Recent content by javihammer

I think Arizona Game and Fish made a good decision getting rid of the auction tags but question the motives. Arizona has gone in the wrong direction the last couple of years. We have a point guard tag return program that allows people to bonus up their average on group applications using the...

I accidentally fat fingered the like oops. I didn't misspeak, the value proposition is the permanent bonus point. That point used to require a hunter education class which was free other than the time spent to sit in the class which was significant once the field day was added. Just like other...

I don't disagree with most of what you say however I disagree with you that these things cannot be stopped. When the expo idea was being pushed many years ago there were people saying the proponents were too well financed to stop and the idea was defeated. When game camera regulation was...

Crampy, you do realize there are ACTUAL loopholes worthy of outrage but the lifetime license isn't one of them. Someday dig into the point guard group app bonus point scam. Lots of people and guides bonusing themselves and clients up on people called "hunters" that have never and will never...

Thanks sremim, those sound exactly like the kind of tanks my Dad will be looking for. I have never hunted 9 before but have driven through it several times accessing other units. It sounds like it has enough variety for a wise old water hole hunter and his dumber timber sneaking bugle chasing...

I know a guy that has two kids that pulled youth antlerless tags in unit 22 and lucked into an early archery unit 9 bull tag along with his seventy four year Vietnam veteran Dad who plans to use his vertical bow. That same guy also pulled a unit 10 rifle Antelope tag (his first after 26 years)...

it isn't complicated just economics. Reduce the supply (public tags) and increase demand of all tags including private land and circus tags (expo/governor/CWMU). Convince the public hunters that fewer tags means better quality and they will rally to slit their own throats and watch tv hunts from...

I second the springbar tent and buddy heater approach. I have 2 10x10 tents and when hunting for long periods of a week or more with a buddy I setup 2 easy up canopies as a common area for cooking and dry storage/quad parking and then setup each tent at the opposite ends of the common area so...

When point guard was originally proposed it was also part of a club system with airline mile type tiers and benefits that could provide additional access to tags. it was pitched during the rollout of the new portal and there were clearly aspects that were outfitter sponsored. Hunters didn't like...

I am trying to follow your logic on the slider sight issue. With rifle hunts in the rut, muzzleloaders that use primers and compressed powder that combined with more powerful scopes can shoot 300% further reliably than the ones from two decades ago. With Thermal imagery and radios... and you...

I quit shooting Hoyts when I found out they were major exhibitors at the SFW Wildlife expo. Same thing with Cabelas when they asked me if I wanted to donate my change to conservation and SFW was listed as one of thoir partners on the sign above the registers. They probably don't feel my protest...

ahhh........Well I guess I should give him credit for his two minutes at the podium but I am 101% not a fan of SFW.

The Utah boys really grabbed the bull by the horns today. it was also impressive how well the wildlife board handled the pressure. That room seemed to be majority corporate people so those Board members that voted from the gut surrounded by what at times must have felt like a mob should be...

Mount up cowboys and cowgirls, today is the day for some camera wrangling ?

Yep dismiss this as a social issue. Common tactic, as is the appeal for more data which will be a common rally cry in the hearing today from people wishing to stall the implementation of the regulation. These calls for science will not come from scientists, just young camera jockeys trying to...