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I really wish there was a better system or that game and fish would put on a field day by every office every quarter or something. Volunteer teachers seem like they are putting them on less and less and even though its mostly just the field day now, its very hard to get an open spot. I"m on my third child and as of 3 weeks ago, there was one single field day listed, and it was in New Mexico, and as of a week ago, there were three listed, the NM one, and one in Yuma in december and one in Tucson I think. I called the department and they said yeah, the volunteers aren't doing them much any more so we extended the deadline again to June 2024 now.

2 youth tags charged.

Sweet buck

If they don't get charged by noon, I'm ready to restart the "can we please discuss outsourcing this process?" debate again.

I have a 2017 Silverado 1500, Z71 crew cab, 91k miles, greenish grey color. Aftermarket bumper, bilstein shocks. My new truck should be here Beginning oh July so I can sell soon.

I read a study a couple years ago and it was saying once you get past like a 12 days forecast, scientists have not been able to find a way to reliably predict weather, and the historical average of the weather for that calendar day was a better predictor than anything else.

Nice! Almost makes me want to look into spring turkeys haha.

Man nice! I struck out pretty hard this year on my annual day-long shed hike in a new area. Found one tiny sun baked rag horn.

I still run an older model inreach. It sometimes has longer delays on sending and receiving, not fast. But for checkins and sos it does the job just fine.

Don’t waste your time on 15a/b. They have some elk on the res boarder during the summer but are on the res by the time the rut starts. In 18a, a lot of private property, some scattered housing and some big chunks of private (x-1 ranch) that you need to stay away from. Elk are pretty nomadic there and roam far and wide and are few and far between in most of the unit. Honestly summer scouting won’t help a lot, sad to say. Where they are now or even in August is little indication of where they will be come late September, they usually make big moves to rut. I would spend more time looking for elk and bugles(at night and early morning) just before the hunt to be most effective.

It does vary on area and year to year, but the bigger bulls usually shed first around mid March in NW Arizona. If you are going to a popular spot, then you want to go early or they will mostly be combed up if you roll in mid April. If you go to an unpopular spot, better to go later to ensure everything has dropped. My spot I went to for a long time has been having more and more boot tracks and less and less antlers to be found. No luck yet on new spots I've tried. Maybe Saturday will bring a new honey hole, but most likely will just be a long scenic hike per normal...

Jared Steele comes through Kingman a couple times a year and buys, I've sold to him for a long time but haven't had much to sell lately. Brown elk was around $15.50 or $16 I think last time I sold.

Yeah I would go even with 7+ years. That thing is baked. Depends on if it was full sun light all day every day for years or under a tree some years etc.

Just got the second hit we were expecting about an hour ago.

Chase

I don’t think the charges are done I put my kids in for guaranteed tags and only one of them has a card hit so far, I double checked my applications and they are correct.

Our family has one resident hit for $135 although 2 should have had guaranteed tags…

Anyone that follows the big outfitters on social media see what bulls were harvested on the statewide tags in 2022?

Way to be out there, what a reward!

Man 50 does and 0 bucks in 6 days. That is brutal! Better start apply for a different hunt next year. I thought finding a buck around Kingman was a challenge, but unit 21 sounds like the buck void of the state.

I love hiking and have purchased many many pairs of boots over the years, but I’m have a consistent issue I’m hoping to get some help on. For relatively flat lands and soft terrain I usually go with lighter flexible hikers and don’t normally have issues even at long distances. When I get into steep terrain and rock however, my feet get beat up if the shoe is too soft and I try and go to a stiffer more “mountain” type boots. The problem is every stiffer boot I try seems like the vertical heal area of the boot is super hard with no padding and no matter how I do my lacing and sock situation, I get pain like bruising or blistering where my Achilles connects to my heal. Anyone have luck with finding a stiffer boot that has a little cushion in the vertical heal area? I’m 6 foot and 160, pretty standard arched foot shape.

Got my first duck limit this weekend, my second year getting into duck hunting. I'm convinced it must have been the new rig was the lucky ticket. 1 green wing, three ruddy ducks, 3 mallard.

This is alot like mine, but this is nicer and newer 😁

Havasupai is hard to beat but still is not opened from covid and has been getting harder and harder to get tickets to hike/visit over the last 10 years anymore anyway. So might as well give up:)

The decoying was dead with nothing flying so I changed tactics and jump shot everything... although I keep investing, I haven't quite got decoying success figured out yet.