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I didn't save any of the stubs. I just received email notices when tickets were purchased on line. If you PM me your name, assuming you bought from our chapter, I'll be happy to screen shot the email notice confirming your purchase. All the stubs have is the list of guns and some cool graphics. All I can say is I'm sorry if I offended you with our approach this year, you're in the drawing if you bought tickets, and we'll work to do it better on our end next year.

James Lynch bought 16 of the 7/$100 packages ($1600) from our chapter! One year, a guy won three times off of one 7/$100 package!

I get what you're saying; however I promise its legit. I was basically a one-man show for much of the process, while recovering from surgery. Its all on the up and up, though. I know three of the winners. The drawing results are supposed to be posted on the NWTF-AZ FB page daily. We never know each year how many of the 3000 tickets are sold. Names are drawn every day by our Regional Director from a huge drum. Here are the winners so far: NWTF 31 Day Gun Raffle Winners Early Bird Gun Safe- Michael Hull Nov 24th Tikka T3X 6.5- James Lynch Nov 25th SIG P320 9mm- Tim Brown Nov 26th Ruger American 7mm-08 Donald Haight Nov 27th S&W .38 spl- Terry Reese Nov 28th Henry US Survival .22lr- John Branch Nov 29th CZ Bobwhite 20ga- Eric Johnson Nov 30th Henry Golden Boy .22lr- Michael Wantz Dec 1st Stoeger STR 9mm- Lonnie Green Dec 2nd Franchi Momentum Elite .308 WIN - Mike Bretz Dec. 3rd Heritage RR Revolver .22LR/.22WMR- Mike Skiles Dec. 4th Howa 1100 17HMR- John Jordan Dec. 5th CZ 612 Home Defence 12ga- David Keesler Dec. 6th Browning AB3 Striker LR 6.5 Creedmoor- Josh Barlow Dec. 7th S&W Bodyguard .380 ACP- Charles Hernandez II Dec. 8th Rossi RS 22 .22LR- Rob Zimmerman Dec. 9th CZ P-10 C 9mm- James Lynch Dec. 10th Ruger American Predator .243 WIN- Mark Gibson Dec. 11th Winchester SXP Hybrid Hunter 12ga- Mike Skiles Dec. 12th Ruger 10/22 Viridian- Wayne Kaiser Dec. 13th Springfield Hellcat 9mm- Jim McAnally

I used my prodeal to get a couple Klymit V-Seats (https://klymit.com/collections/accessories/products/v-seat). Makes glassing so much better!

50 chances at the SW gift cards, 50 chances for the marsupial bird bag, and 30 for the Prois turkey vest.

You guys are HORRIBLE influences! I just ordered my son a Buck 110 for his birthday (Dec 24) because, as everyone else has said, including me, everyone should have a Buck 110! Now to explain it to my wife. Thank goodness for my pro-deals!

I'm pretty sure I've got the old Axis stock off my daughter's 7-08. All black and no magazine. Just the factory stock. I'd part with it, unless you're covered.

We received a new calendar order yesterday, so I will be mailing out three new ones this week. I'm guessing yours in one of them if you ordered through us. One of this is one that I mailed two weeks ago, but was returned for not enough postage (stupid UPS Store). I may not have been clear about the 31-Day Stubs, but we had so many that they didn't get saved or mailed out, but everyone who purchased tickets from us is definitely entered. I apologize for any confusion over the stubs.

I love my Buck 110. It was given to me when I was in middle school (35? years ago) and its still my go-to for bird hunting. I used to to clean 100s of pheasants, rabbits, and quail growing up in Iowa. I still put it on my belt for bird hunting out of nostalgia and because I can't bring myself to go for anything else. I have other Buck and Gerber fixed-blade knives that I keep in my pack as back-ups to my Havalon. Its honestly hard to go wrong with a 110 and now I'm wondering why I never got my son one.

Check our Flagstaff NWTF raffle. We're raffling one off. $20/ticket and drawing a winner Dec 15th! https://www.naznwtf.org/product-page/marsupial-bird-bag-system-with-modular-belt

I'm in no way claiming to be judge, jury, and executioner here or that I know best. I've been instructing for 10 years and I have seen multiple kids show up to class and they point muzzles at people and have little awareness to what they are doing, even after hammering firearm safety into the class. When we approach the parents to talk about what we're seeing, some (not all) of these parents are either not engaged, don't understand the problem, or just don't care. We've had parents get mad at us for calling out their kids' poor firearm safety on the shooting line. That is not the norm and I never claimed it to be the norm, but I've seen it enough to say that it definitely happens and those are the kids/families that scare me. I agree and disagree with this. I wish the agency hadn't shut the program down for so long. And now field days are hard to get into because of lack of instructor teams putting them on. I feel for the kids who truly want to hunt and learn, but have to wait so long. AGFD started requiring short "refresher quiz" to help with the material retention. The quiz was required to attend a field day for online students and we saw a huge jump in both participation and knowledge. At the same time, even before classes were shut down, we had the same issues. It was also obvious (sometimes admitted) that the parents/grandparents/other guardian actually took the test for the kid just so they could get their kid out hunting. I've had kids freely admit they didn't know there would be a 50-question final exam at the field day to pass the class, even though there is a HUGE red banner on the first page of the online class that says there will be a 50-question test at the field day to pass the class. One teen admitted (sort of paraphrasing) "I just blew through it to get it done. I had no idea there was a test when we showed up." after getting a 22/50 on the test. Think what you want about AGFD's (or any other states') requirements to pass an HE class in order to hunt. I won't deny you that. I'm just a volunteer instructor who's seen the entire spectrum of issues in 10 years. I'll still buy the coffee and we can talk more if you're in Flagstaff and interested.

There's quite a bit of speculation as to why the department hasn't started up new instructor training, but that's for a cup of coffee (my treat). A big part of the exodus in the last year is the training requirements for cyber security and personal information access. Many of the instructors didn't want to be burdened with the training requirements, even though every other volunteer for AGFD has to take them, so they opted out of being an instructor. Now we're down to three (maybe four) active instructor teams across the entire state. We can't keep up with the demand. Our team in Flagstaff went from 20 instructors available down to 11. Burn out happens real quick and every team is pleading with AGFD to get the new instructor training up and running. Ours is the only volunteer training not occurring for the department.

Yes! We have 13 calendars left. We are drawing for the turkey vest, SW raffle cards, and Marsupial Bird Bag next Thursday. If you're talking about the 31-Day Gun Raffle, you can still get in , but do it quickly, so I can get your name to our RD, who is running the drawing.

Got ours Monday

I don't disagree with you at all. The parents of these kids are the ones that probably scare me the most because they don't see (or want to hear) what we see as instructors.

Is it too late? Taqueria Juanitos is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in Tucson!

This is true. Also, we get kids showing up to online field days months (now a year or two) after taking the online class and they are absolutely clueless as to the concepts, questions, and basic firearm safety. And we're supposed to pass them. I hate to say it this way, but there are kids out hunting with a full completion certificate and HE card that scare the absolute crap out of me. I wouldn't feel safe around them at all.

I'll PM you shortly with dates and details.

You attend or your son? Or both?

Its this right here. I teach Hunter Ed up here in Flagstaff and I work for the Federal government, so I get the hoops that are being required. There are Federal regulation requirements that have to be met when using Federal money (PR dollars for HE) and every instructor has access to PII. AGFD got dinged in an audit because volunteers weren't being held to this standard. Unfortunately, not every volunteer, including HE instructors, understands this Federal requirement, especially when it was just implemented a year ago. Shortly after that was implemented, the HE program lost 70% or more of its instructors and there are limitations imposed on getting new instructors trained. I don't know how much of that is because of process and how much is politics. I have my suspicions, but that's for a cup of coffee. Right now, I'm only aware of instructor teams working in Flagstaff, Tucson, and Bullhead area. I'm working on organizing an in-person class in Flagstaff in February. It may be my last class as an instructor because I'm getting tired of the politics.

This ^^. I can tell just by the fact that its an 03-A3 that its not one of the problem children 03s. Those were made pre-WWI (well before the 03-A3s)and were known to have rather brittle barrels due to forging the barrels wrong. All of the Remington's have a 2-groove barrel, which didn't affect their accuracy at all. Remington and Smith Corona did it to save time and money to get rifles to soldiers faster. $1200 is a very fair asking price for that rifle. I have a 1918 Springfield 1903 in mint condition and I know I could get $4-$6k for it if I really wanted to sell it.

Not much else to say that hasn't been said. I have a Dec Coues tag down south and I'm debating on my 30-06 shooting 168 gr Barnes TTSX or my son's 300WM shooting Barnes 190gr LRX. Both extremely viable options and, yes, you can never get them too dead.

I don't have 1K to spare, but I can probably get you a couple of hundred Federal GM215Ms if that will work. If I don't see this right away, feel free to PM me so I see it quicker.

Been a long time, Mike. How many do you need?

Thanks for the reminder to get that information out!