GhostBuster

Still have this for sale, $60.00 obo. Let me know if your interested. I can bring it to Tucson, Sierra Vista, or Phoenix area next week.

What do you think of these cameras? Sends the images to a base unit miles away! http://www.buckeyecams.com/ You could have several set up and watch them from your camp or another tank. Radio in a hunter and have him on the animal within a few minutes. Not much of a hunt here, and you know somebody will be using these in the near future.

Ill sell it for $60.00. Includes the two - quart water bottles that go in the side pockets. the pack is in excellant shape, no tears or holes in it.

Sorry I was not able to insert a pic earlier, seems a lot of you have viewed this. Working in Phoenix and Tucson and just got back to Kingman. If your interested let me know I can bring it to Phoenix or Tucson during my next trip down there, in two weeks. I will be in Flagstaff end of next week if anyone is interested from there let me know and I will meet you there.

Excellant condition, $60.00.

TJ, I live in the unit. Try the area off wild cow road, up any of the big draws heading to the peaks. Dark timber in the draws and open hillsides facing south. A couple of weeks ago I was at the lodge for dinner and had three bulls walking around the truck. Residents around the park area feed the elk and deer, cant hunt in the park. But its not that big and the elk go back in the hills surronding the area. You can rent a cabin up there from the Mohave County Parks department, it would be a fun weekend scouting trip. The lodge has good food, and a friend of mine plays in the band there on Saturday nite.

"Thomas K. Kelly,P.C. Attorneys at law", dated July 15, 2004 and addressed to "Duane Shroufe Director Arizona Game & Fish Department". "Dear Mr. Shroufe: My clents have developed an impression that the Arizona Game & Fish Departmentis not receptive or sensitive to concerns relating to property damage caused by wildlife and/or inconsiderate hunters. After much thought and discussion, the following ranches have, or are seriously considering, denying any and all public access for any purpose on their private land: Aztec Land and Cattle Comapny Becker Land and Cattle Company LO Ranch 7-Up Ranch Goldtrap Ranch Willaha Ranch McCauley Ranch X-one Ranch Rock Art Ranch Aja Sheep Company Freeman Ranch Carlock Ranch Diamond A's (Cholla Livestock) K-4 Ranch Las Vegas Ranch Dobson and Dobson Livestock Company Dobson Estate Vernon 825, LLC Sheep Springs Sheep Company, LLC Timberline Cattle Company Wagon Bow Ranch Lazy YE Red Wing Ranch Cowan Ranch Yolo Ranch ORO Ranch Seibert Cattle Company As you are aware, these ranches control access to large parcels of privately owned real property and/or access to large parcels of public property in bothe northern and southern Arizona.Hunters currently enjoy free and unfettered use of many of these private parcels. The current mismanagement of wildlife has caused a detrimental impact on the ability of these ranchers to maintain viable cattle operations. Thus far, management of wildlife has been one =sided. Hunters and the AG&FD enjoy the benefit of water, range and access improvements maintained at the sole expense of these ranchers. The ranchers are recieving little or nothing in return Their only recourse at this point is to deny any type of access. In the event your department is interested in discussing a fair resolution of ongoing concerns relating to ranching and wildlife management, please have your legal counsel contact this office. Otherwise the above- referenced ranches will be closed to public access. Moreover, we will continue to seek every available remedy, including political, public and legal alternatives, to force your department to recognize the significant economic loss the mismangament of wildlife is causing to my clients. Thank you for your prompt attention in this regard."

Sent my e-mails to the folks from district 3.

Well it looks like the discussion of landowner tags is taking place this week. I was looking at the forum on bowsite.com (G & F meeting in Kingman) and some of the folks over there are saying it is being discussed with the legislature on 1/26/05. I know that the proposed plan was posted on AZOD, it is called ranching for wildlife. I was given a copy of it by one of the ranchers that is behind this, Chuck & Beatrice Lang from the X bar One in unit 18 A north of Kingman, AZ. This document was written by Manuel Nikel-Zueger. If you do a Google search on Mr. Zueger you will find some interesting info on this guy and the Savory method of ranching. This proposal has been in the planning for a couple of years now and they have organized the ranchers to close the ranches regardless of the state lease land or forest land within there boundries. A prime example is the Boquillas Ranch in Unit 10, over 175 square miles is still closed and they say the rest will be closed before the hunts start in the fall this year. Another document that was being passed around was a letter from George Taulman to AZ G&F that listed all of the ranches and why they would close unless the G&F issued them land owner tags. This could be the end to hunting in Arizona, if they get the tags it would mean anyone with 4000 acres or more can have land owner tags. What do you think the fat cats that were behind USO's lawsuit will do then, buy every bit of available land they can!

Well it seems everyone here has had a similiar experience. What I cant believe is the fact that people will pull into your camp to unload their quads or pull up next to your vehicle and glass when there is miles of country to hunt in. I have lived in Arizona since 1970, shot my first deer in 1975 at the age of 10. We used to camp and hunt without anyone bothering us, most of time. People used to avoid other hunters camps, unless they wanted help or just wanted to visit. We would never even think about parking next to someone and trying to hunt were they where even if it was our favorite spot, its ridiculous. Kinda like fishing and having someone cast on your bobber because you just caught a fish in that spot! These people calling themselves hunters just because they have a tag in their pocket should stay home or get educated on what it means to be a hunter. I will bet alot of the ones I saw in this year have never even taken a hunter safety class or had it taught to them by their parents. They get into hunting like most other things a friend tells them they should go but none of them teach the novice the basics. What makes it even worse they have no respect for the animal they are trying to kill. They feel nothing, its just an act, pull the trigger, throw it in the truck, show it off and go home. Half of them waste the meat, and could care less. One thing I will say for this post it does give me some hope, because it seems a lot of folks still have the passion for real hunting, and that is what we need, because if all it has become is a money making venture (USO), or a competition just to get your picture in a magazine we might as well hang it up. The Anti's out number us and they will take it away from us.

I agree with Scott about the use of ATV's that is exactly how I hunt and for the same reasons. The hunt I recently had in Unit 22 was full of all of the bad things everyone mentioned here so far. First morning: Another hunter pulls into my camp, unloads quad at 5:00 AM, I open the trailer door to see who it was and find out what his plans were so we wouldnt be hunting against each other. Before I could say anything he jumps on the quad and heads up the road past camp. 6:45 AM finds me on the same road, below the other hunter. He is on the road were it tops out. I start glassing and find a nice three point, start my stalk the distance is about 1.5 miles from my quad to the deer. About the time I start to get into shooting range the other hunter returns down, like he is racing in the SuperCross. He arrives at my bike and sees the canyon I had to cross to get to the deer, he then turns around and drives back up the road slowly. I have no idea what this guy was thinking, but the sound of the quad ran the deer off. Spent the rest of the day thinking that this is the reason so many other hunters hate quads. This didnt end here we were in camp the next day on Saturday 18th at Noon, a local guide who we had seen earlier that day over by the Beeline pulls into camp, unloads his quad, the client asks him do you know these guys? He says no and they ride off. I dont get it, why not introduce yourself, or ask if you mind if we park in your camp. I dont own the land but I would like to know why they would park in this spot when there was several other places they could have choosen within a hundred yards of camp. Next few days were spent glassing and running into other hunters, all of them wouldnt even give me the time of day. Finally on the last day of my hunt I had two hunters stop and talk with me while I was glassing from the road. A father and son from Gilbert, both asked how I was doing and if I could use some help glassing. I couldnt believe it, they helped me glass and we talked about hunting in Arizona and how much it had changed over the last 30 years. The father told me they had the same experiences with people that have been mentioned, in fact he said he was totally against quads and hoped they were outlawed. But he also said he could tell I used mine for what it was intended and wished the other quad riders would do the same and not make new roads or drive cross country while hunting. One of things he brought up was how rude other people have been while hunting, and how in the past you would avoid another hunter and find a different spot, and if you were passing by someones camp stop in and talk with them, or ask if they had hunters in a particular spot so you dont back door them. I guess it has changed and the old ways we were used to have gone forever, the people we run into while hunting ( I will no longer call them hunters) are just rude and ignorant with no concept of what they are doing.

Pigs make good Chorizo, I grind it with a little pork roast, or fat, mix in the Chorizo mix, let it sit overnight in the fridge and then wrap 1lb loafs in freezer paper. Not bad breakfast burritos.

Rugerman, That was cold, but congradulations on the buck. I will post pictures this weekend of mine.

Dan, Thanks for the info, I sure wish I could have seen some of these bucks rutting. All of the does were alone where I was at. We did see 22 whitetail deer on the morning of Saturday the 18th and only one little three point that day. During the scouting trips to the area I was hunting I spotted three bucks one morning, spike, three point, and a monster with five on each side (all were whitetails). He looked like he was getting ready to rut then, he was scraping the ground and raking trees, but I have not been able to spot him in the area since that day. Lots of hunters in the area, I got to watch one bowhunter stalk a big 5x5 mule deer with eight does, he was almost within range when one of the does busted him. I was wishing for my bow all day last Tuesday, the Mule deer were all over the place rutting and chasing the does. Well maybe I will get my chance on Thursday this week for my first coues, I am going to drive over after the storm passes on Wednesday and hunt the last two days. Taking the bow this time and will be after those mule deer on the 1st. after my rifle hunt ends on Friday. The plan is to shoot a whitetail on Thursday, get a Mule deer on Saturday and be home by Sunday, and shoot a pig on Sunday afternoon!!!