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Has anyone been watching?

I guess I am just a Gila Monster magnet. I have ran across no fewer than 12 in my 33 years. They have been from about 3 inches to almost two feet. They are really awesome creatures to come across. The last one I saw and just about the biggest was when I was dove hunting out by Buckelew farm. My 4 year old spotted it first. Me and my buddy had our eyes up toward the sky targeting birds and my little girl cried out daddy look at that. It was a huge one and did not like my friend taking his picture at all. He was really pissy and hissed a lot. I will have to see if my friend still has the pics. That is great footage OpticNerd. Thanks for posting. I never thought I was so lucky running across so many till you posted this topic and reading the replies. Now If I could just run across 100" bucks the way I do Gila Monsters I would be set.

LOL, someone was smart enough to figure it out... Are you calling me stupid I thought you had connections bro

Lawsuit..............Really?????

I'm sure Chef has a lot of ideas for different hot sauces. Such as marinades dipping sauces........stuff like that. I am a hot sauce nut as well. I like to mix Sriracha with mayo and katchup. It makes a great dipping sauce for fries and onion rings. Some times I like to mix it in with hamburger and then make hamburgers. It gives it a little kick. Also it is really good mixed with tuna. I know that sounds wired but its good. It is also great in soups. Tapatio is great to make wings with instead of Franks. I like to marinade the wings in it and then toss them on the grill. I love all the Tabasco's. Especially the normal red on tuna salad. I like them all Tapatio, Cholula, Tabasco, Sriracha, and many more. As some have mentioned the homemade stuff is the best. I like to make a simple sauce with green chili's. And the fresher roasted the better. The ones form New Mexcio are the best. The Hatch Chili's are grown in a lot of states .

Thats great make fun of a mans dying words........ "With the death of an outstanding athlete, a legend began over 80 years ago. The story starts with the obituary from the Oct. 19, 1926 Arizona Daily Star read as follows: "John B. Salmon, 22, of Bisbee, athlete and president of the student body of the University of Arizona died at 6:15 o'clock yesterday morning at a local hospital. Death resulted from complete body paralysis caused by an auto accident near Florence more than a week ago." The accident happened on Oct. 3, 1926. The day after a Wildcat game in which he threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to win the game, Salmon and two fraternity brothers left for Phoenix. On the return trip, Salmon failed to negotiate a curve on the Florence highway. He was thrown from the vehicle and severely damaged his spinal cord. His death followed thirteen days later. His obituary covered his last days this way: A week ago he had a sudden sinking spell and rallied to a point where a great deal of hope was held for his recovery. At 10 o'clock Sunday night he had another sinking spell and rallied again. Yesterday morning at 6 o'clock he was apparently recovering when he died at 6:15. UA classes were cancelled and Salmon's body lay in state, on campus, for 24 hours. Thus ended the illustrious, but short, college career of Salmon. At the time of his death, he was student body president, a member of the "A" Club, the Bobcats and the Chain Gang, all honorary organizations, and the Sigma Nu social fraternity. He had earned two letters in football and three in baseball during his three years in school. The legend of Salmon's inspirational words was born at the next football game. Just before the start of the game at New Mexico State, Coach J.F. "Pop" McKale gathered his players around for a pre-game huddle. The coach visited Salmon every day in the hospital. On his last visit he asked if Button had a message for the team. "Tell them ... tell them to bear down." The following January, the UA slogan's place in history was made official. Button Salmon's Last Message to Inspire Players "Bear down," Button Salmon's last message to his teammates on the gridiron, will be the future slogan for the University of Arizona's athletic teams. Marty Gentry, varsity center and a captain-elect (1927) on the Wildcat football eleven. proposed the adoption of the words as an athletic slogan at the student body assembly yesterday morning, which voted unanimously that it be used. "Tell the boys to 'bear down'," Button told Athletic Coach J.F. McKale, who carried the message to them. Button died the following morning, October 18 last year, from injuries received in an automobile accident." http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/morgue-tales/article_4d47f66a-ffd9-11de-a95b-001cc4c03286.html

What dose that even mean? Nice one though TJ

Some people just suck at life.......

SO whats your beef with Tucson.......Do tell!!!!!

Hats off to UConn. They played a great game and deserved to win. They just hit some great shots and came up with some awesome steals and rebounds when they had to have them. They were the better team today hands down. Its to bad the Cats had a bad shooting day 19% from 3 and Williams was in early foul trouble but thems the brakes. Some times your on and sometimes your not. UConn earned this win. Still it was a great year for this team and I think this year has shown that Arizona basketball is back and will be a force to reckon with for years to come. Sean Miller has proven he can develop players and recruit.......the future is bright. I am disappointed and bummed but I am very proud of this team the really exceeded expectations after going 16-15 last year. BEAR DOWN!!!!!!!

Well you said you "hate" Tucson so is that the driving force behind your dislike or "hate" for UofA or are you as Devil fan?

So only the team that wins the Championship has a successful season? Man looks like a lot of teams will be looking for coaches at the end of the year after their failure of a season.

What crap!!!!!! Cats just beat the defending National Champions by 16!!!!!!!! This is a young team that is coming together at just the right time. If they lose to UConn it still we a very successful season. Stop trying to trash this team.....you don't like UofA, get past it, dont be bitter because they keep proving you wrong

......very cute DesertBull......... but this one will always be better.......Simon says CHAMIONSHIP!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWZw0wca54g

Because the tags that go to landowners are a public resource that is given away for private gain. I have no problem with private landowner rights and I don't mind paying a tresspass fee but don't privatize the animal itself. How is land owner tags "privatizing" game. All residents and non-residents have the opportunity to hunt all species of game in New Mexico if I understand correctly. Unless there is a species of animal that a hunter can only hunt by obtaining a land owner tag, the general public still has access to the animals (through the draw, over the counter tags etc.). So how are they privatized? Am I missing somthing here?

Why would it be a good thing to get rid of land owner tags?

In all due respect youngbuck I don't think that's the point Hunter X is trying to make. If I have read it right (and in full disclosure I have not read all of this thread) what Hunter X is trying to say is he does not think shots past 500 yards is "sporting" or "good ethics" because at that distance the animals chances of detecting the hunter are slim to none. If that is the point you are trying to make Hunter X (and I will say again I have not read the entire thread) that is misguided and folly. In my experience Coues deer can and will detect movement and can hear the human voice in distances past 500 yards. Is it harder for them sure. But can they absolutely. I will try to keep my next point as clean and as civil as possible. If that is your opinion fine. I will not try to change your mind of it. But please don't try to change mine or say that I am less of a hunter or a sportsman because my viewpoint differs from yours. You have your opinion and I have mine. And I think we both know the saying about opinions. I have two questions for you Hunter X. One is, is that the point you were trying to get at? And two do you have any ill feelings of hunters that take shots past 500 yards BECAUSE you feel that it is not responsible for people to shoot that far. Not because the chances of game detecting you are slim but BECAUSE 500 yards and past is too far for people to be responsibly shooting? If that makes sense.

Does anyone happen to know what pre 64's are selling for. My uncle has one in .243. He is not looking to sell I am just curious what one in good condition is goin for these days.

Thanks for the info ronaldo. I looked on gunbroker and saw a big discrpancy in the price range. It really does not matter to my uncle he will never sell his. It will stay in the family.......... all our guns do. He bought it band new. I believe it is a featherweight also. Great gun. He topped his with a Leaupold VX III and cleaned house dear hunting for a lot of years with the combo.

The Klump jaguar story reportedly began with a wild jaguar that he was supposed to have killed while hunting mountain lions in the Dos Cabezas, I think it was. A taxidermist in Tucson apparently illegally mounted it for him, along with an ocelot that Klump had killed or acquired somewhere out of the country. There could have been a marguay, too, but I don’t remember hearing about it. There were rumors about a dead jaguar being brought to Tucson in the back of an open pickup truck and shown to several people. At any rate, word about the cat eventually got to someone at Game and Fish, who got a search warrant and searched Klump’s place but could not find the cat. So AZGFD got two undercover guys on loan from the Colorado Division of Wildlife, one of them of Asian descent. They hired Klump and one of his friends for a bear hunt and then told him they wanted to buy bear gall bladders, which they eventually did. Over the next year or so, the agents killed a javelina, bear and a desert sheep ... all out of season and without permits ...with Klump and his friend so they could get “close” to them. The agents eventually got Klump to agree to sell his jaguar and ocelot mounts to them. To bring in the feds, the money and mounts were scheduled to be swapped at a motel across the border in New Mexico, and that's where Klump and his friend were busted. Arizona’s jaguars were not federally protected at the time, because there weren’t supposed to be any here, so they needed to get their suspects to cross a state border to charge them with a Lacey Act violation. When they went to count, the judge was angry about all the critters the agents had killed, especially the bighorn, and compared them to out-of-control undercover DEA guys killing people to get inside the mafia. I had thought he dismissed the case because of this, but a year or so ago one of the game department guys who had been involved in the case said Klump and his buddy were indeed found guilty. I don't know what the penalty was or what the charge was. Bill Quimby Thanks for the story Bill, that was a very interesting read. Lots of questionable acts going on there by both the Klumps AND the law enforcement IMO.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL SUNDEVILS POSTS IN THIS THREAD????????? SOMTHIN STRANGE GOIN ON!!!!!!!!

Haha, good luck with that. If Rich Rodriguez can't make a good quarterback out of him, Ericksen sure as heck won't. I'm with Lark, unconditional hate is fundamental in a good rivalry. Sanity or good factual arguments are irrelevant because you have to stick with your team good or bad, win or lose, heroes or screw-ups. So piss off scumdevils, I hate you. Threet is a tool, scumdevil football sucks, Ericksen is a decrepit moron, and the team is composed of a bunch of thugs. Also let's lay off the NAU bashing. The lumberjacks have given ASSu a good game more than once. It's only a matter of time Also attending a school has no bearing on whether or not you can be a fan. The only true requirement is loyalty. Before you try and hammer me ScumDevil, I'm NAU alum and I'll have a doctorate from UofA in may. But even before I enrolled at Arizona I couldn't stand the pinchis scumdevils. Go Cats! Ummm good post but I'm pretty sure Lark was being sarcastic with that "you have to hate" deal. This is interesting I really hate ASU sports teams but as for their fans I cant say I hate all of them. I have friends that are die hard Cat fans and I have friends that are die hard Devil fans. And I have a lot of fans that couldn’t give two craps about either school. And I really don’t agree with the premise of "well if you didn’t go to the school then you are not a REAL fan". That’s just short sighted and foolish in my eyes. If that’s the case most of the schools fan bases would be much smaller. Could you imagine if the only people they let into games were graduates from that particular school. There are some great fans and great contributors of schools that never attended. I agree loyalty is where its at. I'm loyal to the Cats no matter what their win and loss record is. A fan is a fan we stick with our team through thick and thin.

Nope no season tickets. I choose to spend my money on more important stuff lol. Like my four children, hunting, fishing and camping trips blah blah blah. Its funny My uncle grew up in Buckeye and chose to go to the UofA. His parents wanted him to go to ASU (his dad was the principal of Buckeye HS) But that was just a little to close to home. They compromised and he ended up at UofA. He graduated in the late 70's. Hey listen I love sports. I love the UofA. It was always my dream to go the the UofA on a football scholarship. I never was that good. I had a few offers from some smaller schools but college was not my thing. I kind of regret not taking one of the offers now but truly I was done with football after the 10 years I played. And as far as how the Cat fans have treated you........Well what do you expect. Look at this thread and who started it lol. I don’t know who said what to you but lets agree that there are turds from both schools that give every fan base a bad name.......Right? Oh and how did you END UP going to ASU?

No I did not miss that Oregon game. That was a shame and that idiot should be strung up. Also What happened on the mall that was so bad? just wondering. The truth is both schools have gotten a bad name. The UofA's has come more recently but its still no excuse. And if you must know I did not attend the UofA. I did not go to any college for that matter. Just an uneducated Tucson and Cats homer. I was born and raised in Tucson and still reside here. So judging by the crap you gave Casey I know what is coming my way. No I did not attend UA but that does not mean I cant be a fan and support my home town college. So let me have it Chris