GreyGhost85

my thoughts exactly. probably big supporter of Obamacare as well. too bad AZGFD doesn't accept EBT........

i wish i could have 4 people putting in for tags for me.....seems a bit unfair. i am all about giving children hunting opportunities, but this seems like taking advantage of the system to an extent. i wouldn't lose any sleep if you weren't able to afford to do that without the aid of credit cards. what would you do if all 4 of them drew tags? seems like a good chance that those tags would be wasted, which in turn takes that tag out of some deserving person's pocket.

yes it does. charge up front, or just don't call people if their cards get rejected. they alerady let you update your payment info. that should be enough

what a joke this is turning into. i feel bad for whoever draws an archery strip tag this year. congrats, here is your deer tag you have been waiting so long for! now, goodluck with your 3 weekends of scouting!

i've always used water softner salt. rock salt works pretty well also. i have noticed that cattle and horses sit on salt blocks a lot more than just a salt lick. salt blocks are more awkward to haul, and they stand out like a sore thumb to other hunters. it seems to me like the deer like the salt sites better after the salt has totally leached into the ground

salt licks do not become hot spots over night. it usually takes mine a year or so before they really become active. you will always get the occasional curious deer, but it takes quite some time for the deer to make the salt lick a part of their routine. the longer they are there, the better they get. you need to keep them fresh by packing in new salt a few times a year. also, stay out of the areas as much as possible, as increased foot traffic results in decreased game traffic.

sounds like you could have offset the price of the camera, with a new treestand. i had someone steal my sd card, then build a treestand out of wood over the salt. needless to say, the makeshift treestand came out of the tree in a lot of pieces

According to this sites Tony Mandile...trail cams are huntings next perversion you don't need to run your own trail cams when you pay for guided hunts. people don't want them banned, they just don't like that people other than their high priced outfitter, have enough ambition to get out there and set up their own cameras

it was a weasel. nothing more, nothing less. i've seen a dozen or so, and they can vary quite a bit in color with really any mixture of brown/yellow, turning white in the winter.

Man, that last bull has got to have close to 60" main beams.

I'm pretty confident that all trail cam users, novice and seasoned, get a fait amount of pictures of themselves during setup. your camera should be able to take thousands of photos on a single SD card. unless it takes you half a day of tinkering to get it just right, don't worry about the few pics it might take of you in the process. personally I almost like that mine take photos of me setting them up. let's me know that they are working and taking photos before I walk away

I wish AZGFD would make expandable broadheads illegal for elk. stick with a standard, tough broadhead design. slick tricks are great. why shoot something that you cannot be 100% sure will do it's job on a tag that only comes around a few times in your lifetime? you have enough things working against you in the elk woods. you need to eliminate every potential problem that you CAN control. there are a million things that can go wrong that you do not have control over.

i picked up two of the stealth cam skout 7mp cameras and ran them. i could not be happier. they took great pictures and didn't seem to miss any animals. night pictures were good as well. one camera had 1500 pics, the other about 900. both still had full battery life. i picked them up on sportsmans guide for about $70 each. i'm going to have to pick up a few more

i have 3 covert cameras and have nothing but problems with them. i had all three of them out for about 8 weeks when i checked them this weekend. they took around 3000 pics each in the first day of nothing and died. i have been running trail cameras for 10+ years, and i am VERY particular about poining them to the north, shading them if possible, removing everything that could cause false triggers, etc. i have a couple stealth cams, wildviews and wildgame innovations and have zero problems with them. i will never use or purchase another covert cam. they are over priced and unreliable. my cameras are a 5 hour drive away and all a mile-plus hike in. nothing like wasting all that time and money to retrieve a camera with nothing useful on it. i have not tried to the trick about taping up the sensor, but when i spend $150 on a camera, i feel like i shouldn't have to modify it to make it work properly

I'm guessing he is not a cactus buck (male deer without testicles that never sheds it's antlers, or velvet) being that his right antler is hard horned. maybe he damaged his right pedicle so that he cannot shed that antler, or posssibly sustained a testi injury just in the last year or so? never seen anything quite like him. hopefully you get more pics downthe road to see if he sheds that right side, and see what that mess on the left turns into.

How long do they hit cards for? seems like it's been as long as a few days in the past? Is there any correlation to how early you get hit, to what choice you drew? It seems to me like the earlier i get hit, the higher the choice i get drawn for, and the ones that get hit in days to follow are 3rd, 4th, 5th choice tags? i got hit for deer very early yesterday.

Can you remove the head that comes on it? yes, there is some threadlock on it, but it comes off. i made a trail camera mount out of the ball head that came on it. the adapter is 1/4x20 and the head i use is 3/8, so i used a helicoil for the adapter. works great, and fits in the spotting scope tube on my eberlestock

i use a vortex summit SS. it is lighter than most carbon fiber tripods and packs down to a TINY size. i use it with my 15's and have not had any complaints whatsoever. it is also plenty sturdy. i use a manfrotto 700rc2 head with mine. the whole setup costs around $200 and weighs under 3lbs. could not be happier. many of my hunting buddies have switched from much more expensive setups to these

i agree with desert bull. deer will hit a salt as soon as they find it, but takes a year, or even more for the animal to make that salt lick part of it's routine. the longer they have been established, the better they seem to get. In my opinion, animals do hit them more after the salt has totally dissolved into the ground, as opposed to standing salt. you also need to maintain them. salt licks that i have made all get probably around 200lbs of salt a year for the first couple years at least

3 wounded elk in one year? should have burned the tag after the first one.

i videod my friend shooting a corsican ram in the shoulder with a rage broadhead, 2 blade older style. he shoots a fast bow, and was pushing a 400grn arrow around 320fps. sheep was 46 yards away, and the broadhead bounced off. it broke the shoulder just from the shock, but zero penetration. the video was on youtube and he got so many threats from Rage reps that he pulled it off when it had around 100k views.. i personally have never shot an expandable. there are enough things that can go wrong in that moment of truth, why shoot something that you cannot be 100% positive that it will do it's job?

i have been utilizing trail cameras for 10+ years. they are a lot of work, and cost a lot of money when you figure the time taken to maintain your camera areas, gas, time off, wear and tear on vehicles, batteries, memory cards etc., and there is nothing that hurts more than having a camera sitting on a new or much anticipated spot for months, only to retrieve it and discover that your camera took thousands of pictures of nothing in the first couple of days, and sat there dead for months, especially when your camera site is FULL of fresh game sign, and missed everything. i think that everyone that had spent much time using trail cameras has had this happen at some point, regardless of how much time is taken in making sure that everything is just right. i spend an hour or more setting up each camera making sure that i have everything to my liking, pointed in the right direction, grass knocked down, scent free etc. and i still get the occasional setup of useless photos. i would recommend that we start a thread on how to avoid false pictures with trail cameras, and ask Amanda to pin it. all of the veteran camera users can add their $.02 and maybe we can put an end to the false pictures. i like the electrical tape idea, and will have to try it out myself

it is possible that you're spending too much time shooting at 20 yards before you move out to further distances. your arm/shoulder could be getting fatigued. i would not think that sight color would have anything to do with it. i have shot a bow for 20+ years and the number one factor that makes me shoot good/bad on any given day is mental. if my mind is not in the right place, neither are my arrows

With all due respect Wardsoutfitters, i believe Gotcoues said it right. The reason that you are fighting this uphill battle is due to personal financial reasons. the reason the hunt dates have changed is because the G&F feels that the deer in unit 29 are being over harvested. Of those numbers that were read off, how many of the successful hunters were your clients? I remember hearing a similar discussion stemming from the G&F banning the use of baits other than straight salt. i know that the deer in unit 29 have been corn baited in your hunting areas for so long, that when someone would park near the feed sites and rattle a bucket that deer would start showing up out of the woodwork. this disrupts the natural habits of deer and they become dependent on human intervention. if the corn baiting was not so prevelant prior to the ban, i believe that the hunt dates would never have changed in the first place. what has honestly put a damper on success rates? is it the shorter seasons, or the ban of bait?

are the time stamps correct on these photos? that first one shows nov 13, and that buck is definitely starting to rut. just look at the size of the neck on him! that just seems a month or so early...