Sky Island junkie

When I was a teen in the early 80s we snuck up on the O RO a few years mule deer hunting.😂 yeah I know! I remember thinking this is Gods country! My buddies dad said during our lifetime we’d see our public lands be sold off and that’s what we’d experience. Hunting only for the ones that could afford it. Crazy how decades later you remember comments like that when our reps test the waters the way they did recently!

You don’t what? Want our public lands to be public anymore? Be careful what you wish for

Do a little homework on the political affiliation of the many ranchers in this state who own 100 acres or less deeded that is contiguous with their 20k-50k acre 150 head Fed grazing lease and many of them shut us fellow conservative/ republicans down from accessing it. Then dig a little further and when you find out what said rancher pays per cow/calf pair per year to graze it, it will really piss you off

The top pic in roofer Billy’s post is a cabin that was built about 120 years ago by a family that homesteaded that area. The Feds recently kicked out a squatter that was a Buddhist who lived in it for quite a while. We called him ol blue. But this place is definitely not near the upper reaches, it’s in the bottom of Wakefield canyon

You’ve got to be thinking about the little cabin up in Apache canyon if you drove to it east of Empire Ranch. You had me thrown when you said it was at the top. No roads or structures up top that I know of

This structure is in the Whetstones?

Top of the Whetstones? Do you remember what side of the range you came in from?

Not sure the left can be blamed for this one. Democrats have been instrumental in getting done the purchase of several ranches here in so Az for preservation and making sure sportsmen have access to these lands. 2 of them in the Whetstones. Not sure why they marked the area on the west side of the Whetstones and claiming affordable housing. It’s laughable because it’s the most rugged and remote part of this range and there are two developments on the north side that one can’t even get out of the ground after a dozen years and the other started breaking ground in 2001 and is at best only 50% sold and built out

Wow! Pretty much the whole mountain top of the Pinalenos!

To the boys who had the balls to stand against evil 81 years ago! Thank You!!

Benson area but in Tucson frequently

1500 federal 209a primers $120

😂😂 dang that brings back memories! Tim, Mark and BS Mike!! Capn’ Crap!

I do think that many don’t think of the repercussions if you do kill or wound someone especially outside when it may or may not be self defense. What shook me up a bit was when I read a story of a guy who shot an unarmed douche who broke into his house. No criminal charges but the family of the intruder sued him civilly. Dont remember the specifics but the whole ordeal but it cut deeply into his net worth defending himself. Scary stuff all the way around

Well the day they were looking for the guy in our area I actually had to go find him because BPs dogs couldn’t pick up his scent! (Thats a whole other level of absurdity) I simply walked out 100 yards and found the guy in the grass under a mesquite and of course shaking i brandished the 45. There were 3 agencies and probably 50 guys looking for him and nobody with BP, DPS or Cochise county ever even wanted to look at any of my guns. Honestly they all probably didn’t want to deal with me much at that point. It was a true case of just a bunch of Barney Fifes out here sadly!

The way all this Tacticool crap is marketed to us is hilarious. We had a manhunt in our area a dozen years ago and as luck would have it the meth head wound up on our patio. As he tried our front, back doors and various windows there was no working of actions. My wife stood there with my 870 wingmaster loaded with #6 shot and me with my 45 if the poor bastard were to make it in. The little stubby shotshells crack me up. Who thinks about recoil in a situation like this? Just my opinion

I’d have that thing ripped to shreds the first day of its first hunt

Now that’s old school! Every time I see a bolo tie I think of Bill Close doing the news in the 70s.

Stayed at Windy Hill 3 nights last week and I’m assuming maintenance is done in house. Saw 4-5 green people huddled under one of the ramadas one afternoon BSing. Campgrounds were well taken care of but yeah they probably don’t venture far from the shade this time of year.

Yeah you’re right! Criminals in Mexico don’t have the rights they do here, especially pedophiles. IF they make it to prison, they don’t make it long from what I’ve heard

Yeah I like him. He’s got an old soul!

Yep the last 10 years I lived in the valley I went back and forth between whichever one of those is the Wickenburg station and KDKB. Mostly KDKB. I’m pretty much a country fried rocker I guess

Great song! I guess since we’re sharing, my wife and my song. Not one of the biggies but a great singer.

I laughed at Jelly Roll when he first started in the country genre but he’s honestly grown on me as well as a few others but guys like Straight, Haggard, Jennings, Diffie etc. are the real deal! Sirius radio is a must for us GenXers/Boomers!

Yeah that’s an older song. Unfortunately the country stations don’t really play as much of the “real” country anymore! Sucks! We had a country station in Benson that for over 25 years played real country music but then got bought out and now it’s the same ol thing. Whatever brings the money! I like Toby’s version! I also had never heard it