IHunt2live

I don't shoot 30-06 but I would shoot a grain that shoots well out of your gun, even if it is a little overkill. If you go and shoot bigger game you can shoot the same load and not wory about changing loads. If I had a choice though, I would shoot what ever shoots the flatest. just my $.02

After reading scottyboy's post about his mearns hunt I got all excited and had to get out myself. I wasn't feeling that good so I knew I couldn't hunt for to long so I decided to hit my go to spot for a quick trip. There aren't a ton of birds in the area but we got into some. Dewey, my shorthair found one covey all on his own and had a couple of nice points, hes coming along. Anyway here are a couple of pics for you all. Dogs on point, and me with my pups and my new toy behind us .

Right on Scottyboy! Was it as good as they have been talking it up? I think I might try to get out for a quick trip in the am. Lets hope for a long, wet, perductive season .

NICE BEAR and shed to.

Its on my father in laws property. It has a float valve fed by a larg water tank just up the hill. This last lion came in while he was there, he was probably asleep in the cabin not 50 yards from that lion.

My gosh. I think the lions have moved in. I would say this is the 4 lion in about a month and a half to vist this water whole. Got a TON of pigs to wich is great news since I have a pig tag in january. Might have to get someone to come along with a rifle in case the lions show up. I'm thinking about putting another cam out there and put it on the video setting.

is that in 35B by chance?

Sounds like fun. I was able to get out this am for the first time this year. Didn't find to many birds, was trying out a new spot, but the ones we did get into were scallies, which I wanted, and to my suprise I coundn't miss. I had 1 double, 1 triple and a double on doves. suprised the heck out of myself. Dogs did good as well despite the tuff senting conditions. O' and we jumped 4 bucks, given the area I thought they would be mule deer but to my suprise the were whitetails. I have seen whitetails in some low stuff before but nothing like this area. I was hopeing the desert quail were going to be a bit better then what I have seen and heard, I hope mearns turns out to be a great year.

My wife is gone tonight so I thought I would share her buck. Her and her dad were hunting together while I was helping my dad on his hunt. They didn't fill a tag last year and saw very few bucks so my wife had a pretty itchy trigger finger. They hunt mostly for the meet anyway. And here is the beast. Don't strain yourself... yes it only has one antler, the other one was brocken

I just read the section in "Deer of the Southwest" by Jim Heffelfinger were he mentions this. He says "its a common misconception" that there are these local types exist. Often they are just young deer with 3x3 racks and that some individual coues can have different color variations. Take it for whats its worth.

A tail like this? This deer came out of 34A but it was not miniture coues, he was the biggest bodied coues I've ever delt with.

When you hike several miles in the am darkness to get to that remote hill for a chance at a trophy, paying no attention to the fact that you might be packing out your buck until the wee hours the fallowing morning.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way washingtondc but do you have an education in biology, or are you just an outdoors nut like the rest of use? I'm just wondering because you seem to know a whole lot.

WOW that is some great video. thanks! as for getting bigger... maybe, maybe not. I've seen some OLD bucks that are 2x2.

I think Jim Heffelfinger mentions them in his book. Can't remember what it said but I highly doubt that science beleives they are another species.

Corect me if I'm wrong, Can't shoot in city limits or within 440 yards of a house.

I call it her bb-gun. It drives her nuts. I have no idea what make or model. Youth something in .243. she put down a 10+ year old cow elk with one shot with that gun when she was 11 I think.

A friend 65 years old I think. Buck he shot this year in 34A.

I think I figurged it out X = WTF? You'll have to forgive him... Grad students, let alone phd students, have a laugauge all of there own.

O' SNAP!!! Truth hurts sometimes don't it? Mike, do we need to get into bullets shot? Remeber that coyote, sitting there at 225 that you shot at? Kevin, I do not. I want a caliber hole in, 1/2" out. Have had great success with the accubond on that. But, I am going to try these. If they do not exit, like some say and the animal drops dead, they they are going to be hard to beat! I had a feeling you would bring that up. SO... I'm 1-0 on coyotes big deal. Coues, 2 shots 2 deer thats what realy matters isn't it? That rifle of mine has only missed once and thats when my bro shot it for the first time but he didn't mis the second shot. I think the realy issue that needs to be discused is how many times have we have been out calling and how many times have you had first crack at the coyotes? And didn't I get you the Arizona grand slam of quail? Just playing with you casey.

O' SNAP!!! Truth hurts sometimes don't it?

Nice! what are youing going to do with the skin?

Thanks for shareing. I hope I never stumble onto your shed hunting grounds... there would be nothing left.

I don't have any pics but I have a story. Back in High school I did a lot of siting in a tree stand I built in the flats for mule deer. Its amazing what the 10 feet in eleaviation did to icrease visablility, wasn't all that good but tons better. Anyway, I was sitting up in the stand one afternoon, after classes, I think it was just a scouting trip and I was glassing. At about 200 yards I saw something through a tree that looked intrusting. I kept going back to it, and it seemed to move a little. I came to the conclusion it was a rabbit or the ear of a deer. Sure enough after about an hour a doe gets up from that very spot. She started walking my way and three fawns fallowed, they came to within 50 yards of me. I cound't believe that I spotted that thing.

Ha, I have those pics to and were wondering how long they would take to get on here. My wife who works at Saguaro National Park sent me those and I guess they were taken by a visiter. The park has had a bunch of lions sticking close to the loop. Heres another