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I watched five bulls on Escudilla yesterday, and antler growth already was well under way. I doubt that this rain will have any effect. Bill Quimby

JMP: Scottyboy should be of great help. I'd also like to suggest that you check the telephone books for helicopter rentals, and talk with the pilots when you are there. Most of the tahr and chamois hunts done by hunters from overseas use helicopters -- they use them like we do our 4x4s, either for actual hunting or for reaching the hunting areas -- and the pilots know where the game is found. I'd also talk with Department of Conservation people about the huts they have built for use by hunters. You can buy groceries and camping gear down there, and get flown to a hut at a reasonable price, and hunt on foot in some of the best areas on the island if you do your homework. New Zealand's hunters can be some of the friendliest people on earth, and most of them will be glad to help you. I gave a friend similar advice, and he took his adult sons and daughter to the South Island and hunted stag, tahr and chamois for three weeks in April, and they shot all three. Don't expect to find the huge, trophy stags that New Zealand is famous for on a do-it-yourself hunt. Most of the trophy stags you'll see in hunting magazines resulted from selective breeding on deer farms and were released inside enclosed "estates" where they were "hunted." Leave your measuring tape at home. Any truly free-ranging stag is a trophy. Another thought: August is early spring in the Southern Hemisphere. The stags may have dropped their antlers then, and the coats on the tahr and chamois may not be the best for mounting. Bill Quimby Oops. I reread your post and saw that you will be living there for a couple of years. To the above, I'd like to add that you buy some of New Zealand's hunting magazines and contact a few of the writers. As I said, the Kiwis are some of the friendliest people on earth. And let me also make a prediction: You will find it hard to move back to the States when the time comes to return. If you do return, you can expect to experience culture shock from all the traffic, billboards, buildings and rude people up here. New Zealand is among my favorite places in the world even though some of its customs -- such as not tipping, even for exceptional service -- are hard to get used to.

I put out a salt block and a so-called "deer block" where we could watch them from our cabin's bedroom window in Greer four or five years ago. The squirrels and bluejays removed the goodies they wanted from the deer block and a few squirrels sometimes licked the salt, but not regularly. Our deer and elk totally ignored both blocks, and the rain and snow eventually eroded them into the ground. Where the blocks were is now covered with pine needles and there is no sign that deer or elk have ever scratched the ground there. Yesterday morning, my wife watched two mule deer does and their yearlings walk over that exact spot without stopping, even to sniff. My limited experiences with bait and salt tell me deer and elk are not interested in either here in the White Mountains. Bill Quimby

We've had no hard rain here in Greer, but there was a near-continuous light drizzle ever since sunup yesterday (Wednesday) morning until an hour ago when the sun popped out. There are no puddles, but everything is soaked and damp, which should lessen our fire danger. Scattered rain showers are forecast for the higher portions of the White Mountains through early Sunday morning. The Weather Service says the high temps in Greer will range from 52 to 57 degrees through then, followed by next week's heat wave when they are expected to soar into the mid-70s. The lows at our elevation will range from 35 to 46 degrees over the next ten nights. Bill Quimby

Try broadening your hunting horizons. Save up for an antelope hunt in South Africa or Namibia, or a pronghorn hunt in Wyoming, or blackbuck or Barbary sheep in Texas. It's a big world out there. I disagree with Mike. Never use a measuring tape to judge the quality of your hunting experience. Most of us who remain hunters well into our old age outgrew the dreaded trophy hunting phase years ago when we discovered we had too many boxes of antlers, skulls and horns in storage and no space for more heads on our walls. Nonetheless, we continue to hunt because we must, and we will continue to do so until we can't. Bill Quimby

Say it out loud and quickly: Tw-ek-wit-it-al. M-2-ol(d)-4-it. Bill Quimby

My wife and I own a few acres in the hills above the Kino Springs golf course if anyone is interested in buying some land there. Our property stretches across Yerba Buena Canyon and is surrounded by the Las Colinas de Estancia Yerba Buena development. We have eight separate parcels ranging from 5 acres to 25 acres, with some great views of that region and well into Mexico. One of the little draws on our land always has a herd of javelinas and a whitetail buck or two. Bill Quimby

If you go to www.snopes.com and search for "obama citizenship," you will find reference to the phony AP article shown at top. It was an April Fool's prank, as its dateline suggested. Not following AP style also made it highly suspect, as well as the fact that such charges were not widely publicized. Even a biased newsperson could not ignore them and we would have heard them on every channel and station. Just another example of "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." Bill Quimby

From your title, "Hunting in Patagonia," I thought you would be talking about southern Argentina. I used to hunt the 35 units a lot, and have taken some good mule deer (one very good one) and several fair whitetails from them. Although I haven't hunted there in at least 10 years, I can't imagine much has changed except for the number of illegals there. Bill Quimby

Before I jumped into this controversy I would want to know more about the article appearing at the top of this thread. Did the Associated Press actually transmit this article? If it did, I'd want to know which newspaper originally ran it, and the name of the reporter who wrote the original piece that some AP guy rewrote and sent to his company's subscribing news outlets. Note the dateline -- April 1. Bill Quimby

Congratulations! I've known some fine border patrolmen, including Harlon Carter, who ended his career as head of the NRA, and George Parker, one of the three or four greatest Coues deer hunters of all time. You are entering an honored occupation that deserves greater recognition by the American public. I'm interested in knowing more about immersion and how it's taught. I took all the required Spanish classes in high school and at the UA a hundred years ago. I also have lived on the Mexican border for all of my seven-plus decades and travelled across Spain, Argentina, Paraguay and northern and central Mexico. Nonetheless, no one can accuse me of even near-fluency. My granddaughter spent just one semester on an ASU exchange program in Spain, and speaks it like a Spaniard. She does so well that she now leads tours into Peru each summer. I got along -- barely -- when she and I were in South America, but she was constantly apologizing for her grandfather's "Spanglish." Is there hope for an old codger like me? I've tried classes that are offered for seniors, but the beginner classes were for absolute beginners and the advanced classes were too advanced for me. I can read it better than I can speak it, but I am not really good at either. I've been told my pronunciation is OK, and that I have a large vocabulary of nouns. My problem is with verbs and their tenses, and with grammar. Any suggestions? Bill Quimby

I Googled the word and learned more about "twitters," "texts" and "tweets" than anyone needs to know. "Twekwitital," I say. "M2ol4it." Bill Quimby

Bill, The rocker panels, bottom of the tailgate and floor pans are slightly rusted through, the passenger side door, and hood have dents. It does need body work. I wish all it needed was paint, I'd have it painted and ask a whole lot more. Being a carburated V8 I would say it gets around 10 - 12 mpg, not a highway cruiser. But one heck of a mountain crawler.--Bill Thanks, Bill. Sorry it took so long to answer. I just now found your response. I'm looking for something that gives better mileage. Bill Quimby

Would someone please explain to this old man just what in the heck this "twitter" might be? Bill Quimby

Once again, I bow to Lark's superior wisdom. Bill Quimby

Could well be, but I doubt that a 200- to 400-yard wall built on a ridge would actually direct goats to a corral unless there was a corral at the end of the wall. The walls I've seen simply ended. Bill Quimby

They're all over southern Arizona. I can think of no other use they might have served. A rancher would not have gone to all that trouble to build just one wall and not the other three sides needed to hold his cattle. Anyone have any better idea why they were built? Bill Quimby

I've seen those rock walls in the Tortolitas; I'd assumed they were from a more recent rancher... Early ranchers did use rocks to build corrals, and you can find remnants of them all over the place, but the walls I'm talking about were never corrals. They were/are single lines, several hundred yards long along the tops of ridges or near natural barriers. I can think of no other reason anyone would go to so much trouble to stack that many rocks. Bill Quimby

Can I just ask how taking 1000's of people out of the current year's draw (those whom in the prior year drew a PREMIUM TAG) wouldn't in fact increase the overall odds of drawing? I apologize if this has been discussed here before, some of us are relatively new here and haven't had the priveledge to discuss it yet. The point is, there are too few permits for the large number of people who are applying. Removing those who drew tags recently does not significantly improve your odds of drawing. It's kind of like prohibiting everyone who won $1 or more in a lottery from ever again buying a ticket in the mistaken belief that if you wait long enough (and live long enough) your day will come. To take that analogy further, if you think bonus points are the answer, spend your entire next year's paychecks on Powerball tickets and see how it improves your odds of winning that $64 zillion. And if you believe I'm wrong about both of the above, let me tell you about Santa Claus. He actually lives on the beach at Mazatlan. If you want to improve your odds, ask what needs to be done to allow more of us to go hunting without adversely affecting wildlife populations -- and then see that it gets done. Bill Quimby

I flew up the middle of Copper Canyon with a friend in his Cessna 182 in about 1970. Although it has been compared with our Grand Canyon, I felt it was not as extensive or as scenic. It reminded me of New Zealand's Whanganui Canyon, which is of similar size and also is filled with brush and trees unlike our canyon. The late Felipe Wells, Arizona's first college-trained wildlife manager and an early supervisor of Coronado Memorial and Grand Canyon National Park, grew up in Copper Canyon and used to talk of shooting deer for the workers at his father's mine in Copper Canyon. I got to know him well before his suicide. His stories about his life in Copper Canyon and in early Arizona were fascinating. I especially remember him talking about being deep in Grand Canyon and seeing huge pine trees rolling down the Colorado River during floods before dams were built upstream. As for the Bushmen, they are the world's best trackers bar none. I watched a Bushman track for five hours a kudu I had wounded on my first trip to Zimbabwe in 1983. He somehow knew exactly where my bull joined another bull and began traveling with it. We eventually found both bulls and I killed mine. My bullet had nicked the kudu's butt, and there were only a few drops of blood every 200 to 300 yards. How that little, dried-up brown man stayed on the same tracks in an area covered with the tracks of every kind of animal (including lots of other kudus) I will never know. I was thankful that he did. In Africa, a hunter pays full trophy fees for game wounded and lost, and I could barely afford to be there then. I doubt that early Native Americans walked Coues deer down. Instead, I would think they were experts at stalking animals or waiting in hiding for them. Their bows, arrows and spears definitely were primitive, and a 30-yard shot would have been a very long one. They also may have had another way of hunting game. I've seen a few long, low, hand-laid rock walls on ridges in southern Arizona that I always speculated could have been used for slowly driving deer and javelinas toward someone waiting with a bow and an arrow. I've seen several such walls, but the first that comes to mind is on top of Cerro Pelon, a small hill near Tumacacori where I used to always find a whitetail buck. Another is on the flats a mile or so north of there. Another is on one of the ridges on the south end of the Tortolitas. Someone told me of a similar wall in the Chiracahua Mountains, but I've never seen it. I'm talking 30- to 36-inch-high walls, and not about the rock corrals found in a canyon of that name in the Tumacacoris or elsewhere that were built to contain livestock. Let someone hide at the end of such a wall, and have a half dozen guys spread out and move slowly toward him from a mile away, and it wouldn't be long before game started drifting away from the walkers and toward the guy or guys in hiding. The trick would be to keep the animals from running and jumping the wall, and avoiding the shooter. In Africa, they capture entire herds of wild animals by building temporary walls of plastic sheeting and using helicopters to drive game into holding pens and then up chutes and into trucks, so the technique works. The question is whether Arizona's early Indians used it first. Bill Quimby

Establishing a waiting period for applying would be a step backward. We had three-year waits for elk and antelope permits for many years until it was shown that they do not statistically improve the odds of an individual hunter drawing a tag. Instead of rehashing something from the past, why not discuss what should be done to allow substantially more of us to hunt without affecting the resource? Even though that WOULD improve your odds and my odds of getting to hunt an elk or antelope in our favorite units, most of you will scream bloody murder and say we already have too many hunters. Go figure. Bill Quimby

Below is a list of animals that was compiled for an application for the Weatherby Big Game Hunting and Conservation Trophy. I'm writing the memoirs of the hunter who shot all these. The numbers at right of each line are SCI record book scores. I've written books for seven Weatherby winners, and this list is typical of the hunting these guys have done. Their trophy rooms are something to see. Most of his mounts are lifesize mounts. I'd like to have just half of what he's spent in taxidermy fees. This particular guy has a 36x60' trophy room with 18' ceilings, PLUS a 6,000 square foot museum that's open to the public. Not all of his trophies are on this list. Bill Quimby AFRICA African Lion 10/26/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 25 9/16 African Leopard 07/04/1992 Zambia, Mfuwe 14 8/16 Caracal 03/16/1996 South Africa, Witstoot African Wild Cat 03/24/1996 Namibia 6 9/16 Spotted Hyena 10/22/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 18 4/16 Spotted Hyena 07/05/1992 Zambia, Mfuwe 17 10/16 Spotted Hyena 07/05/1992 Zambia, Mfuwe 18 African Elephant 03/24/1979 Sudan, Sakure 159 Southern White Rhinoceros 01/10/1985 South Africa, Northern Province 81 5/8 Cape Buffalo 10/22/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 101 3/8 Cape Buffalo 10/27/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 104 2/8 Nile Buffalo 03/01/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 94 6/8 Nile Buffalo 04/01/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 98 7/8 Central African Savanna Buffalo 02/11/1993 C.A.R., Bangoran River 85 7/8 Central African Giant Eland 02/12/1993 C.A.R., Bangoran River 128 2/8 Cape Eland 01/12/1985 South Africa, Northern Province 89 6/8 Livingstone Eland 07/01/1987 Zambia, Dimba 97 3/8 East African Eland 03/15/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 75 5/8 East African Eland 04/03/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 83 4/8 Western Bongo 03/01/1979 Sudan, Sakure 83 2/8 Southern Greater Kudu 01/01/1985 South Africa, Northern Province 129 4/8 Eastern Cape Greater Kudu 03/14/1996 South Africa, Mountain Top 109 4/8 East African Greater Kudu 11/02/1996 Tanzania, Muhesi 121 6/8 Mountain Nyala 03/20/2005 Ethiopia, Bale Mountains 89 7/8 Common Nyala 01/01/1985 South Africa, Windy Ridge 81 Zambezi Sitatunga 07/14/1992 Zambia, Bangweulu 66 3/8 East African Sitatunga 10/23/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 61 6/8 Forest Sitatunga 06/23/2001 Cameroon, near Congo border Lesser Kudu 03/01/1982 Sudan, Magost 74 3/8 Harnessed Bushbuck 02/14/1993 C.A.R., Chad border 35 7/8 Nile Bushbuck 03/01/1979 Sudan, Sakure 30 1/8 Menelik Bushbuck 03/17/2005 Ethiopia, Bale Mountains 34 5/8 East African Bushbuck 10/17/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 39 2/8 Chobe Bushbuck 06/27/1987 Zambia, Mulobezi 39 1/8 Limpopo Bushbuck 06/01/1987 South Africa, Limpopo River 44 2/8 Cape Bushbuck 06/20/1987 South Africa, KwaZulu Natal 41 5/8 Cape Bushbuck 03/13/1996 South Africa, Eastern Cape 39 4/8 Common Sable Antelope 07/01/1987 Zambia, Mwezi 110 6/8 Roosevelt Sable Antelope 10/19/2006 Tanzania, Selous 97 7/8 Western Roan Antelope 02/13/1993 C.A.R., Aouk River 71 2/8 East African Roan Antelope 11/13/1996 Tanzania Sudan Roan Antelope 03/01/1979 Sudan, Pariak 77 3/8 Southern Roan Antelope 06/30/1987 Zambia, Mulobezi 68 5/8 Kalahari Gemsbok 01/11/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 94 6/8 Beisa Oryx 03/30/1982 Sudan, Magost 77 6/8 Beisa Oryx 03/29/1983 Sudan, Magost 74 1/8 Fringe-eared Oryx 11/02/1990 Tanzania, Lake Natron 77 1/8 Common or Ringed Waterbuck 01/22/1985 South Africa, KwaZulu Natal 80 5/8 East African Defassa Waterbuck 03/13/1979 Sudan, Gemmeiza 71 7/8 Crawshay Defassa Waterbuck 06/30/1987 Zambia, Mulobezi 62 Kafue Flats Lechwe 06/25/1987 Zambia, Kafue Flats 82 1/8 Black Lechwe 07/08/1992 Zambia, Bangweulu 63 Common Lechwe 01/01/1985 South Africa, Cape Province 71 1/8 Nile Lechwe 03/01/1982 Sudan, Tonj 73 6/8 Nile Lechwe 03/01/1982 Sudan, Tonj 64 4/8 White-eared Kob 03/11/1979 Sudan, Pibor Post 60 2/8 Uganda Kob 03/28/1979 Sudan, Sue River 53 6/8 Uganda Kob 03/23/1982 Sudan, Tonj 50 Central African Kob 02/10/1993 C.A.R., Aouk River 52 1/8 Puku 07/05/1992 Zambia, MfuweR 48 5/8 Common Reedbuck 01/01/1985 South Africa, Zululand 27 Common Reedbuck 10/21/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 24 1/8 Eastern Bohor Reedbuck 11/13/1996 Tanzania, Moyowosi 17 6/8 Abyssinian Bohor Reedbuck 03/21/2005 Ethiopia, Lake Koka 20 4/8 Sudan Bohor Reedbuck 03/01/1979 Sudan, Gemmeiza 26 1/8 Sudan Bohor Reedbuck 03/01/1979 Sudan, Gemmeiza 26 6/8 Nigerian Bohor Reedbuck 02/16/1993 C.A.R., Aouk River 18 6/8 Southern Mountain Reedbuck 01/01/1985 South Africa, Cape Province 14 4/8 Chanler Mountain Reedbuck 10/13/1990 Tanzania, Lake Natron 11 7/8 Vaal Rhebok 01/01/1985 South Africa, Cape Province 19 6/8 Black Wildebeest 01/14/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 92 6/8 Blue Wildebeest 01/09/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 75 2/8 Cookson Wildebeest 07/05/1992 Zambia, Mfuwe 82 Cookson Wildebeest 10/21/2004 Zambia, Luangwa Valley 88 White-bearded Wildebeest 10/31/1990 Tanzania, Masailand 81 2/8 Cape or Red Hartebeest 01/14/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 69 1/8 Coke Hartebeest 11/01/1990 Tanzania, Masailand 54 7/8 Lelwel Hartebeest 03/16/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 65 3/8 Lelwel Hartebeest 03/24/1982 Sudan, Tonj 62 5/8 Lichtenstein Hartebeest 06/01/1987 Zambia, Mulobezi 69 Korrigum 02/20/1993 C.A.R., Aouk River 59 7/8 Tiang 03/01/1979 Sudan, Pariak 54 Topi 10/17/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 53 Topi 11/13/1996 Tanzania, Moyowosi 55 Tsessebe 07/08/1992 Zambia, Bangweulu 52 1/8 Blesbok 01/09/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 48 5/8 White Blesbok 01/01/1985 South Africa, Cape Province 47 3/8 Bontebok 01/20/1985 South Africa, Thorn Kloof 42 4/8 East African Impala 11/03/1990 Tanzania, Mto Wa Mbu 61 Southern Impala 01/01/1985 South Africa, Northern Province 55 4/8 Southern Grant Gazelle 11/02/1990 Tanzania, Lake Natron 69 1/8 Bright Gazelle 03/29/1982 Sudan, Magost 53 Bright Gazelle 03/30/1982 Sudan, Magost 58 Thomson Gazelle 11/04/1990 Tanzania, Masailand 37 6/8 Mongalla Gazelle 03/01/1979 Sudan, Pariak 33 1/8 Mongalla Gazelle 03/01/1979 Sudan, Pibor Post 34 6/8 Kalahari Springbok 03/22/1996 Namibia, Dordabis 42 6/8 South African Springbok 01/14/1985 South Africa, Eastern Cape 36 2/8 Black Springbok 01/16/1985 South Africa, Cape Province 33 1/8 White Springbok 01/01/1985 South Africa, Cape 37 5/8 Southern Gerenuk 10/12/1990 Tanzania, Lake Natron 40 5/8 Klipspringer 10/13/1990 Tanzania, Lake Natron 12 4/16 Common Oribi 03/14/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 15 Common Oribi 03/26/1982 Sudan, Tonj 15 8/16 Common Oribi 03/28/1982 Sudan, Tonj 14 Steenbok 01/01/1985 South Africa, Transvaal 12 Cape Grysbok 03/13/1996 South Africa, Salem 8 11/16 Sharpe Grysbok 07/05/1987 Zambia, Mwezi 9 9/16 East African Suni 10/24/1996 Tanzania, Mt. Meru 7 5/16 Guenther Dik-dik 03/31/1982 Sudan, Magost 9 14/16 Kirk Dik-dik 11/01/1990 Tanzania, Masailand 10 Damara Dik-dik 03/27/1996 Namibia, Ondjona 9 8/16 Southern Bush Duiker 01/01/1985 South Africa, Northern Province 14 6/16 East African Bush Duiker 04/04/1982 Sudan, Gemmeiza 11 10/16 Western Bush Duiker 02/11/1993 C.A.R., Aouk River 11 8/16 Gabon or White-bellied Duiker 07/01/2001 Cameroon, near Congo border 12 9/16 Peters Duiker 06/21/2001 Cameroon, Garoua Harvey Red Duiker 10/23/1996 Tanzania, Mt. Meru 12 2/16 Natal Red Duiker 01/01/1985 South Africa, Zululand 10 4/16 Red-flanked Duiker 02/18/1993 C.A.R., Bangoran River 8 12/16 Blue Duiker 03/13/1996 South Africa, Salem 5 14/16 Common Hippopotamus 04/01/1979 Sudan, Juba 51 4/16 Common Hippopotamus 10/24/1990 Tanzania, Njingwe 69 10/16 Warthog 05/01/1979 Sudan, Khor Deleib 38 10/16 Giant Forest Hog 03/25/1979 Sudan, Sakure 20 2/16 Red River Hog 03/23/1979 Sudan, Yambio 11 8/16 Nile Crocodile 11/12/1996 Tanzania, Malagarasi 13 9 NORTH AMERICA Cougar or Mountain Lion 01/22/1980 Utah, Shoal Creek Bobcat 12/05/1988 Sonora, NE of Hermosillo 8 7/16 Alaska Brown Bear 05/01/1968 Alaska, Chichagof Island 25 2/16 Alaska Brown Bear 05/01/1982 Alaska, Admiralty Island 26 13/16 Common Grizzly Bear 05/01/1968 Alaska Polar Bear (dogsled) 04/03/1995 Nunavut, Baffin Island 23 8/16 Continental (Inland) Black Bear 05/01/1968 Alaska, Lynn Canal 18 14/16 Coastal (Pacific) Black Bear 06/13/1984 Alaska, Kuiu Island 21 4/16 Gray Wolf 08/02/1968 Alaska, near Arctic Village 17 2/16 Pacific Walrus 08/01/1969 Alaska, Wainwright 110 1/8 American Bison 11/01/1985 Utah, Henry Mountains 63 5/8 Barren Ground Muskox 10/18/1995 Nunavut, Coppermine 70 6/8 Greenland Muskox 03/01/1986 Alaska, Nunivak Island 76 6/8 American Mountain Goat 12/01/1969 Alaska, Tracy Arm 30 6/8 American Mountain Goat 08/01/1971 Alaska, Lynn Canal 27 1/8 American Mountain Goat 08/01/1979 Alaska, Endicott Mountain 32 Dall Sheep 08/01/1984 Alaska, Wrangell Mountains 163 4/8 Stone Sheep 08/01/1972 Yukon, Pelly Mountains 166 7/8 Stone Sheep 10/08/1985 British Columbia, Cassiar Mountains 174 7/8 Desert Bighorn Sheep 02/01/1978 Baja California, Loreto 163 6/8 Pronghorn 09/01/1980 Arizona 72 6/8 Rocky Mountain Elk 09/30/1980 Arizona, White Mountain Apache Res. 344 6/8 Roosevelt Elk 10/22/1993 California, Santa Rosa Island 274 5/8 Roosevelt Elk 10/10/1994 California, Santa Rosa Island 293 6/8 Tule Elk 08/19/2000 California, Carissa Plains 268 2/8 Alaska-Yukon Moose 09/26/1967 Alaska, Lake Louise 410 7/8 Western Canada Moose 10/07/1985 British Columbia, Cassiar Mountains 404 Eastern Canada Moose 10/01/1997 Newfoundland, Long Range Mountains Shiras Moose 11/22/1986 Utah, Unita Mountians 254 3/8 Alaska-Yukon Barren Ground Caribou 09/10/1966 Alaska, S. of Mt. McKinley Central Canada Barren Ground Caribou 10/26/1995 Nunavut, Coppermine 331 Quebec-Labrador Caribou 08/24/1992 Quebec, Lake Narcy Woodland Caribou 10/03/1997 Newfoundland, Buchans Arctic Islands Caribou 10/24/1995 Nunavut, Victoria Island 361 3/8 Mountain Caribou 10/20/1994 N.W.T., Mackenzie Mts. 442 7/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 10/01/1964 Utah, Grass Valley 168 5/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 10/01/1965 Nevada, Ruby Mountains 169 4/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 10/29/1988 Arizona, Navajo Reservation 160 3/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 11/04/1988 Nevada, Mt. Grafton 164 6/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 11/11/1991 Nevada, Clover Mountains 167 1/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 10/16/1993 Utah, Pine Valley 167 4/8 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 10/09/1994 California, Santa Rosa Island 178 Rocky Mountain Mule Deer 11/05/1997 Nevada, Schell Creek Range 173 6/8 Desert Mule Deer 01/01/1987 Sonora 159 6/8 Desert Mule Deer 01/09/1997 Sonora 182 2/8 Columbia Black-tailed Deer 10/16/1991 California, Humboldt County 116 7/8 Sitka Black-tailed Deer 12/01/1967 Alaska, Chichagof Island 81 3/8 Sitka Black-tailed Deer 11/25/1989 Alaska, Kodiak Island 89 4/8 Sitka Black-tailed Deer 11/28/1989 Alaska, Kodiak Island 91 7/8 Sitka Black-tailed Deer 11/28/1989 Alaska, Kodiak Island 90 5/8 Northwestern White-tailed Deer 11/09/1987 Alberta, Hardisty Northeastern White-tailed Deer 12/06/1995 Iowa, Lois Hills Southeastern White-tailed Deer 01/05/1996 Alabama, Sagefield 133 1/8 Texas White-tailed Deer 12/14/1990 Texas, Frio County 129 7/8 Texas White-tailed Deer 12/11/1990 Texas, Frio County 127 6/8 Texas White-tailed Deer 12/11/1990 Texas, Frio County 148 2/8 Coues White-tailed Deer 12/09/1985 Arizona, Sierra Anchas Mountains 99 3/8 Coues White-tailed Deer 01/05/1987 Sonora 93 3/8 Mexican White-tailed Deer 12/12/1993 Texas, Chinati Mountains 82 2/8 Mexican White-tailed Deer 01/09/1994 Mexico, Tamaulipas 105 1/8 Collared Peccary 03/01/1971 Arizona, Salt River 13 4/16 Collared Peccary 03/01/1980 Arizona, San Carlos Reservation 14 4/16 American Alligator 09/10/1992 Louisiana, Barataria Bay 10 11 NORTH AMERICAN INTRODUCED Nilgai (free range) 02/21/1994 Texas, near Port Mansfield 31 3/8 Scimitar-horned Oryx 02/22/1994 Texas 96 Addax 02/24/1994 Texas, near Harper 70 7/8 Blackbuck 01/30/1989 Texas, Sutton County 63 1/8 Feral Goat 12/09/1990 Texas, Frio County 73 7/8 1Aoudad or Barbary Sheep (free range) 01/28/1989 Texas, Davis Mountains 133 2/8 Aoudad or Barbary Sheep 01/08/1994 Mexico, Tamaulipas 124 7/8 European Mouflon 12/11/1989 Texas, Coleman County Hybrid Sheep 12/11/1989 Texas, Coleman County 106 7/8 Multi-horned Sheep 12/09/1990 Texas, Frio County 87 1/8 Sika Deer 12/12/1989 Texas, Kerr County 91 4/8 Axis Deer 12/09/1990 Texas, Frio County 138 5/8 Feral Boar 10/14/1991 California, Humbolt County SOUTH AMERICA Puma or Cougar 03/20/2000 Argentina, Malbran 13 6/16 Gray-Brown Brocket Deer 03/18/2000 Argentina, Malbran 12 10/16 Gray-Brown Brocket Deer 03/19/2000 Argentina, Malbran 13 14/16 Collared Peccary 03/17/2000 Argentina, Malbran 13 6/16 White-lipped Peccary 03/17/2000 Argentina, Malbran 16 Water Buffalo 03/21/2000 Argentina, Malbran 75 2/8 Blackbuck 03/19/2000 Argentina, Malbran 68 2/8 Feral Goat 03/16/2000 Argentina, Malbran 71 5/8 Hybrid Sheep 03/18/2000 Argentina, Malbran 107 6/8 Multi-Horned sheep 03/18/2000 Argentina, Malbran 73 3/8 Red Deer 03/25/2008 Argentina, Patagonia 213 Red Deer 03/27/2008 Argentina, Patagonia 268 4/8 European Fallow Deer 03/16/2000 Argentina, Malbran 183 5/8 Feral Boar 03/19/2000 Argentina, Malbran 20 EUROPE European Bison 11/11/1999 Bulgaria, Voden 56 1/8 Pyrenean Chamois 11/01/1981 Spain, Pyrenees Mountains 20 6/8 Cantabrian Chamois 11/07/1999 Spain, Puebla de Lillo 19 6/8 Alpine Chamois 11/22/1995 Austria, Puchberg 22 1/8 Carpathian Chamois 11/09/2002 Romania, 30 3/8 Balkan Chamois 11/24/1995 Croatia, Goljaki 23 6/8 Gredos Ibex 11/01/1981 Spain, Gredos Mountains 79 3/8 Beceite Ibex 11/21/2002 Spain, Castellon 84 4/8 Southeastern Spanish Ibex 11/17/2002 Spain, Granada 65 3/8 Ronda Ibex 11/19/2002 Spain, Cadiz Province 63 7/8 Alpine Ibex 11/19/1995 Austria, Puchberg 85 5/8 European Mouflon 10/01/1984 Spain, Cazorla Reserve 105 4/8 European Red Deer 11/21/1995 Austria, Puchberg 321 Spanish Red Deer 10/07/1984 Spain, Somiedo 210 4/8 Scottish Red Deer 10/07/1997 Scotland, 164 5/8 European Fallow Deer 10/12/1984 Spain, Cazorla 196 6/8 European Roe Deer 06/28/1992 England, Sussex 52 Eurasian Wild Boar 11/01/1981 Spain, Cabaneros 16 4/16 European Reindeer 08/20/1994 Russia, Kamchatka Manchurian Sika Deer 10/13/1997 England, Bedfordshire 144 6/8 Japanese Sika Deer 10/10/1997 Scotland, Loch Ness 81 5/8 Pere David Deer 10/14/1997 England, Bedfordshire 220 6/8 Reeves Muntjac 10/13/1997 England, Bedfordshire 13 6/16 Water Deer 10/13/1997 England, Bedfordshire 9 5/16 Feral Goat 11/18/1981 Spain ASIA Kamchatka Brown Bear 08/17/1994 Russia, Kamchatka 20 1/16 Mideastern Brown Bear 11/05/1995 Turkey, Kackar Mountains 22 11/16 Feral Yak 11/21/1992 Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains 63 Persian Goitered Gazelle 01/31/1994 Turkmenistan, Badkhyz 39 4/8 Hillier Goitered Gazelle 10/16/1982 Mongolia, Gobi 31 7/8 Tibetan Gazelle or Goa 10/29/2000 China, Burhan Budai Shan 29 7/8 Russian Saiga 11/30/1992 Kazakhstan, Chimkent 33 6/8 Sichuan Takin 11/04/2000 China, Sichuan 44 Anatolian Chamois 11/08/1995 Turkey, Kackar Mountains 23 4/8 Himalayan Tahr 03/21/1991 Nepal, Nisheldhar 44 Bezoar Ibex 10/22/1984 Turkey, w. of Antalya 82 5/8 Sindh Ibex 03/05/2008 Pakistan, Sindh 92 6/8 Sindh Ibex 03/05/2008 Pakistan, Sindh 96 3/8 Siberian Ibex 09/01/1985 Mongolia, Altai Mountains 117 4/8 Gobi Ibex 10/01/1982 Mongolia, Gobi 95 1/8 Mid-Asian Ibex 11/21/1992 Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains 101 Himalayan Ibex 03/11/2008 Pakistan, Hunza 95 6/8 East Caucasian Tur 07/01/1998 Azerbaijan, Babudag West Caucasian Tur 07/06/1998 Russia, Mt. Cugus 142 3/8 West Caucasian Tur 07/08/1998 Russia, Mt. Cugus 155 3/8 Himalayan Blue Sheep 03/26/1991 Nepal, Karichaur Danda 113 Chinese blue sheep 10/24/2000 China, Burhan Budai Shan 102 6/8 Transcaspian Urial 01/30/1994 Turkmenistan, Badkhyz 148 3/8 Afghan Urial 02/05/1994 Turkmenistan, Kugitang 122 4/8 Blanford Urial 03/05/2008 Pakistan, Sindh 124 3/8 Marco Polo Argali 11/18/1992 Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains 197 3/8 Marco Polo Argali 11/19/1992 Tajikistan, Pamir Mountains 219 Karaganda Argali 11/28/1992 Kazakhstan, Karaganda 194 1/8 Altai Argali 08/01/1985 Mongolia, Altai Mountains 211 6/8 Altai Argali 09/01/1985 Mongolia, Altai Mountains 213 7/8 Gobi Argali 10/16/1982 Mongolia, Gobi 190 2/8 Kamchatka Snow Sheep 08/16/1994 Russia, Kamchatka 165 3/8 Okhotsk Snow Sheep 08/22/1993 Russia, Nelkan 162 2/8 Altai Wapiti 08/26/1985 Mongolia, Altai Mountains 310 6/8 White-lipped or Thorold Deer 10/22/2000 China, Burhan Budai Shan 111 5/8 Indian Muntjac 04/03/1991 Nepal, Phagune Khola 18 7/16 SOUTH PACIFIC Banteng 10/01/1986 Australia N.T., Cobourg Peninsula 64 2/8 Water Buffalo 10/01/1986 Aust., N.T., Marrakai 100 5/8 Chamois 03/21/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Westland 27 2/8 Himalayan Tahr 03/21/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Westland 40 4/8 Feral Goat 03/25/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Hunter Hills 71 Arapawa Sheep 03/25/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Hunter Hills 108 Red Deer 03/26/2004 New Zealand, Thornbury 431 7/8 Sambar 03/31/2004 Australia, Queensland, Gippsland 132 5/8 Javan Rusa Deer 10/14/1986 Australia, Queensland, Kingham 140 7/8 Moluccan Rusa Deer 03/30/2004 Australia, Water Valley 110 Hog Deer 03/29/2004 Australia, Queensland, Gippsland 75 5/8 European Fallow Deer 03/23/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Hunter Hills 265 White-tailed Deer 03/24/2004 New Zealand, South Island, Hunter Hills 82 6/8 Feral Boar 10/25/1986 Australia, N.T., Cobourg Peninsula 17 6/16 Total entries listed = 308

He had nothing else to do. To his credit, he did establish a modern game department and staffed it with U.S. trained Iranian wildlife biologists. He also established Iran's first game reserves and parks, ended poaching and educated his countrymen about the value of wildlife, and brought all of the middle-eastern countries together to create a migratory bird treaty similar to the one between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. After his brother's regime fell, he set up a wildlife foundation that still exists after his death. It not only helps finance wildlife conservation work worldwide, it also contributes toward pro-hunting international causes. My problem with Abdorreza was his refusal to believe he was no longer a prince. That extended into his hunting. If you read between the lines about his last African buffalo hunt you will see what I mean. He felt someone of his status "deserved" a 50-inch buffalo and was unhappy when he didn't shoot it. The same with one of his elephant hunts, when the bull elephant he shot wasn't a 100-pounder. If you'd like me to autograph some of my books, I'll be in Tucson for a week in July to see my doctors and we can get together sometime. Bill Quimby

Are there any places that are rusted through? Any dents, or does it just need a paint job? What type of gas mileage does it get? Bill Quimby

Scottyboy: Thank you. It was a privilege to spend weeks interviewing those men and helping them preserve their stories. Among my fondest memories is sitting around a campfire in Zambia and listening to Mac talk about things we couldn’t put in his books. The only big time international hunter I did not enjoy being with was Prince Abdorreza. I spent 24 nine- to ten-hour days interviewing him, and ate lunch with him every day, and he still insisted that I call him “your highness.” The only time he allowed the barrier between us to drop briefly was when we were in Reno, signing my books about him at an SCI convention, and he said something he thought was funny and slapped my knee. The book I wrote about him, “Royal Quest,” is pricey at $325 for the trade edition, but do you have it? It and Hubert Thummler’s “Wind in My Face” are my favorites of all the hunting memoirs I’ve written. I also liked my “The History of Safari Club International.” The committees that had to approve the manuscript made some changes I didn’t like, but I was pleased to see they left intact what I said about how Mac was treated after the cub fired him. I was fortunate to have done a lot of hunting on other continents before prices went crazy. For example, when I first went to Africa in 1983, a 14-day safari in Zimbabwe’s famed Matesi including trophy fees for buffalo, sable, kudu and three or four smaller antelopes was $3,995, plus $1,100 airfare to Vic Falls. The same hunt would start at $20,000 now. Bill Quimby