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Great pictures! I too look forward to seeing your pics this time of year. Thanks!

Wow very nice! One of the best shed related threads I've seen. The egg n shed pic is pretty dang cool. Thanks!

There's nothing better than hunting with family. Great stuff! That 4 point frame shed has got to be one of the biggest 4 point frames I've ever seen on an elk. Technically it looks like it would be a 5 point but just barely.

Great looking buck and pic. That early bow hunt can be a great time of year to tag a big buck. As long as you don't mind the fuzzy antlers, the heat and the numerous critters out there that can and will bite you especially them dang chiggers. One summer a couple of friends and I counted 16 rattlers in one day. That day was the day I finally broke down and bought some snake caps.

I use to be in favor of the squaring bonus points method but after giving it more thought I think AZ's current method is probably better overall. As mentioned in an earlier post the only way to truly improve odds is more tags and/or fewer applicants and I think we can all agree that we don't want more tags and as far as fewer applicants that's not happening any time soon either. It is what it is. One of the main reason I'm not in favor of the squaring method anymore is I like the fact that anyone has a chance to draw a good tag with our current system no matter how many points they have especially for the kids. My cousin had two of his kids draw trophy bull tags this year with very few points. If I remember correctly I think either kid had no more than 3 BP. I feel it's a good thing that the younger kids in AZ still have a chance to draw quality tags like this at such an early age while they're still kids with not as much responsibilities in life yet. Squaring the points will reduce the chance of the younger hunters starting out with very few bonus points from getting these quality tags.

I agree with Tines. I hear way more stories about guys eating tag soup because they were holding out for that one particular buck they happened to get a trail cam pick of. Very rarely do I hear stories of hunters getting a T.C. pic of a big buck and going out and killing it. Heck who knows there might be less deer/elk killed every year because of this. While I'm not a big fan of trail cams I can't really see them as being a reason for more game being killed.

WOW!! All I can say is WOW! This thread is borderline legendary. All we'd need to bump this thread up to legendary status would be a post from Naturegirl.

Still ahead of schedule. If the results aren't out by April 22nd then we'd have a reason to complain.

Guides not real hunters????? That's funny.

I don't see the point in starting a new thread until the results are officially out. Every year we get numerous draw results threads posted before the draw has even happened. I vote no more draw results thread made until the day comes when the draw results are actually out. No need for two non draw results threads going at the same time. trphyhntr just blew this thread up though! That's dang funny right there

DANG IT! I was hoping for a lightweight 6x-24x variable binocular with at least a constant 72 degree FOV. A guy can dream can't he

Went out Sunday morning and saw a lot of does by themselves. Maybe 5 or 6 groups totaling about 20 deer not a buck found anywhere near these ladies. Did see a 3x3 with his nose to the ground searching and 2 small bucks bugging some does.

Great write-up and pics. I like everything about that coues. Beautiful buck congrats!

Very nice! I loved the videos. The quality of your footage looks crazy good. From the looks of it I'd have to guess the footage was captured by phonescopeing. It always amazes me to see such awesome footage coming from a dang phone attached to a scope or binos. Excellent job all around congrats!

WOW!!!

Awesome stuff congrats you guys! Being the video nut that I am I absolutely love the footage you got of the bigger buck. I've probably watcher it 10 or so time already. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

Nice! Makes me want to dust off the bow and buy a tag.

Heck of a buck congrats! Love the old school Photoshop job you guys did on the pic. The cameraman must be covering up some power lines or some other telling feature. Who needs Photoshop just use your thumb .

Congrats! Nothing better than hunting big desert muleys in the rut except maybe hunting big desert coues in the rut. Thanks for posting.

I'd like one.

Some great info here guys. Out of all the tips and info posted if all you did was what Pine Donkey and Becker said over time you'd become a better glasser. Pretty sure this has been said already but I feel it should be said again and that is just because you don't see deer doesn't mean they are not there. I feel this is very important to remember when glassing and it helps keep you in a positive state of mind. For me staying mentally positive is almost as important as my optics and glassing technique. I try to remind myself the more I'm looking through the glass the greater my chances are that I'll find deer.

In the flyer it say the ranch and the G&F are working on extending the current existing access agreement(key words current existing) which in my mind means there will be no changes made to the current agreement other than the extension but then in the next sentence they contradict this by saying the ranch is trying to improve the quality of the hunting experience who hunt the ranch which in my mind says they trying to change the current agreement. Well which is it? Are they just working on just extending the current agreement or or they trying to change it up? I sure hope the ranch isn't working with an outfitter trying to get the outfitter exclusive hunting privileges to the ranch similar to Double D outfitters and the X-1 ranch.

When you say that you could use a spotting scope in some situations what exactly do you mean by this? Would you be using the spotter to glass with or just to get a closer look at things you already found in your binos?