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  1. Has anyone had a pending charge and now it is not showing on your account? On Thursday I had a $701.50 pending charge on my CC for my brother- in-law and myself, and now there are no pending charges. I think G&F will be getting a call on Monday.

     

    DCM


  2. What a weekend!!! I started out Friday to try and recover some cams, sence the forest just opened up enough for me to hike in and see what was left. I salvaged one out of three so far. As I was hiking in to get my first cam I spotted a bear working down the ridge ahead of me. I sat down right wear I was and waited. The bear cam down the ridge and gave me a 30 yard shot. Unfortionately a tree branch had other ideas for my arrow than I did and my arrow deflected and hit the rocks behind the bear. This caused the bear to jump and start running strait at me, as I am trying to get another arrow nocked. At 10feet the bear turns and runs to my left into some trees and over the ridge. Next time I go out I am taking a side arm!! (And a clean pear of shorts) I recoverd one camera there and a melted camera. The good camera had about 60 pics on it and the batteries died a week before the fire. The melted camera had 675 pics, 50 of deer, elk and people and 625 of the fire coming down off the ridge straght at the camera, until it got so hot that the case melted and caused the batteries to fall out. After that I desided to drive thru the Blue and on my way in I see six rams so I stopped and took some pictures. When I get to the Blue I'm driving along and two small bucks walk across the road in front of me. I have a muley tag for later on so I let them pass.

     

    I then Tried to hike up on Escadia and find some more cameras. I took the wronge draw up from the bottum and ended up on a ridge over looking Alpine. The top of the ridge is toasted and I have about a 3 mile hike around the canyon to my camera. Did I say the ridge is toasted. As I hike around I am getting pretty disapointed that I will not have any thing left. As I neer my camera I see a patch of green trees that gives me some hope. As I get to my camera it is gone, except for the batteries, the security cable and a few mettle plates. The tree my camera was on is toast and a tree 5 feet away was not even touched. It is now raining and I decide not to go for the other camera at this time and hike off the mountain. That was enough for an old man.

     

    On Saturday I decide to head out and scout/hunt in my muley area. I get out before daylight and get to a good glassing spot and all I see are elk. About 9:00am I decide to try another area and get stopped by a rancher who claims he is the stuart of the land and demanded to know what I was doing out there. I get him to show me on a map where we are and there is nothing but blue within about 4 sections in any direction of us. After talking with him for awhile he points me in a good durection and asks me to not hunt his privet land over in a draw to the north of us and he shows me this on the map. I get over to were I was wanting to go and find some good deer sign and I set up my recovered camera on some water. I then found a new route into this area not crossing the ranchers lease. I then go and check some other cameras and had a few good picks but nothing worth posting.

     

    I get back home shortly after dark and get a text from my son who went down onto the blue were I saw the bucks on Friday. The text is of a small 3 X 3 my sons first CWT. Way to go!!

     

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    I had to work Sunday but what a weekend.

     

    DCM

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  3. Hey all

     

    I am looking to buy a set of tires and wheels that will fit a 1964 chevy 1/2 ton 4X4. This truck has the old style split rims on it and I can not find anyone that wants to work with them. It has a six lug pattern and I believe 5 1/2" center to center. Not locking for anything fancy at this time, maybe some white spoke wheels. PM me if you have anything you are wnating to get rid of at a decent price.

     

    Thanks DCM


  4. From what I have heard some of that area is supose to open up on August first for scouting and hunting. I am not possitive of the boundry for coon canyon hunt but if you can get on the back side of the 26 Bar ranch and catch them coming out of town would be nice.

     

    DCM


  5. Me and my brother-in-law drew unit 2 for deer this year. I had seen some big deer in there in the early 90's while hunting Antilope, but havn't spent much time out there sence then. I have been out scouting a few times and can not seem to find the deer anywhere. A lot has change sence I last hunted out there, with a lot more houses and the closure of some area's. Has anyone been out there in the last few years and can tell me where I may find some Deer at? And how to get there? I was thinking around the back side of Lyman Lake but cannot find a why in to this area.

     

    Any help would be appreciated

     

    Thanks

    DCM


  6. So how many people out there fill that they may have lost their trail camera's to wildfires in arizona? With the Wallow fire I have four camera's that I feel may have been lost or damaged. Two in unit 27 and two in unit one. I have been watching the Geomac web page and it has shown several days of current active heat in the areas where I have my camera's. I am excited to get back in the area and see if I can salvaage any of them and wondering what kind of pics I may have if they servived. But I expect that that may be several months before they let us back on the forest.

     

    DCM


  7. 20 years ago you could go out and use a cow call and the bulls would come running. The use of calls did not lead to the demise of the elk, the elk just addapted. Baiting does not insure success and the animals will addapt to the differant methods used.

     

    DCM


  8. I made it out Saturday to a secret honey hole and had birds all over the place talking their heads off. Lucky me, Thursday was my anniversary and my wife decided to cancel our trip to Lost Wages and I got to go out and play. I got a late start and the birds were off the roost when I get to my area. As I hiked into my spot there were elk on the left end of the meadow and three hens out in the middle. I did some clucks and they came into about 30 yards. Then some other hens off to the right called them off. After the meadow cleared I set up my decoys and got settled into my blind and started calling. With in minutes I had three toms talking to me. The tom in the middle started coming in. As I watched I could see a turkey coming down the road on the far side of the meadow, it was the middle tom and he came out on the far side and hung up. The tom to my right sounded to be getting closer and that disturbed the one on the far side, so he decided to come on in. When he got about half way across the meadow he saw the decoys and started to beline it in. The closer he got the more he puffed up. I shot him just before he attacked my jake decoy. As I was taking pictures I had some hens and a small tom come into the left end of the meadow where the elk were to start with. What a day!!

     

    dcm

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  9. I would post some pics but my computor crashed and I lost a lot of my photos. Arizona is a greaat state to hunt a horseback. I have hunted 27, 28, and 32 for coues from a horse. All of the places mentioned are high quality area's and you can get away from the crouds with a horse or mule. Other units I have hunted with horses are 5a, 5b, 6, 9, and of course the 12's and 13's. Most of my pack hunts are scheduled for 7 to 10 days and I don't plan on coming out until I run out of food or the hunt is over. We even did a pack hunt last year on a leftover coues tag and filled half our tags but it wasn't for lack of deer. Send me a PM if you want to, I am most familure with unit 1 and 27. My string is down at this time, to 6 animals and half of them are green so packing will be a challenge this year. If I can recover some photos I will post them.

     

    DCM


  10. My brother-in-law and I decided to pick up a couple of the left over tags for one of the november hunts after not drawing a Kiabab or December tag. I had never hunted the area before and my brother-in-law had not been in the area for over 20 years. My brother-in-law made it down from WI. a couple of days before the hunt and went into the area and got camp set up and did a little scouting. I was not able to leave until the night before the hunt and got into camp at around 10:00pm. Opening morning we went to an area and set up to glass and immediately saw deer. We had watched 3 does work there way along a ridge to an area we thought they were going to bed in and then noticed 3 bucks following them along the same trail. We decided to relocate to an area to intercept the bucks if they continued to follow the does. When we got set up we watched the bucks go behind a tree on the ridge and was ready for them when they came out the other side as the does did, but they never showed up. The three bucks decided to cross the ridge insted of following the does any longer and that was the last we saw them. That evening we spotted another buck but was unable to close the distance to him before dark. First day 18 deer with 4 bucks.

     

    The second day was a little slower as we only saw about 8 does. But on the third day we were working up a trail and spotted a doe and fawn across the draw. We classed the area for a long time and could find no other deer in the area. My brother-in-law decided to work up the ridge and then come back down the draw to try and flush something out. As he was working up the ridge I spotted a buck coming down the other side. As I was getting set up to shot the buck dropped into a small saddle out of site from me so I was waiting for him to come back into view when I here BOOM, BOOM Buck Down. My brother-in-law who was up on the ridge could still see him and dropped him.

     

    As this was left-over tags neither one of us were holding out for a monster and he got a nice little buck. Unfortionately we never saw another buck the hole trip. We did still see lots of does and fawns. I will try to get another leftover tag in this unit again if I don't draw. 50% success in a unit that only has about 30%

     

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    DCM


  11. After my son got his deer first thing Friday morning and I was going to work, I finally got out in the field in the afternoon. I went out to my ground blind and got all set up when around 5:30 I see some deer coming my way. Three bucks and 2 of them are shooters. There was a forked horn tall and wide and a nice 3X3 that I have pictures of on my trail camera. The 3X3 is about 85 - 90 shooter. The third buck I had not seen before a big tall 4X4 I am quessing over 100. The 4X4 comes threw the oaks and drops down into a draw. When he is 30 yards away and about to come out of the draw I adjusted my possition to get a better allignment with my windows and my foot hits some oak leaves in the blind. The bucks head comes up giving me a good look at his antlers and then he turns around and walks back out down the draw and threw the oaks never giving me a shoot. Lesson 1: Make sure the floor of your blind is clear of anything that will make noise. Little to say the 3X3 and forky left with the big one.

     

    The next day I had a turkey walk in front of me at 20 yards and I take a shot, My Rage rage opens when it goes threw the sceen and I miss. Lesson 2: Don't shot an mechanical broad head threw a sceen.

     

    I then had some elk come by the stand and I spent a long day sitting on a trypod stool. Lesson 3: make sure you have a comfortable seat if you are going to sit all day on it.

     

    I didn't get my deer this last weekend but had a great time. I did get some pictures of the three by with my camera that I will try to down load and get posted.

     

    P.S. I would like to thank the three hunters that started to walk infront of my blind and when they saw I was there they left the area and did not return. If you are out there in CWT land and PM me some specifics on my set up I will share some information with you. Lesson 4: there are some decent hunters out there.

     

    DCM


  12. At 6:00 am this morning my son shot his first deer with a bow. I wish I could have been there with him. The text photo is not reel good and i will try to post it as soon as I can figure out how to get it to the computor. It looks like a nice mulie forky. I will get the story and photos later.

     

    I am proud of him getting his first archery deer.

     

    DCM


  13. Deserthntr

     

    I am in the same spot as you. I do have a mapping soft ware that shows mostly private land rite up to the Coronado forest. At least on the east side and I was told that the west side was the same. Be careful on useing google to find water some of those pictures may be pretty old and the water may not be there during the hunt. I don't know how much rain they have benn getting down there this year.

     

    Does any one have any numbers that we can call for access?

     

    DCM


  14. Briant

     

    It sounds like you didn't get a tag. I called on Monday evening and was told the end of the week. I called back on Tuesday evening at 4:45 and the lady I spoke to was very nice and i gave her my sons and my sportsman ID and she looked them up for me. I was drawn along with my brother-in-law from WI for the 30B Whitetail hunt. My son did not get a tag. I my sign my tag over to him but he already has a unit 1 Nov. Bull tag. My in-law grew up in Wilcox but has not been in the area for 20+ years. He said depending on the population and houseing changes he thinks he can find a few places. We are thinking about riding horse back into the dragoons but need to get the scupe on water holes. Horses have a hard time without water. If I can find some good water it will be a pack triplike my 2007 Dec hunt.

     

    Does any one have any information on some good water holes back off the beaten bath?

     

    Again I can trade information for unit 1 or 27. PM me with some atrea's to start looking at.

     

    I have a good Arizona map program that give some spings but the last time I tried to plan a trip with it we could not find the springs and had a horse start cramping on us from no water. I can pack evough for me but not the horses.

     

    Thanks

    DCM


  15. My brother-in-law and I picked up a couple of the 30B Nov whitetail tags. Does anyone have any information on this unit? Can the dragoon Mtn be accessed threw the cochise stronghold?

     

    I live in the white mountains and will only have limited chances of scouting. I can trade information for unit 1 or 27 if you need.

     

    We can do horse trips and are not afraid to camp out.

     

    I guess the first thing would be is there any water holes we can start looking at?

     

    DCM

     

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