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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: wingnut on January 03, 2007, 09:02:00 AM
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Well we are putting the finishing touches on loading the trailer and truck and have to drop the dogs off at the doggy spa on the way by. But in an hour or so we should be on our way. We are taking it easy this year and going to drive to Tucson in two days instead of one. Should be spending the night somewhere in NM, I think.
Terry, Bobbie and a friend of Terry's will be meeting up with us in the next couple of days and tomorrow night we pick up our nephew in Tucson. His name is Jordan and some of you met him a couple years back at MoJam. Anyway this is his first hunt of any kind ever. And boy is he excited.
I'm sure there will be some great stories to spin when we get back. See you guys on or about the 15th.
Mike, Connie and Jason
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Best of luck
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Good luck and drive safe! Can't wait for the tales!!
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Safe travels and a great hunt!
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Wing... Take NO PRISONERS...Safety in travel.
Beware of Terry's friend he can get quite rowdy :biglaugh:
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My friend??... Rowdy??..... Naaah he's from solid stock .......Might have to see if we can pry some inside stories outta him though... :bigsmyl: Really looking forward to the team javie get together...Couldn't ask for better folks to share a campfire with.....It's gotten to where I almost look forward to this hunt as much as Sept. Elk...And for anyone who knows how much I love my Elk hunt that's saying a lot........ Terry
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2 Days?...You are taking it easy ;)
Looking forward to this hunt too. Every year it seems to be a little different...it doesn't matter who shows up... it's always a great time.
Be safe on the road!
Bobby
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James and Bonnie staying home this year? Good luck on your hunt!!
Dave N/TX
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You are quite an uncle Mike, and congrats to your nephew jordan. I hope he realizes how lucky he is. Be safe and have fun. Alan
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Joe Javilina is dead meat this year you can bet. :bigsmyl:
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Good luck Mike and have a loads of fun. Thank of us once in a while.
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Ya gotta wonder just what's happening on this ADVENTURE :knothead:
Will there be a new Chapter in the upcoming book "MURDER THEY WROTE"
And what are the EATING :goldtooth:
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I know Mickey is having a PB&J if Wingnut is cookin' :bigsmyl:
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Good luck Wingnut. I haven't had a shot a a javie yet but have seen quit a few. need one of these to make some sausage for this year. Have a great hunt.
Chort
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Heading out in a few minutes to join the WIngnut clan. It'll be a few hours til I get there...but that's ok...at least I won't be at work! :thumbsup:
Bobby... :D all the way!
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So what's happin down there in the "LAND of WARM"
Inquiring minds want to know SOMETHING :bigsmyl:
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I was wondering the same thing Vance.......
David
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Kinda tired just got home I'll try to get a story with some pics together in the next couple of days.......One of The High lights of the trip for me was watching a young man on his first AZ hunt get a look at a solid 100" coues buck about 150 yards out and heading right to us and getting within 12 yards of another coues buck......all totaled we saw 11 coues deer that day!!! ( he spotted all of em first but one... :thumbsup: ) ........Maybe he will log on here with some details..... :D And for Vance..... Food highlights were some Elk and Caribou stew and a home cooked Jambalaya..... I tell ya put Mike and Jason by a fire with their dutch ovens and nobody is gonna go home hungry..... Terry
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Well, let me tell ya I had an awsome time, great people to camp/hunt with. I couldn't have asked for more during the hunt, then terry took me up into the high country and it was like christmas all over again, all kinds of coues deer. Let me tell you my heart got a work out, it was pumpin so hard when i saw that 100" headed our way.
So as terry and I were about to get up and leave I spot a doe headed on the same path as the 100"er. So we plant our butts down and wait and see what happened. It really felt like it was no time when it passed the junipers and we realized it was a forky. So my heart is starting to pump again it starts our way in just perfect form, then it gets about 30 yards and cuts in front of us. At this point i'm sitting on my butt and need to make an adjustment to get in better position. As the deer puts the one plant i had for cover in between us i start my move. Considering we were in the middle of nowhere it felt like i was making so much noise, but i guess i wasn't, because right as i get positioned that dang deer pops up about 25 yard just at an slight angle from us. At this point i cant believe it is still coming to us. So this is when its get tense! The deer is looking straight at us but hasn't got our sent yet, he takes a couple of steps, stops and looks at us, and right as he he steps into range all i have to do is take my bow and give it to him, he takes two more steps gets our scent and BOING there he goes bouncing down the mountain.
I tell ya even though i didn't get the deer it was still just an awsome feeling. I want to thank Mike, Connie, Jason, Bobby, Jordan, and Terry for such an awsome time, My hats off to the cooks that was some amazing cookin. i cant wait to do it again. Thanks ..........Theo
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Does anyone else think this is totally unfair to me?
My son is off in the land of sun and fun (OK, so it got a little chilly.)stalking Coues deer and I'm stuck in good ole brown and gray Missouri.
It ain't right I tell ya!!
Glad you all had a great time. One day I'm gonna try to horn in. :thumbsup: ;)
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WOW...Am I ever glad to see that you two made it back safe and sound I hope.
I was in fear that you guys may have STARVED to death :eek:
So Theo... Wing didn't try and CORRUPT you did he :scared: :scared:
Looks like they really did their best to get on your good side, with all that GOOOOOD COOOOKIN,
wouldn't have done that for us common folk. :goldtooth:
Glad you guys had fun and started the old embers glowing again. Now lets take yer dad
someplace :goldtooth:
Thanks Terry.....................vance
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Well i gotta be honest, his food sure was good so i'm gonna try and get some recipes from him but thats about all the corruption he tried! I will NEVER give up the lamb secret!! ha ha, I CANT WAIT TO GO ON ANOTHER HUNT WITH MY DAD.
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Theo and Terry...glad you guys got into them. Sounds like your hearts got a good workout!
Theo, it was fun having you in camp, even if you were carrying a recurve. :p
Of course you and I were the only ones not hunting Dryad bows as well. Not sure when we'll hear the end of that.
Sorry Charlie...you get no sympathy. Not when you get to go hunting for 2-3 months straight and drag out the stories like you do so well. Besides, I'm sure you'd be welcome to crash our party any old time.
Bobby
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Well we are back in Texas and have a full plate in the shop to start cracking on.
Anyway we had a great trip. We look forward to getting to camp with Terry and Bobbie and it's always fun to have a new guy in camp. This year there were two, Theo and Jordan. Theo is not exactly new to bowhunting but it was his first trip to "Javie Camp" and Jordan was on his first hunting adventure ever.
Both had fun for sure! I wish the weather had cooperated a little more but that's hunting. The 30 mph winds put a damper on things and kept the game pretty tight the whole trip. We covered miles and miles of desert washes only to be eatign track soup in the end. We did have some close encounters with quail and came real close to putting one in the bag on the wing. But in the end the game bag was empty as the desert faded in the rear view mirror.
Or plan was to stay through Saturday but thanks to Terry and Bobbie's weather alert we got out before the big storm hit and were able to get the tents down without too many lift offs.
I think the next trip to the desert, we will be after them little whitetail. Looking forward to the challenge.
Mike
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Originally posted by T. Lamb:
I CANT WAIT TO GO ON ANOTHER HUNT WITH MY DAD.
As a Dad with a little guy of my own that I hope to hunt with some day, I can't tell you how freaking cool this sentence is!
Congrats on a great trip.
Norb
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NOW COME ON GUYS.....There just has to be a story in this MIX somewhere and I know SOMEONE took a CAMERA. That leads me to suspect that there may even be a few photos. :bigsmyl: :biglaugh:
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My camera died the first time i turned it on at camp. So i didn't get any pics but i think thee might be a fewfloating around.
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I'll try to get some pics up this weekend .....I'm not much good at tellin lies but Mike did have to fight off a grizz with a knife one night...... :D Terry
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Well not quite a grizzly but my zipper did stick on my sleeping bag in the middle of the night and I needed to pee. It might have sounded like I was fighting a grizzly.
The boys did sneak up on a couple of mountain lion hunters that were calling about 100 yds from a bunch of mountain bikers in camp one day. I thought baiting was against the rules in AZ.
LOL
Mike
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Jason and I hung out with some of those GIRL mountain bikers after all the old timers went to bed!! ha ha ha ha
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Could have swore that was a grizzly..... Glad I didn't look out I might have seen something grizzly....... :scared: Theo was responsible for a case of Whiplash incurred by one of the locals...... I saw it first hand...... :readit: Terry
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ttt waiting for details :pray:
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Yep! That's my son. ;)