GreyGhost85

700rc2. great price and very light weight

try taking the screws out with a drill first. a lot of them probably are either rusted through or have the heads all gummed up with resin. sawzall or cutting wheel would work fine, just be careful not to damage the studs too bad

i am by no means an expert, but that looks like a big shiras? not sure how to judge one, but is that a book moose by chance?

use the pressure treated plywood (it's the green colored stuff). it'll last longer than you have your boat and you won't have to deal with the messy and expensive fiberglass coating. Mesa Sales carries all kinds of boat carpet and glue. the best glue comes in gallon buckets and you roll it on. I've replaced the floors in a half dozen or so boats and they have all turned out great. it's not too big of a deal, pretty much anyone could tackle it

it looks like it might be a shiras moose. if there was any way to confirm it, the value would be much higher because it would be an exceptional bull

muley muley muley

it should be titled "how Phony Mandile hunts coues deer when he is guided by Duwane Adams"

it's $2.05 on higley/pecos in Gilbert. good to see!

how'd the elk hunt in malay gap go?

nice buck, probably 4.5 yars old, like lance mentioned. i think he hit the nail on the head with score, age, etc. 95" give or take a couple inches

pretty awesome. bighorn, or some type of domestic?

It's always the guys with 1 post looking for help. I'll save everyone the hassle....again.... 19A is tough. you will be very hard pressed to get info out of anyone. there are very few elk and the ones that are there are kept secretive. the first place to start is AZGFD.com. since you are opposed to getting out there and ffinding your own spots, here are a few to start with Elk Overview: The elk population in Unit 19A is relatively low. A small archery bull hunt has been offered here annually since 1993. With the expansion of the elk herd, a rifle bull hunt and rifle cow hunts were added in the past few years. Check stock tanks for elk use (tracks) prior to the season. Areas of elk concentrations change somewhat year-to-year, depending on localized summer rainfall filling stock tanks and greening up vegetation. Monsoon-type storms during the archery bull hunt briefly intensify elk rutting behavior, aiding hunters who stay afield. Most elk in Unit 19A are relatively low in elevation and temperatures are still warm during the archery hunt. Plan ahead to make sure your hunting location and your elk removal/field care procedures allow meat to be cooled quickly after harvest to prevent spoilage. Cold storage facilities are located in the surrounding towns of Camp Verde, Dewey, and Chino Valley. Areas: Most elk in Unit 19A are in the juniper and shrub oak habitat types – lower in elevation than hunters would expect. These areas have dense vegetation cover, so stalking may be difficult at times. The Prescott National Forest map identifies the following locations where most of the unit's elk are found: Onion Mountain (just north of the I-17/Hwy 169 junction), Boulder Canyon, upper Cherry Creek, Powell Springs, Goat Peak (note that some of this area burned during the summer of 2003), upper Ash Creek, and Burnt Canyon between Forest Service roads 413 and 132. Lower elk densities are found west of Woodchute Wilderness in Martin Canyon and CCC Canyon, northwest of Woodchute Wilderness in Munds Draw and Wildcat Draw, and near the Verde River off Forest Service Road 638 downstream to Perkinsville (at the junction of County Roads 70/72).

i run my cams at 7,000' elevation. not really any washes or flats. the places i see the big bucks during the rut is where i see big coues year round. the coues do not migrate like mulies. i know for a fact that some of the bucks in the area move 20 miles or more from their summer/fall areas to rut

i have noticed a huge spike in successful archery hunts. I have heard rumor that the days of OTC archery deer are going to come to an end because of this. I think that a lot of what's happening is more and more people are hunting now, and people are actually getting pretty good at it. Everyone has high end optics anymore and have figured out how to glass. The amount of big animals being killed across all hunts is astonishing, Times are changing, people are able to find animals better and shoot further than ever before. I witnessed a virtual elk slaughter in the 27 late bull hunt this year. Out of all the hunters i talked to, i would say the average shot was 600 yards. Times are changing, and the way that the hunts are structured is going to change a lot. I guarantee we will see a huge cutback in rifle tags, an increase in muzzleloader tags (and muzzleoaders being changed to open site and traditional like many states are now doing) and archery deer going to a draw statewide. congrats to all the hunters that have capitalized on taking trophy animals as of late, but things will have to change if we expect Arizona to keep producing so many trophy class animals. Sorry if i hi-jacked your thread with this post, but i think that there are a lot of things that have gone into play the last couple of years which amount to a huge number of mature animals being taken

where i run my cameras i have never seen a mature mule deer outside of the rut. only lots of does and yearlings. when the rut rolls around the area is flooded with mature bucks, but i have no clue where they are for the other 10-11 months of the year. i make my brain hurt from trying to figure them out. i see the same deer every single year in january but have no idea where they are in the august archery hunt or the rifle season

sure you don't mean a 435 grain arrow?

i'm going to go out in my KUIU camo, while using my SWAROVSKI binos and shooting my GUNWERKS precision rifle. I'll probably be wearing DANNER pronghorn boots, and my optics, that i have down btw, will be mounted on my OUTDOORSMAN tripod. i hope my BERGER bullet finds it's way home and my NIGHTFORCE scope is all dialed in

I'll save everyone else here the trouble Javelina (Collared Peccary) Javelina inhabit the entire unit, but herd densities differ geographically. Javelina are more abundant at elevations between 2500 ft. and 4500 ft. Javelina are small in comparison to many other big game animals and they blend in very well with their surroundings. Javelina spend a majority of their time resting and feeding and tend to utilize thick brush and caves or overhangs for bedding areas. When feeding, javelina prefer succulents such as prickly pear, barrel and hedgehog cactus. They will also take advantage of early winter and spring green-ups in the bottoms of drainages and open slopes. When searching for javelina, you should spend a majority of your time looking for them with binoculars from a good glassing point where you can see a large basin, canyon or drainage with food, water, and cover within close proximity to one another. Concentrate your glassing to sunny hillsides and slopes in the early morning and evenings. The proximity of 20B to a growing Phoenix metropolitan area makes it a very popular destination for a number of outdoor recreational activities. The further one can get from some of the more popular and used roads into the unit will increase hunt success and should provide for a higher quality hunting experience. As always, hunters are strongly encouraged to make pre-season scouting trips into the unit. During pre-season scouting trips, concentrate your efforts around water sources such as springs, potholes, stock tanks, and game catchments to check for recent javelina activity. You do not necessarily have to locate the herd itself, but if you locate the herds feeding, bedding, and watering areas you will increase your chance of harvesting a javelina during the season. Suggested areas to hunt include: Wickenburg Mts., Swallow Mt., Silver Mt., Buckhorn Mts., Black Canyon Creek, and Bumblebee Basin.

i have had a .17 fireball for years now. it is crazy accurate and everything i have shot is DRT, even a couple javelinas. what kind of bullets do you shoot? the only reason i don't shoot the fireball more is because it is so dang hard to reload for. i have a very hard time holding the bullet on the neck while seating them, being that all the bullets are flat based and not boattail they don't balance on the end of the brass very well. do you have a secret to making this easier?

motorola CP200. if you can get your hands on a set for a decent price. i gave up on buying the cheapies that break and get lost all the time.

man i love how bad and crooked taxi's get put on blast here. i feel terrible for the victims as i have been a victim myself. never had a head stolen, but have waited over 2 years for nearly every animal i've got mounted. keep stringin em up fellas. does anyone remember the post of the mountain lion mount and remount that looked so terrible? i believe it was done by McBride? if so, post up the link to that one

coues deer are browsers not grazers, which means they browse on the leaves, seed heads, etc. of things that grow above the ground. they do not graze on grass. this is why it would take a ton of snow to move them out of an area. coues deer are where they are. i have seen them at 2000' all the way up to 9000'. mule deer are the same. there is not set elevation that either of the two species lives. the tracks you saw i'm sure were just everyday movement of them, not any sort of "migration". if you followed them long enough, i'm sure that the tracks would eventually turn and head back up a ridge. and yes, you are definitely overthinking the situation. if you see coues tracks, that animal wil be within a mile or two of where the tracks are, in any direction. they are hard to hunt, "wandering" animals. very hard to pattern or predict, unlike their eastern cousin

i have never really noticed a so called coues "migration" they tend to stay in the same areas year round. it would take some SERIOUS weather to get them to move out of an area. mule deer seem to move a lot further in search of does in the rut. i run cameras 12 months a year, just to try to get a better handle on coues behavior. although i think coues do have a larger home range than what a lot people think ( i think it is closer to about 3-4square miles rather than 1), i get the same bucks on the same sets 12 months a year. some months they frequent the areas more, but they are always there

new model, or older model?

anyone been out to 27 the last week or so?