mattys281

Nice work, congrats! i had an archery bull tag in 8 this year. It’s been a warm one for sure!

Great job, congrats to all.

Yep. I love hunting mulies and coues in Az, but it’s also a blast to sit in tree stands on fence rows and see swollen whitetail bucks push does around. I can’t wait for November! welcome to Az new guy!

As others have said, glass, glass, and glass, and then just when you can’t stare through those binos for another minute... you glass some more. Some days I would swear that coues aren’t really deer at all but rather gophers with antlers. They seem to tunnel under ground, appear out of no where and then disappear. One day I witnessed a doe pull the disappearing act right in front of me, and fortunately I was close enough (150 yards) that I got to see how she pulled her trick. She literally got down on her belly and crawled up inside a low growing juniper. Had I not known she was there, I probably never would have been able to see her bedded inside that tree. As it was all I could see of her was her nose and ears depending on which way she was facing. I’ve since found several bedded down inside of nasty thick bushes or drainages where you can only see part of their head. You have to learn to look for parts of the deer. I usually see the ears first. They’ll bed down and hide out just about anywhere. You have to look every where. I also like to try to glass from good ambush points, like a knob above a good saddle with some trails in it. I’ve had deer walk out in the open right below me quite a few times while glassing. Also, if you’re changing glassing locations, make sure you glass as thoroughly as you can in front of you as you’re moving. There’s a basin where I’ve killed a couple little bucks by sitting ambushes, that I have a few predetermined glassing spots along the way.

Congrats that’s one helluva bull! Sounds like a great hunt, lots of action

Good luck and safe travels

How does that thing ride with a backpack over it? Straps look a little big on it

Dang man that’s not near enough years for a good dog to be by your side. Sorry for your loss

Congrats to him that’s a dandy for sure

That’s awesome man! Congrats

We’ve been here since Wednesday and have seen at least a couple every day. No big herds though and they’ve been pretty quiet where we’re at too. Got a bunch of night time movement on trail cam, mostly going to and from water. i called in a little bull that was bugling up a storm to about 8 yards the other day and stalked a couple spike bulls the day before that. This has been the quietest elk rut I’ve ever seen, but this is also the first time Ive hunted 8. I’m sure there’s better spots it’s a big unit. Should’ve done more scouting I guess

Congrats! Well done

Great buck! Congrats

You’re a funny sob, never let the ultra super serious types slow your roll. Do I need to dedicate a Luke combs song to you to make you fell better?

I think @trphyhntr nailed it, all the forums I’ve been on over the years have really slowed down, and every single one of them has ‘old timers’ pissin and moaning about the new punks chasing everyone away. It’s called nostalgia, humans are programmed to always think last year was better than this and that 10 years ago was much better than last year and the music from our high school years was the golden age of rock/country/whatever. Quit being a bunch of crotchety old bastards and grab the horse by the reins. If you feel there’s not enough quality content, then please contribute some. If you think some people are diks than set a higher moral standard of prudishness and don’t slink to their level. Use the ignore function. Easy peasy. i personally think this is still one of the best hunting forums on the web and I enjoy checking in from time to time. Good luck all, go sling some pointy sticks at innocent and defenseless woodland creatures.

Holy cow! Way to get started! Great shooting especially for a youngen!

Where you movin to Kev? Jumping the state line or just relocating in Az?

Sadly true. He used to be hilarious his old stand ups like ‘Bring the Pain’ were awesome. Saw a recent Netflix stand up of his a while back - couldn’t even finish it. He got on board with all this BLM everyone’s a racist nonsense a long time ago. Him and everyone else in Hollywood can dip it in honey and then jam it in a red ant hill as far as I’m concerned.

‘Everybody knows if the police have to come and get you, they’re bringing an asskickin with ‘em!’

Here’s an educational video from Chris rock on the subject.

That is a helluva deer. I’ve only ever seen one that I think would go 180ish and he looked giant to me. It’s cool knowing there’s still some brutes like that floating around.

😆 holy crap man I had to forward that to.... well... everybody I know

I’ve been boycotting all pro sports for as long as I can remember anyway. I’d literally rather tie a string around my coin purse, attach the other end to the handrail and then jump off my deck than spend 4 hours watching those giant pampered pansies chase each other around. i sincerely hope enough people boycott them that they all go broke.

I like to kill stuff when I go hunting. The strippers and escorts are for the after party

Congrats! First of many no doubt.