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i wish it was my tag too, but you can't convince me that there was any science involved in increasing the permits. Lark.

bendehos? it's pindayhos, if yer gonna live here, learn the language. a friend of mine found a rock out north of st johns that has 3 complete petrified cat tracks on it. tracks are about as big as the end of a coke can. the rock is about the size of a sheet of paper and maybe an inch thick. only cat track i ever seen that my hounds wouldn't bawl on. i tried hard to talk him out of it but he's pretty tough for a short guy. Lark.

my oldest son got the earlier of the 2 late hunts. it will probably be a good hunt. the later one will be a fiasco. elk will really be wild. like i've said for years, the azgfd has turned our elk herd into livestock. it's where they make the bulk of their money. they've destroyed the deer herd all over the state by letting the elk take over, even in land that never had elk and all the way down into the desert. there are ways to take care of the problem, but when they get 4X a deer tag for every elk tag, plus a lot of nonresident interest, they go where the money is. u22 has become a haven for uso. they had a huge camp there last year. it will be bigger this year. the more tags they let out, the more nonresidents get their "guaranteed" 10%. taulman probably gets more tags now than he ever did. it's a rotten deal. last year there were 350 permits in u22 north on the 2 late hunts. this year there are 620. musta been a helluva calf crop. that or the azgfd isn't paying any attention to harvest reports or winter game counts. gee, i wonder what it was? this is a prime example of what i've been harpin' on for years. look at it close and do some serious pondering. we gotta have a new director and some decent commissioners. all the toadys and lackeys need to go too. Lark.

anybuddy but me who says it's their's is a stinkin' liar. it's mine. what kind of a gun did i lose? Lark.

i've always said that there is no problem that can't be solved with the proper use of high explosives. guess i was wrong. Lark.

wonder if they make deer chow like dog food. i saw a dogfood add the other day that said it made smaller stools. Lark.

best food plot i know is famous dave's. Lark.

an old game warden with lotsa wisdom and experience once told me that it was really odd that most folks shoot a lion on the same day they buy a tag. i believe that if it was ok to retroactively buy a lion tag, like after ya shoot one, the azgfd would sell more lion tags. Lark.

mine says it has a charge of $114 but said it was tentative or some deal. if it's for real then either my oldest or youngest son got an elk tag. me and the other boy put in together for goat and elk. don't look good for any of us getting a goat tag, unless they're still running things. hope they are. i don't want one dime back. i want tags. Lark.

hard to say for sure, but that doesn't look like a lion kill. they usually do a better job of covering it up and tend to eat a lot more of it the first meal. were there any tracks you could make out around it? looks more like coyotes got that one. Lark.

only lesson casey needs to worry about is them banjo lessons. Lark,

no, the prisoners in nevada are the ones that answer the letters to playboy and hustler. Az. app's are processed by hillbillies in tennessee. Lark.

i got lion scratches all over me. that looks like where one took a dump. Lark.

hahahaha. he said snowflake. when i lived in springertown we useta always say that if they give the earth an enema, they'll stick the hose in snowflake. did ya hear about the big snowflake earthquake of '47? levelled half the town and did $4 million in improvement. i heard once the only reason they built snowflake was so holbrook would have somebody to make fun of. ok, ok, i'm just funnin'. ya hafta sorta like a town that's only suburb is called bellybutton. one thing about it, you're movin' at the right time o' year. if you can make one spring with them 100+ mph winds, you might stay. but you can always say "it ain't the wind blowin', it just taylor suckin'". dang, no wonder they run me outta that country..........Lark.

i met amanda but didn't get to talk much. too many folks were hoggin' her. at least now she knows how good lookin' i am in person. spent 3 or 4 mintues at the azgfd exhibit talkin' to guy a i thought i knew when a young lady warden told me i was talkin' to a stuffed javelina. i thought it was bullwidgeon. she said i was the 3rd guy that day. i swear that think talked back.........Lark.

with friends like you guys, who needs friends................Lark.

is it just me or is every hunting show left on tv about as phoney as a rubber dog turd? i don't like zumbo. never did. feel like all he ever did was rely on his guides. but his show was the last one that was even worth the time to watch. i still feel he crossed the line and did something completely inexcusable that there ain't no comin' back from. i don't think he can be trusted at all. he had everyone's confidence and flushed it. but his show was still fairly entertaining. i ain't no tv freak. but ever once in awhile i like to sit down and watch somebody shoot somethin'. i tried last night and about barfed. i'd rather watch american idol and i'd stick fishhooks in my eyes to keep from that. dang, this phony re-enactment crap. guys crawling along toward the camera, like the camera guy ain't gonna spook em. re-enacted shots, where the animal is in predawn light, but the shooting action is after the sun is up. and the favorite line "that wuz aaooowwwwsome". or "lets back out and come back for him in the morning" at 3 in the afternoon and then they talk about how he only went 100 yards. just phoney, poor sportsman, no talent, no experience, stupid BS by a buncha guys that oughta be on a cartoon somewhere. and the stupid blastin' skinhead heavy metal guitar music they always play. ugh. i'm gettin' pukey thinkin' about it. it's a sad deal when the best show left is colorado buck. he's a sorta wierdo, but his show either has gotten better or the other ones are so bad that it's makin' his look good. that and ever once in awhile i see somebody on his show that i know. but dang, all these high fenced, grainfed, buckgrubbed, sucker lickin', shootin' outta heated stands, camera in front re-enacted, canned, 5 minutes of hunting and 25 minutes of commercial, tv shows just flat stink. am i alone here? what's your opinion? besides, we need somethin' to jaw about. Lark.

dang, i was afraid i was the only that thought that away. you guys that agree with me have some problems. even the best of the west has some phoney crap on it. like how they put the balloons out there at 500 yards and bust em. if you notice, they always tape em to a piece of steel. all they have to do is hit the steel. the bullet blows up and pops the balloon. i have tivo. i can rewind and slomo it and it shows up plain as heck. i watched a guy bust a balloon at 200 yards, offhand, with a 2" .38 special last night that way. he hit about a foot and half below it on a sheet of steel and popped. if he had said he was gonna hit the steel, i'da been impressed, but for him to act like he hit the balloon really made it phony. this was not on best of the west. but last week i saw the midget cowboy singer sneak up to the camera, trying to make shooting a bison exciting. c'mon, a bison? not much work to shoot one with a long range sniper gun. not a tame one anyway. this is the kinda stuff that allen warren does. these guys are 'sposeta be pros. and last night i watched it and they were giving tips on shooting with a scope and finding your target quickly. that's all fine, but they showed the guy shoot at the same rock a couple different times. first time he busted it. second time he missed. somehow the rock got put back together. it was real phoney and really yanked me off for em to think i'm stupid enough to fall for their crap. guess i'll hafta just watch the rifleman and gunsmoke to see a shootin' show. the shootin' on them is just as real as the stuff on the hunting shows. Lark.

i'm surprised a pig'd be caught in that neighborhood. looks like th javelina actually raised the property value. Lark.

what about frootloops? man, i got ahold o' some o' them that were plum bad the other day. Lark.

i'll keep an eye out for ya. i might even ride my mule right inside and run over a few uso folks. you think uso will have the guts to be there? i'll have ol' Leroy take a dump and set a white stetson on it and all the uso groupies will hang around thinkin' it's taulman. Lark.

i'm gonna go, just to make sure all o' them experts don't forget nothin'. Lark.

hey rembrandt, you're acting as if mexico pays attention to the law. if you have the right protection, ain't nothin' gonna happen to ya in mexico. heck, they can't even convict jag poachers in the U.S. i empathize with what you're sayin', but it's mexico. it's like a whole 'nother country. my oldest son and his pals got robbed at machinegun point in mexico 3 weeks ago. by the cops. some boy mountin' jags for a well connected jefe with a rancho grande ain't got much to worry about. Lark.

welcome to Arizona. that's why they call it a desert. it don't rain much. Lark.

hey, i didn't list no savages. i'll only go so low. they're ok for some stuff, but that pinned on bolt head ain't what i want on any serious gun o' mine. i've seen em fail before so i'm purty sure they'll do it again. i said good guns, dangit. you guys could go to africa for what you're talkin' on them fancy custom shooters. Lark.