anyone got their money back yet?

[Outdoor Writer]

My $265 refund check for my sheep application arrived just now. -TONY

 

 

Tony,

Now you have money to give back to them for the next draw!!!

 

Not likely! I don't do the spring hunts any longer, and by the time the elk/'lope draw rolls around, that $265 will be long gone. In fact, it will probably go toward the $1,000 or so I'll have to pay for my life-size wallaby mount in a couple weeks. -TONY

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

I know, that I sure would like the $795.00 (three sheep tags) they owe me!!! Kinda crappy how long they milk the interest on our money.... The least they could do is give me a sheep tag next year for me being sooo very patient....

[Red Rabbit]

I too would rather have the sticky-back permit with a sheep hunt number on it rather than the refund check that came today. Next year.

 

RR

[Outdoor Writer]

I too would rather have the sticky-back permit with a sheep hunt number on it rather than the refund check that came today. Next year.

 

RR

 

That's approximately 36 sheep refund checks for me. -TONY

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

I too would rather have the sticky-back permit with a sheep hunt number on it rather than the refund check that came today. Next year.

 

RR

 

That's approximately 36 sheep refund checks for me. -TONY

 

That SUCKS, Tony!!!!

 

 

Guess I shouldn't whine then.... only 6 in a row for me..... It doesn't make feel any better though...

[Arizona Griz]

My sheep money showed up today also. Now where the heck is my antelope money.

[Kilimanjaro]

got my sheep and 'lope checks today.. I would have rather gotten the tags in the mail today though..

[Red Rabbit]

got my sheep and 'lope checks today..

 

Lopes?... that was a spring draw. Is AZG&F financing yer move to MT?

[Kilimanjaro]

got my sheep and 'lope checks today..

 

Lopes?... that was a spring draw. Is AZG&F financing yer move to MT?

 

 

oops.. It was the javies that we somehow didn't get drawn for.. Oh well, it turned out better that way.. it would now just be another tag that gets thrown in the trash..

[Huntn coues]

Got ours

[billrquimby]

I too would rather have the sticky-back permit with a sheep hunt number on it rather than the refund check that came today. Next year.

 

RR

 

That's approximately 36 sheep refund checks for me. -TONY

 

Take heart, Tony and the rest of you. I drew my sheep tag in 1993 with my 39th consecutive application.

 

It did not come without a price, though.

 

Someone stole my truck with my tag, 10x50 Swarovski binoculars, two Nikon cameras with about $1,000 worth of lenses, an S&W handgun, two radios and a bunch of mechanic's tools and took everything to Mexico a couple of weeks before the hunt began.

 

My insurance company gave me a check for all except the pistol and the radios, and I was able to buy a new truck, cameras, and binoculars as well as get a duplicate tag before the hunt began.

 

My problems were not over, however. I broke my arm the second morning of the hunt while changing a tire when the high-lift jack slipped off the bumper and caught my arm between the tire and the fender like a guillotine.

 

I shot my ram on the 12th day of hunting after returning to camp wearing a sling and two steel plates in my arm, and completed my Arizona Big Ten -- the hard way.

 

So keep applying. Maybe your luck will change, too. Just don't store your tag in your truck's glove box when it comes.

 

Bill Quimby

 

Incidentally, what are "lopes" and "javies?" Are they similar to deeries, bearies, turks, and elkies?

[Outdoor Writer]

Bill,

 

I think I would prefer not getting a tag rather than going through all you went through.

 

I still need to harvest a buff in addition to a sheep for the original AZ 10. I guess it's more like 12 now with the addition of the Gould's turkey and RM bighorn to the state. I already harvested a Gould's in Mexico, but it doesn't count. -TONY

[Non-Typical Solutions]

Got my deer tag money, not worth the paper printed on.....but there is still life....my wife and son have 36B tags in october, nothing like scouting brand new country.....looking very forward to the trip and hunt.....

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

Well the checks finally came.

 

 

Got three sheep refund checks too cash.. I'd donate the other two refund checks if they had let us have just one sheep tag .....

[billrquimby]

Bill,

 

I think I would prefer not getting a tag rather than going through all you went through.

 

I still need to harvest a buff in addition to a sheep for the original AZ 10. I guess it's more like 12 now with the addition of the Gould's turkey and RM bighorn to the state. I already harvested a Gould's in Mexico, but it doesn't count. -TONY

 

Tony, I might consider breaking the other arm if it would get me a Rocky Mountain bighorn tag. I suspect the turkeys we shot along Ash Creek in the Galliuros north of Willcox in the late 1940s and early 1950s were Gould's. If so, I have eleven of the twelve animals you've listed.

 

However, I think the Arizona Big Ten should remain what it is -- the ten species of game animals found in this state. There are at least two subspecies of mountain lions here, and there's no telling how many races of the other species there are in addition to the two sheep and two turkey subspecies.

 

I'm not proud of the once-in-a-lifetime Arizona buffalo I shot on House Rock Ranch in 1956. To know why, check "Bless The Beasts And The Children" at your library. I was just 20 years old and had no idea how bison were "hunted" in Arizona in those days until I drew a tag, drove up there and "harvested" one. (With bison hunting in the 1950s in Arizona, the word was perfectly apt.)

 

I redeemed myself by shooting another bison in Colorado with an original 150-year-old Alex Henry .45-caliber muzzleloader shooting a paper-patched 500-grain bullet. Its energy and velocity were close to a .45/70's and dropped it in its tracks.

 

Bill Quimby