New member: Arizona

[Arizona_archer73]

Hi everyone. New member. I'm in Phoenix area. I have a late season archery bull elk tag in AZ Unit 23 this year. Been scouting. Lots of miles and days hiking. Hunted muley's during summer OTC recently. Saw tons of doe's and only a couple small bucks. So struck out this summer. Have winter OTC to try again... A cool mushroom pic while hunting. I ate it. Saw a leprechaun later. The two facts are unrelated. Good luck everyone on this year's hunts!

 

[RS3579]

As the self-appointed chairman of the welcoming committee, it is my privilege to extend a laurel, and hearty handshake (virtual, of course) to our new AZ member.

 

[fmyth]

Hi everyone. New member. I'm in Phoenix area. I have a late season archery bull elk tag in AZ Unit 23 this year. Been scouting. Lots of miles and days hiking. Hunted muley's during summer OTC recently. Saw tons of doe's and only a couple small bucks. So struck out this summer. Have winter OTC to try again... A cool mushroom pic while hunting. I ate it. Saw a leprechaun later. The two facts are unrelated. Good luck everyone on this year's hunts! View attachment 765501

That's an Amanita Muscaria commonly known as Fly agaric. Not an edible. Probably won't kill you but the hallucinations would not be worth the explosive diahrrhea, vomiting and chance of liver failure.

 

[Arizona_archer73]

I'd definitely have not risked eating one. The only mushroom I've ever picked and eaten is morels; which we hunted every spring in Ohio- where I grew up.

 

[fmyth]

I'd definitely have not risked eating one. The only mushroom I've ever picked and eaten is morels; which we hunted every spring in Ohio- where I grew up.

I grew up in MO hunting morels. I've been in the EV of AZ 15 years now and during the summer I go up to the White Mountains and search for chanterelles, boletes, lobster, oyster and caesar mushrooms.

 

[throughhiker]

welcome!