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If you are going to do a trailer, and want to take a ranger, I would really consider just doing a toyhauler. That keeps you to 1 trailer which would be easier to tow and maneuver.

Each state has different laws so research the states you plan to travel to. The first trailer has to be 5th wheel or gooseneck. Dont try and back up 2 trailers.

Location on the Minox?

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What unit?

I am looking for an LH, but 7mm Mag is to big for my son to start on. Should sell fast though.

If you end up in Springerville make sure to hit up Avery's BBQ. The owners are friends and make some darn fine BBQ.

Sorry for your loss. That's not the best way to get a tag. I dont know alot about 10, but others do. I know you probably need to pay the fees to have access to the Big Bo ranch though.

Nope, I am willing to bet I am more straight edge then most. I dont really believe in ghosts or weird crap like that, but i have had/seen a couple funky things happen on that Mesa.

When I was a kid of about 6-8 (I am 36 now) we were hunting big bug and came across this stump. It had some thing on it that appeared to be a sacrifice or offering to something. My dad made me promise to never my mother about it. I dont remember it well, but for him to say that makes me know it wasn't good. In high school we went up there to party/camp. We found this awesome spot with a giant 20' (huge cult type fire ring) fire ring. We started a normal size fire and put up the tent. It started rain like a beast, so we went in the tent and played cards. Small rivers were flowing around and under the tent so we decided to get out while we still could. The road was long and muddy to get out. We got out of the tent and that fire was still burning on like no rain was falling, and a doe deer was standing at 20 yards just staring at us and would not leave. It was a beast trying to get the fire out, and that deer not leaving was super weird. My dad had told me stories of a witches cult that had taken over one of the ranches in the area many years ago which is what made all this crap even weirder. Supposedly the residents of the area had to burn them out because they were killing animals as sacrifices and crap. Is it true, probably to some degree, but I dont know how true. It is all stories we were past down from my dad and his friends who hunted the area for years.

We never hunted that high unless we were throwing a hail Mary. I also saw a few spooky things up there so it wasn't high on my list of places to hunt. My hunting buddy refused to go back up there. He refers to it as Wicca Mountain. We were never super successful in 20a, but we were also not as good of hunters when I hunted there. I am not great now, but I have learned alot and gotten way better equipment than last time I hunted deer in 20a.

Who are making these new pro series rings for Vortex? I saw a set at Ross today. $59 and made in the USA. Laser engraved size and torque specs. I know Seekins was making the Precision rings, but these are different.

this scope is supposed to be a great value for the money. I researched them awhile back and almost pulled the trigger on one, and stumbled into something different.

Depends on where you want to hunt. It is a diverse unit. Full pine trees all the way to high desert. I have not hunted in 20a in about 5 or 6 years. I don't know what condition the areas are in after the fires. If you hunt the high desert and scrub oak areas, find some water sources not near a road, and get high and glass, move, glass more, move, glass, etc. If you are going to hunt the pines up on big bug, I would get out toward the edges and work off the fingers that lead off the plateau. There are big deer in the unit, but you are going to work hard for them. They don't get old by being dumb. The deeper you get away from the main roads & boundaries of the unit the better off you will be.

I was going to guess part of a mining cart.

That is better than decent. Good work. We worked pretty hard last year on the early rifle hunt in 12AE. I got a less decent buck than you did opening morning (still a decent 4x4), and my buddy ended up working a lot of miles and hills to end up taking a small forky off a main road.

You spelled my name wrong, but got the city right... Harley Smith, Glendale Az... Congrats Raymond, I am sure that rifle will be a great piece of equipment for your hunts.

My son is right handed, but left eye dominant. To top that off he can't wink his eyes independently, and the only eye he can keep open at all independently is his left eye which is why I am approaching teaching him left handed. He is learning to shoot left handed with some of my right hand equipment, but I want to train him with lefty stuff if that is what he will be shooting in life. To top that off his 4 year old brother seems to be headed down the same path. Right handed and left eye dominant with the winking problem. I blame my wife...she and her mother are both the same way as my kids. I don't own many smaller caliber rifles that are more youth friendly so investing in a 22LR and a hunting rifle in a low recoil 6.5 - 7mm flavor isn't a bad investment if I invest in stuff that will last them a lifetime.

If anyone has a decent place in the pines to camp near Prescott please PM me. I will be bringing my 23' toyhauler so it has to be accessible with that. I used to have a good spot behind Mayer, but I think it burned during the fire a couple years ago.

I used to camp near there a lot in the first set of pine trees by arrastra creek, but it appears by map that most of the pines I used to camp in burned in the Goodwin fire. I have not verified it personally though so I don't know if some of those areas were saved or not.

I less ticket available now...

Awesome truck. All the good stuff in the good body style.

Congratulations. Fun hunt, but still not an easy hunt.