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This is the reason I don’t put in for late hunts. Too many times I’ve heard friends talk about 2’+ of snow in unit 27 or 8 and the hunt is pretty much done. It’s a matter of getting back after that. Some have even had to leave their vehicles and campers and come back hoping the snowmobilers didn’t loot them. Add to that the frustration of closed roads getting home or even to hunting country, it’s almost hopeless. My cutoff is the first week in November up high.

I 17 is always bad. It took me three times traveling to Flagstaff to figure out I’m better off going through Payson. Usually on fridays it takes an hour and a half to get from Higley and the 202 to I17 and Happy Valley. Then it’s at least two hours to get to Camp Verde. Don’t forget driving back. Usually it’s Sunday for me and almost 100% of the time there’s an accident somewhere near new river. I’ve had it where I’m stuck in park for almost an hour before I crawl forward at 5mph for 45 minutes. Never again. I’ll always go through Payson.

Me too. In 1992, my dad had me drive this road at night when I was 13. We just finished up building my grandmothers porch in Eloy, AZ and took the trail to Roosevelt and then to Young and on into Holbrook. He took over when we got to the 260. The Globe/Young road had snow and ice as well and I was sliding around and banging into bar ditches. He always liked to take different routes to get places. Driving the highways is boring and everyone does that.

It’s not offered in a left hand model. Kind of surprising since the patent is expired and it’s one of the most common 22lr out there. Someone should make it. The only semi auto that could be called left handed is the browning SA 22.

I agree they’re built to last. At work, a guy has a 1995 that he bought new and still drives it. Too many of us spend our fortunes on vehicles. Even though they are good, I can bring myself to own a Foreign vehicle.

No, I’m an amateur compared to the Hatch’s. I try real hard, but the Deer always see me and run.

Biglakejake, you're the one person on this site that mentions every place I’ve been or think about on a regular basis weather it’s high or low. Get out of my head. I bet we’ve crossed paths before. I archery hunt in 37B every year with a buddy. We always joke about bringing old or unremarkable Elk sheds and spread them out just to see if someone on the forum talks about a cool find and to start arguments about Elk being out there.

Chris @ Specialty Roofing

Maybe people can search U of A instead of UA. I know it sucks, but when you’re in typing mode and know what you want to show up, maybe a few more letters could help. It’s kind of like me typing “guns” and getting disappointed with what shows up. At least I know there’s more work to do than just type “guns” and I didn’t even go to college.

It’s one of my favorites. I like anything Oliver Stone. This film has a lot of his filming style I enjoy so much like parts of it in slow motion and black and white. Other parts were filmed in 6mm. There was a funny part when Sean Penn went to the Groceria, which isn’t a Spanish word, to get a cold soda and the lady thought he wanted something to eat and handed him Twinkies of all things. Then Billy Bob Thornton was at his house late at night playing Twister by himself with a porno in the background when Sean Penn showed up to pay for the Mustang repairs, thornton wasn’t sure of his intentions so he held a kitchen pan as a weapon. That was real funny to me.

U-Turn. Oliver Stone movie.

I stop by just about every one I see in the different parts of the valley I happen to be working in. It’s always a dream of mine that I will find something good. It doesn’t even have to be modern, I would be happy with an old rolling block Remington, Mauser, Weatherbys, S&W revolvers, WW2 carbines or even a beat up m700 for a donor. All I’ve seen in the last 8 or 9 years have been junk. Once in a while, you may see a nice revolver but it’s overpriced. I think with the internet, the quality firearms the shop gets, goes to gunbroker.

I would like to know more about that train robbery in Adamana. I’m out there often and sometimes check out the old siding and buildings. You can still see where an old water tower sat. It’s cool to think about what it must have been in the old days. Do any of you remember Bob Varner? I was real young and still remember when two men killed him in Winslow and were on the run for about two days. They did a home invasion near Geronimo Rd and barricaded themselves in a house near Hibbard Road and one died. I think he was the only Navajo County Sheriff deputy killed in the line of duty.

Is Navajo Coke, Garden De Luxe Tokay?

I love AZ history too. I always try to watch Arizona Highways and buy any book I can about Arizona. I'm surprised I don’t know the Navajo Coke answer.

The right just needs to take notes on this. I see a few things that can be exploited, a young kid, and a British accent, being a cute kid helps too. Those things have a LOT of currency. It’s not crazy thinking. This girl came complete with drama and everything.

Blue River near Juan Miller.

I have it in both of my trucks. Best money I ever spent. I’m done with regular TV and radio. There’s way too many commercials for me to get any kind of joy or entertainment out of it. I haven’t watched TV in about 3 years. Sirius has commercials, but not every 8 minutes like TV or terristrial radio. It’s very entertaining too. I just like comedy that’s dirty and enjoy Howard Stern’s channels that have interviews and funny commentary with the big F Word.

Oh and we usually had sandbags made out of old Levi’s in the truck. These worked well when on a prairie dog town or on those longer shots on small rocks.

Some of the realistic shooting we did would be practicing picking off golf ball or soft ball sized rocks on a hillside. There were certain places we would go that had areas that were target rich and offered you uphill, downhill, and flat and level, near and far. We would never vandalize any large rocks target shooting, the rocks would be blown to pieces if hit and would not disturb the hillside. I still go to these areas as an adult and it brings memories back of when I was young and learned about holdover. I thought it was the coolest thing, shooting a 22lr at 200 yards in the wind and had to aim high and to the right/left and have it hit what you’re aiming at.

It has a lot to do with how they were raised. I can only speak for myself. I was raised in a small town where it was easy to drive 15 minutes and be in rabbit country or 10 minutes and be in shooting country. I can remember as a kid shooting at KDJI, that was a local radio station in my hometown and there were places to shoot near it. I had a chipmunk and nothing to rest it on. I had to take a knee or shoot offhand. My dad let me shoot till I got bored. With a chipmunk, that took about an hour and a half before my fingers were so sore I couldn’t hardly cock the gun anymore. We would go hunting and had opportunity at running game weather it was coyotes, prairie dogs, or rabbits. Occasionally we would go to the range and do some serious bench shooting, but we liked to move around more than what the range offered.

Thanks for mentioning Yellow Front and JC Penny’s. It brought back memories of my small northern az town in the early 80’s. We had JC Penny’s, Yellow Front, Montgomery Ward, Sears, Babbit’s, and AJ Bayless. I still have old shotgun shells in boxes we haven’t used, MTM plastic ammo cases and reloading dies with the Yellow Front price tags on them.

Why is the G&F website .com instead of .gov?

I bet they’re inside one of those 40 acre trailers, sheds, motor homes, camper shells, old vans, or semi trailers that belongs to a friend of a friend that served time in prison together.