AZ Strip Trip

UTmonsterslayer

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just got back from the strip with mr show_me_your_rack. had an awesome time. saw a 200+ typical with one side completely broken off. combined we walked over 70 miles and found 2 sheds and a skull, between 4 people. i myself didn't find $h!+. we shot a bobcat to top it off.

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You boys sure know how to make me jealous. Maybe someday I'll be worthy to hangout with you young guns. Looks like you had some fun. I went out this morning and and shot some quail on the strip. Man they are good eatin.
 
That's a lot of walking for so few sheds but when they are that big it's worth it. That skull is a sweet find...& the bobcat is awesome too. You gonna mount it?
 
Ya did you see a black s10, white tacoma, or a old grey nissan that had been rolled and had now windows but had a blexyglass windsheild that had about a foot wide gape in the middle ya that was us!!!
 
HEY? DID ALL THAT CAMMO HELP YOU SNEAK UP ON THOSE SHEDS?

OR? IS IT MORE A FASHION STATEMENT?
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-29-06 AT 08:50AM (MST)[p]There were alot of vehicles out last Saturday. I went out with Rob (a hunting buddy from way back) who wanted to find some bucks to video. We couldn't find any bucks first thing in the morning so we decided to hike around a little looking for sheds. We found 4 old sheds, so now we have a pretty good idea of where they were dropping horns about 20 years ago. Later in the morning we found a buck. He had 3 does with him and, of course, I never got to see him. Rob estimated him at 34" wide main frame, 4x7 and real heavy. He said the four point side looked bigger than a 93" single typical I have, so it must have been a real pig. The seven point side had an inline on his back fork and a couple of cheaters. It's too bad his video camera was back in the jeep. We couldn't find him again after we got the camera. Alot of hiking, and not much to show for it, again. Oh ya, I almost forgot. We didn't have any guns with us because we don't have a license to hunt in Arizona, but just for fun, I made one call and called in a grey fox. There were coyotes howling all around us first thing in the morning. I wish Arizona would allow us to thin this predator herd out a little without having to buy a Non-Residend license.
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-29-06 AT 11:14AM (MST)[p]I can't see spending $51.50 to hunt coyotes when I'm only going to be out there for a day. Now their raising a three day permit to $61.25 for 2007. These things are "PREDATORS". They are everywhere, and they are destroying the fawn crop every year on the strip. I would be doing the deer population a big favor by killing coyotes, but the AZGF wants me to pay to do them a favor. Sorry, their not getting my money.
 
>Dude, just shoot em.......


Are you kidding????? With all those fish cops, BLM cops, Park cops, and others out patrolling the strip, I wouldn't even consider bringing a gun with me unless I was licensed and completely legal. You can't even shoot jack-rabbits on the strip without a license. They tore down the wall in Berlin, and built one on the Arizona border.
 
If you are so concerned about the fawn crop why not swallow your pride and buy the expensive $50 license and save some deer for the good of the Strip.
 
>If you are so concerned about
>the fawn crop why not
>swallow your pride and buy
>the expensive $50 license and
>save some deer for the
>good of the Strip.


Because I don't want my kids to go without their Christmas. HA, HA, HA, HA. I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
 
You are so right i went rabbit hunting with a couple of friend out on the strip i was the onlyone with a tag. a fish cop came to us and 5 of my buddys got tickets and i got a ticket for wasting eddible game meat because i shot a cotton tail and did not pick it up we live in st. george and we all had to go to court in the big town of moccasin arizona its court house is a single wide trailer cut in half talk about living the high life anyways we all got fines but the judge made us a deal if we took a arizona huntersafey course he would take it off of our record so we did>>> since i am under 21 the year long licence only cost $25.50 i dont know why they dont let anyone kill them ugly no good coyotes hope they will change that soon i do my best to slay them but i cant do it alone!!!
 
Sounds like you young bucks had a good time down there. Thats a nice Bobcat you boys got there. Sounds like a hell of a time.
 
So, I guess after that little learning experience, you guys are being real careful about being completely legal now? I'm sure you had your bobcat tagged for export to Utah. Right?

I've heard so many stories about people getting tickets and the fines that go along with them, that I play it real safe. I even heard about one guy getting a speeding ticket on Main Street (the road to Mt. Trumbull) for going 50 mph. There's no posted speed limit signs and it's a graded dirt road, but the "officer" felt that he was going faster than conditions allowed.
 
>I take it you don't apply
>to hunt deer on the
>strip?

I can't speak for the guys that started this thread, but as for me, no I don't apply to hunt deer on the strip. There are ALOT more deer north of the iron curtain. In fact, I'll bet that there are as many bruiser bucks in southern Utah as there are on the Arizona strip, but at least you'll see a few bucks in Utah. You could go the whole season and not even find a doe on the strip, especially if you don't know were to start looking. Besides, it's impossible to draw a strip tag anyway so why waste time and money trying. That's just my opinion, and I've been known to be wrong before (usually in a poker game).
 

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