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Ya’ll are crazy if you think the chosen "sharpshooters" will be anything more than Russ Jacoby’s chosen group.

I know I am protected, I remember these clear as day.

People build fences to keep elephants contained. Don’t think it’d be that hard to keep a bison out. There are 10,000 wild horses wrecking habitat across the state that the feds will do nothing about but they’ll slaughter the few hundred bison (native species) inside the park? Nice move feds. What a joke.

Yeah, yeah, yeah The herd introduced a hundred or so years ago had a drop of beef blood in them. Elizabeth Warren has more indian in her blood. I just don’t get why they need to slaughter them? Anyone know the reason behind it? What are there maybe 500 or so bison in AZ? Our elk are not native. Why not slaughter them? The donkeys and horses are an actual problem.

That’s like calling a flattie a baseball cap.

I'm just sorry I read this whole post!

Snipers only for that 100 yard shoot, or creedmoor owners only.

Those days of practicing open sights on the BB gun and 22’s paid off. She was a little nervous about shooting the shotgun but I told her she only had o pull the trigger one time. She made a terrific 15 yard shot.

Had some one back out 600$ alc paper ready to go home in a week pm or txt me 928-301-9169 for more pics she's top right

Just wait until its on all the local news. Im betting money on serious butthurt

Shoot a bunch of bison. Let horses and donkeys roam free. Hurts my brain.

1. Is the 3/5 in 4" open sights offhand or from a scoped rifle on the bench? 2.Yes they will bust through fences. 3. They are non-native. 4. I'll go just to shoot one. I have a 45-70 Marlin and a 375 H&H old Model 70 that have just punched paper. I'm down like Charlie Brown.

The only thing worse than the 6.5 cm is the people calling it a caliber and not a cartridge.

All you’ve gotta do is fence the water, you don’t even need to drain it. Buffalo won’t jump a fence but all the other critters will. A few hundred T-posts, several thousand feet of barbed wire and some volunteers will fix the problem in about a week and you don’t have to slaughter all the dang bison. G&F doesn’t want solutions though.

A random thought on getting the bison off of the park. Drain all park water for may and June. Get rid of the water and salt within 3 miles of the park fence. They will move to find new water and salt. Just a theory.

U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Grand Canyon National Park News Release April 27, 2021 PO Box 129, Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 Office of Communications grca_bison_info@nps.gov www.nps.gov/grca Grand Canyon National Park seeks skilled volunteers for North Rim bison reduction The Arizona Game and Fish Department is forwarding this Grand Canyon National Park news release to constituents who may have an interest in this opportunity GRAND CANYON, Ariz. — The National Park Service, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), seeks skilled volunteers to assist with the removal of bison on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in the fall of 2021. Interested parties should carefully read this announcement and the information in the links below. Given the current distribution, abundance, density and the expected growth of the bison herd on the North Rim, the NPS is concerned about increased impacts on park resources such as water, vegetation, soils, archaeological sites and values such as visitor experience and wilderness character. Reducing the herd size will protect the park ecosystem, resources and values. Individuals who are interested in applying to be volunteers can submit an application on the following website (www.azbisonstewards.com) beginning at 12 a.m. (Arizona time) on May 3 through 11:59 p.m. on May 4, 2021. Volunteers must: Be U.S. citizens 18 years of age or older with valid photo ID Have the ability to purchase and pass a background investigation and have no criminal or wildlife violations Self-certify a high level of physical fitness ability Have a firearm safety certification and pass a marksmanship proficiency test (3 of 5 shots in a 4-inch circle at 100 yards) Provide their own equipment, firearm, lodging, food and field dressing supplies. See firearm FAQs. Be available for the entirety of one of the assigned lethal removal operational periods. Individuals may not participate in more than one: Sept. 20-24, 2021; Sept. 27-Oct 1, 2021; Oct. 18-22, 2021; Oct. 25-29, 2021 Meet all additional requirements listed on the NPS FAQ page and on the application (the application will be available at www.azbisonstewards.com when the application period opens). Only 25 applicants will be selected to form the pool from which 12 qualified individuals will be chosen to become a skilled volunteer. The volunteer pool will be selected using a random lottery system and selected individuals will be contacted by the NPS by May 17, 2021. At the end of the week, volunteers may be given up to one bison in exchange for removal by AZGFD. Employees of the National Park Service or other Department of the Interior agencies, as well as employees of the Arizona Game and Fish Department or members of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, are not eligible to apply. Future volunteer removal operations will be announced on a later date and will require a separate volunteer application. Please note, this is not an AZGFD permit hunt or draw application, and applying or being selected for this skilled volunteer opportunity will not affect bonus points, count toward lifetime species limits, or invalidate any big game tag or application an individual may have with AZGFD. There will not be an opportunity to correct applications once submitted. Detailed information is available on the NPS FAQ page and will also be on the application page at www.azbisonstewards.comonce the application period opens. Any questions should be emailed to grca_bison_info@nps.gov. This effort to reduce bison to a more manageable herd size is supported via consultation with the public and traditionally associated Tribes as well as in the 2017 Environmental Assessment conducted by NPS, the State of Arizona and the US Forest Service. In addition to removal, Grand Canyon National Park biologists began piloting live capture and relocation in 2019. Since the program began, 88 animals have been captured and relocated to five American Indian Tribes through an agreement with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council. These animals will augment existing herds managed by these Tribes. In addition, NPS and USGS biologists have placed GPS collars on 25 animals to help with population estimates, migration patterns and temporal locations. Grand Canyon will continue live capture and relocation operations in the fall of 2021. For more information regarding bison impacts and monitoring, please visit: https://www.nps.gov/articles/bison-impacts-and-monitoring.htm. -NPS-

They didn't.. I was being sarcastic. The point I was trying to make is if people were gaga emotional about Bison like they are feral horses... they wouldn't be killing bison in the park

Im pretty dang sure I read that Bison were in fact native to a small portion of AZ, and not the herd we have now. True Bison.

I'll take a yearly.

No they won't jump it they'll just walk right thru it.. Everyone wants to do this..

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love to see that...good job bro

UPDATE - BLUEBONNET LONGBEARD My brother picked up me in Dallas last Thursday and we got on the road. It took us about 2 hours to get to some private ground we have permission to hunt - we cracked some beers and got ready to roost some birds that evening. We spent the last hour of shooting light trying to locate some longbeards and spent about an hour afterwards owl hooting, hoping to shock gobble a few. No luck. We woke up Friday morning with an uninformed game plan, really just hoping we would get into this hayfield on the property and get lucky. We parked about 1000 yards from the tree line, on the far end of the hayfield, about an hour before legal shooting light. As we closed the distance across the field, we decided to stop and make a set of owl hoots. I couldn't even get the first three notes out and POW. POW. Two gobblers struck up on the left corner of the hayfield. We made a beeline for trees. We set up as close as we could in the pitch black of the early morning, with a jake and hen decoy set out about 15 yards into the field. After 15 minutes of letting things cool down, I let out a soft hen call and immediately - POW, POW. I gave them some time and hit them with a little bit louder and longer hen call - POW, POW. They were keyed in on our location and all we had to do was wait for flydown. 10 minutes after legal shooting light, the gobbles start to move direction slightly. Again, we don't hear them fly down... but we see two dark blobs 100 yards into the hayfield. In the grey light of early dawn, we can barely make them out. But we know one of them is a tom, with the thunder coming from their location. 20 minutes of cat/mouse calling, and we have this jake and tom barreling in our decoys. I'm sitting behind my brother and I give them a soft yelp to get the tom's head up inside the decoy spread. He fired off a round and the big tom cartwheeled in place. Epic morning and a cool experience to get it done with my brother.

ouch man, i bet everyone has some stolen cat stories. Why in the heck can these be worth anything for scrap? seems like easy fix to make them worthless to a thief? Its been going on for years. I replaced a few over the years and welded heat treated steel bars on the back side so they would trash their sawzall blade.

Closed for some remodeling during the winter. It should reopen soon