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    Gutless for sure. I have done both. It just depends on how far I am from camp, time of day etc but now that I'm in my 70's I find it easier to pack out 15# of meat than  a gutted Javi. Back in the early 90's I shot a Mule Deer in New River just below Table Mesa, maybe 50' from the top shooting from the flats below. I was hunting solo and packed out three quarters, loins, neck meat and the head in one trip about a mile back to camp and that was tough. I was in my early 40's and in top shape.

    A few years later on a late hunt in 29 I shot a 3x3 WT maybe a mile from camp but I was 1500' above it. I decided then that I wasn't taking any bones and boned the whole thing out and decided I had enough meat and there wasn't anything in the cavity I wanted. My first gutless method long before anyone coined it. I also did a Bear and a Caribou  the same way  way back then.

    The Doc hasn't given me the long face yet but I'm not fooling myself and hope I have another ten or so years left of big game hunting.

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    56 minutes ago, 40-year-AZ-hunter said:

    $6 per shot???😫

    You need more than one? Any commercially loaded ammo is $$-$$$. @ $6 a round compared to the cost of gas to go scouting, gas, food etc to go hunting it seems like a bargin,,,, but if you can find other less expensive shells than gobble them up. "If" that is what the OP is going to do with them.

    TSS is nothing new and has been around for a long time. Read up on it, tight patterns, retained weight which equals to extended range over lead ammo.  Practice with anything but then go pattern with one or two shells. "if you are lucky,,,, a hunter "may" get to squeeze the trigger, be successful and have a couple of rounds left for the fall hunt.

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    2 hours ago, JohnO said:

    Late Season Archery Bull in 23.  New unit for me, so looking for guys who have had the same tag just to hear their experiences with the same hunt (mid to late November).  Not looking for secret honey holes - just want to know if you enjoyed that hunt.   Pictures welcome.

    Hunt the southern part of the unit.

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    Congrats that's a nice one. Doves and Javelina are my two favorite things to hunt. I hunted east of Tonto Basin until noon. Hiked in about 1/2 a mile off a two track and spent all morning glassing from one hill. Glassed up  three Ravens, a  Red-Shouldered Hawk and a Kestrel.

    I heard some shots way off in the distance a few times but it was a slow, cool, cloudy morning.  I did see quite a few people in camo driving  endlessly around on the two tracks in SXS's and one guy in Blaze Orange driving what looked to be a smaller Red SUV, at least he was in style and comfort. It might have been an EV as it was very quiet.

     

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