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This was my first coues hunt and dang was it a fun one! Went out today snowing and raining all day finally broke for A couple hours my buddy found this guy and we got it done!

I finally got my login working on here again so I thought share my 2019 buck from early November on the general rifle hunt. Long story short I ended up missing a good buck on opening morning so I was irritated about that until we found this buck. My wife and stepson both killed their first bucks this year so it was a good year. I like the pitchfork he has on his left side.

Thank god. I was gonna spend my money. But, dibs if it falls thru. Smoking deal for sure!

Yes, the AZGFD publishes 2 reports the bonus pass and the 1-2 pass, for example 8 resident points for archery elk in unit 1 last year didn't even make the bonus pass. I believe each applicant is only entered into the drawing 1 time. For example if you had 3 points going into the draw you would actually be assigned 4 random numbers and the lowest of the 4 would be then assigned to your application and entered into the draw.

Gotta hunt for it to be a "hunting rig."

***SOLD PENDING FUNDS; THANK YOU***Very light, handy, and fun little rifle. Scope is a Leupold VX-2 3-9x40mm with LR dot flex, set in 1" Talley rings. Includes the pictured soft case. Purchased this about 6 years ago to help my then-little kids transition to centerfire rifles and medium game hunting. Took a javelina a mule deer with it. Has about 300 rounds down the pipe. Had some fun with them Duracoating the barreled action, stock, and scope, then applying some extra texture/color to the stock with some spray paint patterns. Kids are all grown up now, and this girl doesn't get shot any more. So hoping it can find a new home. Would make a great walk-about coyote rifle. If interested, can also include 180 rounds of hand loads consisting of 65gr Sierra GameKing BTSPs over some H4895, moving ~3000 fps (load data on the boxes). $550 face-to-face in the West Valley area. No trades, please.

Selling Ruger 10/22 Take Down magpul Backpacker OD Green. Missing rear sight. Removed for scope and cant find it now. Asking $300 FTF in Tucson. Text (520)425-0632 or PM. Thx.

Shot a pretty cool bird in the desert a couple weeks back. She was a little leucistic. Never seen one like this before. Check out the feet and topknot color. Hard to see or much different it is in photos; in person it was pretty wild.

Well it all started when my credit card got hit for $300 from G&F and i knew that could only mean one thing. I wont even say how many points i had because it is just ridiculous how lucky i got but i had under 10 points. I had very little experience in the unit i drew so i knew it was going to be a lot of work and hours beating up my truck and sweating in the heat but that was fine with me. I met some great guys from this site and some of the past hunters in the unit that really helped me out a lot. I don't need to mention names but they know who they are and i appreciate all of the help. Scouting proved to be much more challenging than I expected. My unit received record rainfall which was very good for the area but it did seem to spread some of the animals out. Fast forward to the hunt and opening morning had me and my hunting buddies on the same glassing spot we were at the weekend before and after about an hour i glassed up a nice Ram. My goal for the hunt was to shoot a nice mature Ram and this one looked great to me so off i went on my first and last stalk on a desert sheep. Made it to 400 yards and waited forever for them to stand back up because they were out of view from my shooting location. Once he stood up I started shooting away and hit him a good three times. He went out of view but the guys i had watching him said he was hit hard and after a couple minutes the boys yelled in the radio that he was dead. I couldn't be happier with him as he is a great ram but it is a little bitter sweet that it is all over. Time to start putting in for Rocky Mountain Sheep.... G&F aged him at 8 years old. Thanks again to my family, and friends for all the help. Hope everyone enjoys the pictures.

Hunted this buck for 8 strait days. I seen him scouting 1 time before my hunt. Never to see him again for 2 strait weeks. The times I did see him he was way out in a completely different location miles away. The buck was always on the move... For the few seconds I did have to see this buck I could tell he was an awesome deer; Deep forks, great mass and height! I called this deer “Ghost” he was unpatternable.. The buck never stayed in a certain area like almost all bucks do. This buck knew that staying in any given area for too long was bad news for him. Super smart deer! To make things even more difficult he was the only buck in the dam area not chasing does😂 Including scouting and my hunt I only seen this deer 3 times and the only time I seen him was at the last 10 minutes of shooting light; completely nocturnal animal. Below is the story on how it went down... I spotted a buck at 1 mile at dawn. When I put the spotting scope on him I could tell it was a shooter buck(not ghost). The buck was herding and rutting these does hardcore. It didn't take me long to pack up all my gear and start closing the distance on them. I get to a half mile of them and these deer rutted over the top of this hill away from me. I didn't wanna run right into them and spook them so I gave It about 30 minutes and just glassed the two drainages that came out from where they dropped into. I did this to make sure that they didn’t escape out of this pocket when I ventured into it. They never did so I headed over to the deer trail and started track them to where they went, I pursued them extremely slow because I knew I could get really close hunting this method. I tracked them for half a mile when I noticed ears walking towards me 100 yards away. I get down on my belly and just watch these deer get 20 yards to me and feed right around me lol they had no clue I was there. So then I see a 3x3 buck about 150 yards away and I grunted at him to try and pull him closer. He came in 20 yards and had a stand off with me and had no clue where the grunting had come from. He was looking around for 10 minutes right in front of me. The buck then started grazing and eventually met up with the does that were right in front of me. It was at that moment that I started hearing grunting and trampling like a stampede lol I just got ready on my belly cuz I knew something was lurking in front of me lol. I pulled my muzzleloader and have it on my side as I'm laying in my back. I then see about 25 deer within 30 yards of me. All I could see was little heads pop up out of nowhere. Then behind the does herding them up is a different buck than what I had seen this morning. An even bigger buck had pushed the big buck I seen this morning out of the group in the span of like an hour. This buck happened to be my target buck. "Ghost" I called this buck ghost because this buck I tried hunting for 7 days with no success. The smartest creature I have hunted lol. He had no pattern to hunt and never showed himself. He was nocturnal. But anyways this buck was pushing the does, nudging them in the rump and grunting like a mad man😂 I got on my knees as he got 50 yards from me and I let him have it. It took me 3 shots to bring that bad boy down. Here he is fellas, an awesome desert mule deer with a muzzleloader🤙🏽

***SOLD PENDING FUNDS; THANKS!*** Got this rifle a little over 2 years ago, but found I like the balance of the T3x Lite (no fluting) a little better in the B&C stock my rifles usually wear. Great little rifle, though. Would keep this one around for my son, except he's not interested in hunting big game. Had some fun installing a LimbSaver recoil pad and painting the factory stock. Nothing fancy, just some krylon and imagination. Applied some of Brownell's black Alumi-Hyde to remove what I perceived to be too much glare off of the original brushed stainless finish. But ended up removing it, because...well, side note, that stuff's terrible. There's some slight residual left on the barrel, but for the most part it looks like when it came out of the box, with a little less glare than it had new. Scope is a Leupold VX-3 3.5-10x40mm CDS with a Wind-Plex reticle, set in Talley rings. Includes a CDS dial for 140gr Accubonds going 2850fps. Speaking of which, includes 30 rounds of factory Federal Premium 140 gr Nosler Accubonds, which I've measured at ~2850 fps from this rifle. It shoots these into 1" or better at 100 yards. Total rounds through the rifle is a little shy of 180. Great rifle, very easy to tote around. As configured, weighs a little shy of 7 lbs on my scale. $600 face-to-face in the West Valley area. No trades, please.

If you haven't tried the air hose and plastic bag trick.... you're wasting a lot of energy and making a mess. Ed F

Just get the 12b any elk tag guys

Buy a Ford

***BOTH SOLD PENDING FUNDS: THANKS!*** Varget: Got two pounds a couple of years back when it was super hard to find, ended up using only a little less than .5 pounds. Founds my rifles liked RL17 and H4895 better, so this hasn't been used. I'm sure someone can find a use for it. Has been stored in my house (AC) at all times. Only one has been opened, other is still sealed. $40 face-to-face in the West Valley Area. Assorted bullets: 50 140gr Nosler Ballistic Tips 100 139gr Hornady SSTs ~30 Rem 140gr Core-Lokts $30 face-to-face in the West Valley Area. Or...$65 for everything if anyone wants to combine stuff.

1-in-8" twist, stamped on the barrel (picture below). Thanks for asking, as I forgot about the difference in twist rate that made this one appealing to me way back when instead of the more powerful 22-250 that's somewhat limited (for what I wanted anyway) by a 1-in-12" twist, at least when I was looking.

we are broke right now, you should put for sale in august before all the hunts, after christmas is tough.

What NOTAGS is trying to point out is that the Game and Fish data is based on the total number of applicants (first and second choice) divided by the total number of tags. However this is not in line with the way the tags are allocated. First 20% of the tags are assigned to the applications with the highest bonus points. So if there are 100 permits for a hunt, then 20 are allocated this way leaving 80 for the rest of the applicants to draw. Those 80 tags are then drawn at random. Except, each application is entered into the drawing x the number of bonus points for that applicant. For instance, someone with three bonus points will have their application entered into drawing 3 additional times, the application plus once more for each bonus point for a total of 4 chances. So even in the random draw, bonus points come into play. For these two reasons the draw odds listed in the regs are not the most accurate available. However, they do offer a fair indication of overall application interest and patterns.

Congrats! Nice Buck!

Glass is half full outlook.. You should draw this year if point creep doesn't get you. 12 points has been 100% draw for the last 5 years, but is slowly trending toward less than 100%.

TTT

1998 19a and 2020 19a might aswell be in different universes.

Be snarky if you feel like it. I told him what my opinion was. I’m no expert or big time guide so I don’t have any inside info. And I don’t put in for rifle antelope in AZ so whatever he does it’s no hair off my nuts. Just answering the man’s question.

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