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I still think the best defense, is a good hiding spot. Ive noticed a lot of Eastern hunters are putting theirs up ten or so feet in a tree to catch trespassers and keep them from walking off with the camera (mostly higher end one that send the photos with a data plan) a lot of the photos end up showing better characteristics of the game than the eye level shots as a plus! I might have to invest in some climbing sticks now!

I was just wondering is all Amanda. I have the app and enjoy its user interface to check on PMs and the like quickly, but if there no user interest then there is really no point than is there! Thanks for all you do!

Any hope for tap-a-talk support? Makes managing online forums and notifications really simple for users, and may allow for more members when the use the app to search.

Anaconda, any room in your camp!?!

Someone (AZHuntNut?) built a pretty cool little Samari for cheaper than a newer Rhino and had it pretty tricked out to show for his money! You wont be able to speed through the rough stuff like on an atv/utv, but you will be a lot better off with a heater!

So i finally got my map pieced together and began looking it over. Didn't look too bad while i was trying to recall roads i havnt thought about for a year or more. I then dug out the nearest map i had and opened it up to compare. From the "old" map to the closure map there isa noticed road closures. But i also noticed a lot of the small dog leg roads that were only pull outs more or less are now full on roads and this is only a tiny screen shot of one tiny area. For the photo, the yellow is roads that existed before and still do (with exception of when i failed to connect all the way) the blue lines are roads that no longer exist, and the uncolored lines on the right map are roads that are "new" since the other map was printed and are open. Kind of makes me want to compare the entire map now....

Give them a call or go down to an office. They might have assigned you a hunter ID instead of using your social? I was seeing the same when i entered my social and couldn't see if i was drawn or not.

I too got mine yesterday, and it was the first notification of a successful draw since I wasn't aware I was assigned a hunter I'd number! Archery bull!

I would really hope the law out there will be fair. I know I'd be. Get caught on numerous closed roads, man, you're asking for it. On a brighter note. These new closed roads may end up being a pretty good spot to sit in a couple years. One of my favorite spots in 5B North, was a closed off road that the elk just loved to walk along! 'Course my cams still caught jerks on ATVs driving the roads.

You can call, or download the maps. http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coconino/landmanagement/projects/?cid=stelprdb5356224 Thanks Red, after I posted that I found a link in another thread and printed them out. I wasn't paying attention and printed a seven page wide by five page tall map! You can REALLY see everything on it! Hahaha

I dunno I can see a judge being a sticker and blaming the users for not knowing the rules. I personally do NOT want to drive from Chandler to Flag to take care of a fine and court date then have to deal with the headaches from my work over it also. Kind of like when you go in to fight a radar ticket and its just a revolving door of "guilty or not" and then a verdict.

Back on topic. I have yet to get my copy of the map. Can someone scan their copy and upload it for the site? From what I'm hearing, they closed quite a few maintained roads (bar ditches)and not just forest trails. Where I want to hunt this fall, I have to walk in, no way around it (legally) but the roads that get you near there may be gone now, and that leave a four or five mile one way trip JUST to get to the area and then further to get in. Of course, just call in the SAR team after you get your bull down and they will make any and all new roads for you to get out in.

I read this the other day, pretty bad idea to go against a major company like McMillan that supplies so many agencies. Hopefully the gun community pulls together on this one.

I had the same problem last night, exactly. I guess I'll have to call them tomorrow. I know I used my social, I have never had a hunter ID number, ever.

Guess we didn't draw? When I enter my info into the website I just see my info (name ID number, address) and nothing else?

+1, as of 1444, the site is crashed and the phone line is busy. Just like old times.

Why you yelling? Honestly, its the first years of online applications. No matter how many times you have tested something before hand, or how well it works for other agencies there will be road bumps for the first time or two. I've seen it time and time again at my work. Plan for as long as you can, try to hit every problem before it starts, and then the curtain goes up and it all goes to shoot. I'm just glad, like Casey said, we will know in April instead of August or September!

Traddy here too! I shot compounds my whole life, and picked up a recurve back in 2004ish to play around with. Didn't shoot it for a couple years and dug it back out. I surprised myself this year by actually keeping the arrows on the target (yellow jacket) at 40 yards. At twenty I was dead on, and missed a quail on the javilina hunt just barely from shooting too low, which is my bad habit with all bows.

Great deal! I have four labs a "meth lab" and a shitsu looking at me right now. Awesome dogs guys and gals, give this sweetie a home!

1) Gather Rocks 2) Stack Rocks 3) ??? 4) Profit! I only knock them down when they are marking a road I want to travel on to get to my hunting spot!

10ga, and a good sling!

Naw, it makes it easier to hook the ATV attachment to them for skinning!

Because of a knee injury I've been sitting at home for the past six months with limited activity. Today a co-worker and friend wanted to go shooting. I wasn't interested in the AR or other rifles and we shot skeet this morning at Ben Avery so no shotguns. I decided to take my Kentucky Rifle Repop for a little unconventional fun. I shot it about ten times, then on a shot showing my buddy how to load and shoot it, I had a cap that just exploded on the shot. Not only split and detonated, this thing GRENADED! I hold my rifle with my support hand almost all the way forward, a good two foot from the lock, and elbows held down close to the body. As soon as I shot, I felt sharp pains in my middle finger on my support hand, my cheek, and my left arm. I noticed I had a scratch on my face, my middle finger was bleeding, and I had a small hole in my CWT shirt. I didn't worry about it until I got home, went to take a shower and found this.... That's about 1/16" X 1/8" piece of the cap that is embedded under my skin on my left arm! It went through the doubled up shirt (had the sleeves rolled up a bit) and still had enough power to get all the way under the skin. A similar unfired cap for comparison. The scratch on my face also turned out to be a small piece of the cap in my skin just below where my sunglasses sat. Anyone who's been around guns for a long time take short cuts. We all do it, and know it. I don't wear glasses when I hunt even though my light green eyes get "arc eye" if I don't wear sunglasses during the day but I deal with it. I also don't wear ear protection while hunting, or during the shot. I can tell you from now on I will be wearing all the protection I can while shooting from now on. I had this problem with the musket sized caps that would leave metal flakes in my trigger hand, so I went back to the smaller caps because they didn't seem to detonate into small fragments. Guess I was wrong on that one! Be safe out there!

That sounds like whats been happening with my dad and I for the past few years. We are both Ken Bass I was born on December 26th '87, he was born December 28th '57 and used the same home address and our license numbers were always consecutive. For some reason we both kept getting rejected for applying twice. GFD swore it went by social or hunter id and not anything else. I fought it hard the first year because of the bonus point. Filled out paperwork and made enough phone calls for the "micro film" from somewhere back east and when it came in, I couldn't look at it. It happened for two or three years straight when ever we applied separate. This year we applied together and it appears we might have been drawn finally! But all those years of bonus points are gone.

Five minute breaks every two hours, adventure is right!