DesertBull

dove = liver = duck

I'll bet Hannable Lector would like to eat Ted Kennedy's liver. It's been marinating in 100 proof for 40 years.

If you get a chance, check out the video titled Beyond Adrenaline Very well done, very ethical, and first rate production, IMO. The brown bear and the leopard hunt are awesome.

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What are those BIG boxes? Mult-disk sets? Or maybe they are...what are they called.....VCR tapes? My grandparents told me about those things once. They said you have to rewind them?

Having grown up in the mid-west, where almost all land is private, I am grateful for the abundant public land to hunt, fish, camp, hike, etc. That being said, I would rather live in Idaho, Wyoming, Western Slope of Colorado. Too many people here in AZ now. Everythime I mention moving to my family though, they laugh and walk away.

Where from in Illinois?

Tax yes, but it will cut the shipping cost and time. If You want it now, just come and get it! I wish they had been here sooner. The gas it will cost me to drive out there will be more than the shipping cost +tax. That place is going to a nut house on opening day. Probably more people at Cabela's opening day than at the D-Backs and Cardinals opening games COMBINED!

Well, if I can't get the brown bear hunt done, I would settle for an OSAMA BIN LADEN safari.

I have one of my cams on a water tank right now. Been getting alot of pics. I was surprised by two things. 1) The elevevation of this tank is only appx 3,000 ft, yet I am getting about 50% Coues deer. 2) All of the 120 deerpics I got in the last two weeks were all daytime pics. No night time pics. I know the camera is working at night because I got some pics of other things like fox and mice. Two carp bucks. Young WT buck. I blew up the pic and yes, there is a start of antler growth. Hard to see otherwise. The deer stading on the tank facing the camera is also a buck. Pregnant Doe

COMMISSION APPROVES MANDATORY REPORTING SYSTEM FOR DEER, ELK HUNTERS CLAYTON ? All deer and elk hunters, and furbearer hunters and trappers in New Mexico will be required to report their harvest results or risk losing the ability to participate in the next season's special hunt drawings under a new system adopted by the State Game Commission. The New Mexico Hunter-Trapper Reporting System, approved at the Commission's May 25 meeting in Clayton, will improve the Department's ability to manage the state's wildlife and hunting opportunities. Typically, only one in four hunters returned harvest questionnaires under the old system. Under the new system, everyone who is licensed or has a permit to hunt deer or elk must report the results of their hunting efforts by Feb. 15, 2007. Furbearer hunters and trappers must report their harvest results by March 31, 2007. Reporting harvest results will take only minutes by telephone or the Internet. Details will be attached to licenses and permits, printed in rules and information booklets, and available on the Department of Game and Fish Web site, www.wildlife.state.nm.us . License buyers who do not report will have applications for the following season's special hunt drawings rejected -- including applications in the private-land authorization process. Hunters who miss the deadline can still participate in the drawings if they report their harvest and pay a late fee.

Love'em I bought them when they first came out for $699. I've seen them now for as much as $1100.

Chupacabra- The Goat Sucker! http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa042202a.htm

I can't tell ya the unit, the pics are part of a scouting package for a client. I will say it is not a ranch water. It is a G&F trick tank, which are almost always fenced off from cattle. I had cams on a lot of differnt water tanks over the last 4 years and I can say without hesitation that the deer flock to water that is cow proof. As far as the night time pics go, I had this same camera on a water hole last year and got alot of night pics, so I don't think it's the camera.

Brown bear or Grizz, I'll take either.

FISH FRY AT YOUNGHUNTER'S HOUSE ON AUG 16th!

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMO....IT"S ERNESTO!

Anyone have a guess on why the deer are not watering after dark? Last year, almost all of my pics came at night during June, July and August.

I've bought and sold at least 4 differnt packs in the last 3 years. I have the Eberlestock Just One right now and I am keeping it! If you pack around a tripod, the rifle scabbarb is PERFECT. Plus, it expands to 7,000 cubic inches. If you don't need 7,000 cubic inches, they also have a smaller version called the Gunslinger. I had one of those too, but sold it and bought the Just One.

It's a Moultrie 200 You can buy them all day long on EBAY for about $140.00 BTW, Moultrie is coming out with their new camera this month, so the price on the 200 might come down after it's released. Moultrie 4.1 MP Cam I set the cam up about 10' from the water.

Don't buy the cheap walmart battery. Buy an Everready or Duracell. I got a 120 pics in 2 weeks off one battery and it says it's still over 50% charged.

WOW, that sounds like a great guy who understands what the hunt is really all about. I am glad he won the raffle and not some ego maniac with a calculator and a B&C form. When I get a bull that caliber, I won't let anyone come within 50 yards of it with a tape. I think this state needs to keep the "Special" tags right were they are, no more no less. It works and generates alot of wildlife and habitat dollars! If they added more, they wouldn't be as valuable. Just my $.02. That Raffle tag hunt last year was an experience to say the least. It is a LOOONG story. I'll try to sum it up. The hunter is from Colorado, a 300" bull is a monster where he's from. He tells me he wants the big one and to do what it takes. I have the entire crew, spending their own money and time, scouting and helping with the hunt. We had a 400+ bull patterned and videotaped and several back-up 380-390 class bulls patterned and taped as well. The client shows up a few days early, I show him what we got and he wants the big one. I took him out to look at some of Arizona's best elk country and showed him some smaller bulls and he states he wants to go for the big one. Opening day we call in and pass on three 350-370class bulls on tape! That evening we finally get on the big one and I had him pass because the bull was walking in thick cedars and it was almost too dark. That night everyone is excited and confident we were going to have the monster on the ground the next day. Everyone was talking about which magazines we were going to be on the cover of and how fast we could get the video on the shelves at the Warehouse. The next day we wake up and the client is gone! Packed up and headed home without sayin' goodbye!!! We scrambled for a reason, worried if he was OK, and packed up camp and headed home to do "Damage Control"! We finally got a hold of him later and he said that there was too much pressure on him and on me to get the 400" bull, and he didn't really care how much bigger than 350" it was, he just wanted to kill a nice bull!! I still can't figure out why he didn't tell me that earlier! I got him back out here 5 days before the archery season started and told him it would be my brother, him and I alone and we would just hunt elk and enjoy the experience with no pressure and he could shoot the first bull he wanted. I just wanted it over at that point. He came out and brought his father and he gave me a day to try and find the Big bull but he had moved out or changed pattern so we just went and hunted elk. We called in several nice bulls and on the third day we had this bull come in to 15 yrds bugling all on tape, and it was the bull he wanted, and he took him. The client didn't want to score him and wanted everyone to know he took this bull NOT because of score, but because of the experience. The whole thing is just hard to understand or fathom for most guys because of what THEIR expectations would be if THEY had the tag, myself included! But it was his tag to do with what he wanted, I just wish he had told me what he really wanted before we collectively spent thousands of dollars in scouting and expenses. While taking the measurements for the taxi, i ran the tape on the beams and the width, the left MB is a tad over 60", the right MB is almost 57", and 41" wide. He would be a hard one to guess score on. An Outfitter once said, and it sums it all up, "Raffle Tags Are Like A Box of Chocolates......You Never Know What Yer Gonna Get!". Thanks, Jim

Utah has over 200 tags they auction/raffle off now and they took them directly out of the hunter pool. BOGUS.

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The Tejon Ranch is about an hour north of LA. The hunt cost $400 plus $50 for the pig tag and $150 for the hunting license. I didn't see any elk, but one of my friends saw a couple of cows and a calf. Saw a lot of deer.