Yuma Outdoorsman

Got the nocks in and finally had a chance to shoot them and they work as advertised. I did not see any drop in my arrows out to 70 yards. They flew the same as my other nocks. Pretty happy with these lighted nocks. Have some friends that bought some so will see how they like them.

Great photos!

Nice buck! Congrats to your wife! She must be extremely happy!

Spring training games are pretty cool for something different. Trout fishing at Big Lake is one of my favorites. Catching a Rodney Carrington show when he’s in the area is always fun!

I ended up ordering those Deepower nocks. See how they work for me.

I think everybody here is happy for you and wants you to be successful in your pursuit for 4 coues in one year. That is seriously quite the accomplishment. I think it rubbed a few guys wrong at first how it seemed you put the cart ahead of the horse claiming you were going to shoot 100" bucks or bust and then settled for something smaller. I don't blame you though. We all have the goal to shoot a "book" buck before our hunts start and sometimes that doesn't work out and you shoot what is available. No shame in that. I hope your next buck is your biggest this year and you accomplish your goal of 4 coues bucks regardless of the scores. Good luck man.

I saw this on youtube and thought it was pretty interesting.

I will check those out!

I am going to shoot arrows with regular nocks and some with lighted nocks and see what sort of difference I see for my bow. Hopefully it is nothing crazy.

Thank you for the information. I think I will get some to target practice with and see. I have watched a lot of videos and they sure look cool. I read some posts on other websites after I made the post on here and it sounds like some people love them and some people hate them...that's the same with everything though.

https://www.davesmithdecoys.com/decoys/turkey-decoys/ These are pretty pricey but the quality is second to none. I've got a buddy that uses goose decoys from this company and it's hard to tell the difference between the real birds and decoys when they land. Super realistic.

Ain’t the first time he’s done that…

Well, only does and spikes for me this hunt. Our camp Only manage 1 buck for the hunt and it was an 18” 3x3. We usually hunt the flats but the deer where we hunt were up in the hills. Didn’t realize that until Saturday afternoon and ended up finding does pretty quickly. Today, we spotted 6 different groups of does and fawns and 29 deer total. Only 1 was a buck and it was small spike. Oh well, I know where to go for the rut. We ran into an older gentlemen who said he has hunted this unit for 50 years and when the desert is this green the big bucks go up with the sheep. He said he had glassed up a couple good bucks this weekend but they were too high for him to go after. I talked with people who hunted other desert units around Yuma and it sounds like a lot of people struggled to find deer. Way below average harvest. I know some that were successful and said all the buck they saw were in bachelor herds of 3-5 bucks. I did see the bachelor here of 3 before the season but with all the pressure I am sure they ran for the hills. Looks like I’ll be archery hunting in December. we did see a nice ram looked up high for deer. Pretty cool for the kids to see.

Great photos and nice buck! Congrats to your son.

Passed on this giant opening day. Looking for something a year older 🤣🤣…

Gotta love when an opening morning buck shows itself on the last day of the hunt! Congrats on a stud buck. That's awesome.

Good luck to everybody with a tag in their pocket starting 11/4. I hope you all shoot the biggest buck of your life. Be safe and can't wait to hear some of the stories on Monday.

Nice job. Congrats to your son!

Can’t get the video to play but these are 3 bucks from last weekend at like 800 yards. Front and back are in velvet and middle one was rubbed. I went out to some new stuff Saturday and didn’t see any deer but did cut a good sized track. 44° in the desert yesterday morning at 6am. Man I can’t wait for opening morning!!

Think they will allow this in fishing tournaments? 🤣🤣

This looks like a lot of fun.

A buddy and I went out striper fishing down here in Yuma a couple days ago. We ended up with 9 solid ones and let some of the smaller ones go. We also caught a 12lb limit of smallies. Fun time on the water.

I kept 5 of the fish and gave the meat away to my sister and a coworker. I promised my coworker striper meat in March but never got a chance to go out to catch any until this day. After my deer hunt, I am going to go target them again and hopefully get some more then help my buddy who has a sheep tag in 41E. I love that the weather is going to be in the 60's when my deer hunt starts. Finally some hunting weather.

Good luck! Hope you find a giant! Post up your results!

Man that’s a nice tall buck! Hope you are able to find him for your wife to shoot when her season comes up.