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How about pink like the rifle you had at the range the other day? For a few minutes I thought he was a ballistic transvestite. Turns out it's his daughters gun and he's setting it up for her. The things you have to do when you are dad....

I have never done an elk hunting unit 1. Before the wallow Fire are used to spend the last week of August in 1 & 27 for archery deer and turkey. I have seen it snow there a number of times in August. I've also done a number of spring and fall turkey hunts in those mountains. The weather can be very volatile and change rapidly. Imagine the temperature dropping 30 degrees midday within a half an hour. Make sure you have what you need to keep yourself comfortable so you can enjoy the hunt.

I have been in 4B since Friday. I heard my first bugle this morning. It was a very half-hearted effort.

Keith Moon made a very similar comment once.....

519.4 Acres? that's not even a section. To me that would feel like it was bring your rifle to the zoo day.

It says there is two point one miles of little Colorado Canyons. I don't see a square mileage figure for the ranch. I had an NM Antelope tag on a public land Ranch and was confined to 100 square miles. It felt pretty small.

They both look good. If you look at the choice from a tactical standpoint I think the Woodland pattern would be the better choice in Arizona. Woodland patterns often blend into the Sonoran Desert with, all of its plant life, better than many desert patterns and of course we do have plenty of woods.

Getting someone to buy it might take some marketing hype. We are proud to announce the rollout of a potent new cartridge that can really stretch to make those long shots.

That's incredible, it looks like it has a little moose in the family tree

That chamber reamer must be a real challenge to make.

I would buy someone a 6 pack of kegs for that tag.

I have taken 5 elk out of 5BS archery. You don't have much time to get ready .Call me. 480-993-5507 Lee. I'm out hunting deer and turkey this week, leave a message and I will call back in the evening.

You have to consider the possibility it may be better to see pics of the dog.

I spent the morning stalking a spike and couldn't pull that off. Nice to see someone was out there getting it done in style.

Now that is kind of funny because after reading your post in the other thread you were the first person I thought of when I read the OP in this thread.

When I started pack hunting I would load my pack with everything I thought I needed and weigh it. Then I would sit down with a scale, unload it and weigh everything. When you start judging things by usefulness vs weight You will keep the most necessary items and discard the not so necessary ones. Your pack becomes lighter. I knew what every individual item in my pack weighed. Compare notes with other members and eliminate duplicate items where possible. Not everyone needs their own stove. Mountain house meals are pretty good. Lithium batteries are lighter and last much longer than alkaline. Look for multi use items. We carried water proof windbreakers and no rain poncho. Cache water on a scouting trip. It will probably be the heaviest part of the groups load. Hang it, mice will chew through containers on the ground. My partner and I got it to where we could operate up to 5 days in the wilderness. With excess water dumped and garbage burnt one of us could carry all the gear and the other could pack an animal out. Good memories, we are both a little to old and beat up to push it that hard anymore.

I always love to get new additions to my collection. Unfortunately as to what city I live in, it's all the way up here in Vernal Utah. I've never been coues hunting. It's just been a dream of mine. One that will probably be a long time in the making of ever. So instead I joined this site so I can live vicariously through you folks. The distance can be overcome. Do you have a list of what you have?

Put it up. I have to get my collection unpacked and back on display. I think I figured out a way to do it so I don't have a 600 pin bowling alley where all the pins have to be in a specific order when they get set back up. I have a box of stuff I give away and/ or trade but it has been so long I have no idea what is in it.

This spring I took a veteran on a turkey hunt with Hunts for Heroes. After we got his bird I headed to the next unit over where Tom was by himself with 2 vets. Joe, the vet I had guided, insisted on coming to help also. when we got there Joe and I took one of the vets out hunting. At some piont this vet commented "I wish I could just see a turkey. Joe replied "Go look in my cooler".

My partner and I shoot the same bow. When he does something stupid and knows it it's easy to tell. He gets this look on his face like the guilty puppy that peed on the carpet again. One year I got an elk. We moved up set our gear on a log and started dressing it. We could hear another herd coming right towards us so he grabbed his gear and went to get himself an elk. He returned a little while later with that sheepish look on his face and placed my left-handed bow back on the log next to his right hand model. Would love to have seen the look on his face when he tried to knock an arrow and draw.

A little of each, looks like you have the hunters sampler platter.

I have observed coues and bears inhabiting the same canyon on a number of occasions. Sometimes both were in my sight at the same time. they don't seem to disappear just because a bear is in the general area. I would not expect them to come running right over to where the bear was.

You can use a GPS to help conduct a radial grid search. Lock the unit on his last verifiable position. Move ahead, in an angle to his direction of travel. At a distance that allows good visual coverage back to his last position and a ways ahead walk in a arc that crosses his path using the GPS to hold a relatively constant distance off his last known position. When you feel you have gone far enough across his projected path move farther away from his last known position and repeat the process.

Awesome. Nice bear. Archery too, up close and personal. My wife found a recipe for bear that used molasses and coffee. She hates coffee and she even liked it. If your partner is interested shoot me a message. I am sure my wife still has the recipe somewhere.