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Up here around Camp Verde theres a HUGE crop of acorns on just about every freakin scrub oak and gamble oak in the woods. In 6A the prickly pear fruit is decent but in 21 there seems to be literally hundreds of fruit per cactus. I'm guess another tough year for bear hunting. See you in 27 is my guess Bret.

Jack Squatt!!!!!! A couple rolled rocks is all I saw. You?

Ya I've got the pics, who do you think you're talking to? You're the one that met the dude, not me, so I can't help you with the name there brother.

Freakin SWEET!!!!!! Missed you at the BHH in Willms today Andy. It was good to see a few cw.com members there too. Josh

What'er you doing in 6A? That's my unit! Just messin around. I think they'll be out tomorrow(Tues). They're always out the week of the Bow Hunter Happening in Williams cause everybody is talking about it.

Son of a....... It happened again. Email me at josh@rimrock-outfitters.com and see what happens. The guy you want is Chris Gravatt, his phone number is 928-830-3878. I've got all the pictures that you'll need.

Tony, email me again. Your email went to my quarantined file and when i tried to get it out it disappeared.

Same here BASS, I was getting all saved up for a good suit for this fall's hunts. Looks like I'll use it on something else now.

Shoulda used a Mac

Come on Mike tell us how big you really thought he was before you posted them here. Just goofing with you man. I think it's so exciting that you've got pictures of such a cool elk and nice and clear ones at that! Thanks for sharing dude. Josh

Looks like I'll have to start hunting a different unit. I got hammered 5 years ago and now I'm getting finished off this year. If it jumps the Verde some of the best remaining Coues country in 22 is gonna fry as well. This is the 2nd time the Forest Svc has had an opportunity to put it out before it got out of control and they let it slide again. Oh well I guess, it needed to burn but I just hate to see nothing but scrub oak as far as the eye can see be the only thing left on the slopes. I'm gonna start hunting the, soon to be extinct muleys, on the north rim. Anyone know a good muley site I can go to? Josh

I didn't either. My fingers are crossed for a 21 or 22 tag!

WOW, that looks like a big cat!!!!!! 130 pounder? Nice shootin! Josh

SHEESH!

Hey guys thanks for the kudos. Pretty much anyone that hunts their dogs A LOT catches lions. I know several local guys that say they hunt lions but have trashy dogs and cant catch jack. Do your homework or trust some good word of mouth and you should do OK. Just remember, even though you'll be hunting them with dogs, hunting is hunting and there are no guarantees. Good luck. Josh

Heeer puss puss puss. Is that the one you're talking about Mike? I like the sounds they make as they're hanging out on a branch with the dogs barking under them.

Az4life, That guy I talked to was under the impression it was for this month but he could be wrong. It would seem logical that since the regs just came out with the quota listed in there that it would make sense that it would be for next year. Younghunter, Like KGaines said, you need to be one lucky SOB to see lions in the field w/o dogs. I have spent hundreds of hours behind the binos over the past 10 years and have been pretty lucky glassing them up. I've probably seen well over 12 of them. Of course I've never glassed one up while actually trying to though. I love your motivation, I'd suggest like 25-06 says and use a call. later, Josh

I think that even if they had made a quota of 500 lions in 6A south they still wouldn't have killed 5 of them. That's some tough country around there. If there was 10 different lion hunters in there it'd still be tough to muck some of them out. Of course as soon as you do though there will be more to replace them. Like you said though Keith, I hope they get them from a place where they're used to lions. We'll see........

POST EM POST EM POST EM POST EM POST EM!!!!!!!!!

I'm shooting a new AR-34 and man do I love it. I don't have much to compare it too since I've been an instinctive finger shooter for 15+ years and have always shot an Oneida but this thing kicks a serious amount of tail I think! I just started going to the summer 3-D shoots again. For those of you who haven't been to a 3-D shoot I'd highly recommend it, what awesome practice! Josh

Oh man that is awesome!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations!! I just had my first nearly 6 weeks ago and he is the light of my life. I can't wait for him to grow a little so I can pass on some of what my Dad tought me. Thanks for letting us know! Josh

I ran into the Game Warden for 19A in the store the other day and I asked him about the sheep transplant that's gonna happen. He told me that the Sheep Society had all this money saved up and they needed to something with it so they're buying some sheep from some other state and bringing them in this month (June), that's the plan anyway, and their putting them in West Clear Creek. Quite interesting. My $.02 says the lions are gonna hammer them but this should get very interesting, I can't wait to see what happens. Josh

HOLY MOLY!! That would be strange, bighorn sheep in my back yard. The only logical "sheep looking" country would have to be towel peaks and Hackberry Mtn. How odd!! The lions will HAMMER those sheep in there if they ever decide to do it. Maybe the lions will find the sheep delicious and leave our Coues alone. This ought to be very interesting to watch. Josh

Aw heck! I was just doing what I would expect anyone to do for me if I invited them to one of my good areas. You guys are too kind, I appreciate the kind words but am a tad embarrassed. I'll try to get the "as they lay" photos to Amanda this wknd when I get back. See ya, Josh

NICE! But I hate unit 8, thats a totally worthless unit and with the huge elk die off this winter it'd be cruel to actually harvest any more elk than need be. Leave the poor things alone! Word on the street in Williams is that all the big elk in 8 went north into 10 and 7 I heard.