Redman

Dropped passes, missed FG, bad calls, Freshman QB.... hard to win..... the kicking game for the Cats have cost them many games over the past few years....

Southern AZ is a dump.... now Northern AZ is becoming one....

Wow I am glad you found it and could only imagine the sick feeling stomach....the the ultimate joy...tell guess you can I have lost and found something before

he now does all of mine, exceptional work.

Updated... The first bull was killed spot and stalk on the second morning of the hunt, the other bulls in the area were screaming their heads off, this guy was feeding. My friend made a great stalk and it ended with a 53 yd shot. After the shot, we waited an hour and a half, there was a good blood trail from the shot, no arrow. About 300 yds in the trailing, we found the arrow. The bull ran towards the road which made for an easy pack out….. while running away, this bull stopped at a water hole and rolled in the mud after being shot, which we think he was trying to plug the hole. He died about 100 yds from the wallow. This is his first bull elk /big game animal shot with a bow. The second bull pictured came in on a string. This was also a “first” bull and was taken on the 7th day of the hunt. My friend made a great shot, double lung at 30 yds. Bull piled up about 100 yds away. Scary thing is he bled very, very little. We were literally on our hands and knees trying to find blood. While tracking the bull, the shooter said “there he is” and he was dead about 20 yds ahead of us. When we got up to the bull, the flood gates had opened. There was blood everywhere. Earlier in the day he missed another bull. I am proud of him that he was able to pull himself together and hammer this guy. Since my two friends had not killed a bull elk prior to this hunt, I decided to focus on helping them get their bull first….not that I am a guide or some expert elk hunter. I wanted to be there when they experienced the moment, when they shot their first bull with a bow. Both friends stayed in camp and helped me take a bull of a lifetime. In the same afternoon that bull #2 was taken (day 7), we headed out. The 4wd on my truck would not engage, this limited how far we “went in”. It broke somehow between the morning and afternoon (it a Chevy Silverado with push button 4x4 if anybody has any ideas)… ….After parking and making our way about 1 mile from the truck, I let out a single bugle and a response was herd. We walked about 200 yds down an old road and my friend spotted this bull, he said I see a bull, he looks big. I put my glasses up and said… he’s a giant. This bull was all by himself and would not fully commit to the calls, but hung around responding to each call. I began to stalk him for about 150 yds and got within 50 yds of him (I think as I had to range a tree in the area). A large juniper separated us, I let out a super soft cow call. He turned and began walking towards me. He got within 15-20 yds (again I estimated because I was behind the juniper) and we stared at each though the tree for about 10 minutes (no kidding). All I could think was this bull is going to run off any second. I also had to tell myself to relax. My hand was hurting from gripping the bow so tight. I could barely see him through the tree and he finally turned his head. I drew my bow then stepped out and shot him right in the chest, frontal shot…. I have been taught to not take this shot as it can be risky, but since he was so close and we had already been staring at each other for 10 minutes. I was afraid he would wind me or just run off…. I had to do something.. Blood immediately began spraying (I have never seen so much blood immediately spray). He turned and went down about 50 yds away. I watched him fall. The Easton Axis Realtree Arrow (10.3 gpi) and the 100 grain WacEm buried about half way in his chest. Since we were so close to the road, we were able to put the whole thing in the back of the truck…all 490lbs of him. He was rough taped at 375, but expected to go a little bigger. I never dreamed in a million years of taking an elk like this…. I just wanted a “good” bull to end a great hunt. Then next day we drove about 100 miles to help a friend/brother in law with his bull hunt which is still going on, I had to come back to work.

G2's!!!!! WOW

probably to a real place instead of the wild goose chase I give them

been looking at one (and all other Rangefinders), one thing that stands out to me is the 1000R only corrects for angle to 600 yds.... I would like one further for target practice, etc...

I saw that a CL and you beat me to it...hope its not hot

The biggest question is when to clean..... how many rounds, etc.

My son Jake took his second coues deer yesterday in unit 22.... he is ten (has had two hunts in less than a year). Its been a long time since I have been on a early jr. hunt.... time made me forget the heat and bugs (gnats were HORRIBLE even with 100% deet)....needless to say his next hunt will be in Nov. After a rough three days of spotting 8 bucks (all in too hard of places to take a 10 year old) we finally glassed this buck and another buck at 9:45 yesterday... the bucks laid down and we had to wait about an hour, this gave us ample time to get Jake setup in the prone position, we really could not move into a better /closer spot. So we moved back and Jack was able to get in the prone position. After some time this buck stood up and Jake let a shot out, missed high just over, dialed the turret and he shot again, missed, told him to settle down and let the trigger surprise him... final shot was fatal. 440 yds, longer than I wanted but there was a huge canyon between us... straight down and up... we struggled to find him once we drove around and got on the hill... but it all worked out. congrats to all the youth hunters and my hats off to the mothers and fathers for getting them out!!

Nice write up, thank you for sharing. Nice pictures

Sweet!!!!! The smiles say it all

Bear Down!! In Rid Rod we trust!! Wonder what Michigan is thinking now.... Now only is ASU can beat up on USC (cough...cough, but still lose... )

Sounds like you are very happy, does it provide MIL adjustments?

very cool

nice going very successful and looks like you had a wonderful time , a note... LMAO

Yeah that was a butt kicking last night.... Too bad Mike Stoops was the coach at the UA, Hundley would be the starting QB for AZ. Doesn't get any easier for ASU.... UA has a big game next Thursday, after humiliating the Ducks last year, I sure Oregon wants payback... Rich Rod better get that defense in order, the O seems to be able to score

Thanks everybody for reading my topic. I know a lot of good people that hunt hard and things just don't fall into place to harvest an animal. We were blessed to harvest three. You just never know when you may not be able to chase animals again, I hope everybody takes in every moment, enjoys the outdoors, family, and friends when they are out....

I believe it was!! Now I have to purchase my WacEm's from you from now on....

updated

what nice story and an awesome buck... congratulations.

Tell him to relax, TAB+1 Shooting zone for the shotgun How to carry a rifle Crossing a fence The instructors are great people. Enjoy the hunt!

WOW! thanks for sharing.

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