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You need new friends. I agree 100% that that would be the next step to confiscation.

Driving a car is a privilege that can be taken away by the government. Owning a gun is a RIGHT guaranteed by the Constitution. Ignorance is not knowing the difference. Also, there are not large groups of ill-informed lemmings trying to take away our cars because a politician and the mainstream media has convinced them to be scared of an inanimate object. I have always found it amusing that the same people who want to remove guns also defend the rights of the criminals that illegally use that gun. How can the perpetrator e "innocent" and the tool be guilty?

Testing the waters. I have 60acres + off the grid log cabin 20'x25' with a loft and well, out house in Unit 10 in New Mexico. SE of Gallup .I have been part of NM Eplus elk permit lottery for many years. They have changed the requirements so I have to reapply. High timber drop dead beautiful 8000 ft. Please no tire kickers. $150,000 is a starting price. I'm willing to take some trade. Turkey, bear, elk and trophy Mule deer on and around the property. The elk battle 50yds from the cabin. Partial trades: High end 1911s, SWs N frames, Winchester pre 64s, Colt SAA 1st gen. Swarovski binos and scopes. Indian Scout, Harley Roadking or Streetglide, Enclosed motorcycle trailer. Etc Late model Harley and Indians. Maybe a drop dead broke mule. https://portico.mygisonline.com/html5/?viewer=cibolanm R12540 parcel number

I am going into my 8th year living in 19a and I can tell you, for this point in May(over that span of 8 years), conditions have never been better than what it is right now. So much food! Now, just as things are starting to dry a little, we are expecting some good rain this week. Just in time to give food production a big boost, I haven't been out looking at the goats recently, but they were looking fat before all this food production. Right now, the whole valley is green like monsoon season, Good news for the handful of tag holders.

There are already 22,000 gun laws across the country. Why would we need one more? It is absolutely the step necessary for confiscation. I will not comply. SHAL NOT BE INFRINGED

I dont use my guns on the highway. I use them in the desert and forests or in my private properties. If I have a vehicle I dont drive on the road, I dont have to register it. I am free to own it and keep it . Your "friend" is an ignorant dipstick liberal.

I jumped on the deal that was presented last minute on this site. Day 1. We met at the Best Western in Douglas which took me about 2-1/2 hr to drive from Tucson but traffic at that hour in the morning was a delight. No turkey calls were to be found at Walmart but Jay assured me that Chris would do all the calling. I kind of wish I had one. At 7:30 am, I got to meet Dave, the other hunter, and we piled into Chris Roe’s truck who was pulling his Ranger. We crossed the border without trouble and picked up supplies at Beto’s place. The drive down to the Potrero Ranch between Moctezuma and Hermosillo was long and the last hour was on a challenging dirt road. This gringo was not used to the narrow roads, different language and traffic rules (use your blinker to tell the guy behind to pass, even though it was a double line). We got situated at an old ranch house about 3 pm – rustic living conditions with no continuous power but with running water. We drove 1/2 hr in the Ranger on a rough 4wd 2-track to likely area near a "represso" (pond). We walked up a wash but nothing. However, we found the center of all activity, a great strutting area around the pond. We did watch 2 gobblers and several hens walk up the road we drove down but nothing responded to our calls/decoys. At sundown there was lots of calling to the west on the roost trees. Lots more gobbling occurred at/near dark. Back at the ranch we had great carne asada and guacamole for a late dinner then to bed for a very early wake-up. Day 2. Up at 3am for bagels and we motored off to the represso. We set up under a large tree on the northern side of the pond about 4:30 am but it put us very close to the action. The birds started to come in from the west but didn't like decoys or whatever. They skirted to the back of us. Six hens nervously walk by and up the hill at 20 yd from me but the gobbler (s) stayed back. Things really slowed down after 9 am when it got hot so we went back to the ranch for a late breakfast of chorizo/egg burritos. The guacamole had milk and cheese, so the boys were worried about my lactose intolerance, which provided great entertainment in the blind later on when they were concerned the birds would hear me. It was super hot: too hot to nap. We set up ground blind on south end about 4 pm with just one hen decoy. The result was we got to watch a nice gobbler and several hens walk by from where we parked the Ranger in the wash, just out of range. Dave almost got a shot. Lots activity occurred after sundown. Day 3. Jorge’s rooster alarm did not go off so we “slept in” till 3:15 am; after which, we headed to the ground blind we had left set up. It was very quiet. 17 hens and 2 gobblers came right by the northern spot from previous day about 75 yards from us and went up the east side of the pond and then to the northern, sparsely vegetated hill up from the pond. Later another gobbler with a messed-up fan chased the other 2 gobblers off and came in with 8 hens, one of which was gimping. Another gobbled way off to east. Great morning watching and listen to the strutting. That wing drag was a new experience for me. After all activity ceased, Chris reset the blind to the northern spot behind the tree where all the action was occurring – this was an extraordinary spot with wing drag marks everywhere. The different flocks seemed to take turns coming into the pond and did not want to encounter other birds so we used no more decoys and no more calling. Machaca burritos and bacon, eggs, beans were ready for us for late breakfast. Temps were still very hot and dry which just shut down all activity during the early afternoon to include us! Somehow, we got intermittent texts through my Verizon cell phone and it seemed that Jay and his hunters on different ranches had scored. Heading back to the pond in the early afternoon, we checked out a new spot sort of on the way at 2 pm but there was no activity and then we were off to the ground blind. We sat in the blind till dark. Finally, many (14?) hens came into drink with no gobblers. The hens were very nervous but stayed a long time at 20-30 yards away drinking and eating out of the ooze on the north end of the lake. Day 4 -- last day. We got into the blind early by 4:30. Super quiet. No activity till late, which was very disconcerting. FINALLY, a hen came in alone and stayed a long time till poor Dave had a coughing fit. Then 9 hens came in about 9 am working right in front of the blind, which apparently no longer seemed out of place. The gobbler showed up and went around the opposite side of the pond to make sure other gobblers gobbling to the south did not take these hens away. He went right over previous south side blind location, along with another gobbler later on. Shoulda, woulda, coulda! Then another gobbler came in quietly with a few hens with lots of strutting across the represso on my side but out of range. He worked his way over to within 30 yards. Dave worked his way into position just in case we got a chance at a double (we practiced one, two, three, BANG several times during the slack time) and then I heard wing drags just outside the blind ... another gobbler had come in from the north to challenge the one I could see. My gobbler took off at the site of the new gobbler. He wandered out of range, so I gave Dave the ok to shoot what I thought was the close one which I could not see. Chris was going to stop him but TOO SLOW JOE! I looked back and the gobblers were together and Dave bammed the latter one. I shot but was so frazzled, I missed by a foot and a half as the first gobbler was exiting stage right. Chris jumped out and got Dave’s bird and had me set up again as there were many birds gobbling. He called and even tried the gobble call with lots of response but NOTHING but nothing came in so we decided to go after the closest one that was quite vocal. We got to within a couple hundred yards but could not get him to commit. We heard maybe 2 others but only one or two times so it was back to blind. Then another started gobbling down by the UTV. We tried to work him but he just went up the opposite steep hillside – he sounded like he was really close due to the steepness of the hill. He worked his way up to the top if the hill as Chris called in the blind and I set up to the south of the pond. Foiled again. Chris and Dave then returned to the ranch to take care of his bird while I sat the blind. I heard several gobblers while there but none came into pond. The clouds gave us a reprieve from the heat. Alas, it finally got hot but there was a good breeze, which made it so I could not hear well. Chris showed back up at 3 pm with some lunch for me. We had the blind quite open to keep it cooler. I was telling lots stories like the “pet turkey Gobbles” from way back. At end of story, around 3:30 pm, Chris noticed a really nice gobbler standing on the dam drinking. Thank goodness for the wind covering my story. We were careful to maintain absolutely no movement since the blind was so open. The gobbler walked toward us from 60+ to 30 yds right at the pond’s west edge. At 30, BAM! Straight into the lake as Chris had predicted. Chris scrambled out with boots untied and tethered together. The turkey was swimming out by his flailing and the pond was deep there at the steepest part of the bank. Chris stepped into the murky water and just as it was providentially planned, the turkey back flipped while 10 ft out and swam back to Chris. That poor turkey was a nasty, wet mess but HUGE. It had a nice spur on the right leg and nub on the other. PLUS, it a had a double beard: 10-6/8" and 6-5/8". True trophy status! Chris was really excited! I was shaking like crazy and could not get the phone set up to video Chris swimming after the turkey. Lots of high fives and hugs and hoopla resulted. We pulled the blind and headed back to the ranch arriving about 5pm, the first early quitting time of the hunt. I was so grateful for the total Providence on the last evening of the hunt with some extraordinarily difficult and unusual hunting conditions. The dried-out pics of the bird were much nicer than the shoreline pics! We back home very early the next morning as Chris had his next assignment to work his magic. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I thought I'd share another project of mine. Mostly done in my garage/wanna be shop. I wanted this to be as cheap as possible so I could keep the boss happy! Remington 700 223 SPS Greyboe stock Tally Rings Leupold VX-R 4-12×50 Here is the beginning. As you can see here the action port was a little long and the butt pad needs to be fitted. Opened up the barrel channel free float the barrel. Bedded and built up the elongated ejection port. While that was curing gave the rifle a good needed cleaning as it was a used rifle. After curing, shaped butt pad, and sanded down action area to match the contour of the stock. Sent stock over to Applied Hydrographics(here locally) and had it dipped in black multi-cam. While waiting for the stock to be finished, I bedded and lapped Talley rings, sorry no photos for that. Mounted scope and put it all together after retrieving the stock. Here is the finnished product! I plan on shooting Hornady 53 grain V-max bullets in front of CFE 223, I have a ladder/velocity/pressure test loaded and will fallow up after the shooting is done, and will share my next step in the load development process. For you expert reloaders out there please chime in as reloading is a never ending learning curve. Thanks for looking and whatever input you can add.

I am in the middle of a debate with a "friend" about the idea of having to be trained and licensed to own a gun and all guns would then need to be registered! His comment was, "Why are law abiding citizens worried about license/registration of their guns? We have a drivers license and register our cars!" I've alway felt like this was just that next big step just before confiscation! Anybody have any thoughts? I am trying to keep my composure, he has already informed me I was just ignorant.......so you can see why that friendship might be on thin ice!

Previous poster broke it down fairly well. I'll say one thing, this year unit 8 is way improved over last year. Quality should be pretty good.

Cringing imagining all the scratches that occurred prior to that photo.. And worse, the comments section.

We have been registering our guns since 1968, when you buy a gun that ATF form you fill out isn't for the stores record! The question that I would ask your liberal buddy Is what more laws could they pass against guns that isn't on the books, but not enforced?

With any firearm legislation, law abiding citizens are not the problem. That's really all you need to tell your friend.

In his argument he implies that “you have to be trained and licensed to operate a vehicle”. This is true if you operate that vehicle on public roads. You do not have to having any training or licensing to own a vehicle. Just like owning a firearm requires no training or licensing. If you choose to carry your fire arm in public places you may need to have training or licensing like a concealed carry. Obviously there are State level differences with this. He is comparing apples and watermelons when comparing operating of an item and ownership of that item. If I own a vehicle and it is parked on my private property and not used on public roadways then no licensing or training is required. Your friend is blending arguments and missing the details along the way.

Fox News and Fox 10 News. Huge difference

Don’t shoot me!! But I love lettuce wraps with ground meat! Asian spiced, Mexican spiced, or bbq/sloppy joe type seasonings. Shave some carrots, onion, and celery, toss in some fresh garlic and cook with the meat. Then add whatever topping you want (cheese, sour cream, avacado, seseme chips, dried sea weed etc.) and serve it in a big ole lettuce leaf!

one of my favorite places to be... Congrats on a great bird....

For this season in Arizona, I drew my second Gould's turkey tag, this one in 35A. I found out that Game and Fish holds a survey camp, sponsored by The Huachuca Gould's Chapter of The NWTF, a month before the hunt. Of course I participated in the survey, it was fun, plus I learned a lot about the unit and found some roosting areas. Excellent camp, nice folds and great food! Did I mention the various Dutch-oven cobblers? Opening morning I went in where 3 toms had been roosted, but they weren't there. I heard a faint gobble further up the canyon, so I moved a half-mile further in. It was light by now, so I set-up by a little meadow alongside a running Creek and began calling. I had a gobbler respond about 300 yards up the canyon. Next gobble he sounded closer, the next sounded farther away. I called again and he sounded closer! I strained my eyes looking thru the trees and brush looking for movement. Finally I catch sight of him, he's strutting and gobbling his way in! I was counting on him coming along the creek, but he was on the dirt road on the far side of the creek. As he passed behind a tree, I got my shotgun up on a knee and pointed that direction. I had ranged all parts of the area, so I knew if I had a clear shot I could take him. He continued strutting and gobbling down the road, but there was a lot of brush between us. As I followed him with the muzzle, the road was angling away, when he got to be straight out in front of me, he passed through a clear spot, so I fired-dropped him in his tracks! Turned out to be a 50 yard shot. He was a nice tom! Weighed 20.5 lbs, had a thick 11" beard and 1" spurs. Checked the time: 5:50 am. Beautiful tom! View from where I shot Zoomed in, bird is on edge of road View of camp through trees Not roughing it this time Sunset from Coronado National Monument

I keep telling myself I'm heading back to 35A to chase coues after spending last turkey season down there. We had a pair of bruisers walk across the road in front of us one evening.

More pics from today as I am puppy sitting. Only 10 more days until 8 weeks.

Yes, nice area for sure. Saw a couple of nice coues bucks still packing gear. Might have to try to get a coues tag there as well.

I have a elk tag in a unit that took me 8 years to draw.The horn growth should be off the charts.Being a rancher,I am always excited to talk about rain,but most of the time,it's about the lack of it.This year is great for all the animals.

It's not an "accidental shooting". Modern guns don't go off when you drop them. He had to have had his finger on the trigger, safety off, a round in the chamber, and pointed at another human being. He was arrested because his NEGLIGENCE almost killed a child. IMHO. Did you catch the part about the other unsecured loaded weapons placed around the house in the reach of a 6-year old?

i miss the albacore too. the best meal in my life was in 2005 on the First String. the first two 25lb albacore caught on the troll(1 was mine) were donated to the galley. sashimi 20 minutes after it was caught is sumtin! lee

Why do you have to call it a contest. Just go killing