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I've got 19 for elk and 18 for pronghorn.

It crashed on TAKEOFF from the Tehran airport.

Nice! 👍

That's a good price for solid oak. I would scoop it up in a minute if I needed one. Good luck with the sale.

Santa's gonna get pissed if you start killing his elves. 🤣

That he was. He used to shoot in the metallic silhouette matches regularly. I did it for one season but hated to drive there so I quit. I don't think I knew Hood or Dunlap, or at least the names aren't familiar. Is Jensen still alive?

I don't have a clue where he wound up. The mauser alteration was the only thing he did for me, and I think he was already gone when I was in the gun wholesale business from 1973-1975. I also did a lot of business with Gilbert Ronstadt, Linda's daddy, at Ronstadt's Hardware in Tucson. Jensen's was another big shop there that I sold to on a regular basis.

Arizona Sportsman wasn't even around when I was in the gun business. 😉

Agree. Sadly, I don't see that ever happening.

That was 49 years ago. You must be an ol' codger like me. 👍

Yup! Sold stuff to them all. Lucky Wade did all the metal work on a 7X57 Argentine Mauser I sporterized. Paid $16.95 for the military version.

Assume you mean that as the good sportsman that you are, you adopted a couple, right? Otherwise, you might not want to post the above publically into too many places. "The animal is also protected under federal law by the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. Anyone found guilty of harassing, branding or killing one can face a fine of up to $2,000 and a year in jail."

If you enlarge the photo a lot, it appears to be wearing a tracking collar. Note the rectangular thingie directly down from the nose. Also seems to have something white around its body. 🤷‍♀️

A couple other jogged memories. Before I got into the gun selling part of my life, I bought my first two handguns from Bob's Sporting Goods, owned by Bob Nasar. One was a Ruger Single-Six combo and the other was a Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 mag. I also played AAA softball for Bob' Sporting Goods for several years. The original owner of Bellows Sporting Goods at 27th Ave. & Camelback was Ed Bellows. He later sold it to one of his employees named Chuck, but I can't remember his last name. Anyway, Chuck organized a 5-man trap shooting team, and we competed at a venue on the westside somewhere. I'm pretty sure it was on Indian School Rd. out near Litchfield. It's no longer there, however. After Mickey & his brother Ed closed down the store on Northern & 16 St., Mickey opened up a small shop on 16 St. but much farther south. He sold some new stuff, but it was mostly a reel and Coleman repair shop.

Hmmm. Didn't realize that. Last time I visited there was 2006 to buy a few dozen waterdogs. I was good friends with all of the DelRe's, especially Mickey. He and Chester Hanson (Hanson's Mortuary) often came to fish for pike with me at Vallecito Lake in Colorado when I owned a resort there in the mid-1970s. Both passed a way quite a few years ago. Here's Mickey with a 29 lb. northern.

Indeed. Also remember Camelback Guns, Wade's, Bellow's Sporting Goods, Bob's Sporting Goods, DelRe's Sporting Goods in Phx and Don's Sporting Goods in Scottsdale to name a few. All out of business now except for Al DelRe on S. Central. When I worked at the Jewel Box, it was touted as the largest firearms seller in the West. We not only sold in the store, but did oodles of business through ads in the Shotgun News. The Jewel Box opened in May 1949 at 41 South First Ave. To make room for Patriot's Park in 1976, the business moved to 601 North Central where it remained until the doors closed in May 2006.

Circa 1967, I was working at the Jewel Box on 1st. Ave in downtown Phoenix. We sold a lot of Pythons, but we also sold lots of altered Colt Diamondbacks after they were introduced. We had them reamed to accept the .357 mag cartridge, and the barrel was restamped to reflect that. Later into the early 1970s, I went to work for American Wholesale Hardware out of Long Beach, CA as a road rep selling firearms and fishing gear to retailers here in AZ. S&W, Colt & Ruger were just three of the lines we sold. I wish I knew then what I know now and had the money to stash a few dozen S&W M29s and Colt Pythons. Likewise for Belgium-made Brownings. 🤬 As an aside, the owner of American Wholesale Hardware, Judge Anderson, provided a goodly portion of the financial backing for Ruger & Sturm to start their company. Thus, even when firearms were being meted out, we never lacked having plenty of whatever Ruger made at the time.

Thank you. 👍 I had searched for that because I thought it was there but somehow missed it. EDIT: Figured what I did. I looked in the regs with the javelina HAM hunts instead of the deer regs booklet! Shame on me. 🤬

This isn't rocket science. Words have meanings and meanings have words. G&F doesn't define it because it's been defined for eons. hand·gun /ˈhan(d)ˌɡən/ noun: handgun; plural noun: handguns a gun designed for use by one hand, especially a pistol or revolver. pis·tol /ˈpistl/ noun: pistol; plural noun: pistols 1. a small firearm designed to be held in one hand. Firearms Verification Gun Control Act Definitions Pistol 18 U.S.C., § 921(A)(29) and 27 CFR § 478.11 The term “Pistol” means a weapon originally designed, made, and intended to fire a projectile (bullet) from one or more barrels when held in one hand, and having: a chamber(s) as an integral part(s) of, or permanently aligned with, the bore(s); and a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand at an angle to and extending below the line of the bore(s).

Since I use an electric smoker, I don't get any natural burning of wood. 😉I have to add wood chunks or chips to the pan and control the amount by time. I totally agree about the overpowering bit; that's why I asked about it. I wouldn't want prime rib to have the same smoky taste as my pulled pork or salmon.

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/arrest-made-in-connection-to-human-remains-on-pima-canyon-trail

I meant how long do you add smoke for, not cooking time. I use temp for that, also.

I hope you work things out, Bob. Your story sounds very much what my grandfather went through when he moved here in 1959 with my parents. My grandmother didn't want to leave NJ and told him she would rather die there. He told her, "Fine, die there. I'm going to Arizona." So every year, her and my single uncle would come to AZ to visit for two weeks. Usually, grandpa and grandma would get into a fight and she would leave. Finally, after she had a stroke in the early 1970s, he moved back to NJ and stayed there until she died. Then my uncle and him moved back to AZ, where they both died. My grandfather was 94. He had been my hunting partner in the 1960s & early 1970s. I have one of those for almost 10 years now. It's a nice perk for us old codgers.

How much (time wise) and what flavor smoke?