SunDevil

Here is a sweet trophy

I took my nephews out who were visiting from VA a couple of weeks ago. Got a late start and only saw a few does. They were all heading for the shade. Didn't find any sheds but found this lion kill. It only scored around 70" but my nephew sure was excited. We cleaned it up and he packed it up in his suitcase and took it home. My sister said he wasn't home 24 hours before he had the skull varnished up, mounted on a board and hung up in his room. CB

12 elk for me. I would think it would put me in the 20% pool. Who knows!

Born2 - so then the G & F confiscated that find and fined the lady that found it and took it out of the field? I am sure they found out about what she found and if was illegal they would have persued it, it not than it must not have been illegal. CB

here is a pic of our turkey camp from big lake last weekend. bbbbrrrrrrrr!!!

So will AZ SFW be pushing for landowner tags? Or will their main objective be to organize, unite and represent all the different wildlife organizations in AZ. If it is the first, then we need to work to keep them out now. Just curious. CB

nuthin for me. come on NM and AZ. CB

I do not think the 6 day vs 4 day Oct hunt length will have a significant impact on increasing Oct hunt applicants. Most of your avg Oct hunters are only hunting Fri - Sun anyway so the extra 2 days are not going to matter much to them. You will have a few die hards that will switch from Nov to Oct because they will have 2 more days to go after that big one they found during their preseason scouting. I would imagine success rates will go up a little because there will be some deer that are taken in those last 2 days that wouldn't have been taken before. It would have been a different story if they would have increased it to 10 days. I for one would have switched my second choice from Nov to Oct.

Here is a pic of our javelina camp from last Feb.

My Rem 700 is chambered for 7mm Mag and has a Christensen barrel on it. It is topped with a Nikon Monarch 5.5 - 16.5 X 44. I am using and have had good success with Rem 150 grain nosler ballistic tips. My glass is Nikon 10 X 42 LX and Swaro 15 X 56 SLC. For getting up close and personal I have the Nikon 25 - 75 X 82 ED Fieldscope. The 75X really reaches out. We used it last year and was able to evaluate a really nice buck from 8 tenths of a mile away. The Manfrotto tripod can't be beat for price, size, weight and use. Basic Bushnell 600 range finder that works just fine and gets the job done. Not so sure if I am sold on the Cabelas pack or not but the price was right and it was a gift so I will probably keep using it for a little while. The Canon S2 IS is great for the success pics. The 12X optical zoom along with the 5 megapixels lets you get pretty good pics out to a couple hundred yards. The Panasonic GS 35 has a 30X optical zoom which really gets out there and can also be used through a spotting scope or bino tube. My most favorite item is my good old official Boy Scout knife. It was given to me from my dad back when I was a kid to use for cleaning salmon up in AK. It is easy to sharpen and holds its edge really good. I have bought and used other knives but keep coming back to it and it just stays in my pack all the time now. Another most valuable item we started using a couple of years ago are latex medical gloves. When you pull em off they are inside out. No muss. No fuss. CB

That is a great looking mount. I really like how thick the neck looks from the front in the first pic. I think it is a slight illusion because when you look at the second pic the neck doesnt look that thick. I also like how thick and long the hair is, especially down around the brisket area. Gotta love that non typical acorn coming off the left G2. CB

2C, 23 WT early and 23 WT late. Also whatever the SW antelope area is. CB

barf face? how about a barf bag?

Does anyone know what the non res draw odds for their 10% was before the whole USO thing? I don't think the G & F ever published res vs non res draw odds. I think I remember someone from the dept saying it was easier for the non res to draw one of the 10% tags then a res to draw one of the 90%. Just curious. CB

AG, why do you support the guides? All that does is make hunting even more of a rich mans hobby! Always, always remember that MONEY is the root of all evil! Why does NM have 12% going to non res with guides? MONEY!!! If you want to get NM on the same playing field as AZ then get them to do away with the 12% of the tags that are going to non res with guides! That would be 12% more tags available to NM res. I'm sure you can thank USO for that one also. Just my two cents. CB

SWEET! Leave it to RR. Thanks for sharing. CB

Nice buck! I'd guess around 105. Nice eyeguards! Gotta love those. When I first saw that pic I immediately thought of the Bob Campbell buck on the front of the site. This buck has much better eyeguards but doesn't appear to be as old as the Campbell buck (the neck is not as thick). Would like to hear a little more about this buck (state, year, score, etc). CB

hadnt posted in awhile so i thought i would throw this out for you all to see. pretty unique. CB

Just came across this one http://www.arizonaelksociety.org/Forms/Hun...color%20PDF.pdf

Just wanted to know if anyone was aware of any good raffles going on right now? There are so many, it is hard to keep track of who is raffling what, when the deadline is, when the drawing is, etc. Maybe we can get Amanda to break raffles into another forum category so that we would have one central resource for raffle info. At a minimum we would need the following info: 1) Organization 2) Prize 3) Cost 4) Deadline 5) Results 6) Contact Can anyone think of any other info we would need? So does anyone know of a good raffle going on right now? Thanks. CB

you know, snow shoes also work good for walking on top of shin digger cactus.

where were your snow shoes? looks like you might need to invest in a pair. CB

what a cutie!!!

Other than 100% pure politics, WHY did the NRA get involved in the approval of the Jennifer Martin appointment to the G & F Commission? I think the 11 organizations that Amanda listed on the other thread should be encouraged to educate their members (newsletter, website, meetings, etc) about what the NRA did. Hopefully these organizations have a lot of members who are also NRA members and hopefully they will feel inclined to contact the NRA and voice their displeasure over the NRA's actions/tactics. For those of you who are unaware, a 7 member senate committee was set to vote 6 - 1 to not approve the appointment. At the last minute (literally, the morning before the meeting), the NRA got involved and was successful in swinging 3 of the nays to yeas and the rest is history. There is nothing we can do about it now but hopefully we can make enough noise to prevent this type of thing from happening again or at least make organizations think twice before they consider doing this again in the future. As for me, I am going right to the horses mouth and am going to contact the 2 NRA field reps in AZ. In case anyone else is interested, their names are: H. Dean Hall (480) 664 - 9222 dhall@nrahq.org J. P. Nelson (480) 357 - 4057 jnelson@nrahq.org Sorry to bring this up again, it is just still really bothering me. I do not know what I will do if the G & F moves forward with their proposed changes. With all the difficult issues they have to deal with, they choose to focus on putting more people in the field during hunting season and reducing overall hunter success rates. It is about enough to make a person boycott the government all together. How much would a little ranch cost somewhere to get away from it all? CB

The one question I think they left off the survey was asking a questions going in the opposite direction. Would the serious sportsmen (excluding campers and road hunters) be in favor or reduced opportunity in return for increased success? I am always very discouraged in the Oct and Nov hunts with all the other people that are out there. It is almost impossible to get away from them. If all I wanted was a tag, I could put in for Oct 30B and get drawn every year. My chances of harvesting a buck are very slim and a really nice buck non-existant. Why don't they make the 1 deer per year go through Jan instead of be a calendar year thing. I would be more inticed to spend time in Jan with a bow (if I hadn't drawn a tag or was unsuccessful) if I wouldn't be done for the next year (if I was lucky enough to connect). Of course, reduced opportunity would mean less money and WE ALL KNOW THAT IS WHAT IT IS REALLY ABOUT!!! They can try and white wash it any way the want, but it really all comes down to money. It is the root of all evil. CB