GreyGhost85

maybe Hunt of a Lifetime? Also, the CHAMP hunts are a great resource for disabled hunters here in AZ. A good friend's dad drew a kaibab CHAMP hunt this year that is rifle and starts september 9th. Those hunts are much easier to draw than others

I carry zeiss 15's and a zeiss diascope hd 65mm. Extremely light, very packable spotter. The big 80mm scopes are nice but they are too big/heavy for me

It is such a kick in the nuts when you set a camere only to find it malfunctioned. I only buy them with the exterior picture count so i know they are taking pics before i leave them. It's the main thing i look for in cameras anymore

That is a real tought one to judge. Over 80" for sure though. Wouldn't be surprised if he was in the mid to upper 80's

I shoot 285 amax's put of my lapua. Devastating on game

900 ft lbs of torque in my 2016 dodge 2500.....hard to out pull that. just sayin

i've seen a couple coues in 7. they are sparse, but they are in there. had a buddy kill a real nice archery coues in either 7 or 11 about 10 years ago. think he scored 107"?

Bears destroy them because they are assh0les. I like to relate bears to unruly fat kids. They like to destroy things for no apparent reason.

I've always used pop up ground blinds with a lot of success. They keep you a lot more shaded, and really conceal your movement. I feel like they probably contain your scent a little bit as well. I brush them in a little bit but don't get too crazy with it. I always try to set them under a big tree to keep me in the shade all day

yup. lookin good.

Is this for real? ^ Yeah, not sure i agree with that one. i have done well over the years by hunting for a mature animal until the hunt winds down, then i go into freezer filling mode. i like big antlers and have taken my share of great animals, but i like venison too much to eat a tag. Kudos to the OP for posting some photos to look at along with asking for help. shows people that you have been trying to do some homework

i saw the biggest flock i have ever seen in a burn in unit 27, 2 years ago. probably around 20 of the suckers all in a tree. i was shocked. it was probably a fluke

I think the kaibab is your best bet for them. I haven't really seen any huntable numbers any where else for years

i have a buck that i know for a fact is 8 or 9 years old (i have 5 years of pics of him) and he is just barely starting to branch out. he's usually a 105" type deer. maybe he's starting to digress? saw a good muley this weekend (he'll probably finish 160-170" class) that had a LOT of growth. probably only a couple weeks left. just scratching my head on the coues this year. these are spots where i have run cameras 365 days a year for a long time so i have a lot of history with deer in the area

this is the kind of stuff i'm dealing with. a lot of bucks that look just like this. this pic was taken last week

sitting is a lot of fun when you get used to it. you see and hear a lot of things you would normally miss. i lizard running on some dry leaves will make your heart skip about 10 beats. last year i had a BIG flock of turkeys that were actually scratching my blind when i was in it. their toes were poking inside the blind. watched a doe whip a coyote last year too. neat stuff

take the kid on a deer hunt. anyone that disagrees is bogus. time outdoors with a tag in hand beats the heII out of sitting on the couch

it takes a lot of time, but you can pattern deer pretty well with trail cameras and kind of narrow it down the the times they hit certain spots the most. it seems to me that about 8:00-noon is the peak times on my salt licks. i also do sit all day though because i'm afraid of missing something and BIG bucks are really hard to pattern and might show up 3 days in a row at the same time, then not show up for a week. smaller bucks get pretty consistent. i sat 3 full days with a buddy in a blind last year and saw bucks every day. he missed one the first day, killed one the 2nd and i passed on one the 3rd day. patience and persistence are the keys to being successful in a blind or treestand. i prefer to get a good book and catch up on some reading because i am afraid i won't hear them coming in if i have earbuds in. staying awake in the blind is the hardest thing for me and it seems like i nap for about 5 minutes at a time throughout the day.

i think it's Ryan Fitzpatrick. He has a lot of free time to be out wandering around in the woods these days

you will have more opportunities glassing, but sitting in a blind you will have much higher quality opportunities. you might make 5 stalks a day and for a week and not kill a deer, but i have never sat a blind and had a deer hit the salt or water i was sitting that i couldn't kill.

i have the same pair and regularly range 1300 yards with them

NOt very often you get two really nice bucks going at it on camera good muley i've watched over the years. his biggest year he was probably 180" and he's dropped all the way down to a 140" type 3 point. this was his first year of decline been watching the one on the left for 4 years now. he's gone nocturnal. always been a 90-105" buck. these are actually the same two bucks from the top pic. the have been inseparable for years now. never see one without the other

Just fyi, these go for 11-1300 on here usually. You're priced really high is probably why the lack of interest

The most sure fire way to see sheep is driving through morenci

With modern machinery, a lot of factory rifles shoot as good or better than 5k customs. Love when my stock savage .338 lapua outshoots 5k+ customs. Here is a 200 yard group out of it. .48", that's 1/4 MOA!