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I posted an AGFD press release in the News from Arizona Game and Fish Dept. : and Dusty posted this:

Thinking while lying in bed: I seem to recall a name more like "Glendale Meat Locker" or such??

Thanks for the memory jog! Dead on with all of them. AAA rather than A1, although I can't recall the name of the older, balding guy that I have in my mind. None seem to jog me, but I'm wanting to say it was Vern, just not positive.

Clue of the day: My mentor was already in his 60s when I first met him in the 1960s.

Dead on! And I can relate to the multi-faceted deal, as the same as happened in my life. Coincidentally, some of them we share, ala horsemanship/packing skills, carpentry, masonry and vehicle mechanics. The carpentry bit is sort of funny in a way. My Italian family in NJ, including my dad, were always into building or remodeling stuff. So growing up, my weekends were often spent as a helper/gofer on some project like adding on a 2-car garage. So along the way, I learned a lot of the rough type carpentry by watching. Then when I moved to Colo. in the mid-70s, I worked winters building expensive custom houses. I spent one of those winters working for a young contractor who rented a cabin at our lodge. Although Steve was only 27, he knew his way around with hammer and saw quite well. We spent the winter building a huge $250K house for a Texas cardiac surgeon and basically made everything from scratch, including all the oak cabinets in the kitchen. It was Steve who mentored me at 37 years old in the disciplines of fine carpentry -- an interest I've kept and used since then. Most importantly, it's saved me oodles of money as I have completely redone the house we now live in. 🤣

I was going by the absence of a heavy shadow under the hat brim, which wouldn't be likely, given the shadow presenton the rest of the image. Or, it was perhaps lightened in post processing? Either way, it's a good pic.

So now please remember the guy's name that owned A1 because it's driving me nuts! 🤬

That all happened before I arrived here in Jan. 1962.

The three that began Black Canyon were Avery, Glenn Taylor and Jim Beaman. I never heard of Cannon. I shot silhouette matches at Tucson Three Points early 70s, so maybe I rubbed elbows with Milt Hood and didn't know it. 😎 Ding, ding!!! I think that is the place. I remember that one, but I don't think that was the one I used, which I think was farther west and north. But it wouldn't be the first time my mind failed and most certainly not the last. 🤣

No, but how ironic since not more than 15 minutes ago, I pulled Sam's book, The Complete Shooter, off the shelf because I'm getting ready to list it for sale. Not sure if Sam is still alive because I haven't spoke to him for at least 30 years. Last I knew, he was living in Alpine as of about 3 or 4 years ago. If he's still around, he's about my age.

Actually, I was serious -- i.e. referring mostly to the pose and lighting, which looks like good use of fill flash.

Man, I sure didn't recognize Jensen. Any idea of photo date???

Is the guy standing in ctr. with light-colored baseball hat Bo(e)hm (Russ?)?

I only recall the one I mentioned.

I know. 🤣 I met Ben at a get-together at Hirsch's house sometime in the early 1970s, but only visited with him a couple times after that, mostly at small gatherings or meetings of some organization or such. He was a very soft-spoken and humble individual. If I recall, he was actually one of the founders of the range under its former life as Black Canyon Shooting Range. way back in the 1950s.

Cowboy hat in front is Ben Avery. Guy standing in ctr. with light-colored baseball hat and the guy in the cowboy hat standing far right seem like familair faces, but I can't put a name to them.

I think the Boat shop is farther east, just before 51st ave. The bait shop on Grand was where I bought waterdogs when I ventured to Colo. after pike. I can't recall the name, tho I can picture the guy that owned it quite well in mind -- older man with grey, balding hair. And if my memory serves me right, I seem to recall the meat locker where I often took deer/elk for processing was right near the bait shop on a side street off Grand,

Very nice buck, and good photo technique, as well.

No, not Ben.

I do recall an archery store that was right on a corner of maybe 53rd/54th ave, near Value Village & closer to downtown. I bought some stuff there in the 1990s when I got back into bowhunting. I believe they also had a short shooting range. I didn't really take notice if they did any gun-type business or not. We have that in common. My mom bought mine in 1960 for $39 at a Two Guys store in Hackensack, NJ.

Anyone else do business at Bob's Sporting Goods, which was in the shopping plaza on the NW corner of Glendale & 35th Ave? I bought both my Ruger Single Six convertible and .44 mag Super Blackhawk there in the late 1960s while I was selling major Sear's appliance a few doors down. Lost that job when I told the store mgr. "take this job and shove it" when I decided to go on my DIY horseback elk hunt in Colo. after he warned me my job was in danger. 🙄

Those prices are about 1960s types. 😂

"Hunting Wild Turkey in the West by John Higley will give the turkey hunter an advantage in going after one of the most prized of hunting experiences. As the first of its kind on hunting turkeys in the West, it includes an 11-state round-up, detailing the progress of turkey programs in each state, and offering a list of sources of information. Author John Higley, a recognized turkey hunting expert and one of the nation's most widely published outdoor writers has hunted throughout the West and spent thousands of hours in the field both hunting and researching turkeys. “Hunting Wild Turkey in the West” is the most comprehensive and authoritative source of information available. Seventeen chapters, 154 pages and many B&W photographs in 6x9-inch format, softcover." My copy, published in 1990, is as-new, never read condition and signed: "Tony, Thanks for your help -- it is appreciated-- John Higley." If I recall, I provided info in regards to AZ & CO. I believe John is still with us, but I'm not positive since I haven't spoke with him in about 15 years. 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

As the ad says, never read. 😂 That said, John did a lot of turkey hunting in many states. I'm guessing he learned a lot. Someone on another site bought it as a gift for his son in Idaho.

Another good guess. Although, Mickey and I became friends, I didn't know him well until the early 1970s when I was a road rep and sold hunt/fish stuff to him & his brother, Ed, at their store on Northern. I did hunt with Mickey twice, tho -- once for deer & turkey in TX and once for elk near Pagosa Springs. And in the 1970s when we had our lodge at Vallecito Lake in Colo., Mick, usually with his close friend, Chet Hansen (Hansen Mortuary) or others along, would come up a couple times a year to fish for northern pike with me. The pike below, at better than 29 lbs. still ranks as the 3rd largest to be caught there. This is Mickey & his friend, Duke Tartaglia