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    I've been looking for a UTV SxS on craigslist for a while and bookmarked the link below. It is basically all of AZ for UTVs over $3500, might be worth bookmarking yourself to keep checking.. I'll keep an eye out. That ranger is pretty distinctive.

     

    https://tucson.craigslist.org/search/sna?searchNearby=2&nearbyArea=132&nearbyArea=244&nearbyArea=455&nearbyArea=334&nearbyArea=565&nearbyArea=18&nearbyArea=419&nearbyArea=651&nearbyArea=468&nearbyArea=370&min_price=3500

     

     

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    Thank you for the recommendations. I went in to Bull Basin twice, the second time was to buy a bow. They were helpful, and willing to answer basic questions. Proud owner of a PSE Unleashed, have a month of free range time at their shop and will take a few lessons there in the next couple of weeks. I guess this is the year this old dog learns a few new tricks!

    This is a great forum!

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    Hi,

    I'm looking at adding a used bow to my outdoor fun in the next month. I'm guessing it'll need to be looked at and dialed in to my draw-length etc.

    Is there a bow shop that won't cringe at a newbie coming in with a used bow looking for help just starting out? I went into a bow shop in the north of Tucson and just felt pressured to upgrade and spend more with no real idea if what they were saying was real or just sales-ey

    Any help would be awesome!

    Edward

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    Gaia Maps is $40 for the year and you have access to all the above maps and can save them offline on any of your devices. It all syncs so you can scout and mark on your computer and then all the waypoints and routes and photos are pushed back and forth. 

    Ownership and public land layers, as well as shaded topo and USGS, UFS, and high level satellite!

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    2 hours ago, Outdoor Writer said:

    If you told me yesterday when you were here at the house, I forgot already. :blink:  What unit is your hunt?

    Oh, and it is was good meeting you. Thanks for the "lift." 👍

    It was great meeting you too Tony! My hunt was 36A and it finished right before quail opened. Amazing experienced, learnt a ton, saw so many different animals (and bucks), met some nice hunters, saw the landscape adapt to our presence and am ready and addicted :)

    I didn't get close enough to a buck to harvest one, but being out in the desert alone, navigating mountain-sides, constantly trying to forget the fresh lion crap and tracks I saw every morning in the dark, staying hidden as coyotes and Javelina wandered passed was incredible. I've lived and camped and hiked in the desert for 22 years, but this was the first time I think I got to get down and dirty with the wild side of it.

    Need to find a cheap/decent unicorn of a SxS so I can give my truck a bit of a break when I need to shift positions.

    I was lucky enough to have a couple of forum members reach out in the PMs with help and advice, and one dude in particular who kept me sane before and during the hunt. Thanks to him, and you all, and my prep this was a great experience and although I don't have anything new in the freezer from it, 100% successful hunt.

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    I've seen this mentioned in a few replies to threads on here, but wanted to add my own 2 cents since I'm (a) new to hunting in general (b) have my first big game hunt coming up with my muzzleloader Coues in a few days and (c) couldn't have predicted how amazing it was to spend the morning with Duwane learning where and why to look.

    I met Mr Adams at 5a in Oracle and we meandered into the Catalinas. I brought my own tripod (too short) and bino's and we pulled up on to a road and started glassing. Duwane is constantly letting me know why this spot is good and, as we timed it for sunrise, we spotted a ton of deer. Does with their fawns and plenty of bucks. It was the first time I'd seen bucks tussling with my own eyes. We scanned and Duwane kept pulling me to his binos to see the detail he was noticing and slowly I started to be able to spot the deer first (not too often), and even saw a pack of coyotes working the hill side between two big deer groups.

    We went to a couple of other spots so that the I could see first hand what the angle of the dangle was all about and it was impressive. We never glassed the same ridges or sections of mountain, but the formula of when and where the deer move was reinforced every time we stopped.

    Mr Adams fundamentally changed everything I will do in the future with my binos. Admittedly I don't have the sort of experience most of the forums members do, so I'm still years behind most of y'all with equipment that is right at the beginning of the journey, but I feel a lot more comfortable heading into my first hunt.

    He's a gracious and generous man, and talking with him put so much of the info from books and podcasts either into context or allowed me to change how closely I adhered to it.

    Highly recommend it, and can't say enough positive things about my morning with him: It was incredible.

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    I have the unit just north of yours and have spent a long time just driving the roads seeing where they go, which ones were passable and which were washed out or just impossible to drive with a standard truck. I found a ton of areas that on the map and google earth looked uninteresting but were great spots to hang out and watch. Most of the roads I found were only visible on the zoomed in satellite pics. It's been a wet year down there, tanks are happy and full.

    I'm a total newbie on the hunting side, but pouring over maps and then planning a quick drive-through were really useful for me to learn the area I am going to end up spending my October hunt in,

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    7 hours ago, Heat said:

    I think that's about as bad as it gets.  Its all over the place for success.  On the hunt I was on, there were 8 cow tags and 2 bull tags and 8 out of the 10 hunters killed their bison.  The only two that didn't went home early.

    I'm banking points for bison to hopefully head out there in a couple decades or whatever, but have read that getting your animal out is not easy as they will be far from vehicle access.

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    So as a new hunter, based in Tucson, is BLM land the only none-range places you can shoot? There isn't a lot close by that I've found offering a 200yd back drop to practice in the dirt sitting or lying down.

    I'm shooting a muzzleloader this fall for coues, and have been very aware that as I try to extend my range accuracy from 100-200yds, I'm really only improving my field accuracy from 50/75yds to 100 yds or so with nerves and all the other factors (if i'm lucky enough to pull the trigger during the hunt).

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