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    On 2/17/2021 at 8:54 PM, trphyhntr said:

    You just shoot them in a good spot. Don’t worry about anything else 

    This.  Having read about a million ‘I can’t find my elk’ stories on this site and others, it’s quite obvious that there’s plenty of ways to screw up what should be an easy shot on an animal with a huge kill zone.  I’ve personally completely missed one at about 20 yards.  I’m know stranger buck fever when it’s trigger time, but nothing I’ve experienced has ever been close to the rush you get when a bull comes in screaming and walks right up to you.  
     

    there’s lots of men with 70# bows shooting razor tipped telephone poles that lose elk ever year.  And there’s lots of ladies with little 40# bows and short draw lengths that manage to put one in the boiler room and take home some meat.  Work on staying calm and making a good shot and you’ll be fine

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    49 minutes ago, UggRedBilly said:

    That's the plan. I had 4 groups of people walk up to my blind while I was hunting in the matter of 2 days. Too many people! Hate it! But there is a deer population! So i just wanna get cool photos and videos and post them up each week. I never used a camera before and Josiah showed me them and i thought they were neat. He showed me all the pictures of elk through each month and it was super cool! I think itll be a nice hobby

    It’s an awesome hobby and you’ll catch pics of stuff you didn’t even know was around.  Years ago I got pics of a jaguarundi in southeastern Az.  Had no idea those things even existed, much less in Az.  
     

    There was a guy in here named Jason Miller that put together some really cool videos he’d done with trail cam pics and videos.  Has a cool YouTube channel jason Miller outdoors.  Check him out

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    A real tragedy.  Guy does 8 in the Corp, including a tour in Afghanistan, comes home and gets killed for doing his job as a security guard by some POS.

    https://www.kmov.com/news/family-of-slain-metrolink-security-guard-speaks-about-outpouring-of-support-he-is-so-missed/article_d11cafd2-65ce-11eb-b7c8-7f1ae0fb5427.html?block_id=680478

    If anyone wants to help his widow, here's a gofundme link.

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/expenses...mes-cook?qid=080d8df85380749c4dba3522a2727a95

     

     

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    It’s a pretty bad precedent that brokerage firms like Robinhood and others get to decide who can and can’t trade any security.  Those companies have revealed themselves for the scumbags they are, so if anyone stays with them it’s their own fault from this point forward.  they should be sued out of existence.  
     

    Also, if this episode has revealed anything at all it’s that people should be allowed direct access to the exchanges, it’s nothing but a money making scheme to force people to go through obviously corrupt gatekeeper organizations 

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    5 hours ago, Whitesheep said:

    Fun replies guys.  But really, what do you really think about this issue and what did you send to the G&F?  I know not everyone agrees with my opinion, and that is OK.  I would just like to know the arguments for banning non-networked cameras.


     
    To Whom It May Concern:
     
    I'm writing to you in regards to the proposed trail camera ban.  I understand that there has been some conflict and controversy over this issue.  Perhaps I am misinformed, and I hope you'll correct me if I am, but my understanding is that this issue is largely contributed to by guides and/or outfitters using large fleets of cameras and hired scouters while conducting commercial activities on public land.  If this is the case, I don't think it's appropriate to pass laws that are punitive to weekend hunters, most of whom have very few cameras, if any.  
     
    I personally am a small business owner and normally have very little time to hunt, sometimes getting only a couple days to hunt per season.  While I certainly can still hunt without them, I find them to be a very enjoyable activity in their own right, and quite frankly I don't think they increase my success rate.  If anything, they've lessened it, as when I get a picture of a nice animal on a camera it helps me to hold my fire on smaller juvenile animals.  As I mentioned, I have very limited time so I've never been one to be a real picky "trophy hunter", but I've found that since I started using cameras it's much easier to let spikes and fork horned deer walk by unmolested.  It's also a fun family activity.  My kids love going for hikes and looking for new spots and then later checking pictures to see what we find.  I think it's a great activity for hunter recruitment and retention.  
     
    In addition to these personal points, I believe Game & Fish may be bypassing a very valuable research opportunity here.  As an organization, you often ask hunters to give feedback through harvest surveys, etc.  I also recall some surveys about turkey & bear sightings in the past.  Why not create a page on your website where people can give you pictures and very accurate locational information about animals you're interested in?  I live in unit 20A south of Prescott, I've got pictures, date and GPS coordinates of bears, lions, and turkeys in this unit that I've found with trail cameras, all of which I'm more than willing to share.
     
    In closing, if the real issue here is conflicts that arise from commercial entities, then why not hold them responsible on their own?  It's common practice to hold businesses to different standards in this country, via taxation & zoning, waste disposal, etc.  Please don't hold the hobbyist to count for the excess of the professionals.  
     
    Thank you for your time.
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    Well after about 2 days of nonstop snow we’re up to about 25-30” on our property at around 6000’ elevation in the mountains south of Prescott.  
     

    im no expert on the subject, but from what I’ve read winter snow does more good than later rains, as the slow melt of the snow allows for much more of the snow to be soaked up into the ground and stored by plants.  Not to mention the melt from the higher snow on the peaks will keep creeks running and riparian areas green for far longer than a little rain will.  Sure rain is always a good thing (at least in Az), but this snow is the best thing that could’ve happened to us after a couple long dry summers.

    at least that’s what I’m telling myself now so I don’t get too PO’d while digging out my truck to go to work.

     

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    16 hours ago, atwoodbeer said:

    Thanks everybody.  Leaning towards 31 or 32, but got a lot of time to decide.   

    Haven’t been to either of those units in years, but from what I understand 32 has some major issues with accessing public land.

    i used to hunt 31 and had some good luck.    Never saw an illegal there and plenty of cacti as I recall. 
     

    I haven’t hunted the far southern units much, but the only one I ever saw illegals in was in the Santa Rita’s south of Tucson. They were a pretty sorry looking bunch.  They weren’t the ones hauling drugs, they were the ones heading to Home Depot so they could cut grass for $5/hr

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    28 minutes ago, Edge said:

    You're a smart and articulate man but I don't think He needed to toss out votes to send the electorals beck to the states that had sent congress dual slates.

    And let's not forget how politicians like Ducey who rushed to certify the vote count. How do you possibly believe as our Sec of State asserted, there was not a single illegal vote cast in the state of AZ?

     

    To me it’s pretty obvious that there is fraud in literally every election.  Based on an absolute slew of evidence I think this may have been the worst ever.  I’m sorely, sorely disappointed in courts refusing to even hear cases on ‘procedural basis’.... I mean WTF?!?! Are these judges living in a bubble where they have no clue about the gravity of it all?  At least hear the argument....

    I feel completely disenfranchised, and feel we’ve all been duped.  Anybody that claims that, I’m right there with ya.  I just haven’t seen/heard anything that makes me think the Pence thing was more than a fantasy born of desperation.  I understand wanting to blame somebody, but I don’t think Pence is the guy to shoulder that.  

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    33 minutes ago, trphyhntr said:

    Pence lot his chance all on his own. He’s done in politics. 

    I don't think he did anything to himself.  I think it was a very crappy expectation for people to want him to essentially throw out votes.  I’m certainly no constitutional scholar, but I’ve seen a couple of lawyers (One being Ben Shapiro) stating that he had no authority to do what was expected of him, and to me that seems logically correct.  Can you imagine a larger conflict of interests than to allow the incumbent VP to toss out votes in a re-election?  Or for that matter, what if Biden has tossed electoral votes for Trump in 2016 citing concerns of Russian meddling?  
    No, I don’t believe for a minute that was ever a legal option for Pence, and I don’t find it appropriate or reasonable to label him a traitor as some have.  He’s been a stalwart defender of the administration and President Trumps policy since day one and he’s often been a much better spokesperson for the administration than POTUS himself.  

    just my amateur .02

     

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    18 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

    Idk, if on the 6th trump said it’s on come down here we need help instead of telling them to disperse, it could have been something much much bigger.  

    Trumps Twitter has been permanently banned. 

    I think that would’ve been the worst thing he could’ve possibly done.  As it is, I think this little act of insurrection is going to cost us dearly, as we’re already seeing with censorship.  I think the republicans are going to lose more ground in the midterms, and the only way that they have a chance in 2024 is if the Biden administration makes such a mess out of the economy that large swathes of people suffer from it.

    any chance trump or pence had of a run in 2024 is gone.  Sure their base would still support them, but every election is decided by the 20ish% of swing voters, and I don’t think they’ll get that.  

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    According to the democrats, the 2016 election was stolen through Russian election meddling.  They’ve literally been saying that for 4 years.  My memory lasts longer than 5 minutes, so I also remember that Bush ‘stole the election’ from Gore in 2000, so NO, it’s not always the Democrats that cheat, according to democrats it’s always republicans that cheat.  It really is like watching chimps in the ape house throw crap at each other.  Very tiresome...

    in this particular election though, it’s hard to call it fair when the media was obviously shilling for one side and outright manipulating and censoring the other.  Case in point :  Hunter Biden scandal.  It was undeniably squashed by all MSM and social media platforms, even jack dorsey admitted to Congress it was ‘a mistake’ for twitter to flag it as false information and take it down.  Look it up, there’s a million videos of him getting grilled by Ted Cruz over it.

    polling done by Real Clear Politics after the election showed that 1:6 people that already voted for Biden say they would not have if they’d known about him and his sons ties to China.  That would have reduced his votes by 17% and while trump would surely not have picked up all of those, he would’ve got some of them.

    this was not trump vs. Biden, Th is was Trump vs. everyone with a media presence

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    “All men fall: mighty Caesar, the conqueror of Vercingetorix, the greatest man of the ancient world, was struck down by the knives of cowards like Brutus and Cassius, and history since is replete with great men felled by pipsqueaks.”

    • Michael Walsh, Last Stands

    I’m about about a quarter of the way through and came across this gem the other day.  If you’re a fan of military history, check out Last Stands.  As I said, I’m only about 1/4 done, but already would strongly recommend it 

     

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    1 hour ago, 654321 said:

    Capital Police Officer died from injuries sustained in the riots wonder if Trump will be charged with Capital Murder.

    Absolutely ridiculous.  Trump encouraged people to gather for a demonstration and then when things started to sour he put out tweets and a video encouraging people to go home and be peaceful.  
     

    That’s the exact opposite of inciting violence, much less participating in murder in any way

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