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question- why do the candidates always have to have some sort of political or professional affilliation? i see these guys are all either politically employed, reitired from politics or some other form of gov't employment. why don't you guys come up with some guy with no political or professional affilliation that is just concerned about Az. wildlife? why's it always hafta be political? is that some rule? the single biggest problem with the azgfd commission is that it is a political appointment. those considered for appointment always have some sort of political slant or aspiration. the ones doing the appointing dang sure do. and they always make decisions based on political pressure. wildlife do not have any political leanings. they can't tell if they get shot by a republican or a democrat. our wildlife is dependent on people. things have been changed and "managed" too much to just let nature take it's course. we have to step in now and give things a nudge. why make it political? if you guys actually have some input then input someone who isn't a puppet. i'd bet there will be a dozen folks at this meeting that will be much better candidates than anyone on this list. Lark.

the reason credit card interest has skyrocketed is so that the folks that pay their bills can pay off the bills o' the folks that defaulted. mine doubled awhile back. never made a late payment. seldom carry over anything past the month. i paid it off and told em to stuff it. i ain't about to pay off some welfare case's card for em. Lark.

just got back from the wolf hunt and bovine pugilism (cow punchin') trip. thought i got one, but it was just a coyote. dangit. i packed a fryin' pan and some k-paul's blackened wolf seasoning over to where it croaked to fry up some. man was i disappointed. it just ain't the same. did shoot a skunk tho. it wernt bad, but nothin' like wolf. i think it had rabies. i been a little afeared o' water since. only other endangered fecies i saw was a gila monster. started to kill it, but the last time i ate one it give me a bad case o' indignation. ain't never really got over it. seen a big herd o' tommygobblers. several herds o' henznpullets. quite a few deer, both the mule and whitetail variety. treed a coon. didn't even use the hounds niether. he was walkin' around by the creek in early afternoon and he went up a tree when i hollerd. did get a few photos of him. poor little feller. packed some salt. got started pumpin' a lotta water, of which the wildllife will get as much use from as the bovines. and at great expense too. slugged a few cows. welded on corrals. fixed the generator so we could pump water. would like to put a solar setup on the wells so's there wouldn't be a buncha diesel smoke pollution and to lessen the demand on foreign oil, but for some reason the gov't won't let it take place. and so there ain't a need to cause futher pollution haulin' the generator around. can't figger that one out? other than it is the gov't. whatever makes sense they are agin and whatever don't make sense they are all for. like wolves. but don't mention green enviro friendly solar 'lectricity. they're plum agin that. seen a fresh bear track and it was season and everthing but it didn't look like a great big one and where he was at he wernt botherin' no cows, so we just rode on. seen a lion track and even seen a for sure wolf track. it had been drinkin' some o' that man made water. too bad them mean ol' ranchers put all that stuff there. i'm sure he'd be a lot better off without it. the forest circus lit off a big controlled burn the day the wind hit. guess they don't get the weather channell. i looked from a high spot today and didn't see much smoke so maybe the rain last night knocked it down before it got away from em. but i'm sure they got more kerosene and get get'r perked back up again and get it up to official outta control forest fire status. it did rain a little last night from just below honeymoon on up. cooled off quite a bit. didn't see any snow on the peaks. didn't rain much below the smelly crossing. looked as if it rained a fair amount south o' the gila in the black hills. oh yeah, and we did see several more maroons. in fact quite a few. it was coues season ya know i'm glad at least a couple guys here have seen buggs bunny a'fore. well, maybe i'll have better luck next time. i need a little more variety in my diet. deer, elk, pronghorn, quail, turkey, trout, skunk etc. get a little boring. oh yeah, i looked in the mirror and all i seen was a good lookin' cowboy. real goodlookin' and tall. later maroons. Lark.

what a maroon. i've only seen a couple of the stupid things in my life. in fact i saw more of em before they "reintroduced" em than since. real wild ones. hurry up and send this email to the bunny sherrif so they can watch me. in fact, i'm headed to wolf country this morning. soon as i load my saddle and bedroll. be there for awhile too. hope i see lots o' wolf/dogs. bring home a big ol' ice chest fulla wolf meat. i did almost squeeze the trigger on one once. in unit 10. where there ain't sposeta be any. saw a big ol coyote and was literally squeezin' the trigger when my buddy said it looked like it had a collar on. sure nuff did too. nice little antenna stickin' up there. they need to put them big red flags on em like the quad runners and dune buggies all have. dang bowsniper, you need to get a real life and not worry so much about some inbred curr that ain't never gonna be able to make it on it's own. wolf meat, now that oughta be some real good stuff there. Lark,

the biggest enemys them wolf dogs have is cars and the gov't trappers that the usfw sends out to shoot em. besides, i'm far too smart to ever get caught by mere mortals.

instead o' wolf helper i like to use a little black footed feret, spike dace minnows, hump back chub (that's a fish, not bullwidgeon) or maybe some spotted owl for seasoning with the wolf burger. Lark.

only way to tell anything even close is to shoot it through a chronograph. you might be able to get within a couple hundred fps by guessing, but that's it. maybe. i've been shooting my .300 a bunch the past couple weeks, tuning in a load for the new barrel and scope. i shoot well over 200 fps faster than what the manual says. i've got a real consistent load that i've decided on and it varies from 20 to 60 fps, and that is a pretty consistant load. 100 fps differen isn't real uncommon with a lot of loads in a given barrel. get a chronograph, shot 5 or 6 rounds through it. anything else is just a guess. seems to me that i'm usually considerably faster than what the books say the load should be. barrel lengths, chamber sizing, throat length, all make a difference. Lark.

my wolf tags come 20 to a box. dang i like wolf burger. and i'm plum out. Lark.

i have a lyman 1200dps3 computerized digital 'lectronic reloader powder scale/throw. it's a real piece o' $h!t. anybody else have one o' pieces o' junk. tried to get my kid to throw it up in the air so i could blast it with my 12 guage but because him and his brothers went in on it for my birthday he wouldn't do it. anyway, it won't throw accurate for anything with any powder. used to be great, but was never real good with h4831. worked real well with h4831sc, h4350, varget, etc. now it won't throw accurate with any powder or weight. it's kept clean, isn't missused or abused, yet anyway. anybody have any experience with these steamin' yams? i won't put up with junk for very long. this thing was quite expensive and is supposed to save time and be more accurate, but my old manual rcbs scales are at least 50 times faster and just as accurate. the lyman throws heavy almost every time. and it isn't just a little, half a grain or more most of the time. i've had it weigh heavy for 20-30 times in a row before it will throw an accurate one. and you can't set it up light use the trickler. still throws a big blob all at once. sometimes over a grain with just one bump of the button. i sent lyman an email but if they're like every other customer service jerk i've ever deal with, they won't have anything but hot air and gas about it. anybody have any experience,k good or bad with these things? Lark.

seems all ice and the bp wanna do is hassle joe for catchin' em after they get here. sometime soon there is gonna be a tragedy between hunters and these bastards. Lark.

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good on ya. you gotta be a tough guy to crawl off in a hole like that. alla you cornflingin' salt packers take note. this dude is a hunter. Lark.

glad ya'll are ok. now you've added one more thing to the really short of list of things that coues deer are good for. if you'da hit a coues you coulda just squeegee'd the windshield, like after ya hit a big bug, and been on your way again. Lark.

midway usa has em. in catalog #31 they are on page 601. Lark.

i prefer the liar method. that way i always get the biggest one. Lark.

the deer live in the "weather" all the time. hot, cold, rainy, windy, snow, drought. they're always there. the only thing that really gets affected much by the weather is the hunters. a buncha snow might move em. heavy rain might bush em up for awhile. but they're still there. "you" just hafta adapt. Lark.

casey has clients? guys droov all the way out here for banjo lessons? Lark.

hey, if you're gonna make us all look bad with your first post i vote we don't let ya play with us. good bull. Lark

after lookin' at that elk i ain't quite as jealous. good thing you got him outta the herd. he looks like a true nontypical and not a broke pedical bull. Lark.

ya got a jillion guns in one place. toss in 10,000 assorted rednecks, gun nuts, crooks, mexican cops tryin' to buy illegal guns, neo nazis and skinheads, hunters, collectors, weirdos, gangsters, ww2 vets, korean vets, viet nam vets, iraq vets, small animal vets, etc, you'd think there would be a good chance of it happenin' about once an hour. hunters safety courses must be working. dang, this list made me remember i ain't been to a family reunion in awhile. Lark.

i am jealous. one o' these days maybe i'll get a tag. while i can still walk and don't need diapers. well, sometimes the diapers would be sorta ok now. but that is a helluva ram. what is that wierd aminal on the other side o' the wall> Larl.

be careful, last time somebody found some 'lectronic gadget on here it about caused a killin'. Lark.

eye dominance has pretty much been proven to be a non issue. if you close your dominant eye, the one that is open takes over. bow or rifle, doesn't matter. look at all the shooters in the military. every rifle is made for a right handed shooter. eye dominance doesn't matter. you close the eye you don't aim with. it's real simple. let him shoot which ever way he handles the bow the best and close the appropriate eye and don't worry about it. as long as the sights are lined up, the projectile goes where it's aimed. all the other rumors about are BS. your eye can't bend light, it can't do anything but look at what you point it at. Lark.

the soap deal will work for sure on javelinas. if there's one thing bullwidgeon hates, it's a bath. Lark.

in the group photo, you guys can all ignore my index finger. Lark.