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+1 for the Browning Buckmark. I've got an older one. I always wanted the Ruger, but didn't want the contoured barrel that looks like German Luger. So I bought a Buckmark with a bull barrel for around $220 if I remember right. That thing is super accurate and dependable. Still one of my favorite guns. However, I just did a search and it looks like even these are going in the high 300's way on up depending on configuration.

$600? http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/panasonic-ag-dvc30/4505-6500_7-30836631.html Good cam, solid performer. Got something good in trade (no hunts)?

Selling my Pansonic "pro-sumer" video camera. It's a high-end MiniDV camera that beat out the Canon GL2 in CNet's testing. I paid around $1700 for this camera and just haven't ended up using it very much. It's a great camera - just needs a home where it will get more use. One of the things that sold me on the camera is the Leica lens. Here's a link to a detailed review with better pictures of the controls than I can provide. http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-camcorders/panasonic-ag-dvc30/4505-6500_7-30836631.html I will post pictures of the actual camera, accessories and bag. It comes with a spare, long-life battery and charger. B&H sells this model used for $795, and that seems to be the median price on Ebay. I am asking $700 firm plus shipping. No trades, please. Updated - photo of the actual camera and accessories. The accessories include the instruction manual, remote control (unused) carry handle, battery charger, two batteries, various cables, contoured eyepeice and strap (both unopened).

The cats are on! Great job Wildcats. There are a few teams I love to watch in baseball, The cats, since I went to UofA and they are usually solid, OSU since both of my parents went to school in Stillwater OK and I was raised in the Ozarks, and Florida State, just because they usually have a solid baseball program. The Southeast conference is always fun to follow, but when the cats do their thing, it is a ton of fun to watch. Sorry Devil fans, baseball isn't ASU's sport. You've had some decent programs over the years, but the consistency isn't there. Don't get me wrong, if it were ASU vs. any Pac-10 team aside from UofA, I'd be rooting for the devils all the way. Outside the PAC, it would totally depend on the team. I'll root for lumberjacks over another state, and support ASU when they deserve it.

Just for fun, my wife bought me a super cool air-soft gun for Father's Day. My sons and I love to have air-soft battles on our property and the heavy forest backing us. The boys are some pretty darn good snipers too. Anyone not familiar with "air-soft" guns, they are basically high-tech BB guns that shoot plastic 6MM bbs. I grew up having "BB-Gun wars" with my brother and friends, where we would shoot the crap out of eachother with real bb guns, even the pump-up pellet guns, but we always stuck to a 2-pump max on those. I still remember one of my buddies with a bb stuck under the skin just 1/4 inch from his eye. Those were great times, but since I'm now "responsible" we wear full face masks and typically the boys will layer up in their winter clothes. Anything over 400 FPS stings pretty bad if your clothes aren't loose. I took one to the forehead when I assaulted the boys' fort and it bled like I had been punched in the head by Brock Lesnar. Looking back it was really funny. Carrie rushed out thinking one of the kids was hurt, and I had blood running over my left eye. Meanwhile, Nick turns to run in a hail of gunfire and goes right into a small pine tree, with a limb sticking him in the shallow skin along the sphenoid (between the temple and the eye). We were digging pieces of bark out of his face for weeks. Yeah, we play hard. So, this morning my kids present me with the coolest toy I've ever owned. It's a full-size, full-weight electric "Tommy Gun" exactly like the 1928 Thomspon (Chicago Typewriter). Pistol grip, drum magazine, shoots 460+ FPS at 800 rounds per minute. After all the baseball games finished up this morning and a little picnic at the field with my mom and dad, we geared up for war. They blasted me, I blasted them, it was a great time. What will really stick out for me, is this little "extravagance", was something we really can't afford right now, but my sweet wife has been working as much as she can, and she bought this totally unneccesary toy with the money she has earned teaching gymnastics and gave it to the boys to give to me. All so I can still be a kid with my kids and play with them. She buys nothing for herself and won't even let me buy her small things, but she works her tail off in the home and out of it to make sure her boys have the latest baseball equipment, and her over-sized child-of-a-husband has toys he would never buy for himself.

Great post TJ, and Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. We spend this weekend at the baseball fields in Snowflake and Show Low. Little league is over so we get to see the boys playing "club" ball where the level of play is so much higher. All 3 of my boys were playing this weekend, sometimes in different towns at the same time, so we didn't get to see all of it but it was a good time.

Wow, that muley is a stud! Nice finds.

Hey buddy, you didn't think we'd forget your birthday, did you? Here's wishing you a happy birthday and another great year of hunting. I hope you have a great year. Thanks for all of your positive posts, and your always-positive attitude. We haven't met yet, but there is alwas a place next to the fire in my camp for you.

Personally, I'm avoiding bars. From a WTSHTF approach, coins will be far more liquid. Paper money and certificates will be worthless, but tangible coins will maintain value.

I'm also looking to invest in silver. Looks like the canadian maple leaf is a good choice, or the silver eagle.

Nice job for the cats. Isn't it just like devil fans to discredit their own state? Those boys played hard and deserve to be recognized.

Spoken like a true fan (and player) of the sport. Giving credit where it's due goes a long ways in my book. +1

Dang it, TJ. I missed you by minutes last time. You stopped by my camp, and met my wife but we had already gone to the shoot. When I got back, Carrie told me "TJ stopped by, but I didn't know where on the mountain you guys were". We will definately be camping up there this year for the Sunrise shoot, and doing the "all-stars" baseball playoffs in Eagar that week. I'd love to have you in camp, finally. Me casa es su casa. With any luck we'll be camping along with a good group of old friends. Really "down-to-earth" people that I know inside 2 minutes next to a camp fire you would feel right at home with. And of course, we'll break out the corn-hole boards and keep ourselves neck deep in cold beer, cigars and hunting stories.

I believe in building the strongest box possible for trail cams. I've never had one stolen, knock on wood, but a little garage time, some scrap steel, a good welder, and a dose of ingenuity can go a long way toward keeping cameras safe. Another style... Give a redneck some scrap steel from a worn-out or unused treadmill, a mig welder and a problem to solve...I haven't lost a camera to thieves yet, but if I finally do, they are hauling out a chunk of tree and going to work with a cut-off blade. Lag the box to the tree (the tree will be OK), keep the soft parts of the lock under steel at an angle they can't bite if off. If they carry a cordless grinder with a cutoff wheel, the'll take it. But they'll have to earn it.

Anyone who likes to set up a game of horseshoes in camp will LOVE setting up some "cornhole" boards. It's fun just sayin' it but when you get to playin' it, you'll wonder how you ever set up a family get-together without them. I built a set in the good old "red white and blue" since we always play over the 4th while flinging arrows and telling stories around the campfire at the Sunrise shoot. Not as slick as these, but they are a good set I'm happy to bring to camp. A good set of cornhole boards (and good bean bags) and an ice-chest full of cold beer, some tasty food on the grill, brings people together. Good times right there. Some of my fondest memories have been packing several familes together for the Sunrise shoot. Some football, some baseball, 3D targets set up all over camp for the kids to practice on, the boys always set off to build a fort, while us old codgers split wood for a big fire. The younger kids toddle around in their little jeeps and such as the sun begins to set. Some good music, good friends, cold drinks, campfire talks, lots of amazing food, from one family's "Mexican BBQ" to another's amazing secret green chili . For myself a good cigar, and quiet conversation.... Man, I love those nights up top of the White Mountains with family and old friends.

Prayers sent. I agree with Pinedonkey - probably the most helpless feeling in the world is having something like this affect one of your children. Stay strong and keep believing.

I don't see any markings on it indicating that it records in HD, or anything in the manual about HD, so no, I don't think it does.

One last bump for a quality, pro-grade camera.

Prayers sent. I can only imagine the pain of anyone seeing their wife battle something as horriffic as cancer. My heart goes out to you both with my prayers for a full recovery and many more years together.

There's definately a tactic to finding sheds that I haven't figured out. Whenever I go looking for sheds, I find nothing - maybe an old spike that looks like a broken tree branch with stuff growing on it. I've got a salt lick that I checked this Spring and found 3 brown sheds within 20 yards of eachother. All small, but the best I've ever picked up. I know another guy who hunts sheds really hard and picked up something like $2000 worth in one day, but this guy hikes his butt off. Sometimes he even badgers his friends with pilot's licences to fly around and see where the bulls are about the time they are dropping. A few years back I was coues hunting the San Carlos, and we were glassing a canyon and found enough sheds to fill the back of a truck - just in one canyon, and some were old. Of course we couldn't pick any up, but I always think about how certain canyons just seem to "the place" at the right time. The guys and gals who do this a lot have lots of these places on their list of shed hunting sources. It's all about time in the field - and covering lots of country - coming from someone who can't find sheds to save his life, lol.

I got myself and 3 sons applied in about 45 minutes today online. Not a perfect system, but I do appreciate the fact that they got the online system back up. I put in for 13B and 12A West, my kids all in for 27 youth, seprately. Looking for some muleys this year.

From now on "Pegged" pun intended, we need an annual reminder! I'll stick it in outlook a week early and give you a heads up. LOL. Your phone and PMs are going to light up the week before your anniversary going forward. My anniversary is 8 days away, and I can't get her to tell me anything about what SHE wants. This will be #18 (or 19???). It's one thing when we forget, try knowing it's coming and having NO IDEA what to do to make it special. Man, us guys suck at this romance thing.

Thank you, plumber. And thanks to all who have shared their prayers. We're doing well.

I've posted a lot on CWT over the years, but have never asked for a prayer request. I've prayed many times for members of our family here that I have never met, but didn't think I would ever on the other side. My family lost a loved one on May 28th to suicide. This man was like a father to me, and looked to my kids as his own granchildren. This man loved the outdoors - he hunted and fished the white mountains so far back, the tales he tells are only a memory. He had an amazing love for his family, his friends, his love of hiking, biking, hunting, exploring... He survived cancer 10+ years ago when all the doctors told him he had at best 6 months to live. After that he fell from a ladder at work and crushed his hip and leg, and could no longer work. He then dedicated himself to his wife and dogs. When his trusty Lab, River could no longer walk he broke his back getting her out of the truck for one more adventure together. He lived with pain daily in his last years. A man who had once tackled every rushing river by kayak or raft, explored so many unknown caves, prospected and hunted pretty much every inch of this state, he finally succomed to the pain and realization that the life he had so passionately embraced, was no longer possible for him. His life ended on May 28th, and our family is struggling to comprehend the loss, the un-answered questions... If your heart moves you, please say a prayer for Steve, and those of us still trying to understand... Thank you, Jason

Man California is one messed up state. It's too bad really, They have it all - the coast, the mountains and pines, the deserts...Too bad it's so overrun with moonbats. The funny part is, much of California is very conservative, they just can't compete with the loud-mouthed "progressives" that have run an otherwise great state into the ground.