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the best thing about this state is that it has an abundance of public land. sit and think about what it'd be like it we didn't have all this public land. go to east new mexico, texas, east colorado, anywhere in kansas or nebraska and look for some public land to hunt on. it's a pain to have a stalk screwed up by other hunters on public land, but it's a good problem to have. Lark.

i know my eyes ain't what they used to be, but in that last photo, is it a cute young lass with a whitetail buck and a javelina lookin' over her shoulder? Lark.

when they started this mexican "wolf" program, they were considered extinct, and had been for years. there were a couple around that they thought could be pure wolf and some others they knew were part dog. some were pets on ranches and some were in zoos and other places, on both sides of the border. there were only a handfull of them. they rounded up what they could and started breeding whatever this thing is they have now. in the original stuff they put out, if you knew where to look, it said they were all part dog. that's why they get parvo and other diseases that wild wolves are resistent to. my daughter did a research paper on the mexican gray wolf when she was in college. an azgfd biologist provided her with info for the paper that said they were all part dog. i've cornered a couple different wolfers and they eventually admitted they were part dog because i had the info to prove em liars if they didn't. but they countered with they were enough wolf that the dog part didn't matter. i wouldn't doubt if they have bred gray wolves or timber wolves into em. don't know it, but it would not surprise me. there are so many lies in this whole deal that i don't think you can believe anything that is printed in favor of it. they have to be inbred as heck too. inbreeding any animal will really mess em up too. hip displasia is real common. some of em might end up crosseyed and with a big overbite too, they call em dorkwolves. we can argue till the cows come home about it, but if they were pure wolf the wouldn't have to innoculate em all for dog diseases. from what i have gathered, they have to round up all the pups as soon as they are born and give em shots. this wolf deal is a stupid joke. if they were real wolves they would have taken over like the real wolves they turned loose in yellowstone have, by now too. Lark.

small sand and gravel outfits empoyee more than 40 people. Lark.

i've taken many limits of blues up there. shot a bunch of em around terry flat too. don't know what the fire did, but i would think it put a hurtin' on the grouse. i know this much, if you're gonna hunt grouse, stay on the north side of the ridges, knobs and knolls. that's where they live. i've seen them on the north side of every place i ever hunted, and that is about every place in u1 and 27. they are really drought affected and the numbers go way up and way down with the wet weather. i would have to think it might be awhile before the herd will come back after this fire. best gun is a .410 repeater. use 8 shot in a really mild shell. they ain't real smart after you find em and a 12 or 20 will really tear em up because they don't run off. i've shot a lot of em after backing up so i didn't hammer em so hard because they won't run off. in colorado you can shoot em with a .22. if it was legal here, that's what i'd use. Lark.

seeing as how the 25% deal is aimed square at me, i'll splain my position. the azgfd screams about increasing opportunity being one of their major objectives, and they take opportunity away? there probably wouldn't be many more lions taken during that time, i agree, but the opportunity to take one is gone, completely, so it ain't worth arguing over it. pretty sad deal if a guy sees a lion in those months and can't shoot it, as far as i'm concerned. but the worst thing about it is that it made no sense to do it. they caved to the treehuggers when the treehuggers weren't even yelling about it. they used the excuse that the "lion hunters" didn't want to hunt that time of year anyway. what about the rest of the hunters that might just see one? outside of the strip, Az ain't overrun with lions. but there sure seems to be a lot more sightings than there ever have been before. i've never glassed one up, but i don't glass a lot either. i have jumped up a couple and killed em. caught a bunch of em with hounds too. and it also seems to me that since they took that part of lion season away, they have been doing a lot of other things to get folks to shoot more lions. i think having a year round season again would be a real good thing and i don't think it ever hurt one d a m n thing when we had one. Lark.

From my experience, expect to pay way more than they estimate and wait a very long time to get it back and expect them to be jerks about it. They will never get anymore business from me. Lark.

i don't know if it is because people glass so much more than they used to or what, but folks sure seem to see a lot more lions than they used to. i'd like to konw what the real deal is with em. since the infamous rule where they azgfd took away 25% of lion season, it sure seems like they are trying to make more ways for shooting lions to be legal. now you can hunt em at night with a shotgun? shoot one a day in a lotta units. sure sounds to me like they think there are a lotta lions everywhere. like i said earlier, i saw a trail cam photo of 8 lions together on a waterhole on the strip. sounds to me like maybe we could be on the edge of a real problem. or, maybe they are afraid they are gonna eat so much stuff that the wolves will get hungry. Lark.

just get a good .243 and go with it. every store has ammo. ammo is cheap. 100 gr bullets will kill anything we have around here. they don't kick much. very accurate. they work well in any action. every wssm i've seen, no matter what caliber, is a nightmare to get the ammo from the magazine into the barrel. the .243 has been as dependable as the sunrise for over 50 years. Lark.

nice buck. this one ain't all screwed up or nothin'. good job. Lark.

you can always use the ron white clause. RON WHITE OBAMA, RON WHITE OBAMA!!!! Lark.

howdy. but i sorta don't know if i wanna associate with anybody that would stoop so low as to associate with us. Lark.

is a fluid head and a waterhead the same thing? i have docter 15x60's. really nice. 'specially when they was give to me. my kids have swarovskis, zeiss and vortex kaibabs. any of the 4 are real good. i like the 60mm lenses and the poro prisms better, like the zeiss and docters have. had my docters tuned up recently and the guy that did it said them and the big zeiss are the same glass and internals. made at the same factory. Lark.

i think it's more like 95+. nice buck. Lark.

tj, you ain't selfish. you wuz just borned with testicles. wimmin just don't git it sometimes. be the king of your castle. ya might hafta sleep out by the moat ever once in awhile, but be the king. Lark.

good point. did they ever really decide where they came from? heard a lotta rumors. Lark.

hey Bill, i shot a .460 twice. only reason i shot it the second time is because i couldn't believe it kicked me that hard the first time. no brake either. it was in an indoor range in LA. it made the flourscent lights flicker and sometimes go out everytime it was fired. knocked the cork ceiling tiles loose. after about 5 shots they shut the guy down and told him no more. you coulda set off dynamite in there and done less damage. i've been hit by linebackers that didn't hit that hard. that mighta been what screwed up my shoulder. reeedickleeous. Lark.

ain't the sst the one that blows up like a grenade? if it's the one i'm thinking it is, i don't like em. the interloks and interbonds are real good. interbonds are quite expensive tho. like bill says, partitions are good too. i really like em except they are about 4x as much as what i shoot. Lark.

when srp raised the dam at rossevelt the huggers held it up and caused all kindsa problems because of the willow flycatcher. they said that when they raised the water level the birds that were in the trees that would be under the highwater mark would drown. didn't think they would be smart enough to move when the water rose. srp had to actually plant alternative places for em to nest and live. cost millions of dollars for everything and when it was all over the bird numbers never suffered. they just moved uphill a little. it's about control. the salt cedars have destroyed every riparian area in Az. they are a plague. don't they come from turkey or some d a m n place? what a deal. the endangered species act and the folks that believe in it have gotta be the supidest folks on the planet. put em in the same bag with the global warmers, socialists, occupiers and obama voters and shake it up and look in it, they all look the same. Lark.

why is a 6mm "better" than a .243? you can't resize a .308 into a 6mm. Lark.

kansas is flat and windy and colder than the south pole in the winter. it's known as baja-nebraska. seattle is wet, dreary, dark and the suicide capital of the the US. rains all the time and if you sit still for more than 30 minutes moss will grow on ya. you might end up a goth and hooked on expensive starbucks coffee. and have hairy armpitted hippies for neighbors. sounds to me like you have a tough choice to make. choose wisely grasshopper. Lark.

in a .270 i shoot 140 gr hornady interloks. boattail softpoints. push em with hogdon h-4350. magnum primers. works real good in mine. never had anything close to what i'd call a bullet "failure". killed everthing there is within a 1000 miles of here with it. seldom shoot a .25/'06 and haven't loaded for it in years. in my .22/.250's i shoot hornady 52 grain match bullets, boattail hollowpoints. with varget powder and magnum primers. i use varget only in anything .22 cal. and in .243. seldom use anything but hogdon powder and hornady bullets. good luck. Lark.

try a simms pad before a muzzle brake. if it still punches too hard, then a brake may be what you need. i don't like the noise and make sure i have some ear plugs at least, even when hunting. brakes are really loud. but some of these cartridges kick so dern hard that a brake is the only way to handle it. i have a prosthetic joint in my right shoulder. it can get quite sore after a little shooting with a big rifle, so i have a brake on my .300. it has sporter contour barrel and the original wood stock and isn't real heavy. a simms helped it a bunch, but when i put the barrel on it i had em turn a brake right into it. it is real nice to shoot now. but real noisy. but if i could handle the recoil without a brake, i would rather it didn't have one. a friend of mine has a ar-15 style rifle in .223. spent a fortune on it and it is a coyote getter for sure. he put a muzzle brake on it because he wanted to have as close to zero recoil as he could get. he wishes he didn't because now he has to use ear plugs when he shoots coyotes because it rings his ears so bad. sometimes they are neccesary. but if you can by without one, that's the way to go. where brakes are nice is when you need to sight in a rifle or develop a load and have to shoot a lot. jut for hunting, i guess it depends on what you want. my son has a christensen in .300 ultra. you can't stand it for more than a shot or two without the brake. but it came with a deal where you can screw off the brake and screw on this thing that doesn't have any holes in it. when you're hunting and just need to shoot a couple times, it works real well. Lark.

good job. hopefully art don't run ya down for it. nice lookin' cat. Lark.

casey don't say just dad, anyway. it's dad uncle grampa. Lark.