CouesBaiterJr

Tucson Mountain Park buck?

Maybe I'm the only one, but I find this a little hard to believe that AZGFD would like to return a camera. I applaud Amanda for trying to find the rightful owner and get the camera back, but if I were the owner I would be a little hesitant. I'm sure AZGFD is looking to find the owner because they would like to ask the owner some questions as well..... Who knows, I could be wrong. But think about this, if this cam was just on a salt then AZGFD could easily hand this person to the FS for putting a substance on forest service land and leaving (possibly even bolting) property on FS land. Think long and hard before you offer up info as to location of cams etc when AZGFD is concerned. Like I stated, I could be completely off base too.

Don't know if I'd be putting more TC pics of that guy on this site. I'm sure there is more than one person that had that guy on there hit list as well, and there have been people known to undercut other hunters and take a deer right out from under them. Congrats on a cool buck.

So tell me this Chief, how am I suppose to go get a tag when G&F is only open M-F 8 - 5 and I work M-F from 8:30 - 5 busting my balls trying to make ends meet? Oh and the G&F office is a 50 min drive one way from my house (longer from my job). Willyhunts hit the nail on the head with his response, you can't buy a tag prior to Jan 1 anywhere but a G&F office. Sorry I don't have a kush job where I can just swing on by the local office and pick up a tag.

I believe "cactus bucks" stay in velvet because of damaged testicles. This guy is hard horned, so not a cactus buck

Nothing too big. Here's a vid from back in the day off the Covert II

Great Video

Oh no problem here, except for the fact that he shot a MONSTER and I didn't!! :P Congrats on a true monster!!

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+1 No one can justify a rule change without data supporting it.

Aren't you "intentionally" trying to restrict access by killing the deer going to the water source from your blind/treestand?

So true, corn is overrated and used by the uninformed. Do some research and some field testing and you'll see that there are many other options that are far superior to corn.

While I don’t have any numbers or hard evidence to support why I believe it is a bad thing to ban baiting, I don’t think it is a good thing. Maybe there are 50 corn piles for every square mile in 23 during the August hunt, and maybe baiting/feeding during those months shouldn’t be allowed. However, when hunting during the winter it is completely different. I’d love to hear about how many “piles of corn” you find there during the winter archery hunts. But you probably don’t know because you’re not out there during those times. Putting out some feed, in my mind does nothing wrong. I don’t put out piles of corn, I’ve read the issues on over feeding corn, but I do put out an assortment of choices for the deer to enjoy. It gives the deer free choice during the time when they are expending the most energy and need supplemental nutrition. Does it hurt them? I don’t think so. Does it give me more opportunity? Maybe, but there is still the issues of getting the wind right, proper positioning to ambush the deer, making an ethical shot, and having the deer come to the spot in the first place. I applaud everyone who can make that spot and stalk archery deer kill, but I also hear a lot of “shot a little back” “tracked for 200 yds” “never found him” etc. With better “opportunity” comes better shots and better judgement of the age of the deer you are taking. Am I going to take a spike or even an 80 – 90 incher? No. I’m looking for mature animals. Will I get to harvest a mature animal every year? No, and I’m okay with that. But with feeding/baiting I am able to better judge what class of deer may be in the area and then decide whether or not to hunt that area. I would like to see just a few of the members here that want a ban on baiting to actually see what type of work and patience is involved. I think most people think that it’s the easiest way to hunt. Are you willing to haul in 50 – 100lbs of feed? Are you willing to haul in your blind or treestand(s) to remote areas? And then sit there for literally hundreds of hours in 20 – 30 degree weather just twiddling your thumbs? I highly doubt it. And its not like this feed is free either, it costs hundreds of dollars to have a good setup. You might spend your dollars on long range optics, countless hours at the range, and lots of time behind some quality glass. I’ll spend mine on some quality feed, comfortable treestands and blinds, and countless hours at the archery range. And if this rule is truly about success rates then change the archery hunts to draw only in more units and reduce the number of rifle tags. As stated above, it’s a pretty weak argument to say it’s about success and limit archery tags when they put out ridiculous amounts of rifle tags but require absolutely no reporting of harvest data from them. And if this rule does go into effect, how is the azgfd going to enforce this? Sorry for the long rant on the first post, but everyone is entitled to their opinion