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so its ready to go, I can put a scope on and start shooting?

son, I am disappoint.

i know its the rut now, but after spending the past 2 weeks in the desert i have 0 desire to go back to Kaibab. id rather just work it hard here now. im sure the late hunt is the bomb but that early hunt, i think it sucks kind of tbh. it beautiful country, i just get worn out at seeing 100-200 does a day and maybe 1 main frame buck every 3 days. at least that's been my luck in 3 trips there. but i don't know it that well, west side is HUGE and i suck at hunting. im a little prejudice i guess. never been there for archery, maybe theyre out and about then.

I heard they knocked them down pretty good the first couple days in the burn. lance, you hunt east side or west side? east side looks a lot funner than west side. the aspen undergrowth in the burn on the west side is a filthy whore. I like to hunt down south in the unit personally. the archery hunt sounds fun, id like to put in with a bunch of people that don't care about horn size and try to shoot a bunch of deer.

what a year.

pretty neat to get one down there. congrats dude.

Like when you have an opportunity on a buck and instead of doing the right thing you do the wrong thing? Had my opportunity on a buck this morning jogging by, instead of grunting or something I just decide to stand up for no reason at all and all the deer run away. I don't know I had buck fever and just freaked. Was small spindly 4x4 mule deer, but still an Arizona 4x4. Fml

idk a lot about it, i think of Ft. Hood shooter type stuff when i hear a guy like Kyle is killed like that.

any conspiracy theories that the guy that killed him was instrumented by the government to appease a muslims?

I have learned a lot of what not to do this season for sure.

good lord that broad head did damage.

if you plateau there is only 2 options, increase activity or decrease calories. only lifted legs 1 day last week and that's it. shoulder still all messed up. going to hit legs again tonight, hopefully shoulder is better soon. haven't been eating enough and hunting a lot burning lots of cals. lost about 3lbs last week.

best of luck to you. I couldn't be strict enough to keep my body in ketosis. should be a fast way to lose weight though

heck of a job. crazy about the deer getting hit by cars.

ya patience, also sometimes I let my guard down right when I should be paying attention most.

If this little buck today was the big one I've been after, I just would have walked out into the wilderness and never came back

Sounds like it would have been a nice ethical clean kill lol

Lmfao but dude I was just about to call you too

im feeling a little better @workman, show yourself. Remember that time we snuck in on the goat when you had the tag and didn't shoot because he was far away, but in reality I think he was like 60 max. Today reminded me of that a little

Early hunt is alright if you like Small bucks, lots of hunters, and a long drive to your unit.

@walking, you can go ahead and send all your work to him then. we can all see he does such great quality work. in fact I have a set of busted sheds id like to get repaired, rick seems quite skilled in that department.

those "euro's." dude im sorry

keep coming back to this deer, what a monster.

basically one week cutting done, down a few lbs. all water im sure, body composition looking better already though. I made green chili chicken in my crockpot and ate on that all week which helped me keep my calories in check. lost a lot of motivation yesterday, I tore up my shoulder pulling my bow back some how. worst part about it is I missed the biggest typical desert muley that would get killed in AZ this year I think. anyways fml. cant even lift my arm up at the moment.

my friend bought a lifetime license then got drawn for archery elk 4 years in a row, and an antelope tag. he swears by that