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He was referring to turning in the permit while still retaining points. And that is correct. Then once he turns in that permit, he gets the points back and can use then to help someone else one more time, which in this case results in the loss of all the points. In both instances, the cost of the permit is not refunded. From then on, accumulating points begins anew.

In the late 1960s, three of us were sleeping on the beach on a fishing trip we did near Puerto Lobos in Sonora. In the middle of the night, a fox bit a now deceased friend of mine in the neck. He managed to grab the fox and strangle it. We immediately packed up and headed back to AZ with the fox's head on ice. It turned out to be rabid, so my buddy had to go through the shot routine.

The press release actually said those two things can help spread CWD, mostly through direct contact. They aren't the sole source. Plus, those are the two things that the prions attack the most. In order for them to be infected, though, the prions have to be introduced into the animal in some way. CWD prions have been found in urine, blood, feces and saliva of infected deer and elk, and it's usually one of those that passes the prions from one critter to the next. I recall also reading a while back that they're researching whether ticks or mosquitoes might be spreading CWD. Not sure where that is at, however. As for the velvet antlers, they normally contain blood. But then so does boned out meat. So that leaves the question of why ban one and not the other?

Yeah, I know. That was in response to yotebuster's "when we start looking for it" comment.

AGFD tested more than 1,000 deer and elk in 2018.

GAME AND FISH NEWS Aug. 22, 2019 AZGFD asks hunters to help keep Chronic Wasting Disease at bay Arizona remains CWD-free due to surveillance efforts PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is asking hunters to continue doing their part to help keep Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurodegenerative wildlife disease that is fatal to deer and elk, at bay. With the start of big game hunts right around the corner, all successful deer and elk hunters are encouraged to bring the head of their harvested animal — especially bucks and bulls — to any department office statewide between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The preferred method for delivery is to place the head in a heavy-duty plastic trash bag, and keep it cool and out of the sun. The department also requests hunters to provide accurate hunter information (name, telephone number), as well as hunt information (hunt number, game management unit in which the animal was harvested, state and hunting license number). This information is crucial should a positive CWD sample occur. Department officials did not find any cases of CWD in the 1,200-plus deer (mule and white-tailed) and elk that were harvested by hunters and voluntarily submitted for testing in 2018. Game and Fish has been testing for the presence of the disease in Arizona since 1998. While CWD has been found in the neighboring states of Utah, New Mexico and Colorado, the disease has not been detected in Arizona. CWD has not been documented to cause disease in people. CWD is transmitted and spread by animal movement and direct contact, which means the illegal importation of a cervid carcass or parts with brain or spinal column tissue of an infected animal could introduce the disease into Arizona. To that point, an individual is only allowed to possess, transport or import the following portions of cervids lawfully taken in another state or country: Meat that is boneless or has been commercially butchered and packaged Finished taxidermy mounts Skulls that are mounted or clean skulls/skull plates without any meat or soft tissue Antlers that are hard-horned or velvet antlers that have been taxidermied Hides without any meat or soft tissue Teeth without any tissue attached For information about importation of harvested animals in other states, please contact that state’s wildlife management agency. For more information about CWD, visit the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance website at http://cwd-info.org/. It may take longer than a year before an infected animal develops symptoms of CWD, which can include drastic weight loss (wasting), stumbling, listlessness and other neurological symptoms. CWD can affect animals of all ages, although it’s most frequently noticed in older animals. CWD is fatal, and there are no treatments or vaccines. All hunters are advised not to shoot, handle or consume any animal that is exhibiting abnormal behavior or appears to be sick. Wear latex or rubber gloves when field dressing deer or elk. All hunters are asked to call the department at 1-(800)-352-0700 if they see or harvest an animal that appears to be sick.

FROM AGFD: Aug. 21, 2019 Wildfire will affect some deer, bear hunts in Prescott National Forest Closure area includes portion of Game Management Unit 17B PHOENIX — The Sheridan Fire, burning 23 miles northwest of Prescott in the Prescott National Forest, is forcing the closure of an area within the forest’s Chino Valley Ranger District. The closure will affect those hunters who are planning to hunt deer and bear in parts of Game Management Unit 17B. The archery-only nonpermit-tag season for deer and general season for bear in that unit begins Friday, Aug. 23. The closure near Camp Wood Road is for the protection of the public and to allow U.S. Forest Service personnel to effectively manage the lightning-caused wildfire, which has burned almost 3,500 acres. Areas outside of the closures will remain open to hunting. A map of the closure area, along with the full Public Safety Closure Order, is available on the Prescott National Forest website. A community meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. today (Aug. 21) at Prescott High School’s Ruth Street Theater, 1050 Ruth St., in Prescott. For more information, call (928) 777-2200.

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For a bit of a change, try searing them quickly with a bit of olive oil in a very hot pan (no more than 30 sec. per side) and then add them and simmer about 15 min. in a basil marinara sauce to top off your macaroni of choice.

THESE ITEMS HAVE BEEN SOLD ALREADY. I have a Bogen 3431 leg set with a 3265 head that I'll be listing, but I'm in Glendale.

What is the pay range for an "entry level position?"

I believe that 130 1/8" P&Y buck is Sergio Orozco's, which is on the cover of HOW TO HUNT COUES DEER. The story of how he killed it is in the TALES chapter.

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No. It was killed in NM a few years ago by Mike Gallo, who I think is the same guy that killed the deer in this thread. Until then, two bucks from AZ were tied for the B&C world record. I believe CWT member Marvin Zieser (stickflicker) still has the P&Y record while another NM 'lope is the top SCI one.

I killed my very first deer, a buck with 12" spikes, in the Catskills in 1960 with a Marlin 336 30/30.

Bighorn sheep lottery tag raised over $109,000 for sheep research and management For the Arizona hunter whose ticket was pulled for the 28th Annual Bighorn Sheep Tag Lottery, it represents the hunt of a lifetime. For the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, it means more than $109,000 in funding will benefit wild sheep conservation in Idaho. The lucky winner of the 2019 Bighorn Sheep Tag Lottery was Andrew Tomlinson, a resident of Prescott, Ariz. The Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation held the drawing outside Fish and Game Headquarters in Boise on July 31. Tomlinson was one of around 1,000 people from across the nation who bought anywhere from one to several hundred chances. The winning ticket was drawn by Idaho Fish and Game Director Ed Schriever. In 2019, the lottery raised over $109,000, the second-highest total ever, and the highest for a year in which the lottery tag cannot be used in Hunt Area 11 in H ell’s Canyon. This year, the Idaho Wild Sheep Foundation donated all of the lottery proceeds to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

So the story goes...

Likely pros at sheep, huh?

Great buck. 👍

Not likely to happen even though we have sold out the soft-cover version of this one. I'm fully retired now, and doing the necessary rewrites and associated tasks would require lots of hours again. Why? Because it would all have to be put into the PDF files anew -- a major task. In the real world of book authors, they write the text and send it to the publisher to do all the rest. Not so with How to Hunt Coues Deer. When I did the original, I also did all the scanning of photos and then had to transform every image, including the digital ones, into print-ready tiff files. Then I had to edit the articles in the TALES section. A few were not too readable as sent to us. 😉 And of course, I also had to write the rest of the book from scratch and take some fill-in photos of equipment, etc. Once those things were done, it was on to the design and layout so everything fit on a page properly. Wherever text wraps around a photo, you're looking at least 10-15 mins. of work. The photo section took me about 8 days to size and caption them and then to do the layout. I did both for the covers and the inside pages using MS Publisher. The printer then converted those files to PDF files for the actual printing. IOW, everything about doing an entire book by yourself is a labor intensive endeavor. So now you know more than you wanted to know about why there will be no 2019 edition. 🤣

According to Leopold, the year was 1937.

It was already known that the lower-48 grizzly bear population was in severe decline in 1966. So it's unlikely a USFW hunter would be out and about killing them. And if that was the case, it probably would have been "news" in that time frame. About 10 years later, the grizz was added to the ESA. The only modern-day killing of a "last grizzly bear" anywhere that I can recall was the sow in Colorado where it attacked a guide who wound up killing it by stabbing it with an arrow. It happened in 1979 in the San Juan Mts., where I was living at the time.

Anytime you use a WA lens and have something closer to the camera, it will appear much larger than a similar item farther away. I'll try not to get too technical, but it's commonly known as perspective shift or perspective distortion. The three things that can affect it are the focal length of the lens, the distance from the subject or the angle you shoot it. As an object gets closer to a lens, the image will appear distorted because of how the angles of light enter the lens. The closer you get to something, the difference of the angle increases between stuff at the center of the frame and the edges. This sort of perspective shift is often seen in pix where the hunter sits three feet behind his trophy or where an angler holds his fish at arms in length in front. Again, in tech talk, it's called a forced perspective, i.e. wanting to get that exact effect. It's an age-old photographic technique that has seen wide-spread use. 😉 A "normal" lens is generally 50-55mm, and it's called that because of how everything appears as close as you can get to what the human eye would see. Anything less, and you're getting into more of a wider angle. Focal lengths that are longer tend to compress objects more. For example, if you shoot a bunch of telephone poles with a 300mm lens in an almost direct line, they will appear to be only a few feet apart in the final image. Now, in this thread, the only images that appear more toward normal are the ones where one rack is sitting inside the other. Both are on the same plane from the lens, so less chance for perspective distortion. Same for Houston's front-on bear rugs shot. His other are skewed because of the angle he took them from with a somewhat WA lens.