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    30 minutes ago, oz31p said:

    Going to 35b JR next week. I had not even thought about tall grass🤦‍♂️

    Where I'm at we don't have much grass but there is some areas where it can get between the ankle and knee and man it is sketchy walking through it in late September/October when the rattlers are looking to fatten up. Luckily, the few I've seen, I saw them before they saw me. 

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    It is so thick in the area I've got deer on camera that I don't think I could glass them up if I wanted. There are mountains around but that buck in the photo I attached in the original post, I saw him run across the road in front of me and he was 3 miles away from the closest hill. It would've been impossible to see him from any mountain because of how deep cut the washes are. Looks like I'll be doing a lot of walking. 

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    It's pretty simple in my opinion. More does for bucks to breed equals more fawns to have a chance to be born. More fawns being born equals more chance for bucks to be born. More bucks that are born, more of a population of bucks there will be. 

    I wouldn't mind seeing Arizona implement a law saying a buck has to be a forkie or bigger to harvest. I understand some people don't hunt for antlers but giving the younger bucks a chance to leave mama gives them a chance to survive to reach maturity.  I'm not a biologist though. 

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    It's getting so bad that pretty soon, all the "youtube stars" are going to become patch pirates with sponsors all over their clothes like what has happened in the fishing industry. Average Joe's in the local tournaments started making their own jerseys and adding all these sponsors on them and they aren't even really sponsored. I already see them on their instagram posts tagging every dang outdoor company, bow company, rifle company, coffee, blah blah blah...social media and the "look at me" mindset has changed the terms "hunter or hunting" ....I do enjoy videos on youtube where it's people out hunting for themselves and not trying to plug a sponsor or nothing. Those are enjoyable.

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    11 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

    Yeah but his body looks sick to me. I pulled the cam, I went to a couple new spots there was quite a few tracks 

    The deer I had on camera in July looked horrible but once we got rain, they fattened up over the next couple months. Hopefully that buck did too. If this dang weather would break, it would make it a lot easier on them and it would make it a lot more intriguing to want to go hiking through the hills to find them before the season. The 105+ degree days lately in Yuma suck. Woke up to 81% humidity on Saturday. That is terrible. It's saying 108 for this week still. I do see some light at the end of the tunnel though as there are some 99's showing on the 15 day now. Hopefully you have some good stuff on those other areas you placed a camera. 

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    3 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

    August 5th. Looks skinny. Must be why his antlers look like June growth F3C66E2F-E957-488A-9964-934D32691115.jpeg.6167e287a1cb0526bf46d18414ff4cac.jpeg

    I bet he has short tine length but sits 27-29" wide. He looks like he has a pretty skinny body. Not much of a gut on him. I hope he comes back on camera for ya and you can see what he turned into. It's sometimes pretty shocking to see how fast their antlers grow. 

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    5 hours ago, 223VARMINTER said:

    Gonna give it a go in 41 this year. Planning on 1st scouting trip this weekend.

    Not sure if you hunt around the farmland or not but I know some people who spotlight fields for fun this time of year and areas where they typically see 200-300 deer were empty. They saw less than 5 deer the couple hours they were out. The desert is so green the deer aren’t coming to the fields. That is satisfying to me 😂....

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    3 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

    No I haven’t been. But maybe since it’s dried out I’ll get motivated to put some cams up 

    Dude July/August was so terrible. On drinkers where I usually have 20-25 deer each night, I was getting 2-3 max. Most of them were spikes and forkies or does. I took them down for a while and now in September the waterholes are finally being used again. 

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    Has anybody been out looking around for deer? I've been looking around the last few weeks at some areas in my unit for rifle season and I'm starting to get a little excited. I have been waiting for it too cool off but the weather is not cooperating. My next free weekend is the first weekend of October so no matter what, I will go take my first long hike over 5 miles and see what I run into. It is extremely green in my neck of the woods and I don't see that changing any time soon. Tons of feed and the bucks I've seen have big bellies and a few have quite the head gear. I know a lot of the guys on here are in elk/antelope mode but deer season isn't too far off.

    A cropped photo of a buck I've got on trail camera. 

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    39 minutes ago, HorseHunter said:

    Just got back from Flag and have never seen that stretch of desert (above Cordes Lakes) with so much green tall grass on I-17. I hope whoever has the grazing lease makes the most of it! 

     

    I saw a ton of grass along the shoulder of HWY 95 between Yuma and Quartzsite last week. HWY 95 is notorious for deer being hit. All I could think about was how many would get hit this season fall feeding along the road. Hopefully the desert being green keeps them off the road. 
     

    This was a buck that just got hit a couple weeks ago.

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    23 hours ago, Heat said:

    Ya it even rained in Yuma yesterday. What a trip. Probably got over an inch in about 20-30 minutes. Drain on my patio couldn't keep up so I was out there in my Xtra Tufs and swim trunks sweeping water the other way like a mofo!

    In Yuma valley we got dumped on. Solid rain for about an hour and it went straight down HWY 95. I feel like Yuma was the last place in the state to get rain 😂😂

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    49 minutes ago, desertmafia21 said:

    Anybody’s portal show a tag? My buddy’s dad’s shows a tag. I’m not lucky enough yet!

    It says it'll take 5-10 days to show on the portal after the opening date. Did your buddy's dad just draw a general season tag and not realize it?

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    7 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

    Made the mistake of searching Arizona desert mule deer on YouTube. Wow. Had no idea so many out of state crews came here and filmed hunts. Truly disheartening 

    Man I did the same thing today and my jaw hit the ground. There was one that hunted the fields in 41 and they talked about how hard they hunted and blah blah blah and all they did was shoot deer in the field or on trials less than a 1/4 Mile from the fields. I bet the pressure out there this year is going to be even crazier than and it already is. Sounds like dove season every opener from what I’ve heard. 

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