Diamondbackaz

High school shop teacher, automotive, machine shop and welding.

Don't forget about job security us state employees have. I will retire in 12 years with full benefits at age 53, and work part time after that, I too am a school teacher.

I did some research on the state salaries. Wildlife managers make $32,000 to $56,000. A DPS patrol officer makes $37,000 to $51,000. A public school teacher goes from about $32,000 to $60,000. Also don't forget that they get vacation time, excellent pension plan, sick time, and the ability to earn comp time and over time. I feel that their salary is in line with other agencies.

A lot of it could be supply and demand. When they have several hundred or a thousand and more applicants for one or two openings, there are no shortages of workers to fill positions.

Heres the link to article http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/l...4cabelas04.html

Bottom line here is, the county should have gained right of ways years ago since they maintain the roads. The county has to make the decision to quit maintaining the road until it has the right of ways.

There is a sportsmans warehouse that is suppose to be opening in Tucson.

I use the Hornady's and Sierra's for years and wouldn't consider a plastic tip for deer, especially when my old ones work fine. I still use the ole stand by for Elk; nosler partition.

This has been a problem for a long time and is nothing new. There are so many access issues that most can't be addressed. The Forest service can offer to buy a right of way or find a way, or to build a road around. But that is not as easy as it sounds. Actually, Game and fish has done a lot with the land owner respect program. Also, people can also make friends with rancers through the adopt a ranch program.

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Topo maps are still the best for topography

Used this site many times to find duck ponds

Another ditto here

Arivipa Canyon Road closed, just goes to show you how limited access really is. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/68013.php

The best way to handle this is for the county to stop maintaining the road and you will see the land owners grant a rightof way real quick. The Coronado National Forest started lifting the blades on some of these types of roads across private land back in the early 90's because of legal reasons. Tres Bellotas, and the Mt. Lemmon Control road had this issue but not anymore. Land owners are the primary users of these roads and have the most to gain to grant right of way.

see http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/66363.php

heres stats for county: http://www.azwatchyourcar.com/pdfs/AzCounties2003.pie.pdf Heres stats for cities: http://www.azwatchyourcar.com/pdfs/Az%20Ci...ison%202003.pdf

AZ4life, how can you make such an assumption of Tucson by reading the paper. I am sure you will find similar problems in the Phoenix metro area. This crime was most likely committed by a meth user and not by a border crosser. I was born here in Tucson and have lived all of my 41 years of life here and have never had a vehicle broken into, and none of my family members have never had their vehicles broken into. Sorry to hear about your loss Amanda, I am assuming you were at the ice rink near Kolb and Speedway which is not a real high crime area. I suspect that they saw your things laying there and saw an opportunity.

We can start writing our congressman to counter this.

Try using a real steering wheel lock such as the disclok http://www.disklok.com/ which is far superior to the club and protects your air bag from theft too.

az4life, I never mentioned auctioning of tags, here is two letters that I wrote during request for comments period from last spring, and from the uso issue. I hope that this will allow you to see where I am coming from. Letter 1 To whom it may concern, For the past several years, it has been getting more and more to difficult to get drawn for the 16 to 20 day December whitetail deer hunts while the 4 day October hunts are sometimes have left over permits. I usually get drawn for the 10 day November hunt as a second choice. It seems that there is a real discrepancy in these hunts as I am, or anyone else, is paying $22.50 to hunt any where from 4 days to 20 days depending on the season I get drawn for. I believe either equalizing the number of days in a season, or better yet, charge more for the longer seasons. I would be willing to pay 4 to 5 times as much ($90.00 to $110.00 in this case for this years December hunt) to hunt a longer season. I believe that by raising the fees on the longer seasons, the department can increase its revenue, especially on non-resident permits as they would have to pay four times as much. This should also make it easier for people who want to hunt longer seasons to get drawn. All of the "general deer" deer hunts listed in the regs are 10 day hunts with the exception of the whitetail hunts that have three different length seasons. It is time to change this!!. I have had good luck with the November hunts too. However, it use to be a 100% chance of getting drawn for my area for November and it is now down to 80%. The October hunts still have a 100% chance of getting a tag. The December hunt has a 12% chance of getting drawn. And every year this number gets smaller. It use to be you could buy left over tags over the counter and the tag was good for any southern Arizona unit from the New Mexico border over to the Baboquivaris. I feel the October hunt is a crap shoot hunt as you only have one weekend to hunt and if the weather is so horrible the whole weekend and you can't hunt, well there is always next year. You still paid 22.50 not to be able to hunt. You can see this in the success rates for the various hunt seasons. The longer the season, the higher the success rate. I am only suggesting that I am willing to pay more money to have more time to hunt. And for the serious hunter who spends a lot of money and time for scouting and equipment, 22.50 is a drop in the bucket. I feel that going tag fee based on a per diem basis will make it easier to get a longer season Letter 2 on USO issue To whom it may concern, The 10% cap only pertained to the Bull Elk and the Kaibab Mule deer hunts that most people would consider Premium hunts, or Trophy Hunts. I believe it is time to start charging more for the premium hunts. I think it's silly that a Bull tag is the same price as a cow tag, Kaibab hunts are only $15.00 more than the rest of the states Mule Deer units, and a 4 day whitetail hunt costs the same for a 15 day December hunt. I would be willing to pay a higher premium for a premium hunt, and also have the non-resident pay a non-resident premium for those hunts. I think this would also stand up in the courts. Otherwise, I would be willing to pay 5 times the current amount for a premium deer and elk hunt. Instead of paying the $22.50 ($19.50+$5.00) for a resident premium deer hunt; I would be willing to pay $102.50 ($97.50+$5.00) for a resident premium deer hunt. The non-resident would be charged $492.50 ($97.50X5+$5.00) for the same hunt using the current department formula using a multiple of five for the non-resident. And do the same for Bull Elk, which would be $362.5 for resident, and $1,835.00 for non-residents. These numbers are just examples for the purpose of this letter. I believe that raising the fees of resident hunters along with non-resident hunters, the courts will be less likely to rule the fees unreasonable for non-residents. Some people may say or consider that this is being unfair to the person on a limited budget like myself. However, the tag has always been the cheapest part of my hunt. My equipment including my rifle, scope, binoculars, jeep, and the gas to fill it gets expensive. It costs about $30.00 for a tank of gas for one day of pre season scouting. These tag costs are not out of line for a hunt that we plan all year long for, to hunt a season that lasts only 4 to 15 days. I believe that the department should also require money up front for the price of the permit as it once was. I am not a rich man as a public school teacher, but I can scrape up some more cash to hunt a premium hunt that only comes once a year. However, I believe that there will be fewer non-residents applying because of the higher non-resident fees. I believe these fees would be more in line of what other states are charging. High demand hunt permit tags should be put into a different category of low demand hunt permit tags. And people should pay up front.

AZ4life, Wetmule hit it right on the money, Tags are the cheapest part of the hunt. I dread the day that all my expensive equipment has to stay in the closet because I didn't get drawn. I personally believe that too many tags go to yahoos that don't use there tags because they had something else to do. Any real serious hunter can come up with the money for something that only happens a few days once a year. I have been an advocate of making the December hunt a premium hunt. heck I will pay more money to increase my odds at getting drawn.

This is a web site on CWD http://www.cwd-info.org/index.php/fuseaction/about.faq

Recall info on 660 http://www.remington.com/Safety_Modificati...ram/600_660.asp

Rem model 7 is a light weight package and is chambered in 308. My composite ss 243 model 7 is a shooter.