kennyazman

has anyone gotten through on the phone recently? i kinda feel like im wasting my time hitting redial for the last 2 hours. also, has anyone been told they were drawn without having their card charged yet? im still holding on until i hear the words "you were not drawn"

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Well that makes me feel better. Still doubtful ill get drawn though.

I wasn't trying to sound like a crybaby or take a stab at azgfd. I was just trying to point out that with the online system sometimes things happen with banks that we cannot control. I really wasn't expecting to get drawn since I had both elk and antelope last year but my chances were ended a little early because of something the bank had to do when my wifes card had some suspicious activity. Just sayin.

i dont like this system at all. about two weeks before they started hitting credit cards i accidentaly lost my debit card and i had to call and cancel it. i wasnt supposed to get my new card in the mail for a few days so i updated my payment information with game and fish using my wifes debit card. as we all know they started charging credit cards last thursday. ive been watching my account hoping they take out some money ever since however 2 days ago my wife texts me while im at work and tells me she just got a call from bank of america and they tell her that her information has been comprimised and that they are cancelling her card and sending her a new one with a new expirtation date. so now what do i do? they are not letting anyone update their cards anymore and they are still charging cards as of today. for all i know they could have been the quistionable activity or i could have been drawn after the bank cancelled my wifes card and that card is no longer valid. im feeling kinda helpless right now. next year i think i will just hand deliver the envelopes the old fashion way. this sucks!!!

same here. Im still hoping to get hit. anyone know the process of how they are doing this? is it all automated?

what time did they charge your account? im just wondering how long i have to keep hitting refresh on my bank page before i can say they probably wont do anymore for the night.

wow! congrats eric. Im still checking my account every 5 minutes hoping to get hit. Good luck

march 30th at 11:34 am

Hey I know that guy!! Nice looking buck Eric! The page looks great.

i saw a real nice 4 pt this morning that had black legs just like that. Weird

Im getting ready to go out for one last scouting trip before the January hunt starts and I just wanted to wish good luck to all of you who have been waiting eagerly for Jan. 1st like I have been. Shoot straight guys! Now let the rutting begin!

Awesome buck! I love those big desert muleys. Way to get it done with a bow!! you only have to wait a few more days and you can do it again. Im getting pumped seeing bucks like this hit the dirt.

I went out scouting for the january hunt last night. i saw a real large group of about 20 does or so, no bucks in this group. I'm hoping to get this group patterned because there should be at least one good one joining them soon( hopefully). last year it was about the middle of january and it seemed like they were really going at it where i was hunting in 42. come on january!!!

i got a primos ground blind, a havalon knife, a badlands backpack, a vanguard tripod and a cabelas gift card. Santa did great this year!

I'm already itching for Jan 1st, but that just made it so much worst!! Real nice buck! come on January!

blue saw for me. wonder what that means. i dont know.

we got back late wednesday night from being up on the kaibab since friday the 18th. All together we had 3 tags in camp ( my dad, a friend, and that friends wife). The hunt was absolutely incredible!! Friday the 18th-Day 1: my dad and i were meeting the rest of the hunting party up at camp. they had been there since tuesday the 15th. we ended up leaving wickenburg a little later than we would have liked to at about 5:00 am and with the long drive up to the kaibab we were going to miss the opening morning hunt, but thats ok, we were prepared to stay until the big one was down or the hunt ended. We pull into camp at about 12:30 or so and the other hunters were just coming back in from the morning hunt and were so excited from all the good bucks and lots of deer they had seen. their advice to my dad was " you need to decide right now what you want, because there are going to be lots of good bucks come in front of you." and thats just what he did. we quickly set up camp and get into our camo and get ready for the evening hunt. we go out to an area that looks promising, and almost immediatly we are looking at deer through our binos nothing worth shooting though. we start to creep through some thick junipers on our way to our next glassing point and jump up some bedded deer. one of them is a huge 4X4 and i tell my dad to get ready to shoot. it was only like about a 100 yard shot but it was incredibly windy and i think that may have had something to do with why he had a clean miss. day 1 in the books. Saturday the 19th-Day 2: we drove about 12 miles or so from camp to get to where we were wanting to hunt this morning. we found ourselves glassing a big canyon as the sun was coming up and again immediatly we are looking at deer. there are deer down the canyon to our left and deer down the canyon to our right. i notice by the size of the bodies on the ones to the left that there are a couple of bucks in this group so we decide to creep in closer for a closer look. as we get to where we are within range of these deer we notice a real nice 4X4 buck was raking a cliffrose bush. my dad raised the gun and clicked off the safety waiting for the buck to present a broad side shot. as the buck was taking its time to present a shot it gave us a chance to talk about wether or not this was "the one" or not. My dad asked me "Kenny, what do you think?" i said " I dont know man, he is a good buck." then i realized if we have to ask what do you think then he is not "the one". when we see "the one" we will know. I told him not to shoot. and he lowered the gun shaking his head saying "man, i hope we dont regret that". i told my dad "hey, if you want to shoot a great one, your going to have to pass up on the good ones." this one was a real good one and very hard to let go but we did. So we got to the edge of the canyon and by this time its about 10:00 or so. i told my dad that i never really got a good look at those deer that were down the canyon to the right and who knows there might be a good buck with them, so we get back to the truck and my dad grabs a roll of toilet paper and tells me he will meet me back at our glassing point where we first spotted those deer. As im glassing it doesnt take long and im looking at what i know is "the one". this buck was also raking a tree and he looked incredible. he had real deep forks and some junk on both sides. it seems like an eternity before my dad comes back and when i see him coming over the hill I motion to him to get his butt over here! he could tell by how enthusiastic i was that i had spotted a good one. after we looked at him for a little bit we decide to make a move on him. we stalk to within about 200 yards of him, and now im having a hard time finding him amongst all the other deer. There are like twenty deer in front of us amongst the sage and junipers inluding 4 other bucks, one of them being pretty good. im looking at the one buck that was pretty good and im thinking to myself, he sure looked alot bigger from back there, did i misjudge how big he was? just when i started to really doubt whether there actually was a shooter in this group, he steps out from behing a juniper and i feel so much better. I say to my dad " there he is! he is the on all the way on the top, are you on him?" he says "yeah i see him" and then BOOM! he shoots and i can tell the deer is hit but it just stands there so i tell him "put another one in him!" BOOM! he hits him again, this time he comes running down into the bottom of the canyon and out of sight into the thick juniper canyon bottom. all the other deer ran up the other side of the canyon and started feeding again like nothing happened. we stand there for a little bit and just kinda watch all of the deer running everywhere. he asks me if i can see if amongst the other deer and i tell him no. i said to him" i think you hit him good, hes probably down in those trees down there" we gave him as long as we could before we start to make our way down to where we think he may be. we spread out and start to zig zag throught the trees and i see him laying dead. i yell to my dad " i found him man!! hes over here! you just shot yourself a big kaibab buck!" it was all high fives and hugs and the rest is history. we ended up getting the other two tags in camp filled as well. i will post pics of the other two bucks when i can, but for now here is a pic of me and my dad with his buck. this picture really doesnt do him justice to how big and massive he actually is. we never got him measured but we had more than one guide stop by our camp to take a look at him and tell us he would easily go mid 190s give or take a few. score is not what is important but this was definately the buck of a lifetime for my dad and im just glad i was able to be there to share in the moment with him. sorry for the long right up and finally here is that pic i promised earlier. i cant seem to get the pic to come up very big. any help with this please?

Thanks for all the kind words everyone and for taking time to read such a long story. It really was an amazing hunt, i was just happy to be there and be a part of it.

congrats on a real nice buck. and way to keep at it despite your condition. hope you recover soon.

here is a better pic of me and my dad with his buck. also one of just him and all three bucks next to each other. not a bad year.

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Good Grief! what a buck!!

i just picked up my antelope that i took in 19a on my archery antelope hunt. Brandon Echols from wickenburg did it for me and I think it turned out great!

my dads got that tag for the late hunt on the west side. I'll be going up with him. i can't wait. i may be more excited about it than he is.