 pigs now (well 10 NOW), it all started when pops located the herd walking from a distant canyon into the canyon we were glassing and our stalk was on, the wind was right and the pigs were feeding downward into the gully. We ran out of cover at 50 yards so I decided to advance in the open terrain getting to 27 yards of a single pig, the pig was facing away giving me an opportunity for a texas heart shot but I held off, a pig above me to my left started to get spooky and trotted towards the herd so I thought "Oh heck here I go" I pulled the 25 yard pin right on the pig's hole pooper and right at that insant he looked to the right and my arrow was flying, the arrow grazed his neck and lodged into his brain, not quite a texas heart shot but the closest I've gotten to it in a few years. Dad will be trying for his pig next, we are heading out again and will keep you all updated, cheers.

Amanda- you're right it's an average size herd but back in 2004 it was only 4 pigs large and now gotten up to 11, hence the reason why I mention it has grown into a nice size group