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So far it looks like you either sell guns or you dont. Let me add to the list a stolen .44 Ruger

I already handed down to my son, his great grandfather's Savage .22 over 20 gauge. A lot of bunnies, quail and dove bit the dust with that old gun.

When AZ passed the current ccw law, I wanted a carry weapon. Traded my .243 model 88 for a 9mm and cash with a good friend. Beat myself up for years over that trade, had inherited the Winchester. Approached my buddy about that trade last year and he wanted the pistol back, it had belonged to his late brother

Dang, I bet you do!

Barking up the wrong tree, CJ. I'm for the humane marketing and slaughter of horses, cattle, sheep, etc. Humane being the keyword, not all killing is humane. If conservationists want to flip the bill to manage and eventually thru attrition, handle this herd, why oppose it? Let them dart and castrate the stallions, roundup the adoptable ones. Do something rather than nothing. But I won't be joining you on any horse bow hunts.

No, horses do not breed year round. Mares ovulate less than 6 months from March to Oct, but usually only allow a stallion to approach in spring. Given this and an 11 month gestation, they are terribly inefficient at propagating. Horses plowed our fields, pulled our wagons and carried us and our cannons into war. Horses are buried beside our fallen on the battlefield. I'd sooner round up illegals and send them home than harm a single horse unnecessarily.

Have had several close calls for your reading enjoyment: 1.As a kid experimenting with pool chlorine and carbonation. 2. Was being transported os with some aircraft equipment in the 130's fuselage when a hydraulic line pressurized, leaked and shot a nice stream of burning fluid straight into my eyes. 3. A year later was showing a troop the manual start on a generator. Had a loose battery clamp. As he was tightening it, managed to ground the positive terminal. Kaboom. Nowadays I put safety glasses on first thing in the morning.

Outstanding, thanks for sharing

Illegal in the US. We could sell it to the French tho. Don't Forget the Japanese .... Some may recall a racehorse named Ferdinand, winner 1986 KY Derby and Preakness, 1987 Breeders Cup... Went to stand stud in Japan. I think he started shooting blanks, they ate him.

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They are Heinz57's not Spanish BarbsBut if you have a horse you think is domesticated, just let go his halter. Lol

Slimey politicians have managed to close all but two horse slaughter houses in the U.S. It was simple, they simply defunded meat inspectors at their locations. And they did so with out any input from people in the industry or public debate. No farmers raised horses for the purpose of slaughter. But the slaughter houses provided a means of relief in horse over population that now no longer exists. Closing the meat plants devastated the horse industry. All horses had a base market value by the pound regardless of whether the equine was healthy and trained or was a broken down dink with 3 hooves in the grave and the fourth on a banana peel. But no more thanks to bleeding heart liberals. But what really chaps my hide is how the two remaining slaughter houses can only accept horses from government agencies, like the BLM, NFS or a reputable horse rescue with 501c status. So what is to be done with the hundreds of thousands of unwanted horses? People lose there horse properties and can't find homes for the horses and they end up dumping them where they think they have a shot at surviving. That's how we have arrived at having all these "wild horse herds", unwanted animals that once went to slaughter now have nowhere to go. I've been involved in wild horse adoption, and again it's the government that decides whether an animal is worthy of adoption and few make the cut. So if you are a horse owner and can no longer care for your animal and it is unmarketable, the choices are few. You can legally put them down, even the landfill will take the carcass, or donate a terminal animal to a zoo. Rescues are full, dumping them is a felony. Oh and if you try and catch a wild horse in AZ, technically you are rustling. All around its a bad, bad situation.

Why not?

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Jamaican me blush. Good luck with those great tags, buddy.

I'll have to check my PayPal, would like to buy a couple tickets even though I rarely win a thing.

That or was shed by a gay bull.

Whoa partner, an AZGFD biologist went to check on a new catchment in the Eagletails some years back. He found it was not only dry for the first time in months, but desert bighorn and mule deer were found dead or dying all around the catchment. This discovery prompted a study on the affects on animals behaviour when a good water source dries up. All the while, there was another water catchment just 5 or 6 miles away with a full reservoir tank. These creatures waited for water to reappear at the tank they were accustomed to, rather than seek another source. Google the study, its easy to find with catch words: Eagletails water catchment bighorn AZGFD. Now that catchment directly under Courthouse Rock, has about a 5000 gallon water trailer keeping the water hole full.

I certainly haven't been all over the unit but have only come across one AZGFD catchment holding water in 9. The rest are those dirt Tanks that require a lot of rain or run off to fill. Like rthrbhntng said, those Tanks are on the habimap and in droughts, the fs trucks in water to them, I've been told. Love that habimap though, I've visited most of the azgfd catchments from Phoenix to Quartzite, Gila Bend to Aguilla.

Fat boy, living large and in charge. Good luck.

Looks like he's smilingEven creepier

For whatever reason, that cat's giving me the creeps. Thanks for sharing.

Sirroyal, it's all starting to click now. Awesome pics.

Great news. I too need to get in and get checked. I've been wearing long sleeves and a sombrero almost without fail for last 35 years.

Most excellent pics.Welcome back camoremi