Trapdoor

So happy for you and your family! Congrats! What a beautiful girl!

I'm sitting here looking at my Eastern Cape trophies and at your photos. Yours are better than mine!

I love kids learning a craft!

A Colt is the only revolver that whispers its name to you every time you cock it. One click for every letter in its name. Not much on this Earth sounds better than a Colt.

Congratulations!

Fluting would only be a couple of ounces but ounces make pounds ultimately. Weight can be reduced elsewhere in the build if the need is felt. Removing weight costs money. I like the #5 contour for 30 caliber. I have not gone to the expense of fluting. I do not feel compromised by weight.

Qualifiers imposed by a government upon endowed rights by a Creator steals that grant from the source and assumes the gift to be by that government - which will further determine the restrictions it (government) will continue to impose. We do not receive our rights from our government, yet our government encumbers those very rights. Therefore it can be argued that rights no longer exist as rights but rather as privileges, as the current government mutation intends. Once government has established that it can place restrictions on "rights", a la privileges, further restrictions will result, as evidenced throughout our history. Now that we have allowed rights to become privileges through the restrictions placed on one (more than one in reality) amendment (our guarantee that our government cannot usurp the People) to our Constitution, that being our very most sacred right as it is the means of protecting our lives and our rights, all other rights are subject to the same degradation. We must assume, nay, we know, that government will further restrict and abolish our rights. The question is not whether any one person should be allowed to purchase a long gun, or other arm. The question is how can we as the People allow a government to eliminate, through restriction, a right that our Constitution explicitly substantiated to prevent said elimination from being effected. Be that as it may, by establishing certain restrictions such as age limits on one right, it must be assumed that those same restrictions (and more restrictive) will be placed on all other rights. By establishing that a certain group of people (where have we seen this before?) have encumbrances over their endowment for one right, they are subject to encumbrances on all other rights. This "group" of people will one day no longer have the protections memorialized under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth Amendments (individually cited, not collectively, so as to emphasize the importance of each and every one). Further, by dissolving a right of one group necessitates that the prohibition will eventually precipitate to all. While our society has problems that must be dealt with, the vacation of Our rights is not the solution. We must all be faithful that these rights are Ours; all of ours. I'm not going to preach that I have the solution - I don't. I know without doubt that further erosion of the rights of all is not the solution because the rights of all are the rights of one. That one is you. That one is me. A right stolen from you is a right stolen from me. We are on the edge of a precipice that we must back away from. The arguments being espoused are scary. People are reacting based only on ill-conceived emotion without an honest understanding of all of the consequences. Those consequences are so far reaching. On the surface they appear simple and finite. But they are not. I'd argue that some of those far reaching consequences are just as sinister as planned, but many proclaiming them are not capable of or not interested in seeing the depth of what will eventually manifest. Every time a law is passed that erodes our freedom, there is accompanying celebration. While I am not a Star Wars junkie, one line from one of the movies was branded into my mind the first time I saw the movie: "So this is how liberty dies; with thunderous applause." While I am not saying that applause is here, necessarily, it is definitely out there in our society. That society wants to bury the very foundation of who we are in the hopes that they can sleep better tonight, not understanding what tomorrow brings.

I enjoyed the stories and photos. Especially the ducks, eclipsed by the splendor of the sonogram!

I'm hoping to find a spot or two this year to try to get my boy interested in wingshooting. He isn't taking to big game much -not enough action... I will go to Argentina! Someday!

And: Firearms Speech Assembly Petition Vote Privacy Unreasonable search and seizure Silence to prevent self incrimination Big Gulp drinks Animal products Fossil fuels Cover scents Camouflage Scent eliminating clothing Telescopic sights Self-contained metallic cartridges Compound bows Outlawing "x" is not the answer, especially for as something as benign as a trail camera or as fundamental as firearms.

Elk pert' near totaled my pickup a few years ago on my way back home from work in WY. Had to abandon all my duck hunting gear for a number of months until I could get back up to reclaim my guns, decoys, calls, waders, etc...

I've been close to getting hit a couple times.

This is my son's first hunt (tag), other than going along with me the past couple years. While he has been very slow to show any real interest in hunting, he very much wants a javelina and I hope that his first harvest will make the difference and solidify his future in our life. I thought that I had a solid plan put together for his first tag, but things aren't shaping up and I fear that if I don't actually show him a javelina again this year, the spark will fade. His tag is good for 10,17A,17B,18A,19A,19B,20A and we have been hunting 19B in the hills NW of Chino Valley. We live in these hills and see plenty of javelina and I've had the ability to do some scouting here. But the plan ain't working. I know there are lots of lessons to learn on the days where game isn't seen and he is learning those lesson with words from Dad. But, I sure want him to see a javelina and have an opportunity to put a stalk on. We are looking high and low, on sunlit hillsides, and shaded hillsides, grass covered flats and down in the washes, morning, afternoon, and evening. It's hard for me to ask for help, but can anyone offer any thoughts on how to find a javelina for my son? Like I say, I thought I had a solid plan on a good high vantage point with miles to look over. Am I just missing the boat on what I need to be looking at? Thanks for any encouragement!

Yep, literally in my yard right now! So much for not seeing anything this season! Maybe I can chase them to where we hunt and keep them herded up till this evening... Lol!

It's great to hear that I am doing things correctly, at least generally speaking! That's all I hoped for! I can't wait for the excitement to start when he sees one for the first time that he can go after! It's hard to keep a young'un motivated. It's hard for him to accept that they are there like I tell him over and over, that it just takes time but when you see that first one everything changes. He won't be able to hunt a couple evenings this week but I hope to get up there and glass for him. Thanks for the encouragement!

Great to see the successes pile up

Sitting here in the school parking lot waiting to pick the new hunter up for his first hunt. So excited that I can't sit still!

I lived in Jackson for 13 years and still work there. That is where my heart is. I don't know coues. Trying to learn. Heck, just trying to learn everything about AZ. But if you want, shoot me a message and we can get together down here or next time I'm up in Jackson.

Son's first hunt starts in a few days. Planning on pick up from school Friday, get home, grab gear and walk out the door to a high spot and glass the first evening. Saturday wake up and walk to same spot for more!

I love my Ruger 77 Hornet and my Ruger No. 1 Hornet! I'm a small caliber nut! I have shot so much stuff with that little 77 you could fill truck beds. No novelty in the Hornet. For a guy who knows what they are doing, some really cool results are more than possible.

I just checked my son's account and it all worked properly. He is 11. I logged in and could view his tag (his first tag!!!). I did not yet try to apply for elk/antelope, so don't know if that will work. Neither his account or mine show the bonus point for hunter education, which we completed about a month ago. Perhaps they need time to enter into the system that we successfully passed. Neither of our accounts would let us "open" our hunting licenses, to reprint. We don't need to as we saved them to pdf when purchased.

My son finally completed the online portion of the Hunters Education! I have been trying to get this done for over a year, really wanting an actual classroom course, but school schedule, extracurricular, etc. and anything close to us would not work. Finally, I relented to get him enrolled in the online class when it came time to apply for spring javelina, hopeful he would draw a youth tag. Unfortunately, he and I had a few "issues" where he expected Dad to do it for him (apple doesn't fall far from the maternal tree). He has never shown the interest in hunting that I hoped for, but in our talk last night, I told him that I would do everything I possibly could to help him, but I would not do his test for him and since he drew that tag, if he wanted to hunt this must be done. If he was not interested in hunting, I was not going to force him to do it, but if he was he needed to step up and do the hunter education. This morning he said he wanted to do it, so we got him back into the final exam and he got a 99%! We are now scheduled to complete the field day in Sierra Vista on the 3rd. Was hoping to find something closer, but I knew these classes fill up super fast. I've been watching the schedule for months, trying to prod him to get it done so we could do something more convenient... naturally, convenience doesn't matter to an 11 yr old! He just wasn't committed to get it done when we could do something closer, so I will make the drive and get a room to get that course finalized. Being new to AZ, I am hopeful to get him on a javelina. I didn't get it done last spring on my tag, where he was with me - we saw them, we smelled them, we found their sign... We just couldn't put it together in the end. Here's to hoping we get him his first harvest!

The young'un got a 98% and shot a heck of a group on the live fire! Stopped in to Tombstone, just the two of us guys the evening before (bucket list, check)! What a great weekend! First time down into that part of the state... What cool country! Looking forward to another trip down there where we can take in some more fun!

Thanks All! I'm excited that he is on his way! His tag is for units 10, 17A, 17B, 18A, 19A, 19B, 20A - Youth only. He is aware that passing the online portion does not mean he's done. Hopefully we both pass it! I figure the best support I could give him was be there at his side and do it too!

Nice! My first trip to Arkansas snow goose hunting, my buddy and I shot 99 snows, blues, and specs in 2 1/2 days. The good ol days before electronic calls were legal and magazine plugs were required.