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I think the tags track the Dow. LOL. I've seen them diminish faster and demand grow every year for about 5 years. It seemed like when the economy was in bad shape you could just go to an AZGFD office and pick up one for any unit you wanted. Now, you've gotta move fast if you want one.

Sorry y'all missed it. I can definitely identify with missing it b/c of work :-) Hopefully there will be more down the road. A gentlemen that's a member of the club grinds knives for raffles and members. Probably couestracker could tell us more. I'm not a member of the club so don't know much, and I live kind of far, but it looks like an awesome club to be a part of.

Looks like someone made a great shot!

It was really awesome. I thought the addiction part of it was especially relevant. Good info on finding good habitat and calling hard! Thanks to PVCI for holding it, looks like a really fun group! That guy Eddy was pretty cool too, and now, is there anyone who attended that doesn't now want one of those special knives? :-)

Cool pics!

It's ridiculous. More and more roads, they're just going to keep paving. People gonna keep building fancy houses here, fancy houses there...people will argue we're not encroaching on wilderness, but then how do you explain giant cities and how they got there today?

Almost every prickly pear I look at in August always seems to be ripe. Picking it and eating it is fun, but I always have cactus spines in my hands for a week. Wonder what the bears feel like. LOL. Anything ripe now is Primo Cream of the Crop

My brother in law uses dogs in Hawaii. Every once in awhile when one "disappears", he'll leave his t-shirt out and come back the next day, and the dog will be there waiting.

Swaros, muleys, bear, buffalo, sheep

A guy I know who puts alot of boots on the ground in the snake infested Superstition mountains swares to have been struck by multiple snakes all deflected from Turtle Skins.

Nice pics!

Looks like you've got it scouted pretty well!!

Anybody else had this issue? How did you fix?

Hi Amanda! Yah, it is odd, right? I uploaded it. I think I even tried it a 2nd time, no luck. It's been a few months, but I finally got around to posting a msg. Let's see if it works with this post. I can see it when I'm writing the message but I'm pretty sure it disappears as soon as I click Post.

Here's what I mean, see pic attached circled in green and red

Awesome Keith !!! Way to go...I echo you are also a bear hunting machine, there is no doubt. You deserved that bear and worked harder for it than almost anyone. You really do make it sound easy, but I also know you took it easy the day we went out b/c of my surgery and you still put in darn near easy 10 miles of boots and ground pounding. Any careful study will see you didn't sleep much. That bear has a nice pretty coat! I'm amazed you found it with almost no blood trail, although you definitely gave it good reason to bleed. You've definitely got great calling ability having been lucky enough to hear your despaired screeching first hand. Oh, and yes, I was hoping for a Bear Hunting Magazine cover photo spread of you laying next to that bear.

I always look forward to HIPCAP40's annual posts...thanks again !

Great pics!

That's awesome you found it !!!

Nice !!!

I agree. Last year I was happy they didn't close down all. Camped without a fire, no big deal, done that many times before. I'd be happier if they could have more patrols fining people having camp fires, or, what is this thing we call the economy? Don't get me wrong, but if so many people weren't busy with jobs, maybe they could actually put some time, buckets, and water into the forest fires. More companies should think about putting their employees to good volunteer time fighting fires. Imagine if America's work force actually spent part of their time saving our forests. But what's more important, big business or our forests? I see folks arguments wanting the forest close down. But how about we put more into prevention and preventing stupidity, as well as big penalties?

That's awesome. Did you see that turkey feint and dodge? Those turkeys move like Muhammad Ali! Never seen rabid turkeys before, must be the Turkey Apocalypse.

Can I eat some honey off you, honey?

Definitely very weird. Notice whenever you go to the doctor now b/c of stomach pains they always ask you if you're depressed? No! I'm here b/c my stomach hurts.

I like elkhunter1's story. We take my family every year, my wife packs heat. I tell everybody, don't second guess anything out there. If you do run into somebody who doesn't want to be seen, they will take you out without thinking about it. I've only had one issue running into a group at night going out into the forest on a well used very easy to hide in canyon, and that was trippy. Me and my friend quickly figured out let's go another direction rather than run into who it is. This is our country, not theirs, we shouldn't be scared to go anywhere in our country. We should be allowed to pack as much heat as they do. It's generally safe to go down there, but do use your head, keep your head on a swivel and eyes open.