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Topic: Fall deer hunt approaches
Posted By: Goosic
Subject: Fall deer hunt approaches
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 8:51am
It has been over six years since I last sent in a fall deer hunt draw application. I now wait very impatiently as the draw process commences.
I am currently flustered as to which rifle I will be using if I am drawn. I'm almost tempted to take the faux No4 Mk1 (T). The obvious choice would be to use one of the Custom No4's. I am still needing to get in some trigger time. Just rambling here...



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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 9:03am
I as well am anxious for deer hunting season. My freezer is empty of venison.

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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually


Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 10:54am
Mine too! This is the first season in 8 years that it's not bucks only. Mind you, there is a three week black powder season and a three week rifle. You are only allowed one tag for all seasons. I remember fondly a black powder tag, rifle tag and an snterless tag in the same season. Goosic, if you are sitting in a blind, take the sniper rifle! I've hauled a full wood No4 Mk1 thru the bush for several days and it does get tiring. Still amazed how the Allies hauled these things across Europe! A lot tougher than me!


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 12:05pm
There is a town named Skull Valley. That is where I've been deer hunting since I was ten. You drive to the secret camping spot,walk a mile up a mesa until you reach an outcropping of granite boulders,sit down in your natural hide and wait. You're looking down into a valley with a small tributary running through it from four different points. North,west,east,and down. So,maybe...


Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 12:18pm
Well, it used to be a secret!


Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 12:36pm
in a situation like that..yeah, a scope is good.(Unless your me - I'd STILL use open sights on my Enfield.)

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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 12:44pm
You'd still never find it. Do a Google Earth search between the town's of Ashfork,Bagdad,and Skull Valley. 240 square miles of wilderness, mountains,and,desert. Your only clue will be the fifteen foot tall solid rose quartz outcropping sticking out of the side of one of the mountains near the camp site...


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 12:57pm
The area is covered in scrub pines,Holly,juniper bushes, cottonwood trees, p.r.i.c.k.l.y. pear cactus,and big volcanic rocks. The mule deer are smart enough to lay down under the scrub pines where they become invisible unless you know what to look for. The scope I use has low light and starlight magnification the allows for finding those Bambi's in the shadows...


Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 3:19pm
Sounds like a great location for one of those out door survival reality shows. Or the Mantracker!

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Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 3:43pm
Those bozos wouldn't last a day out there.
There's water all year long,if you know the area. There are three animals that will bite and claw you if you get too close,black bear,Lynx,and mountain lion. Scorpion, tarantula,timber rattlesnake, diamondback rattlesnake, centipede, millipede,skunk,porkypines, pronghorn antelope,javelina,mule deer, white tail deer,bunny rabbits, squirrel,dove,and Gambel Quail make up the rest,if you know where to look. You can eat the purple bulbs and the pads off of a p.r.i.c.k.l.y. pear cactus. The bulbs taste like boysenberries. Pinion pine nuts are everywhere. Poke a hole in the bottom of a barrel cactus and your drinking water. Green apple trees can be found sporadically. It's just a he!! of a climb in and out of the place in some spots. Not to mention that it does snow up there alot so getting snowed in sometimes happens. If it rains? Be prepared to camp out for an additional week until the roads dry out enough for you to leave...


Posted By: Honkytonk
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 4:13pm
Go on, Goosic... I feel myself sitting at your campfire just as you return!


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 4:37pm


This how diversified the area is. Me and my daughters by the way...


Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: July 03 2018 at 8:21pm
yup - looking like this fall might be a good one if the rain here ever quits , keep those smiles on Big smile


Posted By: Oldhand
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 6:39am
Hope you get a big one Goosic. Best regards.

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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 9:54am
Originally posted by Goosic Goosic wrote:

You'd still never find it. Do a Google Earth search between the town's of Ashfork,Bagdad,and Skull Valley. 240 square miles of wilderness, mountains,and,desert. Your only clue will be the fifteen foot tall solid rose quartz outcropping sticking out of the side of one of the mountains near the camp site...


I tried to send you a PM, not sure if it went through.
So I sent you an E-mail too.
Let me know how close or far off I was!
Star


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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 9:56am
I'll go look now. Give me a minute or two.


Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 10:17am

This is the secret camp spot. Dead center in the picture. The thing that looks like a road is actually a wash. Burnt Wash to be exact...


Posted By: englishman_ca
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 10:50am
Not a secret anymore with the geo information shown at bottom of pic!

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Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: July 04 2018 at 11:46am
Correct but,try to get in there. There's only one way in and one way out now. It's not as easy as this photo let's on. I've been going to this same spot for forty years now. Everytime I go I have to modify my entry and exit technique due to the changing landscape. Currently there is a very large old growth mesquite tree in the way...



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