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Good job passing it and welcome to the hunting world.

Binos and tripod.

I don't think Adam will ever be up before an alarm goes off. It takes a lot of hey it's time to get up to get him out of camp. He is actually famous for sleeping right up to the rest of us getting in the truck to head out. (lol)

Congrats again Adam. Nice write up.

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Wow it's got a lot better than it was 4 years ago. When I moved from Eagar I could catch a couple every once in awhile but not those type of numbers. I think it being closed off for those couple years really helped.

Congrats Amanda this is my favorite site.

We saw this one in Unit 10 in June. They are cool lizards.

Well Adam doesn't have a way to type his story so I will try and get it right. It all started last night when he told me he was taking the day off and going up to mount ore to bear hunt. As normal he slept in and went to work with the plan to get off early and go up in the afternoon. He had called me and told me his big plan as he was leaving town so someone new where he was going in case he got ate by a bear. Well standard operating procedure with adam he changed his plan on the way up and called me to let me know where he was headed. He called me at 4:52 to tell me he was at his new spot and there was only 2 really old bear tracks and that he was going to try and call in the canyon above because he just knew there had to be a bear in the canyon. I told him to have fun and not to die from heat stroke. Well at 5:23 he calls back and is freaking out telling me he had just shot a bear. He said he had set his alarm for 20 minutes because that was all he was going to be able to sit still for. At 8 minutes in he heard the brush breaking and the bear came into view at 100 yards. He said 30 seconds later it was at 10 yards ands he made the shot with the bear quartered to him. At 5:32 he called back and it was bear dead. The funny par is Adam Has never tried to call a bear in by himself this was his first stand and 8 minutes in he shot his first archery bear. Way to go Adam congrats you can fill in anything I left out.

I just posted his picture on another post.

I was just talking to Big Browns a couple minutes after he shot the bear needless to say he was really stoked> I will leave the details to him. I will post a pic in a little bit.

That story should be in a magazine someplace well written. What a adventure. Awesome Bear.

That is awesome.

We did have fun.The Last couple years we could catch stripers with ease from around 6 to 10 pm just trolling rattle traps. This year that bite has not been happening.

Just some other photos from the trip.

It was a fun trip I hope you guy's enjoyed it. Next time I will break down and get some chovies to try and get more bites.

Good job Adam.

I really like mine. It shoots really smooth and has has not given me any hassles in 2 years.

My vote is in.

Any update on posting pics? Is this the guy from around bear flats?

I have done it on the same day down in the blue. Fresh brown elk and a older whitetail in the same bed. I found fresh brown muley sheds that day also. I will have to see if I can find the pics.

I have been chasing a buck that is still in velvet. i first saw this buck the weekend after xmas and again today. He is a big wide 4x4 but he is still in full vevet he shadows the doe herds but will not be agressive allowing much smaller bucks to push him away. My question is will he shed these horns and grow again keeping the velvet all year again? I assume he is some type of cactus buck.

I attended the Kingman meeting last night. There were around 14 others there also. For the most part nobody had any issues with the hunting and fishing liscense issues. As for the tag issues the room actually was asked who was in favor of premium hunts and the room voted majority against it. I think it was 5 for and 9 against premium hunts. The consensus of the room was that if premium elk tags did happen then only do the units that are managed for more and bigger bulls under the management plan these were units 9,10, 1 and 23. We had a couple guys from out of state that attended so we had a good perspective from a out of state opionon. Don Martin was there also and was taking notes so I dont know if he will chime in or not. We did have a good discussion about the tag insurance and that seemed to be popular in the room. Overall the most discussion seemed to be about the premium hunts. I voted against them, the main reason is I do not feel the way it was presented they are premium hunts. If anyone has specific questions on if something was discussed feel free to ask it will probally jog my memory.

These meetings are just like with baiting they will listen and then do exactley what they want. I will be at the kingman meeting to vote against the premium tags. I do like some of the liscense changes but this premium thing sucks. My guess is they already have their price range set and it will be a little cheaper than what is posted. They will probally go with 20 dollars cheaper on most of the tags and then say we listened and lowered the price of what we were suggesting. I'm taking the wife and a buddy so we can get no's against the premium tags.

What is funny after reading this thread and complaining about it with one of my friends, is that I would bet everyone on here pays alot more for much dumber things. I can dump 200 dollars just fishing in a weekend so in hindsite 200 for a elk tag is not all that out of line compared to alot of my other activities. As for the ones complaining about families affording this I don't see the prices for youth hunters changing unless your putting them in for the premium hunts. With that said I dont like the increase but I do like the simpler liscense and stamp fees. The biggest problem I will have with the fee increase is for my out of state son being able to afford to come home to hunt elk.