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I can never figure out why the negative people are always so adamant about wanting to shoot down other people's plans because they don't agree with them. Every time this comes up the same people come in and $h!t all over it. I bought a house 2 years ago this July that the previous owners had spent over $30k building a pool the previous summer. A pool was one of the "must haves" on our list. Sure we have spent more money maintaining it, but we have never regretted it for 1 second. I have 5 kids, 4 of them boys, and we use the pool every day of the week. It's gas heated and we swim from March into late October and we enjoy the heck out of it. It has been a great escape during these times when a lot of places are shut down. I say go for it and ignore the negative Nancy's.

Just curious, how many of you practice leave no trace ethics? Also, what are some examples of things do you do while you're camping, backpacking, hunting, etc? Couple of things we do to minimize evidence of our stay: dig our firepit as reasonably deep as possible and cover it up before we leave disperse all unused firewood and spread out the smaller remnants of the woodpile breakdown old firepits when camped in an already used site nothing more than paper products ever get thrown in the fire to burn dig catholes for human waste avoid adding artificial materials to freshwater sources aside from funky a** feet... when in high use areas we'll all spend 10min walking the area picking up any trash I've always been disappointed to see how badly the land is treated. Firepits are one of my largest gripes when I see how much trash people throw in the fire. Copenhagen and Skull folks are my favorite offenders!!! A couple of years back I broke down a large firepit in one of the wildernesses that had a personal record of 23 tins found in it. I think we as hunters have even more skin in the game when it comes to preservation and I see a lot of places that hunters are some of the worse offenders. With all of the extra traffic in the woods this year, I think it's a good conversation to start. I'd love to hear what the CWT community is doing to help take care of this joint and preserve our wild spaces.

Pools are awesome for young families. As the kids got older, it got used less. We are using more this year so far than probably the last 2 years combined and I hope that keeps up. They are expensive to put and up keep, but it is what it is. I would love to fill mine in, but dang near as expensive to build and we aren't quite there yet in terms of use. But someday I have envisions of a nice fire pit, bbq etc where the pool is now.

The discussion of our pool is sure to get an argument started every time at my house. I hate effing pools. They are a huge money pit, rarely get used and a PITA to maintain. My wife likes to sit in the shallow area with her sisters and friends and drink so what's a guy going to do. I enjoy hunting and she enjoys sitting in the pool and drinking. Marriage is a compromise.

My uncle put in a pool. The first year they used it alot. The second year they sat and looked at it alot. The third year they looked at it, sometimes a visiting kid would use it. The forth year the maintenance was tiring. the fifth year it became dirty, very tired of the constant maintenance. Then they sold the house to get away from that dang pool and the constant maintenance. Pools are money pits. If you want to sit in water while you drink buy an above ground hot tub. Then when you get tired of it you can get rid of it easy, t doesnt waste so much water, if it gets dirty all you have to do it drain and fill or drain and sell. 😷 PS I didnt say dang.

.300WM MPR is 8.4lbs bare rifle. Add rings, scope, level, and you are going to be over 10lbs easily, maybe closer to 10.5lbs. Not your typical "pack rifle" weight range. Not a beast by any means compared to others. Your thread is "talk me out of it". Been tons of suggestions and reasons why you might consider other options. Maybe you should have left the "talk me out of it" part out of the title, and called it "I am getting this rifle".

Come take mine.. please

I found the guns I was looking for. Thanks guys.

As I am typing this, I am SITTING DOWN IN A RESTAURANT about to order my lunch!!!!! Almost feels strange...

I got a call from G&F lady last Monday asking if I wanted to burn up my 19pt for unit 31 so I said heck ya. Little did I know is that the forest is closed down on Mt Graham April 8-June 30th do to covid-19. Haha would of been nice to know before I took tag. Good thing my uncle knows a few areas. Found birds night before and called one in first light next morning. 19pt was over in 30 mins. Thanks Billy!!

Agreed. They actually run like they are supposed to run.

I have had a few of each. The both shoot very nice, buti I’m always scared to take the kimbers out of the Safe

Yeah they were (supposedly). If we end up with a rooster ill just grill him

Very interesting and entertaining thread. This was my grandfather's knife. The sheath on the right is the original sheath (as far as I know) and the one on the left a custom sheath I had made for it with my grandfather's initials in Greek (his native language) and a whitetail deer for all his time hunting whitetails in Michigan. He was one of my heroes in life and this knife is a priceless heirloom to me. I know it's a KA-BAR but apart from that and a little family oral history, I don't know much about it. If you do, I'd love to hear your thoughts or guesses. Pics of the tang stamps are below as well. (I'd guess it was made in the '50s but I could be off by a decade or more in either direction.) *Edit: an Internet search shows what looks like the same tang stamp with a range of 1927-1945. Pic below. That would make since based on what I know about the family history of this knife.

For those of you interested in ages for bears last year, results are up. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon/wp-content/uploads/archive/2019-AZ-Bear-Harvest-Age-Results.pdf My boar came in at 12 years old.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. That bear in 17B had a great life! Made it to drinking age. Lol

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Not being racist but its a Mexican thing just like toilet paper thrown in the corner, watched for many years on job sights, and white Boys right all over the inside with sharpies. Just my take

In every genre there’s are outliers, I have ran into hikers who are carrying other people’s trash and I have seen hiking groups leave a bunch of trash as well. About three times I have went to hit an improved toilet here in Az and found the pile to be above the seat !!!! Now that is something special, imagine the last 9 or 10 folks had to help out to get it that high. I’m not kidding at all. Back then we didn’t have cameras or I would have a photo. I’m talking a foot high out of the lid. I guess it was like a sport at that point.

My family and I went up past Woods Canyon Lake last week, for 4 days. It was crazy how busy it was. I've been up there multiple weekends for the last few month too, shed hunting. The amount of campers, and squatters is insane. We stopped at an old camp site (that some dipsh!ts left) and picked up 2 HUGE bags of trash. My kids hated doing it, but I'm trying to teach them respect for our public lands. I always leave the forest a better place than I find it. If I can teach that to my kids, I've done a good thing as a father.

I picked this folder up at a swap meet near Seattle, decades ago. This lil ol Asian gal had a large jewelry box opened up on a table for folks to rummage through. The moment I picked it up it felt special. I motioned to the seller what I had, "one dolla" she said. It's about 4" when folded, 8" opened. Stag scales, Sterling silver hilt, guard and bolster. It's a good steel, holds its edge and sharp as a razor. When open, she locks solid and has no play. Tang reads: Henry Sears Co. Prussia (Pennsylvania) A little research tells me this knife was built between 1865-1879. 150 years old, built to last, built with American pride. Valued somewhere between $1 "dolla" and priceless. My youngest daughter loves knives and she's already asked for this one.

If your going on Wednesday and leaving Friday you should be good.

Second that. Copies of two his prints are used in the "How To Hunt Coues Deer" book. Like you, I haven't seen or spoken to Mike for many years. Last time was when he was still working for Gore in Flagstaff.