JACK

LAST WEEKEND WAS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER HAD WHILE HUNTIN I WAS WITH MY DAD AND THREE OF MY BUDDIES THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD HAVE MADE IT BETTER IS IF MY MOM AND WIFE COULD HAVE BEEN THERE. WE HAD AN AWSOME TIME AND KILLED TWO GOOD BUCKS WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR?? THEN ON THE OTHER HAND MY WIFES OCT HUNT WAS A NIGHTMARE WE WENT WITH SOME FOLKS WE NEVER HUNTED WITH BEFORE AND A I SHOWED THEM SOME SPOT WERE I HAD SCOUTED AND SAW A BUNCH OF DEER THEY HUNTED IT .THEN WE WENT TO HUNT IT AND THEY GOT PISSED BECAUSE IT WAS "THEIR" SPOT THEY SAW SOME GOOD BUCKS AND THEY FELT I WAS TRYING TO STEAL"THEIR" BUCKS. I DONT GET IT....BUT IT TURNNED INTO A WRECK. WHEN I HUNT WITH MY USUAL BUDDIES IT IS NOT A COMPETITION I WOULD BE HAPPY FOR THEM IF THEY TAGGED AND THEY WOULD BE JUST AS HAPPY FOR ME IF I DID. BUT IT SURE SEEMS TO ME THAT HUNTIN IS BECOMING A COMPETITION EVEN JUST GETTING TO A CAMPING SPOT OR HUNTING SPOT. THE WHOLE KEEPIN UP WITH THE JONES OR SOMTHIN LIKE THAT.

HEY EVERYBODY THANKS WERE HUNTING 35B MY BUCK GROSSES 110 2/8" AND NETS ?????????? WHO CARES NETS ARE 4 FISH I DID A TON OF SCOUTING AND HAD A NON TYPICAL 120" CLASS BUCK LOCATED AND HE WAS HANGIN WITH TWO OTHER BUCKS IN THE 105"-110". I WAS SO EXCITED BECAUSE LAST YEAR WE DID NOT SEE A SOUL IN THIS SPOT AND I HAD NOT SEEN A PERSON WHILE SCOUTING. DAVE WASN'T PLANNIN ON COMING DOWN UNTIL THE SECOND WEEKEND SO I WENT BY MYSELF THE FIRST WEEKEND. I LEFT PRESCOTT AT 2:OOAM FRIDAY MORNING. I GOT DOWN TO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS KINDA A "SECRET SPOT" AND THERE WAS A LITTLE CITY, I WAS SO BUMMED. I WENT TO MY GLASSIN SPOT,SAT IN WIND, HEARD SOME SHOOTIN, SAW SOME DEER, SAT IN THE WIND SOME MORE, GOT TIRED OF THE WIND AND HEADED FOR THE TRUCK. AS I DROVE OUT THERE WAS A CAMP WITH A DEER HANGIN SO I STOPPED TO CHAT AND THEY HAD SHOT ONE OF THE BIG BUCKS AMIGOS. THE GUY WAS JUST WALKIN AROUND THE DEER JUMPED UP AND HE SHOT HIM, THEN AN ALOT BIGGER ONE JUMPED UP RAN OFF. HE SAID HE DIDNT KNOW THESE DEER GOT THIS BIG OF HORNS. HE DOSEN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE HAS. THAT BUCK WAS PRETTY AWSOME 4X3 WITH 4" EYE GAURDS AND UNBELIVABLE MASS 110" CLASS FOR SURE. CONGRATS TO HIM! THEY HAD THREE TAGS LEFT IN CAMP AND THEY WERE GOING AFTER THE OTHER ONE. NOW I WAS REALLY BUMMED I KNEW THE BIG GUY WAS STILL ALIVE BUT ALL THESE GUYS WERE GOING AFTER HIM, SO I DECIDED TO LEAVE. SO, DAVE CAME DOWN, WE HEADED OUT, IT WAS STILL WINDY WHEN WE GOT DOWN THERE AND THE MOON WAS PRETTY DANG FULL PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR HUNTIN RIGHT?? SO THURSDAY WE WENT BACK TO THE "SECRET SPOT" AND THE WIND WAS BLOIWIN HARDER AND WE HAD THE WHOLE PLACE TO OURSELVES FOR A FEW MINUTES.THEN WHAT DO YOU KNOW THE THREE GUYS SHOW BACK UP, WAVE, AND WALK BY. I LEFT AGAIN. WE WENT BACK TO CAMP THEN DECIDED TO HUNT A SPOT WHERE WE SAW ALOT OF DEER LAST YEAR, AND IT WAS WINDY THERE TOO, WE ONLY SAW A FEW DOES AND FEWER PEOPLE. FRIDAY MORNING IT WINDY,WE SAW A DOE,FRIDAY NIGHT WE SAT OVER A TANK AND WATCHED THE WAVES, BUT AS SOON AS THE SUN WENT DOWN IT TOOK THE WIND WITH IT AND FOUR DOES CAME IN. WE HAD BEEN HUNTING FOR TWO DAYS AND HAD NOT SEEN ANY BONE I WAS AGRAVATED TO SAY THE LEAST. FRIDAY NIGHT SOME REENFORCEMENTS ARRIVED MY DAD AND TWO BUDDIES SHOWED UP TO HELP. SATURDAY MORNING WE DEVISED OUR SELF A PLAN ,SPREAD OUT AND FIND THE DANG DEER! MY DAD AND DAVE WERE GOING TO LOOK LOW AND WE WERE GOING HIGH. I WAS JUST HAPPY BECAUSE THE WIND DIED TO A SLIGHT BREEZE. WE HIKED UP TO A HIGH RIDGE WHERE WE COULD GLASS A TON OF COUNTRY MY TWO BUDDIES LOOKED TO THE NORTH AND I WENT OVER AND LOOKED SOUTH IT WAS PRETTY SLIM PICKINS BUT I JUST KEPT GLASSIN ABOUT AN HOUR LATER I SAW MY BUCK COMING OUT OF A CANYON BELOW ME. HE WAS SO AWSOME THERE WAS NO DOUBT HE WAS A SHOOTER I WATCHED HIM FOR A MINUTE THEN RAN OVER TO GET MY BUDDIES AND WHEN WEGOT BACK I COULDN'T FIND HIM, PANIC, THEN I SAW HIM RUNNING ACROSS THE MOUNTIAN, GREAT, I GUESS WE SPOOKED HIM, HE WAS HEADED DOWN TO THE BOTTOM, AND HE WAS GONE, OUTTA MY LIFE, FOREVER............THEN HE RUNS UP OUT OF THE BOTTOM STOPS AND LAYS DOWN!!!! FROM RUNNING TO LAYING DOWN IN SECONDS. HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP BUT DIDN'T KNOW WHERE WE WERE. LITTLE DID HE KNOW WE WERE 535 YARDS AWAY, AND HE WAS IN PLAIN SIGHT. WE DISCUSSED A STALK BUT THERE WAS REALLY NO WAY TO GET MUCH CLOSER WITHOUT SPOOKING HIM. I SHOOT A 300 ULTRA MAG AND IT IS ONLY 15" LOW AT 500 YARDS SO I DECIDED TO SHOOT FROM WHERE WE WERE . WHEN I SHOT I LOST HIM DUE TO A LITTLE RECOIL BUT I HEARD THE BULLET WHOOP AND MY BUDDIES STARTED YELLIN. I KNEW IT WAS ALL OVER, EXCEPT FOR ALL THE WORK, HE WAS NOT IN A USER FRIENDLY SPOT .I DONT KNOW IF I HAVE EVER BEEN ON SUCH A STEEP SLOPE, BUT WE GOTTER DONE. WHEN WE GOT BACK TO THE TRUCK MY DAD AND DAVE WEREN'T BACK YET SO WE HUNG OUT FOR A BIT. I WALKED UP ON LITTLE RIDGE WHERE WE WERE PARKED TO SEE IF I COULD SEE THEM,AND I SAW THEM, THEY WERE DOWN THE RIDGE WAVING THEIR HAND LIKE MAD TELLING ME TO GET THE heck OUT THERE. I SNUCK AROUD TO WHERE THEY WERE AND THEY HAD A BUCK BEDDED DOWN. I WAS ONLY ABOUT 150 YARDS FROM THE BUCK AT ONE POINT. I ALMOST BLEW IT FOR DAVE. WE MOVED AROUND SO DAVE COULD GET A GOOD SHOT. AT 385 YARDS HE MADE AN AWSOME SHOT THE BUCK NEVER EVEN MOVED HE GOT HIS FIRST COUES, I DONT THINK IT WILL BE HIS LAST.

HERES ONE MORE 4 YA

DEER SLAM I BELIVE WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IS AN OPTICAL ILLUSSION OR SOMTHING BECAUSE THIS WAS AN OSHA APPROVED PHOTOGRAPHY SET AND NO PERSON OR PERSONS WERE EVER IN HARMS WAY DURING THE PHOTOGRAPHING OF THIS BUCK

NICE BUCK SHERWOOD, CONGRATS

DAVES FIRST COUES

ANOTHER PIC

Loookin at all of your pictures and video got me pretty anxious to do some scouting so I went this weekend. Couldn't belive how green it was and how much water is out there, and it sure looks like the horn growth is going to be pretty spetacular. I wasn't able to get any pictures or video so all I have is a story. On Saturday I was headin to a spot we found last year when I caught some movement ahead of me. Several deer were up milling arond in the middle of the day!! I couldn't see them that clearly through the trees so I move around to get a better view and came arond a oak tree to the see the biggest non-typical buck I have ever scene feeding about fifty yards away. I all there were five bucks two little guys, two big guys and the monster. It was unbelivable to be that close to that big of a buck I got the shakes lookin at him through the binos. They didn't hang around for much more than a couple of minute and the video camera was in my pack,I tried to get in out, then they took off. I was an awsomme sight!! The two bigger bucks are around 100" and the really big one has a 110" main frame with points everywhere. I know where I will be during the next few months with my video camera in hand!! By the looks of things there are going to (and already has been ) be some great bucks taken this year!! good luck all!!

Money or no money what is the point? yes, those are awsome bulls, but that is not hunting.

I have a Rem. 300 ultra also, and i put a 6.5x20 VX-III long range on it and I haven't had any problems w/ the scope, but make sure he gets the rings and bases thightened down REAL good!!

That is a awsome bull, but I also heard that a guy killed a bull in 10 that grosses like 450.

great bull a guy killed a bull in 10 opening morning 431 sci-418 p&y. haven't seen any pictures just heard about it.

Scott that looks like a toad great find! I didn't think I was going to see a bunch of deer up feeding in the middle of the day so I didn't have my camera out. Learn something new everyday I guess. going to be puttin in a lot of hour down there!!

That is awsome!! congarts!!!

I know that the location has a lot to do with them finding it easily. I have never put any out so I dont know how much or how often they use it. From all the pic it seems like they love it. I might be a little late putting it out but i am going to try it this weekend.

On an average how long dose it take for deer to find and use a salt lick on a regular basis?

Jack, I am not familier with the power station. Can you give me an idea where to pull of the road to get to it. Thanks, David <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Take hwy 260 from Camp Verde to the Fossil Creek Rd(fr 708) head south to the Irving power plant.

You can glass from 22 into 6A above the power station saw a few bucks there while checkin out the pear situation a few weeks ago.

I did see some sign in the oaks but didn't see a bear. a guy shot a big bear up the canyon from us though. then some other guys beat us to a spot where we wanted to be and they said they saw a bear there .

kpw those are very impressive hopefully you guys can get a set that is still attached to the skull plate !! good luck in Oct.

I am a Farrier (horseshoer) , and I also trade some stock options.

I second that,Lark!!

No offence taken .............but mabey you can tell me what unit I was in then...... I was hunting about 20-30 miles south of Three Points and west of highway 286 in the Baboquivari mountian range.....any information you could give me would be great.........So how far south of Three Points is the buckhorn ranch ? I hunted in on the Elkhorn ranch a few days but I didn't go down much further than that so mabey I missed it. Is it a good place to hunt?........ I never said that I didn't see the Border Patrol or truck loads of trash either all I said I that I never saw or had any problems with an illegal's, and I belive I also said"but youstill need to be carefull good luck!"

wow!! those are awsome you guys are going to force me to go out and buy one of those things!! Were those in 5B N or S

I was in the same position as you last year.I had never been in that unit either but I did alot of scouting and all that stuff, and we saw a ton of deer. The best advice I can give is that the higher we got the less deer we saw. oh yeah and be patcient there are a lot of good bucks down there! I left my camp set up all season and never had a problem, I never even saw an illegal but still be carefull good luck!