bigbuckfever

Huge congratulations on a cool hunt. Thanks for videoing and sharing it, especially during this time before archery when I'm going crazy with anticipation. Love the mass on that guy,

Old thread, but I just saw it for the first time. What a stud!!!

Awesome buck and congrats to you for your patience. That's the hardest but also the most rewarding part of archery when the shot connects.

An uncle recently passed away and left some binoculars and a knife that I want to see go to use, so I will donate them to any newbie who would put them to use. Not top of the line by any means, but, good for starting out regardless of your age. One multi-blade pocketknife. One pair of Bushnell 7x35 with case. One pair Leupold 10x23. The leupolds are small and good for archery maybe. Located in Mesa near Baseline and the 101.

Best purchase; tripod for my 15x60s

Thanks for posting the story and I'm glad it worked out for ya. Nice buck, I can see why you wanted to let one fly.

In the heat of the moment, it's hard to not shoot when you put in so much effort just to get that opportunity. I tell myself I won't shoot at a moving animal (especially with a bow), because I have tracked a wounded and not fatally shot animal before, and that sucks big time. That's just me. I'm not preaching to anybody, I just wouldn't want anyone else to have to go through that torture (for you or the animal). Now, having put in my two cents worth, let's hear the rest of the story. ☺️

Awesome timing! Good on you for taking the effort. I kinda figured you as a decent guy.

A 35+year old cattle trail from a mesa to a prime whitetail spot I've been putting salt at has been turned into a road over the last two years. The tracks end about 15 yards from a primo blind area overlooking a beautiful bowl. Pretty much sucks.

Bring on the rain...as long as it stops at least a week before archery season 😉

+1 on the old school range finder that you had to turn the dial until the two pictures lined up. Worthless, every time you pulled it out of your pack, you had to re-calibrate the stupid thing.

That is awesome!! Huge congrats to getting it done with a bow and to getting 28 yards unnoticed, you da man. Gotta love it when a hunt falls into place. Thank you for your service and sacrifice.

That's a pretty cool buck. Glad you were able to put hands on it.

My father has been dealing with macular degeneration for over 6 years and has started getting much worse to the point he is just about blind now at 89. He has been feeling run down and dizzy for a few months and just found out that is due to leukemia. We don't know if it's going to be manageable or not yet. He has always been a hard charging Marine and it is taking its' toll on his spirits so I sure would appreciate any support. Thanks, Doug.

I shot 3-D fun shoot in Sunrise one year with Trinity and his girlfriend. Great guy.

Had a buddy that sat a tank down south until the second group of hikers walked right by his tank and blind (without ever noticing his blind). After a little checking online, he realized his tank was directly on the AZ Trail.

I had a run in with a pit bull a few years ago. I was driving home with the wife one evening when I turned the corner in my neighborhood and noticed a guy and two dogs. He was spinning around in circles while the two dogs did the same. I told the wife that the poor guy was having a heck of a time controlling his two dogs and I realized as I was saying that, that one of the dogs wasn't his. He had his old German Pointer on a leash, and it was winding around him while a pit bull was trying to latch onto the old dog. I told the wife that he was being attacked and I threw the car into park and jumped out. I ran over asking if the second dog was his and he said no, that it came out of nowhere and started attacking his dog. The pit bull got his dog by the throat and took it down as soon as I got to him. The guy was quite frankly, a big squish, and didn't know what to do- I was pissed this dog was doing this in my neighborhood and I wasn't about to just keep driving and not try to stop it. I've seen too many stories about dogs attacking kids in a neighborhood and it just made me mad. I grabbed the pit by the big spiked collar ( I wasn't sure if he would attack me or if he just wanted to kill the other dog) and tried kicking him in the gut. You can't get any leverage to put anything behind a kick when you're holding a dog by the collar. I started beating the pit on the top of his head as hard and as fast as I could. I hit him at least fifteen times as hard as I could, and it didn't faze him. Found out later it just broke my hand, but adrenaline keeps you going in the moment. I somehow thought about a report of a guy being dragged down by a shark and he got away by eye gouging the shark. I held onto the collar with one hand and took my right thumb and started grinding it into the eye socket of the pit. Once I got past his clenched eyelid and felt the eyeball, I pushed harder and ground his eye to pulp. That got his attention and he let the old dog go. As I tightly held his collar, I told the guy to get his dog the heck out of here. I had my wife call the police and I held onto him until they arrived. They said no crime happened cause a dog biting another dog wasn't a crime. They did take him for animal control to deal with.

That sucks man. Hopefully, something good happens this week to counterbalance it.

It takes time to check all of your social media posts to see if your "social equity score" is acceptable to receive a tag from Katie. 😉couldn't resist.

I've been using one of these for the last 5 years and I love it. I'm pretty hard on my equipment and it still holds up. GLWS.

That's awesome for you. Now go buy a lottery ticket, lol.

Looks like a test run for an EMP. How's that for a conspiracy theory? lol

Paranoid and self-righteous? WTF, sounds like somebody is off their meds again.

^^^^^ same here

I just got a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV for Christmas. Should I trade up or will this model be ok to get me started?