Rharris

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Your right Scott what a problem to have! My middle son and I drew 27/28 December whitetail. He also drew the Burros youth rifle deer hunt. Although we didn't pull down any elk tags we are pretty stoked with the tags in hand. RHarris

I have been attending this shoot for five years now and we (my family) has a blast everytime. Looking forward to next year. Red Rabbit if you go next year give a heads up and we will have to make some introductions!

Jim, I would be very interested in your Llamas, i currently have three, yet only one is old enough to pack. I raised the other two from a female I had that recently passed away. I had two other packers that died of old age over the last couple of years as well. So its left me a little short on good packers.Send me an e-mail to: harris@vtc.net with your phone # and a good time to call you, Thanks! Ralph Harris

Here is a recent e-mail I sent Mr Ordway. Leonard: So far every meeting has had an over whelming % of hunters that are against the proposed changes to the Elk, Coues, Javelina, and Lion hunt proposals. What is it going to take to get you and the commission to see we (the majority) do not want our wildlife managed for quantity but quality? If I am not mistaken we are the ones paying for Arizona?s wildlife management. We should be the ones to have the final say not some executive committee. Put the question out to us its real simple. Do we want quantity or quality? QUALITY is the answer that you are hearing at every public meeting. You have WM?s that are very frustrated and moral is low because you are not allowing them to do the job that they went to school for. You hand down an assignment ?create hunter opportunity? Instead of assessing sound biological information. This is not about negotiating, give the power back to the WM?s and the individuals who are paying the bills (hunters and fisherman). Your job is to manage the direction we give. If we ask for changes you direct these questions to the WM?s they in turn research it based on the direction of QUALITY, if the proposal is going to effect the quality of our wildlife it gets presented back to the public and we move on. You must have one main objective in order to show continual improvement in a company or business. QUALITY should be the G and F?s objective. Arizona is growing at an alarming rate: If you keep going in the direction you are proposing where will it end? Let?s stop right now and make a stance. We want our wildlife managed for QUALITY. Everyone needs to be honest with themselves and understand that this means drawing a tag is always going to be tough. But when they do draw it will be a real quality experience. Hunter recruitment is not an issue. When draw rates are in the teens or single digits you cannot point at recruitment. If we focused our efforts on predator management, habitat improvement (controlled burns) and poaching we can increase permits in time. These are all attached to QUALITY. I could go on and on Leonard but this in a nut shell is my stance as well as many others in my area. Please take the direction the majority is giving our department and remove these proposed changes from the department?s agenda. Sincerely Ralph Harris I have created a petition that I would like to offer to any and all of you to print and circulate. If each of us does this even within our own circles it could prove benefical to our cause. It essentially states that those that sign are opposed to all proposed hunt changes. My only problem is I don't know how to attach it to this so all of you can print it to circulate. If someone can help me e-mail me at: harris@vtc.net. There are several other sites that it should get posted on as well. Amanda can you help?

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Hang in there guys, I have drafted a petition that I hope to get on here tomorrow some time. If you support the petition you can print this petition and get it circulated in your areas then we will present these signatures in April to the commission. I think it is one more avenue we need to pursue in order to stop this madness. We still need to make all the other meetings but the big one is in April. Be sure and talk to every hunting aquantance you know and get them to understand the importance of being heard. RH

So which Meeting is going to be "the" meeting where we get our opinion out to the Commission. Is it this one this weekend or the one they usually have in April. I hear of discussions going on beyond this weekend so I am just wondering. If we have time to get a petition together then lets do it. All it needs to have is the G and F proposals summmarized and the statement saying all those that sign this petition are completely opposed. Am I write? RH

We have to get together on this and not just roll over. You can e-mail the G and F and you can also attend the meetings. I have heard all of the above and confirm that this came from the top. What I was also told was we need to organize and attend all the public meetings especially the meeting in Phoenix that the commision will be present at. If each and everyone of us attends I know we can keep our December hunts. Just dont roll over. One sad thing is that I have talked to several frineds that enjoy coues hunting that know nothing about these recomendations. Get the word out! Amanda can you create a survey on this site. Can you e-mail all those that are members here? I will say it again, don't roll over on this one. I am trying to get my schedule arranged for the big meeting in Phoenix. If I attend I will give a ride to anyone in the Safford area a ride. I will definetely be at the Safford meeting in Feb. and have already e-mailed the GandF.

Hi all, I am new to posting on this site but have periodically kept tabs on the conversations here as i am also a coues fanatic. As to the previous posts, ironically I have been working on getting a coues hat made from a local shop where i live. The coues pic I used is not a monster just a good typical coues. The embroidery template is complete and I think it looks great. My initial plan is to have this put on a hat that is an off white cap ( they call it "natural") with a brown bill. I have a couple of others picked out that would work great for hunting or our other lives that are not camo that look great also. I have planned on placing the wording " Fantasma Gris Del Desierto" around the coues deer on the hat. The wording is spanish for "grey ghost of the desert". I liked the wording since they are from Mexico. What do all of you think? Would the wording in English be more appropriate? Would any of you be interseted in a hat. I should be able to to get these done for around $20.00 maybe less. I am about two or three weeks from having this done and would like all you to give your opinion. My wife and I plan to select the first hat colors and place an order this week. If any of you would like a hat or more info e-mail me at harris@vtc.net. Amanda, I would be interested in placing these for sale on your site also if you would let me. Thanks All! Rharris