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This shows that the world is getting smaller. It’s prof that a trophy animal in an area such as this is doomed. It’s going down one way or the other with everyone making it their mission to get this one buck. I’m not being critical of the guide or other hunters, because that’s what we all want, but if you think about the curse the deer has, well it sucks to be him.

Winchester, Remington, and now Colt. We should take bets to see what major manufacturer is next. For me, it’s hard to say. Maybe Smith and Wesson, or Ruger. If either make it, they survive by only making the cheap Tupperware type of guns. When I was growing up, if there was a gun you wanted badly, it was one of those 5 makers. Now I find myself wanting the European pistols like Walther, FN, Sig, Hammerli, H&K and Korth. Rifles I still like American, but none from the top 5. I like Cooper and customs. This might be a good thing. CZ has my respect. They make guns as good as ours. I’d rather it be them over some one else that is not in the gun business and just wants the name. At least I hope that’s their intention.

It’s nice to see one of these. Most people aren’t interested in a rifle like this because it’s not a common type. This is actually a really good rifle for anyone but especially for a kid or younger shooter. If it was a lefty, I would buy it today just to have and play with.

Me too. It wouldn’t be hard. G&F watch people fishing before they confront them. I was there once just hanging out with others fishing and the game warden pulls up and asked the two that were fishing for their licenses and didn’t even talk to the four others that weren’t, this was after the poles were put as we were about to leave so no one actually had a pole on their hands. They could do just that. Watch and pounce on them when they drive away after not picking up their brass. Make a weekend out of it and get a dozen cops out there and crack down. Trash in the desert makes me sick.

They got me another one in 2016, a 2017 GMC with a v6. We still have the 2011 f150 and it gets driven from time to time. Not sure of the miles. I think it has about 180,000. All city miles. It had around 80,000 hassle free miles when they got me a new one.

I had the 2011 5.0 as my work truck. It was stripped down but was the smoothest riding truck I’ve ever been in. It was like a Cadillac. Nothing since has come close.

I’m going to have to look at Jard a little more. I seem to gloss over them but I hear that name more and more lately.

Haven’t done one on an XBolt, but have on an Abolt. All it was is a spring. Worked out well. I would say do it. I like Timney, they are a local company and I have them in most of my rifles. Their Ruger triggers are no good, but I think that’s Rugers fault.

I never saw a Racoon until I saw those on 32nd street. Probably 35 years without seeing one. The Electrician is the one that pointed them out to me. They would go to the dumpsters and try to find food. Lions are where I have bad luck. Only seen one and I think I do a lot of getting out and looking. Others here make seeing them sound so routine.

32nd street and I-10. On the north west corner in the ADOT right of way and into the landscaping of the nearby buildings. I did work there when it was UoP online and would get there every morning before the sun came up. Saw them every day. I don’t know who’s there now. It’s worth a look. There may be security, but they may be cool about it.

I don’t know if it’s all about the money, but just like everyone else under the sun, more is better. I don’t know anyone that says they make enough money. The long term solution is more land. That’s why everyone is upset. Everywhere they go they see someone. It’s because there’s fewer places to go. Those places left are full of not just hunters, it’s everyone interested in getting away like the ATV guys, campers, shooters, etc.. I don’t know what to do about that except maybe pay land owners not to build like we pay farmers not to grow. Get prepared! When the only land left is public and the agencies are scrambling with what fees to add or increase and what places to close down or restrict due to overcrowding and other problems, what are we going to do?

You’re right, I think the focus should be available land. You mentioned the early 80s, think what the Prescott valley looked like then and what it looks like now. Anthem wasn’t even on the drawing board yet. Starlight pines was about a dozen or so houses and Bison Ranch wasn’t there. Pine and Strawberry weren’t as spread out either. I’m sure there are more places to mention but those amount to a huge chunk of land gone forever. There was a lot more rain back then too. Rain or not, I think the wildlife will do ok if they have space.

It seems like it would be very difficult to find a replacement. Maybe those stock makers like Boyd’s has replacement pieces, I don’t know. It almost sounds like you find a used rifle that’s not cracked and swap them and try to sell the rest. If it’s not too bad, you can fix the crack with epoxy. There are plenty of videos on YouTube about that. I sometimes watch them to see how the repair turns out. The channel Mark Novak, shows a few repairs to mausers and other WW2 rifle foreends. He does a good job.

I believe it’s all caused by us. If everyone made a conscious decision to not buy any ammo for about two months, watch the price come down like a MF. Oh and there will be a huge supply as well. But it’s America, we can’t help but to want it now.

C93 Borchardt. I saw it on another channel I like on YouTube called Forgotten Weapons. I think it also had the first detachable magazine in a pistol. Before then, they were stripper clips.

I’m curious to the value. PM me if you don’t want to post here. These old shotguns and rifles are starting to appeal to me. I guess the current stuff has gotten kind of bland and the old stuff more interesting. I watch this a lot lately. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCM86hA7E1y3vOJuzdqCXh1Q

I have to be honest. That was one of my guesses. It kind of looked like I thought it the whole time. I recommend going to an auction house or gunbroker. The crowd here won’t give what that’s worth.

That’s what I was thinking

It’s everywhere now. It will be just like trying to find an unmolested place back east. It’s sprawled out almost everywhere except public lands. It will be just like Africa and South America where the only wild places are national parks or public lands. I notice it more and more. Think about it... If you take the Concho turn off at 180 and take it to Concho, then on the 61 to the 60 to Show Low and take the 260 to Heber driving through Linden, Pinedale, it’s populated the whole way, about 80 miles. There’s a small stretch just before Bison Ranch that’s open. Some of those places you don’t know if it’s Concho or Vernon, or Linden or Clay Springs, Pinedale or Aripine.

I don’t know what the best thing to do is. I never got an allowance, but I’m not going to say my parents didn’t help me out. My dad always carried cash. If I needed money, I would ask for it. He almost always said no. I guess it was training to not become spoiled. My mom would almost always give me money. I remember him one time fighting with her because she gave me one dollar to buy Garbage Pail kids cards after he told me no. He said “I can’t be given what I want all the time”. All of us kids started a part tome job when we were 16 and we could do whatever we want. Still, my parents helped out with vehicles, insurance and things like that.

I like the San Pedro. I have a few books on Arizona and it used to be quite the River. There are stories about the early people hunting near it and the deer were easy targets and there were even bears in there. Now it’s too far gone with the tamarisk and agriculture. It’s amazing what 100 years will do to a place. You can’t hardly go without seeing a structure the whole length. I think I found one stretch where you can go for about three miles without seeing anything marred by man. I wish I could see what the next hundred years will do to it.

Lol. It’s not them at all, it’s me. I guess it’s what the city does to a person. I’m sure my neighbors are great people, at least they look like it. My attitude after navigating through a hundred stoplights and butt time behind the wheel and job stress makes me run inside and lock up behind me.

This is true only for the city. In my home town of Holbrook, I sometimes go for a drive and pass friends or neighbors homes. If they are outside, I stop and visit with them. Most of the time when I do that, I get invited inside and enjoy a meal with the family. Likewise, when people pass my house and see me, they almost always stop to visit. My home in Mesa, I make every effort to avoid neighbors expect for one. I find I don’t even answer the door.

It would be nice if I was in charge. There would be 6 Cs in Arizona. The sixth being Carbines. I would make sure all of the students take 4 years of gunsmithing and gun safety in High School and make it a law that every house has a carbine.

Arizona will grow another 1.3 million people in 10 years. Even if .5% of that hunts, that will mean there are an additional 6500 hunters to what we have now. If the success rate is 12%, around 800 deer will be dead each year to those new hunters. Throw in the drought and the acres lost to development in places like 3B, 2A, 2B and the Prescott units, wounding and not recovering, auto deaths and predators there will be no reason to not close it down. It was 15 years ago that the strip and Kiabab went to draws and 3a/3c went to draw around that time so it will happen. I’m thinking in 15 years, sometime between 2033-2036 hunting will be nothing like it is now. If we get a lot of rain between now and then, it could be better but there will be wind turbines all over the countryside.