DesertBull

If you going to "roll your own" you might as well get some cool cresting on your arrows too! Black carbon arrows with a florecent orange crest and white fletching makes an easy to find arrow and easy to follow in flight.

It happens every time, the year after El Nino. I was really hoping to have just an average rainfall winter to back up last years great fawn crop. I expect a lot of those young deer to die this summer unless we have a good early monsoon. There is very little for the deer to eat right now, how bad will it be when it is 105 every day?

HOLY FaaaREAKIN' CRAP! I need to go on a diet! Thanks for the kick in the nads Marshall!

Not only that, they want us to pay more to hunt shorter seasons. Where is the logic in that?

Sweet! I missed a bobcat today. 40 yard bow shot and he jumped the string. Arrow went right under his stubby little tail!

"Well said Tom, By the way I like your new site" Link?

If the G&F department are hearing complaints about not being drawn, it's most likely that the people that are complaining are the ones that only put in for the best hunts. Increasing the October hunts and decreasing the December hunts is not going to cut down on the complaints, it's going to increase them. 80% of the people that put a OCtober hunt as either first or second choice are already getting drawn.

HAHAHA!!!! That's what I was thinking but I was wasn't about to say it!

The G&F give too many deer permits as it is now. Mule Deer tags - 2005 Unit 7 - 700 unit 8 - 500 unit 9 - 650 unit 10 - 700 Unit 33 - 700

Try around Queen Valley and across the hiway from the Arboretium (sp?) Also, in the rolling hills to west of the hiway between Globe and Roosevelt Lake Dam. The fringe areas around outside of Gold Canyon. There are a lot of food / water sources for them on the golf coarse and all the pretty flowers that people plant in their yards, but they often retreat back to the desert when people start moving around the community in the morning. When Aunt Bee comes outside in the morning and finds the pigs in her garden and all of her tulips and lillies uprooted, she drives them off with blood curdling screams and embarrassing profanity. Look in areas that have a lot of barrel cactus. The fruit is ripe and the deer and pigs are gorging on that stuff. It seems like that is the only green food they have right now. Plus it has a lot of moisture in it. If you have found any fresh sign at all, go back to it instead of hopping around the unit. If the sign is fresh, just keep hunting that area hard. Good Luck

Attention all hippies: I have some magical crystals for sale, CHEAP. If you rub them just right, you'll draw the tag of your choice next year. If you misuse them, for evil purposes, you will wake up the following morning with a craving for bean sprouts and tofu.

Does anyone know why they do not open these units in August/Sept? Every other unit in the area is open but not these two.

The water thing is what I was thinking too, but every desert unit has the same advantage.

If someone would write it and post it here and once we we all agree on the wording, I will prepare an electronic petition. One hint, don't make it a 3,000 word essay. State our position clearly and be respectful.

Believe me, there are PLENTY of deer. Big'uns too.

They were closed before they started building out there. Plus, most of the unit is State Trust land. Even unit 19A, which every last square foot is being developed, is still open for archery deer and antelope hunting in August and September.

What ever happened to the AZ SFW that was forming? I know it was controvertial, but these are the types of things that they were supposed to take issue with. I am still kind of hesitant about it, being that the original SFW in Utah corrupted the tag structure there and put hundreds of their tags up for the highest bidder. The guys running the AZ version swore that they had no intentions of doing that here. If they had written into their by-laws that they were opposed to such things, like land owner tags and the "wealth" tags, as Utah hunters call them, I would join today. In the meantime, the best way to protest would be to try and get people to NOT apply for any of the new tags. That would probably be as successful as a gas boycott! LOL!

Welcome! Ice is like GOLD here, especially during the early (August, Sept, October) hunts. High country winter and spring hunts are more forgiving, but elk need to be taken care of quickly, no matter what the season.

Does your camera have manual focus? If so, that might be better than trying to let the camera focus automatically. Also, try using the self timer to take the photo instead of pushing the shutter release with your finger. That will cut down on a lot of the vibration. Try not using any zoom on the camera and just use the scope's magnification. Here are some more tips you. Good Luck. http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=2508

San Carlos Hunts

WOW! Those are great bucks. 22 bucks /4 days sounds like you were hunting at the Williams Deer Farm! Did you hunt on your own or with a guide? What unit, A,B,C or D?

NM game and fish is now accepting apps for the 2006 season. I just applied for Elk, deer and antelope.

LOL! Does it have a "honk if your horney" sticker too?

I have seen cattle and deer FEEDING side by side, but I think when you have a bunch of the range maggots hanging around the waterhole all day long, they do intimidate the deer. WHen they are on the slopes feeding, they are all spread out and can keep their distance, but at the waterhole it's very crowded and the cows outweigh them by 10x. It's not too late to find another water source. I like the G&F trick tanks because they almost alwaysfence them off from the cattle. The sell a book with the locations of hundreds of these tanks. It's $50 though, which seems like a ripoff, but I have received my moneys worth from it.

Nope, you can apply for the regular hunts now. NM Online Hunt Apllication