My Rights As An American

That gun sold, but if you are really interested, I have a 22lr/410 that I might be willing to sell. Only needs a new buttplate. I have one that is slightly larger than original on it already.

Yikes, I think I heard both hunters hit the brown note! Thank goodness it was not smellavision!!!! WOWSERS! Cool video, especially when you see the main camera man shaking quite visibly in the legs. I think they found the Helen Keller of bears, or else that bear really tried to play coy and not realize what a mess he got himself into! Screwed if he goes down, screwed if he stays there! Cannot go higher.

You and me both. Boss scheduled me out of town last week after I had already committed to going to the seminar. Very huge bummer to me!

Polishing our National Championship Trophy from last year with our Sweet 16 banner. Wow, ASU fans. THAT one must hurt!!!

Since when is a sweet sixteen nothing to show for??? How many has ASU been to? I believe that number stands at a whopping 1. Is there a trophy that says "sweet 16"? They actually make banners that you hang. From the rafters. Though I guess asu could always start putting NIT banners on the curtains they use to hide the empty seats in the upper section. Yes, but how are they going to hide the rest of the empty seats in all of the lower sections? And really, they actually have to go to a post-season tournament to obtain the banner, not just buy it from a tag sale from another school.

Hey, I know that good looking couple! Nice pics, nice fish and sounds like a nice few days of fishing!!!

Lots of amazing trophies here. Don, that last one you posted looks SO cool to me!!!

Looks like a great trophy!

Big, strong cat! Must be doing damage to the prey population in that area!

Awesome prize for an awesome couple! Congrats again buddy! Amelia was REALLY excited to tell mommy the story last night about how Ms. Peg won!!!

Amanda, maybe the person/persons who shall not be named are still partying like it's 1999? Heck, I would be if I had won that prize!!!! Or maybe it was one of those good news/bad news prizes: "Hey, you just won a fully guided Mexico goulds turkey hunt! And by the way, you leave right now!!!"

Really bummed out. Was planning on attending the seminar and meeting you in person but the boss has me out of town for work now on that day.

Thanks to all for putting this informative session together. I learned quite a bit this evening. My daughter was the one who drew the lucky name to win the hunt, but someone else here needs to tell the story!

Looks like I lucked into an archery bull tag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Charges pending, yeah baby! Congrats to all!!!

Things sure are heating up quickly up here! Tonight was my last night of fishing Powell, have to come home tomorrow. Got in about 2.5 hours of fishing from shore, about 1/2 mile north of the dam on the east side. Tossing anchovies cut in half on a weighted hook and catching fish suspended about 30-50 feet deep. Landed four stripers tonight, which I gutted and cut heads off since the Walmart special filet knife STUNK!!!!! Dull!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway, could have caught more if I had a little more time. What a blast though. Looking forward to grilling up some striper! Firstcoues, I agree, they put up a nice little fight! I was using 12 pound test and I had the drag set pretty tight, so I loosened it to have a little fun. The smallest fish gave the best fight, the larger fish were ok. Coworker and boss spent the last three nights in the hotel room while I had a blast!!! Their loss!!!!!!!!!

First time fishing Powell. Working up here in Page for a week, so in the evenings after work I have now run over and fished it twice for about 1-1.5 hours each. Two nights ago I caught a nice 3.5-4 pound walleye on a crayfish bait from shore. Last night I caught 2 stripers from shore on anchovies. What a blast!!!! I was told by everyone not to even waste my time shore fishing, glad I am stubborn sometimes!!! Going out again tonight, but this time to maybe harvest and take home a few stripers!!!! Hope all is well with everyone! Roosevelt soon for me.

Here are the two stripers, lost the pic of the walleye. Could not keep any of them for the first few days, but hoping to catch some tonight, filet them out and put them on ice. Walmart will supply me with the necessary tools!!!

Excellent and congrats! Yeah, that moment of walking within a foot or two of a wounded pissed off javelina is not joyful in my book!!!

Very nice, I know exactly where you were. Some tough country up in them thar hills!!!! Congrats!!!

Wow, was not aware. Need to get out the topos to see which ranches this impacts and how badly. Could be a good thing in the long run by removing swaths of mesquites and returning it to grasses, but not sure yet.

I got 15.5 pounds of sausage from my javelina last night (50 nice sized brats!), all super clean meat. I will not add anything that is pretty much not perfect meat. Keeps the quality exceptional, but the yield is a little less. My January javelina yielded 26 pounds of sausage and 76 brats, a few smaller ones but overall average sized brats.

I was blessed and honored to have picked up a rifle javelina tag and share the hunt with my 6 year old daughter, my step father-in-law and TJ from this site. I have never hunted javelina with a rifle, just a bow, and have been lucky to have taken quite a few over the years. Took my daughter and step-father-in-law down for a hunt down outside Tucson on Friday afternoon. After a short chat with a nice Game and Fish officer, TJ and I ran out to a spot that was just up a "little" hill according to me, the hill from heck according to TJ who was already tired from a tough hunt that morning. Saw some pre-rain sign but no animals. When we got back, TJ had found a whitetail shed earlier in the day which he gave to my daughter, who now has a lifelong friend!!! Next morning saw us in an area that TJ had seen some javelina the day before and I was very familiar with from years of hunting the unit. After glassing for a while, we tried to move to the back canyon around 10 am when some less than courteous "lion hunter" in shorts rudely cut us off. After exchanging some words about courtesy, he clearly did not get it and the conversation quickly became confrontational. Jerk had no respect, courtesy or class. Really the worst person I may have come across in all of my years hunting!!! Anyway, we walked another way around the mountain into a different canyon but found nothing. Daughter did GREAT!!!! On our way back we almost stepped on a small king snake and we took the opportunity to educate my daughter the differences and she just had a blast! Back at camp, I had some friends from town visit us for lunch. My 6-year old schooled the 14 year old twins and their grandma in checkers and Candyland. FUN to watch!!! That evening, TJ and I went out by ourselves. TJ glassed, I walked a mountainside. Finally, after hiking over a mile through rough terrain, I decided to glass where I had come from one last time and found four javelina coming up towards me, but still 500 yards away and the day coming to an end quickly. I decided to cut them off, but the moment I got off the mountain, the wind shifted right to them. They were 200 yards from TJ but he had no chance of seeing them from his position. Kicked them up three times and finally landed a bad round into the back half. I debated going back to get my daughter to teach her tracking but was curious, the terrain was steep, it was cold and dark. TJ and I tracked a very poor blood trail by following the tracks and found the javelina about 50 yards later. Black out in thick four foot tall weeds, the javelina bedded down. I almost stepped on it and it scared the heck out of me as it looked like it was going to lunge at me and tear me apart! Ended up dying only about 100 yards from the truck!!! Boar, about 42-43 pounds, pretty nice. Food was great, camp was great, all-in-all, GREAT time was had by all!!! Daughter had a TERRIFIC TIME, was extremly courteous to all. Step-father-in-law may now be hooked on coming with me more often. I cannot speak for TJ, but it appeared as though he had a great time also. Cannot say enough about what I great time I had with all. I was very proud of my daughter and how well she did with everything!!!!!!! Special thanks to TJ for all of his friendship, knowledge, patience, help and anything I missed! Glad to share in new memories made with him! Especially after helping me with my elk hunt, now I feel like I offered something in return! Thanks for reading, did not take pictures (DUMMY!!!!!!!) except on the way out I grabbed the head and skin to take a quick picture with my daughter.

Sounds like fun! Congrats to all!!!

Just finished making brats, four hours from starting deboning to completely wrapped and cleaned. Total was 8.5 pounds clean javelina meat and 7 pounds excellent pork cuts. This made 50 large brats total. TJ, brats coming your way buddy!!!

This year, I was lucky enough to harvest two. The first I caught running away from the waterhole as I was driving to my hunting area. 200 yards later I caught up on foot. Carried it back whole because I left my pack at the truck. The second was spotted off a mountain 200 yards from the truck. It died 100 yards away. Another carry whole to truck. Both gutted then skinned and cleaned before hanging for 5 days. Just finished second batch of javelina brats! Four hours from start to finish!!!