Coach

It's a 1925 touring model.

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Pix added.

Wow - not sure how I missed this! Happy belated birthday Shelvin! Glad you had a great day in Greer!

Spent the weekend hunting turkey with the boys. This youth OTC hunt is one of, if not the best programs AZGFD does for kids. We didn't make it to the youth camp up by Reservation Lake but it was great to see the kids out there. Opening morning it was 16 degrees at camp, as low as 13 on our drive to our first setup. The first morning it was just Josh (my youngest) and I since Nick had a baseball game. We had gobblers all around us opening morning - so close we had to back out and get ahead of them. After a couple unsuccessful setups, Josh got it done around 7:30. He's now 3 for 3 on opening day toms. We drove around a bit and had to go to town to pick up a generator since mine died but took some pix along the way. Friday night, after Nick's game Carrie brought the older boys out to camp. Nick and I got up at 3:30 and set up on a spot Josh and I had several strutting birds the first morning but couldn't get in on. The birds came in, but just hens - one with a beard that Nick opted not to take. We kept moving and calling. We got close several times - had gobblers get right to us just out of range. Finally about 7:45 it came together and Nick put one down around 35 yards out. This morning we all slept in and had some deer run through camp.

Nice! Great pix - and obviously a great time for the family.

142. They have a B.C. of like .72 - crazy.

Those are awesome tents. Looking to pick one up as well. Great find.

Wish you were closer, I have a couple I'd give you. These are great tents and still do about anything you need of them. I slept in one last year in 13A in sub-zero temps and was comfortable the whole time. If you buy new, it's a little more money but I'd recommend the Kodiak canvas tent.

Please don't take this the wrong way. I don't think youth hunters are as inspired by accomplished names in the industry nearly as much as they are by watching their dads, uncles, aunts and grandparents. Little boys tend to grow up wanting to be like their dad, uncle, cousin or older brother. I don't have any daughters, but I've seen how they want the same - they look up mom and dad and extended family and think - this is who "we are". The kids get it when they are in camp with family and get a sense of shared values. No program by AZGFD or celebrity can do that. I applaud anyone out there volunteering their time to help get kids involved. But most of it has to start at home, in my humble opinion.

Prayers sent. Best wishes to your family.

Thanks ZJ, I'm going to take some pix this week and put them up here along with whatever details I can get about it.

Not so much a recipe, but I like to take one of those 5 pound packs of bacon ends (leftover smoked pork belly from making bacon) and grind it in with lean elk. About 2/3 elk and 1/3 bacon ends. Best burger you ever tasted.

Great looking buck. I hope he comes around in August and we get to see you with him on the ground. Welcome to the forum!

Bump.

Only put in for one deer tag this year - youth 23 for my youngest. BPs, leftovers and archery for the rest of us. So far we have an archery antelope hunt in NM (me), early archery bull unit 1 (my oldest), unit 1 cow (youngest), and 2 unit 24 NM (Ft. Bayard) late youth deer tags. Gonna be fun to fit it all in. Hoping for leftovers in 32 or 29.

I like this style - keeps some extra shells handy. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Butler-Creek-Alaskan-Magnum-Rifle-Sling/734605.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Drifle%2Bsling%26x%3D10%26y%3D6%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts&Ntt=rifle+sling

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Long time since I lived there, but I always love Flo's.

Absolutely, yes.

Actually, it makes perfect sense if G&F is trying to increase hunter opportunity. ERB hunts run about 90% success as opposed to LRB being 20-30%. Every tag taken from ERB can put 3-4 tags in the LRB hunt without affecting the annual take. Hunt quality for the late crowd definitely would suffer. This kind of reminds me of what has happened to coues hunting during the rut. Using 24A as an example, there used to be 350 permits in late December. Now there's 50 or less and the remaining 300 got doubled and then some in earlier October/November hunts. So now you've got 700+ tag hunts early on where hunters are all over each other and the animals are hard to find and only the lucky few get to hunt the rut. That model has pretty much ruined 24A for me. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Unit 1, 3a/c & 27 bull hunts.

Great mount. I loved reading the story of this buck and seeing him now on your wall, so well done is just awesome. Congrats again on a great buck and kudos to Weller's.

Bump. IMO, this is one of the best spotting scopes ever made.

Nice!!! He's got some serious spring! 6'4" at 14 - and still growing? And I thought my boys were tall - lol.

I think the first time I burned my hand by grabbing a door knob in my garage in Cave Creek - from the inside - was when I decided to live in the mountains and visit the valley in the winter.