DesertBull

They probably will be reluctant to give out that info until after the increase has been approved. Remember, they are politiions, first and foremost. 5% of the deer tags is a lot of tags. I am not sure how many, but I would think they gave out around 30,000 tags this year (5% = 1,500)

That is why I never chamber a round till I am ready to shoot. Mechanical devices fail. A quick shot at a deer, no matter how big, is not worth losing a friend, family member, or a shooting a innocent stranger. I could live with shooting myself but not someone else.

Wow, what a tough hunt this weekend. We glassed HARD for 2-1/2 days, in an area that holds a lot of whitetails and Mule Deer, and saw exactly 1 doe and a fawn. That's it. I saw the doe standing in some think brush in a creek bottom, and she stood there for over 20 minutes without moving anything but her ears! The temps were very warm, but not unbearable. The area still had a lot of fresh tracks and droppings and the water holes all had fresh tracks, but the deer were just not moving, or else I am blind. This is an area where I have seen as many as 30 deer in a single morning of glassing. The only think I can think of is that they were in the deep canyon bottoms, where it's impossible to glass, eating the acorns. There are a lot of acorns on the ground in the bottoms of the canyons, but there are also a lot of acorns on the oak brush on the slopes. We also saw a lion in the area 3 weeks ago. Oh well, that's hunting. We have the unit for the general tag next weekend. Maybe things will change by then.

Unless they changed the laws recently, it's still legal to bait for everything except bears.

If I had a Kaibab tag, I would not waste one minute of my deer hunt chasing a beefalo or elk.

Here's some more tips: A lot of digital cams will let you set a "bracket" exposure. This will take a picture using the setting the camera thinks is optimal and also take a picture with the exposure a step lighter and another pic one step darker. 3 pics, 3 different exposures, 1 push of the button. When you get home, you choose the one that looks best and delete the other two. Take some pics using your flash, even in daylight, to help fill in the shadows. Use the red-eye reduction settings. Don't center the deer in the picture. Frame the shot using the "rule of thirds". Take some pics so that the viewer can get a good look at the landscape in which you took your trophy. Using the "landscape" setting on your camera will ensure that the subject and the background are both in focus. Use the "portrait" settings on closeups to blur the background and focus all the attention on the subjects of the photo. Take a lot of pictures! You will probably only get 1 or 2 that are really awesome out of every 20 pics you take. Anyone got any more?

I would get a removeable brake. Use it while sighting in and practicing, where you would normally be wearing hearing protection, and recoil is felt more, then remove it for hunting.

Hey, we still had fun! Glad to see the young hunters had some success. I saw 4 mule deer on the side of the road on Sunday too, at about 10:00 am. Just south of Globe, in 24b.

We can send a rocket to Mars but we cannot come up with a button to push on this website to send 10,000 volts through these guys?

Here's mine

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Designated Driver!!

Looks like some sort of game feeder. Are you baiting? Nice bucks though.

HOLY CARP, I MEAN CRAP! That is freaking SPECIAL! Did anyone break the bad news to him? That he will have hunt his butt off the rest of his life to top that? Did he take a bath in the blood or is his shirt just tie dyed red?

I have never used it as a cover or lure while hunting, but I put some around my salt licks once in while. I have found that it doesn't spook them, but I am not sure they really come running to it either. I do think the imitation vanilla extract spooks them, because I put some of that on a new salt lick I started and they never came around it, even though I know there were a lot of deer using the trail. I moved the salt 100 yards down the trail and they started using within a week or so.

That bottom buck is taunting you.

LOL! Hint: use the leaves, not the Cobb!

There is plenty of Mullien (SP?) in the high country that is softer than any TP you can buy in the store. It's also very medicinal. --Medicinal Action and Uses---The Mullein has very markedly demulcent, emollient and astringent properties, which render it useful in pectoral complaints and bleeding of the lungs and bowels. The whole plant seems to possess slightly sedative and narcotic properties. It is considered of much value in phthisis and other wasting diseases, palliating the cough and staying expectoration, consumptives appearing to benefit greatly by its use, being given in the form of an infusion, 1 OZ. of dried, or the corresponding quantity of fresh leaves being boiled for 10 minutes in a pint of milk, and when strained, given warm, thrice daily, with or without sugar. The taste of the decoction is bland, mucilaginous and cordial, and forms a pleasant emollient and nutritious medicine for allaying a cough, or removing the pain and irritation of hemorrhoids. A plain infusion of 1 OZ. to a pint of boiling water can also be employed, taken in wineglassful doses frequently. The dried leaves are sometimes smoked in an ordinary tobacco pipe to relieve the irritation of the respiratory mucus membranes, and will completely control, it is said, the hacking cough of consumption. They can be employed with equal benefit when made into cigarettes, for asthma and spasmodic coughs in general. Fomentations and poultices of the leaves have been found serviceable in haemorrhoidal complaints. Mullein is said to be of much value in diarrhoea, from its combination of demulcent with astringent properties, by this combination strengthening the bowels at the same time. In diarrhcea the ordinary infusion is generally given, but when any bleeding of the bowels is present, the decoction prepared with milk is recommended.

I have a youth hunt with my son next Friday, then my hunt the following week in the same unit.

That 20C youth hunt is a tough hunt. My son had that youth tag two years in a row and we saw nuthin' but does both years. I have hunted 20c a lot. It's not what it used to be. I could never understand why they made the kids hunt after the general hunt with 500 tags.

Bill, Hillary, and Gore are flying to a Democratic fund raiser. As they pass over a large crowd of people, Hillary looks out the window and says, "You know, I could throw a $100 bill out of the window and make someone very happy." Well, trying not look stupid, Gore chimes in with "I could throw out ten, $10 bills, and make even more people happy." Bill hears this and his ego kicks in. "HA HA HA, well, ya'll, I could take these one hundred, $1 bills and throw them out the window and make 100 fine young ladies, eeerrr people very happy." Then the pilot come on the intercom and says "I could throw all 3 of you out the window and make millions happy!"

I have found that the SW's here in Phoenix and Mesa NEVER have sales on anything. So, if you have your eye on something, don't wait for it to go on sale cause it ain't going to happen.

Just wait till the Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's open. I'll be bankrupt within 6 months.

37B - pigs and big ol desert car....errr I mean Muleys (and a few Coues too!)

WOW! Those are great bucks! Is that in Texas or New Mexico?