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Per request, axis mag well..

Just another quick update. Daisy is doing well and she is scheduled to be released from the children's hospital this Wednesday. She is eating solid foods on her own now but has still been being fed supplement ally through the feeding tube. She has been able to stand on her own on one foot, but not the other one yet. As far as I now they are all moving into to the parents home in Sierra Vista and may have to commute, hopefully to Tucson or even Sierra Vista for physical therapy. Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!

You guys suck. All I can do is lead a horse to water...

It also just occurred to me that when my discounted cards show up from cabelas I can order through active junky again for another 10% off, that like 40% savings.

Been studying elk units. Never drew a bull tag so I'm considering my options. Please list what you would consider 1st tier, second tier and third tier units and what class of animal you would see on AVERAGE (not potential monsters, just what you would see as the norm) for the early and late hunts. I don't care about ginormous bulls if I have to wait 10 years to hunt one. As I understand it 1st tier would be 1, 10, 9, and 23 (27 too but not anymore since the big fire?). Where it gets foggy for me is separating 2nd and third tier units. I think I'd be happy to kill a mature 6x6 regardless of unit with 300" as my worst case scneario. I think id be just fine in the 320 to 330 range.

Agreed, I really knew nothing about elk scoring and what unit standards are. I started listening to the Jay Scott podcasts to try and enlighten myself. I was thinking about reaching out to you about your hunt last year. The catalyst that got my mind going was a friend I helped on a coues hunt is running cameras for deer in unit 8 and was willing to share info and maybe even come help me if a drew the tag. From there I started looking at units I can actually and 8 is in the runnings.

They are all shooters to me

Awhile back someone sold a vortex razor spotter with a swaro eyepiece. I remember asking if they had to do something special to make them work together and they said they just fit together. Does anyone know if the kowa 660 series would take the swaro 20 / 50 wide angle eyepiece? I want to build a pair of Big eyes but kowa only has a 30 power wide angle eyepiece and I'd much rather have the 20 / 50x.

Are we talking elk or deer? Well I assume deer at this point... As far as age if they can have a tag they can go to the camps. I know their is a youth deer camp around Roosevelt lake put on by the mule deer foundation for the youth deer hunt. At the same time the AZ deer association puts on a youth camp for the youth elk and deer hunters on the young road right at the edge of colcord ridge just south off the 260. The nice thing about that camp is It's for multiple units and for deer and elk tag holders. The whole tag members family gets fed breakfast lunch and dinner for free plus their is raffles for the kid's including a hunting rifle every year. Last year my daughter won a Gerber vital and the year before my son won a pair of diamonback binos. It's fairly central to 23, 22, 3c, 4b etc. I don't know much about it but last year their was a youth deer camp in sonoita which would include 35a, 35b, 30b possibly and the 34s I think.

I will be soon listing my lifted 99 expedition. 5.4 v8. Having interior professionally cleaned Monday, just installed new headlight and taillight assemblies, has chrome grill guard and brushguard and a new engine about 20k miles ago. It started as the family vehicle then became my rig when we upgraded the family ride. It's a pretty nice truck and it has taken me places only a side by side should go. It's also been christened with a decent amount of javelina, elk and deer blood!

I'm all for private land owner rights, the one thing I have a problem with is corner hopping not being allowed, that's bs in my opinion. I've heard it's illegal in AZ but I've also heard it's just a grey area.

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Wow man! Congrats. Talk about down to the wire.

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I'm finally getting with the program I'm going to download a podcast app. What are the most valuable podcast to listen to starting out in terms of actual episodes?

Yeah, looking at the pics above Id be happy with a 300" bull. I would love for one of you guys to start a elk practice scoring thread where you show a pic or two of a bull and then post the score underneath the picture . I've been thinking about starting such a whitetail thread myself. Curious what pope and young minimum is for Elk?

Yes primarily September hunts.

That's freaking awesome, but he said "proposed plan", there will probably be a fight. Not sure what the bottom 2 dots on the southern border of AZ are though? I saw havisu on the list, If I recall correctly there are hogs in there, might open up some opportunity to go pig hunting in AZ!

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Tent sold, Sleeping bags scheduled for possible sale.

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Hogue $100 shipped axis $40 shipped FV 12 $30 shipped

I've had a couple close calls because I'm always looking out the side window instead of the windshield

Dang dude, were you hurt? By the looks of it you used up One of your lives.