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I also want to spend more time outdoors than watching it on tv. There are so many cool places that everyone on this site have given us a taste of, and I vow to go explore them more. I have lived in AZ for 5 years, and still haven't gotten to the Grand Canyon! Lame!!! I hope everyone and their family has a great new year. Dave

I think you pass the shot and slowly back out. Maybe with time the buck would give you another opourtinity. This very situation is the problem with putting in for southern units. I hunted 36A last year, and believe that this is what I would have done. Live to hunt another day. Oh, you can bet that I would have gotten a good gps coordinate for the BP.

In the old days, I have woke up in the morning feeling like that while walking out to the stand.

How about setting it up in the yard, and let a buck bomb off all over it.

I thought the show was well done. There have been a couple of episodes so far. I was checked the first time I went out hunting in AZ. Thought I was way out in the boonies, popped up out of the desert onto a two track, and along comes the warden. He told me about some javelinas he had just seen, and I went and wacked one. They are good people doing a great job for OUR wildlife.

That looks awesome!

I just got a flyer from Cabela's, and they have a Sako A7 .243 on sale for $599. Just wondering if anyone has an A7 and how you like it compared to other rifle brands. I am also looking at either a Weatherby Vanguard (regular or carbine) or buying used. Any thoughts would help me.

My hunt last year was in a southern unit in AZ. I just stayed in an organized campground (state or national forrest), and I got up earlier to drive to my hunting area and had no problems. As posted earlier, during the day you are in camo and mostly sitting, UDA would probably just walk past anyway.

Playing games is a good way to stay quiet and still. I have a video poker game that stays in my hunting vest just for sitting. I think a blind is just more comfortable, and is the best way to go in the rain.

Thats a pretty good idea. I hunted 35A last year and stayed in the established campgrounds, but saw that lots of camps were in close proxcimity along the back roads. There should seem to be more safety in numbers. You have to get off the beaten path in that unit anyway.

I hunted their last fall, no problems. Just stayed on my toes. Saw 12 different deer, no shooters. Got to get off the beaten path.

There are hundreds of thousands of guys getting ready for "eastern whitetail" hunts. If you didn't draw, like me, your watching on tv. They use their ad budget to meet the masses. I wish I could afford to go back for an eastern hunt. At least I would be in the woods.

It looks good, and like it should work. Kinda expensive though.

Great post. Too bad things like this need to be said, most of it should just be common sense, but that is uncommon these days. I hope every hunter is happy with their trophy, what ever that is to that hunter.

my 30.06 really woke up when I changed from core-lok to horniday ammo. I was like you, all over the paper. With the premium ammo, I was able to be dead on at 200 even shooting freehand.

Stands that are attached to trees, and steps that are nailed to trees are fair game for the forest service. I would not consider trail cams as damaging to a tree.

That thing is crazy big. Love to have him on my wall.

Good wishes for a speedy recovery.

Thats a good lookin bear. And you had a crew to enjoy it with, and help pack him out. Nice

looks like someone is trying to win the most unusual picture on the trail cam contest!

No hunting trip would be the same without it.

The bad part of no CCW is that you can't legally carry in another state that would allow you to if you had a CCW.

This topic sounds kinda familiar. There are lots of things that use to be here, now they are not, and they should have federal help to be relocated back to where they use to be, even if the new inhabitants do not want them.

Has anyone seen "Tom Horne"? great movie

Great story. Brings back fond memories of having to blow up something with every firecracker I have even owned.