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Jim, I can imagine how frustrated you are, and rightly so, not drawing an elk tag and I feel your frustration along with all the others in your catagory. I know you are saying, I possibly can't feel your frustration, after drawing 20 elk tags in as many years but believe me I do. I see you and a few others are always saying I don't put in for trophy tags and I understand your point of view. I personnally don't use that word ( TROPHY ) in my hunting vocabulary. I think of a trophy as something you get at a bowing alley. I love to hunt and I'ld rather go hunting every year than wait several years not drawing a tag because I think a big bull is not more important than the hunting experience itself. My way of thinking isn't on the same page as alot of you who want to put a big bull on the wall or in the books but I do respect your decisssion. I don't keep it a secret and never have that I hunt 22 and I have a million memories with my late Mother on those hunts. I wouldn't change a thing. I love to hunt and that is what is most important to me in life. I play the odds because I am a hunter and want to hunt, period. I really envy you and your outfitter's business and know you are a class act and hope you finally draw that tag someday you have been waiting on. TJ

You can kill an elk with a 22, not leagally, if placement is right. I have a 25-06 and my suggestion would be to go with something a little bigger unless you know for sure you are going to shoot it at a close range. Good luck on your hunt. TJ

Congratulations on your tag and enjoy every moment of your hunt. Good luck! TJ

How exciting is this, another family member on the rise. Can't wait to hear and see the stories from both brothers this year. TJ

Happy belated Birthday and good luck with the antler hunt. TJ

TJ.....archery cow My wife.....rifle cow Good luck to the rest of you! TJ

Them are definitely some impressive sheds for sure. Thanks for sharing. TJ

No, not even close but I have had my share since my first in 1976 after moving here from Ohio. I have had 20 elk tags in a row now and wouldn't know what it would be like not going elk hunting every year. I always put in for bull but have gotten a cow tag a few years on my second choice as I drew this year. I definitely have been blessed by the draw GODS. TJ

Thanks Shelvin for the wood. Sorry you didn't draw your elk tag. It was a pleasure meeting you and your little girl. Hopefully your buddy's will draw and you can help them out. That certainly was a full pickup load and I really appreciate it. Thanks again! TJ

Ok, here is what you need to do. Call 602-942-3000 and press 0 for an operator and ask for your results. You will need your ss # and your name if you can remember that much. Good luck! TJ

Only if you know how to get the results other than the regular way. The regular way will be up in an hour they say. Just found out my wife drew an rifle cow tag. We are one happy hunters. results of wife's tag @ 1000 TJ

I drew an elk tag and good luck to the rest of you. results @ 0930 TJ

That funny out of all the people that sad something about when there going to be up YOU are the only person I believe LOL. She is our leader you know! TJ

And there are those who condemn those who don't want to go to Mexico until the war is over. Wake up and smell the roses (I mean the blood). Prayers and thoughts go out to the family and friends. TJ

This isn't the best of mounts I've seen but will give you an idea of some others. The full mount was a medium size pig and I used her original teeth. The half mount I never was very cool with but another to compare with. TJ

Great looking sheep and I only wish I had the opportunity to make a choice on either of the sheep here. Over 35 years of putting in and counting. TJ

Fishing was slow but a nice get away. Windy on Sun. & Mon. but turned nice on Tues. My nephew and our friend Angie stayed over Sun. and Angie fished for the first time and caught her first fish which turned out to be the biggest of our trip. Here are a few pics and with my first try at digital scopping. My Sunday fish. One of many my wife caught. Angie's first day fishing with our new lab, Lexie. Angie's first ever fish and the biggest of the trip. 17&1/4" Angie & Peg's fish back at camp. Taken from camp at Windy Hill thru my 15x56's and a Kodak easyShare C613. One of the other ruins. This is a cheap camera and now with the zoom. After a hard day's work sitting around the camp fire. TJ

Welcome to the site and yes you're right, I didn't get your permission to post your first ever fish. Now to get you into shooting your first critter. TJ

Ernesto: I grew up in Yuma and have spent much of my life all over Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte y Sur. I've also visited D.F., and four nearby states down there. I still love the country and most of its people. I cherish the memories and friends I made down there. In all my time in Mexico I only felt personally threatened once, and that was when my friend Alex Jacome and I were returning from Bahia Kino in the mid-1980s. We were forced off the road near Benjamin Hill by a pickup truck loaded with federal agents, one of whom kept jabbing me in my stomach with an automatic rifle. Alex tried to explain that we were good guys with important friends, and had in fact had breakfast with the governors of Sonora and Sinaloa before leaving Kino Bay that very morning. They paid him no attention and went from one end of Alex's truck to the other, searching for guns and drugs. One guy took an immediate dislike to Alex and kept waving a .45 semiauto in his face. I had a big box of salt water fishing lures, which they dumped on the clothes they had taken from our suitcases and thrown onto the side of the road. Finding nothing, they let us continue on. When we reached Santa Anna, the same guys had a Mexican man on his stomach on the ground. One of the agents had his foot on the man's back. The barrel of his rifle was jammed against the poor man's head. Meanwhile, the victim's wife and kids were being frisked at gunpoint as we drove past. For the first time in my life, it was really hammered home to me that the rights we American citizens enjoy up here mean zip down there. I've returned to Mexico many times since that incident, but have never felt comfortable until I had crossed back into the USA. The present war between the cartels and the government is a real war, and in real wars there is "collateral damage" -- innocent bystanders get maimed and killed. I don't want to be one of them when this war escalates, which it will. I'm convinced we haven't seen anything yet. To compare what is happening in Mexico to drug-related murders in the U.S. is not worth commenting on. I've been in other places that the U.S. State department considered "hot" and was advising Americans to avoid. I spent three weeks in Zimbabwe's Matabeland when Shona bandits with AK-47s, flame throwers and hand grenades were running around conducting atrocities against the Matabele people and anyone who drove "their" roads at night. I visited South Africa many times when the Zulus and Xhosas were running amok, jamming people onto sharpened stakes, burning them inside gasoline-filled tires or hacking them to pieces with machetes. I walked across Tiananmen Square just weeks after Chinese troops opened fire and massacred more than 2,000 protestors at that very spot. I am not a Chicken Little, as someone here has accused me of being. Nonetheless, I intend to stay out of Mexico until the war down there is over. Bill Quimby Well put Mr. Quimby

Prayers are with them and our deepest condolences. TJ

Thanks for sharing Amanda. Peg and I loved watching the video. They have some of the prettiest land in the state that's for sure. Looks like Sunshine is taking to her new family quite well. TJ

I'm with you Bill on this one. I know there are awesome coues whitetail hunting there but I haven't seen any bigger bucks taken there than here in the good old USA. Your chances might be better of getting your biggest buck because of the shortage of hunters but the drug war is not worth your live. IMO TJ

You got me and I thought it was funny but are you going to stand the PAYBACK that is due you. TJ

Man did I get excited when I got thru. I actually got all nervous and then found it only gave me my bonus points. I took the bait. TJ

Here is a picture of my grey and black felt that I used. I also thought long and hard before choicing this arrangement. Be sure in let us see the finish product when you get it done. Congratulations on your bear. TJ