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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

Happy Birthday Steven. Hope it is a great day for ya. TJ

I too just seen this for the first time and don't know how I missed it either. That was a great writeup and my congratulations to Weston on his first buck. I certainly hope Lance you are keeping a journal of all you hunts for the book you need to write someday. Thanks for sharing another amazing story. TJ

Someone needs to junp on this one for sure. A chocolate lab and it's free. This dog will be a great pet. Still young enough to train. TJ

Good luck on selling the bow. Not sure what they go for but sounds cheap to me. A bike for the bow? You know how kids are. He'll come around! TJ

Srry you had a bad day and witnissed some idiots out there, you did take action and call it in right? Maybe ranch hands clearing the section to conserve graze? Or were they just a srry excuse for sportsman? A real sportsman and a good cowboy wouldn't do that, and being the witness and a good sportsman it's your duty to report it . Thanks for bringing awareness to this, even though it's irrelevant to my sisters awesome finds. Hope the next outing is better for ya man. Peace She's read the comments and says thanks, specially Tj I really think it is great you have it all happening in the family. Keep the pictures of all them antlers coming. I think it is just awesome to see the girls getting out there and competing with the guys. Way to go sis! TJ

I shoiuld have never looked at this post. Now I won't be able to sleep. JK thanks for posting and great clear pictures. TJ

Them Mullins seem to be at the right place at the right time and hanging out with a bunch like that just has to be awesome. Congratulations to each of you 5 hunters. Great writeup by the way. TJ

Congratulations to you and Matt on your coues trophies. What a neat story and I'm sure will be told many times over, around many camp fires in the future. TJ

Looks like you guys have got some new competition in the woods this year and she sure doesn't look like no monster to me. Thanks for sharing. TJ

Nice! I always find the old bleached out ones that have been chewed on for months. TJ

Congratulations on one fine looking buck. It's not every day you see one of that caliber and thanks for sharing. TJ

Great job. It seems you have got the nack for finding the horns and thanks for sharing with us. I can never find anything worth bregging about. TJ

I wish I could fish as much as you do Brian. Is that your only job? Thanks for the update. It has got to turn on any day now don't you think? TJ

You're amazing! Great pictures and thanks for sharing. TJ

You did a great job on that head. Congratulations! TJ

As always, thanks Doug. TJ

Thanks Scott for the pics. Makes me feel I'm some place other than here at work this evening. Only 4 more days then off to do a little turkey scouting and maybe I'll be lucky enough to see some coues as well. TJ