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the rut will take off when it takes off. always does. be happy with a tag and don't worry about small stuff, like if the rut is gonna happen. the sun is gonna come up tomorrow and the elk will get stupid soon. Lark.

tried to pm. your box is full. pm me. Lark.

new zealand. Lark.

don't know if it's a broken antler or not. when a male of the deer family gets a significant injury, anywhere on them, they usually grow a screwed up antler on the opposite side of the injury after that. been a lotta studies on it. i actually got to witness it once. knew where there was a big herd rutting in december. they'd be there every year. quite a few really big bucks. one day me and my oldest son were watching them and one really heavy horned 4x4 had been injured in the left shoulder over night. looked like a bullet wound. later that morning we saw a really giant of a buck about a half mile away and he had blood all over the upper fork of one antler. he had gored the other buck. the next year the same bucks were back and the injured one still had a bad limp and he had a typical 4 point on one side and the side opposite the injury was a twisted up mess of antler with many points. saw him several more seasons after that and he always had the nontypical antler after that. that may be what happened to his little feller. Lark.

dang, that's a big goat. did it all yourself too. fine job. Lark.

casey was "testing" dope. that's a good one. this post is about shooting, ya big dummy. Lark.

my ol' uncle passed on the 20th. Malcolm Gwen Hughes. sept 5, 1937-aug 20- 2015. fun to be around, excellent marksman, tremendous hunter. born in tennessee. lived most of his life in Az. married to my mom's little sister for 60 year. wonderful husband and father, great friend. was with me when i shot my first dove, javelina and buck. sad to see you leave pard. hang out by the fire with my ol' man until i catch up. go to heaven a hollerin', let em know you're comin'. Lark.

who would do that to bacon? dove, the other @#$! meat. Lark.

Don't matter. Season is now and you hafta hunt the weather that your dealt. Don't worry about it. Go huntin'. Lark.

That's a Caitlin bull. Suffers from noballitis. Be interesting to see how it ends up. They are always in velvet and always growing. Never shed their antlers. My dad killed a muley like that once. Lark.

Thanks for the thoughts. Today is his 78th birthday. Gonna be kinda wierd without him around. Talk to my aunt a lot. She's been taking care of him for quite awhile and she said she feels like she lost her job. We had some lively times. Lark

Az has several kinda pears. the lower elevation ones get big fat and juicy and get ripe about now and will all pop within a few weeks from now. the bears seem like they travel down to them this time of year, and when they're done they will go back up to where the smaller pears are. they don't get as big and sweet, but bears will still get into em. and there is only a couple thousand feet difference in where they grow and the different kinds of pears can be within a few miles of each other. then they get into the acorns and juniper berries. acorns have about as high o' fat content as anything on earth. so do pinons. what folks don't realize, is so do juniper berries. if you look at a juniper berry, it is actually a little cone, real similar to a pine cone and it is full of little nuts. they are real small, probably about what i've heard casey's are like. but they are real high in fat. the bears gorge on acorns and juniper berries to get their hybernation layer built up. from now until the snow flys, they'll be in something fattening. good luck. don't shoot the little ones. Lark.

hunterjohnny, no there is not. at least not for folks without serious behaviorial disorders. i mean there's others that'll work and sometimes i use em just to keep myself sharp, because a .270 is so far superior that it's kinda like cheatin'. Lark.

hey casey, you gonna hunt broke back mt again this year? Lark

them 2 wolves are actually a decent representation of these inbred mongrels they turnt loose on us in Az. Lark.

not according to the documentary. go up one post. Lark.

this thread is so screwed up it won't hurt to hi jack it even more. there was a documentary about casey's life on tv last night. it's highlighted in blue. it said he has been in 3 movies. he was the banjo pickin' kid in deliverance. sloth, the guy they kept chained up in the basement on the goonies, (what was amazing was he played both parts with no makeup) and he was the stunt man in broke back mountain.

hey you shut up casey or i'll tell everbody about your younger days as a movie star. and i don't own a 7-08. that would be unethical and caitlynish. Lark.

no, but he does dress like that a lot. Lark.

yeah it does. look at caseys head. Lark.

yup, joint use. us poor hunters have to share "our" land with anglers, bike riders, campers, birdwatchers, sight seers, atv'ers, cowboys, loggers, woodcutters, the forest circus, etc, etc, etc. in Az we have a real blessing in the amount of public land we have, and it's there for us all to use. i got screwed up a little on a spring turkey hunt by bird watchers once. i mean a van full o' real life nerds with bird books, binos, bird calls, goofy pants and hats. kinda ticked me off but before it was over i was kinda intrigued by bird watchin', i was more interested in watchin' a tommygobbler and then blastin' him, but after bein' around these folks for a few minutes and realizing how interested they were in their hobby, i came away with a little more respect for them. they had no problem with me blastin' a turk either. wanted to see one up close if i shot one. when i get the opportunity, i like to hear elk whistle. if i'm afraid o' bustin' a hunter, i'll walk away. main thing is to don't be stupid. as i get older i find more enjoyment in just watching animals. as hunters and anglers, we pay the bulk of the cash needed to support the wildlife that everyone enjoys. but it doesn't give us more right. those other folks can all vote too. remember that. if you wanna listen to elk, have at it, just keep in mind that there may be folks wanting to shoot the same elk. Lark.

guess i'm gonna hafta find me a refuge so i can be a poacher, like su says i am already. saw a deal on robot chicken one night about happy weasel stompin' day. maybe we oughta have a snake stompin' day. get off your rockin' horse su. nobody ever said anything about killing every snake. quit gettin' your guts all twisted up over something doesn't make any difference. i've accidently ran over a few gopher snakes, go outta my way to not harm them or kings. never killed a coral snake, seen a bunch of em. but i'll kill every rattler i see. don't hang out on refuges like some folks must do, so i ain't too worried about that. if you knew how well i think wolf, condor, spotted owl and black footed ferrets taste, you wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Lark.

I don't get you. You say that "you guys are all aholes", if you kill a snake, then say it's ok if you do, under your own snake killer code. Then you accuse me of killing snakes in a refuge. I don't think I've ever been in a refuge. Oh wait, Denali. Didn't see any snakes tho. Then I'm a poacher because of all the refuge snakes I kill. Well Ron white jerk. Don't say it's ok for you to kill a rattler and then call everybody else dirty names. Another guy that figgers he's so pure that anything he does is ok. But nobody else can because they don't have "ethics". It's a stinkin' rattler. Stomp it's head and move on. Ever think o' joinin' peta? Be careful, don't get bit. Lark.

Blah, blah. Only worth 2 blahs. Don't have your own code fir killing snakes and don't allow others theirs. If I ever kill a snake in a nwf I'll feel bad for a minute or 1. Lark.

if you look up liver in the dicksunary it says "good way to screw up onions". the buffalo hunters used to skin back a hind leg and make a little bowl outta the flesh side of the hide, then take the gall bladder and squeeze out the bile then into the bowl, then cut the liver up in chunks and dip it in the bile and eat it raw. i'm sure this was to make the liver a little more gaggable. that and it just ain't right to shove chunks up a dead buf's butt before you eat it to improve the taste. Lark.