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    Back in the Jurassic Period, when I was pursuing a degree in business at the UA, one of the first things our Economics 101 professor stressed is that the marketpace (and not government) should set minimum wages.

     

    Government mandates are inflationary and provide only temporary benefits to workers at the bottom of the heap, he said.

     

    Well, you are seeing Stage One. Prices on everything are going up, raising the cost of living for everyone. (It trickles up and not down.)

     

    Every foreman, supervisor, manager, middle-management executive, division director and CEO eventually will demand more money. Stage two comes when the higher cost of living puts the bottom-tier worker right back where he/she started.

     

    What my professor did not say is that those of us who are retired and living on fixed incomes are left behind with each increase, and any assets we may have accumulated over a lifetime of working eventually are depleted.

     

    If we are lucky, we will die before we are paupers.

     

    --- Bill Quimby

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    AZPlumber: I have no idea how many deer Ive killed in Arizona but it could be somewhere around 50, more or less. (I shot my first mule deer in 1948 and have hunted deer in this state every year (except one) until a couple of years ago, and I usually brought home meat.) It shouldnt matter if an individual lion kills 20 or 50 deer a year. They are worthy game animals, and should be managed sustainably. ==== Bill Quimby

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    The bias of this Chicken Little doomsday article becomes obvious by reading the first paragraph. Repealing and replacing Obamacare will not "dismantle insurance coverage" for 32 million people. "Defund women's healthcare facilities" refers to ending federal funding for Planned Parenthood, a controversial private organization that performs abortions and tried to sell fetal parts.

     

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    When I had 35 guns stolen in 2012, we heard nothing from anyone after the initial investigation by a Pima County Sheriff's detective until a couple of years ago when Tucson TV newscasters reported that the dectective had been arrested. I don't know if he was found guilty or not, but he was charged with locating and reselling stolen property.

     

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    When I hunted them, I felt an individual javelina herd had an established territory with multiple bedding areas, which they used depending upon weather and what they were eating at certain times of year. Finding a bed with green scat says they are feeding nearby and still using that bed. Now you need to determine what time of day or night they go there. Just remember, if the weather changes, they suddenly may switch to other feeding and bedding areas. They do not seem to change their home range, though. It could be one long canyon, or the heads of several canyons, a certain peak, or whatever, but I would bet a dollar that it's no more 300-400 acres. I found I could go to an area I hunted a lot 20-30 years earlier and find the beds and feeding areas exactly (or very close to) where I had found them earlier. --- Bill Quimby

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    Don't know if the ponds still hold water or what the CAP canal had done to access, but before the canal was dug we used to jump-shoot ducks from the stock ponds in the foothills behind the reservoir. We also used to gig frogs at night by wading in the reservoir, but we had to be careful. There were big rattlesnakes -- swimming -- all over the place. They were hunting frogs, too. -- Bill Quimby

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    In the late 1960s, I shot a couple dozen whitetails in the Texas Hill Country with a .22-250 and 55-grain Sierras before I started using a .45-caliber flintlock longrifle. (The limit for the first few years was four deer, and was later increased to five.) These little deer are about the same size as our Coues deer and the .22-250 was instant death on them at ranges out to 250-300 yards. I don't remember needing more than one shot, nor do I remember any bullet exiting. Bill Quimby

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    AZplumber: No question that lions eat a lot of deer, but everyone who hunts much in Texas or elsewhere where limits are five or more deer a year probably will kill many more deer in his/her lifetime than a lion will in a year. A single lion may take up to 50 deer a year (I suspect it's a lot less than that), but a meat hunter in the Texas Hill country easily can reach that number in just ten years. I don't begrudge lions eating deer. In my humble opinion, a mountain lion is a wonderful game animal and I would rather take one than a dozen deer. -- Bill Quimby

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    rossislider: To answer your question, CITES is a treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of flora and fauna. Export and import permits are required when a trophy animal is listed is a CITES I species. Export permits may be required by some countries for CITES II species. No permits are needed to import most antelopes taken on "plains game hunts" in South Africa or Namibia into the U.S. --- Bill Quimby

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    There's a little hill called "peloncillo" just off the west side of I-17 south of Amado that has 3-foot wall of rocks that runs diagonally for maybe 100 yards or so up its north side. I have no idea how long ago someone stacked those rocks, but I've seen that wall twice. The first time was in 1949, and I was 12 years old when I killed a javelina on the saddle above it. I was 55-60 the last time I was there. There were signs a herd of javelina was using the same bedding areas as their ancestors, and the wall still was there. I have no way of knowing why someone built that wall, but when I let my imagination run wild, I could see a couple of men waiting behind the wall for deer and javelinas to be pushed to them by slow-walking "drivers." When the animals reached the wall, they would move uphill to where archers and men with spears were waiting a few feet away. I've never read of this happening, but I like to think it could have. === Bill Quimby

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    Great find! are those the Sierrita foothills in the backgound of your photo? Those who have hunted the Kofas and elsewhere around Yuma probably also have seen similar boulders with multiple matate holes. Whenever I came across them, I could visualize several women and their kids getting together for a morning of gossip while grinding their beans. My best find came in the early 1960s, when we still could hunt anywhere on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. I was hunting bears on a ridge that ran from below Grasshopper to the Salt River when I found a cliff dwelling that still had matates, manos and pottery chards all over the cliff's floor. Other dwellings I'd seen in that area had numbers archeologists had painted over the main door and this one had no numbers. I was certain I was the first to see the place in a hundred years or more until I found an empty Diet Pepsi can in a corner on the second floor! It was an amazing place. I published a couple of photos of it in "60 Years A Hunter." I never saw it again. When I returned 10-15 years later with my son-in-law, the old road I'd used to reach the area had been rerouted and we couldn't find it. Today, the region is closed to non-tribal members. == Bill Quimby

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    I have zero knowledge as to how French is pronounced, but I find it interesting that a French speaker said "Coues" would rhyme with "juice." If that is how ol' Elliott pronounced his name in the mid-19th century before it was "Americanized" to "Cows" in the 20th century, this would explain a lot. To my ears, "joo-ees" and "coo-ees" are not that far apart, and it's not a big jump from there to "coos." ......... .Incidentally for those who lament the lack of sportsmen's participation at Game and Fish Commission meetings, as a newspaper reporter I attended nearly every commission meeting from 1967 to 1994 and seldom saw testimony from the public cause the panel to vote against a departmental recommendation. --- Bill Quimby

     

     

     

     

     

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    I'm not convinced anyone can say with absolute certainty how a man who died 118 years ago pronounced his name. It may have been nothing at all like what his descendants are saying today. Elliott Coues had been dead fewer than 50 years when I first hunted deer in Arizona in 1948, and the very few people I encountered as I was growing up who knew the proper common name for our little deer pronounced it "Coos." Most hunters, though, called them "whitetails," "desert whitetails," or "Arizona whitetails." I'm not certain when Coues' name became widely used, but as best as this old mind can remember, it was in the early to mid-1970s. It's only been in the last 25 years of so that those who insist we should say "Cows" have become so vocal. --- Bill Quimby

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    I hate to part with it, but I'm too old to use this gear again. I cannot tell you how many sailfish, dorado, tuna, and other off-shore fish I took with these rigs off both sides of the Sea of Cortez in the 1980s and early 1990s. Everything is still in good condition, but buyer may want to replace the line. I'm selling it as a package at $80 for all:

     

    1. Penn Senator 4-O reel with rod to match. (This was my sailfish, roosterfish and dorado rig.)

    2. Penn Senator 6-O reel with heavy rod to match. (This was my marlin and grouper rig.)

    3 A no-name antique (but still useable) pier reel with rod to match. This was my bottom-fishing rig for snappers, triggerfish, etc.

    4. Leather fighting belt with butt socket.

     

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