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Don’t wait! Tell your children you love them! I love you Bret! Don’t wait until you wake in the morning! I love you son. Don’t wait until there’s a ring at the door! I love you! You hear your Wife say NO! in a way that stops your heart. I love you, again! You know the truth looking in a stranger’s eyes full of compassion, without a word spoken. I miss you already and love you! Don’t wait! Until your house is full of family and friends trying to hold you to sanity! I still love you! Don’t wait until you are finished writing a response on the internet. Do you love them!!! Don’t wait until your eyes are almost swollen shut from the weeping and have to write it down in a memorial instead of telling them in person! Don’t wait because they have become an adult. I’ve always loved you and you me! I may never write anything again, I may never hunt again, I may never forgive God! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR !!!! BRET POWELL, I LOVE YOU !!!!! Kent and Cheryl Powell

Amanda, Thank you for the memorial section you created. I put a little down, as much as I can right now. Kent

I can't express the sorrow I feel, I know logically that's just the way it will always be in these situations. I do want to express the gratitude I feel for the words you all have given me as a gift of comfort. Thank you. I did question myself on posting this to start with, didn't really feel it was appropiate for a father to do, I know now why I was prompted, your words are extreemly important to me at this time. I have the greatest/strongest family, the absolute best friends. The outpour for one soul has been staggering. I have wept in my friends arms and held my sons friends in my own as they have wept. There has been hundreds of responces. My house has been full constantly. I couldn't make it without them. Thanks again, Kent and Cheryl

I'm still feeling raw and not thinking staight. I want to thank my wonderful family and friends. I also want to thank my friends here also. More than you know. I did lose my 26 yr old and only son yesterday, We needed 5 more minutes for him to get home safe. I don't need anything, my family and friends have everything covered, just needed to voice my feelings in a more public setting. Thanks for letting me do that here. Kent

Looks like a great trip. Like Groovy Man, Far Out. Look at the colors! Went there once in the 70s, food was good on the wharf for sure. People were strange to a Redneck. Kent

Crossbows are legal during any firearm season, but they aren't a bow. They are also legal for those with a medical exemption only. Kent

Nice finds, good pictures. Kent

Doug is the man as usual. If at the range just put a round target at 100 yds, center looking through your barrel. Dial your cross hairs until they are centered also always making sure you didn't move the gun any. When the barrel is centered and the scope is centered, shoot, you'll be within 8 inchs easy, usually less at 100. Kent

Attack chipmunks are hard to train but once you do the bad guys better watch their nuts. Kent

Not getting in the Bill and Rick debate but political clout is something we need to look at and some are discussing this right now on MM. It's a new political arena today and if we look at how other small in percentage but large in influence groups do it, that may be the answer. Here's a repeat of my post during the brainstorming session. I honestly believe we are looking at the answer. Our society and lives are being changed by public opinion driven by 'Blogs', if that's the correct term, not reason and logic. We have to adapt to this style of getting the message out. It's telling how fast a responce we received from the dept when we took the issue to the public on these websites concerning the A/B tags and price increases. I again want to thank Mr. Wakeling for answering in a timely manner. We need to expand on this. If untruthfulness can change our country because of the power of ’Blogging'. Then maybe the truth will regain it’s power doing the same. I can see in the near future a dedicated blogging site for G&F issues in this state that the hunting public can express themselves from their computers on issues, polls constructed by anyone on any issue and even petitions to take to the Legislature. We can sway public opinion also, took us this long to see it. I can see this expanding to emailing alerts to all licensed hunters in a data base and putting real political pressure right back on. We will not be ‘onesided’ by the G&F political spin machine anymore. This case here wasn’t spin, just some info added without explanation, a learning experience. The power of a blogging site is that everyone can see what others are feeling about an issue and can discuss it together. There will never be total agreement but it is evident how the majority feel. Just having an email response doesn’t allow everyone to see what other’s are saying and the political spinners can cherry pick the responses that suit them. Giving a few minutes at a commission meeting doesn’t get the back and forth for new ideas to develop. In the past we have went through channels individually or in specialized groups and therefore separated and defeated. We’ve tried the reasonable and logical responses to the political spin and propaganda shoved our way and feel frustrated and powerless. We can only sit around dumbfounded for so long before we realize we can use the same tactics that are changing our country and state to our advantage. If I was the G&F, I would be the first to add this to my site. Not that you will be able to control the responses, but it would be a win politically, it’s coming one way or another. Kent

There's nothing quite like the brisk air of a fall morning. Working across the valley or mountainside in anticipation of seeing the glint of an antler in the distance, the bugle of a bull in his full glory, the flash of a white tail dancing ahead. Then, PPPUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! Having an expolsion under your feet, sometimes seemingly right up your inseam. Crazy buggers! I'd rather encounter a rattlesnake, I ain't skeered of them. Kent

Look at JB's post above mine for clarification, truer words were never written! Kent

Doug, dang, another bug I didn't know about before. I guess it would depend on if they were mostly around the sock and belt line if they were chiggers or not. You got me itching again. Those stinking biting knats that get in your ears and face when sitting and glassing are just as bad, deet does the job there also. I kinda like them because the deer don't have deet and it's easy to see them bedded, flicking their ears and shaking their Heads. Kent

You must have a tag to take a deer, archery is over the counter and you can only hunt in an appropiate season. Unless you are in an area that will have leftover tags where you live archery will be the only choice. If you get a rifle tag you will only be able to shoot out your window if your property has no one else living within 1/4 mile, or permission granted. Kent

Racoon maybe, first thing I thought of. Kent

Being's how my Dad was born and raised in the Pima/Thacher/Safford area, when I was finally allowed to go deer hunting it was in the Eagle Creek and/or Alma Mesa areas. After my first encounter with mearns my Granddad gave me these words of wisdom. "Them fool's quail will be testing the weave of your shorts fer sure" Kent

Fool's quail. Kent

Now I'm itching just thinking about it, THANKS! Kent

Last summer my brother said he must have gotten in poison ivy or something. I asked him if it was around his sock line and he said yes, chiggers. He bought something at the store called 'chigger rid' said it worked. Kent

Deet, the 100% stuff. 2006 we had a wet July and Aug, new grass everywhere. Hiked into the Matazals scouting for coues and water sources the end of aug. Layed down in some soft grass in the shade for a nap and a day latter was scratching on my sock and belt line, miserable. Never knew we had chiggers in Az. New vegetation = noseeums. Deet took care of the problem. Of course I had to research a cure and what I read from a university research report is that the chiggers don't burrow in you, it's the hatchling's and they sucreat an acid in your skin and then eat the byproduct and it's the acid that causes the sores. Putting something like polish on it covers it from the air and helps the itching. Which I did also and that worked. I like hot pink. Kent

I'm leaving in the morning to the Mts, I hope it rains some in the afternoons, best naps I've ever had are during rain showers. PS, I'm not going to be here when Amanda comes back. Kent

.....The rain just thought about it here in Mesa and then didn't do much..... Kent

The funniest thing is this reminds me of a young mother telling everyone their revelation on children now they have one. No one's ever been through this before. It was common in my GF's day, my Dad's day, when I was young, all the way to today. This is nothing I haven't experienced in my 40 yrs of hunting at least every other year to one of my "secret spots", which have been hunted since time unending if there were animals there by someone. It's just amusing now, like listening to the young mother who knows all there is about children and how theirs will be special. Walking away nodding my head, sure/sure. Kent

Tree rat vs Desert Rat, since I'm a half breed I guess I can't take sides or really be accepted by either. It's funny, in my family history going back to the late 1800's the Tree rats were the educators, builders, farmers and yes hunters in this state. The Desert rat side were miners, ranchers, farmers and yes hunters. Who were more old school and closer to the land? Both. I don't know if I should be offended by both sides, just one or neither in that debate. I'll just smile it off but that's a large stretch either way to try and win this debate. Magazine articals are all a bunch of BS anyway, even the super hero's in the national mags's stories are elaborated beyond reality. I don't think this is a suprise. There were other hunts that were praised on here with animals that the hunt unit was known, they were right to be praised, no offence taken. It's the level of venom that is directed back and forth from guys I really like that aren't named Nate, that is concerning. If some venom comes my way for saying anything so be it, I'm part rattler also so won't hurt me. You Tree rats better go to Vegas or something this weekend, us Desert rats are coming up. Have a great weekend all and a safe 4th. Kent

This has to be more than someone read a magazine artical. No one gets this mad unless it's personal. This is frothing at the mouth, mad. Insiteing others that have no idea what the story is or really about. Insulting anyone that doesn't automatically see it your way. You should have kept it private. Without having a link or copy of the story provided all I see is a guy killed a really big buck, was excited and made money on it with an article and maybe some promotions. As far as getting so excited he told a little to much, like he killed it around Globe in the Pinals, and you guys just put all that out right here. I've seen the same from guided clients on the internet when they were excited also, I saw nothing wrong with that but where was the public outrage then. Outfitters promote units and areas on their websites or to clients all day long, generating more interest than a mag article. Wonder how these oldschool unwritten laws apply to that. Now I'm not against the outfitting industry in most cases but I'm not going to be insited into a rage over some lucky guy that only did the same thing that happens all the time in a less than experienced way, make money on a big animal. Kent