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I got back with an unfilled tag but awesome bull hunt in 6A on Sunday. Great weather and good friends to spend time with. Chased elk every day and had several close calls on filling my tag- no shots but could have taken 2 small bulls. That's what the hunt is all about- great to fill the tag but its the going and being there- that is what's important. The over competitiveness and having to get something at all costs is what will undo our sport. Because I have to work it took me 2 days to read all the pages on this thread. HILIARIOUS! Most fun I've had since my last elk hunt- ha!

After reviewing my trail cam pics I was pretty amazed at what was had been captured.For the first 3 weeks the elk were coming thru pretty regularly. Then my camera captured the pic of a mountain lion- I did not get another elk pic for 1 week. Do cats have that much affect on animals as large as elk? For the record 90 % of the pics were of bulls- minimal cow/ calf activity there. Any observations anyone else might have on this situation?

Up until the last pics they were all still in velvet

My friend an I went up to 6A to retrieve his cam he'd put on a water hole. He assumed it would be gone as he had left it in a fairly obvious place and it was not locked. We were surprised when we got there that the cam was still in place. We walked further up a hill to check another location and were gone about 20 minutes. When we returned to the cam site it was GONE! It had been up there a month and it was snatched off the tree in the short time we were up the hill- we heard a quad when we were up the hill but couldn't see anything- talk about crappy luck for us and some good luck for someone that just missed getting caught! He'd have been in some deep doodoo.

july 18 9:22 am

Thanks to Alan for opening his home and "The Barn" for others to enjoy- it was truly incredible. It was well worth the trip from the valley- Even my wife was amazed. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together- we'll be back next year. Phil and Carol

My wife and I will be there approx 1PM

Awesome buck! 142 5/8

First bull tag in 15 yrs-- 6A Sept. archery---

welcome to the club- it's addicting

I just watched a National Geographic program showing how the Tohono O'Odham tribe tracks and captures the drug runners that enter thru that part of the state. They have what they call the "12 wolves" (ice officers) that specialize in locating and tracking the smugglers- mostly on foot. 12 is not nearly enough to control that large an area. They do some on quads but the smugglers hear them from way off and just hole up. Interesting and hard work - most of the smugglers lose their cargo but 1 in 3 smugglers get away. It is going to get worse down there if the border isn't secured!

nothing but I now have 1 bonus point-

You have to get everyone you know that hunts, fishes and owns a firearm to join their favorite organization. Even people who don't fall into these groups need to be shown, how one by one, our freedoms are being dimished or taken away. Most people wait for someone else to do the work and then it's too late when a bad bill or regulation passes. Get mad! Get involved! Work to get the right people elected to office! The political section of this website is one of the most important but one of the least used. SAD!

I had to get rid of my high gloss stock so I ordered from Cabelas a Remington black composite stock to replace the factory wood stock on my Rem 700- no complaints -and it was inexpensive

Congrats- great buck- great story!

You had better luck than we did- we were in the Yellow Jacket creek area and saw no whitetail bucks in 3 days of hard hunting and glassing

We glassed our eyeballs out for 3 days in 36B -Yellow Jacket Creek area, and found 5 whitetail does and 8 mule deer- 1 was a 2pt buck- needless to say- we got skunked-- no rut activity without bucks - I did get to witness a whitetail doe in full escape mode from a yote at about 300 yds- I've never seen an animal in the wild move that fast- no shot at the yote- he was at full speed also- she got away

I'm headed down there this weekend to scout up for our thanksgiving weekend hunt. We were near Pena Blanca last year with no sucess- saw only 2 spikes and several does. There were more mule deer doe than whitetail. No muley bucks. Too much border patrol activity down there. We'll try a little further north.

Get out very early, find a good vantage point, get some good glass, and look under every bush. Look for some of the steeper canyons in the area and search the areas going in and our of them- saddles and draws. Brush choked bedding areas is where they'll end up after sunrise - hard to see into- but that's where thay are. Wet Beaver and West Clear Creek ar good drainages to scout.

Most reloading components are scarce- primers are also hard to find- it's easier to just order them online- they will ship when availiable- hope you wern't in a hurry!

I atteneded the first day of the NRA convention on Friday- Great response in attendence. The Grassroots Forum had over 350 people- double from last years convention. There was a 1/2 to 3/4 hour wait to get into the exibit hall- The Fire Dept.- was in crowd control mode. It was packed!!! US Airways Arena was sold out to hear the featured speakers. It's an event everyone should experience. We need to get every gun owner, hunter and fisherman signed into membership. Most people don't know of the stealth methods being employed by this administration to restrict our rights. A new one H.R. 45 is being bought up for consideration- Look it up and see what's going on. Contact your reps and tell them to deep six this thing. Send this out to your e-mail lists- We need to get more people involved in the political process. We can't be asleep at the wheel, while one by one, our freedoms are taken away or taxed out of reach of the average outdoorsman! Ted Nugent will be there on Sunday- I will make an attempt to get into his show!!- He is so passionate about hunting and the natural way that he turns some people off, but there is no one more dedicated to our sport- he needs to be commended for his hard work. See you at the show!! PS -Drag a friend down there with you- You'll never see a bigger gun show and so many goodies that you won't have time to see them all!

The e-mail I got was a post from the Arizona Sentinal from May 2 2009- it has several links- judge for yourself. One of the links shows that obama has spent almost 1 million $ to keep his records hidden from the public. A simple release of his records would clear up all doubt - Right?

Ted Nugent gave a very inspiring speech. He talked for 1 hour without the use of a teleprompter- from the heart. He said if you really believe in what you say the words flows naturally. I hope his talk gets put on youtube- run a search- it is worth watching. It's a call to action -to preserve our rights and our privliges. Sunday wasn't as crowded as the previous days but it made it nice to visit the booths and have time to leisurely enjoy the show. Get involved- our sport and our rights depend on it!

I've also seen this report- I thought it had some links in it - I'll try to find it and post them. It arrived in my mailbox as spam eventhough it was sent by a friend on my contact list. What's going on?

Who is Pat Oreilly? Are you talking about Bill O'reilly on Fox? He calls an american idol singer a patriot for endorsing HSUS!! Rush endorsing HSUS?? HSUS commercials on Dennis Miller show- Whats going on? Sorry I'm off thread- had to vent! Sarah Palin has come to her defense as have most of the conservative media.They just get drowned out by the mainstream "driveby media". We just need to get down and dirty aggressive to get our point out to the "sheeple" - (general Public).