SilentButDeadly

I don't know alot about how G&F do their large mammal surveys, but it seems to me that doing a straight line overflight of an area could lead to some inaccuracies as to estimating true populations of game species. For example, a fishermen that always fishes around submerged reefs might think that there are thousands of fish in the sea, as his reefs are always teeming with fish, however if he were to fish in the open ocean he would find it to be nearly empty of fish. The same goes for game, which favor certain habitats over others, if the G&F helicopter or field crew goes to one of these areas and does a crude extrapolation of total area than they would be wildly wrong. Perhaps one or more of the other readers could point us toward the published literature on how G&F does their sampling? I'd like to learn more about how they come up with their totals. Wildlife biologists do tend to be pretty spectacular statisticians (I mean that seriously - they know how to get the best results from the meager data that they can collect). It would be interesting to see if they incorporate vegetation maps or habitat models to help develop population numbers.

atta boy!

beaut!

BONZERS!

Where do you live? I thought it was hot in Tucson.

Atta Boy!

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I think at least 10 quads/trucks will drive up and down that road on opening morning. Get away from the road!

Excellent! Killing a cow elk with a bow is x5 harder than killing a bull! congratulations!

Just an update -- my father-in-law Ernie Allen shot his bull on the last morning! Looks like luck runs in the family! He hunted all 14 days plus 5 scout days before the hunt!

IMO, get him a right handed bow. In the heat of the moment both eyes will be open, he will want to leave his dominant eye slightly open, and that will be enough to cause double vision. One of my archery mentors is right handed, left eye dominant; he would consistently screw up high pressure shots for years until he finally switched to a left handed bow. He is good friends with Randy Ulmer (the Chosen One), Randy is the one who helped convince him to switch over. I might think that he would be a somewhat better shooter using his stronger, more coordinated left arm on the riser to stabilize the bow, while using back tension to release the string with his right.

this is the only Trail-cam photo I've got of him, from September 08

Awesome!

What posers for the camera! You all look awesome in those shirts!

WR???!!!!

Amanda, I've got to ask, but did you intentionally set the camera with the root there so that you could catch birds on it?

You just entered the elite hall of men who have killed a mountain lion minus dogs, with a bow. I salute you.

Here is a list of things compiled a few years ago by the Brookings Institute: http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2000/11governance_light.aspx I'd also like to add: The National Forests, National Parks, and pretty much all other Public lands, as well as the State run Fish and Game programs, i.e. Public Hunting. I'm not going to quibble about how successful you all think the National Forests are managed, or how you think Game and Fish should be managed -- the reality is that if GOVERNMENT didn't do these things for you this website would not exist. Move to Texas and hunt private ground if you think government is worthless - Texans will be the first ones to secede from the Union if the federal government implodes anyway. But you better hope that you've got the cash to use somebodyelse's land to enjoy the great outdoors, because there is no 'socialized' place for you to haul your camper! I think Jimmer already gave a link that shows you why universal health coverage could be different. Even in those European countries that you claim have poor public coverage and have to pay for private insurance on the side it still costs them 1/2 what we pay now. For all the fear universal coverage will crash our health care system: Doesn't that leave room for a new market? Privately run hospitals and doctors that exist outside to the public option would then pick up the slack and you could pay for your premium care there instead -- isn't that what has happened in all these European countries? Answer: NO! Because their Government run programs actually work there, just like the ones that the Brookings institute highlighted above. As for Our Congressman Mike Rogers of Michigan: is it any surprise where his #1 and #2 congressional funding sources come from? http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/ind...type=I&mem= This guy is a paid mouthpiece of the Insurance, Pharma, and Health Services industries (whose profits would suffer the most under a public option).

Ever seen one with white sides?

Killing anything with a Vizsla along is a true success!

1 for Flop-ear

OMG!

Skinwalker for sure, Yeti's live in Asia (in the snowy Himalaya).

Beautiful! Those Mexican deer definitely have more 'swagger' than the sketched out Coues I see in Arizona. The deer up here are tentative just taking single steps, those guys look like rompin-stompin bad-asses. Also, you can really see how much more moisture they've been getting down there this year. I've watched the GOES-10 satellite imagery every week, Mexico boils with thunderstorms almost every day while we've been wilting up here!