galiuro mountain man

Well summer is here and in a short time it will be deer season again. It is time to get out the bows and start getting ready for the season. I got a new bow for this season and have been shooting it, I love it. I have been shooting way better with this bow than any other. I will be doing some scouting and finding new areas to hunt (cant have too many) in the next couple of months. I hope to find a couple of the bucks I have seen in the past couple of years. I will be setting up cams, and trying to get photos while I am out there (I always carry a camera, but I forget to get it out of my pack when I see something). Hopefully I can get some pics up. GMM

Its not boasting, its awsome. I told everyone about mine when I got my award from P&Y. No body got mad at me, I was just excited, and I would imagine you are too. Just keep on postin GMM

I also shoot all year long. I usually go out to the range nearly every day. Well last week I didnt get to, so I will have to make up for it this week.

I ended up getting a Switchback. I still have my Outback, but it is now a backup bow. I had the chance to get a SB when I got my OB, but I thought at that time the OB was better. Oh well, the OB was a great bow, I got 1 deer, 1 javelina, and a bunch of rabbits with it, but I am so much more accurate with the SB. I hope I can get into the deer like I did a couple of years ago. If so, the hunt will be even better, deer running all over, and not really paying attention to me. What ever this season is like, it will be fun. GMM

I am using g5 montecs. They are the toughest, and the easiest to sharpen I have found. GMM

My computer at my shop was hit. I had 5 or 6 variations of the trojan virus. Windows caught it and started downloading anti spyware on my computer. It cost me $25.00, but I have no more viruses. My home computer wasnt effected. GMM Ooops

These people dont think, that is what makes them dangerous. The only thing I fear running into in the forest is a whaco like this. GMM

I shot him in unit 28. I am going to do a shoulder mount. This was the first pig tag I have ever had, so I am pretty happy. GMM

I havent been able to post anything in a while, been busy, but here is my archery javelina I got the last day of season. I was about to give up after a whole month of hunting and not finding any javies. The last day I ended up hitting this big boar at 6yds with my Outback. The hunt was kind of wierd, we found lots of them before season, and this was the only shot I had on a pig this year. I saw lots of small bucks and one mulie my hunting partner and I call Buckzilla, we hunted him about half the month, but I never got any pics of him, but August will come soon enough. Rough estemation puts the buck over 200", somewhere. But here is the pig, he was all alone and field dressed over 55 lbs. (all my scale went to).

I have him at my taxidermist right now, should be done soon. GMM

Nice pigalena. Great pictures too. GMM

That is awsome, I have a 4 year old daughter that I cant wait for "her" first hunt, but I dont want to rush it. I know she will be 10 before I am ready, and definately a teen before I can ever be ready for it. Tell him congrats on a great pig, and good luck in the future. GMM

I parked at the corral, and I told my wife I was coming home at noon that day. I was walking back into the corral and noticed the cattle around it werent paying any attention to me, then I saw him walking down a trail from the corral. So I nocked an arrow and got on the trail he was on and waited for him to make it the 100 or so yards to me. He went and got his drink, and when he was 5 or 6 yards I decided it was close enough for me. After hitting him he ran about 5 more yards and fell over. I spend about 15 minutes removing my broadhead from a railroad tie used for the corner of the fence he was by and it was done. I was really impressed with my montec bh, it went through the pig, through a strand of barbed wire attached to the tie, and burried about 1 1/2" into the tie, and it was still sharp, only needed a touch up on the stone and back in the package it went. GMM Oh, I knew he was huge when I went to pack him out, went to move him to my truck, only 100 yds away, I picked him up by the back legs, and lifted its legs to almost shoulder high, and realized I would drag his nose off if I carried him this way, it was still touching the ground. I thought he was average till then, because I am 6'2" tall. He had long but worn tusks, they were almost poking through his snout on top, there were calluses where they almost poked through.

This is the best website on the net, but recently I have seen a change. This site is one of two that I go to, now I dont feel like reading a lot of what is on here, with all the arguing going on between eachother, and over just about anything. This was intended for learning about coues whitetailed deer. Lately it seems like a political opinion forum. If I wanted to see finger pointing and arguing I would go to a forum like that. I am done trying to weed through the whine posts to find posts about coues, or even hunting in general, so I will have to say bye. Good bye all, GMM

I wasnt as clear as I would hyave liked to have been I guess. It isnt about the posts themselves, it was about the fighting with eachother, others believing if your opinion is not the same you are wrong. I feel every one is entitled to your own opinion. Maybe I am blowing things out of proportion, but I dont think that I am. Like the illegal post, it was a good post and informative about the problems, but when everyone started fighting about why it is and how to take care of it, it turned me off from here. Going back, I guess it wasnt as bad as I thought, there are some real issues, and arguing wont take care of them. GMM

good job and very nice deer. GMM

Another awsome buck. Good job. GMM

Congrats, nice buck. GMM

Another awsome buck.

That is an awsome buck.

I tagged out yesterday morning. I have been hunting hard the past couple of weeks looking for two certain bucks I have on trail cam pictures. They are both roughly 110 to 115 inch bucks, but they dissapeared a week before season. I think all the extra water we got the week before the hunt spread the deer out, and the two bucks split up and went to the bottoms of some nasty canyons. I did see some nice bucks though, just couldnt get a shot at any. My wife and I saw a buck around 100" on the first sunday, but it was right before dark across a nasty canyon about 350 yards away. Then on this past sunday I saw two 90" + bucks. One in the morning and the other right at dark, The first one was about 20 yards from me and my hunting buddy, but niether of us got a shot, he spooked about two seconds too soon. The other one was right before dark too far away to stalk him. Those were the big bucks this year. My buck wasnt very big, he was a small 3x4, about 60 or so inches. I had passed a shot on him and another one his size once at about 40 yards at a waterhole on Tuesday of last week. On Wednesday last week I saw him and the other buck again in the morning and decided to pass on the stalk, he was about 150 yards in front of me feeding my way. I saw him once again though binos on sunday afternoon. I went home on sunday night to shower, and I was talking with my wife, she was telling me how we were just about out of meat and I was not liking the gas prices, so I told her then I would shoot any buck I saw. Monday we got back out to where we had been seeing the deer the past couple of days, and there was the buck, not 1/2 mile from the truck. I drew, and let the arrow go, it hit good, but one blade from the mechanical BH cought the elbow, hung up, and just barely punctured a lung, I didnt realize when I shot he had his leg in a funny position, till my buddy told me, and I saw him run by. The chase was on, I didnt know I had hit a lung untill a little later in the chase when I caught him. I would have let him lay down and die. I only thought I had hit the leg, so I chased him to keep the broad head working, so he might bleed out. After about 300 yards of following him I saw him laying down 60 yards away, all I could see was his head and neck, so I aimed for his neck, shot, and he was up again, but only for 30 yards. He layed back down, and was looking at me. I couldnt see any blood from his neck, so I thought I missed the second shot. I found that I hit him right through the neck, but didnt hit anything vital. I snuck up on him and was able to get a 20 yard double lung shot, and it was over in about 10 more seconds. When gutting him I found out my first arrow had hit him and poked a little hole in the bottom of his lung. I think I am done with mechanicals now. Had I used a fixed blade, the first shot would have deflected off the bone and caught both lungs, and possibly part of his heart, instead of hanging up. I still had fun though, cant wait for January. GMM

It wasnt a half mile shot, I found him close to my truck. I wasnt even to where I wanted to hunt yet, but it made getting him out easier. GMM

Thank you guys. I have been shooting vortex for a long time. I have put down a lot of animals with them, but the past 2 years I have had issues with them. The buck I hit yesterday would have been a passthrough using a fixed blade, it would have glanced off the bone and hit it perfect. Last year my bh hung up on the opposite side of my deer and didnt let it bleed out right, it was a perfect shot but no blood. The reason I liked the mechanicals was because of the larger cutting diamiter. I can make just about any head fly just as good as the Vortex. You are right about shot placement, a person can kill a deer with a field tip if it has been well placed. The reason I am switching is because of penetration. On my second deer I had a BH punch through the shoulder on on side and through lungs and stick in the tree behind my deer. It was slightly quartered to me and I made a slightly off shot, but it still made it through. It was a fixed blade, and the bow I used I only estimate at about 50# KE. I know my vortex wouldnt do that. It has to make too big of a hole and the blades arent at the best angle to penetrate. I will still carry at least one though, just in case it is real windy. GMM

I emailed my pictures to Amanda, hopefully they will be posted soon. I also sent the pictures of my deer from last year now that the taxidermy is done. GMM

I work for Phelps Dodge Morenci also. I am a heavy equipment mechanic. I work in the pit out of a service truck. I also own my own bussiness on the side. I have an archery shop in Safford. It is R & C Archery Tuning. Right now I only tune and repair bows and equipment, but I hope to be dealing in some equipment soon. I just started a few months ago, but things are starting to pick up now. GMM