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I also had some turkeys and a coyote, but they were probably luck.

I have no idea about the double main beam. I thought it was a very long antler point. Here is another angle.

I use the cheap Wildview Extreme II model cameras. They are like $50.

I'd like to meet that second bear in about three years! Has an awesome color display!

I think that bear is off limits. Check out its muzzle color and ear shape, she looks to be the same bear in the sow with cubs pictures.

nah the "Gosar" buck is a name that we gave this giant coues buck. No difference in species. we just named him "Gosar" and thus The Gosar Buck. Thanks.

I have never deer hunted and am thus uninformed. What is a "Gosar" coues? I know of coues deer, obviously, but am not familiar with the Gosar part in front of it? Is it a larger sub-species or something?

I would think with all the oaks there must be some bears getting ready for some acorns. Any bears off the cam yet? What unit are you in there?

Were either of them toms? Did anyone fill their lion tag?

What the heck? A 9 x7? Don't know if I can even count that high! Lend me a couple of fingers!

Bear 0068 looks like a keeper. Looks like its ear was split in a fight over a sow.

Looks like he is about to do the backstroke.

Years ago, as a teenager, I ran into some young ones like that...and in spite of everything (ethics, laws, etc.), I was going to snatch one and raise it as a pet. HOWEVER, when I reached down to pick it up, it raised the long bristles on its back and popped its baby teeth at me just like an adult would do. I was afraid it was going to bite off half of my finger. So, I wisely kept all my digits and walked away. Crazy teenage ideas! (I also wanted to find and raise a baby bobcat back then too).

Here you go, http://www.fs.usda.g...prdb5380309.pdf . They really had me sweating about my "within 24 hours" promise. Now, about that spring... Yes! I hope it is not a little too late to still swing one more trip... Thanks for the update!

Be careful. Tonto Forest is still CLOSED. They are only opening up Houston Mesa and Horse Creek Campgrounds to day use only, along with the Tonto Creek area north of the 260 up to the fish hatchery and the nearby Horton Creek hiking trails. The rest of Tonto Forest north of the 260 remains closed due to the Fire Danger Ordinance. The Bear Attack Ordinance is still keeping Sharps, Christopher Creek, and Ponderosa Campgrounds south of the 260 closed. Correct me if I am wrong, as I would love to jump into some of the "restricted areas" north of the 260 to check my trail cameras, or hunt a spring near Four Peaks with my spring archery bear tag.

I haven't been over there. but the lack of rain in central Arizona have made for poor fruit set and development on most of the prickly pears I've encountered. Hope they received more rain.

That is a very sweet color phase bear! Legs still a bit lengthy and ears a bit long, but would still make a nice looking rug!

That is a nice fat bear!

Nice, pretty bear!

Whatever happened to your "King Kong" bear you had on a trail camera last year? Or the year before? Can't recall how long it has been, but his belly nearly dragged the ground.

Me too. No pics?

When does the taxidermist fit into the timeline?

Awesome hunt and write up Lance. Too bad that darn mineshaft was there!

You have to love the ethics of Game and Fish ...kill first and ask questions later. They obviously treed the bears with hounds. Couldn't they just have knocked them out with a little anesthesia and kept the bears in their infamous culvert traps until the DNA analysis was complete? And VERY inefficient and untimely ---sending the samples out to Wyoming. What a joke! As if we, the State of Arizona can not perform that procedure? Any grad student in biochemistry at ASU could have amplified that DNA and analyzed it using electrophoresis in 24 hours. Such a standard and easy procedure.

They need to extend a personal invitation to all the unit 22 spring archery bear tag holders to come and hunt near the campgrounds.