Outdoor Writer

Is it rifled or smooth?

Yeah, likely so. My memory is a little weak, but didn't we have some sort of thing in regards to Nugent a long time back?

IMO, listening to some of the later music is the equivalent to listening to nothing. 🤣 At least you could actually understand the lyrics in the songs of the '50s.

When I went bear hunting the first time in BC in the 1980s, it was mostly spot & stalk hunting. The guide made me take off my shoes before we started a stalk. After the first day, I carried a heavy pair of wool socks to slip on over my regular ones. That worked mucho better until we hunted in the rain and wound up with socks that squished. 🤣 I later adapted that here in AZ by carrying a pair of flexible-soled mocs in my fanny pack and changed out my boots for them to do a stalk. They make it a lot easier to feel stuff under your feet that will go crunch, yet still protect your feet from sharp objects like broken cholla pods.

That's a pretty good deal. Which plan do you have? When I bought my Durango in 2009, they offered a lifetime plan with all stations for about $375, if I recall. I looked at the yearly rates and quickly decided that was the best way to go. But when we bought the Elantra last year, I called to do the same, and they told me it's no longer offered. Obviously, they felt they were losing a lot of money with it. So we signed up for the Mostly Music package at $128 plus $24 for US royalty fee per year. It comes up for renewal on 9/27, so I'll definitely call and see what kind of deal I can get. I'm an expert at that since I do it with Cox Cable on a regular basis. They offer an ala carte deal for $8.99 monthly, but it probably has the royalty fee tacked on, as well. So that would still be over $100 for her to listen to 70-yr. old songs. 🤣

Man, you guys listen to some weird chit. I have a lifetime subscription (no longer offered) to Sirius in my Durango. Although it includes every station, I listen to only one of them -- oldies from the '50s. Otherwise I'm listening to 98.7 sports on regular FM or 620 on AM. Those are the only buttons programmed on my radio. My wife also has Sirius in her Hyundae but could only get a yearly subscription at $150+ per. She also is always tuned to oldies from the '50s.

Keep the wind in your face.

When I still fished, I also used a 9 wt. -- a Series 1 Berkley ( which I'll be selling shortly) for tarpon. I can't remember without pulling it out of the rod tube, but also will have either a 5 or 6 wt. Series 1 for sale. Caught my only permit while fishing for bones in John Pennekamp Park in the Keys. With those big slab sides, they put up a heck of a battle. Also got to see one of those monster manatees that hang out in the park. And, it's also the site where I wound up with hypothermia when it was 70-80 degs.

Now that you got your feet wet, so to speak, somewhere down the road plan a trip to the Keys for bones and the BIG tarpon. It's a blast.

Many, many years ago, I had a permit in 34A and had never hunted it. So before the season opened Duwane met me early one morning at the rest area on I19. We drove about 1/2 way up the road to the observatory and parked in a wide spot along the guard rail. Our tripods were set up so we were looking over the rail at one long canyon and ridge. By 10 a.m, we had spotted a bunch of deer, including a Booner that came up and crossed the road just above us. I couldn't find him again when the hunt was on, however.

Better if you had posted in a more pertinent section. This one is for help with the forum software.

And goats...

Probably a type of mud dauber wasp.

So in which community do you reside, Ponderosa or Colcord? And what were the "significant problems" caused in 2015? I'm reposting the above questions with hopes you'll get around to answering them so members here will know the REAL reasons for your lawsuit isn't about the wildlife. And I'll add another: Do you have a current 2019 hunting license? If not, did you have one in 2018?

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If they already know that, benign is the better kind of growth. The malignant type is the one to worry about. Hoping the biopsy shows benign for her.

Sharing is fine. It's up to you to separate the facts from the fiction -- especially how someone who has been dead for several years has hand-to-hand combat with a grizz. And what better "local pioneer" is there than his own son? 😉

That's what it's all about right there. Two great bucks for two pretty young gals.

Not according to the article: "The days of marauding bands of Apache were gone but life was still not easy working cattle in the rough mountainous ranges along the Blue River. Beef-killing bears were still numerous. One day in 1888 Fritz came across one of his range cows that been freshly killed by a grizzly." And it later goes on to say: "His son, Fred Fritz Jr., born in 1895 and a cattleman all his life, shared this story with me (author Marshall Trimble) several years ago. He took over the ranch on the Blue River after his father died in 1916. Fred was President of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association. He also served in the Arizona Legislature as both Speaker of the House and President of the Senate.

That happened in1888. Grizzly bears still existed in AZ long after that.

Another good read on my book shelves for those who enjoy such is Meet Mr. Grizzly - A Saga on the Passing of the Grizzly Bear by Montague Stevens (1859-1953). He was a Brit who graduated from Cambridge and moved to Catron County in New Mexico where he became one of the more noted grizzly bear hunters of the time. He used horses and hounds for most of his hunts, and after 1888, he did it with one arm after losing the other one in a hunting accident. He actually wrote the book, which was first published in 1943 by the University of New Mexico Press.

When I first began writing in the late 1960s, I was doing monthly articles for a magazine called Arizona Outdoors. One weekend, I was shooting in a metallic silhouette match at the Tucson Rod & Gun Club range and met a guy that was part of a group that was akin to the Bill Williams Mountain men. Difference was these guys really enjoyed playing their roles. Anyway, he invited me to spend a weekend with them atop Mt. Graham. I decided to go along to get photos and do an article on them for the magazine. It was a fun time. They all dressed the part with homemade buckskins and such, slept in teepees, cooked over open fires and had the usual turkey shoots and hatchet throwing contests. When I got back, I decided to do a bit of research for the article by reading several books on mountain men from the library. In one, there was a journal story about a guy who was mauled by a grizz and left to die by two of his companions. His name was Hugh Glass and he survived. A year or two later, the movie Man in the Wilderness with Richard Harris came out. I immediately recognized the plot as the tale about Glass. And then more recently Leonardo DiCaprio reprised the role of Glass in the Revenant. Of course, parts of the films were Hollywoodized from the original true story for consumer consumption, but they followed the tale close enough to recognize the origin of the screen play.

It wouldn't surprise me. Sycamore is a rugged area. I killed my lion there with Randy Epperson. We rode in quite a ways on horseback, spent the night in a USFS line shack and hunted the next day. Turned into a somewhat amusing and successful morning. When the dogs had the cat in the canyon, all we could do was sit on a rock ledge at the top and listen.