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Dandy trophy, young man. Kudos.....

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This is a very large soft fleece fanny pack that has shoulder straps to help bear the weight. It's perfect for quail hunting. The waist belt has a large zippered pouch on each side. It's never been used in the field; photos only. Comes complete with water bottle. The waist belt has been shortened to fit a 32-34" waist. I will consider reasonable offers but no trades. Payment via PayPal (buyer doesn't need an acct; just a CC or checking acct.) or cash only. Picked up near 67th Ave. and Camelback or shipped at buyer's expense. SOLD

At the risk of being called a narcissist, I'll fill in some blanks. From the late 50s on into the 70s, varmint calling & hunting became really popular. A lot of clubs cropped up in CA, TX and even CO. Bill won four world championship calling events and probably would have won more had he not died when he did. Sam was an expert caller, as well and excelled at the hunting end. He often used a 20 ga. shotgun that he called "Singin' Sally." Tallon had been a guide at the Grand Canyon, worked in the I&E dept. at the AGFD for a time and eventually became a freelance, prolific photographer with photos in about every major outdoor magazine and most notably as a regular contributor to AZ Highways. If I had to label him in regards to myself, I'd call him a "life changer." He was also my link to Bob Hirsch, Bill Sizer, Steve Galiziola & Wes Keyes -- all folks he knew from when he had worked at the AGFD and later introduced me to them. I first met Jim one afternoon in either 1967 or '68 when I was hanging out at Bellows Sporting Goods on Camelback & 27th Ave. Ed Bellows, the owner, introduced us, and somehow the topic of why Jim's wife's car wouldn't start came up. At the time he lived just east of 35th Ave., north of what was then Grand Canyon College. So I offered to go and take a look at the car, an early 1960s era VW bug. It was a simple fix: no spark because the points weren't opening. As of way of thanks, Jim invited my wife and I to dinner the next night. It was the start of a friendship that would last until his death in 2010 at 85 yrs. old. During the 1980s, we usually met for coffee every morning at the Smitty's at 35th Ave. & Bethany. That ended when Jim moved to Ahwatukee. I was doing a lot of hunting back then, so when we'd be together, I often related some hunt or another and sometime showed him a crummy snapshot taken with one of the cheapie cameras avialble then. To this day, I remember what he told me after a few months; he said, "You need to buy a decent camera and start putting your experiences down on paper." I took that suggestion to heart; a few days later I went downtown to the Jewel Box and bought a used Minolta SRT101 camera with a normal 55mm lens for $75, and within a year or so, my photo gear expanded greatly. As for putting stuff on paper, that was easy since my college majors were biology and journalism. And I even owned a manual typewriter -- the "computer" of old. Although he was a bit older than me, Jim sort of took me 'under his wing,' especially with the photography aspects. And after a few months I was writing regularly for 'Outdoor Arizona,' which was published by the same company as 'Phoenix' magazine. The editor of both was the late Manya Winsted, who eventually went on to 'Phoenix Home & Garden.' Thus, my outdoor writing career began, and when I finally had enough stuff published, Jim had me join the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). After we bought our resort at Vallecito Lake in CO in 1976, Jim visited twice -- once to use my entire family for a photo shoot in the Valley of the Gods (Utah) for a Winnebago motor home brochure and another time to pick me up for my first visit to Yellwostone NP during the elk rut, which would be only one of many in the years that followed. This was also the time I made what I decided was the worst trade of my life. In the early 1970s I managed the Pennys sporting goods dept. at Tower Plaza shopping center. While there I bough a beautiful Charles Daley O/U 20 ga. The wood was spectacular. I swapped it with Tallon for a motor driven Minolta camera body that was all manual. For wildlife photos, it was a royal pain, compared to the other auto everything bodies I had in my arsenal. I found out through her FB page that the Daley was passed on to Jim's daughter, Rachel, who was born the year after I first met him and eventually became a NP park ranger at Petrified Forest NP. She's now well into her 50s and is still using the gun to hunt. It was on the YNP trip in 1976 that I first met Jim Zumbo. Tallon and I were sitting in a pullout in his van watching a herd of elk when Zumbo and his friend, Gabby Barrus, pulled in behind us. Zumbo had recognized the van and walked up to Tallon's window. He had met Tallon at an OWAA conference. By the time they were done talking, Zumbo had invited us to dinner in the trailer they had parked in one of the campgrounds. I wouldn't see Zumbo again until 1980 when I attended my first OWAA conference, which was one of many. I became quite active in that organization, serving three years on the board along with Zumbo, and several years on both the ethics and membership committees, the latter for vetting applicants' credentials. In the meantime, Zumbo and I became good friends. By 1984, I was selling enough articles and photos to quit my sales rep job and go fulltime freelance. I never looked back. Eventually I had stints as the AZ state editor of Outdoor Life for 7 years and as a contributing editor of Arizona Hunter & Angler for 10+ years. In addition to features and the Last Shot column for AH&A, I also wrote the 'Lake of the Month' feature under my "pen name," Lou Migali -- my late grandfather who was a mentor of sorts, too. In 2005, at the SHOT show in LV and the SCI show in Reno by tele-conference call, 200+ of our peers elected Zumbo, me and seven other writers as the steering committe to form a new writers' organization. We all travelled to the White Oak Plantation in AL to do the task, which became the Professional Outdoot Media Assoc. (POMA) The steering committee served as the first board of directors. In the photo below, two of the nine are missing: Laurie Lee Dovey & Jim Casada. As I wrote earlier, meeting Jim Tallon that fateful afternoon was life-changing. 😉 Now, I'm tired of trying to remember stuff for now. When I get my mind back together, I'll provide some back story about Sam. Stay tuned.

This 448-pg. hardcover copy of The Complete Shooter by Sam Fadala, a resource guide for the practical Shooter was published by DBI books in1984. Some of the topics covered are: choosing and using modern firearms; knowing & understanding rifles, shotguns and handguns; time proven sporting shooting & hunting techniques; the how-tos of sights, ballistics, handloading and gun care. It is well illustrated with lots of B&W photos, charts and diagrams. My unread copy is in very good condition with a few small tears in the dust jacket. Original retail in 1984 was $29.95. There are a bunch of paperbacks available out there but few hardcover copies. I will consider reasonable offers but no trades. Payment via PayPal (buyer doesn't need an acct; just a CC or checking acct.) or cash only. Must be picked up near 67th Ave. & Camelback in Glendale, AZ or shipped at buyer's expense. ($4) SOLD

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The 128-pg. "The Hunter's Handbook" by Craig Boddington is more of a coffee-table style book with lots of color photos. This hardcover, published by Mallard Press in Sept. 1992, measures11.5"x11.5" and has a paper dust jacket. My copy is in like-new, never read condition. I will consider reasonable offers but no trades. Payment via PayPal (buyer doesn't need an acct; just a CC or checking acct.) or cash only. Must be picked up near 67th Ave. & Camelback or shipped at buyer's expense. ($4) SOLD

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GAME AND FISH NEWS Nov. 23, 2020 Commission to consider amendments to 2021 elk hunts PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Commission will consider and may approve amendments to Commission Order 4 (elk) and 26 (population management hunts) hunts and permit numbers in some units for the 2021 hunts. The proposed amendments, posted online at https://www.azgfd.com/Hunting/Guidelines/, will be presented by the Arizona Game and Fish Department for consideration during a public meeting Friday, Dec. 4, in Payson. The Commission approved the 2021 elk and population management hunts and permit numbers in December 2019 as part of a two-year hunt recommendation package. The Department is recommending several amendments for the 2021 hunts to better manage elk in flexible management and minimal occurrence zones in Game Management Units 2A, 2B, 2C, 3B, 4A and 4B. The Commission meeting agenda is posted at https://www.azgfd.com/Agency/Commission. Visit www.azgfd.gov/huntguidelines to learn more about the hunt recommendations and hunt guidelines processes.

Below from the original post: The proposed amendments, posted online at https://www.azgfd.com/Hunting/Guidelines/,.... The Commission approved the 2021 elk and population management hunts and permit numbers in December 2019 as part of a two-year hunt recommendation package. The Department is recommending several amendments for the 2021 hunts to better manage elk in flexible management and minimal occurrence zones in Game Management Units 2A, 2B, 2C, 3B, 4A and 4B.

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The Battle

A different kind of battle

That is one BIG bunch of elk! The only place I've ever seen that many together was the elk refuge near Jackson.

I was too young to vote for him at 19 in 1961 but would have had he run a 2nd time. My dad and I were sitting in the office of his gas station at 33rd. Ave. and Indian School with a small B&W TV going when they broke into the program to announce Kennedy had been shot.

Okay, already. 😂 Bill Dudley worked at Goodyear Aerospace as an electrician, and he liked to party hard. Now all the minute details are somewhat foggy, but this is the best I remember from what Sam later related. Bill got pretty drunk and rowdy. I seem to recall that a bar fight ensued. The Phx police were called, arrested Dudley and threw him in the back of one of those old-type paddy wagons, that was basically a PU truck with a box on the back. Off to the downtown jail they went. When they got there, Bill Dudley was either already dead or very close to it. He died of CO2 poisoning. They later found that the truck had a faulty exhaust system, and the lawsuit that followed cost the city a lot of money. Now you know the rest of the story.

Oh, another old friend, but I never hunted with him that I can recall. If I did, it would have been for dove or quail, along with my photography mentor, Jim Tallon. Bill wrote a pamphlet on taking care of game in the field. He passed away about 12-15 years ago.

Cool. Thanks.

New Mexico Game & Fish cracks down on hunters lying to get licenses NEW MEXICO by: Francesca Washington Posted: Oct 8, 2019 / 05:10 PM MDT / Updated: Oct 8, 2019 / 05:16 PM MDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico Game and Fish has caught and charged dozens of people trying to play the system. With hunting season well underway, any seasoned hunter will tell you, it’s a competitive process to try and get a big game license. Not only are they competing against in-state hunters, but they are also going up against out-of-state hunters. “Out of state hunters definitely do take a big amount of our tags,” says Dale Reid. Fraudulent activity has made it even harder because some out of state hunters are lying so that they can get an in-state hunting license. “It’s better for the residents because it is cheaper they offer packages for hunting small game and fish they offer in a package for out of staters it does cost more,” Reid says. For example, a New Mexico resident pays $90 for a bull elk while out-of-state hunters pay $548. For a bighorn sheep, residents pay $160 and non-residents pay $3,178. New Mexico Game and Fish officials say they had more than 400 suspicious license applications this year. “After the draw is complete our officers go through everybody who received a draw tag and look through those to make sure everybody is doing what they say they’re doing,” says Tristanna Bickford. Investigators found 45 clear cases of fraud they’ve filed charges in all of them. They say there are always clear red flags. “So if you apply for a license saying that you’re a resident but don’t have a driver’s license from New Mexico, or may have an address that seems a little bit suspicious using a work address instead of a home address,” Bickford says. Local hunters say its a frustrating situation. “That’s fraud… so that’s going to be something I definitely don’t approve. I feel like the state should crack down more on that.” In order to apply for a resident license, you have to live in New Mexico for at least 90 days. New Mexico Game and Fish just pressed charges against a man who was transferred to the state as part of his job. Had he waited the required 90 days, he wouldn’t be in trouble right now. Applying for a resident license when you live out of state is a misdemeanor charge, but you can also lose your hunting privileges for up to three years.

Neat gun. Uberti has been around for more than 75 years. They make good stuff.

That's them. I couldn't think of the name.

There was a gal who shot silhouettes where I did at the Tucson R&G Club range who was in the B class. I can't remember her name, but her husband's name was Duke. She was heavy set and always wore these flowery, tent-like dresses and scarf on her head. Weirdest of all, she shot barefoot. I did a short article about her for Mother Earth News circa early 1970s sometime.

That's about what I did with the AVCA. I attended a couple meetings and calling contests with Sam but couldn't get enthused about making hunting into a competitive sport, so I didn't join. That's the same reason I fished only one or two organized bass tournaments. Trapping is one discipline I never tried, mostly because it seemed to take a lot of time to do properly.