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    Forum software upgrade

    yes, I am working on it.
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    Where to get into my PMs?

    They are in the same place they were before....look in upper right corner and just left of your name for a mail envelope icon. click on the icon to access your messages.
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    Forum software upgrade

    This is not happening for me. All long posts appear normal to me. You might try the other theme and see if it still happens there. Look at bottom middle of forum for theme dropdown menu and select a different theme. If the same problem happens in the other theme, then it's something with your monitor. If not, then it's something about the theme that doesn't work with your system.
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    Forum software upgrade

    yes, I am trying to figure that one out. I noticed the same thing. Probably a setting I need to find and turn on.
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    Forum software upgrade

    Interesting....for me, the black on brown is way better to read than the light colored text. I guess it depends on your monitor. That's why I provide options....everything looks different depending on your monitor, so choose a theme that looks best for you. I will be adding more theme options, so check the dropdown theme list at bottom middle of forum to find available themes.
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    Forum software upgrade

    Yes, the contrast wasn't very good on the camo one, but the contract is good on the more plain theme labelled "default". Select whichever appeals to you for now. I will be working on getting a better theme. and yes, specific feedback is much more useful than just general complaint about change. but before you all start with complaints, just give things a few days to settle down and give yourself time to explore the new software. Everything is almost exactly in the same places as it was, but the old software version wasn't supported anymore and it wasn't allowing people to register for the forum unless I manually created their accounts, which I have been doing for many months now! It also wasn't getting security upgrades, so we had to upgrade to this new version. I am still learning all the new features.
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    Forum software upgrade

    Give me some time to work things out. It's always a process to get everything the way I want it. I will be adding themes that have different color schemes so you can choose what looks best to you. Right now I have the camo based theme and the bluish theme. If you look at the bottom middle of the forum, you will see the word Theme and if you click on it, it will show you what themes are available. As I had with the old forum, you can select whatever theme you like best. During the course of the next few days, I will be purchasing more themes and adding them. You can then try them out and see which appeals to you. I will also likely make some editing changes to the colors of the text for some of the themes to make them easier, but this all takes time, so just bear with me for awhile.
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    Forum software upgrade

    There is a little mail envelope icon in same area as before. In upper right corner of forum, look just left of your login name for the mail envelope button. Click on it to see list of your messages.
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    Forum software upgrade

    There is a text link in the same area as where the new content button was. Now it's called unread content. So same place it was, just a different name. look in upper right corner of the forum, under search bar.
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    Delorme inReach Explorer satellite tracker SOS unit

    battery life on these is outstanding. You can leave it on for many days and have it track your location every 10 mins and it will still have lots of battery power. If you leave it on full time even while sleeping at camp, the unit goes into a power saving mode when you are not moving. Great product. have been using it for work for years.
  11. If you have a hunting related article to share, perhaps about 800 words, contact Pete Aleshire. He is looking for articles for a magazine I think they call the High Country Sportsman. If you have something you want to share, give him a call. I think he needs some articles soon. 480-242-7633 or email paleshire@payson.com
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    Payson Editor looking for hunting articles

    Sounds like a good idea...but better if you send it directly to him.
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    Passed up free meal

    Wow, that cow is LUCKY!!
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    Spot Messenger yr price / competitor??

    Garmin Inreach is what I use. Great product and the inreach allowed two communication years before SPOT. I started with SPOT but it was unreliable and the InReach has been so much better.
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    Results out on portal, post up your hunts

    You got my tag. Lol Then I guess you better go hunting with me
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    WTB Bino Harness

    If you can't find a used one, you can order a new one from the CWT store http://store.coueswhitetail.com/binocular-pack/
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    Results out on portal, post up your hunts

    24A December! I was shocked! seems like it's been forever since I had a Dec tag. It was my second choice...first was 27 Dec
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    My 1000th post - picture extreme

    Thanks for this! Congrats!
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    Bill Quimby

    from the Sports Afield website : http://sportsafield.com/remembering-bill-quimby/ REMEMBERING BILL QUIMBY – by Sports Afield Hunter, conservationist, writer, and author of many bestselling big-game hunting books, he left his mark on the outdoor world. Author, editor, publisher, columnist, and lifelong Arizonan William R. “Bill” Quimby has died at age 81. From 1983 to 1999, Quimby was editor and publisher of Safari Club International’s Safari magazine, the annual SCI Record Books of Trophy Animals, and the monthly Safari Times and Safari Times Africa newspapers. From 1967 to 1994, he was the outdoor editor of the Tucson Citizen and a member of its editorial board from 1987 to 1994. He was born in Tucson on September 30, 1936, and attended schools in Yuma before returning to Tucson in 1954 to enroll in the University of Arizona’s College of Business and Public Administration. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, he was employed in the advertising divisions of Levy’s and Jacome’s department stores, and at local advertising and public relations agencies. He founded and published Arizona Outdoor News, a regional newspaper covering Arizona’s hunting and fishing opportunities, for three years in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the Tucson Art Directors Club and southern Arizona chapters of Ducks Unlimited and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. He also served as the 1990 president of the One Shot Antelope Hunt’s Past Shooters Club in Lander, Wyoming. During the 1960s, Quimby won several metalicas siluetas—long-distace, high-power rifle shooting contests—in Sonora, Mexico. In 1973, the Arizona Wildlife Federation presented Quimby with the Conservation Communicator of the Year award for “outstanding contributions to the wise use and management of the nation’s natural resources.” In the 1980s he served as a member of a governor’s panel that advised the Arizona Game and Fish Department on fundraising methods. After retiring in 1999, he divided his time between his home in Tucson and a cabin in Greer, and wrote or edited more than two dozen books on international big-game hunting subjects. One of his books, Royal Quest, told of the hunting expeditions of Prince Abdorreza Pahlavi, brother of the last Shah of Iran. Another of his books chronicled the history of Safari Club International. His own memoir, Sixty Years a Hunter, was published in 2010. Quimby received numerous awards as a reporter, columnist, editor, and publisher, and, in 2003, he became one of only three authors to be presented the Peter Hathaway Capstick International Literary Award, the highest award a hunting and adventure author can receive. He was inducted into the Arizona Outdoor Hall of Fame in 2006. Quimby hunted in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, and the South Pacific, taking more than sixty different types of big-game animals, including all ten species found in Arizona. Utilizing his knowledge of hunting in Africa, he moderated Safari Club International’s popular “Your First African Safari” seminars for nearly twenty-five years at the club’s annual conventions in Nevada. He is survived by Jean, his wife of more than 62 years, daughter Stephanie Quimby-Greene of Tucson, and grandchildren Natalie Greene of San Francisco and Logan Greene of Tucson.
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    Bill Quimby

    Bill Mattausch, Jr. asked me to post this for him: Tucson, In the 70's and 80's was the pinnacle of what an outdoor section, in a newsprinted paper could achieve... Accomplished Outdoorsmen, and Authors like, Bill Quimby, Tom Foust, and Pete Cowgill, every week on Thursdays and Sundays, all had great stories of hunts, Trail hikes, and game department news, and fishing reports. It was so good you could not wait to buy the paper on those days, and Circkle K's would be sold out, and you needed to check a few stores to get a paper. One of the biggest achievements, I remember (other than the 1969 moon shot,) as a kid at wetmore elementary school was when our Cousin Jim Stough, got back from veit nam in 1972 and shot a 116" typical Couse buck on the backside of the catalinas ...Bill Quimby and Tom Foust, had storys and a picture of the monster buck. they used too do that in newspapers, kids, really. Jimmy Englemans taxidermy shop would be used a few more times for our familys pictures, and storys of hunts , to be shared for articles by Bill Quimby that respected and honored the tradition. He Safari hunted Africa several times , and was a leading authority on the Continent, and was a world famous writer for the Safari Club Internaional...and a very good and loyal friend, to my father, Bill Mattausch Sr. and Az hunt Hall of Famers , Jimmy Engleman , John Doyle , and the Levy Brothers, Jim and Seymore... Truly, Greer, and Tucson, has lost another Star Treasure...May strength be to his wife, of Care and Grace, "Jean" ... " And Tom Mix wept"...
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    Backpack water filtration

    Another option one of my field techs had on a backpack trip with us was a Steripen and it was pretty darn cool! You have to have some fairly dirt free water though since it's not really a filter but a blast of UV light that kills any microrganisms in it. https://www.steripen.com/ultra/
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    Backpack water filtration

    PUR hiker (with Katadyn filter for replacements) is what I use. Works great! Had it for maybe 20 years. However, we did have one backpack trip a couple years ago where my filter and the other guys filters all clogged up and we couldn't pump water and had to leave earlier than planned. That could have been avoided had a I replaced the filter prior to that trip. I think it was near full of crap from past trips and the thick water source we had put it over the edge. I recently did another backpack trip and it worked flawlessly with the new filter.
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    Bill Quimby

    Thank you Desert Muley for passing along our thoughts and prayers to the family and letting us know that he passed peacefully this morning. Godspeed Bill. You will be missed. Such a loss to our hunting community. Thank you, sir, for all your many contributions over so many decades. He was a true sportsman and such a great advocate for hunting.
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    Happy birthday, Tom (lv2hunt)

    Awesome! good luck on the buffalo hunt and Happy Birthday!!
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