IA Born

You'd be surprised (or not) at some of the idiots we have in this town. Somebody stole the propane tank off our camper parked in front of our house 6 years ago. I'm glad you were able to track them down and the buyer was a good guy about it! And thanks for the heads up!

I can't tell where you're from on my phone, but if you'll ship (to Flagstaff), I'll take the Swaro case. I'm in Durango until late Sunday, but can send a check this week.

Confirmed. This won't affect your bonus points or lottery draw. You can have both tags and fill both tags (assuming you're that lucky)!

Good question. I have an email into the State Chapter and will get back to you soon!

Figured I'd give this another bump. Plenty of cards/tickets left up here for a chance at a Governor's Turkey Tag.

I read somewhere those rios are hybrids, they have some merriams in them. Interesting to see how the hunt went IA Born is well read on this subject and seems to believe they are hybrids which if the case is disappointing. I suppose the biologist-geek in me can't help but point out that they are all subspecies, not separate species. We only have one species of turkey in Arizona, with three subspecies. When it comes to that technical stuff, I freely admit that I can be a PIA, but I can't help it. Its also ironic because, in the taxonomy world, I'm a lumper and not a splitter. But TRKHNTR is correct in that my understanding of those "Rios" brought in from Utah is that they have hybridized with Merriam's up there. The geneticist in me would like to see the DNA results to confirm, but friends who were former UDWR biologists/conservation officers were telling me about the hybridization issue when they were brought into Arizona. There's a reason I'm holding out for my Rio from South Texas!

I have this vest and absolutely love it. Bump for a great deal on a great vest!

Sold. Thanks, James and great to meet you!

Kings Camo Desert Shadow clothes for sale. Hacket is Wind Defender fleece XL. Pants are cotton cargo 6-pocket 36R, and shirt is cotton XL. Hat is adjustable. Bought brand new in 2005, worn three seasons for 2-3 days/season. They have been stored scent free and were last worn in 2011 for two days. No tears or rips in anything. Pants and shirt a little faded, but jacket is excellent. $100 takes it all. Not interested in splitting up set at this time. Live in Flagstaff and won't be traveling through valley anytime soon. Willing to ship, but buyer pays shipping.

Spf...

I'll text you shortly. Home most of tonight then out of town tomorrow and Tuesday. In Wednesday th err n leave for turkey hunting Thursday morning. Live in University Heights. Brian

That's absolutely awesome!

This thread is really still going? I leave for a while and come back to 9 pages of this stuff? Slightly impressive. And only 519 more posts until I can be a "Premier Memeber"!! That includes this post right here, unless my math sucks, which is possible. And at just over 41.5 years old, when I hit that 1000-post mark, my street cred will skyrocket!

That might actually be beyond EPIC FAIL!

I put the Tru Glo Tru Bead Dual Color sight on my daughter's Mossberg 20 ga and it works great. I also have several friends back in Iowa that use the Dead Ringer Beard Buster and swear up and down by them. Had I known about them a year ago, I probably would have went that way for her. Fortunately, my Remington 11-87 with Tru Glo works great. I did bust the front fiber optic back in 2008 right after shooting my bird (set gun against tree) and it took forever to get ahold of someone at Tru Glo customer service. I finally emailed them and told them I'd tried to call a dozen times and got no answer. I told them I was tired of it and if I didn't hear back from them, I'd give their competition my money. I got new rods within a week...

Great pics! I love it when gopher snakes try to act all tough!

Maybe I've been given wrong information by the G&F. I have specifically asked G&F this question and was told you can buy a licese for a child at any age. Sounds weird, but that's what I've been told. The more I think about it, the more I believe that's right (you can buy a license for youth under 10). I'm pretty sure we talked about this when I took the HE Instructor's Training. They can have their own bag limits on small game if they have their own license instead of having to hunt off an adult's license and get half the bag limit. Just not sure about buying bonus points or applying for big game to get the rejection and subsequent point. Follow-Up: I just finally saw Sun Devil's post and that is correct.

My daughter shoots the Mossberg Bantam 20 gauge with a HS Strut Understaker ported turkey choke. I'm a big fan of the knock down power of the Heavy Shot, so I have her shooting the Heavy Shot Magnum Blend (5,6,7 shot). It patterns great to 40 yards. I always tell kids to aim at the waddles or just above because its a big easy point to fix on, but center neck is the norm. Good luck!

Only partially true. Kids can take Hunter Ed at the age of 9 so they can hunt when they are 10. We instructor's don't have discretion to tell a 9-year old they can't take the class and we have to turn in all paperwork immediately. They get their hunter ed card shortly after now (used to be in class), but it is not valid until they turn 10. I honestly don't know if you can buy them a license and put them in for the draw at age 5, but I know you can at age 9 as long as they turn 10 before the hunt. A year ago, I put my daughter in for the 12A turkey hunt because her birthday was a week too late for the opening of the youth hunt. She turned 10 on the opening day of the general hunt and was completely legal. I'm with Big Browns on the youth tags. We need to have more opportunities for youth hunters to get out there. A 22% draw rate for youth hunts (elk) gets discouraging and I know a few kids who've lost interest in hunting because they still hadn't gotten drawn after 4 years. Also like Big Browns, I've been buying bonus points for my wife with the idea of her getting drawn and transferring the tag.

To clarify, the Happy Jack camp also supports the 5A and 5B otc youth tags, not just the 6A youth lottery tags. Its a great camp and I'm sorry I have to miss it this year. They really need mentors down there, too!

Hey Guys- One of the things I've always wanted to do was take my family down to the Black to chase smallies. I've never been so I know absolutely nothing about access and any permits (tribal?) that may be necessary. Is there anyone willing to give me some info on this so I can try to plan a family weekend this summer? We'd be heading down from Flagstaff. Much appreciated.

This could be one of my favorite threads of all time!

My wife and I both had last Friday (Good Friday) off, so we dropped the kids off at school and took off shed hunting. About 45 minutes into the hike, I looked down to see a "branch antler" sticking up. After verifying that it was, indeed a juniper branch, I happened to look farther downhill and saw a definite fresh brown antler! After four long years of looking and only finding 1-3 year old antlers or broken pieces, I finally found my first fresh brown elk antler, complete with some blood on the base. Pup had to check it out, too. We searched for the match, but came up empty. We ended up hiking a little over seven miles for the day, dropping in and out of/crossing a couple of canyons and walking some very unforgiving, rocky mesas, but this was the only one we found on the hike. Back at the truck, with two tired dogs. As we were driving back home along the Forest Road, my wife yelled at me to stop because she saw a branch that looked like an antler, 40 yards off the road. I looked across her and without my binos, knew we had brown number two for the day. The ironic part is that, because of where it was, we drove past it on the way in and it was on my side! It was a small 4-point side from a raghorn, but its still a great find! This was an awesome Good Friday! Our total haul for the day.

That's both awesome and funny because it definitely wasn't there on Good Friday! Give me a shout if you ever need a partner up here!

Nice find, Christian!