DesertBull

Thanks! That's actually good they are in the trees, I have the ML'er tag and need to get fairly close. Thanks again.

As you now know, that is also wrong. I'm surprised no one guessed Ted Nugent. -TONY HAHA! Thou shalt wack them and thou shalt stack them.

This thread is useless without pictures!

This guy is a freaking genius. http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/23115/strokes-of-genius

Wow, a DB blind is a big hit. What are they, $400 or so? That is too bad. I feel for you.

Well, whoever said, it needs to imprinted on every tag sold or auctioned!

It was a famous European hunter and writer, from either Spain or Portugal I think. I forgot his name.

Red Rabbit, We usually put them up Sunday late afternoons and pick up them up on Thursdays to TRY to keep honest, honest. The first camera we lost was set up on this schedule and Thursday evening it was gone with the wraper of the thief's new bolt cutters laying at the base of the tree. Azsagebrush Most thieves are unemployed, so it makes no difference what day you put them out.

Hillary. -TONY OOPS!

I got it! Bill Clinton! What do I win?

I would like to rig one up to one of those Tazer things. 50,000 volts. As soon as they open the camera door, it shoots those two wired prongs right in your neck and the bodily functions soon are uncontrollable.

It's not just a "kids and ladies" gun.

I don't like it at all, but if they are going to open up new units for late hunting, then that is something to think about. If they would start a 37B early archery hunt, I would burn bonus points on that. A unit 12 late archery hunt would be cool too. I say leave it as it is, but if that is not possible, then open up more units for archery draw hunts.

That is cool.

I wanted to go, but had too many things to do at work. I'm torn between scouting for my antelope hunt or going to my bear spot in 23S. Sounds like alot of people are going to 23S, so I might skip it. I have a feeling the quota will be met real soon though.

8' black bear! WOW! That's awesome.

Well said, but they have other sources of $$$ besides tag and license sales. They get money from federal excise taxes, matching fed funds, lottery, etc.

Yeah he has alot of mass, a very nice desert mulie, we hunted him and another monster that ran with him for a few years, until they were poached. It broke my heart, I haven't been back to the area since. Looking at his sheds I know I need to go back, cause he's got to have offspring. That stinks. Did they catch the poacher?

That was my first thought also. If there are 30,000 OTC tags sold every year, that equates to an extra $210,000 per year in app fees they are missing out on. I'll bet that 99% of all hunters applying for an archery deer tag would get their tag. Next up - fall bear hunts, lion, and archery turkey.

The above is a quote from the letter. Maybe G&F needs to do what a couple other states now do: no report, no permit the following year. That should increase compliance for better harvest stats, huh? And yes, it SHOULD include ALL hunts so the stats are accurate. Here's why: In the How To Hunt Coues Deer book, I explained how the harvest stats are derived from the mailed survey cards and why they can be really skewed, especially in units with a low number of permits. The stats are taken from only those cards that are actually returned. So if a unit has 100 permits but only 20 get returned and 10 people report killing a buck, the success rate is put at 50%. Of course, no one knows about the other 80 permits holders really did, but the assumption being made is they had the same average success rate. The problem is the statistical base to conclude that is really too small. -TONY I just finished reading the entire letter and saw the recommendation for manadatory reporting/no license was indeed suggested in it. Bingo! Then all they would need to worry about is hunters telling the truth on the survey cards. -TONY NM does that and it's not a "barrier" to hunter retention there, as far as I know. In fact, why does it have to be limited to just reporting harvest? Why not make everyone return the card, even if they did not harvest an animal? Then there is no excuse for not complying.

Good stuff!

I'm not an expert, but I have seen them in the mesquites in years where the pears and acorns are a bust. They eat the mequite beans when all fails, I think.

I would shoot it if given the chance. You can get an Oct tag just about any year. Most don't get a bow shot at a buck like that every year though.