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The misinformation in this thread is amazing. I laugh the whole way through. 10-12K hahaha. I too was misinformed until we test drove a few and found out the real numbers. We paid $500 for the Tesla charger and $500 for the install. Arizona has a $1K rebate that we received so the charger was a wash. We spend $35 a month extra on our electric bill to charge the car and we drive a lot. We can get a full charge in under an hour in the garage that happens at night while we sleep. No more oil changes, no more stopping to get gas in the morning and being late for work. We bought a Tesla model Y that was 3K more than the Toyota Highlander we were going to buy. Bought the vehicle in a few clicks rather than dealing with turbo salesmen at the lot. We paid 166 for 5 years of registration btw. The amount of money we are saving on gas and registration alone makes it worth it. Plus the car is very very fast and extremely fun to drive. We drove to California and back and I didn't steer or use the gas/brake pedals the entire time, and we spent $35 total to charge it both ways. My wife will not go back to ice vehicles. I wasn't a fan until I actually did the research and experienced it myself. It has a 8 year bumper to bumper warranty including the battery and the batteries are supposed to last 200,000-250,000 miles. Tesla comes to my house and does anything I want to free while I'm at work. If you need a car for driving around town its a no brainer. It's cheaper, faster and more fun to drive. That being said I'm keeping my Tacoma for hunting/fishing/camping. The electric thing isn't far enough along for that yet.

EV owners are not paying their fare share of taxes on fuel, registration, nor are they supporting local business with stops at gas stations and mini marts, not supporting the local mom and pop repair shops. Thus, who suffers from EV cars? We do, hard working, oil dependent masculine males and females! Roads dont get extra tax dollars from EV cars, they dont pay extra taxes at the pump for anything. They are a drain on the economy, not to mention they have a high carbon footprint and what to do with them and those horrible batteries, yes more pollution. Even nuclear waste is easier to use and get rid of. Looking at the studies and facts, most owners of EV are woke people, they consider themselves privileged due to their appropriated status.

If they ever make one that could get 1,000 miles on a full charge (charge by just plugging in extension cord) be able to tow heavy equipment and cost Pennie’s on the mile I’m sold. until then blah.

Scope has never been mounted. Opened and looked at. Only use it’s ever had. 1850$ firm gets it. Flawless. Located in west valley will ship. Also have Nightforce rings for 150

Took the kids, wife and father-in-law out fishing Saturday. We decided to go to Whitehorse, a lake I haven't fished in over 10 years. I didn't know what to expect so I brought rigs for catfish, trout, crappie. Well the large mouth bass were sure hungry. We caught about 5 in the 11" range and I caught this nice 16"er that was almost 3 lbs. These were my first largemouth I've ever caught. On Sunday I took my son out shed hunting here around Flagstaff and we did turn up 1 muley shed. Overall a good weekend outdoors.

0710FFD0-3B3B-4095-B247-C70E4D567794.MOV Saw these guys headed back for the RZR after by buddy shot one in 3a3c last year. Biggest bulls I have seen on hoof. What do you think they score? The one looks about 370+ to us. The other has some wicked fronts. Anyone with a 3c tag is in for a treat. I wasn’t trying to be quiet or anything. Was very out of breathe just trying to run back and get the gutting tools. Sorry for the shakey video too.

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Great meeting you!

Right on! I have tag #25 out of 25 early rifle bull.

Don't hire a guide. If theres any elk hunt in the state that you don't need a guide, thats it. Enjoy success from your own hard work. I can't stand dragging a guide around with me on an archery bull hunt. From your profile pic it looks like you have a lot of experience hunting, you should be fine if you can put some time into it.

Agree on this and didn't mean to poo-poo the important topic of driver education/safety. Just wanted to make sure Kev's kid can find a car. My children are all in the mid-late 20s now, but when they were 15-16, we enrolled each of them in comprehensive driving class. I forget the name, but it was a 'school' that was started and run by some ex Phoenix PD traffic cops, I believe. Well worth the investment. S

Thanks Kev, I think you know our heart was in the right place. My background has made this a regular discussion point professionally and the course was referred to me years ago when my kids were in the permit stage of life. I found it valuable so that is why I shared. It's the old "need behind the need" I need a car. Why? Inexperienced driver wrecked theirs. So what you need is your driver to gain more experience so you don't have to car shop every six months. Check out the statistics on this website regarding youthful operators. The stats are sobering. Nobody's child/grandchild is immune (mine included). https://www.safetyinsurance.com/driversafety/tips_statistics.html No different that hunter's/firearm safety in my opinion. Luck is not a factor. Wish I had a car for you! If you find one in Phx and I can help you, let me know. All the best to you and yours.

I dont mind the interjection. I got on her about her driving a lot. The accident really shook her up and i spent a lot of time driving with her since.

Just got charged for it now it’s official.

I think he said his daughter is looking for a car, not a driving school. 🙄😭 Maybe there’s a cream puff somewhere in this bunch, Kevin? https://www.edmunds.com/used-cars-under-5000-tucson-az/ Good luck to the young lady!!

Here's another option I can recommend for new drivers. My daughter took this in 2016. https://streetsurvival.org/ It was offered in Marana then but I do not see an AZ class for this year. Teen drivers are accompanied by SCCA instructors; no parents allowed in the vehicle. Eddie

Sorry about the wreck, glad they are ok. I put both my boys through this hands on training course where they learned to handle a loss of traction and how to properly use their abs systems to avoid collision. They drove cars with plastic skid covers on the rear wheels. It was a great experience for them. Knock on wood, so far so good. Doug Herbert, a top fuel drag racer, lost both his boys in an auto accident when they were driving to McDonalds on a Saturday morning. Absolutely tragic, worst nightmare for any parent. He started this program. https://putonthebrakes.org/about https://putonthebrakes.org/shop

She is. Her brother got a fresh ding on his head but they were ok. It made her more careful so thats a long term win.

Hope she is OK!

RIP Red Rocket.

All red for me but I just found out yesterday I drew a Rocky tag in CO so I ain’t complaining!!!!

I had the great opportunity this past weekend to take my 10 year old son on his first turkey hunt. This really has been a hunt he has been getting ready for the last 10 years. From the time he was 1 he was going with me to the NWTF national convention watching the national calling contest, seeing my pot calls in the call making contest and meeting the primos crew who he had seen on the truth turkey hunting DVD’s so many times. He has been to 3 national conventions. He has also been fortunate to join me in turkey camp so many times through the years. He has been with me in the shop watching me make so many turkey calls and picked out the wood and the size and surfaces for the calls he wanted me to make for him. He is always asking me to make him something new. I started making the smaller sized pot calls (3” instead of 3 1/2”) to fit in his hands better. He has also attended with me to so many fund raising banquets all over Arizona and even volunteered and helped set up, clean up and run prizes to the winners at the last East Valley Toms banquet. 4 years ago he joined me at a turkey camp helping other youth hunters. On the first evening of the hunt he started experiencing really bad pain bellow his stomach. He ended up taking a helicopter ride from Show Low to Phoenix Children’s hospital because his intestine had developed a small hole and was leaking into his body. After 3 very painful weeks in the hospital and several procedures later he made a full recovery. I am so glad he pulled through and this experience has really helped me appreciate all the time I get to spend with him and his two younger brothers. This hunt started a little rough when getting out of our vehicle on opening morning in the dark to the wind howling. We just had to go from past experience hunting this area because we would not be able to hear them. It took an hour or so of calling and moving to locate them but we found them and had them coming in to our calls. We had a fence between us them and some were hanging up not wanting to cross. Two hens and a jake did cross and just as the others were getting ready to cross a vehicle came driving by and scarred the flock in the opposite direction. Later that morning we were able to call the two hens and jake to our setup but the jake never gave him a shot opportunity. The first evening had us trying a different area on the other side of the unit playing cat a mouse with a strutting tom and three hens. It was fun to watch him strut but the closest we could get him to come was about 50 yards, good enough for my 12 gauge with 3 ½” shells but not for the 20 gauge 3” he was using. No shot taken. The second morning we thought we had the perfect setup after seeing the birds travel pattern on opening morning. The turkeys had a different plan in mind and went the opposite direction. Knowing where they would probably be heading we left our decoy and setup and hurried on a quick mile hike to get in front of them. After a few minutes of calling it was confirmed we had made the right move with gobbles not to far off and sounding closer each time. The hole flock came in and he was able to make a great shot on the strutting tom at 10 yards. He was so happy and excited. I have been apart of over 40 birds being harvested all over the country but this is my new favorite most exciting turkey hunt I have been on. I am so happy for my son. I would like to thank Steve AKA Cactus Jack and his son for letting us borrow his youth 20 gauge. He was nervous about the recoil and didn’t want to use any our 12 gauges. Sorry for the long read, just glad I was able to be apart of this hunt and share a little of it with you.

Tessa was able to take this axis deer in Texas. She was able to sit a water hole where a herd showed up at last light. She made quick work of the axis buck. Looking forward to trying the meat from it. Her oryx has been amazing and I have been told that the axis is even better

That wasn't mud.....

My son and I were out shed hunting a couple weeks back and we came across a couple cameras in an area and someone had caked mud all over them…. So we did our best to get the mud off for whomever they belonged too. Hope they still work. One had a solar set up on it so def took someone some time. Anyway just a random story. Dunno how others feel about it but I don’t understand why someone would do this to another’s property. (I get that maybe it was in someone else’s spot or whatever) but anyway my kid felt good about helping out so I was happy with that. Cheers!