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  1. The refs screwed it up, not the Wisconsin QB.

     

    #1) They blew the call dead. The play was OVER. Weather or not the Wisconsin QB dropped it, set it down...Doesn't matter - the play was blown dead.

     

    #2) At the point that ASU jumped on the ball, they should've been flagged for DELAY OF GAME. Field goal, end of game, Wisconsin wins.

     

    That win will have an astrik next to it. If it is the difference between a bowl game or not for ASU (which is likely, since they should have a 6 win season), that fact should be taken into consideration. Wisconsin was robbed; simply handed a loss by incompetent, or biased home-cooked refereeing.

     

    Yeah I despise ASU, but I don't care who is looking at it, those are the facts.

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  2. I hear of people getting nailed for falsifying residency. That makes sense, and it probably happens every year. With the "lifetime" thing though, I hold little hope that G&F, or any agency short of the IRS would actually be able to require someone to produce proof of residency and investigate how that lifetime license was obtained 10 - 15 years down the road.


  3. Wow. Is that correct? Thanks G&F. That would be pretty stupid if it's actually set up that way.

     

    If that is correct, it would be too easy for out-of-state cornholes to simply get lifetime licenses without living here, using whatever dummy addresses they needed to, then several years down the road, start applying for hunts. Very difficult to prove where you lived when, years down the road. It would likely be unnecessary to prove anything. I'm way behind the times...USO is probably doing this already. Please tell me I'm wrong.


  4. It's not a big secret. I squirrel hunt up there but have never hunted deer there. Tons of deer; tons of people too, and a lot of them are the Treehugger types. Go up near the UA observatory and hike in from there. You can get away from people if you work at it. Get down in those canyons, dang few people are willing to put in that effort. Very tough, very steep hiking at 8,500 ft elevation. It will kick your a$$. There are a lot of easier places to hunt deer within an hour drive of Tucson.


  5. If the vehicle is off to the side of a road (not on a road), not running, and keys not in the ignition, I wouldn't worry about standing on top of a vehicle as a glassing platform. I think the rule is intended to help eliminate road hunting. This has nothing to do with road hunting; you're simply using the vehicle as a stand to get higher than the surrounding area and glass.

     

    If you're really worried about getting cited for that, there is a workaround: set up a 10'-0 stepladder right next to the vehicle and glass off of THAT. It's the same thing, but you can't be cited.

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  6. +1 on doing it yourself. Anyone could do this. I had a book the first time, but there are plenty of DIY videos on Youtube these days.

     

    For me, it's like a portion of the hunt; if I let someone else do it, I almost feel like I've missed out. There is nothing more satisfying than processing my own meat. I know exactly how it's handled, I know it's mine, and not mixed with others, and I know I get 100% of it.

     

    I made the investment in a cheap ($100) Cabelas grinder 10 years ago and I've never looked back. I actually take a day off work when I get back, and do it while the whole family is out of the house at work/school. An elk takes me all day. Deer, maybe 2/3 of that time.

     

    In the field I take elk quarters to the freezer trucks and let them cool it, and store until I go home. We have an extra fridge in the garage that I clean out prior to hunting. When I get back, all the boned out meat goes in the spare fridge, and no worries about anything spoiling.

     

    You'd be surprised at how much boned out elk meat an empty full-sized fridge will hold! Easily an entire elk.


  7. Doesn't bother me to head out there; just need to be vigilant. I've seen it a lot worse as far as volume. What Coach describes, I've seen in years past, but it doesn't seem nearly as bad recently. Probably depends on exactly where you are. It's definitely a good idea not to leave stuff unattended in higher traffic areas. I have glassed them up while they were in my camp, with me looking back at them from a mile away.


  8. Are you talking about coolers for the meat? I wouldn't worry about coolers for the meat, just get the quarters to the refrigerator truck that the processors will have up there. Bivy hunt or not, is up to you, but either way, if you can't get a vehicle to it, I'd cut it into pieces and get them up into trees, skin off & in game bags. After that, you should be fine taking your sweet time getting it out piece by piece, especially that time of year, even if takes a couple day & multiple trips.

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