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+1 to what Hector said! Hope you have a great birthday Steve!

I know I have been tardy in posting this, but I finally got a moment to write up something about the hunt. The 2014 Women’s Javelina camp held in February was a great success! We had women of all ages come and join us to learn how to hunt. As most of you know, the whole point of this camp is to recruit women into the hunting community by creating a safe environment where women can learn to hunt. We try to pair up each student with an experienced mentor and let me tell you, we have some very highly skilled mentors that assist with this camp! We couldn’t have such a successful camp without our mentors generously giving of their time and talents. This year we had 28 students (3 of which didn’t have tags, but just wanted to come see what hunting was about) and about 25 mentors, plus cooks and other helpers. So all in all we had about 70 people at camp. Four ladies harvested javelina and several others had shot opportunities. Some of the ladies also harvested some jackrabbits and their mentors taught them how to field dress their quarry. We had unseasonably warm weather which made it hard at times to find javelina. But the ladies and their mentors stuck with it and we still had success! We also had a full moon during the camp and that made for beautiful nights around the campfire. This camp wouldn’t be possible without the hard work and monetary resources of many people and organizations. The camp is primarily funded by a grant from the AGFD as part of their continuing effort at hunter recruitment and retention. AZ Safari CIub International provides all the equipment necessary for cooking meals along with tables, chairs, and canopies! AZ SCI also arranged for the portojohns for the camp, thank you Bobby! Team Younggunz provided excellent mentors, great knowledge of the hunt units, extra tables, chairs and coolers for water. The southern AZ chapter of the NWTF helped by providing mentors as well as some very nice camo backpacks for the ladies, along with hunting information and coupons for hunting gear! CouesWhitetail.com donates money for the camp as well as coordinating the entire event. And many of our mentors are longtime CouesWhitetail.com members! Eileen Cooper, one of our students, provided extra firewood as well as homemade apple dump cake. Roger and Ilene, Peg and TJ and Mike Anderson slaved away in the kitchen providing great food for our attendees! Mike Miller of Miller’s Southwest Processing (a sponsor here on CouesWhitetail.com) donated smoked pork/beef, hamburgers and breakfast sausage! Kathy Greene of Arizona Outdoor Women helped us with shopping and managed to get discounts on food and donations through the restaurant where she works (KG’s restaurant located East of I-10 on Grant Road). Ilene and Roger also spent countless hours planning and shopping for this event. In addition Mike Christensen of Pass it On Outdoor Mentors helped us secure insurance for the camp at about a third the rate it normally costs us by allowing onto his policy. With all the savings on food, insurance and portojohns, we will be able to return money back to AGFD to be used for another event! And the left-over food we had from our camp went to support a youth hunt put on by the AZ SCI Chapter the weekend after our hunt! Thanks to everyone who helped make that possible! Many thanks to the following mentors that helped at this camp! AGFD Commissioner JW Harris joined us at the camp and was also a mentor. I appreciated that he came out to see firsthand how important these camps are to the adult ladies that want to learn to hunt. Gerald Perry Mark Kuhn Kelly Neal Tracy Hardy Carl Young + 4 guys (Nash, Bryce, Derrick and Dale) Jack Wheat Deb Wesch Tracey and Angie Kathy Greene and Don Greene Linda Dightmon Michelle Crabb JW Harris John Dollar Chris and Kori mosley Mike Knudsen Tom Joiner Mike Pierce Leroy Ted Simpson Amanda

Alan and Shelly Ellsworth are inviting everyone to their home in Show Low/Linden to view one of the most amazing antler collections ever! If you haven't seen Alan's barn full of amazing mounts and sheds, you owe it to yourself to make time to come up on Friday May 16 or Saturday May 17 and enjoy his collection. Alan has been passionate about antlers his whole life and has amassed a world-class collection. If you are crazy about antlers, you NEED to come to this event. Bring the wife and kids and make it a family trip. Bring your own antlers to sell or show and come spend time gawking at some of the worlds largest antlers. AZ Shed Antlerfest - Friday May 16 (11 am to 7 pm) and Saturday May 17 (9 am to 7 pm) Directions: From Show Low AZ, head West on highway 260 to Pearce Lane. Pearce Lane is located between mile markers 334 and 335. Turn north onto Pearce Lance and go to the end of the road to 1116 Pearce Lane, Show Low, AZ.

congrats!

Wow, great fawn and fish!!

When my hubby and I are out for a walk we always stop to snack on miner's lettuce whenever we see it. It's tasty and healthy. Anyone else do this? You can read more about it here...apparently it's very high in vitamin C and A, among other nutrients : http://honest-food.net/2011/02/23/on-miners-lettuce-americas-gift-to-salad/

Thanks for the info!

Funny!!

more pics Jim Reynolds collection: two bucks Jim killed in Mexico this year....each scores about 112-113 some giant mule deer from Alan's collection sunset the last day TJ and Peg in the coues cabin tub of muley sheds world record elk

Many thanks to Alan and Shelly for yet another great antlerfest!! It's just unreal how many great coues, mulies and elk he has in his collection! We had lots of CouesWhitetail.com members stop by....some I already had met and several ones I had not. Thanks to everyone for coming up and taking the time to say hello! Thanks to Jim Reynolds for bringing up some of his amazing Coues collection too! That's always impressive! a few pics from the event.....

i say camo with tan lettering.......just my opinion may not be possible because yo may not be able to get good camo sweatshirts at a good price not likely to get camo hoodies at a decent price. And then there is the whole debate about which camo pattern.....LOL!

Love it! Congrats Peg! It was fun to see the excitement in your face!!

Yes, the lack of consensus makes it difficult to get something made. However, it appears to me that cotton, no zipper has the most support here. What's the consensus on color? Black?

Mark Healy of sponsor Healy Arms in Mesa has spent a large amount of time calling for lions with electronic callers. he and some of his buddies have been successful at it. http://www.healyarms.com/predator-zone/electronic-calls.html Here is are a couple old threads about one of them calling in a lion after the hunt regulations were changed to allow calling at night. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/29835-the-first-mountain-lion-called-in-and-killed-under-azs-new-night-hunting-regs/ http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/41102-dave-martens-calls-another-big-az-tom-guess-its-weight-win/

All our taxidermy sponsors here are excellent and will do a great job for you. I encourage you to call and visit them so you can see their work in person. Several of them have already been recommended in this thread, but here is the list of the taxidermy sponsors with links so you can check them out. They will treat you right and you get to support those that support this site! Wild Heritage Taxidermy, Young http://www.wildheritagetaxidermy.com/ Southwest Wildlife, Scottsdale http://www.swwildlife.com/ AZ Wildlife Designs, Tucson http://www.arizonawildlifedesigns.com/ Weller’s Wildlife Studio, Tucson http://www.wellerswildlifestudio.com/ Mogollon Taxidermy, Payson http://www.mogollontaxidermy.com/

We can just change the email on your old account and you can use that one if you like. But it sounds like the problem is on your computer. You might try installing a program called Malwarebytes....it's a great program for eliminating malware. You can google it to find it.

Beautiful poem Lark. I am sorry for your loss. I lost my mother a long time ago and it is so painful losing a parent. I am up on mt graham tonight....I know your family has a lot of history up here. Godspeed Rex.

Got some work done on my jeep this weekend, including new rear leaf springs. WOW! what a difference they make in handling on and off road. I wore my old ones out to the point of not having any space between the wheel and wheel well when loaded down. Turns out that on bumpy roads the sway bar was hitting the frame and there are some significant dents in the frame from that. Anyway, at the advice of a local mechanic (Willhunt4coues' father) we ordered heavy duty leaf springs to replace the old ones. Now it rides a LOT taller....feels like I got a 3 inch lift! Check out all that space above the rear tire!! Handles like a dream too! Anyway, another problem with the jeep is the rear lift gate wouldn't open. So had to take interior panel off and figure out what was wrong. Turns out I need a new latch handle assembly. But in the meantime I have a lot of fieldwork and a hunt in Mexico to do, so I wanted to rig something up to make it so I could open the hatchback. The mechanics suggested a wire that I could pull that would open the latch. So here it is....I attached one end to the rod that will open the latch if you pull up on it and then ran the wire straight up and out the top of the hatchback and attached it to my roof rack so it would stay in place. Now, i can just lift up on the wire above my hatch and it will open the door. Now I just have to wait for the new handle assemble so that I can ditch the redneck latch opening mechanism See pics below.

So far we have the following sitting at the CWT table. Amanda and Paul Peg and TJ Ilene and Roger Mark and Kathi That leaves two seats available. Let me know if you want them. Our table tickets are $70 each and include $20 of raffle tix.

This event is coming up in less than two weeks....trust me, you won't want to miss this! You won't believe the amount of huge antler that will be there!

Wow, great pics! I second Tony on having you submit them to the AGFD calendar. A lot of people don't realize that Great Blue Herons will eat rodents. In addition to hunting wetlands, they are very successful in hunting fields where they can get mice and gophers.

Congratulations on some great family hunts and it's fun to see them all together in one post like that. Thanks for sharing your photo album with us!

It's up north on the San Carlos Reservation, near the Black River and Bloody Basin Tank

I usually see it on shaded cooler slopes...often on the colder sides of drainages in the desert. a thick clump of mesquite along a drainage might be a good place to look for it growing in the shade. The places I am thinking of at the moment tend to be northfacing sides of small drainages. No standing water necessary, but it tends to be a spot that is cooler, shadier and moister than the surrounding areas. However we did find some at the top of a mountain north of Globe under a mesquite....a more exposed spot than I usually find it. You might find more info on locations by googling it.

San Carlos tends to use wildfire to their advantage and let things burn if they can. Some of that area that is burning was thinned not too long ago and was scheduled for prescribed burns anyway....natural fire is a lot cheaper way to accomplish this.