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For the area I'm hunting the forcast for wind doesn't look too good. 23 mph on Friday and 17 mph on Saturday. Hope this changes a bit between now and Friday. Wind eats my eyes up like no other. 1 hour in the wind and my eyes are torn up.

To quote the great Joe Dirt..... "DANG!" Love to see some other angles on that buck if you have them. What a beautiful buck!

Way to go Parker! Heck of a buck! Awesome job on the video guys keep it up.

Nice looking buck. Congrats on your second coues deer! Looks like we both like to hunt in the same general area. Sucks about the miss on the big one trust me I know how you feel. I got the 2nd hunt in there starting on the 9th hopefully there'll be a few big boys left in there for me to chase around.

Interesting idea but as other mentioned I don't think it would work too well. I can actually see the possibility of a rule like this complicating things even more. I agree with the others and think the system we have now is the best system possible.

I watched the video and can't believe the stink that is being made over this. The whole PC crap has gotten way out of hand in this country. In my mind this just encourages me to vote for Mitt even more. I'm pretty sure if you had a sneaky hidden camera that fallowed Obama around catching his every word you'd be getting some good ones from him as well.

Incredible footage! That has to be one of the most awesome looking bulls I've seen in a long time. I sure wish I was up in elk country right now.

Good stuff Craig! "Oh s**t!!! I missed." That was pretty dang funny right there. Keep up the good work and good luck this season!

Found one! Thanks guys!

Looking for a V10 Ford Excusion 4x4 if you happen to have one or know of one for sale please let me know. Thanks!

OK. Thanks for your time Terry.

Look at tha mass! Sweet buck! Thanks!

Awesome thanks Terry!

Thanks for the Craiglist link. I've been looking on Craigslist for a couple weeks now but haven't found excactly what I'm looking for yet. Hoping someone here is looking to sell their Excursion that hasn't listed it yet in any classifieds or if someone has seen one on a lot somewhere. I've pretty much got anything available online(Craigs/Ebay) covered. The diesel is out of my price range and a bit overkill for my needs since I won't be towing anything or driving it much. I hear a lot of good things about the 7.3 though and would be nice to have but the V10 just suits me best. Family is getting too big and we can't all fit in the Jeep anymore so I need something bigger. Tried out a couple 4 door trucks but they were just a bit too crowded for us. I've done quite a bit of research and I'm dead set on the V10 Excursion.

Looking for a V10 Ford Excursion if you happen to have one or know of one for sale please let me know. Thanks!

Great pic! What state was this picture taken in?

Yes you are correct. I was talking about hunting in general not referring to baiting. I could be wrong but hunters 20-30 years ago seemed to get along much better then they do now days. Having the internet might have something to do with that but that's a completely different topic. Back to baiting as coues & sheep pointed out earlier baiting tends to be getting more and more popular over the years and this could be causing baits to be less effective. I'd still like to know if any of you have also noticed a decline in the effectiveness of baiting over the past few years as coues & sheep has?

Good points made ready2hunt.

Some very interesting stuff here especially the part about the significant increase of attractants being used now days and how it effects the baiting advantage. Makes since to me the more attractants being used the less effective they will be. Seems like the popularity of baiting is growing year after year if this keeps up imagine what it will be like in 5 to 10 years. By this time baiting might not work at all due to the over use. Have any of you other guys noticed a decline in the effectiveness of baiting over the past few years?

+1 on a lot of what Arizona said. It was brought up in an earlier post something to the effect that we don't need anymore G&F laws and regulations that we had enough as it is. Well for many of us the same concept could be applied to hunting. We don't need any more new techno gear, equipment and extreme tactics in hunting. What's wrong with leaving hunting the way it is or even better yet the hunting was 20 or 30 years ago? The more new advanced technology and methods that are used the more new laws and regulations the G&F have to come up with to insure proper game management. The argument of letting people hunt the way they want to hunt just doesn't work. Imagine if your playing golf in a golf tournament and one of the players decides instead of hitting the ball with his club he going to use a golf ball launching sling shot instead. When you and other players confront this guy to tell him this isn't the way we play golf what would happen if he says "this is the way I want to play golf. I don't tell you guys how to play so you can't tell me how to play". Wouldn't work would it otherwise there would be nothing but chaos. The same principle applies with hunting we need rules and regulations to keep everything in balance and in harmony as best as possible. The idea that we hunters all need to stick together and fight this or else keeps getting brought up and I still have to disagree. It would be different if it was something majority of us hunters agreed on but I'm going out on a limb and saying that close to majority of AZ hunters would like to see baiting go. It might not seem that way here on CW but a lot of the hunters I know that are for the baiting ban don't voice their opinion on the web. Would all you "we hunters need to stick together" guys support me if I was getting a petition going to legalize road hunting deer and night with the use of big high powered spot lights because this is the way I want to hunt deer? Probably not. Like I said earlier I do believe hunters need to stick together as best as possible but to imply if we don't pull together and oppose this ban then it will only lead to more things outlawed is a bit of a stretch.

Ouch! I can relate it's a horrible feeling. Hope it turns up for him.

Seems like a lot of people here feel that we hunters need to stick together whether one agrees with the bait ban or not because if we don't pull together and stop the G&F from banning baits then this will be the stepping stone to other bans and laws made to restrict us hunters until we have no advantages left. Wow talk about your scare tactics! In my +25 years of hunting I've never had I one bad experience with the G&F. I've even been caught breaking one of the game laws and I still have not had any bad experiences with the G&F. Sure there are bound to be a few dill holes working for the G&F but the same can be said for us hunters. I agree that hunters need to stick together as best we can but this doesn't mean that we have to automatically agree with curtain methods of taking game. I respectfully disagree with the majority of the people here and I'm all for the ban of baiting.

Some good sujestions already made. If your going to be free handing your binos then you'll probably don't want anything higher then 8x unless your steady like a rock. Anything higher then 8x it can be very hard to hold still enough to get a shake free view. If this is the case then you might want to take a look at the Leupold Yosemite binoculars. I believe they only come in 8x and 6x and at $100 new they'd be hard to beat for the money. The 6x tend to get better rieview and are a great binos for free handing!

I'm lovin it already except for the price http://www.eagleoptics.com/spotting-scopes/swarovski?page=2&sort=best-selling&specials=all Can't wait to try out the 95mm!

I'm with Red on this one. They did mention that they thought the Swaros had the best color and contrast and that the porro design of the Zeiss and Docters were more to their liking for longer periods of glassing but other then that there wasn't too much detail comparing the binos. I'd really like to see how the Zeiss did as far as edge sharpness goes. I don't recall anything being said about edge sharpness with any of the binos. On axis resolution is great but I love a nice flat FOV sharp to the edge. Good comparo non the less thanks for the link.