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Federal ownership has always been upheld in the supreme court, which is our designated constitution interpreter, whether you like it or not. Administering federal lands is one of the better things the federal government does. They aren't perfect at it(insert Burros issue on BLM in western Arizona...) but overall historically they have done very well for us sportsmen with that important stewardship.

Bob, this is what you get when the minimum wage gets too high = price increases, sales decrease, business suffers, layoffs follow and/more automation. http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/11/29/thanks-to-fight-for-15-minimum-wage-mcdonalds-unveils-job-replacing-self-service-kiosks-nationwide/#67631d99762e

I was so shocked that it passed, and have instantly suffered as a business owner. Many of my subcontractors have had to increase prices, eventually forcing me to do the same last week. It has been painful. Just think about it, the WORST, do-10%-of-the-work-of-a-good-worker, least motivated employees in the state are being paid $10/hour! Giving them an instant 24% raise? 50% over three years? Who comes up with this? Of course that effects tons of other hourly guys up the chain. And it keeps going for YEARS.

Well I wasn't sure I would be able to do even a full day's hunt in January, but yesterday afternoon decided I would try anyway and grabbed a tag while getting groceries. At about 3 I told the wife a couple of the kids and I were going to take a little drive to look for deer. When she got the text of my buck a couple hours later, she said she didn't realize I was even hunting haha. I left the kids watching a movie in the truck while I walked to a glassing spot. I ended up spotting some deer, hurrying over there, one thing led to another and this guy popped up between a couple groups of does and only 25 yards away from me! He cleared a tree, I grunted and sent the projectile. I grabbed a few pictures and left my stuff and sprinted back a mile to the truck to find the kids still watching their video in peace. The three year olds first words when seeing me were "did you shoot a deer dad?" Taxi said that based on the game and fish teeth chart, he is probably 9-11 year old!

Thanks guys. They really wanted to go see him, but it would be dark soon and was too far for them to walk anyway, so I took them back home first.

It seems extremely unlikely that no residents drew a unit 9 archery bull tag with 10, 11, or 12 bonus points last year in the random passes. Anyone have a good explanation for this? I assume maybe most of these point pool were non-resident, but even then...

Wow, awesome buck. Right place and time luck always helps, but you still had to be out there hunting, find him, get close enough, and make the shot= you earned it!

Sweet. Kids are the best!

how long till fish and game votes against paper applications? I think you are on to something here... many other states don't allow it... only a matter of time.

What they are really saying is that we no longer want to call for rejected cards, so if your card is rejected you will lose the tag automatically. My wife got a call-back tag a few years ago around the Target ccard fiasco time. It was a nice service while it lasted.

Those kaibab/strip elk tags are surprising, 750 draw tags? I know there are periodic sightings and a some kills on the kaibab during the open season this last year, but who is going to put in for these in the draw? Did they find a hidden herd with 800 animals that we didn't know about? Seems like some unsuspecting people will put in for this and be wasting their money would be my worry.

This huge bull (Vaquero Outfitters, apparently ORO Ranch) was missed 7 times week 1, then when he was shot week 2, took 2 days to find him.... do you think it had anything to do with long range shooting? https://www.facebook.com/189502424437750/photos/a.249071028480889.67799.189502424437750/1132712700116713/?type=3&theater

Do you all need another hunting buddy, because I volunteer!

Listen to recent Jayscott Podcast with Chris Roe, they kind of have a negative perspective on the direction the unit has been going in general(too many bulls being killed, age class suffering big time) and Chris feels this year wasn't above average.

Awesome, wall mounter for sure!

My 12 gauge I got when I was 10 years old jams pretty bad almost every shot. I've paid the only gunsmith that I could locate in Kingman to fix it, but that did nothing, I think I paid for a glorified cleaning. The fixes on youtube seem relatively simple(filing down a lip in the chamber or fixing the extractor), but I don't want to play gunsmith and mess with it myself and end up breaking something... At this point I'm ready to get rid of it, but don't want to sell a gun that doesn't work well. Or if I had it fixed for good by someone who really knows what they were doing, maybe I'd keep it. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the advice everyone.

I don't know of any long time archery hunters that have NEVER missed or NEVER made a bad shot. It happens even to the best and very careful archer. Archers have been doing their best to kill animals, but sometimes merely wounding them, for thousands of years... Strive for the best ethical shot, if something goes wrong, learn and put in the effort to fix the mistake and try and do better the next time... Gun powder hunters are not immune to buck fever or mishaps either the last time I checked.

I see good bucks every day on the archery, and all those bucks are still there for the Muzzy, just a little harder to find.

Congratulations, glad you had a good hunt, awesome bull.

The wind thing is no joke. Every one of my stalks this year had the wind switch on me too...

Sounds like 23 is the place to be.

My multi unit area was tough, no bugles, really hot and water EVERYWHERE from the 5 inches of rain in the last month, so the elk are all spread out willy nilly wherever they feel like roaming and not in their normal spots, and not rutting yet that I can tell... After the cool down this week I expect better, if it doesn't rain any more that would help too.

I agree with this one.

Just because this guy shot a buck at 120 yards the other day doesn't mean we should all start to try it https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ1PcqkjQpn/?taken-by=big_chino_outfitters