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Biglakejake, you're the one person on this site that mentions every place I’ve been or think about on a regular basis weather it’s high or low. Get out of my head. I bet we’ve crossed paths before. I archery hunt in 37B every year with a buddy. We always joke about bringing old or unremarkable Elk sheds and spread them out just to see if someone on the forum talks about a cool find and to start arguments about Elk being out there.

Chris @ Specialty Roofing

Maybe people can search U of A instead of UA. I know it sucks, but when you’re in typing mode and know what you want to show up, maybe a few more letters could help. It’s kind of like me typing “guns” and getting disappointed with what shows up. At least I know there’s more work to do than just type “guns” and I didn’t even go to college.

It’s one of my favorites. I like anything Oliver Stone. This film has a lot of his filming style I enjoy so much like parts of it in slow motion and black and white. Other parts were filmed in 6mm. There was a funny part when Sean Penn went to the Groceria, which isn’t a Spanish word, to get a cold soda and the lady thought he wanted something to eat and handed him Twinkies of all things. Then Billy Bob Thornton was at his house late at night playing Twister by himself with a porno in the background when Sean Penn showed up to pay for the Mustang repairs, thornton wasn’t sure of his intentions so he held a kitchen pan as a weapon. That was real funny to me.

U-Turn. Oliver Stone movie.

I stop by just about every one I see in the different parts of the valley I happen to be working in. It’s always a dream of mine that I will find something good. It doesn’t even have to be modern, I would be happy with an old rolling block Remington, Mauser, Weatherbys, S&W revolvers, WW2 carbines or even a beat up m700 for a donor. All I’ve seen in the last 8 or 9 years have been junk. Once in a while, you may see a nice revolver but it’s overpriced. I think with the internet, the quality firearms the shop gets, goes to gunbroker.

I would like to know more about that train robbery in Adamana. I’m out there often and sometimes check out the old siding and buildings. You can still see where an old water tower sat. It’s cool to think about what it must have been in the old days. Do any of you remember Bob Varner? I was real young and still remember when two men killed him in Winslow and were on the run for about two days. They did a home invasion near Geronimo Rd and barricaded themselves in a house near Hibbard Road and one died. I think he was the only Navajo County Sheriff deputy killed in the line of duty.

Is Navajo Coke, Garden De Luxe Tokay?

I love AZ history too. I always try to watch Arizona Highways and buy any book I can about Arizona. I'm surprised I don’t know the Navajo Coke answer.

The right just needs to take notes on this. I see a few things that can be exploited, a young kid, and a British accent, being a cute kid helps too. Those things have a LOT of currency. It’s not crazy thinking. This girl came complete with drama and everything.

Blue River near Juan Miller.

I have it in both of my trucks. Best money I ever spent. I’m done with regular TV and radio. There’s way too many commercials for me to get any kind of joy or entertainment out of it. I haven’t watched TV in about 3 years. Sirius has commercials, but not every 8 minutes like TV or terristrial radio. It’s very entertaining too. I just like comedy that’s dirty and enjoy Howard Stern’s channels that have interviews and funny commentary with the big F Word.

Oh and we usually had sandbags made out of old Levi’s in the truck. These worked well when on a prairie dog town or on those longer shots on small rocks.

Some of the realistic shooting we did would be practicing picking off golf ball or soft ball sized rocks on a hillside. There were certain places we would go that had areas that were target rich and offered you uphill, downhill, and flat and level, near and far. We would never vandalize any large rocks target shooting, the rocks would be blown to pieces if hit and would not disturb the hillside. I still go to these areas as an adult and it brings memories back of when I was young and learned about holdover. I thought it was the coolest thing, shooting a 22lr at 200 yards in the wind and had to aim high and to the right/left and have it hit what you’re aiming at.

It has a lot to do with how they were raised. I can only speak for myself. I was raised in a small town where it was easy to drive 15 minutes and be in rabbit country or 10 minutes and be in shooting country. I can remember as a kid shooting at KDJI, that was a local radio station in my hometown and there were places to shoot near it. I had a chipmunk and nothing to rest it on. I had to take a knee or shoot offhand. My dad let me shoot till I got bored. With a chipmunk, that took about an hour and a half before my fingers were so sore I couldn’t hardly cock the gun anymore. We would go hunting and had opportunity at running game weather it was coyotes, prairie dogs, or rabbits. Occasionally we would go to the range and do some serious bench shooting, but we liked to move around more than what the range offered.

Thanks for mentioning Yellow Front and JC Penny’s. It brought back memories of my small northern az town in the early 80’s. We had JC Penny’s, Yellow Front, Montgomery Ward, Sears, Babbit’s, and AJ Bayless. I still have old shotgun shells in boxes we haven’t used, MTM plastic ammo cases and reloading dies with the Yellow Front price tags on them.

Why is the G&F website .com instead of .gov?

I bet they’re inside one of those 40 acre trailers, sheds, motor homes, camper shells, old vans, or semi trailers that belongs to a friend of a friend that served time in prison together.

I used to think the dems were all about just banning AR type rifles and magazines. I know there's debate they want them all banned but I always try to be careful with hype. While I'm not on twitter and never look at anything except ADOT once in a while, but I do read the news and noticed in the war on guns, dems are all in. Twitter posts often make the news. Two examples are the recent hashtags on Walmart banning gun sales, and CA gun laws. In the case of Walmart, the dems were mum on their side crowing about banning the very guns they say are not part of the fight. Guns like Henry Golden Boy and Mossberg shotguns. They love to talk common sense, where's the common sense there? No problem criticizing the right, but when the pro 2A dems hear a hair brain idea like banning the less violent guns, it's not worth tweeting about. California has laws that are totally unreasonable. I could make a list, but it's worth looking into. Again, no tweet about being fair and reasonable. The attitude is like "yeah get them".

I was joking.

It would be interesting to know what happened with the guy and the generator.

The tracker on your truck could be a from a competitive hunter. I have considered doing it to one person that has a history of finding big game in one of my favorite units. I think it would be great, all I would have to do is upload the data and check where he parks the truck. Then I could go out there and score a big animal. Then who's the expert hunter? I can't seem to find the devices I would need and I'm not tech savvy enough to pull it off, but it's a good idea don't you think?

I had good luck with Garmin RINO. I have one that's 22 years old and still works. I remember one time I was high up on a Mesa near Winslow, AZ and I turned it on and scanned the channels. It picked up two people talking, and since they both had Garmins, I could see how far away they were. They were 48 miles away. I keyed my Mic and they started talking about me since it shows up on their radio who I am.

I know the feeling people have when you go outdoors and find that the cattle chewed the whole pasture down to the nub. It bothers me too. It sucks when the cattle are moved to the empty pasture you've been scouting for deer, elk or whatever and had lots of luck and now they're all gone, at least from the active pasture. There's also Gov assistance to farmers and ranchers that bother a lot of people. They way I explain it away is that I enjoy cheap beef and access. I've heard it from a ranchers mouth that if we were to stop all of the cattle ranching in the southwest, there wouldn't be anything felt in the meat industry of the U.S. He seemed to know a lot about the meat market and carrying capacity and imports and things like that. I'm not, nor will I ever campaign against ranchers. I've had too many treat me well. The problem here is we just don't have the water and grass that grows 3" a day like we do back east. The 70s and 80s we had a lot more rain than we do now. Feral animals are the worst and I still can't believe we protect them, especially when science says they're bad. It's real backwards thinking and humans should be embarrassed.

Give Marc R. at Healy Arms a call and tell him what you're looking for. He's helped me on a number of leftys over the past 8 or so years. You will have to be patient. It might take a few days for him to search his venders and get back to you. It's likely something is out there new and sitting in a warehouse that hasn't been sought after and that kind of info is only available to guys like him. If you decide to go with Cooper, I had good luck with two that I ordered from First Stop Guns in Rapid City, SD. There are other Cooper dealers closer but I found out from either a phone call or visit to their store that they didn't take me seriously. I called Cooper and asked who they recommend and wasn't disappointed. Let that be a lesson going forward looking for leftys, It's always a good idea to talk to the manufacturer and find out who does a good job selling their product.