AverageJoe

Filling the freezer is what it is all about. That IS the game. Anything else is just a bonus.

everywhere around the east valley is good. North on beeline hwy or east on us60. Once you clear the city (or rez) you are in deer country. Most of the roads dont require a 4wd. You will need good binos in any of the spots around the city

I have found them in rolling hills a few times. Mostly it is steep terrain where they can escape shortly.

Prayers sent. He will be alright! In Jesus name

Honestly most are good. You can get a cheaper one that is fine as well. Stay away from carbon fiber and pencil barrels as mentioned above. Depending on use a 16" barrel is more than fine. Bushmaster and DPMS get a lot of hate with the online tacticool crowd but having owned and shot both they are fine and do the same as the expensive ones.

Barnes and noble has them

Yep. Peyote. So where is it? Lol

If they arent the HD model there should be a cap with the swarovski logo on it. Unscrew it and the spot to mount the tripod adapter is under it.

Did you buy the new 15x56 hd?

I have hunted in az for 20 years. I see as many elk now as i did 20 years ago. I see pics of 350-400" elk taken every year. I have taken 6 elk in 12 years. I have hunted the units people say there arent big bulls and see many big bulls. They arent standing on the side of the roads anymore. You have to put in the legwork. Why everyone is bitching about all this is besides me! I guess no one cares about anything but trophy's. Somehow it is all about taking a big 400" bull or 130" coues and anything less is unacceptable. I hunt the same units as everyone else here. I seldom see people. I see plenty of mature animals. On coues hunts i can expect to see anywhere from 1 or 2 bucks a day on a bad day to 10-20 on a good day. On elk hunts even more. So what is the problem? Do you want them standing on the roads or what? Cutting tags in half is frikkin ridiculous. Raising the prices will just cut out hunting all together for the poorest of hunters. But hey as long as you can hunt with less pressure in the field right? Funny thing again is that every state thinks the grass is greener on the other side. Other states love Arizona's model and bonus point system. Utah colorado wyoming idaho all think there state is the worst. They all bag on game and fish, they all think they could do better. Lol. I think all it comes down to is that trophy hunters are selfish aholes. They want it all for them with bulls around every corner and not another hunter in sight. Well welcome to the real world where you have to share with us POS meat hunters who are happy to be in the field with friends and family enjoying hunting for more than the size of animals they hunt.

Things are fine. Leave them the f alone

How many people hae actually owned and hunted with all the bows and how many are just stating what they currently own? Lol

He responded to me right away. Maybe he doesnt like you guys lol

For bowhunting i go light and fast. Kelty fanny pack/day pack. It is the perfect set up, can carry hydration bladder, has a rangefinder pocket at the perfect spot, and two main pouches enough for knives rope first aid kit etc. then i hike back to the truck for my main pack if i have to pack him out far

What an idiot. I dont have nor have i ever had a friend with meat in the freezer and no pictures. Maybe he is from a different state where poaching is more common ... Like texas

Bowtech invasion and bowtech allegiance.

Hahahahaha i bet you would

A lot of modern fixed blades shoot just like a field point as well. Shuttle t locks, NAP hellrazor, and G5 Montec are a few. Actually I bought Gravediggers and my shuttle t locks flew better than the gravediggers.

Congratulations! You should put up a pic of Grandfathers gun too!

One more to add to the late archery bulls this year. He was the biggest bodied elk I have ever seen. Thanks Kevin, Tim, and Dave for the help with the pack out! Pics dont do him justice as I still only carry my old iphone in the field lol. I included the "while I am cleaning him" pic because that was always my favorite pic as a kid looking at Dad's photos.

Awesome!!! First bulls are always the best. Cant wait til my son gets his first. Good job

Locavore movement takes to deer hunting across US By LISA RATHKENovember 22, 2014 3:50 PM     . View gallery . . . MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A decades-long national decline in the number of hunters has prompted states to tap into a new group of hunters — people who demand locally produced food, but don't know the first thing about bagging a deer. Books and blogs on the topic are numerous, and state wildlife departments are offering introductory deer hunting classes in urban areas to recruit newbies who want to kill their own local, sustainable and wild meat in what some say is an ecologically friendly way. "It's not easy and it's not a surefire way to fill a freezer every year but it's certainly more rewarding than even raising a cow behind your house and butchering it," said Chris Saunders, hunter education coordinator for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. The department offered an introductory deer hunting course in Burlington this fall to recruit new hunters. The number of people holding hunting licenses nationally had dropped over the last 30 years starting in 1983, mostly because of changes in demographics, such as an aging population and more people moving into urban areas, said Mark Damian Duda, executive director of Virginia-based Responsive Management, which does surveys for federal and state fish and wildlife departments. But hunting participation increased by 9 percent from 2006 to 2011, the latest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's national five-year survey found, and wildlife officials around the country suspect that it's local food connoisseurs — or locavores — partly helping to level it off. Reasons for hunting vary — recreation, spending time with friends and family, finding a trophy buck. The number of those hunting for meat nearly doubled from 16 percent in 2006 to 35 percent in 2011, according to a national survey of 1,000 hunters published last year by Responsive Management and other outdoors agencies. The survey found that part of the increase was driven by the locavore movement. View gallery In this photo taken Monday Nov. 17, 2014 veteran meat cutter Everett Gage cuts steaks and roasts fro … That's why graduate student Francis Eanes, 27, enrolled in an introductory hunting course this summer and fall in Madison, Wisconsin. "The motivation really was something that I can do for myself as a way of knowing where my food comes from," he said. "I've worked on farms for a number of years and enjoy picking and helping grow some of my own produce and it seemed like a natural extension to apply that to at least some of the meat that I eat." He's slaughtered pasture-raised rabbits and chickens, and said he feels at ease about killing a deer since it's able to roam free and grow in a natural habitat. With a clean shot, the deer dies quickly, Eanes said. "It's definitely easier to pull carrots or pick tomatoes, but I'm fairly confident that if an opportunity were to present itself, I'd be able to take the shot," said Eanes, who plans to get a deer during the state's rifle season, which started Saturday. Success isn't guaranteed. Saunders told his hunting class — where meat was the No. 1 motivation for the attendees — that the success rate of hunters is between 15 and 18 percent. View gallery In this photo taken Monday Nov. 17, 2014 veteran meat cutter Everett Gage takes a break as he looks … But for many new hunters, it goes beyond knowing where your food comes from. They enjoy the outdoors, the skill and the unknown — and there's no negative ecological footprint, said Tovar Cerulli, author of "A Mindful Carnivore." The 34-year-old former vegetarian and vegan turned hunter wrote his master's thesis on what he calls adult-onset hunting. Deer are part of the forest where he lives in Marshfield, Vermont, he said, and if he gets one, he shares it with friends and family. The frozen meat tends to last he and his wife an entire year. The experience of taking a piece of venison that he shot and butchered out of the freezer is more satisfying than taking out store-bought food out to cook. "There's such a specific and direct connection to where that came from and I know that individual animal, where it was, exactly when I killed it," he said. "It's all very specific and direct and personal."

Not trying to step on any toes but how bout something more like this?

R17 at sportsmans in mesa.

$100 or less. If more its because some wont do it without truing the action etc and will charge over $200. Pm me if you dont have a gunsmith in mind and you live in the east valley.