Non-Typical Solutions

And I am not liking where that road is headed......spent some time in Norway, went into a couple of State hospitals there. Not a pretty site......very socialistic country in the way it handles taxes, medical care etc.....but.....I saw a list of top countries to live in and Norway was ranked #2 on the list.....obviously they haven't spent a winter there and never been stuck in a hospital there.....

A couple of lessons that dad(me) and my boys learned quick and fast. 1. If you let a two year old shoot a Ruger Mark VI.....the action will probably smack him right in the forehead 2. If you let a 5 year old shoot the .270 with a scope, he is probably going to get dinged on the melon with a least a half moon scope scar. Four boys......four scars....... 3. If you take a 5 year old out quail hunting, he is going to regret it for the rest of his life......or, at least until he is big enough to walk, and walk, and walk......without getting pooped out. 4. When you take a 5 year old out coyote calling and he asks if he can shoot yet....and the coyote is 10 yards away from him, running full blast towards him. 5. When your 5 year old has been using a lawn chair for a rest.....target shooting, and you look up to see the last 5 rounds went through the arm of the lawn chair. 6. Not much we enjoy much more than getting together for a little family comptetion shooting targets, hunting small and big game.....no matter how old they are, lots of good lessons learned......my boys know what a gun will do to an animal or a human, and that is a good lesson learned.

buckhunter and Josh, What exactly is the whirling woodpecker......I guess I have been stuck too long on the old Circie calls I haven't even heard of that one......guess I need to get up to times a little better. Is that an electronic setup or a manual call?? Nice job on the critters.....nice cat......

Now ain't that sweet....thanks a bunch...kind of makes it easy, now if I can just decipher all the info in that little square like....Fuel Temp?????? Guess I'll have to do some research...

Anybody got any news on how much snow is on the ground at Alpine? Hannigan Meadows?? Getting ready to head up for Christmas break. Do bears in AZ, specifically in the Spingerville, Alpine area hibernate??

Sounding good guys....thanks for the updates. The last few years we have gone up to no snow and it is kind of a bummer cause the boys like tubing and I like the cozyness of the cabin, good warm fire....plus those coyotes are alot easier to spot in a nice blanket of snow....thanks a bunch for the info.

Lets do it again....can we huh, hun, can we do it again boss..........what a heck of a story....nice job....

Matty, That is exactly what I am talking about......I don't know exactly how to fight it.....and I have probably already said enough here on this board to get me thrown into jail......frustrating....

Because the majority of the population is sexually, racially, religiously, commonsenseuously biased, therefore throwing it into litigation with the court system thanks to groups like the ACLU, Sierra Club.....and the likes........for those of us to stand up and say any different would get us thrown in jail for expressing our opinion on the matter.

I definitely believe in free agency and freedom of choice, don't really care of a guy likes "corn holing".....BUT.....when it starts to infringe on my freedoms then it starts to get me riled.....I can't worship the God, or say Merry Christmas or I have to pay extra on my insurance because somebody's house in New Orleans got flooded that was built below sea level. I watched a report this morning about shops in the Phoenix area having to close down because the population of their "immigration customers" are already moving out of state due to the new immigration law that is to come into affect in January. Should I feel sorry for someone who set up shop relying on illegal concepts? That is like saying that the cops cleaned up all the crack buyers in town so now I am out of business. IT IS ILLEGAL ACTIVITY....GET IT...... As for the HOMOS........they will get their's in the end.......no pun intended......

I just think it is interesting that we put so much emphasis on Hollywood Celebs, Oprah and Obama, etc......and anybody knows that most of the people who are actors were jas-onkeys in school, they have been through rehab and a fourth marriage....and yet we listen to their advice and ideas.. I honestly thought Arnold was going to get the job done over there.....but that is what I get for listening to a celebrity.... Cause when you're a celebrity....its adios reality.......should write a song about that Uhhhh, nope......Brad Paisley......another celebrity.....

Is Los Angeles/Hollywood included in the Condor hunting area????? Sorry....I didn't mean Condor hunting area, I meant Condor protected area.............. Does this mean that Arnold is going to have to clean out his closet of lead ammo, or where exactly is the boundary on the non-lead ban........I am lost........and so is California......build a wall on the west side while we are building the wall on the south side..........

That is funny.....I just had a incident here at work.....I had some money in my beater blazer, I never lock the doors. Get out to go home and my money is missing. I thought I knew who it was so I set a trap for the next day that kid was going to be in my class.......didn't catch him and my money was gone again. Next day I set up video cam in my window, sure enough, caught the little thief rummaging through my rig, showed the video to the police, got my money back......the video don't lie....why can't people just leave stuff be if it ain't theirs.....nice catch on the stand thieves.......

We cut a bear track south of Alpine during the late bull hunt, when that first skiff of snow hit that area.....gonna spend Christmas break there so was just wondering if the bear would still be out and about if I decided to go give him a visit??? Last report I heard was the same......21" at Hannigan.......

We are gonna go see if we can't trip across something big up in Unit 10.......it can be a cold mother up there but how many more winters do I have left.......gotta go get'm while I can still pull back the string....lots of luck to everybody out there and be careful......

I know this topic is on another thread, but thought I would finish this up here on this thread. Cut up the last of the two bulls we took this year, lots of elk steak and jerky meat in the freezer, I cut up all my meat myself....one sure fire way of getting what you want out of the critter. We have already devoured two batches of jerky and a couple of batches of steaks.....gonna have to be careful we don't eat it all before Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody and may your stockings be filled with the hope of a good tag next season. Jeff

Been waiting for this week seems like forever. Gonna do some last minute scouting Wednesday and Turkey day, have some ham and turkey and then go find a Bull for my boy to knock down. Hopefully we can take care of that early opening morning. After that, I am taking my mule out into the thickest mess of cedars in search for the Big Boy that has been haunting the area. Some pretty impressive bulls already posted on this thread, hope I get the bad boy that I am after.........to the hunting gods, all I ask for is one shot.............Amen

I am sure those of you who have been frequenting this site for a few years have already hashed this out but......I have an idea how to take care of all the trash in the washes left behind by illegal activities. As we capture illegals crossing into the country, go ahead and get a days worth of work out of them picking up trash in the washes we caught them in before shipping them back home. It would kind of be like we give them the opportunity to work off the cost of sending them back. Plus....if they knew they were going to have to put in a days work to earn a ticket back home then maybe they would just go ahead and stay home. That wash down in 36B made me mad.......sorry, just gotta vent it.....

About 15 years ago we were living in a house that only had a fireplace for heat.....we were freezing out butts off...so we decided to go to Alpine for Christmas, haven't missed a year since. My dads summer home is nice and cozy and warm. We cut down a real live tree, thread the popcorn and cranberries....put out the manger scene, read from the good book on Christmas eve.....watch The Christmas Story.........oh man, I can hardly wait...........one of the true favorite times of the year with the family.....

Funny this topic should come up, I got this email yesterday.........guess it is Christmas time!!! There will be no Nativity Scene in the United State Congress this year ! The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States capital this Christmas season. This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capitol. There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

Talk about feverish....looking at those pics just made the fever even worse...........nice job guys......

Gotta love the wheelbarrow.......doesn't eat much hay......nice buck...and thank the man for a second shot....

I agree with matto......something about packin one of those critters out that is gratifying......nice buck...

3A3C is where we were hunting and I could probably get somebody in the right area if they still needed some help. I would have been really bummed if I did as bad here in my back yard as I did in 36B......I have some pics but I think they are to big to post here.....can't get them to load up. I put in for extra javelina tags for my boys. waiting to hear on those....I can't ever get my crap together to get put in for spring. I retired from coaching wrestling so I am thinking about getting a rez permit to hunt coyotes this year........funnest hunting there is IMO........

Part 2.....it had turned pretty cold by the time we got my bull dressed out so we decided to check out another spot we had scouted out before the sun went down. We bumped into a bull right off the bat and got Wyatt a shot.....3 shots to be exact......he wasn't even close...couldn't get the bull to run.....Wyatt had a serious case of the wobbles. My older boy had built him a shooting stick earlier in the week but we had left it back in the truck. Wyatt needs a shooting stick if you know what I mean. We went home very happy, we had one bull hanging and Wyatt had had an opportunity...... Second day, colder that hail.......wind blowing, I took Wyatt to a spot where I had seen bulls, got him set up to watch a heavily traveled trail. I am sitting there glassing freezing my kester off and look over at Wyatt....he isn't even paying atttention so I told him he was on his own....and I went back to the truck to get warm. I waited about 20 minutes and sent my older boy out to take his turn in the cold.....next thing I know I get a call on the radio.....Wyatt has spotted some elk and there is a rag horn in the group....... I get out of the truck, I have my 10 year old tagging along this time.......the two older boys have already started getting in position to intercept the elk. I find them in my glasses and we get them within 200 yards of about12 cows and the single raghorn....the cows gather around the bull and Wyatt can't get a shot. So we sit and wait.....and wait......and wait....freezing my hands off trying to keep them glassed up.....finally they start to file out and Wyatt gets a walking away shot....misses bad.....forgot the shooting stick again.....dang it he needs that shooting stick..... We run home to pick up mom, go down to another spot we had heard about but not looked at yet. We went walking (I took the shooting stick) through some of the burn area…which by the way is not an easy thing to do…..tons of downed trees. We saw a lot of sign, the sun is headed down and we decide to head in…..and behold…a gift is given to us….two spikes at the top of a ridge….200 yards….broad side….we get Wyatt set up with the shooting stick…..shoots……nothing……shoots again the spike buckles but is still standing……..his brother tells him to put another one in him….he shoots again as the bull starts to turn……..we watch him go over the other ridge. We all go hauling up the hill except mom, she doesn’t want to see blood….50 yards over the edge…bull down….3 bullet holes…7Mag…we get to do the dirty work by flashlight….. Waited months for this hunt…..didn’t get the monster that we had dreamed about, but the experience was priceless………………..and Wyatt dropped his first bull and that was what was really important in the long run…..