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Hi All I know camo can be overrated, but for bowhunting, I feel like every advantage you can get MIGHT be worth it. Where I hunt in here in AZ is really hard on pants. Lots of cats claw brush and sharp rocks. Blew out a pair of desert BDU's last season and patched em up but would rather not...

Hi All Was having problems with neighborhood kids getting into our irrigation box and screwing with it. No problem, put a padlock on it. Wanting to set up game cams to be sure or at least ID the perpetrators (plus I want some game cams anyways, see below). Brought up a question that might...

Hi all My awesome wife knows how badly I have been wanting, really needing, a new rifle scope for my '06. She offered to buy me one for my first father's day gift. After some digging, I settled on a 3-9X50 Vortex diamondback because it is affordable and by all accounts I have read, a damn...

Here's a few from the Southwest (AZ that is!)

Was reading a post on the failed M855 ban and it reminded me (bullet penetration being the connection here) I wanted to share with you guys/gals some info that could come in handy someday since it is not everyday we get to experiment with shooting at a car. Was shooting with a border patrol...

Last week my wife and I were on a little walk with the dogs out to the desert behind our house. On the way there, my wife noticed a dove struggling in a palo verde tree. Upon closer inspection, we noticed it's neck had actually gotten bound up by a thin branch. If you have never seen a palo...

I didn't see any reviews on the Ruger 1911 here and, even though they are not new on the market, I wanted to put my experience with the commander sized SR 1911 to virtual paper. Last October, with the news that we would be expecting a child in April, I realized all good dads need a .45 and it...

Hi All Did some research online and didn't get an answer to this and didn't want to have to start digging into scientific literature as I figured someone here would have a better answer anyways. Since Coues deer are smaller-bodied and tend to be restricted to RELATIVELY warmer/drier regions...

Hello fellow AZ hunters. The reason for this post is to find out more about hunter crowds in unit 21 during the otc archery hunt starting up here in January. I know the unit can be crowed in general, especially during rifle seasons but I am thinking the first of the year hunt should be...

Not sure if this is the best place to post this but I know it won't interfere with upper echelon topics and pictures and I need to vent so here it goes: I bought my first bow in March and practiced like crazy (still do just not quite as desperate) in order to be ready for the August OTC hunt...

I don't know about y'all but I am freaking excited about archery deer opening up here in AZ this weekend. I can focus on little else. We finally got some heavy monsoon action over the last couple days to fill up the washes and water holes and, for whatever its worth, the moon is favorable this...

Hi All I apologize if that has been covered but I did search through some old threads to make sure it wasn't too recent or obvious. I might be being optimistic but I want to know the proper way to care for a deer hide in the field. If I do happen to down a buck this year, it would not only be...

Was out scouting north of Cave Creek AZ last weekend and saw this dude. So its not a huge elk or anything too spectacular but these guys are pretty secretive. It is the first one I've seen and it walked right through the middle of my camp while I was heating up dinner. I followed it around...

I know camo is an overrated item in most situations; if I undertand the history correctly, Fred Bear killed a whole lot of game with a recurve bow, blue jeans, and a flannel shirt. However, I got into wanting some ASAT camo (based on my research, it actually works) and couldn't let it go...

Archery season is coming quick and to be honest with y'all, I am getting butterflies already. I need some sage advice on the maximum range I should be looking to shoot for my first archery hunt. I know the easy answer is "whatever I'm comfortable with" but if I am so fortunate to get my sights...

Hey guys and gals. This is such a cool forum. Not only because exercise is an easy component of hunting to overlook but given my field of study, I am automatically interested and just had to chime in. Looked over several threads within and wanted to put down some hopefully useful words that...

Just moved to Arizona last year and I am really getting fired up about hunting again (lived in TX for several years and it was real tough to find land and/or funds to hunt, I am originally from western Colorado and quite used to great swaths of public land to run around on so AZ is a little more...

Hi all. Really looking forward to being a part of this awesome community dealing with all things hunting! I currently live in central AZ and this will be my first year archery hunting so I have/will have a ton of questions and comments which I hope will be useful on an already superb forum!