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Did you get a deer tag?

Not much of a story. I went to my northern az quail place and my shotgun jammed. After 20 or 30 minutes of fiddling with it, I decided to go home. Driving way to fast on a dirt road, something crossed in front of me. I stop and think pig, then I think, the biggest javelina in the world. Then I think, do javelina have tails? Then I think, must be a ranchers, but there are no ranches within 5 or 10 miles. Then I think, I am smoking a tritip this evening. F IT! and grab my truck pistol. 357 Several shots from the cylinder were solid and it fumbles back towards me and falls

Still smoking

That's what my wife thought. I googled feral hogs for the area and saw some old post on here that says they have seen them in the area.

A friend of mine runs trips there once a year or so for his ig page. If i remember correctly, he said 'silver medal' bulls are around 5k. DIY you would be lucky to get a 200" stag. What I thinking about doing was doing was chartering a helicopter and renting one of the cabins for a week and focusing on tahr and trout.

DIY or guided?

Yep

I put my step dad in for a champ hunt with no issues

Someone in the conversation has (2) 200 inch + bucks on early rifle tags.😆

I can only speak for myself. I tore a couple of muscles in my shoulder last June. My doctor offered me a xbow permit. I declined and went with a 40lb recurve.

The studies I just read increased the buck to do ratio in Colorado from 12-15 bucks per 100 does to 35 bucks per 100. I would prefer hunters just policed themselves, and if you are an experienced hunter not shoot the first yearling that's 35 yards off the road. With g&f using some of their billboards to promote it.

Keep the quotas and otc. Add antler restrictions. Way to many bucks don't have a chance to grow up.

It would remove 10-20 percent of the applicants and increase the draw odds.

I do have a new rule when it comes to answering dms on spots to hunt. If I have seen a thread with your handle then yes, I will send you a spot to start upto a hot spot. Too many times, I have sent someone a really good spot and never heard back from them on their success/failure.

Don't look at my dm's on here. 75% of them are people asking for starting points.

Asking for a friend, how much for my, umm I mean my friends, otc elk spots? I, I mean my friend, has been successful 3 of the last four years.

The people getting archery antelope tags, shouldn't. The last time I tagged along on a unit 1 hunt, my brother startled the buck he was after into eyesight of the highway. A guy in a painter suit came in, then a guy in an antelope costume, then a guy behind a decoy. The finale was a lifted duramax powersliding into range about 150 yards away.

Texting you now

You're preaching to the choir!

I am all in for making hunting retro. Traditional bows and muzzys and Fixed power scopes for general hunts. This would give the animals a chance grow to maturity.

Talking to a lot of crossbow, you would be surprised how many had knee injuries or back spasms. This loophole is getting abused and i am glad it's closing My stepdad has a champ permit, primarily so I can retrieve his game if he makes a bad shot. He hasn't hunted any of the otc stuff with it.

I only have one honey hole right now, but its in an otc area so I guess I can't help you.

The late archery hunt, that I love was 100% draw with 6 points just a few years ago. Now it's single digits.

Generally, when it's a dry winter it's a really wet late spring. This could be one of those times with perfectly timed rain.

Hopefully, for people to forget about it.