azelkhunter69

I follow the Market every day. There is no proof that anything was done by the "big guys" to influence RH into restricting trading. I will admit, I thought the same thing when I saw what happened. But, from what I have seen and read, it had more to do with RH meeting regulatory requirements and protecting themselves from enormous losses. Apparently, a lot of these people that were trading GME were doing so on Margin and didn't have a care in the world if they lost money...because it wasn't theirs. RH is required to cover those $$. Also, the settlement period came into play. RH didn't have the capital reserves to cover that either. RH is a relatively small player and suffered some serious growing pains in this mess. And as far as people saying the "Big guys" didn't get hurt and manipulated the market, tell that to Melvin Capital. They took a $2 Billion hit on their short position. They announced the lost 51% in January. OUCH. There will be changes and more regulation as a result. Huntharder, I also jumped in and made 41% on AAL. Not as much as some did, but not as much as a lot of people lost either. People are getting crushed on the way down. GME went from $500 to $90.....on it's way lower. How many people lost their houses, life savings, etc. ? Be smart out there.

I'm getting older, could be my memory is just getting bad. Looked through my emails...I obviously didn't save them all but in 2014 the application was up on 1/9. Should be any day now.

It seems to be running late. Not sure why.

Dandy

Just wanted to do my part to help out with those annoying cows.

More to do with the angle than the broadhead. My recommendation is take nothing but a broadside to quartering away shot with a bow. People will crucify me for saying that. I know tons of animals are killed every year quartering to or frontal, but that is my rule. I killed a bull in 2013 that I watched come toward me from 100 yards. Stood in a wallow tearing it up 27 yards away, walked to me to less than 10 yards...never better than quartering to. I actually said to myself "Is this really going to happen? Is he going to be this close and I don't get a shot?" I waited and was blessed when he got nervous and jumped. Stopped quartering away at 25 yards. Dead bull. Just my personal rule. I would rather lose an opportunity than wound an animal. Crucifying commence.

Or drive the roads at night, get out and walk....anything. Elk everywhere in 8

I don't know anything about the rutting activity, but I did see a pic of a nice 7x8 that hit the ground. It only gets better later in September so the archery hunters get the benefit of starting a week later.

Had to laugh when I saw this. He is now notorious nationally. https://blog.eastmans.com/they-got-what-they-deserved-or-did-they/?utm_source=Eastmans.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=43523c79f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Vortex_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aec388f646-43523c79f1-9315102

https://blog.eastmans.com/they-got-what-they-deserved-or-did-they/?utm_source=Eastmans.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=43523c79f1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Vortex_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aec388f646-43523c79f1-9315102 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Someone was bored. Killing time until the seasons start. 🤣🤣🤣

Honestly. it doesn't matter what the system is, someone will always bitch. The solution to drawing more tags is....put in for easier hunts to draw, end of story.

I don't want to start an argument here but, it seems to me we hear guys calling for a waiting period every year now. Sure, some people get lucky. But most people that draw a lot of tags are applying for hunts that are lower in demand, the ones that the "trophy hunters" don't want, ie. late archery tags, cow tags, low tier or mid tier units. People that just want to hunt, aren't willing to wait 10, 15, 20+ years for a tag. In my opinion, if you are putting in for very difficult hunts to draw, because you want to shoot a trophy or nothing, you know what you are getting into. Aside from that, tags are getting harder to draw for a variety of reasons. The population in AZ keeps climbing and more and more people are applying here from all over the country(and world) for a chance at a big bull or buck. More applicants = lower odds. My family has had pretty good luck drawing tags, but I do a lot of research and try to apply for easier to draw hunts. If you want an early rifle or archery bull tag in the units that take a ton of points to draw, prepare to wait.

It took 5 pts to get in the bonus pass, 6 pts to be guaranteed.

Thought it was over. The wife and I were bummed. Just got an email from Chase....2 elk tags. Happy again.

Checked my email today....card was charged at 8:40 am last year. 2 days and a wake up to Christmas. 😁

He's an admitted thief and a serial poacher, they better keep an eye on him. Guys like this don't quit. Some just go to other states and do the same thing.

Too early to talk about what we will see this year for antler growth? I am not a weatherman, but so far it seems things are shaping up nicely for another good year. Curious to see what some of you that really look into this sort of thing think.

I was wondering if anyone knows if there was anything that happened to the herd in unit 21 over the last several years? I haven't heard anything but noticed that there are only 5 tags this year. My dad shot one there about 9 or 10 years ago and I think there were 10 or 12 tags that year. I also want to say a few years after that I saw that they gave out 20...I could be wrong on that though.

10 days too late

I was told AZGFD and the AZ Elk Society got together a bunch of volunteers and drained it, power washed it and refilled it. I really hope they get the guy.

Unit 8 was dead until Tuesday. Bulls were heading straight to bed at daylight most of the hunt. Chased them around Tuesday and Wed. pretty good. Stupid weekend campers didn't help. Racing up and down the roads on dirt bikes and side by sides. One guy even told me he was sitting a tank and a side by side came over a hill cross country. Spooked the elk that were just starting to come in. Oh well, next time.

R 6, 5 5/8, 4 1/8, 3 3/8 L 6, 5 6/8, 4 2/8, 3 4/8

A buddy was up in 8 over the weekend. Said he stayed up until 10 pm both nights listening for bugles. He said he didn't hear a single bugle all weekend. It's supposed to cool down Tuesday and Wednesday. Hopefully that will help. Unfortunately, it's supposed to warm back up opening day. On the bright side, he said every tank had at least 2 cameras on it and guys were already leaving ground blinds out, claiming their spots because it is so dry. LOL. Guys are going to be fighting over water this year if we don't get a little rain.