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Congrats, I like all the youth hunts.

Awesome story. i will be starting my 9 yr old grandson next year and can not wait for his first on many things.

I was walking into a pond down by barnhart opening day of archery deer a few years ago when I walked right into a Mohave who was stretched across the trail in the manzanita about 3 feet off the ground. I figure he was hunting from above as the brush was pretty thick. If he had not buzzed I would have hit him about mid thigh as I was moving pretty quick. Need less to say I found another trail to get into that spot.

Another note I was shocked in the 5 minutes between putting in javelina and turkey there was over a 500 number difference in confirmation numbers. That's one really busy system right now.

I was having trouble last night I switched over to firefox and it went thru with no issues.

Congrats on a great buck.

Great bull, looking forward to the show.

Congrats on a geat hunt with your father. Charish every minute with love your ones. Great bucks also.

Nice buck congrats.

Thats a big Brown, nice fish. Use to be alot of big browns in this state. I remember throwing 6 and 8 inch rapalas on willow springs as a kid. You could hit all the rim lakes back then and you would stand a chance to catch big trout all the time not anymore however, only the res has any lakes you can still catch big trout. Once in awhile a creek gives up a big brown but not near as often as back in the day.

I will take it. If still available. I will pm you.

I will just love a tag. If I ever draw, I will know my ram when I see him. I have ruined 1 hunt in my life because of all the score talk it will not happen again.

You answered your own question with the 270 "is the most accurate gun I have ever owned". Plenty of gun and your confidence level will make it your best choice.

Good buck, smile young man.

Adam your shooting squirrels behind the fences. Tell the boy's and the Tracy great job. Maybe we can get Sean and the boys toghether before the end of the season.

Same info as above, lots of smaller bucks in behind Williams. If you have the ranch permits get up high and glass cedar flats.

Great job on the cows. Lots of good eating right there.

My thoughts on unit 1 would be that the unit had plenty of bulls prior to the fire and will stabilize after the herd slows down post fire. That's when the game and fish will put the tags back to pre fire numbers. If you think all the big bulls are being killed every year where do all the horn hunters keep finding all the sheds they haul in? Just go sit with the horn buyer in round valley and you will see that there are plenty of big bulls left after all the guys that dont know how to hunt elk unless they are screaming and running to calls. The guys that kill big bulls consistantly will continue to kill big bulls because they understand elk and put in the time to get it done.

Awesome bull Will. Tell your wife congrats.

Nice bull and other photos of the hunt. So much more to a hunt than just the kill.

I hear them down on Topock marsh and they do go into Windsor at Havasu.

It's hard to get excited about quail hunting nowdays after experiencing the hayday years when I was a kid. I remember hunting Tonto Basin and the coveys would number in the hundreds. Bouquet ranch sounded like 1 giant covey from the a cross road all the way to the ranch area at the pond. There are a few birds up here around kingman but hardly enough to bother. I have never hunted over dogs. We had a few labs when I was a kid that would retrieve if they felt like it but not fully trained dogs.

Nice cow, great eating right there.

I missed that other post thanks.

If you can find the birds your 410 should work fine if they are not nervous birds. However if they have been hunted they can fly exctremely fast thru timber and the 12ga will be your best friend. There use to be a good population around greens peak. I had also started finding alot in 27 before the willow fire and have not been back there since the fire.