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Yea, haven't heard a whole lot from people hunting the middle units this year, I am curious to see how those hunts in 21 and 22 turn out since this is the first year of the early hunts there. Might be kinda tough since these units don't generaly have the densities as the units down south. I saw that the 6a early hunt last year had something like 6% kill odds so the g$f decided to raise the number of tags, what happened to managing for a 20% success rate.

I also got skunked this afternoon hunting SW of Sedona. Must have walked 4 miles before finally jumping a covey, they busted at about 50 yards. Never caught up with them or found any stragglers. I really wanted to shoot some birds to break in my dads new pup. Oh well, try again tommorrow.

elkhunter- I don't have the regs in front of me but I think Stehr lake is actually in unit 22 with that childs road being the boundry. Saw a pretty nice buck this summer in W. Clear creek about a mile north of bull pen.

I was at wally world in Flag today and saw 6 people in line to by licenses for next year, this was at 6:22pm. I don't think all of them made the deadline if the g$f really stopped accepting apps at 7:00pm. Now the wait begins...

I have those older dcf wp 10X42 and I think that they are a great glass, I would think that these new ones would be just as good

awesome bucks even the "little one" has some great mass hope that 4pt came from 32, cause I want to find some of those genetics this december

I wouldn't mind a few small roads closed either but like DesertBull said this could be a slippery slope to some areas being designated wildlife preserve no hunting areas. Besides we have to many laws and rules as it is

g$f is in the business of selling tags not sound wildlife management, from what my buddy told me that works at the g$f they have not listened to what the game managers reccommend in years anyways

you guys are studs!

good job with the video, looks like some nice kill shots

I don't think that the overall population of quail is that high right now, we had to dry of a winter and a spring. The people that are saying that it is going to be a great year I'm guessing are talking specifically about mearns. If you find an area that has year round water there will be fair numbers of quail.

What? You only saw a few does... Welcome to the land of hunter opportunity If I new 35a at all I would help you out, but only hunted it once. Good luck on your hunt and keep us posted

Looks like fun! Brings back lots of memories, most of them good

looks like the Green, did you catch any fish, we want a story

Congratulations to the hunter! Very nice bull! You gotta love 7b North

http://www.azgfd.gov/artman/publish/article_616.shtml http://www.azgfd.gov/artman/publish/article_623.shtml These two cases in just the last month

that is good that it has steel cables, so you shouldn't have to spend more than about 10$ on a string. With those tear-drop style attachments you don't even really need a bowpress to change it out. But like Guliuro Mtn Man said it probably wouldn't hurt to clean out the axles.

I'll third the az-ez fletch for cost, and convenience. If you want more options on how you want to fletch your arrows then bitzenburger is the way to go.

The good news is that the whole mtn range holds deer, so I would just have fun exploring it. Any of those trail heads from the east side would be a good starting point, as Desert Bull said you can almost drive to the top of mt peely and that is probably the easiest way to get on the matzabal divide trail (this trail takes you everywhere up there, but is overgrown and burnt out in many places) I wouldn't recommend coming in from the west because I have done it before and you hike 10 times as hard to get to the same area that you could have gotten to from the east side. Basically if you start hiking from the east you start at 5000+ elevation, if you start at the west side you start at 2000ft elevation.

Once you post a pick we can probably help you out a little more. There is a chance all you need is a new string, but hard to say without seeing the bow. I would try a few "pro shops" but from my experience most of them don't want to waste their time with you unless you are spending $1200 on a new setup. I would try archery headquarters first and then 4-peaks archery.

I have a few, 2 portables and 1 climber. I can't remember what brand my hang-ons are, I got them on close-out some years ago, but I love them because they will hang on almost any tree, they are simple to use with nothing to get in the way, they have overly large platforms, and are not to heavy to carry. My climber is a p.o.s., it has a bar that surrounds you that gets in the way of your bow, it can only be used on straight trees with no limbs in the way (basically aspens), and it is made so flimsy that I'm sure it is going to break on me one of these days(good thing I hardly ever use it) the weight rating on it must be 80lbs or something. I know this doesn't help you with brands, but might give you some extra ideas of features to look for.

maybe I ought to start anchoring under my chin like that Impressive shooting for sure! by the way what is this suppose to be a picture of ------>

Bass- I wouldn't do anything to buddy, he only ate my sandwich; it's your dads dog that ate my 500 dollar bino's

Good luck! Should be some good hunts, can't wait to see the pictures

nice photo's! Thanks for sharing! How close were you to those deer?