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    Steve Rinella recruited Joe Rogan who recruited you... that's a pretty straight line.

    I personally was self-recruited after drinking beers with and chatting to a friend who muzzleloader hunts elk as often as he can in AZ and shared his stories over the course of 5 years, and then by me going quail hunting for the first time with (who turned out to be) my father in law. My buddy didn't take me into the woods, I decided to learn on my own. I landed at this forum after watching hours of video and reading a bunch of books. 2 forum members reached out for moral support on my first muzzleloader season and we've stayed in touch. A 3rd forum member showed me the ropes and shortened my learning curve on bow hunting this year. I dream of heading into no-cellphone-coverage areas and spotting and learning about deer, javelina, and if I ever get to elk. Obligations keep me pretty grounded, but every chance I can get I'm heading to the desert.

    Your journey is whatever you want it to be, but to say R3 is not working doesn't seem right. There isn't a direct link from the FWS funded efforts and how I started to hunt, but I'll bet there's a good linkage that might not have been there without the R3.

    That and most hunting shows want you to buy the sponsored products or merch (which I happily do for one of them).

    I fully agree on the marketing of the idea of hunting - that's it's not just blood and murder - but hunting is like most other hot button issues, the first sentence is out and most people have made up their minds. It's about awareness with how hunters talk to other about hunting and the slow crawl normalizing that conversation in my opinion.

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    4 hours ago, MULEPACKHUNTER said:

    Planning on going for this deal, need to look into the firearms side of it. I don’t have any official paperwork for firearms training other than concealed carry so not sure what to do for that. 

    May already have been mentioned, but AZ hunters ed counts for the firearm training in a federal CCW app. So likely you’re good to go!

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    So just gonna start this by saying that I don’t know what I don’t know. This was my first turkey hunt and a new area compared to where my hunting partner normally goes.

    We hunted about 10 miles north of Luna up against the AZ border. Spent 4 days up there, scouted and walked in to some amazing country. Saw a couple of small groups of elk, but the woods were quiet and absent of fresh sign. I hunted with someone who’s been hunting turkey in NM for decades. 

    We did hear wolves the first day sounding off either side of us the first morning.

    Everything was eerily quiet in the woods (‘just absent of sound generally) and over the 4 days the wind was everything from strong and gusty to still. Temps were around freezing at night but always sunny and good during the day. If it was Canada goose season we’d have limited out for sure.

    Other hunters we talked to, and most had been up there since weds, saw nothing, some left or relocated day 3 or 4. Some have successfully harvested turkey a few years in a row. The game warden said there were birds up there by suggested the winter had been very dry, so they might not be coming in, he also said that the coyote problem was bigger since people were afraid to hunt them. Every other tank and pond had water (some were large puddles), and the small meadows seemed to be perfect. We just saw nothing. We have planned on being much further south in a couple weekends, but wondering how everyone else opening weekend went in NM?

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    3 minutes ago, Big Browns said:

    I would love to have these, but unfortunately I won't be in Tucson anytime soon.  Hopefully someone else can use them.

     

    Adam

    Shoot me a PM when you're coming down next. These will be in my safe - the OP can't use them and I'm not putting them in the classifieds

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    Did you find your shells? My gun/choke didn’t like the Kent’s ultimate diamond 3.5” #5s as much as two other loads so I’m happy to sell them for what I got them for from southern Georgia outdoors. In tucson, let me know if interested. I have 2.7 boxes.

     

     

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    3 hours ago, bojangles said:

    I read it in a recent published medical study.  Your body's first line of defense to rid itself of a virus is to expel it through the mouth.  This does not mean that you have contracted the virus.  It's why you sneeze.  If you are wearing a mask, it allows the virus to incubate in your mouth, and reproduce, without the chance of expulsion.  

    I understand what you are saying, but that's not how it works exactly.  

    Sorry, I have to jump in here.

    Your body's first and only line of defense against a virus is your immune system once you've been infected. It doesn't incubate or reproduce in your mouth or on your skin - it replicates in your cells inside the squishy bits of your body.

    The only other line of defense you have is your skin and not putting something in a break in the skin (cut etc.) or your mouth/ eyes/ butt. Masks are not going to stop everything, and double masking is as much of a choice as not masking - it's whatever makes you comfortable.

    I liked the graphic below when the masking all first came out because it was close enough to be intuitive.

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