MULEPACKHUNTER

First time serving , the start was a little hokey but the back serve came out sweet. 20 minutes to break to test it.

Ya I don't think we will be hunting any time soon with recurves, I just pushed a couple guys at work into archery and they shoot for fun. This is the only time I can get them to shoot. I've been pushing them to try javi hunt this year but just walking to get their arrows at 25 yards is rough on them. "Old fat guy walk" it's better than them sitting in the break room I guess.

Break time, second group was much better then it went south from there

Another hot one at the range. Not a soul in sight. Put the final touches on my partners 2 bows and launched some broadheads out to 80 yards. Other than a few bad releases and some wind drift I think it's up to him now. Both the T-Loc and G5 heads hit the same so not sure which he will run but guessing the G5. Maybe both.

Ya we have hunted 6b the last 3 years with various tags and it's been really really tough. We backpacked and do base camps and really put the effort into it. So far only one cow elk came from about 10 days of scouting and over 20 days of hunting pretty hard. I did have a really young mule deer at 75 yards on last years muzzy hunt but passed and I regret that a little. You really have to know the unit well for it to be productive. Do a ton of scouting and work hard , there are deer there but the majority are going to be in thick nasty stuff and hard to hunt. We saw more whitetail than mule deer.

Any geology majors know what the heck is going on here ?

The whole thing is the size of a quad.

4 days of riding and camping in the cool empty pines. A little lonely but mom came by to visit and I brought plenty of books. Pretty cool I took mom for her first ever mule ride and only her second time on horseback in 40 years. We came upon a coyote which we followed from way back and she led us to her den full of pups, so cool to have mom see that. Came across two separate bands of "wild horses" and snagged some good video. There are horses in some of these pics but phone doesn't make it good to see them It's super dry up there but the tanks have good water. It's just dry everywhere else. Be careful with flames and heat. I chose no fire for the week but I could have legally had one.

Here's some of the wild bunch

Awsome man. Those are some big fish for that river.

Prescott for this week, spent a really great week in the Prescott forests with the family. Riding, hiking, rodeo, tons of deer. Its becoming tradition to have pizza in camp. On top of the horse trailer is yes, a zebra and two horses driven up there by a one armed cowboy Books read, Patrick McManus a fine and pleasant misery "highly recommend " the old man and the sea : Hemingway

Break time at work again, really liking the new trad vanes from AAE

Looks like pinto mine in lower right

Been a while for a wild game post for me, trying to burn through some burger we made up last month so made some meatball style sliders. Buzzed up some croutons I made from a loaf of sourdough which I also made and added some Parmesan reggiano and table crackers as well as two duck eggs "thanks Edge" , tossed in a dash of Tony's and baked them on the grill for 13 minutes.

Another range day, had the whole place to myself so did a nice workout and tested some new arrows on 2 bows. Nice at Ben Avery to get the broadheads out to 60 and 70

Here's some more arrow playing. Trying out the new AAE 5 inch trad fletchings. 2 different set ups, fiberglass shafts with both feathers and AAE vanes with 200 grns up front and also modern graphite shafts all with AAE vanes and 200 up front. All shafts are measuring in the 350 to 400 spine range. Should get some test shots this weekend.

Hey john it was great to meet you thanks for the sale. My buddy Jim who bought this is real happy. Good luck on your hunts

Couple of buddies are hitting the Antelope dinner tonight but we will be at Desert Ridge with RMEF. Hope to see some folks there

Does anyone remember when the other big fires hit like wallow and rodeo did game and fish shut down the hunt that year????? at this point I'm sure forest service won't let anyone into burned areas. Would make sense for game and fish to kill the hunts for a few years.

I don't think the fire will hurt the dwellings , I think people will be shocked if it exposes a bunch that weren't known before.

Bummed for all involved. Let's hope all are safe and it helps the area for the future.

I was thinking of trying those Zion when my kuiu blow out

The other thing I have mentioned before to people is they took really good care of my buddy with military discounts

Anyone have opinions on the boss or btx models from bowtec? A freind is looking , also what dealers have these possibly in stock?