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you've been able to give your tag to a minor child for some time. i know it's a good deal an' all, i guess, to donate a tag to someone. but i guess i'm just stingy. as hard as it is to get a tag for anything anymore, especially this year, this child ain't givin' his tag to nobody. but if anyone has an elk tag they don't want, i'll be whatever it takes for ya to donate it to me. just think o' me as an old kid. Lark.

my filter said pornography. now i really gotta see it. Lark.

hey, why's everbuddy think i have a personalized plate? well, when i was makin' license plates fer a livin' i did make a couple. but didn't have no truck to put em on. i don't have no 4runner, neither. good ol' made in Mexico, American GMC. only thing personalized are all the dents, bullet holes, blood stains on the tailgate and a big ol' "P!$$ on uso" sticker in the back winnder. but no personalized plate. i tried to get one, once't, but they dint appreciate my humor. tried to get 4Q. didn't work. tried to get "YERMAMA". didn't work niether. tried to get "azgfdsux". too many letters. i just give up finally. Lark.

man, somebody take this woman to the loony bin. Lark. http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2005/08/...news/news09.txt

i call BS on all o' this. the perfect meal always contains Spam. you can have a good meal without it, but not a perfect one. oh yeah, and beans too. gives ya somethin' to do around the fire when ya run outta lies. Lark.

i've never been a big fan of "premium" bullets. not because of performance but because of the price. noslers and barnes, etc. have always been about 3 to 4 times as much as regular ol' copper jacket/lead core slugs. i've always shot a lot. and i couldn't see spending so much for bullets when the ol' sierra 130's i used to shoot worked fine. since then i've switched to hornady 140gr spbt's, in my .270. can't even remember why exactly, but they've never failed me. i've never seen an animal shot in the lungs, (any animal, any bullet, any gun) that lived long enough to get away. they can run about as far as they can hold their breath. when folks say they shot one in the lungs and it got away, i gotta take it with a grain of salt. saw an elk go about 1/4 mile once with a perfect lung shot. but it was going downhill and their was blood sprayed everywhere and it wasn't hard to track. that was the exception. and i've seen enough to have a pretty good baseline for opinion. most others never make it more than maybe a 100 yards or so. they can't do it. the sierras always seemed to seperate, even on deer. but they killed the heck outta whatever i shot. destroyed lungs. i'd always find the jacket in one place and the lead in another. or maybe in a couple other places. but they shot accurate and done the job. the hornadys seem to hold together real well and seem to never pass through. always find em wadded up under the skin on the off side. even on close shots. i really like that. tells me that every ounce of energy was expended inside the animal. i don't need 2 blood trails to follow to one animal, and when they go down in sight, you don't need to trail em anyway. never been a big fan of plastic tipped bullets, and have seen some real horrible results from them, but from what i've heard the past few years, they've really been improved on. don't care for the all copper bullets either. mainly because of cost and because you have to back off on your load so much because the increased pressure they produce won't allow you to get the big velocity. and i dooooo like velocity. but Allen, as far as muleys, i've dumped em in their tracks with anything from a .22/250 to a .300 mag. always makes me laugh when a bullet/caliber/cartridge debate pops up and folks say some guns won't work while others will. i've shot a buncha animals with a bow and a muzzleloader. ain't one bow or one muzzleloader that is as good as a .22 repeater, in my opinion. marksmanship and havin' on your sneaky shoes is the key. good luck and good shootin'. Lark.

my cement pond/rain guage was up over an inch this morning, so we got a little rain in creen queek. i dug a trench for an electric conduit to my barn this weekend and hadn't filled it in yet. it's an irrigation ditch today. maybe it'll settle the dust for a few days. Lark.

there is too much emphasis put on bulet types, sectional density, balistic co-efficient, expansion, velocity, etc, etc, and not enough on marksmanship. numbers on a paper won't kill anything. hitting em where it counts will. "ANY" reasonable bullet will put down any mule deer, if the guy doin' the shootin' does his part. it will also put down any elk, moose, bear, sheep, elephant, etc. forget all the fancy words. forget about all the big numbers. learn how to shoot. learn your rifle. learn where it hits and be able to do it consistantly with your heart rate way up. you can punch a buck in the guts all you want with whatever you want, and he's still gonna run off. hit em in the lungs. they will die and die quickly. with "ANY" bullet. if they don't, you didn't do your part. Lark.

i guess this was only a matter of time. wonder where i can get one. hope they make an uncle rico too. Lark. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0728Dynamite-ON.html

we're all jealous of bullwidgeon because he talks to babes on the internet all day. Lark.

napoleon dynamite is about the funniest movie i ever saw. when uncle rico hit him in the face with the steak and when napoleon hit him back with the orange about made me puke from laughin'. and when they were in the grocery store buyin' the megapack o' toilet paper and a plunger. this all after every other scene shows em eatin' microwaved steaks. it's an instant classic. Lark.

an okie surfer? dude, what'll they think of next? i always count all the points and then count up where i think it oughta have a point and then all the points that it might o' growed in future years if i never shot it. last forkhorn i got was actually like a 18 point. western count. cousin ernie always counts the points and correlates em with his toes. ever since the quail huntin' accident the biggest he can get is a 9 pointer. Lark.

yeah, i'm a redneck. so what? but now i got actual documentation. i mean i done a lotta stuff that proves it. but this is just too cool. got a new cabelas catalog in the mail. this ain't just any ol' cabelas catalog. this is a hardbound, fancy sucker with tabs for the differnt sections an' everthing. it even come with a little suitable for framin' diploma lookin' deal that says that i'm a most prefered customer. "if you get a hardbound cabelas catalog with a diploma deal sayin' you're a most prefered customer, there ain't no doubt about it, you are a redneck". so go ahead, be jealous. an' while yer lookin' at yer junky paper covered catalog that you got from a friend, remember, i got the good one. Lark.

aw man, now this makes me feel good knowin' that i'm surrounded in redneckedness. what i wanna know is why in the heck does cabelas have wimmin's shoes? wimmin.....shoes.....i don't get it. wimmings place is in the kitchen, cleanin' and cookin' the days catch. Lark.

here is a list of the leftover permits that are going to be available. i was suprised at all the elk permits. archery cow, but still tags. Lark. http://www.azgfd.gov/artman/publish/article_357.shtml

i think is a better topic than incest. maybe the blm and the county will make some headway before deer season. Lark. http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2005/07/...news/news02.txt

this is the last thing from the courier, the gila valley paper. looks like a buncha a folks are gettin' geared up. i'm gonna make a prediction that it will be open by deer season. and if it ain't, that it'll get dynamited or some other form o' violence will occur. Lark. http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2005/07/...news/news07.txt

just checked. got my first choice bear and lion. no word yet on the other stuff. oh yeah, i didn't check the net, i just was lookin' in my wallet for license, registration and proof of insurance and seen i had a couple tags. also got a 2004 javelina tag. so as soon as i get that dern time machine runnin' again i can use it. later dudes, Lark.

there are no elk in 27. crap, all i got was a deer tag. dang i want a sheep tag. or a pronghorn. oh well, maybe some worthy person will draw a good elk tag and i can tag along. good luck all. Lark.

ok, i have the straight skinny. direct from a guy i work with. he said his brother called them and that, well...., actually they wouldn't tell him anything, but another guy told him that he talked to the director himself, or maybe a guy that talked to the director or maybe it was his neighbor, anyway, and they said that it would definitely be today, maybe. or tomorrow for sure. or the next day. it could be as late as next monday or tuesday, but for sure we'd all know within a couple weeks. they hoped, anyway. so there ya go, straight from the horse's mouth. Lark.

i put in for everything. i got drawn for antlered javelina. Lark.

if he'da done that they woulda just told him right then. Lark. p.s., just tried again. nothin'.

a guy i know said he called yesterday and was told today would be the day. don't know for sure who he talked to or what the deal was. anyway, i just tried and it ain't ready yet. sure be nice to know soon. Lark.

they need to bomb alqueidaland with live hogs that have dynamite stuffed up their butts. Lark.

wow, the last kaibab 'gator. they'll probly raise it in captivity and breed it to florida gators and then "re-introduce" em as an endangered species. Lark.