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Congrats on the bow kill...looks like it didn't take you long to put that new bow to good use. -Rob (I'm the D-student you met at Archery HQ last month)

Nice pics Amanda. It's bucks like those that keep my dreaming of a Kaibab tag one day!

Huh? Not really getting your point on that comparison. I know you are all about stroking the Game and Fish's ego but you are also usually all about keeping up the image of the sportsman, which the G&F should be doing as well. In this case they could at least acknowledge to their customer how this could look bad to the non-hunting population and use it for future reference when needing to dispose of a carcass.

Same here! Also makes you think about how he/she ended up there.

Congrats, looks like a great bear.

Nice set.

Grow a huntin beard leading into the season. My grandpa always had one and now so do I every season.

Game Hauler, if you can find it I would appreciate it.

Anyone have a copy of Backcountry Bowhunting by Cameron Hanes that they have already read or never got around to that is taking up space on your shelf? I'd like to buy a copy but it appears that they no longer print it and Eastman's doesn't carry it anymore since he left the company. Let me know.

Doug I think I might have been standing in that exact spot a couple weeks ago when scouting for bear. We saw some tracks but no hide that weekend and at the last minute my buddy and I decided not to hunt last weekend. Hunting in 100+ degrees didn't sound as good as swimming in the Pacific Ocean last weekend

July 24, 4pm

Nice pics bud. Are you going to be back up in the woods helping during elk season? Jay and I will be taking my brother out for his archery bull hunt this year in the same ol area. Make sure to stop by if you are around.

Like several have said, Nice buck! It's amazing what a little jealousy will do to grown men. And I'm not sure if 300ultramag needs a hug or a whack in the back of the head. Maybe both...

Same here, fished Bartlett last weekend under lights and it was real slow.

Prayers sent.

How many deer are you allowed to take during that time frame?

Lance it looks like I'm out this year. Been wanting to do Lasik on my eyes and right now I'm scheduled to have that done on the 19th.

After reading Coues'n'Sheeps post about they guy who left the note reminded me of a situation that I ran into on my elk hunt last year. One afternoon my buddies and I were driving to one of our areas that we had scouted and as we drove by a tank that is right next to this two track road there was a guy in a ground blind set on the bank. We continue driving and a little ways down the road was his buddy who must have dropped him off at the tank. Next to his truck was a yellow sign the read "Hunter on Stand: Please be courteous"....or something to that effect. We wave to this other guy and keep on our way and my buddies and I started talking about the idea of these guys putting up that sign. We weren't really for or against it, we just hadn't ever seen that yet, heard of people doing it, just hadn't seen it in person. Fast forward a couple mornings and as we were driving into an area we decided we wanted to chase a bull that we had seen the last two days by a different tank about a 1/2 mile from where we had seen those two hunters. It was pretty early and well before sun up when I almost ran over that dang yellow sign that was in the middle of the road a good ways from this tank. We sat there for a little bit and kind of pondered what to do but we figured that this guy had gotten up even earlier than we had so we would turn around and head to a different spot. But before I could turn around a set of headlights came up behind us and the truck pulled up next to us. We rolled down the window and the guy greeted us with "Hey, I hunted this tank last night and I'm gonna hunt this tank again today so I hope you guys don't mind." Then drove right on past us. At that point I was pretty ticked...I had a couple of ideas as to what I wanted to do but decided to hunt elk instead. Later in the morning as we were glassing we saw the same guy driving around and checking out some other water holes so we figured he was done with that spot. On the map it showed that the road leading to the tank from that morning continued up onto the ridge behind it so we decided we wanted to check it out. Well wouldn't you know that by the time we got back to it around lunch time he was parked there once again with that same damned sign. At this point I didn't really care and proceeded to drive past his truck to access that road on the other side of the tank. Well once we reached the tank it became apparent that the road on the map didn't really exist and we reached a dead end at the tank with the guy sitting in his ground blind waving us to go away. As we turned around to head back I sort of felt bad but at the same time I was still pretty PO'd from that guy leaving those signs out overnight and stooping us from hunting the area that we had planned on that morning. We never did see him again but the whole situation just left a bad taste in my mouth for several reasons...

Used to use them for catfish all of the time. Haven't been able to find them very easily the last few years. Who is carrying them?

Oh, and one little detail that I forgot to mention. The man who who setting up the sign when we first ran into this group was the president of the Arizona Bowhunters Association.

Those are some crazy/amazing pics.

Awesome trip Christian, sounds like you and your dad had a great time together.

Once again, very impressive! Congrats on the bird and the great time with your dad.

That is awesome! Congrats to all three of you.

So where's he update from this weekend? Did the other hunter make it back out? Didn't get a cellphone pic this weekend so I'm guessing no...