Coach

From what I understand, the Bush fire was started by a car fire on 87. What about these other fires? There's strict fire restrictions, and no lightning that I've seen. Just curious.

Yeah I actually had to look that one up!

This sucks. My mother-in-law has a place there in Punkin center. I love that place. Sure would be horrible to watch it burn up. And some of the residents there that got flooded out just a few years back and have rebuilt - I'm sending out prayers tonight and hoping for the best for the people who live there and dealt with this last year. I hope they don't lose their homes.

What do we know about the ithaca wall hanger? Does it shoot? If so, I'll take it. I'm in the valley this weekend.

That will go quick. Super nice truck. Bump for the OP.

Wow, take away a poacher's right to hunt legally - that's the solution. Just amazing. In the end, it's like catching a bank robber and telling them they should stop it. He shakes his head in agreement, goes down the street to the first bank he finds and robs it. For guys like this it's open season 24/7 on whatever game they want. He just happened to get caught, and he learned how the process works and has become more educated in how not to get caught the next time. I'm glad he's a felon, and even more glad that he's part of a tight knit community who, by and large do things legally, and will scrutinize him more than the courts did. I hope it takes him a long time to reconcile his actions with the standards of his family, community and the hunting community as a whole. He chose his own destiny.

What's Blast?

I've got a Ranger. It's been good but if/when I replace it I'm going Honda.

On the other hand, living here in the White Mountains, I don't really have to worry about things like drawing a tag, bag limits, rez boundaries. It's the wild, wild west up here. If you see a buffalo or bighorn under unit 23 power lines, don't be surprised.Maybe even a unicorn.

If get a ding on my CC, it's either the strip for me or 12AW for my son. It's not gonna happen, I know it, you know it, but if it does I'm putting a big fat smiley on here.

Alright Edge - you just called me Stanley, and I didn't even know what you meant by that. You got some 'splainin' to do

At least you can operate your chainsaw at night.

Honestly, I don't think it's a bad thing. Life happens. We all get wrapped up in our hectic schedules. I lost my loyalty bonus point a few years back not because I missed it, but rushed it and made an error. I make a point of sending out texts to friends to be sure not to miss the deadline. We all want our hunts, but isn't it a little loser-iffic to hope other hunters miss the deadline? Maybe just me, but I'd rather see all my fellow hunters get their apps in and take my chances. To each their own.

Nice rifle and good price. Good luck with the sale.

I found an elk wallow in 24A a few years back, right around the Apache mountains. Talked with the game manager at the time and she confirmed there were elk in that area. It's actually not that surprising when you look at units like 23 and 27 that have everything from pines to desert and the elk move back and fourth throughout the year.

Mine all went overboard in a fishing accident. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Wow - nice job. Here I am 5 minutes away and missing out on all that! The JJ stuff has me rolling too - good stuff.

I'd say Rainbow. Very little shore access due to private property, and it is super weedy.

I think one of the best things we can do for ourselves and our family is to create a living will. It's not that hard to do, but God forbid, something happens, you don't want your loved ones bickering or fighting about what you would want - in terms of whether you are buried, cremated, what happens with your assets. I haven't done it yet, but I'm also just figuring out how and why it is important. If you do, you get a voice about how you want things to go down if something does happen to you. and the people you love. If you don't, it can be be a terrible thing for your loved ones to argue or fight about what they each think you would want. Put it down, get it notarized, and then there's no ambiguity if/when the situation occurs.

Yeah, in the spawn you usually catch them best in shallow water, right up next to the bank. In years when the water fluctuates a lot, that can be hard.

I'm not sure people are really aware of what it means to be put on a ventilator. A friend-of-a-friend recently died from a heart attack because of the stress the ventilator put on his body. It's a very sad thing, and he had a lot of heath issues but the short version is, they didn't know his underlying health issues, induced a coma and put him on the ventilator. He died shortly after. Not saying they did anything wrong, but his issues were with his kidneys, not his lungs. So, if you happen to have a living will, include things like not being put on a ventilator unless absolutely necessary. Sometimes the cure can be worse than the condition.

I've listed a few items for sale and included my phone number. I get a PM from one guy and a text from another. Well, the PM came first but I wasn't notified, so the text was actually my first verified offer. The PM guy was upset because he was technically the first offer. In wanting to be fair, my policy now is whoever shows up first with the money gets the item. But I'll still do my best to give preference to the first to respond when possible.

Just gotta say, my wife is a teacher and they had to completely adjust to this thing at the drop of a hat. She's got to coordinate zoom meetings with 50+ students, and carry on like normal. They still have to create lesson plans, everything they had to do before, but with a lot more dumped on them. Now, they also get super upset parents who are having issues adjusting. If anything, they should be recognized for how quickly they adjusted and kept on teaching despite the added hardships. FWIW, I just read this to her, and her response was, the douchebag who suggested teachers stop getting paid should get his butt kicked, and she's willing to do it. So there's that.

This has been on my mind a lot, and I'm sure others. I'd like some folks with more legal experience to chime in. So we have a state of emergency with the c-19 thing, and we see state governors basically getting to create laws with no due process whatsoever. In Michigan it's what stores can stay open, and then what you can buy there and what you can't, who you can visit and why. In California, you can be cited while sitting in your car watching a sunset. All across the country there's countless examples of usurpation of the legal process including who can cross state lines and what they must go through in terms of quarantine, etc. So, it seems that once a "state of emergency" is declared, laws don't have to go through any process of approval, they just become mandate immediately. This scares me a lot. The police are out there enforcing these pseudo-laws that are just the whim of a single person. It takes a long time for a bill to become an actual, recognized law. There's supposed to be a process there that vets the law before it becomes enforceable. If this experience has taught me anything, it's that the government can basically strip us of all rights, force us into self confinement (incarceration), shut down businesses and basically control every aspect of our lives without any form of due, legal process, if they deem it to be "in our best interest". Tell me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be shining a huge spotlight on an Achilles's Heel in our system. The threshold between order and tyranny is paper thin, and in my mind doesn't hold up to our Constitution, or our basic premise, as a Constitutional Republic. I'd like to hear your opinions. -Coach

I hate to reply to my own post but I just came across this