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Can't be a Liger, no wings, lol.

Is the truck even worth the $11,000 you're about to dump into it? If the alternative is dumping it in a scrap yard, yes. I don't have the luxury of buying one new for $65K or used for around $40k. We have a trailer to haul around, and that's our family vacation - Moab, Zion, Escalante, Powell - that's how our family reconnects after months of everyone doing their own thing and drifting apart. Hiking slot canyons, rappelling red rocks, hanging on the beach by Lone Rock, paddle boarding, kayaking - not to mention getting the whole family together for javelina or turkey or whatever hunt gets us all together. Having a working truck that pulls our camper to whatever destination to get away from work, school, sports and all the daily stresses that pull us apart so we can spend days or weeks on end reconnecting as a family is priceless.

Wow, thanks Bonecollector. That thing is a true giant - and a deer/elk killing machine.

Just to add, the tires are pretty much new, and I'd consider binos in the same price range.

Selling this for my Dad. It's a 1984 GMC Jimmy. Very clean for it's age. I'll start with the good - that's the shorter list. Inside and out it looks great. It starts, runs and drives. Transmission is in great shape, new radiator, engine has a little over 30K miles. Ok, on to the bad. This was the truck I drove to high school back in the 80's. Afterward, my dad took great care of it but rarely drove it. Then my son drove it for a while and apparently ran it while low on oil. Currently, it runs really rough. I'd like to say it's a tuning issue, but I'd guess from running on low oil, at the very least the rings are toast - maybe worse. I won't mislead - the engine could be shot, I just don't know and at this point I'm not willing to invest in diagnosing it, so let's just assume the worst. The rust - as you can see in the pictures, there's some serious deep rust in that panel. 4x4 - not even sure if it engages anymore. Broken driver's seat - it leans back into low-rida position all by itself. That would have to be fixed if someone were to restore it. So, after that stellar sales pitch, let's talk $$. I don't know if this is a fixer-upper or a parts truck. My gut says it's worth $700 on the low side. I'm open to any cash offer. As for trades, I'd consider a Leica rangefinder. Pretty much set on other gear.

What an awesome buck. Huge congrats to Terry! Just awesome.

We get them occasional at Sportsman's in Show Low, but haven't seen any lately.

Oh man. The 6.0. I've got a 2005 Excursion that we bought around 65K miles. Great truck, took us on so many family outings pulling a very heavy 32' trailer with big slide outs. Little things started going wrong - FICM, HPOP, turbo underboost causing the check engine light to come on under a load, bad cold starts, sluggish warming up. I could list several $1200 plus trips to the mechanic, and it's now at BulletProof in Mesa looking at another $11K. The list of things that go wrong with this engine are endless. First thing I'd do is take it to BulletProof, ask for Andrew and get a no BS assessment of it. On a 6.0 the EGR cooler will fail. It isn't an "if" it's when. And the oil cooler is basically a box with radiator wings that cools the oil while also cooling coolant. It clogs and fails, and coolant mixes with oil. The injectors are another trouble spot. If they aren't torqued to spec, even over spec, you get a loose injector that allows unspent fuel to pass through it into the cylinder causing bent valves or even a burned piston. Bottom line, if it's running great you are in good shape in the short run. But take pre-emptive measures to protect it, because when it fails, it fails BIG TIME. Like a few thousand bucks easy, up into the teens. That's where we are.

Very cool. I just had some hunting buddies exited about their first AZ turkey hunt ask me for call recommendations. I basically said, if you want to sound like everyone else, go to Cabela's or Bass Pro and buy something off the shelf. If you want a piece of art that is made by hand and specifically tuned to AZ turkeys, go to little creek. Since I've been using Ammon's calls, I can't justify buying a call from a big box store.

The current generation is so absent minded and clueless, I doubt if any of them could name 6 past Presidents, 3 senators or describe any part of our Government. They just go along with it blindly, exactly as planned. We've been dumbed down - way down. Now we get to reap what we've sown.

But not for why the lyrics actually intended it.. uh oh, I mean Rubio...

I agree with Snapshot, but I'd add she's singing Angel of the Morning on our dream hunt.

There was controlled burning just outside of Linden over the weekend. Any word on whether this was related?

Inflation is a bitch.

MRAAA, if KiababHunter doesn't take it it's yours, but the price is now a 12 pack. I'll be down there tomorrow.

KiababHuhnter, I tried to send you a PM. I'll be in the valley tomorrow, Tempe area. I'll bring the shotgun, you bring the beer, lol. Here's my number 480 nine two nine, 4350

I've got an old one - I mean really really old and it has a broken firing pin. It's break-over single shot but you can have it for a 6 pack of moose drool if you want it.

Dang - missed it. Those are awesome tents. I was going to be in the valley tomorrow too.

I'll take it. Just sent you a PM.

Nice write up. There's nothing like busting up a bunch of javi's and hitting the call. Getting them all riled up and coming back over and over again is an awesome rush.

I've had really mixed results with decoys. Sometimes they come running in at full bore, other times as soon as they see the decoy they hold up strutting and wanting the hens to come to them. That said my decoys are pretty old and when you stuff them in a bag they don't always look realistic in a fast setup. In my experience, if you have two or more young toms they tend to race in. If you have an older, single tom he is less likely to come all the way in. My sons have killed a LOT of turkeys over the past few years in the youth hunt and it's really been a mix anywhere from setting up with a blind and decoys to driving and calling where you hear a gobble in the distance, next gobble is on top of you and you hide behind whatever is there. For me, it's the most fun if you do the full setup with a blind and decoys and get to coax them in, but that hasn't always been the most productive.

That is sooooooo cool! Thanks for sharing.

A friend of mine who passed away a couple years back was a real rock hound. He had found huge veins of turquoise, all kinds of neat rocks. I'll see if I can find some of his tumbled stones and post pix.

125 definitely hit on something I didn't like about the Yeti. I borrowed one from a family member and one of the rubber latches broke. Obviously I couldn't return it like that so I bought a pair of replacements, but the process was tricky. There is a thin aluminum rod that runs the entire length of the cooler lid that you have to push all the way out to replace the latches, and it is not easy to push that thing out and back in without bending it.

I love hunting those cute little buggers, but a few weeks back I was hunting with a buddy down in SE AZ, staying in a little hotel in Portal, and the javi's there were kind of like your neighbor's dog. They just walked up looking for a handout. You could shoo them away, but the minute they heard a plastic bag ruffling, they were back right at your heels. Pretty funny.