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getting my brain around it. somewhat. always wanted him to lead a team-ours-deep. into game 7.. pressure of the last out or a win. he will give some life to another team or teams now-i thought he would be our franchise. now-go rewrite alberts' records dude. lee

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first time in 1968. the last remaining Arizona grizzly bear hide hung in there-wonder where it is now. lee

NATIVE in show low-a good friends 403 bull hangs out there. been a while but what about garys' Witch Well bar? then there is a good sized barn in linden that some here have heard of. all the cabelas and bass pro shops combined can't come close to matching whats in that barn. anybody remember peterson's sporting goods or that goettl's a/c shop on main street in mesa? lee

tenacity of life is little spoken of in north america outside of the great bears. only twice in 50+ years in the field have i occasioned to notice it-and not with bears. years past i would have just pm'd Bill Quimby with the tale but i won't git any reply now. this years 3B buck-just a 2 1/2yo 2x3 mulie-made me take some notice. i am not sure if you can say being observed by your quarry is actually a 'stalk' but after closing some distance i braced against a ponderosa to try a shot with the old CVA .50 smokepole. after a 2 or 3 minute staredown he stepped out quartering away like heaven in a blue dress. a 385gr hornady hollow point entered 4" behind his right shoulder and came out like a cannonball at the base of his left neck. 106-110 yards with 100 grns of pyro pellets and he went down, got up and over the next 30 seconds or so he ran hard and fell repeatedly-i was thinking i had just broke a knee-he was just going hard has heck. he went at least 400yds with no lungs-as good of shot as i have ever made. that was sometin'. fattest buck i have ever ever seen. 30+ pounds of cavity fat and a full inch on his back-he looked freakishy fat laying on the ground and was pushing 200lbs live weight-tastes great! the closest things i have ever seen to that tenacity was a boar javalina that i shot in the neck and he ran 100yds past the end of his blood trail down peppersauce canyon circa 1993. there was this scaled quail my son knocked down about 5:30pm, i twisted his neck and bagged him but he flew out of the bag about 6pm in the dark. weird. lee

so where's the reports? oh-never mind i just heard of bugles up at hawley lake. lee

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sure miss his posts

"Tough guys, fat guys, lunatic S O B's and beer" or "The effects of offshore alcohol on seasoned male reprobates". its frozen up here on the mountain-this looks good to me right now. would keep the pepper spray close however.

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oh to be young again. those little boats will take you into amazing adventures. high winds meant port master Augustin would not let us launch the big offshore boats at cholla. so we grabbed dads little 12ft/15hp at los conchas and launched at tucson beach. many good trips-and so was the time we dumped it coming back to the beach-good memories all. grouper, sardinero, hammerhead, corvina. stalking big bass at saguaro all night in a 12 footer-will never know how big some of those released bass were. we were 13-16yo then. just 10 years ago in a 13ft gregor having 100 fish nights-all on topwater-at roosevelt. just have fun. life jackets and a cell phone in a baggie helps. lee not me

november on sunrise is about the best fishing in the state if the winds hold off. lee

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i think i remember a time back say 90's into early Y2K's when you were not a REAL coues master unless you shot the .30/378 Wby. did all those rifles go to Africa or what-maybe an excuse for a roll call? 257 AI or 280 AI. how 'bout a m99 in 250-3000 w a tang peep sight. NOT common-who wants to be common? lee

just stop at any camp in 34, 35 or 36 after dark and ask 'anybody got a tape'. but it better be a decent buck or they will shrink your head. lee

a place many know-Amanda knows it well-and a recurring 3am nightmare for me. blessed with each year past 16yo after a springtime hike gone wrong up there 1975. will never figure how we got out alive. lee

nothing here. don't remember getting down, getting across the river and back to the truck, don't remember getting home. you will have to ask the other guy-he's a lurker here but he's got nothin' to say either. all i remember is it was my fault my route and how pissed our moms were gonna be when we ran out of dirt and there was nothing left but air. lee

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some vid. high fives. lee

remember driving several thousand unsuccessful miles trying to find one in .25 remington. one fine long gun sir. lee