A good ending.

[ichiban43]

I'll try and make a long story short. An acquaintance of mine pulled a left over tag for the unit I drew--Nov-36B. We opted to meet down in Arivaca. He had his Motorhome in the shop and it became a real cluster. When he picked it up, it was running terrible--clogged fuel pump (in the tank type). The dumb mechanic (2nd one), instead of dropping the tank and doing it right--jury rigged it--now get this--the new pump was sucking through the old pump--DUH!!!

Well--they (his nephew & 18 yr old son came for just the weekend) did get to Arivaca in the early AM on Sat morn. And in all the confusion my friend forgot his tag. They gotten up late and I left a note about an area to hunt.

I saw an OK buck and a few doe's on opening morn--no bucks--only doe's on Sat morn.

Met them back at camp and they were a little down about how the trip was shaping up. They only had the evening hunt and the morning hunt and had to head back to Mesa.

Ralph had gone into Tucson to Wal-mart to get a duplicate tag and called on the way back-- and was--yes--you guessed it--having Motorhome problems. So-I opted to stay and wait and see if Ralph made it back from Tucson OK and in a rare moment of kindness (HAHA!!!), I gave them directions to my spot. Ralph made it back at close to dark--at about 30 mph. we went down to the RV Park bar to have a cool one and about 7 here comes the guy and his son--bloody hands and all. The boy nailed the 3 x 3 I had seen on the opener and his Dad killed a little forky, while standing almost shoulder to shoulder. I went the rest of the season seeing nada.

Too teel you the truth-at my age and having hunted all my life, I get greater pleasure in putting younger hunters like these on to game than I do when I bag one myself.

[willhunt4coues]

Maybe in the archery hunt you'll have a chance. Good luck.

[Non-Typical Solutions]

That will come back for you some day ten fold. That is a deed well done, true sportsman...........I hate having rig problems on the hunting trips, wait all year to get to go hunting and then have something like that practically ruin it all.......good job....