runningbird

CRB thanks for posting the picture I know its not to great but the best I could do at the time, the buck was on his way down to the wash. I have accually back out of the wash twice now and not disturbed the deer. can't wait too get back up there wed. morning. my plan is to sit about 500 yards away where I can watch them all day and see where they go in the afternoon and evening. maybe I'll get lucky and they will come to my hill. I know there is a big buck in the area and I wonder if he'll show up next week? thanks for the help.

here is a picture of one of the bucks heading down to the wash at noon. well it looks like i can't figure out how to post a picture. can anyone tell me how to do this?

where is everyone hunting durring the dec-jan season..I'll be in 23, I've been chasing the same buck for 2 1/2 years.... he's made it thru the early rifle season I'm hoping he's not found durring the rut.. last jan he was out in the open alot.

way to go!!! It's a blast to read the stories along the way, it's so hard not to skip to the end..

I'll be picking up my pig sometime this week....

I have a camera that coues7 (scott) built for me...I love it. It works better than promised and he did some modifications for me that made it much more user friendly..... it was more expensive and I sure hope it never gets stolen but I have no regrets at this time. mark

What do you do with the "Chulos"? Chulo is a name for coati. Do you eat them. I once killed a skunk in my front yard - it would not leave and was driving my dogs and neighbors nuts. The neighbors ATE IT! I thought my neighbors were nuts. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> NOW THAT'S FUNNY!!!

great pictures!!! thanks for posting. I wish everyone would post all their pictures. it's really cool to see what everyone is finding with these cameras. mark

I also know a few ranchers and have a chance to see the good and bad. one ranch close to my home has been in a family since the 1870's they have built many ponds out in the open where water never accumulated in the past, I think this is probably good overall. they have also tapped into springs in small narrow canyons and put water catches in these canyons, I think this is probably bad as now you have large animals ruining a very sensitive green area in the desert. it also seems like some ranches including this one the owners get more lazy as the generations go by. now when they are allowed to turn cattle out they just open the gate and mabey push them 1 mile away. ofcourse the cattle come home within 2 days. now another rancher I know does things a little different. this year after the rains and before he turned his cattle out he made many improvements....fences,ponds roads and such. then we got horseback and pushed his cattle a good 12 miles away to an area with good water and growth so the cattle would want to stick around. let me tell you this was some hard a** work. it took 2 days working 5am till 10pm to get the cattle moved. only 2 bulls came home. now he checks them at least twice a week and moves them to new spots as nescesary. Ive always thought cattle in the desert wasn't a good idea untill I met people in the business. BUT it must be done right and with consideration of the envirorment. It is a unique way of life and I would hate to see it stopped. one last thing, bowsniper I wonder if all desert christian archers look to pick fights with inapropriate statements about the bucks they have killed. Ive never even shot at a coues yet, but if I'm lucky enough to tag one I won't throw it in peoples faces the way your tried to.

here's what happened to me 2 years ago for the Jan hunt. A couple weeks before the season started a Good friend of mine who is a guide and had taught me alot called and asked some questions about the area I live. he explaned how he had an 11 y/o hunter for a deer hunt. I gave him some good info and also explaned how I would be in another area with my son who was home from college and would only have 2 days to hunt in Jan. because he had classes starting the 3rd. I told my GOOD buddy excactly where I would be at. He told me that he had no intrest in that area and would stay out especially given my situation. my area is a short walk from my home across a creek. the area I gave him is on the oppisite side of the creek. so opening morning for my sons pig hunt comes and we get up to our spot nice and early waiting for the pigs to come out. we happen to look up the hill a little farther and see a couple hunters on a ridge silloetted. Now I'll tell you I have never seen another hunter in this area, it's just over looked since it's so close to town. well I had a bad feeling that it was my buddy but I wouldn't believe it. so after about 1/2 hour one of the fella's comes walking right down the hill toward us scares the pigs over another hill and just keeps coming. well I knew it was him so I met him 1/2 way and the first thing he says is he's got his hunter at a pond up the hill and could we hunt somewhere else. well the only reason he knew about the pond was because I told him that was our mid day plan. I just couldn't believe it. I really was stumped and speachless. any way I figured it wasn't the kids fault so I went back down and got my son and walked a couple ridges over. then later in the day who do I run into again, same fella but this time with his client( guess what he's not a youngster but a middle aged guy) anyway I'm still steamed about this and my buddy wisely has not contacted me since.

nice bull and it's always nice to see some excitement in a picture....congratulations

I think it's a bad picture. that's a bad angle to try and guess a score. it does have long main beams and good mass I think it may make that score.

congrats... that last picture is great!!!

in 35 years I've only run into two managers. 1st time my little brother and I were fishing a hole in oak creek at dark. the fella then started telling my brother that rainbows don't hit after dark,my brother said that's ok were fishin for browns, he laghed and said there were no browns this far down stream. while he was still laghing my brother landed a 28" brown. the whole time he played it the warden was telling him it was a sucker. 2 weeks later we went back to that spot at 9PM and met him on his way back from our hole( he didn't catch any). the other time was about 25 years ago about 6 of my buddies and I were archery pig hunting in 22, we didn't have a clue. any way this fella met us on a road and checked our tags and all. he then told us were to and how to hunt the pigs in the area, it was a real nice experience for a bunch of 20 y/o novices. mark

I'ts a real shame they decide to hold this very nice seminar durring archery deer season every year... Bet they wouldn't hold it durring the reg. hunt? I have made to a few of the seminars in the past and always enjoyed them very much...

great job...1/2 mile from the truck. wow what a shot HA HA...glad someone's getting deer...congrats

I'm ready, I'll be sweating it out at a desert water hole opening day... lots of no see um's... can't wait..

I'll also be in 22/23. hopefully sitting water...

no it's not hard to change, but yes you should have a jig... and you should change all the fletchings...

well I got shut out. My middle son however did get a 4b archery tag so that will be a blast. mark

still NO results!!!!!!!!

I bought a sent loc suit in about 98 or 99, I thought it helped, it was one of the older types. you were suposed to put in the dryer on high heat for an hour to reactivate the charcole. I do know the couple times I washed it the water was black from the charcole, so it probabley all washed away now... I really don't know if it made a difference or not. I was able to get close to some animals but I was still always trying to keep the wind in my favor.... on a related or mabey not subject has anyone ever noticed deer or elk not being afraid of kids or thier sent. I'll never forget huntin in Utah with my 2 boys 4&5 at the time kind of sittin in a blind, I turn around to see the 2 of them havin a blast peein all over a tree. well of course i was put out and we left the spot only to come back by the next morning to find 3 forky's lickin the tree like crazy???

what a joke. why not just go shoot your bow 50 times.....Just like weight training if you can't handle the weight just lower the pound and keep good form...with today's bows there is no reason to shoot a bow weight that is to much for you.... mark

mine finaly cleared yesterday. keeping my fingers crossed..

My sling goes over your shoulder and fits over the cams of the bow. It slides off the bow very easy. You really don't even need to look at what your doing. like anything else new there is a learning curve...