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Sounds good, I'll be around this weekend. PM with your phone number and we'll set it up. Thanks

'Lope is sold to Shrek, boat is given away pending pick up by Big Browns!

I'm gonna be moving back up to the great white north in May and am planning on keeping the house I bought in north Glendale as a rental. I'm in the market for a property manager, or just a general handyman looking to earn a little extra money. Would like someone I could trust so I figured I'd start out here!!! Anyhow, It's right next to y school so it should be a piece of cake to keep rented, would be willing to pay a percentage of the rent to someone who could look after it for me, show it to renters in the future, maybe fix a broken water heater or something like that, or at least call a plumber or electrician for me (as long as it's not Desertbucks or ruthunter that was just a joke!!!) Send me a PM if you do this kinda stuff or know someone who does and isn't a douche. Thanks!

It's pretty clear... check Non resident when you apply, they will charge you for the Nonresident tag fee if you draw, and the computer algorithm kicks your name into the resident pool due to the "LH" code you put in as your license number. You aren't applying as a resident of AZ, rather a Nonresident, you just don't have to buy a license every year.

I am going through the same thing this year. I called and she said that you do stay in the resident tag pool even though you check non resident. I asked her how they keep you in he resident pool if you check non resident and she said that the lifetime license number you type in "LH####" puts you back in the resident pool in their algorithm. Not sure that I fully trust it, but I guess there's no way to ever know that your name is getting in there and treated as it should without trusting!

hope they're solid copper so they don't kill the buzzards!!!!

A little worse, since it's a 30-06 and all.....

WOW! I've never seen a group so against youth hunters! Remember when you learned to drive a car? You may have been new to it, but you were most likely a heck of a lot safer behind the wheel then you are now. The reason is that you aren't thrown by all the bad habits you've gained since you've gotten "better". A kid with a 30# bow is not our worst enemy as a hunter or a conservationist. Yes some kids are going to wound animals, but so are some of the guys who've commented above! It's part of the game, we need to get together as hunters, not tear apart. A stupid, unenforcable rule like this doesn't matter one bit, whens the last time you saw a Game warden with a bow scale? Honestly even if he had one, what kind of a prick is going to write a kid a ticket because his bow is 29pounds, or 39 pounds for that matter? You guys have go to be kidding me!? KE requirements? No expandables? Different weights for different species? I shot my first deer, a big bodied eastern whitetail with a 23# browning fox at 11 yards. Arrow went all the way through his lungs and burried on the opposite side. DEAD DEER = HAPPY KID who stuck with bowhunting forever after that. The law at the time was that the bow had to "cast an arrow 130 yards" so we staked out a gravel road and I let one fly.... 98 yards. The lucky thing was, my dad wasn't an idiot, he knew I was a heck of a good shot as long as shots were kept close and he let his 7 year old fall in love with the sport, I'm forever grateful for that. Lets worry a little more about the things that matter and leave these kids alone, instead of spending your time complaining, find a kid with a 30 pound bow and teach him to shoot it, teach him to love it, and take him bowhunting!!!

Just wanted to let people know that Camofire.com has kenetrek terrane boots on sale for another 6 hours. I think this is their entry level boot, I have mountain extremes and hardscrabbles and will never own another pair other then kenetreks. $240 with free gaiters is a good deal, not much more money then a pair of chinese made danners and will give you a lot more service.

Same here. 3 big herds of does with no bucks. Did see one good buck with a big herd of does, he was rippin up a bush and ruttin around.

Just got an email from NM game and fish! My brother and I drew McGregor range oryx tags next January!!! Anyone ever hunted these critters? There's a lot of info out there about White Sands, has anybody hunted McGregor/Ft. Bliss for oryx (or anything for that matter!) The only bummer is I have an entire year until the hunt

Lark I usually agree with everything you say, but considering my brother is the financial officer for Dakota Gas and manages a plant that makes Urea from coal then I have to cordially disagree with you on this. N-P-K is what farmers go by, its the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium a soil needs to grow something. Micronutrients are of minor importance to big business farmers, but N, P and K is the bare bones it requires to make a plant, which is unfortunately all that our ever poorer soils get replenished with. Of those three, Nitrogen is the most important one, potash, and phosphorus vary in each soil and will last forever in a soil until used by a plant, nitrogen is constantly being turned over and lost by the soil and refixed out of the air if the correct organisms are present in the soil to do it.

According to my dictionary mining is, "To extract (ores, minerals etc.) from the earth." Based on this definition even the gas fired plants rely on mining. This reminds me of a bumper sticker on my dads work truck when I was a little boy. It said, "If you can't grow it, you have to mine it". These are the only ways we can get natural resources in this world. Actually that bumper sticker is even false. ALL of our food comes from fossil fuels based fertilizer. We are burning through energy a million times faster then mother nature can produce it and we are just fortunate that she stored a few hundred million years worth of it for us in the form of coal, natural gas and oil. Everything we use comes from these. My farmer friends back home will tell you that the single largest expense in their farm is fertilizer, and it ALL comes from fossil fuels. Diesel prices don't mean squat to the big farmers back home, my friend spent 15,000 bucks on diesel last year and over $400,000 on fertilizer.

WOW!!! Awesome tom!! Congrats!

also look into the HB25 instead of the HB25C. The only difference is the "C" is 2 1/2" taller on its lowest postion and highest postion, it's a bit to high for me at both spots. The HB25 is perfect for me and I'm 5' 10". My bro is 6' and uses the HB25C. In my opinion the worst rest you can have other then no rest is one that is too high for you to comfortably shoot off of. If you are "hovering" you will miss. The HB25S and HB25CS are the same two bipods just that the both have the swivel feature (hence the "S"). Its actually a "cant" feature meaning you can level the gun on uneven ground, I wouldn't live without that.

make sure it's a harris, the "shooters ridge" brand ones are made on the same blueprints (after the patent ended I guess) and are absolute JUNK! I bought one and the screws started falling out of it after one hunt. Took it back to the store and they said that nearly every one they sold had come back.

Heading out on friday the 6th for my oryx hunt with my two bros and my dad! This week can't go by quick enough!

where at in MN? My dad and I have been raising whitetails since 1991 in central ND, east of Bismarck. He's only got a few now, but used to have a bunch when I was younger. Interesting observation on the rump hair, never paid enough attention to that I guess!

I just spent the last couple weeks in 24A and can tell you that the rut is not happening as of lately. I sat in a treestand for many hours and had multiple does with fawns in tow. In all the hours sitting I witnessed a smaller 6 pointer chase a doe away from a group of 3 does and 2 fawns. The following day I had the same does and fawns back in minus the doe that was chased. It wasn't ten minutes and the doe that was chased the following day was back in with the group with no buck in tow. By the looks of her backside she wasn't bred. I think the young buck was premature with chasing her and abandoned mission was he realized the time wasn't right. My $.02 on the rut in my area is it has yet to begin. It can only get better in the next few weeks. You can tell they are bred by looking at their backside?!?

Now if I can just find someone to release a big fat cougar tom just over the rise for me without me know it I'll be a happy man

I think your bro in law got that as a forward. I've seen that pic before claiming to be from several places. Cool pic for sure, must be some light fluffy snow! Also, Utah doesn't have whitetails (or very very few of them).

I was fortunate enough to draw a september archery tag this year in a slightly less desirable unit! I was pumped either way! I was up above the rim nearly every weekend all summer and learned a LOT about elk hunting in AZ! Lesson 1: The bulls definitely don't stay put from July and August till they rut! I had 50 different bulls on 6 cams on salts and water that I would've loved to shoot, and of all those bulls, I never saw one that I had on camera during the hunt! I had a couple bruisers that were hitting water like clockwork till the velvet dropped, then gone! Anyhow, the hunt was a rollercoaster for me but was an awesome time. I have no idea how AZ is able to give out so many tags and still have quality hunting! I didn't see a soul scouting all summer, then on opening day it was like someone opened the flood gate! I saw more people in one week of elk hunting AZ then I have in 15 years of hunting general hunts in MT and CO. Here's the weird thing, I saw way more elk too! I tried some quiet areas and was able to get away from the people to some extent, but it's still beyond me how the elk tolerate that much pressure and keep bugling, you guys in AZ have to consider yourselves lucky! I've bumped bulls 7 or 8 miles into the backcoutnry in montana and blown them out of an entire drainage just by having one cow in the herd wind me! Here it's totally different, despite the Indy 500 on quads that went on every morning, the elk bugled right through it! I had an opportunity at a 320 type bull that stopped broadside at 80 yards on a logging road, completely unaware of my presence, but I failed to realize that the overhanging limb halfway there was in the way! He got dang lucky that day. I had another chance at a monster bull that we glassed up in some open country. I was making a stalk on him and something spooked them right past me. I saw him coming and drew back, and tried every different noise I could make as he trotted by at 40 yards. He finally stopped after he got past me behind a tree of course, with his cows stopping at 20 yards staring at me and my drawn bow. Then they all bounced out of my life forever! He was a hammer with huge tops (for me anyhow, I would say he was a 370 bull, which is big for this guy!). Anyhow, the hunt dwindled down till the last morning, after having a rough go and getting screwed up by other hunters with a hoochy momma yet again, I was literally driving out of the unit to the highway to head down to the valley. I was 800 yards from the highway when a herd of cows ran across the road in front of me. I didn't see a bull, but knew that there had to be one somewhere, so I drove past a quarter mile and snuck back around and began flanking the herd in the ponderosas. I'm sneaking along at about 150 yards thinking to myself "this is the stupidest idea you've had all season". I finally caught a glimpse of a bull pushing them, of course it was the smallest herd bull in all of Arizona, but I wasn't about to be picky. They slowed and started feeding along, completely silent, so I slipped out ahead of them and snuck in a bit closer when I reached a thick spot. I couldn't beleive my eyes when all of the sudden a cow came feeding by, then another, then another. I ranged them at 30 yards. The bull finally trudged by after the 9th cow went past. I couldn't beleive it, I was about to kill a herd bull! He took a slightly different course and actually walked right toward me for a few yards, and I drew as his head went behind a ponderosa. He stepped out at 19 yards, slightly quartering toward me. I put it right on the front edge of his shoulder blade and drove a FMJ tipped with a 125 rage crossbow head all the way into his opposite shoulder. He lit out over a small rise and I almost instantly heard a crash, thinking it must be cows running away, I backed out and waited an hour. It wasn't necessary as the broadhead took the top of his heart off and he died mid stride about 65 yards over the rise. Another thing I'm thankful for is driving off trail to get a downed elk! All of the places I've shot elk before you wouldn't dream of getting a vehicle to! I was bound and determined to get this big guy in my truck whole. Using a seriies of straps and ropes, I almost did, I ended up sawing him in half and loading him in, took way longer then it wouldve to just bone him out there, but I really wanted to say that I loaded one in my pickup whole! He was a big bodied dude, but kinda light on the antlers. I took him to millers and he weighed 390 without head hide, guts, feet, or backstraps. I do believe he had to have been a mean butt bull to keep 9 cows in a place where he was 50-60" smaller then any other herd bull I saw! Someday I'll stick a 350 bull, but considering it was litereally the last 30 seconds of my hunt I'm pretty pumped. Side Note: I was worried about the taste of this bull as the 3 year old bull I shot in NM was tough as heck, but I was amazed to find out that he is excellent! Not that I think he's an old bull or anything, but hes defintely more mature then the tough little one I killed in NM, but way way better eating.

you gonna mount up a pair of em and make some big eyes?

$15k each... and they take six hunters.... $90,000. I'm pretty sure you can buy 5500 acres in mexico for $90k.

When do the turkey tags sell?