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Hi Tony PM sent. Thanks.

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Not sure as to the intent of your reply, Thom, but I'll say that there are lots of things that are owned by the public in AZ that are also utilized by the public.. land, water, timber, WILDLIFE, etc.. I'll stick to what the book says I am legally entitled to do on OUR land as far as taking a few river rocks. Thank you.

Thanks for the replies.. NRS has it right.. BLM land you can have 125lbs no problem (public land). Still trying to get an answer from the NF. State land is a no go as is the parks, monuements, etc.. One thing going well is that the bloomin' state is pretty much a solid chunk of rock! No shortage of them in the state!

Sorry for the delayed reply.. I have been eye-ball deep in moving and haven't had a chance to log on lately. To all, thank you very much for the replies. It was the best hunt I have had the pleasure of going on. It was a wonderfu trip in every way. Thanks for taking the time to read it!

On the return to the lodge from another one of our fruitless nights in the hyena blind, a few kudu bulls cross the road in front of us as we were headed back to catch a bite and a nap.. The rear bull was a one of those rare heads that instantly make you go a little nuts, knowing that what you just saw was a specimen that defines what a trophy is.. I made sure NOT to tell Rich this! Kudu was his #1 on his wish list and I didn’t want to add to his pressure. The bulls made their way around a small kopie and out of sight. We scrambled up to the top and sure enough, there they were below us still looking back towards the road and not at the danger now above them. A quick shot with the WBY and he was down. When we walked up, Rich knew what he had just taken by the expressions in my, Jon’s, and the tracker’s faces.. A dream kudu for anyone. I’ve seen A LOT of kudu shot, and some even longer than this one, but none prettier. It had those long, elegant splayed out ivory tips that one can look for in a bull for years of hunting. Rich, you got your dream bull! Congrats, amigo. In between our now routine stints in the hyena blind, Rich also managed to take a good blue wildebeest, and one helluva warthog! I had the gun but passed it to Rich when this boar stepped out. He was basically frothing at the mouth when he saw the pig! I hope this move gives me some good hunting karma down the road on some other hunt because once we were taking pics of the downed boar, I told Rich that had I known that he was THIS big, I would have taken the shot!! That being said, I was glad to see Rich having a dream 1st safari. He was having a blast. With all the wish list pretty much wrapped up (minus the hyena, of course, which we sat for up until the last possible night), we had plenty of time to kill.. Luckily, Mjingwe has a deep 30 acre lake that they stocked with black bass and tilapia. We took the boat down and slayed them day after day! We all caught plenty of 4-6lb.ers and I hooked into the new Zim record but she broke me off. I wish I had landed that one..no telling how big she was! We also tore up the tilapia that hung in the deep water near the dam. We ate like kings on fresh grilled fish with cold Zambezis and Lion Lagers. In addition to the fishing, we shot our fills of francolin and guineas during those days we had time to kill.. The place was crawling with them in insane numbers. Being a bird hunting fanatic, I was in heaven each and every day! We took Natal, Swainson’s, and Crested along with big covies of guineas to run & gun. I also introduced our Zimbabwean brethren on how we cook dove and quail back home in Texas and AZ.. Breast meat with green pepper (had to substitute for the lack of jalapeños) , and onions wrapped in bacon and cooked over mopane coals. Needless to say, it was an instant hit. We also gave the dog baboons heck inbetween our blind sitting stints.. Rich made good on a marginal shot and ended up with a big dog to take back to AZ. I fluffed my only chance at a big dog and educated him as to what a 180 grain Barnes sounds like burning the hairs off his back from a .300WBY!! On the last day, we rounded up all the trackers, skinners, kitchen staff, patrol staff, etc. and had the 1st annual Mjingwe Olympics al-a- Saeed style! We had rifle shooting, dry river sand 100 yard sprints, dizzy relay races (run 50 yrds, go around a stick in the sand with your forehead ten times then run back the 50 yards), ect.. We had the entire staff in stitches with our games. We burned a lot of 300WBY and .223 lead and had more laughs than I’ve had in years.. We gave away binos, cash, knives, etc. to the winners. The staff had an absolute blast.. I suppose I owed them.. I gave them all heck the entire time I was there. I had packed a 4ft. rubber snake with me this trip (thanks Shakari!!) that looked terribly like a black mamba! I scared the living poop out of each and every staff member we had over the couse of the 10 days! Snake in the hamper, snake in the shower, snake in the cooler, snake in the front seat.. You get the idea! I think I had a bounty on my head by the time the hunt was over! In closing, I’ll say this.. I had one of the most enjoyable hunts I’ve ever been on this trip. It was a combination of having one of my best friends there, the fantastic animals we ended up taking, getting to realize a dream of mine to hunt buff with a double rifle, the wonderful scenery and terrain of southern Zim, the great staff and hunters of Mjingwe, the great attitudes of all there, etc. all added up to make a hunt that will be hard to match. I cannot say enough good things about the way this hunt turned out. I’ll be back just as soon as I can for safari #8.. I will be back with Jon after a big sable bull, another tuskless elephant, a big eland bull, and of course a try at redemption on those darn spotted hyenas! On a side note, my other buddy Mark took his buffalo bull as well as a brute of an eland bull with an old Win M70 .375 redone by Griffin & Howe (beaut of a gun) back in the 50s but that is his story to tell! They had a great hunt as well. Thanks for taking a minute to read, guys and gals. Take care.

I won’t go into a day to day detail of the next ten days.. Rather, I will just give a good overview of how the hunting played out and how the days were filled.. We chased buffalo in the heat on foot looking for the right bull. I told Jonathon that I wanted an OLD buffalo.. Spread means little to me.. What I wanted was to get in close and have a good hunt and try to find an OLD buffalo. I’m not an inches counter. He liked that. We got into numerous herds bumping and playing with them seeing if the “right” bull was amongst the cows, calves, and green bulls.. He wasn’t. We found “Mr. Right” in a group of 6 bulls loafing under some thorny scrub in the HEAT of the day. I’m not sure if this was 100% true, but this day was an all-time heat breaker in Zim. We had a registered thermometer reading of 49 degree C on this day.. It felt like a blow dryer in your face. Luckily, there was 0 humidity, so while hot, it was not unbearable. In fact, it felt like a hotter than normal day right here at home in Tucson. Still hot as heck though and not THAT much fun to be in! Anyhow, the bachelor herd was pretty content in the sparse shade, paying little mind to little else other than staying in the shade and letting the oxpeckers do their duties. We played the wind right and quickly found ourselves 40 yards from the unsuspecting bulls. In amongst the 6 were a couple of younger bulls not yet in their prime, a “herd” type bull who would stretch the tape over 40” although a bit green in the front still, and a couple of contenders who now had my FULL attention! Jon and I both agreed on the same bull when we saw him. Old, crusty, grey faced with no hair, hard smooth bosses from years of wear, tips wore down to the size of a man’s fist, mangy coat with large missing patches of scraggly hair.. My kind of bull. No record breaker, but he was exactly what I had hoped to find and get a chance to take. He was slowly milling about from shade patch to shade patch and I had picked my spot that was clear of any brush. Once he stepped into the “zone” broadside, I let fly with the Chapuis. The right barrel hit him square. He gave that jump/skip/bellow of a mortally hit buffalo. Once he cleared another bull, I let the left barrel roar. This one hit him a little further back (he was moving in a hard quartering to manner) and blew threw his liver and out the exited his opposite side. I quickly reloaded the double and hit him again with another. This one put him on the dirt, hard. He was now inside 20 yards and was hurt badly. Although he was dead (he still didn’t know it), I gave him two more to speed up the ghost. Death bellow sang from 20 yards away and he was mine. I could not have been happier. Jon smiled and showed that he hadn’t even had to unsling his Lott from his shoulder. It was a day that I’ll replay over in my head for the rest of my days. just a minute or so after it was over.. A happy hunter. Of course little Ernie had a front row view of the hunt. The following days were filled with MUCH cooler temps after a cold front pushed through and hunting in every shape and form. Rich took a big bull giraffe with the double rifle and we used the torso of the carcass to set up a bait for spotted hyena. After the buff, this was the animal I was really hoping to get a crack at. We constructed a couple of good blinds and sat six of ten nights. While in those blinds, we fed numerous Brown hyenas, a couple of leopards, and an army of civets and genets! While we heard the spotted each night, they were always 1 step ahead of us on the bait. I had taken a FoxPro caller with me, and we tried one evening to call in a spotted just before sunset.. While no hyena came in, we did call in 3 African wild dogs into 50 yards. It was a wonderful experience seeing them come in. In the end, I came up empty on the hyena, alothough not from a lack of trying.. In fact, we put in more time for Impisi than any other animal on the entire hunt.. But he won this round. Rich's giraffe bull taken with the double (which he double tapped!) In the hyena blind (AKA the 'Ritz").. shooting hole aimed at the bait.. I ended up taking a nice Klipspringer ram while there. It was one that was high on my list. There were numerous klipies everywhere on the property with the countless kopies and jumbled boulders that cover the place. It was just a matter of getting out and getting a good ram to hold still. This one did. I took him with a .223 with FMJs from about 100yds off the sticks. Along with Klipspringer and spotted hyena, I had my heart set on trying for a Sharp’s grysbok. I love hunting the pygmy antelope species as much (if not more) as the big stuff. They are what usually gives me my run for my money (I got skunked in the Cape in May by those blue duikers!) and are most always a challange.. Jon made it clear that while the chances of success were low, there are plenty around. Fast forward to day 6 and we are making our way to get in a few hours of fishing and francolin shooting in.. We fly by a big Mahogany tree near the road and one of the trackers gently taps on the hood. “Baas, there was a grysbok bedded at the root of that tree.” “Did it have horns?” “Yes..” Well turn around! Out comes the .22 mag.. Sure enough, there he is! The little 22 cracks and I have one of Zimabawe’s little gems to take home. I’ll take good ol’ luck anyday. Even if it was a 2:30PM and cut into my fishing time!

Count down to 8 hours til we head to the airport! On the topic of giraffes, they are a game animal over there just like the buffalo, kudu, impala, etc.. and where we are going in Zimbabwe, they are THICK with them.. They are so plentiful in fact, they offer them for a greatly reduced trophy fee.. They are good fun to hunt (tougher than any buff) that feed alot of folks when one is down and cut up. Here's a big old bull I took back in '06.. I may try for another one if I get my buffalo early in the hunt!

Would I pay someone to develop and reload for me? If I knew the person doing the work was reliable and dependable with his work, then yes, I would have no problem paying for that service. Although I want to learn to reload, at the moment, I just do not have the time to at this point in my life.

Thanks guys for the well wishes! 4 days and counting to take off! It should be a wonderful trip. Back to Zimbabwe hunting cape buffalo with my double. Will be hunting a few other species as well while there. A couple of good mates are going along too and are hunting a whole slew of critters.. buffalo, giraffe, kudu, etc, etc, etc... I am as excited about this hunt as any I've ever gone on. Hope to have a good report on the return! Thanks again!

I have been extremely busy the last few months and have not been on here much at all (haven't posted in ages).. Thanks for taking and posting up a few pics, Scott. They look really nice! I hope you enjoy your mount for many, many years to come. That certainly is a brute of a coues buck. Congrats again on 1: shooting a once in a lifetime coues buck, and B: winning the mount in the contest! Thanks to the rest of you for the kind comments about the work done. I really do appreciate it.

Ted I'd say that a full year is PLENTY of time!! Good on ya for bringing it to everyone's attention. Hope you get those papers.. After all, you were sold a puppy from registered lineage.. On a separate note, lets hope for monsoon rains.. Those Mearns need it to rebound from the dismal season last year. I've been seeing the pairs out there... They're just waiting for the right time.

Getting the idea, guys?? It may shine on the outside, but it's d a m ned sure rotten to the core on the inside.. Mexico's the anus of North America. All because of it's people. Surely can't place blame on the mountains, beaches, forests, canyons of the country.. they're all beautiful. It's the parasites that inhabit them that are the bane. M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEXICO WORRIED ABOUT ARIZONA LAWS Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:41 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here Cambio de Michoacán (Morelia, Michoacán) 6-28-10 Several civil organizations are planning a march on July 17th in support of undocumented people in the USA and to support Mexican authorities who have come out against Arizona’s SB-1070. This mobilization was called by the leader of a group called Sexual Diversity in Michoacán, Gerardo Herrera Perez, who wants to show support for the undocumented immigrants who have suffered suppression and violations of their human rights by the xenophobic actions and discriminatory practices caused by Arizona’s SB-1070. In a like manner, Herrera would like to throw support behind the diplomatic efforts of local and federal authorities to bring about migratory reform critical to benefit the migrants and, according to Herrera Perez, this initiative goes against American values. The group, Sexual Diversity in Michoacán, says that the controversial SB-1070, scheduled to go into full force on July 29th, criminalizes the presence of undocumented immigrants and turns local police into immigration agents. The Sexual Diversity in Michoacán Group is structuring itself into a civil organization supporting its nationals abroad and to support Mexican authorities who are making diplomatic efforts to overturn SB-1070. - – - – - The North American Supreme Court to review Arizona Law On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to enter the national debate concerning immigrants without papers and agreed to consider an injunction requested by a group of businessmen and civil rights organizations who are against an Arizona law that punishes businessmen who employ undocumented people. The Justices agreed to hear an appeal by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups that had failed in lower courts that had reviewed the Arizona law. The legislation required businesses to verify the employment eligibility of potential employees with a federal data bank called E-Verify. The law also allows sanctions against companies that knowingly hire the undocumented. The then Governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano, signed the law in 2007. Napolitano is now the current Secretary of Homeland Security. This law is different from the one recently approved in Arizona that promotes the removal of undocumented people from Arizona which is considered by many to be unconstitutional. In this case to be reviewed by the High Court, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the ACLU charge that the State of Arizona and other states that have enacted similar laws have overstepped their authority. They (The U.S. Chamber and the ACLU) contend that only the U.S. Congress may legislate immigration matters. President Barack Obama has taken the side of the petitioners – that immigration matters cannot be addressed at the state level. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, located in San Francisco, has held the Arizona law to be constitutional. The Federal E-Verify System was created in 1996 but was meant to be voluntary. This matter will be presented before the Supreme Court session beginning in October of this year. The case is identified as Chamber of Commerce vs. Candelaria, 095 ——————– Correo (Leon, Guanajuato) 6-28-10 White House plans to “Wreak” SB-1070 This week the White house will directly confront SB-1070 by asking the Federal Court to block the enforcement of the Arizona law. The Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, is prepared for the confrontation with the Federal Government, by establishing a fund that has collected $123,000 in donations to defend the new law. Spokesmen for the White House appeared before the ABC Television Network on Sunday and said that they expect to ask the court for an injunction within the next few days. Different White House sources in the past few days have indicated that an injunction will be requested but declined to give a time frame. In taking a stand against the Arizona law, the Obama Administration seeks to establish a political and legal position that immigration law is strictly a federal function. Obama has characterized the Arizona as “not well thought out” and that criminal action against illegal immigrants is not a solution to the dysfunctional immigration system of the country. Until now the Obama Administration has not revealed the basis of its arguments from the Department of Justice concerning the controversial law that makes criminals out of the undocumented under state law. The invocation of SB-1070 is unconstitutional and should be the sole authority of the Federal Government to apply immigration laws and to require local authorities to question persons about their immigration status. Beside that, the federal government considers the law to be racial profiling against legal residents of the state of Arizona. Since its passage last 23rd of April, SB-1070 has prompted six civil rights organizations to file cases before the federal court in Arizona. Governor Jan Brewer has hired lawyer John Bouma, Director of the Phoenix legal firm Snell and Wilmer, to represent Arizona in the defense of the law. Bouma has asked the court to throw out some of the cases, but as of now, none of the arguments for or against have been heard by the court. —— Other lead stories in Correo “PRI” Party Candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas murdered in Tamaulipas Son of former Governor of Nuevo Leon Captured Two executed men found in Sinaloa Nine murdered in Sinaloa, two were women ——————– -end of report-

Can I complain about the ibex and sheep draw as well?? Namely as to why I haven't drawn them yet!! If so, I'm there!

M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVER THE WEEKEND: MEXICO’S NARCO WAR SEEN DESTINED FOR FAILURE; SHOWDOWN ON ARIZONA LAW LOOMING Posted: 28 Jun 2010 09:15 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here Note to our readers: After our notice that the M3 Report would cease at the end of June, your responses continued to inspire us to renew efforts to increase our staff. We now have one additional reporter and an interested candidate. We’re not yet completely out of the woods, but enough so for now that we won’t have to break camp. We will forge on until further notice, and muchas gracias for the encouragement. Saturday 6/26/10 El Universal (Mexico City) 6/25/10 Narco war seen as destined for failure Jorge Castaneda, Mexican ex-Secretary of Foreign Affairs and academic, considers the “war” against narcotraffic waged by the government of Felipe Calderon to be destined for failure and pleaded for the legalization of drugs to stop the problem. Castaneda, who served in the government of Vicente Fox from 2000 to 2003, feels certain that President Calderon made a mistake in launching the fight against narcotraffic. According to Castaneda, Calderon’s government did so for political reasons that “could not be won.” In his judgment, the conflict with the drug cartels has greatly increased the violence in Mexico and is assuming a cost, both economically and socially, difficult for the government to take on. In a press meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the ex-Secretary said that for Mexico to move forward, only two ways exist: the creation of a “Plan Mexico” similar to the “Plan Colombia” with the involvement of the United States, or the legalization of drugs as has been proposed in California (US). ”If he (Calderon) wants to continue in this war, he must take a step forward and ask the only ally he has, the United States, to put money into this,” he affirmed. The article added that Castaneda began his political activities as a militant communist, but was selected for office by Fox, a conservative. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/690406.html —– Immigration reform blockage – the view from Mexico The US has more than 12 million undocumented aliens, the majority of them Mexicans. To move forward with their legalization it is necessary to persuade the conservative political class of that country and that job requires more than just simply desire. The past failed initiatives for immigration reform are signs that, without an ample consensus, the attempts will fail again. After 9/11, it has been very difficult to place an immigration agenda above that of security. Legalization has become subordinate to a reinforced control of the border, which, for its extent, seems impossible to accomplish. To complicate things more, Democrats as well as Republicans have used the undocumented as scapegoats to explain problems like unemployment. Now, the president of the US opens another opportunity for reform. The xenophobic Arizona law permitting the arrest of people on the basis of their racial profile opens a debate that has been lost since George Bush tried without success to pass immigration reform. As a consequence, an unprecedented coalition of more than 100 Democratic congressmen, mayors, business leaders and magnates — like Rupert Murdoch, owner of the conservative Fox network — whose objective will be to revive legislation efforts to bring the undocumented “out of limbo” and prevent the “orphanage” of nearly 5 million children born in the US of parents without papers. They know it is not feasible to expel 12 million people who, furthermore, are necessary for the economy. They also know that it is difficult for a politician to back legalization of the undocumented. Many US citizens feel threatened by the presence of people of different races, cultures, religions and customs. The only way to force a change is with an ample coalition, above the political posturing that restrains discussion, to convince the people of the US that a reform is necessary. So what can Mexico do to for its countrymen when it involves internal politics of another country? The Mexican foreign office will have to be alert. If in any way it can help Mexico in this cause, it is with a responsible and measured voice, with an image of solidarity and not just an anti-imperialist crusade. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/48828.html —– Illegals transport drugs: Brewer The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, said that the majority of the undocumented migrants that enter the state transport drugs. Brewer said many of the undocumented come to the country motivated by the desire to find work, but the narco gangs use them as “mules” for transporting drugs. ”I believe that today, under the circumstances that we face, the majority of those who enter the state of Arizona do so under the direction and control of the drug cartels to bring in drugs,” said Brewer. —– Blaming migrants a desperate position: Mexican Senator The spokesman for the PRI political party in the Mexican Senate, Carlos Jimenez Macias, labeled as “lamentable” the statement by the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, that “many” of the illegal migrants are used as “mules” to transport drugs. The Senator condemned the “lack of respect” and considered it to be “a desperate attitude” by the governor before the onslaught against the Arizona law by international organizations as well as her own US government. [Ed. note: "mule" (Sp. "mula") as used above, is not a pejorative, but rather, a common narco term for a porter of drugs.] ——————– El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) and other Mexican news sources, 6/25/10 Adolescent killed by Border Patrol affirmed to be a smuggler [A follow-up to previous M3 Reports on this subject. ] El Paso, Texas – A 15-year-old Mexican killed by gunfire from a Border Patrol agent had prior arrests for smuggling people into the US. According to federal records examined by the Associated Press, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca had been arrested at least four times since 2008, two of the arrests in the same week in February 2009. A Border Patrol agent trying to arrest a group illegally crossing the border over the Rio Grande in El Paso on June 7, killed Hernandez by firing toward Mexican territory. Witnesses said a group of people on the Mexican side had begun throwing rocks at the agents. ——————– La Jornada (Mexico City) 6/25/10 Fear paralyzes the border area Armed groups staged shootouts this past Thursday morning on the road from Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, to San Fernando. (The area is only some 20 miles from the Rio Grande River, just southwest of Matamoros.) The shootouts “caused a stoppage of schools, traffic, work and police.” In the last few days, the state of Tamaulipas is experiencing a wave of nervousness due to the constant confrontations and rumors of shootouts. The armed encounters are believed to be between Los Zetas and the Gulf cartel. —– Important link between Colombia and Sinaloa narcos arrested Manuel Garibay, an important Mexican narcotrafficker who acted as liaison between cocaine producers in Colombia and the Sinaloa drug cartel was arrested in a farm community near Mexicali, Baja California, Thursday. Garibay “was responsible for the cocaine traffic from Cali (Colombia) to Mexico for delivery to the criminal organization of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman,” said Daniel de la Rosa Amaya, Secretary of Public Security in the state of Baja California. The narcotrafficker, 52, had been arrested in 1995 in San Diego, California, and placed into the US protected witness program. Garibay is described as a “dangerous criminal,” accused of various murders and kidnappings, who commanded a group known as “Los Garibay.” ——————– La Nacion (San Jose, Costa Rica) 6/25/10 Ndamamba caught with the goodies Costa Rican officials became suspicious when Emery Ngoyi Ndamamba, an ex-consul of the Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zayre) in Mexico up until Oct. ’09, kept making airline trips from Mexico into Costa Rica, arriving at night and leaving early the next morning. The last time, his briefcases were opened. Ndamamba was carrying 3 million dollars in cash. He was detained at the airport. — China pressures Costa Rica for visas Costa Rica’s ambassador to China wrote to his own country’s Vice-Chancellor (equiv: US Under Secretary of State) to report that the Chinese commercial attaché was pressuring Costa Rica’s Ministries of Labor and of Foreign Relations for the approval of visas for one hundred Chinese to enter Costa Rica for construction work. ——————– El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/25/10 US “legals” urged to accept farm worker jobs San Diego, California – The United Farm Workers union (UFW) called for unemployed US residents and critics of immigration to learn agricultural work. ”We are tired of farm workers, documented and undocumented, being blamed for the recession and budget problems,” said union president, Arturo Rodriguez. As part of the campaign “take our jobs,” the union invited US “legals” to leave the unemployment lines and learn to work farm labor. California has accumulated at least 250,000 more unemployed thus far in the recession. This week, 1.5 million (sic) unemployed Californians used up their two years’ unemployment benefits. The grape harvest in the Central Valley in August will need approximately 100,000 workers. The UFW president explained, “there are two issues facing our nation, high unemployment and undocumented workers and many people think they are related. Missing in the debate of both issues is honest recognition that the food we all eat, at home, in restaurants, offices, including the state government’s palace, comes from the labor of undocumented workers. “ —————– Sunday 6/27/10 El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/26/10 Hispanic journalists urge US government to block SB 1070 The US National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) urged the US Department of Justice to file a law suit to block the anti-immigrant Arizona law SB 1070. The NAHJ maintains that the law provides racial profiling because it “criminalizes illegal immigration” and allows local police to arrest any person on suspicion of being undocumented. ————– Monday 6/28/10 El Universal (Mexico City) 6/27/10 Nine mob executions in Nuevo Leon in 24 hours The narco-war between organized crime in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, has left nine dead in the metropolitan area. A total of five attacks occurred throughout the night and into Sunday morning. To date this year, the border state of Nuevo Leon has suffered nearly 200 such murders, the most violent period in its history. —– Nine dead in attack on rehab center An armed group burst into a drug rehabilitation center in Gomez Palacio, Durango, Saturday firing indiscriminately, killing nine, including the center’s administrator, and wounding nine others. The group then escaped, leaving behind spent 2.23 caliber and 9 mm shell casings. ——————– El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/27/10 White House seeks direct confrontation with Arizona Phoenix – The White House this week would initiate a direct confrontation with Arizona over the controversial immigration law by filing a suit in federal court to block enactment of SB 1070. Arizona’s governor, Jan Brewer, is prepared for the confrontation with the federal government and has gathered some $123,000 in donations to cover costs of legal defense of the new law. The suit is expected to be filed in the next few days. -end of report-

Awesome tag to have!! I am green with envy over here! I hope you make the most of it and tag a brute Nelson ram.

Ive been planning on getting up in that country to chase birds with the pups.. I am going to this season. I've always heard its good country for Gambels. I am a die hard Mearns hunter.. have been since I was a young boy making the trips out here to AZ from TX to run the dogs with my Dad's side of the family..Dad, uncle, Grandad, cousins, etc.. moved out here 7 yrs with the primary reason being closer to the birds. Good luck with the coues up there.

Cooz shmooz...boring... Lets hear more about the quail trifecta in that 23 country!!

M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corruption in Mexican Customs Posted: 25 Jun 2010 07:21 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here Friday, 6/25/10 El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 6/24/10 Corruption in Mexican Customs Mexican Customs personnel in the area of Ciudad Juarez reported pressures by organized crime so that the latter may be allowed to continue the contraband introduction of firearms and other merchandise into the interior of Mexico. Last August, Mexico’s customs function was taken over by a new agency, “OCE” (Operadores de Comercio Exterior: Foreign Commerce Operators,) after the prior agency was found to be heavily involved with organized crime. However, corruption has now continued with the “OCE” personnel due to bribes and threats, and two of its members have been murdered within the last month. A standard “quota” per vehicle allowed entry without inspection is $200 dollars, which lets in weapons, cash, ammo, or whatever. At the highway checkpoint at Kilometer 72, the OCE’s get $500 to $1,000 dollars a day from “mordidas” and deals they’ve reached with the smugglers. They pay for parties and blowouts with no attempt at disguise. One OCE said, “We’re worse than ever.” http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.php?notaid=6...50eff7ec54e53b8 — Some police news Ten city police at Tulansingo, state of Hidalgo, were surprised at change of shift time: they were arrested by special federal agents due to their links with organized crime. Three others had been arrested the day before. In Sinaloa, six police were murdered within 24 hours. In Chihuahua, two agents of the police Intelligence Unit, including the local chief, were murdered by a group armed with assault rifles. Sixty more law enforcement personnel in the Ciudad Juarez area were dismissed yesterday after failing “trustworthiness” exams. This includes 12 state police and a couple of investigators. _____________________ La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 6/24/10 “Legislators want to ‘Sterilize’” AZ law SB1070 Mexican congressmen and leaders of migrants’ organizations met with state legislators from Arizona at the Mexican congressional facility “to manifest their preoccupation for the racial discrimination and the acts assaulting human rights that the law SB1070 can bring when it goes into effect.” The organizations also requested the Mexican legislators’ assistance regarding the actions of Mexican officials, so that in those cases when Mexican families attempt to return to their country, they won’t be objects of harassment on the Mexican side of the border. The participants from Arizona explained the law as well as the actions they’ve taken to prevent it from going into effect. The participants, all Democrats, included David Lujan, Mary Peralta, Peter Silverman, Cynthia Aragon and Jorge Garcia, as well as Mexico’s Consul in Phoenix, AZ. http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=514527 _____________________ El Liberal (Popayan Colombia) 6/24/10 Illegal aliens in Colombia Police in Cauca, (southwest Colombia,) detained 5 Haitians illegally in the country. The five had entered from Ecuador around Ipiales, a town on the border with Ecuador. Local police reported that some 180 illegal aliens, mainly Chinese and Haitians, have been detained in the area in the past couple of years. A local police commander of the police at Cauca, Lt. Col. Carlos Rodriguez Cortes, stated that these last five aimed to reach the United States. http://www.elliberal.com.co/index.php?opti...0&Itemid=87 ____________________ El Espectador (Bogota, Colombia) 6/24/10 Corrupt consul jailed Gerardo Raul Dorado Davila, an ex-Colombian consul in Ecuador, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by Colombia’s highest court. The ex-consul was found guilty of having issued visas illegally to Chinese in Ecuador to enable them to enter Colombia, even though the Chinese hadn’t met the requisites of the law. ____________________ El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/24/10 Weed haul Nine men were arrested in Xochistlahuacan, state of Guerrero, when found with 1.8 tons of marihuana, a .12 ga. shotgun and some ammo. _____________________ El Universal (Mexico City) 6/24/10 Narco campgrounds found A joint operation by police and Mexican army personnel in the hill country around Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, yielded 13 “narcograves with six dismembered human remains,” eight campgrounds, eight vehicles and almost 2 tons of weed. ______________________ La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 6/24/10 Fremont, Nebraska, in the news Reacting to the recent vote in Fremont, Nebraska, which prohibits housing rental to aliens illegally in the country, El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Relations yesterday expressed its “profound preoccupation” due to these new “xenophobic laws.” Juan Jose Garcia, Vice-Minister for Salvadorans abroad, said that they have hopes that the Arizona law will not become reality, and added, “We hope that the steps President Obama is taking by means of the Secretary of State will be able to halt this legislation which violates democratic principles and human rights.” __________________ Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 6/24/10 Seen at Mexico’s southern border Three to five buses loaded with some 200 Guatemalan deportees arrive at Mexico’s border with Guatemala on a daily basis, according to Raul Orozco, Chief of Migration at the El Carmen border area. A reporter from this paper observed that many of these persons re-cross the border between the two countries by going across the Suchiate River, and once again they start the long and dangerous journey in search of the longed for “American dream.” ___________________ - end of report -

M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFRICAN MIGRANTS ENROUTE TO THE U.S. BORDER Posted: 23 Jun 2010 07:56 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here La Hora (Guatemala) 6-21-10 Growing emigration from Africa into Mexico Tuxtla Gutierrez, (Chiapas, Mexico) – Mexico has noticed a rising number of Africans from the Horn of Africa coming across its borders headed to the United States. The exodus of Africans has expanded while the economic situation in the U.S. has slowed the number of Central Americans migrating to the United States, according to Jorge Humberto Yzar, of the Instituto Nacional de Migracion, in the Mexican State of Chiapas on the border of Guatemala. In the first trimester of this year, Mexico detected 400 migrants originally from the Horn of Africa entering into Mexico destined to the United States. The Horn of Africa is one of the poorest regions of the world. “One hundred and eighty –four of the Africans were from Eritrea, 47 from Ethiopia, and 165 were from Somalia”, says Yzar. The official didn’t disclose figures detailing the entries of Africans during the second trimester. African migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia cannot be repatriated to their countries due to the conditions of poverty and insecurity in those countries, according to a humanitarian treaty signed by Mexico with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. “Under that International Treaty, we have to offer immigrants from those countries an opportunity to immigrate legally into this country or to offer safe passage for a period of 30 days, a period in which they may continue travel to the border of the United States,” confirmed Yzar. The huge presence of African migrants has caught the attention of the whole border city of Tapachula, Chiapas, although the migrants have not affected the peace and security of the city. Around 500.000 migrants, the major portion of which are Central Americans, cross into Mexico annually to cross into the United States, estimates the Mexican Human Rights Commission. ——————– Prensa Libre (Guatemala City) 6-22-10 (Translator’s Note: The main feature and the lead story in today’s issue of Prensa Libre is the following story. This is indicative of the extreme importance that Guatemala puts upon the status of its citizens in the USA.) The city of Fremont, Nebraska approves anti-immigrant law The residents of Fremont, Nebraska, gave the green light in the ballot box to a law similar to Arizona’s law that punishes migrants. The law calls for the verification of legal status of anyone who works or lives in the city. It was approved by 57% of the vote. Only 45% of the registered voters participated. The ordinance prohibits the lodging, renting or leasing residences to undocumented persons. Before knowing the results last night, the Mayor, Donald “Skip” Edwards (who proposed a similar measure in 2008) guaranteed the will of the people. Councilman Scott Getzschman, one of the principal backers of the measure, said the measure proves that “The people are tired of illegal immigration.” According to Census figures, 25,500 people live in Fremont, 4.3 % of which are Hispanic and 30% of those were born in the United States. The Pew Hispanic Research Center says that less than 1% of the residents of Fremont are undocumented. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) promised judicial action to prevent the implementation of the ordinance. “This ordinance in not only against the Federal law but goes against the United States Values of justice and equality,” declared Laurel Marsh, Executive Director of the ACLU in Nebraska. Councilman Gary Bolton said that he feels concerned about the tremendous expenses that will be incurred defending this ordinance because it contradicts Federal Law. Councilman Getzschman said “The people are tired because the Federal Government is not addressing the problem. It is the responsibility of the Federal Government, but the Federal Government is not doing anything so the people have to do something”. He said that this is a grass roots effort similar to initiatives in other cities in Nebraska. Kristin Ostrom, Director of an organization in Fremont named “Nebraska is Home,” (an immigrant help group) coordinated a campaign against the ordinance and said that the debate over immigration in Fremont has gone on for two years and was initiated by outside groups. Ostrom blamed Attorney Kris Kobach of Kansas who wrote SB-1070 for Arizona who also wrote the ordinance approved in the Fremont election. The services of Kobach were paid by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, (FAIR) a national organization known for its anti-immigrant stance. FAIR contributed $5,000 to the campaign to pass the ordinance in Fremont. ——————– La Jornada (Mexico City) 6-22-10 Mexico joins suit in federal court against Arizona law Mexico, D.F. – Mexico filed an Amicus brief in Federal Court in Arizona against SB-1070. The Secretary of Foreign Relations filed a “Friend of the Court” brief in the case of Friendly House, et. al. Vs Michael B. Whiting, et.al. By filing the brief, Mexico aligned itself with The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in order to overturn Arizona’s recently passed SB-1070. In its Friend of the Court Brief, Mexico asks the Federal Court to declare the law unconstitutional, to block its enforcement and declares that it is fundamental and imperative that its citizens (U.S. Citizens) observe human and civil rights when encountering citizens of Mexico wherever they may be present in the United States. ——————– -end of report-

M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPARENT NEW LEADER IN COCAINE PRODUCTION Posted: 24 Jun 2010 07:53 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here Correo (Leon, Guanajuato) 6-23-10 Peru surpasses Colombia in the production of cocaine Lima, Peru – Peru became the prime producer of cocaine in the world in with 119,000 metric tons of cocaine produced in 2009. Colombia produced 103,000 tons, according to a press release yesterday in Bogota and Lima. This news was announced by Aldo Lale in a presentation in the Colombian capital by the United Nations Office against Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Flavio Mirella, delegate of UNODC in Peru, made a concurrent announcement in Lima saying that there has been a significant increase of 4.7% in the production of cocaine over 2008. The Colombian (Lale) said that Peru produces 45.4% of all the cocaine produced in the region followed by Colombia, 39.3% and Bolivia at 15.3% of the total. Peru maintains second place in the number of hectares dedicated to growing coca. ——————– El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 6-23-10 Eight sentenced for decapitations Culiacan – Eight people were sentenced to serve 43 and half years each in the Culiacan State Prison for the decapitations. The eight men ranged in age from 20 to 33 years. The decapitations occurred on the 14th of June during a massacre in which 28 inmates died. The 28 victims were all inmates of the Port Prison. Eight inmates were decapitated and the eight men sentenced were found guilty of the decapitations. —– Other lead stories in El Debate: Man killed leaving his house Three people murdered in the city Two unknowns executed by gunshots Two people shot dead in Navolato ——————– El Diario de Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 6-23-10 Two cities in California declare support for Arizona Law Los Angeles – The City Councils in Hemet and Lake Elsinore, both in Riverside County, voted to support Arizona’s SB-1070. A similar resolution was approved early this month by the City Council in Yorba Linda, California in Orange County. This is in opposition to councils in other cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco which have passed resolutions opposing the law. The County of Riverside is some 100 miles Southeast of Los Angeles and is primarily agricultural land predominantly Latino and many of them are undocumented immigrants. The SB-1070 Law was passed in Arizona and allows authorities to detain persons suspected of being undocumented and has been criticized for being racially discriminatory. Yesterday, the majority of City Council of Hemet approved the measure to support SB-1070. The meeting was attended by witnesses who supported the measure and many who testified that the measure is discriminatory. They, co-incidentally, criticized the White House and Congress for not resolving this issue. Mayor Melissa Melendez, whose family is from Mexican and Peruvian heritage said, “This debate is neither about relationships nor citizenship, but solely about whether you are here legally.” —– Aircraft without crewmen will be deployed Washington,D.C. – The Secretary of Homeland Security-Janet Napolitano announced today that aircraft without crewmen, will be deployed on the Southern border and on the Gulf of Mexico as part of the anti-narcotics, gun trafficking and anti-crime efforts of the USA. She also announced support of programs to combine Mexican police and investigations into money laundering and to increase U.S. personnel charged with the arrest and deportation of immigrant criminals. The deployment of Customs Border Patrol (CBP) aircraft was approved by the FFA and the aircraft will be stationed permanently in Texas once agreements are in place. The aircraft will be in addition to the three already operating from Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. During her speech before the Center for International Strategic Studies, Napolitano said that these new actions are part of the efforts to control the Southern Border. “In the last 18 months this government has dedicated more resources to the Southern border, including additional personnel, technology and infrastructure to the Southern border than at any other time in the history of the United States,” she said. Napolitano explained that these new actions strengthen cooperation with local and state law enforcement agencies while continuing to implement strategic agreements, intelligence and efficiency. Napolitano said that nine new aircraft will operate out of the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, and will begin operation upon the finalization of the necessary agreements. These aircraft will be controlled by radio from the base and are capable of flying 460 kilometers per hour for more than 18 hours at an altitude of 50,000 feet. The Predators come equipped with modern radar systems, cameras with infrared capabilities, laser illuminators and can operate day and night. Napolitano said that the government is waiting for Congress to appropriate the funds to deploy the aircraft, and to add 100 agents to the Border Patrol; to add 160 investigators to ICE; 30 Port Agents and 30 canines. Part of these personnel will be deployed to Arizona to assist special operations against the drug cartels along the border in the Tucson Sector. Part of the new actions is to establish Project Roadrunner at the DHS and the Office of Drug Control in the White House. “The target of this program”, says Napolitano, “is to combat narcotics traffic coming north and to target illicit activities on the southeast frontier. Also in the works is a new alliance with the Association of Chiefs of Police of Big Cities. With that agreement they are looking to reform operations on the border and to focus local and state agencies on the interior and most of the Southeast frontier. ——————– -end of report-

You got it.. Most folks either just truly do not know whats going on or just choose to ignore the pink elephant sitting in the corner of the room. The facts speak for themselves.. At least someone is reading them.

At least I was there to get to see them pulls their heads out of their butts for the one good game they had of the year on the 4th of this month vs. CO. Bottom of the 9th come from behind win. Even caught a screaming rope of a foul hit by Parra (was siting above the 3rd base dugout)!!

M3 Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Feelings” about crime numbers Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:12 AM PDT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Foreign News Report The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider. To subscribe, click here “Feelings” about crime numbers El Universal (Mexico City) 6/21/10 [Editorial from El Universal:] The federal government has said on various occasions that the thousands of executions recorded every year in the country are mostly the product of fights among organized crime killers. How can they be so sure? In reality, they aren’t. They have investigated less than 5% of the assassinations occurring during this administration. To date, it is not known which of the executed victims may have really been innocent civilians sent to oblivion with the recurrent phrase: “it was a settling of accounts.” For all the money allotted to TV advertising and other displays, no government policy will gain highly sought popular support if there is no coherence. Even President Calderon has mentioned numbers about this issue without any documented reference. From February 2009 to date he has said that more than 90% of the homicides and executions related to organized crime belong to mafia members. He repeated this assertion just last April. The problem is that something as important as the re-named “struggle for security” ought not to be carried out under subjective criteria and personal perceptions. The cost in lives during an armed struggle increases when light diagnostics are carried out. It’s understood that the PGR (Department of Justice equiv.) may not have the capacity to thoroughly investigate the 22 thousand deaths associated with organized crime during this administration. One must assume, therefore, that the rest of the one thousand 200 previous investigations – more than 20 thousand – are in the hands of the state attorneys’ offices. Unfortunately, the situation in those agencies is the same or worse than in the PGR, not only because they refuse to get involved in crimes which – they say to justify themselves – are under federal jurisdiction, but because they lack the capacity for a serious, methodical and scientific investigation. Faced with that deficit, the first thing the federal government should be doing is to set the example. In order to obtain the backing of public opinion on this issue, and to have society see how necessary the “struggle for security” is, the federal government must begin with coherence. Instead of trying to convince people that the dead are insignificant because they’re hired killers, the President could show that at least matters of public relevance are really investigated in an objective fashion. The cases of the Tec students (making reference to a number of Monterrey Tech Institute students killed in a crossfire) and the murdered children – according to indications – at a military checkpoint in Tamaulipas were a perfect opportunity to show this coherence. By continuing to explain beforehand every execution as a “settling of accounts” among criminals a mantle of impunity is given to the aggressors and the credibility of the necessary fight against insecurity is eroded. —— Crimes go unreported Of the 12 million crimes committed annually in Mexico, only 1.5 million are reported due to the distrust of the judicial system, according to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH). The lack of confidence is based on failure of the judges to give jail sentences, evidenced by the fact that the number of inmates in the prison system has not increased in the past five years. ——————– Cambio de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 6/21/10 Combat wages One of the attackers arrested in the ambush murders of 12 Federal Police last June 14 [M3 Weekend Report], related that the hired guns were offered 4,000 pesos [about $319] each to participate in the attack. This was the equivalent of two week’s wages with the criminal organization. ——————– El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 6/21/10 Carlos Pascual, US Ambassador to Mexico, affirmed that the US authorities are committed to conducting a “transparent” investigation into the recent deaths of two Mexicans at the hands of the Border Patrol. ——————– -end of report-

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