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    4 hours ago, ThomC said:

    More money in teachers pockets will NOT make dumb kids/parents smarter.  The NEA is a huge political action group for the DNC.  Despite what they spout they are NOT working for kids.  They are working for teachers pay and protecting bad teachers.   😷

    Same old excuse.  Some people don't see the value in education and how it is an investment rather than a bill to pay.  I certainly hope your pay is not at the bottom compared to people in same profession in all 50 states.  If it is, how do you feel about that?  The teachers union in AZ has no power at all.  Back east in more traditional union states maybe, but not AZ.  I only know a hand full of teachers who are members and it is mostly because they want the million dollar legal defense fund insurance in case someone tries to sue them.  We are a right to work state so you might want to find another reason why you don't want to pay up. 

    More money in teachers pockets will not make kids any smarter I agree but it will attract better quality teachers.  If you don't understand that then there is no need to discuss anymore. 

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    Bowtech Guradian bow in excellent condition.  Right Hand, 45-60lb, 29" draw, Bowtech drop-away rest, 5 pin adjustable fiber optic sight, Fuse stabilizer, Kisser button, peep site, string is less than one year old, Wrist sling, bow Quiver, Hard bow case, 6 new never shot Maxima Red SD 350 arrows, 3 new Wasp Havalon broad heads, 6 arrow had arrow case, and extra 28" draw module.  Excellent deal and all you really need is a release and you will be all set up to hunt.

    $425 obo  No trades, no low ballers

    John   623-680-4458  Call after 3:00 during the week.   North Peoria 83rd ave and Happy Valley area.  my email:  arizona_elk@yahoo.com

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    Bowtech Guradian bow in excellent condition.  Right Hand, 45-60lb, 29" draw, Bowtech drop-away rest, 5 pin adjustable fiber optic sight, Fuse stabilizer, Kisser button, peep site, string is less than one year old, Wrist sling, bow Quiver, Hard bow case, 6 new never shot Maxima Red SD 350 arrows, 3 new Wasp Havalon broad heads, 6 arrow had arrow case, and extra 28" draw module.  Excellent deal and all you really need is a release and you will be all set up to hunt.

    $425 obo  No trades, no low ballers

    John   623-680-4458  Call after 3:00 during the week.   North Peoria 83rd ave and Happy Valley area.  my email:  arizona_elk@yahoo.com

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    9 minutes ago, Sam said:

    Most of the ELL kids take the TOEFL exam versus the ACT........but, if you are looking at AZ Merit scores or AIMS scores, then yes, these results are greatly affected by ELL and SPED kids. Of course, AZ spent millions of dollars developing both of these exams to be used as an exit exam from high school and neither one is going to be used in the future. We should have just used the ACT across the state. 

    I agree, ACT is a better measurement when comparing student performance both in state and with out of state students.  Everyone takes the same exam.  Test is very well regulated and has many checks & balances in place.  Next to impossible fabricate scores or cheat.

    Public schools have to take ALL students and can't pick and choose like private schools and charter schools.  The Basis schools is a prime example of plucking all the best & brightest from public schools.  Just try to get your child with an IEP or 504 into those schools.  It ain't happen'n folks.  

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    On 8/5/2020 at 7:01 PM, PRDATR said:

    It's just as bad in AZ and has been for 30 years. The system and teaching is all about the teachers who have little qualifications to teach and want accolades like they have a darn PhD. My kids went through the Mesa school system and graduated in the 90's and 2006 and 2008. If it weren't for us being involved and actually teaching them something practical that they were not getting in school they wouldn't have the knowledge and common sense they have today.

    There is ZERO need for a "Teachers Aid", especially when the only qualification is to show up and breathe. There is a reason why Arizona  is ranked 49th.

    I disagree.  Arizona is last in funding per pupil, yet we are ranked 34 nationally for ACT test scores.  Seems like some good value there.  Arizona is full of a lot of old people and others who don't want to pay because their kids are grown and gone now or they are just cheap bastards.  Same people complain about how bad education is but don't want to pay up.  We are last in spending folks, how much lower do you want to go?  I suppose if we pay even less we will get better results?  Great logic. 

    I could understand complaining if we were at the top for spending but test results are at the bottom.  But we are last in spending and closer to the middle in test scores.

    https://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-and-act-scores-by-stated-adjusted-for-participation-rate

    "Arizona ranked last in spending per pupil for instruction at $4,308 compared to $7,406 nationally.Jun 14, 2019

     

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    On 8/2/2020 at 6:03 PM, kidso said:

    Found some nice antelope on the Mesa and on the lowlands.  Torn between hunting the two different areas.  Taking this weekend off from scouting, but will go out again the following weekends each week leading up to the hunt. I guess there are pros and cons to hunting each area.  It's probably more about picking the buck you want regardless of the area and sticking to it.

    I'm not good enough of a bowhunter to pick one animal and only hunt it.  I usually choose a location and method that will give me the best chance to be successful.  If I'm gun hunting then I will hunt a specific animal.

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    On 8/6/2020 at 7:56 PM, wildwoody said:

    Crazy I didn't they could see good at night, all the ones I've bedded in the evening were in the same spot before sun up, start moving twilight.

    I have an antelope hunt this year so I have cameras out right now.  Two of the Three cameras consistently get antelope pics between 10:30 pm and 3:00 am.  This kind of surprised me too because I have always heard to put antelope to bed and they will be within a couple hundred yards when the sun comes back up next morning.  All the pictures are bucks and no does.

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    4 hours ago, Noel Arnold said:

    My family has lived in Arizona before it was a state and I love my Arizona.The problem is it is a mathmadical figure that if you like to hunt and fish, with the population of people and future growth makes staying here full time.I probably will move to Idaho when my parents go to heaven.

    Since your family has been here so long, I imagine you are related to the Arnold's pickle family?  I used to rope with some of them back in 70's.

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    1 hour ago, bojangles said:

    I’d check out somewhere near Smokey mountain national park in north or South Carolina.  I’ve been thinking about somewhere near Hendersonville, NC.  Access to mountains, to too far from the coast.   Not too cold, either.  

    Oh my gosh!  All you guys that live in places I would trade my left nut to live at and you want to move?!  Payson is in my top two or three places I would like to move to.  What Yotebuster said  about taking all the public land for granted we have out west is no small thing.  I never really knew until I moved to Texas how much free land we have to roam in here in AZ.  Seriously, you don't know what you got until it's gone.

    Now that grand kids are starting to be born, I don't think there is anyway I am going to get my wife to leave the valley for a small town some place in AZ.  Probably die right here in Peoria.

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    The grass is rarely any greener on the other side.  You like the western lifestyle and you live in Wickenburg! What could be any better than that?  I was born and raised here but I have lived in NM and TX and the entire time I missed AZ.  That being said, AZ used to be a great place live and raise a family but now everybody is from someplace else.  When they come here and make their living here their loyalties remain where they came from.  Have you ever noticed these people start every sentence with "Back home......"?  If back home was so great why did you leave?  I agree AZ is becoming more and more like SoCal by the day.  California is like a cancer as far as I am concerned.  Where ever these people go they try to change it to be like California.  Stay in AZ, just don't live in the valley.  Don't forget to buy your lifetime AZ hunting license before you leave.  My two cents.

    Sorry for venting but I feel a little better now.  Good luck on whatever you decide.

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    3 minutes ago, LifeFeedsOnLife said:

    In the commission meetings I've watched I rarely see hunters there advocating for anything. 

    I agree and I am guilty of this myself.  I have never stood before the board and talked myself but I have written to them many times and submitted formal documents.  When I started this thread my intention was just to see what other people are thinking and what ideas they had.  I learn a lot from others and many things I never even considered until I heard someone bring it up.  It was also meant to be a barometer for support or lack of support for the ideas.

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    10 minutes ago, Hoss50 said:

    1. Muzzleloader should be more traditional. I personally would like it to be a no optic/magnification allowed. Hunt with black powder or black powder substitute only for propellant. 

    2. Leave the BP system alone. Nothing is better. The old guys waiting 20 years for tags is a choice. They know the game, and chose to play it. Having a shot at drawing any tag at any time with the current system is what makes it fun. Nobody would play the lottery if only the people playing it the longest won. 

    3. Fix point guard.

    4. More officers and better enforcement.

    5. Serial poachers should never be able to hunt again. 3 strikes and you are out. 

    6. More in person hunters safety classes, and make hunters safety or some kind of conservation class a requirement to hunt big game. The class should include info about staying on open roads, firearm safety, common courtesy, ethics, etc.

    7. I am sure there are more. 

    1. Kind of like putting toothpaste back in the tube.  It is out now and they ain't going back in.  Looking back, I believe this is a mistake G&F made.  It is hardly a primitive weapon anymore.  This is why game and fish needs to be proactive with regard to crossbows or crossguns.  They should never be allowed during an archery hunt.  Muzzy or rifle season yes but not during archery season.  Arrow needs to be held back by human power 100% of the time and not allowed to be in a locked position.  Too many people are already abusing this rule already.

    2.  Ding Ding Ding We have a winner.  I could not agree more.

    3. some tweaking but not a complete overhaul could help reduce point creep.

    4. Always can use more law enforcement.

    5. Definitely room for improvement here.  Serial or multiple animal poachers need much harsher consequences such and lifetime bans.  In the very least fines should be multiplied by a factor of 10.

    6.  Education is always a good thing.

     

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    Just now, Outdoor Writer said:

    I was 24 when I killed that buck. My oldest son shot the doe when he was 10.

    Hmmm, I think it's more of mixed bag, so to speak. There are way more elk tags now than back then. Same for sheep, including the addition of the RM variety. Pronghorns are a tossup. As for deer, the permit numbers are down somewhat if compared to the average years during the later 19##s but leaving out the years when we had a windfall because of the heavy rains. And of course, the youth permits of today have greatly increased from 0 back then. 

    That said, I feel the "decline" is more related to the increased demand, i.e. more people applying, especially non-residents.

    I agree.  A lot of people fail to take into consideration numbers of people we have today compared to decades ago.  In 1965 AZ population was 1.6 million and today just shy of 7.3 million.   We are supposed to grow by another million by 2030.  With the advent of social media and lots of online resources NR's are definitely venturing out of their home states.

     

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    18 hours ago, idgaf said:

    I'd like a primitive muzzleloader season.  

     

    Squaring points imo is the hunting equalivant to inflation. 

    Not trying to be argumentative but why a separate season for primitive muzzy hunt?  You can hunt any style you want on our current muzzy hunts and our rifle hunts.  As it is right now the critters get almost no time to relax and live like normal animals from end of August to end of January.  There is practically a hunt of some sort going on every weekend in the fall.

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    10 minutes ago, ThomC said:

    You have the perfect right to write to the G&F with your brilliant ideas.  The web site is AZGFD.COM.  Every year after the draw people who did not get drawn will come up with changes to improve THEIR chances to get drawn.  LOL😷

    If you think this is me being disgruntled and I have a case of sour grapes then I did not do a well enough job explaining the meaning of this thread.  To the contrary, this is probably my most successful year ever in the draws.  Keep things the way they are and I will still do quite well but I still think there is always room for improvement.

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    If you could sit down with the decision makers at AZGFD what recommendations would you make to improve things for the wildlife, hunters, hunting and the department without breaking the bank or impacting their generated funds?  This is where I would start:

    1. Make the application process less redundant.  Why do we have to list our personal information every time we apply for a different species?  Other states have figured out how to do this why can't we?

    2. When applying for hunts, give the option of listing a 2nd credit or debit card in case the first card is rejected.  

    3. If the person who turns in or donates tag using point guard is the highest point holder on the application then in order to keep bonus points if they bought point guard 1.) everyone on application must turn in their tag or 2.) the person turning in tag does not get to regain all their points.  If the person turning in tag is not the highest point holder on the application then they can keep their points and has no effect on everybody else on application.  This will help with reducing the bonus point farming by allowing point farmers to use points one time instead of two.  This should also help reduce or slow down point creep.

    4.  The archery deer hunts that you must get drawn for should be placed with the elk/antelope draw.  This will allow the successful applicants have time to schedule time off work, scout, search for a guide etc.  

    5. Game camera season on public land (not private property).  I know some people are really passionate about this topic but cameras would only be allowed from Feb 1st to August 15th every year.  This still allows people time to use them but also give the animals a break.  

    6.  Right now virtually every season ends on a Sunday.  If a season ends on a 3 day holiday weekend that is a Monday, allow the season to end on Monday & not Sunday.

     

    What else?

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