OpticNerd

Hard to tell looks like its around 80-85. Good looking buck no matter what it scores. What unit did you kill him in if you don't mind me asking. PM me if you'd like or if you rather not say I understand. Reason I'm asking is that the area looks like the same area I killed my buck in this year. Just curious.

My mistake Jim I thought you had the 1st hunt. Looking forward to seeing how you do. Good luck!

That's the same thing I thought. Would you check out those wickead eye guards as well! Love that buck! Thanks for the pics!

Nice bucks! No eye guards on either buck there's something you don't see to often.

So how bout it Jim? You still a "leftover lover"?

Awesome elkhunter! I Always like seeing a hunter from this area being successful.

The 35s are Ok but there's a reason these units have left over tags. There's plenty of units that are way better like 22, 23, 32, 31, 29 and the 36s. I've been hunting the 35s for 6 years now and have yet to see a buck over 80 inches. I know they are out there but they are just too few and far between. The pic I posted is good example of the kind of bucks you'll find in the 35s on top of that there are a ton of drug smugglers in the 35s. I don't know why anyone would put in for the 35s unless it was a leftover. The only reason I do is because I live here.

East side of the mountain is where most of the burn occurred. Fire started in the Montezuma monument area and burnt all the way to the top ridge of car canyon majority if not all of this fire was on the east side of the Huachucas. If I remember right there where a few other fires around Parker lake but I don't think they were all that bad but don't know for sure on those ones though.

Sorry I just got a 2nd look and just noticed just how big those bases are. Incredible buck congrats!

DANG! Would you look at that buck! What a deer! Just awesome how it looks like the whole family was there to experience this with her. Title says it all. Thanks for sharing.

Don't know if this has been posted here yet but just in case it hasn't here it is Can you imagine walking up on something like this.

I don't know the guys who made this but they did an outstanding job.

DANG IT! That is unsettling. Thanks for the heads up. Where's all the inviro wackos when you need them?

Out of everything posted in this crazy thread I think this says it all.

The quality of the footage looks Awesome! I can't wait to some more video from your new set up. Thanks for sharing! BTW did you ever get any help over at the bird site?

I read on another site that the buck was recovered. Exciting video thanks!

O man that's AWESOME! Looks a lot like my old stomping grounds around E creek and the G.B. Thanks for sharing the pics!

Looks to be around the Montezuma pass/canyon area. Also looks to be close to some houses. Not good!

I didn't know where to post because I couldn't find a reptile section so hopefully this was the right place. I thought this was pretty cool and even though it's not a big ol buck or bull I thought some of you enjoy it. I found this monster while hunting coues with my bow in Aug. Luckily it allowed me to get some pretty good footage before getting too pissy with me. If you listen carefully at about the 48 second mark you can hear him hiss. This was the first time I've ever heard this and let me tell ya these things sound pretty mean. I've been running around the hills my whole life and have only came across 3 of these so needless to say I was pretty pumped to get video of one. On a side not I'm very curious to know how many Gila Monsters others have seen while out in the hills?

Wow looks bad as of now hopefully we'll get enough monsoons to green it up. Did you see any wildlife at all?

Wow this fire is really getting bad! For those of you that don't know anything about it you should look it up online. Do a Google for Monument fire. Over 40 houses lost and counting. I can see this monster burning over 100 homes when its all said and done.

Looks like they doing a very good job attacking this fire. Hopefully they can get it put out as quickly as possible.

The camera was a Canon XL2. Unfortunately it developed a image stabilization issue that Canon tried to fixed 3 different times but couldn't so I sold it. Very nice camera but very big and bulky.

By far the biggest I've ever seen let alone got on video!

Thanks for the info RR. We have a family friend that owns one of the cabins at Parker Lake and I was worried if it was in any kind danger of being burnt down. So far it looks like it should be OK hope it stays that way. Like elkhunter said we had a lot of smoke here in town yesterday even had ash coming down at my house.