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Thanks. He has my prayers for an uneventful and speedy recovery. Bill Quimby

Prdatr: How is your son? The last we heard he was scheduled for surgery. Will the defribrillator help him? Bill Quimby

There is a reason it's called a "limited opportunity" hunt, folks. Units 2AB have a lot fewer elk than just about anywhere with elk in this state. I spent nearly two weeks in that unit before the 2015 season, scouting every day on public and private land, last year for my cow tag, and found exactly one small group of cows with a raghorn bull. When I went to put that herd to bed the afternoon before the season opened, there were two muzzleloader antelope hunters driving ATVs on every two-track road all around the little juniper hill where the herd had been hanging out. I never saw those elk again, or even another elk in 2AB, even though I hunted every day of the season. Most of the very few elk in the unit are in the four square miles of land in the extreme southeast corner of 2B, where there are no access problems. Problem is, this is no secret up here and the majority of the tag holders congregate there. I suppose I could have hunted with the crowds, but I chose not to. Bill Quimby

Those of us who live in Greer (part of the year, in my case) have been watching the Rocky Mountain bighorns AZGFD captured in Morenci and released up here. I did not take the photo I've attached (a friend did), but I've seen this pair of young rams multiple times, and came close to hitting the one with a collar with my truck when it stepped onto the road as I was coming around the curve at Hall Creek two or three weeks ago. Until recently, there was a larger ram running with this pair, which makes me wonder if it was one of several unlucky sheep that have been killed by cars since the first release. This morning, these two rams were feeding at the edge of the forest on the road to Eagar, less than a mile east of the Greer junction. Until I stopped to watch them, cars and trucks were zipping past, their drivers apparently not seeing them. Soon after I stopped, there was a minor traffic jam. Bill Quimby

I drove into Springerville today to get groceries and there were five ewes exactly where you videoed that herd, Non-typical Solutions. Another place we see cliff carp often is on the curve at Hall Creek leading into Greer. They feed within just a couple of feet of the pavement. The problem with them hanging out there is that drivers can't see them until it's almost too late. Bill Quimby

Ready2hunt: Wolves are all around Greer, and not just to the west of us. They've also been IN Greer. My wife and I watched a pair of them harass a bunch of elk in our driveway a couple of years ago, and last September I heard them howling on the hill above our cabin for four or five mornings in a row when I left an hour before daylight to go elk hunting. The thing about the bighorns they've released up here is that the places we're seeing them are at the edge of our antelope habitat where there is very little escape cover. Wild sheep aren't the brightest critters on four legs, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the habitat they've chosen. What is surprising is that coyotes haven't gobbled 'em all up. Bill Quimby

Cessna: Thanks. I'm glad I could help you meet John. He seemed very lonely the last couple of times I saw him in Reno, but that could be because he knew he was dying. Bill Quimby

Hi Cessna. Glad you got to meet Captain John Brandt. I never visited him in Alamosa, but we spent a lot of time together at SCI conventions and had many mutual friends. I don't know if he told you, but he was the second recipient of the Peter Hathaway Capstick International Literary Award (Craig Boddington was first) and I was the third. I doubt any western hunter knew Asia and its wildlife better than John. If he gave you a copy of his "Asian Hunter," treasure it. Signed copies are pricey now that he's not with us. Bill Quimby

I've no experience with a defibrillator, but I'm living with my second pacemaker (the first lasted 10 years and was replaced in January). Installing a pacer (and, presumably a defibrillator) is a simple procedure. Both times, I was sent home within an hour or so after waking up. My problem is chronic atrial fibrillation. Before the first pacer, I was being shocked four to six times per month. Whenever I did something that brought my heart rate anywhere near 100 bpm, my heart would go bonkers, beating erratically up to 300 bpm. The pacer solved that by holding my heart rate at a constant 76 bpm no matter what I do now. I've not been hospitalized for Afib in 10-1/2 years. Before that, I got to know nearly every member of the ER staff at Tucson's Heart Hospital and Northwest Hospital by name. A defibrillator usually is used to treat ventricular fibrillation, which is more serious than my problem. If it were me, I would sit down with my son and his cardiologist and have him explain things fully. When all is said and done, you will have to trust his doctor's judgement. My best wishes for your son. He and I are fortunate in that modern medicine can treat our problems successfully. Bill Quimby

Cessna: I wouldn't worry about it. It's a great mount as is. If it bothers you, have the taxidermist make the bite look like it was nibbled by a rodent. To make it even more realistic, you could add a mount of a packrat or ground squirrel next to the cactus. Bill Quimby

Sorry, we couldn't find that!You do not have permission to view this topic. Need Help? Our help documentation Contact the community administrator This is the message I get when I try to open a thread I previously had posted on. I originally posted on a classified ad thread that offered 40-year-old whiskey, and got several "likes." To see what had happened in that thread, I opened the classified ad and found it no longer had my post and the posts of others. Then I tried clicking on each of the "like" messages and was told I didn't have permission to view the topic. What gives? Bill Quimby

"It's amazing so long as you don't end up it a storm. Mine is wicked accurate however I only got one shot cause the stock swelled and the dang rod got stuck!!! " LJSIII: If the Ruger 77 muzzleloader has a wood ramrod, it probably was the ramrod that swelled. Sandpaper will keep it from sticking again. If it has a steel ramrod, seal the stock barrel and ramrod channels. Or better yet, get a wood dowell and some sandpaper from Home Depot. Bill Quimby

"AZGFD works pretty methodically in their law enforcement.. Does anyone know anyone that was accused by our AZGFD, that got out of it in court? I do not. I am not sure if they ever officially accused Wagner of a crime, rather investigated him. " HuntHarder: I don't know about its record in court since I stopped "covering" AZGFD as the outdoor editor for a Tucson newspaper. However, from 1967-1994, darned few accused game-law violators lost their cases if they pleaded not guilty and hired an attorney. Those who served as their own lawyers had fools for clients and almost always were found guilty. Bill Quimby

Allforelk is correct. I'm voting no also. Bill Quimby

One word. It's spelled L A W Y E R. Bill Quimby

"Of all the senses, sight has to be #1 for me. People spend thousands on stuff that really doesn't matter, but for clear sight, it's truly worth it. Quality of life." Coach, truer words were never spoken. I didn't have the lasik surgery that this thread is about, but I did have cataract surgery on both eyes over the past 18 months. My right eye is now 20/25. I don't know what the left eye is now because it changes monthly. After the surgery I was legally blind in that eye and couldn't see the huge A at the top of the chart. Because of the cataract, I didn't realize I had macular degeneration in that eye. After 14 monthly injections into my left eye, I now can read four lines down on the eye chart with that eye. It has excellent peripheral vision, but my central vision is blurry and to see something with that eye I have to look above, below or to the side of it. Funny thing, despite two vastly different eyes, I cannot tell anything is wrong when I have both eyes open. Bill Quimby

http://www.nwtfhuagoulds.org/gouldrsquos-wild-turkey-bulletin.html There is a photo here, and a better description. Looks like the have lots of white on their rumps. Bill Qumby

I doubt many hunters could quickly spot the differences between a Merriam's and Gould's coming to their calls. I know I couldn't. The Gould's is supposed to be larger, have bigger feet, longer legs, and wider tail feathers. There also is supposed to be some differences in their coloration. Both have more white on their "fans" than the other subspecies. Bill Quimby

"That's good news. Maybe they'll notice that my buddy that put in with me is 72 years old and needs a tag quick before it's too late." I wish the drawings considered how much time applicants had left on this planet. I'll be 80 in a few months and a Rocky Mountain bighorn tag would be nice. Bill Qumby

"I think I remember reading that all the Merriams died off in the 80's in the Catalinas for some reason." I was the Tucson Citizen's outdoor editor from 1967 to 1994, and I can say with confidence that the Merriam's turkeys in unit 33 were alive, well, and thriving during all of my tenure at that newspaper. If something happened to eliminate the entire population of Merriam's turkeys on that mountain, it happened after I retired and stopped closely following southern Arizona's hunting and fishing happenings. Bill Quimby

"Transplants I would assume." Unless vast numbers of Gould's were released to overwhelm the existing Merriam's population, the birds they're hunting now would hybrids of the two subspecies. Bill Quimby

In the mid-1950s, a friend and I shot a couple of turkeys in the basin where they eventually built Rose Canyon Lake. Other places we hunted were on Oracle Ridge (above Peppersauce Canyon), around the Burney Mine, and upper Canyon del Oro. We didn't hunt turkeys there, but we also spooked a flock while hunting lions above the rock piles east of what now is the town of Catalina. The birds we hunted were said to be descendants of Merriam's turkeys introduced to the Catalinas by AZGFD in the 1920s, and as far as I know Merriam's have been always been present on the mountain since then. This leads to me asking: How can the birds in 33 now be the Gould's subspecies? Bill Quimby

I'm very familiar with Zulu Nyala Safari Lodge. I know its owner and spent 10 days there collecting small game, waterfowl and birds for SCI's museum in Tucson, and then shot a nyala and warthog for myself. This was years ago, when it still was a hunting property. A good variety of game animals could be seen feeding in a meadow below the guest randavals every morning --- from white rhino, to zebras, blue wildebeest, nyala, warthogs and impala. Trevor Shaw, the owner, is a diamond dealer and usually carries a briefcase and has good prices on stones for tourists. Now is a good time to visit South Africa. The currency conversion rate today was 15.3 rand to the dollar, which means nearly everything you buy will be a bargain. Bill Quimby

Wish I had high-speed internet here in Tucson so I could watch that video. There have been many mountain lions captured alive and tied up over the past 100 years. A guy named Charles "Buffalo" Jones caught dozens of them using only ropes on the Kaibab in the early 1900s. There's a photo in one of Zane Grey's books showing four or five live mature lions Jones caught and tied to jackpines. Another photo shows Jones and Grey with a live lion hogtied on a horse. Jones was a flamboyant cowboy and showman. He and two other Arizona cowboys roped a lion, a rhino and various antelopes in Africa and several muskoxen in Canada. He died from malaria (or so it was reported) after capturing a gorilla alive on his second trip to Africa and selling it to a zoo in Europe. Dale Lee told me he and his brothers used to rope lions in trees, pull them down, tie their legs together, put sticks in their mouths, tie them shut, and pack the lions out on their saddles. My wife had a cousin who trained his hounds for a time with a bobcat. After the dogs tracked and treed the cat, he would tie them up and use a small catch pole to stuff it into a small garbage can he had rigged with hasps (so he could lock the can) and straps (so he could carry the can like a backpack). He stopped using that bobcat after it avoided the noose and jumped on his bald head with all of its claws extended. Bill Quimby

By all means have him check out what's needed in South Africa (it probably will be minimal -- more hunters use suppressors down there than here), but I'd also suggest that his Homeland Security Form 4457 (Certificate of Registration for Personal Effects Taken Abroad) show he left the U.S. with it. If it doesn't have a serial number, which it probably doesn't, he could list it like this: "7mm Rem. Mag. Remington 700 serial no. xxxxx with suppressor." I suggest using "suppressor" instead of "silencer" on the form to avoid hassles when returning. A few of the people safeguarding our border are not the brightest and best. Bill Quimby