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My wife got offered a large promotional job with the DOD in Spokane Washington, we planned for me to stay in Sierra vista for one more year to pay mortgage off to where we have no more mortgage insurance. I am looking to rent our 2 rooms at $550 each. The house is brand new, grass yard with pavers and trees, kitchen had stainless steel appliances. There's a den that is not used and is free for renters. The price of $550 also includes all utilities, gas, electric, satellite tv, wi-fi, water and trash.

If you plan to do a lot of walking don't use wac ema, I have had bad experience with them while stalking pigs, the head got loose and blades fell out, slick tricks are excellent not for penetration but for blood loss due to 4 blades, Bottom line Casey, u got a sweet tag! Drop $200 on different broadheads and see what your bow likes best because shot placement is most important, if field tip flies best for you then use that (just kidding)

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Casey- it killed the elk. About 100 elk died in new mexico last year because of this. Just cuz an elk is paralyzed doesnt mean it's dead, certainly bear/yotes were feasting on live elk!

Might be algae problem, is there flowing water in the area or just tanks? It happened last year in New Mexico with low water level and high algae blooms which produced enough neurotoxin to paralyze wildlife

YES! It happend to me before in May, was doing the trash clean up down by Arivaca and after filling up 12 bags I broke away to look for sheds in a thick mass of mesquite near a pond, I did find 1 coues shed and a dead guy. Creepy but they are out there! I went and bought a lotto ticket that day and won 2.9 million dollars too!

Poop wished I could go to bring my 105 typical buck! Gotta go to my niece bday party in phx

No it's not always possible, hills here are farther than 300 yards apart

My wife asked if I was watching porn because of the music, I said yah I am watching horn porn

Well scouting pays off again! I brought the same coworker with me as last year since I felt like he was good luck. This year he decided to brin his 11 year old son along to see what huntin is like. Last year it took a few minutes I locate the pigs. This year it took less than 20 seconds haha! We were on the move ASAP! I set them up on a hill about 350 yards away from the herd while I moved in closer by myself. At 300 yards they were already looking at me. It was an extremely quiet morning without any wind! I had to work hard to get to 170 yards and got to 170 yards and set up my brand new 270 wsm rifle up. I waited about 8 minutes to get a clear shot. At the 8 minute mark the pigs were slowing down with feeding and began to listen and stare at certain directions and I got worried and went ahead and shot the smallest pig. The smallest one still ended up being a decent hog! Wondered how big the other ones were! Shot was perfect and the pig stood up on 2 legs for a few seconds which was crazy for me to see. After the shot some pigs ran down towards me about 20-30 yards and began feeding again. After they moved off everyone showed up. My pops said there were hunters about 150 yards from the pigs on the other side of the hill, clearly that's what was disturbing the herd. Anyways got huntin exposed to a new person again, he was unsure of how to feel but after a few minutes he got involved with gutting and asked to cut out and keep the pigs heart.

Sweet right up on the concrete vertically, awesome pic!

Anyone have a tag for this unit? Some nice lopes roaming around, better than the past few years.

Game and fish folks don't make much money, I make more as a teacher at a public school than my fellow wardens that I went to school with. Game and fish does not just manage game population but increase variety an that's why they work heavily with reintroduction and endangered species. There different branches in azgfd, I support game and fish in all they do, even if it is successful or not, cost of living keeps going up and that causes cost of tags to go up. Is what it is.

Excellent, glad everything went well!

Accubonds 55 grn for a 223 Thompson contender

How does it shoot beyond 50 yards?

Paul Beier was my professer at NAU, the guy knows lions better than anyone! Funny to see that if he was face to face with a lion he would take a pic, lion attacks are rare as rare can be! More ppl have won the lottery than been attacked by lions

My 2 year old son shoots a remmy 700 in 270 wsm I get jealous reading these posts

Congrats good story!

Wow awesome and congrats!

Going with a thompson contender in 223 topped with leupold vxIII handgun scope, should be fun!

Yes sure do my pops just took his off and replaced it with an outdoorsman

Awesome footage congrats on a good hunt!

Yes home areas overlap, sometimes 2 herds spend a day or two together resulting in 20 pigs or so! Some times they make new beds but most of the time they have 4 or 5 spots they bed down on a consistent basis. I noticed Phoenix area now has new shoots of green grass and with warm weather they could be feeding longer and at the bottoms and could wake up earlier in the mornings. I have chased herds that are like eastern whitetail, easy to pattern and I chased herds that were like coyotes, always movin and beddin in new spots.