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Reminds me of a bear I photographed many years ago (the 1960s, I think) in the Santa Ritas. Bill Quimby
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"The real problem is that, even if you think it is not going to hold up in court, the cost of court is not cheap, and as mentioned above, you are guilty until proven innocent." Actually, the bromide should be: ""You are innocent until proven bankrupt." Here's a scenario that stretches the definition of road hunting and provides examples of why we should not try to legislate ethics and sportsmanship: You know a spot where a certain buck you've been watching beds during the day. It's an easy 200-yard shot uphill from a graded road, It's cold and spitting rain when you arrive there before first light, so you decide to stay in your truck until the sun is well above the horizon. You've been parked there, on the edge of the road, for 45 minutes when you see your buck sneaking toward the cliff and trees that hide his bed. It's still raining. If you open the door to get out, the deer will see you and bolt before you can shoot. Do you risk it, or do you roll down the window and shoot? Let's say you roll down the window and shoot, and are seen by a wildlife manager. He cites you for shooting from a motor vehicle. Now, let's say you crawl over the transmission hump, and get out on the opposite side of the truck, lean over the hood and kill the buck. Again you're seen by a wildlife manager, who cites you for road hunting because although your truck was mostly off the road, your feet were not when you leaned over the hood. Were you really shooting from or across the road? As for road hunting, you were at the spot for 45 minutes before the buck arrived. On the other hand, you drove a road to a spot to where you knew that deer would come. Also, while your truck is a motor vehicle, why couldn't your defense be that you were using it as a ground blind? Federal waterfowl laws talk about pursuing ducks and geese from a moving boat powered by a motor. Turn the motor off, lift the prop out of the water, and you can shoot ducks legally. Something to think about. Bill Quimby
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Finally getting some rain in Greer. Long overdue. Bill Quimby
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Here in Greer, a friend claims his rain gauge has recorded only about 0.7 inches of rain since April 15. It clouds up every day, but no moisture falls. Despite this, the forest service has reopened Pole Knoll and other portions of the forest upwind from us. I hope the powers-to-be know what they are doing. Bill Quimby
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Hi Casey: PM me about how much you want for those two boxes. I won a .257 Weatherby in a Friends of the NRA banquet last weekend. Bill Quimby
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As I mentioned in another thread, I photographed two such drawdowns and resulting total fishkills in the 1970s. Two things impressed me each time: 1) how quickly the largemouth bass, bluegills and crappies can recover after the water level began rising. 2) no fish were released to replenish those that died. Reproduction apparently came from stocks coming down the river. Bill Quimby
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I started "hunting" with a BB gun at about age seven or so, then graduated to a .22 and a 16-gauge single shot shotgun, both of which I paid for myself from selling newspapers on the street in Yuma. At age 12, the earliest kids could hunt deer in Arizona then, I bought a .303 Savage lever-action rifle. Although my father hunted, he taught me very little because was an alcoholic, a real outlaw, and a selfish jerk. He wanted to shoot the game himself and include his kills in my bag limits. When I was 13, he purposely allowed me to sleep late on opening morning and then tried to put my deer tag on a buck he'd shot that morning. When I refused to allow him to do this, we packed up and went home without my getting to hunt that year. After that, although I accompanied him on family deer hunts, I always left camp alone, hunted alone, and field dressed and packed in my deer and javelinas without help. I guess you could say I taught myself to hunt in order to compete with him. Bill Quimby
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I had read eight of the first 25. Not one of those eight would I read again, and there was nothing among the remaining 17 that interested me enough to make me search it out. Bill Quimby
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I found the bedded mule deer as soon as I opened the file. It would have been tougher to find if it were not almost in the exact center of the photo. Bill Quimby
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Loss of Bear Hunting Access Due To Extreme Fire Danger
billrquimby replied to lonne's topic in Black Bear or Grizzly Bear hunts
"What is it about the concept of holding the individual accountable for his or her actions that certain people appear unable to comprehend and/or unwilling to accept????" Okay, we can hold an individual responsible for his/her actions. In fact, that's already being done whenever possible with people who start wildfires. However, we also need to decide how we will determine who we allow to enter forest land during extreme fire danger periods and who we must keep out. Any suggestions on how to do that? I suspect you might feel differently about forest closures if you were like my wife and I last year when we were told at 2 a.m. that the Wallow Fire was five miles away and traveling toward us at six miles per night. The firefighter's exact words were "the next time you see me, you must be prepared to leave immediately. It could be as soon as a couple of hours." We packed what little we could get into our truck and left two hours later, not expecting to see our cabin again. I have spent the past 40 years building this place, doing nearly all the work myself. The memories of spending weeks here with our daughter and grandkids as they grew into adults are everywhere we look. We were fortunate that firefighters were able to hold the fire to the west side of the Little Colorado River. When we were allowed to return nearly three weeks later, we learned the fire had burned to within 300 yards of our place. I wonder if the owners of the twenty-two cabins that burned here in Greer feel better knowing the two jerks (the story being told up here is that they were shed hunters) who started the fire are being held "accountable"? Bill Quimby -
Loss of Bear Hunting Access Due To Extreme Fire Danger
billrquimby replied to lonne's topic in Black Bear or Grizzly Bear hunts
Seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Just a few weeks ago was the anniversary of the start of the Wallow Fire. About this time exactly one year ago, people up here were saying the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest supervisor should have realized conditions were right for a major wildfire and closed the forest a month before that fire began. Bill Quimby -
If a fire got started on Pole Knoll, God forbid, Crosby Acres, Northwoods and Greer itself would be in big trouble. The prevailing wind that helped keep the full force of the Wallow Fire from hitting these areas last year would take a fire on Pole Knoll right to us. Don't know about the Lakeside side of the mountain, but we have had only two heavy -- but brief -- rains since I got up here in early May. One was this afternoon, when it rained hard for just five minutes and quit. The other was maybe 10 days ago, when it rained for less than that. It's going to take a lot more rain before our fire danger is behind us. Incidentally, why is Pole Knoll "the most heavily used area by visitors for the Sunrise 3D shoot"? Aren't there camping sites and places to shoot arrows where the shoot is being held? Bill Quimby
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Its mama obviously was sleeping with a python. Bill Quimby
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Older Ruger M77 Quality
billrquimby replied to apache12's topic in Rifles, Reloading and Gunsmithing
I didn't set out to collect rifles. They just came my way over a great many years. Don't know your age, Stomp 442, but it would be nice if I could stick around and open your gun safe in 30, 40, 50 years, just to see how many rifles you'll have. The reason I haven't shot all of my rifles is that shooting stopped being fun after three years of competing in the summer metalicas siluetas tournaments across Sonora in the 1960s. After firing at least 60-80 rounds (and sometimes a lot more) of centerfire ammo every weekend for three or four months, other things other things became much more interesting than shooting. Bill Quimby -
Older Ruger M77 Quality
billrquimby replied to apache12's topic in Rifles, Reloading and Gunsmithing
"So your saying the .257 Roberts chambered in one of the finest rifles made was too accurate and to deadly on game to ever be used again. I have heard lots of reasons for not using a gun but too accurate and too deadly have never been one of them." I will never understand how people read things that are not there. The purpose of my post was to let Apache12 know that older Ruger 77 rifles can be great hunting tools. I said I took a rifle I previously had not hunted with to New Zealand and it did all I asked of it. Even so, I put it away and returned to my favorite rifle. My comment about accuracy simply stated my firm belief that sub-MOA rifles and loads are not needed to kill game. I will stand by that. Over the past half century, my occupation allowed me to buy a lot of rifles and shotguns at below-market prices, both from manufacturers and from people who were simply selling their guns. I seldom passed up a bargain and never sold anything until recently. As a result, I have a number of rifles I've not hunted with, and I will sometimes decide to use one of them, just for a change. For example, I killed a mule deer two years ago with a Remington 700 in 6.5 RM I'd had for more than 15 years without firing it before working up a load for that year's hunt. It's a fine rifle and one shot killed that buck in its tracks at 200 yards offhand, but I've put it away and at my age may never get around to shooting it again. Guns are merely tools, like shovels and hammers, but my 7mm RM has a lot of sentimental value for me. It wears a stock I made myself from a piece of walnut I cut from a tree on a friend's ranch. I have long arms and a short neck, and that rifle fits me better than any factory-made stock. It's also a heavy rifle, which I feel helps when shooting offhand. I've killed a heck of a lot of game -- from the size of 20-pound grysbok to moose and eland -- all over this planet with that rifle. I may or may not choose to hunt with another rifle in the four or five years (if I'm lucky) left in my hunting career. If I do decide to use something other than my 7 mm RM, I have other brands and calibers I've not hunted with yet. Bill Quimby -
That buck's wonderful antlers are a perfect example of the huge flaw in the measuring system used for the Boone & Crockett Club's venerable record book. It would be interesting to know what it scored before and after deductions for non-symmetry. Bill Quimby
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Thunder and BLACK clouds over Pinals and Hogs! Bring on the rain!!
billrquimby replied to CouesWhitetail's topic in The Campfire
It's 5:16 p.m. in Greer and it has been raining hard for the past ten minutes. We need it! Hope it lasts long enough to put out any fires the lightning that preceded it may have started. Bill Quimby -
You can't go wrong with Patrick Holehan. He is a talented and super-nice guy, and a dedicated hunter. His rifles are absolutely beautiful. His email is: plholehan@theriver.com Bill Quimby
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My new cornhole boards!
billrquimby replied to kaibabkiller's topic in Coues Deer Hunting in Arizona
When is the Sunrise Shoot this year? Am I correct in assuming it's held at the ski run's parking lot? Bill Quimby -
California SB1221
billrquimby replied to bonuspointjohn's topic in Political Discussions related to hunting
"It would be hard to capture, but I have thought if a video could be made of a coyote taking down a helpless fawn, and a pack of wolves devouring a cow elk in labor with a calf and show it to the public a few minds might be changed about these walking stomachs. The anti's had no problem showing puppies in leg hold traps when that issue came up for a vote." Our enemies don't care that predation in nature is much crueler that anything a human hunter does to his prey. To them, wolves pulling down a cow elk, even one in labor, is "natural" and an event they would love to watch. Ditto for coyotes ripping fawns apart. They would never support government killing coyotes and lions so that hunters can have more deer,elk, and antelope to hunt, even if not doing so would result in the loss of entire populations of game animals. Bill Quimby Like This Quote MultiQuote -
After 56 years of marriage, it usually is my wife who forgets our anniversary! Bill Quimby
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Casey: I wrote about it in my book, "Sixty Years A Hunter," but I shot my first Arizona whitetail just east of the end of Campbell in the mid-1950s after walking in the dark from what then was our home at Park and Fort Lowell. There also used to be mule deer for the first couple of miles north along the Rillito River before they built all those roads and houses in the 1940s and 1950s. The mule deer are gone, I'm sure, but there is no shortage of Coues deer along the south slope of the Catalinas. May they always thrive. Bill Quimby
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That looks like a spot I know in unit one. Is it? Congratulations to Bob, you and everyone involved in his hunt. Bill Quimby
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South African tick fever is nothing to mess with. I came close to dying with it, mainly because my doctor in Tucson refused to believe that was what was wrong with me. He was convinced I'd been bitten by a brown recluse spider and treated me accordingly. After more than a week of dangerously high fever (and the loss of golfball-size chunk of flesh on my thigh), I saw another doctor who prescribed the proper antibiotics. Bill Quimby
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The Wallow Fire did not reach 2A/2B. Good luck on your elk hunt. That is a tough place to hunt, mostly because it is difficult to glass the juniper thickets the elk inhabit. On top of that, lots of local people know where elk hang out most of the year, and they all show up on opening day and booger the bulls into the last places any self-respecting elk hunter would think to look for them. Bill Quimby