GreyGhost85

I’ll take it. Pm sent

Scary stuff. Even scarier is the “president” puts his name on any piece of paper that comes across his desk without even looking at it. Athletes spend more time looking at a baseball card they are about to sign than he does a bill.

Moisture must have been really spotty then. I saw terrible antler growth and mostly busted bulls this year in the eastern part of the state. Many friends that guide and spend a lot more time out than me saw the same thing. These little storms like this are nice but they don't do a whole lot for the animals and vegetation. The animals in a lot of parts of the state likely headed into winter in pretty poor shape so a nasty winter might not be the best for them strictly for survival. The complete lack of a monsoon in 2019 and 2020 hurts a lot. We need that rain so the animals can have enough browse to get fat for the winter as well as have enough to last through the winter. Mars has more vegetation than some spots i hunt that usually have a lot of feed.

The amount of moisture we need this winter to salvage antler growth is near impossible. It takes a LOT more than one storm, unless it happens to snow 10-12 feet. There is basically zero snow anywhere in AZ and hasn’t been any to speak of all year. Critters are going to be in BAD shape if it’s another dry spring and summer as well

If you have one day to hunt and have scouted, go opening day. If you have not scouted and have 2-3 days maybe go middle week

Premium Hunts or Hunt Hard. Both local outfitters that know the unit better than anyone

Do like some of the NR's do. They'll pool their money and send one guy on a guided OTC Arizona hunt one season and the next they all go back to the same spot with the knowledge that the guy learned the year prior. It has happened to a couple friends of mine that guide. Yuck

Texas or NM? If NM, draw or OTC? I need to hunt them again. Good luck fellas. I’m tuning in to this one

That's awesome. looks like a helluva mouflon as well. Quite the smorgasbord of game meat. Congrats to you sir

lol. Be a red indian? Man, that guy is a little racist! "red indians" have been hunting for thousands of years bruh.

Unbelievable. At least he has jail time and $350k fines on top of it. Should lose privileges for life but like we’ve said many times, these people don’t follow rules anyways so losing privileges isn’t that big of a deal to them.

Man, that's tough. It looks like his main beams might be deceivingly long. I'll guess 352" gross but you probably posted it because it is bigger than we'd think

Natchez has it. Nvm, they have fireball brass

What he said

The theory that i’ve been working on for years is that the amount of january archery hunters there are has caused the rut to start later/last longer. Fawns get dropped later and they are weaker than they should be when winter rolls around. The few fawns i see anymore are being dropped in mid-late august. That is indicative of a doe that was bred in late february/march. Fawns should be dropped in July .

ouch. that's quite a broadhead wound.

Exactly. Draw tags are (supposed) to be issued in quantities that that are manageable for the herd size. Who is managing the amount of archery tags that get issued? I would guess that in some units, the amount of archery hunters FAR surpasses the amount of rifle hunters. Offering unlimited archery OTC tags all the while not having mandatory harvest reporting is absolutely ludicrous. G&F has no idea of the impact of these hunts.

They only care about the deer herd North of the Grand Canyon. As long as the Strip and Kaibab keep producing giant bucks they don't care about the rest. The only photos and publicity that deer in AZ get are from there and people looking in from the outside only see/hear about those places and the size and number of deer they have. If the scores/age of every mule deer killed in AZ was averaged it would probably be like 2.5 years old and 100".

Nice buck. This one supposedly scores about the same? Not sure who killed it.

It’s running late because all the elk and antelope are dying of thirst.

For a head, hard to beat a manfrotto 700rc2.

Must be creedmoor

but....If a coues has a forked G2 it HAS to be a hybrid and if a muley does not have a forked G2 it HAS to be hybrid. come on man! it's common sense. This one is CLEARLY a hybrid. It's antlers are even 50/50

OTC NR deer hunters have gotten out of control the last few years. We can thank Hush, Randy Newberg, Gritty and the rest of them for that. I'd like to see our state start catering more towards residents. There are plenty of states that have OTC opportunities for residents that are not available to NR. NR archery deer tags need to become a draw. They cap our NR draw tags and they need to do it to OTC tags as well. I have no clue on percentage but it does FEEL like i see more NR license plates than AZ plates on OTC hunts anymore, especially December/January. In 2018/2019, there was a hardware store in a remote, small town in AZ that sold over 1000 OTC deer tags in december/january that were predominantly NR's. This info came from a game warden that was concerned about it. Same warden said that 80% of the people he checked in the January hunt were NR's.

I hit a buck in the 10 ring in august (little high/far back for a 12). got him through both lungs still. I saw the shot and figured he'd be dead in 50 yards when he bolted behind a little rise. That little sucker made it probably 300-350 yards. I found him but I could really see how someone with a little quit or less experience wouldn't have. Not much blood at all. I've killed a dozen or so animals with a bow and that is the only one that made it more than maybe a hundred yards. Amazing how much country they can cover in a few seconds. He took off like an absolute rocket when it hit him. I wouldn't be surprised if he was only on his feet for 20 seconds before he died.