OpticNerd

Nice! Nothing better than hunting with your kids.

This will definitely will raise money but I don't think I'll be buying one. On the other hand I would like to see some Super Tags being made available to help raise even more money. Sticking with the Super theme they could call it the Super Education Draw. Each unit will have one year long rifle deer tag available in this special draw. $10 nonrefundable Super Tag application fee per unit you apply for with a limit 5 choices. So if you only put in for 1 unit it's $10 if you do all 5 it's $50. Basically the same as the current drawing system which should make this an easy addition to the current draw system.

How'd the hunt go?

Not my video but so crazy I had to share. I've seen a few fights over the years but none quite like this. This is just brutal!

Dang looks like you were able to find some good bucks. Congrats!

It's amazing the quality phones are capable of producing now days. I still lean towards an actual small point and shoot over a phone when it comes to digiscoping but either will work great. The way you mount the camera to the scope is just as or even more important than the type of camera. Pretty much all modern cameras and phones produce excellent image quality but without a good scope mounting your pic/video quality will more than likely suffer. A good quality mounting system worked wonders for me when it came down to quality of the pics and video I was getting.

If so check out my new video. Just in time for all you archery hunters out there to feed the need until opening day in 2 weeks. Anyone else getting pump to see what goes down this archery season?

I got between 70-100 yards from a handful of bucks unfortunately my furthest shooting distance was 60 yards. If I remember correctly the buck you said left the country I was able to get 72 yards from and 45 yards from his doe. His doe is the one that busted me. Heck yeah good to hear! Glad you like them.

I use a 114mm Vixen telescope but I didn't do much videoscoping this time around. Thanks. Congrats on the tags and good luck Thank you. Thanks and good luck on your elk tag. Your not the only one dreaming of Jan.

Here's my all time favorite. I don't think I've ever seen a coues as burred up as this one. To bad his beams were chewed off.

Nice! Looks like some good genetics in some of those.

As a whole your probably right. I only looked at the unit I normally hunt and the numbers are down by a bit in that unit. The lowest I've seen in that unit in the last 8-10 years. Also think I remember unit 29 having some leftovers last year as well.

Really??? I was thinking the exact opposite. Numbers look to be at an all time low to me.

You're probably correct by saying this topic will never end but if by some chance hunters from both sides of the argument can make some sort of compromise we might actually see some common ground being made. The "I hunt the way I hunt and you hunt the way you hunt" idea is a flawed one and won't solve the issue. If anything this ideology only makes matters worse causing further divide between hunters. I know some of us don't like to refer to hunting as a sport but by definition present day hunting is in fact a sport. With that being said how many sports do you know of where you can tell your fellow players "I'll play the way I want to play and you play the way you want to play" and expect a positive outcome? I think we can all agree that applying this philosophy to any sport would cause nothing but problems for that sport. Knowing this, how can anyone expect anything but problems when applying this same philosophy to the sport of hunting?

Are you talking about the ethics section on page 10? B&C has also commented on long range hunting and they seem to be apposed to this trend. I wonder how long it will take the AZGF fair chase committee to state an opinion on this subject? I bet it's at the top of their to do list.

Definitely some good shooting Lance.

"Us hunters need to stick together." That phrase is being used a lot as of late. While I agree with this statement to a point the reality is that this idea will never truly come about in today's hunting world. It would be impossible to get all us hunters on the same page when it comes to how we hunt. I've been hunting since the early 80s and I would say that the divide between us hunters is at an all time high. The cause of this could be many things but there's no denying that the increase in technology has a direct correlation with the division of the hunting community. More hunting technology=an increase in hunter divide there's just no way around this fact. The question you have to ask yourself is what's more important hunter unity or more technology?

Could this have anything to do with the archery deer being over the counter? If archery kill rates keep going up we might lose the over the counter tags. Maybe the G&F is doing what they can to keep the over the counter archery tags. Just a thought.

Will do. Good luck this year! None. I like my freezers how I like my cast iron pans...Well seasoned

I too am somewhat OK with more raffle tags as long as these tags stay in the hands of the G&F and not the CAPAZ. Maybe I'm wrong but I would assume that the same law changes needed for the G&F to give out raffle tags are the exact same law changes needed for the G&F to give out auction tags. If this assumption is correct how long do you guys think it will be before these raffle tags are turn into auction tags? As of now I think the current law is one of the biggest hurdles stopping the CAPAZ from getting auction tags. To me it doesn't matter if this tag grab is being sold as raffle tags or auction tags because as soon as the law is changed it will be that much harder to stop these tag grabbers of the CAPAZ from getting the auction tags they so desperately want. But hey like I said earlier maybe I'm all wrong on this and I'm just being overly paranoid.

Hey Catfishkev just wanted to let you know I got it moved and setup. It's working great thanks again!

Never mind got my answer from another thread.

I tried watching the meeting but I kept losing my connection. Can someone please verify if the airbow rule/law got passed or not? From what I pieced together it almost sounded like all these new proposed rules were in a packaged deal. All pass or none pass.

I'll take it off your hands for $20.

Nefarious can you explain to me why you think auction tags would be a good solution? I'd like to hear opinions from both sides of this issue but as you can tell there's a shortage of pro-tag grab people on here sharing their thoughts on why/how issuing CAPAZ auction tags would be a viable option.