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Forget the pears. Just find a dead cow and the bears will show up. There are usually several dead around the Arsenic Ranch area. Try calling around Dry Lake. David

SOLD on CL. This winch doesn't need any power and you can store it in your truck. I have used it one time and it was able to pull a full size k5 blazer with no problem. You could even use it to winch an animal up into a tree. Check out the link for more info. $250 obo. David http://www.4x4wire.c...views/eopwinch/

I thought it was worth at least $350.00. Shoot me. Pm if you have something. David

Tracy, your well written story was absolutely riveting. I can hardly wait until you post your story about your turkey hunt. Congratulations Angie for taking another great trophy. David

I thought I read on here before that somebody built a custom rifle in this caliber. If so, can you give me your feedback on it. Do you like the caliber? Is it difficult to size your brass? What kind of velocity are you getting out of it? David

Can we try to set up a bit further back in this year where the trees are a little thicker for more shade. We have set up there in the past. David

I started using the Montana Decoy years ago during the elk hunts with great success. I had a cow come within 20 feet of me and started to circle me while I also pivoted to keep the decoy facing her. I noticed the bulls will come in for a closer look and it usually takes there eye off of the shooter. It works best when you have a friend helping you. David

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I will be there again this year. Make sure you bring your bows. We usually have a friendly competition shoot. David

Before you spend a bunch more money, find a discount tire that has a Road Force balancing machine. This machine will be able to tell if you have a bad tire, which is usually the problem when a death wobble occurs. A regular balancing machine will not pick up the problem. A road force machine actually has an arm that comes down and makes contact with the tire while it is spinning on the machine. Plus they mount an additional adaptor to the wheel in order for it to fit the machine perfectly. This will duplicate how the tire performs as if it was actually driving on the road. It will also tell them the best position to mount the tire on the rim, or tell them if the tire is actually "bad". It is usually not covered under manufacture warranty unless it is really bad. I have experienced this same issue with some of my lifted trucks in the past and in some cases it was a bad tire. Hope this helps. David

I recently completed my antelope pedistal from my 2011 archery season. The taxidermy work was done by TR Taxidermy in Flagstaff. During the mounting phase, I had him insert a tube inside of the mount so it would allow me to spin it on the pedistal to whatever position I wanted. Now I really was hoping to tackle the pedistal on my own, but soon realized I was in over my head. So I got a hold of Tracy (Gr8 White Jr) here on the site and we put our heads together and came up with an idea. I found the wood in the forest outside of Flagstaff and thought it would look great. Tracy puts his professional skills to work and was able to put everything together without showing any cut marks on the aged wood. I wanted it to look like it was built 100 years ago with no machines. We spent 12 hours working on it, but 2 of those were telling huntin stories. It weighed about 130lbs when we finished. Thanks again Tracy. I decided to take a crack at building the habitat on my own. This was my first attempt at building a habitat and I really enjoyed it. It is alot harder than it looks, and now I see why taxidermists take a while to get mounts finished. I put at least 6 hours into making it look like the habitat where I shot my antelope near Flagstaff. I am very happy with the way it turned out. David Here are some pics from the Arizona Bowhunters Association Banquet this past Saturday.

Did you draw a tag?

Here is my ad from craigslist. I have the price at $9200., but I will take $8500. I can also send pics of the rear soft top. I take very good care of my equipment. You can flly enclose the vehicle with the rear top on. David http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/rvs/2671566228.html

I will be there with the wife and boys for sure. This is a great banquet with some nice prizes. If you have kids, bring them along. I hope to have my antelope mount finished and on display at the banquet. David

I have been using vanilla extract for years now and it will stop just about everything. Plus the deer will come to investigate the smell. You can sometimes find the huge bottles at the discount stores. David

You guys make some great video's, and know how to find the big boys. I am glad to see "Lumpy" up close. I got a quick glimpse of this buck during my scouting before the season started, but he disappeared quickly. He looks even bigger than I thought. I especially enjoyed seeing that tall buck in the pine trees . David

I used to hunt alot with a guy that road a suzuki 250cc 4x4 with double shifters for putting it in low or super low. He was easily 250 pounds and 6'3. He never had any problem following me everwhere I went on my sportman 500. I can only think of one time where he needed more power and that was in some of the red clay mud and the tires got so packed that it would barely move. He would load that thing for bear everytime we went out. I bet you could find one of those in your price range and not have any problems. David

Man those are some great antelope. What did that last antelope score, he looks huge? It's just amazing that you got video of my antelope after I had spent days in there before the season without ever seeing him. I love the video and can't wait to see the finished product. David

I relisted my Ranger on Craiglist since I will have some time now to show it to prospective buyers. I can't load any pics here, since they are over 5MB. David http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/rvs/2895316897.html

I have seen herds near the Cleator area in the past. They were usually close to the bottom of the ridges, sometimes in the washes. David

I am looking forward to seeing you guys on Saturday. David

I just recently had the chance to look over some of the footage from my antelope hunt and found this short clip about 3 minutes after I made the shot. I wish my camera guy was able to get the shot on video, but we got split up when we spotted the antelope and I had to move fast to try and get into shooting position. I was still a little excited when he got to me and started filming. Enjoy, David

Are you able to take a picture at the same level as the antelope. I still haven't made a decision on mine and would love to see how it looks. David

Bill, I was joking about the SCI scoring system. We simply weighed the pig since he looked so big. There was a pig shot last year that was 59 and we thought this one might beat it. I have never seen it stated anywhere that an animal has to be gutted or not when weighing them. Its getting a little to serious around here. David

We used the SCI weighing rules. We didn't want to deduct for the guts. He took him a long time to grow that belly. Congrats on a big pig Lance. The skull will most likely make the Arizona record book. David