bowhunter.forever

AMEN TO THAT BROTHER!

Cool video, I need one of those cameras..

Yea but 123456 is supporting the ban based on the data. Also no I don't like Obama nor do I want guns taken away, just showing how rediculous the people on here how hunt but support a ban on baiting are. The thinking is ignorant and just to prove a point look at what happened to bear baiting when we sat on our hands and let the animal rights activist take that away from us. By allowing this to go into effect we are leaving the door wide open for other things to get banned. We should stand together on this or watch all our hunting methods disappear. I guess that wouldn't be a bad thing. No hunting means no game and fish department. Then I can hunt whenever I want :-) But either way I will still be hunting no matter what..........

Yea he sounded Huge! Cool video

Cool video! Broke or not that is a shooter!

What????? It is illegal to bait deer in New York but yet they have CWD!!!??? Sounds like baiting didn't have anything to do with CWD in New York but yet you site it as an example 123456???!!!! Yep Im a troller and yes I love Obama. Why do I love Obama because he will take all your guns away and then it will be archery hunting only! Then 123456 I will have all the deer to myself! The way I see it is all you rifle hunters have an unfair advantage, shooting those poor deer from hundreds of yards away when they don't even have a chance. I for one will still be archery hunting with bait and raising the harvest ratio even higher! I'm sure then 123456 will push to ban archery hunting, but thats fine sharped spoons sounds challenging..........

By not voting you are part of the problem. The exact reason Obama got elected is because of people like you. You stay on the fence to keep your job. This also adds to what was said earlier about GW making up junk science in order to make recommendations to raise tags to keep the higher ups happy. Stay on the fence and eventually you fall off. This will effect you too when one day they decide to ban something you use but others don't and they sit the fence like an idiot.

123456, You are probably one of the G&F employees who troll this web site and like to throw "facts" around. I will guarantee the harvest number by archery hunters will not go down if this law is passed. For some reason the thinkers in game and fish area believe it is due to baiting but never think it is possibly due to other factors like bow technology, better optics, time in the field and hunters studying the game more than ever before. Why are we not limiting the size/power of optics, feet per second shot by a bow, range finders and scent lures? Or are the game and fish getting ready to look into these issues too? All the studies done on diseases due to baiting have been done in states that have far greater deer/elk populations than Arizona. The harvest numbers you are referring too are in my opinion due to many other factors stated above than to baiting. But I’m sure in five years when the hunt success is still on the rise for archery hunters even after the baiting ban, laws will be put into place or hunting seasons limited for archery hunter to make sure it fits the G&F puzzle. G&F wonders why hunter participation numbers are down, all they have to do is look into the mirror. Stupid laws like this will just make it worse not to mention hurt the hunting revenue generated from the archery hunters. I’ve been considering moving to another state and this will be a motivator to take my money elsewhere as will many others. I simply stated that lots of arguments on this site seem to be that they want to know #'s. Read Coues n Sheep's post. He actually puts his questions in a bullet style presentation. The answer to 70 % of his questions are present in Hunt Arizona. As far as doing #'s on our present herd vs. other states, this is not a very intelligent statement. You see in order to have research, the problem has to be present. We do not have CWD, they are trying to be proactive, not reactive. If this law makes you move to another state, I would suggest it be one of the other states that allow baiting. When you arrive at your new state, I'm sure you will have stuff to complain about there too. If I were you, I would start packing and looking at real estate outside of AZ. Good luck in your travels. 123456, I find it interesting you do not deny to being a G&F troller. Also I think you are not intelligent when saying there can’t be any studies when there isn’t any CWD in AZ. This has to be the dumbest statement I’ve ever heard but doesn’t surprise me coming from some pencil pusher or a warden that never gets out of his truck to do any research. One doesn’t need CWD to be in AZ in order to study how it spreads. Again there are good arguments to why it isn’t here. States that have CWD are primarily states that have high elk populations that are forced into small areas due to hard winters. We have nether and with the high number of tags being issued every year we will never have high populations. Also there is no proof that baiting causes the spread of CWD. Also I don’t find it surprising that you are glad to hear a hunter wants to leave the state due to dumb game regulations. This has been a huge problem in G&F that they just don’t care. All they care about is selling tags and to heck with the hunters. To prove a point here I point to the fact that G&F is trying to put a lid on high archery harvest numbers. Why doesn’t G&F highlight this as a proud point and use it to increase hunter participation. This should be a positive issue and not a negative! But with G&F high harvest numbers is always a negative. I also agree with huntlines that even if you ban the baiting thing the archery harvest will not go down, then what? Ban archery hunting? Reduce archery tags and increase rifle tags(which is what they have been doing by increasing rifle tags). Go troll somewhere else because your ignorance is just proving everything we already know about G&F

It is good to see they are being reasonable about this. Otherwise no one would report themselfs.......

Don't start golfing, keep huntin! What a senior year is right!

Wow! What a bull!

I have used a 270 on most of the riffle hunts I have gone on and have taken coues deer at over 500 yards on several occations. I never have had a problem puttin em down.