Flatlander

Yup. Process one animal at a time start to finish. Clean the grinder, tables and knives in between plus a full scrub down midday. There is no reason to batch tons of burger. It sits in the room at the end of the table and the scraps go to the bin straight from the table. If you waited to run a huge batch you’d have to stop all of your other work and do nothing but grind. That’s not efficient. So from the time that carcass comes out of the freezer it’s the only animal on the table until it is cut, boned, ground and wrapped. There isn’t even another animal in the room.

I worked at Southwest. They have an in-house USDA inspector and you definitely get your own meat back. All that garbage about getting someone else's elk etc. is pretty baseless if you know how those large full-time processors work.

Good call. Anyone want to trade some 9mm for a roll of toilet paper?

Doesn’t make sense. Maybe we should go occupy the Pinetop AZGFD office and demand stiffer penalties.

I think what I like about this thread is how frustrated you are that you have to actually look for antelope. Good job on the pose Cliff but you need to snuggle into that critter a little tighter. Like a jr high dance, push up tight.

We are headed off the plateau. I’ll write ours up in a separate thread.

Still hunting. In flagstaff headed up for two more days of sitting. I don’t think anyone has killed since the Demotte shootout.

Seems like Kev is a glutton for punishment. Hopefully nobody needs to ship their fish 😁

Holy Zombie thread!

Plenty of skinwalkers to keep him company.

If I was buying it’d probably be the Mossberg 510 mini bantam. 18.5” barrel and comes with multiple shoulder pads to add length as they grow.

Good luck. You and lope are sort of like Kidso and bears. I expect to see some quality pictures...

My daughters birthday is 11/20, same day that my sons 12AW late buck hunt starts. Guess which kid I love more?

Dude, that's the heart of the elk rut?!

Do you even Bow? Bro . . .

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They will come in whenever they get thirsty, which can be any time during the rut when they are running off other bucks and chasing does. The problem with sitting a few hours is that very often those goats will be within sight but not within range. So getting in and out of the blind without spooking them can be challenging. But sitting water is by far the most successful strategy for archery goats.

Dang. I just bought this exact stock. I think it was over $300 new. Good deal for somebody for a really sharp stock.

Welcome to the site. Have you checked out the AZGFD where to hunt website? https://www.azgfd.com/hunting/units/flagstaff/12a/

Last of the tags showed up today. We had them spread out over the last week or so.

Or OE4A for a kid if he prefers: Eddie Corona 480 529 8340

My boy and I are headed back on Friday. Shoot me a PM or text.

Probably just keep the one I got. Can’t afford any more and can’t afford to get rid of this one even if I wanted to (which I don’t).

After being on the Bab for 5 days I suggest Fredonia.

Congrats again. Definitely a unique experience.