RodinAZ

Nice bull! I'm heading up tomorrow to start my trophy cow hunt after my boys Bday party.

After moving here in 07', I was "fortunate" to meet my neighbor across the fence. After several conversations he invited me to hunt WTs in 36A the next season with him and his hunting group. Everything went great up to the hunt, once in camp I soon decided this may have not been the best decision I had ever made. After going over the camp do's and dont's he "The Mayor" pulls out a map of where I can and cannot hunt just in case his hot spot doesn't pan out, he didn't want anyone disturbing his Plan, B,C,D or E. After spending 3 unsuccessful days observing terrain devoid of wildlife I decided to venture away from my allotted public land real estate only to find a decent little buck that I was able to harvest. Needless to say you needed an ax to cut the tension in camp that night. And to top it off one of my tenderloins mysteriously disappeared while hanging in camp, I was told I must have cut it out while gutting the animal.

Yes, barrel cut in half and works great

Checked cameras last weekend, activity is getting stronger in the area we have cameras set up in. The rains have moved animals out of lower country and up higher to the flatter lands, I had 1600 pics in a two week period, yikes, glad these cameras aren't using film! This guy looks to be pushing 24"+, wouldn't mind putting a tag on him come bow season in a couple weeks. These two showed up twice, it will be interesting to see how they develop in the coming weeks. There are several cows and calves that frequent this spot daily, looking forward to opening day!

1st year bow hunting in AZ for anything, finally got some deer activity on the cams last weekend. Should be a fun filled fall, can't wait.

My two boys started shooting a cheapo Barnett compound, although my leftie had trouble shooting it and has demanded he get a proper bow for his condition. The youth Diamond looks like a nice bow (I shoot an Outback), is there a retailer in Phoenix area that has these available to test drive?

Great pix, makes me want a bear cub for a pet

I shot two of these in Oklahoma a few years ago, lots of fun to hunt.

Sounds like fun, I'll get the diesel topped off and toy hauler packed.

Well, maybe not Tinkerbell but pretty neat non the less. 1st bear on camera, this guy tried to chew on my camera as I had a picture pointing into the tree just prior to this shot. A couple smallish bulls. Note the apple on the ground, where is the apple now? Lastly, a picture of one of my girls I hope to meet up with on my September hunt. This one thinks she is invincible apparently, I can't stand it when they act like this.

kidso, No cattle in this area that I have seen. I placed it so it catches run off, otherwise I stack water containers on a dolly which is not bad as it is all down hill.

34B Early December CWT here

Just back from up North, here is my newbie trail cam results. My buddy was excited about the nice bull, however I was hoping for lots of cows. I changed up my setup and hopefully will get better results when I check again in a couple weeks. He had better luck on both of his, several nice bulls and plenty of cows for me, also seen a great looking buck Antelope in the pines!

I have dealt with Mike at DTECH on numerous occasions and does pretty good work and is very reliable. Another good one is White Oak Armory, (John Hollingsworth if memory serves) he has supplied barrels for me for personal builds and I have never been disappointed.

Vowell, Can is a SAS Ti30 with cordura heat shield

I like an 18"-20" medium weight barreled rifle which offers good balance and follow through. Pictured is my 6.8 with 2.5-10X scope which offers good versatility for a range of critters.

Looks like it works just fine. Its time to replace my Canon P&S, I'll have to check out the Nikon. P.S Did the buzz worm's modeling career end soon after the photo shoot?

Good pix, I hope you get that pesky bear.

Great pics! I'm heading up this weekend to put cameras out, hope I find a hot spot like yours

Free floating will most likely improve accuracy along with a properly bedded action. However an improperly bedded action will have the opposite effect. I had a rifle re-stocked and bedded by a "professional" rifle builder, it truly shot like crap, that is until I took it out of the brand new fiberglass stock and replaced it with the original Remington wood chassis and bedded it myself.

I agree, I bought a youth compound bow last year, my 6 y.o was able to pull it back but not the 5 y.o. A recurve would be a better choice at the age of your little ones. I believe I bought the Barret compound bow kit, it came with a few arrows, however the arrows are about 5" too long and mostly do not fly very well.

+1 to Phoenix Custom Rifles. I just dropped off a another rifle today to have barrel threaded. Brad and Keith are GTG, they know their stuff and are straight up front with you on all costs.

What 308 and Wano said is spot on. I have had a couple 260 AIs and now have a 260 Rem and a 6.5X47L, the 260 is slightly superior ballistically but otherwise equal. I would be confident out to 600-700 yds. with either using a 130 gr. VLD on CWT. Recoil IMO is right between a 308 and 243, otherwise pretty light recoil.

Just received a new Erbelestock (spelling?) its the M5 Team Elk pack @ 3100 ci which is expandable. It also comes with built in rifle scabbard and bow carrier. Although I have not used it yet, I like the features and abundance of pockets to store gear along with built in aluminum frame will make this great for packing in and out.

My hunting buddy and I drew early Elk tags and he has decided to NOT put in for the draw for WT tags due to work constraints. This leaves me in a pickle as I could care less about work and would rather chase white tails. Therefore I am again this year without a hunt camp, same circumstance last year (hence, I need a dedicated Coues partner(s) I can count on) as I would rather hunt WT than anything else. I'm not looking for a guide or any hand holding as I consider myself very capable as a hunter, I just would rather hunt/camp with like minded hunters. So, if anyone would consider adding a dedicated Coues hunter to their camp I would be willing to have a conversation to see if I would be a good fit. PM me with your contact info or I'll send you mine. I live in Chandler and have hunted the 36 units with good success, although I would prefer one of the northern units (22-24) or open to suggestions. Thanks, Rod