elkhunter

Haha!

I had a friend on a float tube at one of the bass lakes north of phx, a rattler was swimming in the lake and was coming towards him, thinking that he was "land' and he said he swatted at the thing with his fly rod and use his flippers to get it to go away, finally the snake turned away They're coming out, I've had some real close encounters lately and I'm deaf so it gets quite scary when I think I'm coming up to one soon

prolly another 2 weeks

All I know is that it stinks to high heck when you use a drill bit on any bone-structure from an animal, but i am sure it can be done with proper equipment

My very first big game, both my dad and I got javelina (it was not his first big game) My first coues deer- I was clueless on how to hunt coues deer, the year before that hunt, me and my dad hunted 4 days and saw only 1 coues doe and we shared binoculars, then I got a dec tag, hunted 11 days straight and finally got a shot off at one of the bucks in the area, alot was learned on this hunt, 83inch This hunt because prior to the hunt I believed that 100' bucks never existed, coues deer could only be as big as 83inch, finally coughed up the cash and bought fine optics and it showed me a whole new world, it was one of those hunt where that feeling hit me hard and knocked the breath out of me, when I first got this buck I was estatic because i thought he would score 85 to make my biggest buck to date, the tape said different, at 102'.... My most recent coues buck, mainly because I finally had a coues tag that wasn't a december tag but instead an October tag and many people said that I would "finally" kill a small buck, but hard work and patience paid off and brought home my biggest buck to date a 109er Most importantly my father was on every single hunt I've been on, so I would post all big game hunts with him but there is just not enough space on here

it was probably down low, near that waste production area with no trees, no grass...I've seen monster bucks and bulls there

I agree, not too happy with the canidates for the upcoming election....the future ain't bright, the next 4 years is gonna be a bummer

I second for 27, never been to the burros tho, but I don't see how the burrows could be equal or better than 27, in 27 you could either get a whopper of a buck or nothing, I have never seen a spike or forkhorn in 27 but bucks in 80range or larger, their sheds are allover too up high and down low.

there's a tourny coming up at Roosevelt next wkn for carp, I saw a few guys with bowfishin boats out there a few weeks back, I got to see some carp in the shallows but not very many

All are So. Az monsoon storms

Those are great pictures, thanks

It was good meeting you folks, ain't never been to a banquet or a big event like that before, more people showed up there than NAU football game so it was quite a scene for me.

Pretty steep once you get closer to childs but it's a maintained road, some places get pretty slick when it's raining hard but I doubt it'll rain over that period of time. It'll be quite warm too

I'm down for the best story part, it would make people write up better stories and include more pictures, maybe ya oughta set up a poll and the top 3 categorys or so shall be on the next year's contest? Maybe next year the contest will be big enough like those major hunting magazines and give away some swaros, lieca and zeiss???

Congrats to everybody, Doug and Amanda- thanks for organizing this event, musta taken up a whole lotta time.

Don't forget to mention it was a rifle hunt but you used your bow, again congrats, it's about 3 time the size of your pig last year ain't it?

That's great, congrats on the pig and many more to come

you can see the picture of the buck here http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID6/16173.html

I remember that buck, it's the cat/mouse buck right? Thats a true 4pt buck, great mount. There's one "somewhat" eyeguard on the right antler, it just points forward

DAM!

Hey congrats on another nice buck

Some 2 folks on here have a GREAT STORY to tell, it's gonna drop your jaws folks

Stacy- thanks for posting the picture of me with my swarbinskis Here's my decent picture, notice Azarchery (my sister) at the bottom of the picture glassing

Nasal bots are awesome, I put them under my mom's pillow and wait for the howling and shrilling. Nice pictures dude and thanks for textin me at middnight

My dad got it done today. He finished teaching at 1 and off we went, hiked in a mile and half to glassing spot and less than an hour later he glassed up a herd a little over half mile away. He got to 20 yards and let an arrow fly, hitting the sow while she fed and she went a few yards and expired. He was smooth stalking this herd and lettin an arrow fly but after the shot we were like little kids on christmas eve. Gots to love the feeling. Herd was 13 pigs large and went a couple hundred yards after the shot and began feeding again, they should be nearby when my sister comes down next weekend and hope she gets a chance at the same herd. Its a hard year for us chasin these pigs, our honey holes aren't producing at all so we're takin these pigs out of new herds. Enjoy