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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 12, 2024, 09:06 AM:
I sit on stand, knowing that at one time there were Jaguars in the border states. The last one killed in California was in 1946, or some time in the 40's and it was around Palm Springs, believe it or not.
https://www.aol.com/news/holy-grail-big-cats-spotted-130007825.html
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 12, 2024, 09:37 AM:
Yes, totally cool !!1
I just hope that Game & Fish doesn't study this one to death like they did 'Macho B'. The understanding that I have is that they tranquilized it one too many times and it died.
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on January 12, 2024, 09:46 AM:
I 'googled' Macho B.
What a total cluster fuk by everyone involved.
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on January 12, 2024, 10:24 AM:
they should of just let Leonard kill it then he could tell us a bedtime story about the hunt.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 12, 2024, 11:29 AM:
Yeah, I know all about that particular clusterfuck. I also am familiar with the (and I will murder the spelling, no doubt) Babaquavaiq Mountains, which is where the big telescope is on top of the mountain that the dome of which can be seen over much of the reservation. You can go up there, there is a park for picnicking during the day but it's closed at night because any stray light interferes with celestial observation. However, I know what happens when they put up the barrier for going to the summit. See, after dark, the scientists start going up to use the optical scope and they just go around and drive up the down side then cross over to the right side for the rest of the drive to the top. That mountain range is loaded with wildlife! It is on Papago land donated to the sky research and I think there are two telescopes, not sure? But, the lights from Tucson bother the viewing in the eastern direction, but due south, in Sonora, there is nothing except Hermosillo and that's probably 75 miles south? Anyway, further down the mountain is where they captured that cat and somehow mistreated it and it died, big coverup!
Yeah, that is really virgin territory, I don't know exactly, it's maybe 20 miles from Sells, the Capital of the Tohono Oʼodham , I can't spell it, so call it by the old name, the Papago Reservation. They were just fine with the name until someone mentioned that the word meant "Bean Eaters" and implied that those Indians were stinky flautists, (farts a lot) and they began a quest for a more dignified name for the tribe. I will say this, having hunted on several reservations in Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico: In my opinion, Navajo women are quite attractive, Apache, not bad either, but Papago squaws are....I only remember meeting one who was an attractive woman. Most of them are 200/250 pounders, with particularly unattractive features. They gather around the road close to the Bashas market selling food, and this one I kinda hit on and bought a cheeseburger from her, (she didn't actually live on the res, she told me) but anyway, she was a looker and they are few and far between on that reservation.
Tell you the truth, I love it down there, it's quite a country! You can tell who are running drugs, they build brick houses. So I've been told? It's not as big as the Navajo, but I've been all over it, top to bottom and east to west. The only slightly better coyote hunting is in Baja and Sonora. It's really a predator hunting paradise; so I've been told.
Anyway, that's it!
Oh, and coatimundis, damn can't spell that, either? but that's another jackpot on stand.
[ January 12, 2024, 11:35 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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