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knockemdown
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posted August 16, 2018 04:15 AM
OUTSTANDING photos, Dave!
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Az-Hunter
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posted August 16, 2018 06:26 AM
Dave; your outdoor photos, do for my mind and eyes, what a cold beer on a hot summer day does for my well being.....just makes a guy feel content and smile.
It's not just fraternity brother stroking you get here from all of us on the forum, you truly have a unique talent when you slip behind the camera. Photography is indeed an art form, not everyone can do it, you, obviously can.
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posted August 16, 2018 09:32 AM
I like the laid back response to the question about how the lion photo occurred. (a once in a lifetime event for most of us)
"Uh, I just drove up on him"....or something like that? Yeah, I bet. I've seen very few lions, by accident, as opposed to intentional calling. Just two, that I recall, right now. I've also killed a couple but that was no casual encounter.
Another thing, just where does this guy go camping, populated with scads of trophy class mule deer? This is another rare sighting for most of us without having to climb a couple steep mountains, and then we get a shot of them bouncing away. No, it's like some Alice in Wonderland Park where tame deer nuzzle at your pocket for a candy. He's charmed, a spellbinder like that fairy tale doctor that talks to the animals.
Whatever, we are grateful for the sharing. Thanks, Dave. You rascal!
Good hunting. El Bee
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Lone Howl
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posted August 16, 2018 09:55 AM
Yeah Dave, you could at last drop me a pin on those deer once in a while.
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posted August 16, 2018 11:13 AM
You guys crack me up ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) .
Leonard, true story, my partner Tim had a doe trained to eat out of his had at this camp spot. She came and visited our camp everytime we were there for four years.
Last time, was two years ago. And we had not been there for two years. Both figured she probably wouldn't be around anymore, but as soon as we pulled up Tim starts whistling and calling her (he named her...). I'll be go to hell if she didn't come running out of the trees right up to him! She wouldn't hang out in camp like she always had in the past, even sitting around the campfire with us at night (I shit you not!). But the next day she came by with her fawn for awhile, then again the day after that. Guess she was too busy being a mom to hang out with us like she used to.
I looked for her this time, but I think she's probably passed by now.
Public land, national forrest. Not very well known... Well, take that back, it is VERY well "known". Everybody has heard of it now. But not very visited. 99.9% of the people recently having a shit fit over it have never been there and couldn't even point to it on a map. And I'm glad they all got a heart burn over it. Fucking do gooders.
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posted August 16, 2018 02:00 PM
Ok...….Got this figured out !!!!
When I get reincarnated, I want to be;
Dave during hunting season.
Troy during fishing season.
and a porn star the rest of the year.
I know a handful of people who have seen a mountain lion in the wild.
I know a few of them have taken a mountain lion.
But I don't need too many fingers to count the ones that have passed up a lion 'cause it was too easy !!!!
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posted August 16, 2018 02:15 PM
Dave you have a wonderful gift. I tip my hat to you sir!
Now where did you see those bucks
We were up at Rilfe CO. Mule deer hunting back in the late 90s,
My buddy was watching this little valley when he had this big cat walk 75yrd below him. He came back to camp that evening and told me what he had seen. He said they are really something to see in the wild.
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posted August 16, 2018 07:00 PM
Not to take way from DAA's pictures and stories.
But have watched a cougar get harassed by 2 coyotes one time watched through the spotting scope for over an hour. My dogs were having a fit about the howling coyotes.
Other half watched a cougar walk down the road below the lookout We are on right now.
Haved killed several over the years.
Want to get in shape follow a bunch of hound chasing lone in the winter.
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posted August 17, 2018 04:33 AM
Great photos,thanks.My wife has a couple pet does that visit daily.Now one has a fawn and the other has 2.Fawns try to figure out how to climb up our deck steps.Fun watch.She stores her bird seed etc back there in garbage cans and there's always spillage.Depending on type,that initially was the attractant I suppose.They scarf up sunflower seeds.
She also has a pet wild hen turkey around daily.
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posted August 17, 2018 05:28 AM
Love that pic of Tim and the doe I get lots of game on my camera at night but my Airedales keep everything At bay in daylight hours. So far Mtn. Lion Elk Fox Coyote Bobcat and lots of Bunnies !
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posted August 17, 2018 05:31 AM
Tim's doe was addicted to pumpkin seeds and honey-oat granola bars .
And she loved to stand there and lick the grease off my camp stove too.
Oh, and if you took a leak, she'd run over and eat the grass you just pissed on .
Have only seen four mountain lion that I didn't call, that I can remember. One of them, I thought it was a bedded deer and snuck right up on it. Then maintained eye contact with it for about 45 minutes while it followed me, stayed about 60 - 70 yards from me the whole time. That was way cool. That one was way bigger than the one in these pictures.
And of course have seen a few that I've called on accident on coyote stands.
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posted August 17, 2018 06:46 AM
Ol' Tim, we've seen his picture here going back years, same hat, same shirt, same boots, same 243, still needs shave, and haircut. I bet he's an easy going dude! Tell us more about him, what does he do when not riding shotgun with partner Dave?
I had a buddy like that, 25-30 years. Then his son got old enough to get out in the woods and we drifted. I haven't even seen Pat in ten years! <sigh>
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted August 17, 2018 11:48 AM
Yes, Tim..the internet enigma/anti-hero. Tell us more.
Mark
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posted August 17, 2018 03:45 PM
I just remembered something. There have been times when I have attempted to make friends with critters and domestics and always had them freak out when they smelled coyote and bobcat scent and blood all over ourselves.
It seems like you guys have solved that situation or your hunting clothes and boots are properly sanitized when on non hunting camping trips? I'm not a religious camo washer, though, so what do I know?
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted August 19, 2018 02:54 PM
Not much going on here in Safford, we have had a better monsoon then last summer so that a plus.
I really enjoy August it means fall is right around the corner, I can smell the roasting of hatch green chile as I’m typing this.
We just got back from a vacation in Puerto Rico and that place still looks like shit in my opinion and they aren’t going to do much to change the electrical grid from what I have read and talked to people about. It’s a real shame.
I’m ready for the season to start, have my scouting cut out for me in Nm and Az. We are doing a contest in eastern nm first weekend of November and then another one here in southern az the weekend before thanksgiving so I gotta find my pockets of coyotes.
Archery deer and bear opens this coming Friday so the hills will be crawling with hunters from August till January. I’m sure koko is planning his annual trip up north to fling his arrow at anything that moves.
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posted August 20, 2018 03:26 AM
I remember watching Daves first 'Varmint Safari' video and thinking to myself: that Tim dude is cool as shit!!!
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posted August 20, 2018 09:51 AM
All I can say is that after visiting several Caribbean islands, the people of Puerto Rico are the friendliest, even when they don't have to be. And, they have just as nice beaches as anywhere. Plus the water is warmer than Mexico or Hawaii. The thing I like is when you get out from a swim, you don't reach for a towel because the air temperature and water temperature are about the same. The only thing I make note of is all the houses have bars on the windows, not an encouraging sign. They have colonies of escaped Monk parrots all over San Juan. I think they are from south America, originally?
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that Tim dude is cool as shit!!!
you only say that because of the scraggly beard! Beard people!
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posted August 20, 2018 12:11 PM
There is (was) a colony of monk parrots living at a marina close to where I live, no BS! They had a huge woven nest and were surviving our cold winter, best I could tell?
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posted August 20, 2018 03:14 PM
We have had a flock of Amazons that live mostly in the foothills around here, There is a distinctive way that some birds flap their wings and some parrots, (not all) only flap about 30 degrees over and 30 degrees under horizontal and that's the big giveaway when these birds fly around here in groups of 20 or 30. I once saw a pair of Patagonian conures sitting on some telephone wires not far from here. They were way lost, or escapees. There is a big beaked parrot that eats pinecones, native to south-east Arizona, comes and goes across the southern border.
Of course we may have heard to the extinct Carolina Parakeet. I don't really know what happened but that one was a legitimate resident....unlike the thousands of parakeets (budgies) escaped that are resident in the Everglades.
There are about 370+ species of hookbills in the world with Africa the least represented. Australia and Indonesia, all those south pacific islands have the most. South America has a lot of birds but not a lot of different species, as I recall, only about 25 or so?
That's all we need to know about parrots for now....and cockatoos, (not "true" parrots, because they have erectal feathers around the head; a weak argument, in my opinion) and Pinky's.
Good hunting. El Bee
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posted August 20, 2018 07:05 PM
I see a condor or two once in awhile. The biologist that's in charge of them around the Grand Canyon gave me a ride from the south rim to the north rim a couple years ago. Talked mostly about condors the whole damn time. I did not mention a couple of the places I have seen them.
See quite a few golden eagles which are my favorite.
See a ton of bald eagles but I don't much give a shit since they are so common.
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posted August 20, 2018 08:27 PM
Neither the Bald Eagle or the Golden Eagle are common in southern Arizona, but I always see a few every winter and spring. The Bald Eagles always used to hit the alfalfa fields right across the road from me, would see a pair there most every spring.
There are a handful of places I call, where I can almost bet on seeing a pair of Golden Eagles. The old "wish I had a camera" moment happened one evening, just as sun was setting, it illuminated the long grass drainage I was calling like gold. A pair of Golden Eagles were at the far end of the drainage, about 150 yards to the east, one sitting on a yucca stump, the other on the ground. Called for maybe five minutes, when the one on the yucca stump lifted off and came straight at me about five feet off the ground. Like it was on a string, never flared until maybe 20 feet from me, one pretty sonofabitch. They are one big bird for sure.
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posted August 21, 2018 04:29 AM
Yes Leonard I would much rather go to the Caribbean islands over Mexico or Hawaii, like you said the people are friendly and the food is excellent. I’m just not a fan of the roads, some buildings look pretty run down, bars on windows, spikes on walls, security cameras everywhere. It’s a nice place to visit but I definitely would never live there.
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posted August 21, 2018 04:42 AM
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posted August 21, 2018 05:26 AM
Bald eagles have made a comeback here, to the point of seeing one upstate now is not a rarity...
Got golden eagles now, too! Farmer told me of a cool experience, back in winter. He came across a dead deer (1.5yr old buck) that had apparently been dragged down by a large bird? Said there was hair & blood for a few hundred yards, and he could easily make out the tips of a large wingspan in the fresh snow, on either side of the track...
Might could be some coyotes started the job, and a bird finished? Or, deer was hit by car and the bird finished it?
Either way, his son hammered a stake in for a trail cam to watch the dead deer, and look what showed right back up...
Our deer ain't small, that buck was prolly 150lbs live weight? You guys know how big those golden eagles are, and the pic speaks to that!
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posted August 21, 2018 05:41 AM
I know there have been many cases of golden eagles killing sheep. One area in Montana, years ago, WS captured and relocated dozens of golden eagles for quite a few years in a row, trying to reduce loss to the producers.
Given the tools they have available and an open field situation, I can very easily see a golden very easily killing a deer. Very easily.
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