bojangles

glad to see that it's the deer that's big and wide, and not your wife. congrats!

i want to shoot a big deer, so you're not allowed to shoot a small one. brilliant!

Oh good grief. this makes me sick. I'm gonna shoot whatever i want as long as it's legal. You can't eat antlers, and the youngun's sure are tasty. I could care less how big the antlers are on somebody's deer. If they're happy with it, that's all that matters. If you're holding out for 120, good luck! If you're holding out for a spike, then good luck! You need to go back to SanFrancisco where you belong, and dig into a veggie burger with a side of sea kelp and wash it down with organic green tea. Hey, ducks don't have antlers, is it ok to shoot them? Hey, i think i'm gonna tune into duck dynasty, i wonder what Phil would have to say about this? Does a steak from a 120 inch buck taste better than a steak from a fork-horn?

congrats!!!!!

here's a story for ya. My buddy shot a bull a few years back, a good, old one. I went and looked with him, and we found nothing but blood for about a hundred hards and it dried up. A few months later another buddy had a rifle tag for the same unit and shot the same bull, and cut his hand on the broadhead when he was dressing him. The broadhead was in the vitals, but the blood had coagulated around it, and healed over. sometimes perfect isn't good enough. but personally, i think you can't have you broadheads too sharp. and i think it may have played a factor in this story. good luck, keep looking.

congrats! that's the tag i didn't get. lol...

cool.

i shoot an x3. love it.

that's funny cuz my grandpa wrote a song called "down on the blue" back in the '20s. He grew up in Springerville. But the song has been lost.

does it get any better? congrats!!

Hey, i got an idea, lets sell 1200 plus rifle tags for unit 22, introduce wolves, and tell hunters they can't bait because they are killing too many deer. yeah. that makes sense.

sweet!

hey, at this point in my hunting career, if it's brown, it's down!! or gray, in this case. maybe some day i'll trophy hunt, but right now i just like gettin' out there and killin' deer, and puttin' food on the table.

man i wish i could be there to put my two cents in. baiting makes it possible for me to hunt with the idea of being successful. I don't always use bait, but sometimes it's nice to have a cornpile in the woods so you can hunt after or before work. I don't have enough savings to be able to take off 2 or 3 weeks from work to chase deer. Sometimes it's easier to get the deer to come to you. Really, it's a financial decision for me. I just can't afford to miss work. It seems the complaint is that hunters are too successful. But i've never heard anyone say the whitetial numbers are down. I sure don't have any problems finding bucks. There seems to be plenty to go around, so why is being successful bad? We've lost the december hunt in 22 and 23, because of success, now baiting too? seriously, it sounds like they don't want us to be successful. i could go on...

wow!

congrats!!

sweetness!!!!

I could see Monday was probly the only day i'd have to get a good deer hunt in this year, so i knew i wouldn't be choosey. I made the decision to shoot the first legal buck i saw. Got in the stand early and sat all morning. Only saw one doe. Broke for lunch, met the wife and kids at el rancho in payson, then went home to shower and change, and back in the stand by 3. Lightning chased me back to the truck immediately, where i waited out the storm. Back in the stand maybe around 4:30 or 5, i saw a couple of small bucks about a 100 yards away. I didn't look like they were going to come in range. I prayed, "Lord, turn those bucks my way, and help me make the shot." Less then an hour later, those bucks were 25 yards. I ranged the first one, a spike at 25 yards. He saw me move and took off. The second buck was nervous as chicken in a fox farm, but he couldnt' find me. He took a step right into a shooting lane, following the first buck, and i released. I heard a loud crack and swish; the shot was on the money. He piled up 40 yards away.

that's a jaw-dropper, son!

ettiquette? who needs ettiquitte? I like to build brush blinds and put my pop up inside, and take it with me when i leave. treestands are trickier, but, honestly, get out of my treestand. get your own treestand. that said, i'd help a fellow hunter get an animal as best as i could. i'd probly let a guy sit my stand if he asked and was nice about it if i had already tagged out or had other spots i wanted to hunt.

also try factory made strings. some string makers don't build them to the exact tolerances the bow was made for, and it really slows them down. I get 290 out of a matthews mission x3 that is advertised at 310. 29" draw. Cant remember what my arrow weight is, but i think my bow would do 310 ibo with 350 grain arrow at 30 inches. i'm careful to only use mathews strings. i'm not a bow guru, but that's just some info someone passed on to me, and it seems to work.

Hey, that's the same tag i didn't get..... maybe next year.

i went for my first turkey this a.m. Walked in the door and my wife said the kids had been praying that i would get a turkey this morning.

I do. but i'm in payson. Now and then i go to the valley and clean. shoot me a pm with your number. we'll talk.

since when was the forrest service allowed to be the department of transportation? You know what, we are either gonna get organized and united and get some laws passed, or, our kids won't be allowed to hunt. Bottom line.