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Arizona Law:
Being the Husband and Father of Mexican Americans I decided to read the law in its entirety.
It states that a law officer must have probable cause to stop someone, (this is the same as the South Dakota Seatbelt law: A law officer must have probable cause to pull someone over, just because they are not wearing a seat belt is not a probable cause if pulled over for speeding, you may also receive a ticket for no seatbelt). In AZ just because you are Hispanic does not mean you will be pulled over, if you have a broken tail light you will be pulled over and asked for your Driver’s License, just like a person of any other nationality.
The law also states that anyone stopped must show proper Identification, a Drivers License, Military ID, MVD identification card, or a Native American Card. Federal law is very clear if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. If you cannot provide the proper papers you will be detained, and given a chance to provide them. If you do not provide them you will be deported, if you do provide them you may be fined for not having them with you. I know people here from Mexico on Visas, they spend a great deal of time in Border towns in Texas and New Mexico, they would never leave home without their Visas or Green Cards, even though they have U.S. Drivers licenses.
I guess people should educate themselves before they start attacking a State for being reactive to a National problem. This is just a clarification and a crack down on how the Federal Law is enforced. Truth is, it’s no different than someone driving on a suspended license, if you don’t break the traffic laws you will more than likely will not get caught.
The opinions out there are that if you are Hispanic, look Hispanic or speak Spanish you will get pulled over, harassed and detained by the cops. If this is true the cops are acting illegally not you, there are bigots everywhere and I’m sad to say there are many in the police services, however the new Bill does not give the Police that right, it just tells them to do their jobs and make sure that the people pulled over for breaking traffic laws are here legally. It also has nothing to do with being Hispanic; anyone pulled over must provide the proper ID. This law might actually stop the next guy that tries to put a Bomb in Time Square.
Don’t take my word for it, read the law Arizona Law SB 1070 it’s all over the Internet read the actual law not the opinions of a bunch of Liberal bloggers. I agree some of the wording is confusing, but I’m not scared to take my Family to AZ because of it, and neither should anyone else.
May 22nd, 2010
I’ve messed up again and missed 2 more coyotes. I know people are always reading about the perfect stand and watching video where it seems like they never miss. That’s probably why nobody has knocked on my door for a show on the Outdoor Channel.
First off let me tell you of something that went right, I had my good friends Mark & Chief out to help brand some cows the other day, theses guys are good friends they are there whenever I need them. I felt I owed them something so I ordered a couple of Ruffidawgs and Predator Quest III from Les Johnson. I gave them each a call and a DVD, I know it’s not much after all they do for me but I know they will enjoy watching Les, and laugh at him like I do, and perhaps they will see something that will make them better callers, I’m sure not improving. After we finished branding we went out for some afternoon calling, while driving to the stand we jumped a coyote, knowing he was going to leave the country after we got so close I circled the pickup around, and missed a running shot, Chief was riding in the seat behind me, he took one last poke at him and dropped him on the run at about 350yds, it was spectacular. We all left our phones and cameras at home but believe me, it was one to remember. We had no luck calling that afternoon, got busted walking into a stand and only had enough light for 2 other stands.
Yesterday right before sundown I decide to make a stand, after calling about 15 minutes Gus took off and he had a coyote, he caught him before I could shoot, and I didn’t want to shoot my dog. After giving him a whipp’n they both went over the hill. I jumped on the ATV and tried to catch them, When I got over the hill, the coyote was gone and Gus was breathing hard. Not enough blood to track so another coyote has been educated.
That brings us to this morning: The wind was out of the east, the sun was in the South East, so I called with the wind, big opening to my East side where I could see them try to circle downwind from either direction. After about 10 minutes I heard a bark and a howl to my left, down in the creek, this was South West of my location. Most hunters will tell you that you are busted when they bark, and everything I’ve experienced is the same, but I had walked into this stand from a long ways and didn’t want to give up that easy. I played the bark on the FoxPro, then changed the call from Jackrabbit Distress to Dying Jack, played the bark again, then went back to Jackrabbit distress. Here he comes I know he’s going to circle right because that is downwind, but no he circles left. This idiot went way around, up wind I watched him go out of sight to the hill behind me. I was in some of that old clover left from the wet summer we had, and I had left Gus at home. He came hard I knew he wasn’t going to stop he was going to try to ambush me. I’m pretty nervous at this point, so I take my gun off the sticks and click the safety to the fire position. I hear the old clover start to rattle. I can’t take it anymore, I stood up and he was right there, tried an offhand running shot at 20yds. You know how hard it is to find a coyote in your scope at 20yds?? He went out of sight, I didn’t see him again until 300yds, still running, took a shot but the game was over. The coyote won this encounter. I really need a shotgun for days like this.
So Santa, I know you have plenty of predators in the North Pole, and that you are an avid reader of my blog, so if you have time (I know it’s late) I would like a Remington 870, 12 gauge, magnum, with a patternmaster choke tube. If you don’t have time I understand, just take care of my kids and Happy Hunting!!!!
Merry Christmas to all, we hope to have some video to show you soon as Mark and Chief will be doing some calling with the video camera this weekend and I am going to Colorado, Texas and New Mexico for the holidays and plan to get some calling in while visiting each state. So check back next week.
December 16th, 2009
This Deer is on the Video
We actually got some good footage of this deer camp on video, I’m not going to spoil the story, I want you to enjoy the Video.
Just click on the “Video Pages” Link to the right of this page, and enjoy.
November 17th, 2009
I know, I know, it’s Deer Season, but it’s so warm it doesn’t feel like deer season, but it’s always Coyote Season!!!
We honored our men and women in uniform today, by celebrating our “Right to Bear Arms” I got out my favorite sniper rifle and took down coyote #1, while Chief made a 285yd shot on coyote #2. by 11:30 it was 57 degrees, and to warm to call coyotes, but what a beautiful morning. I’ll let Mark and Chief tell you how I didn’t see coyote #1 when he was 70yds from me, and waited until he was 240yds before I took the shot, but I’m sure it’s all hogwash. Thanks to all our Armed Forces from wars past and present, when you come home call me and we will take you coyote calling.
2 in the truck by 12
View from a stand
1st Coyote Down!
Two Coyotes Down
Video Report: Took the camera to the first stand but no luck, decided to have fun with the gun instead, will try to video some deer hunting this weekend. Stay tuned.
November 11th, 2009
So it’s Friday Morning before opening day, I have a big day planned, there is a cattle sale in Faith, and I’m in need of some more big black angus mommas, so I go out to make my daily circle, and just South of my home, right along the highway there has been a large herd of does hanging around. I decided to go see if any Bucks had moved in yet. Sure enough there is a big one, he is way out passed his ears and has a thick neck and huge shoulders, this is a wallhanger, at least for this part of the country. I know deer season opens in the morning and I know people are driving up and down the highway scouting. There is no way he’s going to make it until Saturday, to many people with Buck Fever, that have no regards for property boundaries. However I have things to do, so I high tail it to Faith for the sale.
When the sale is over I hurry back to the ranch, I have a busy morning planned and we are holding off on Deer Camp until the following weekend. I go to see if I can find the buck, he is nowhere to be seen, I’m sure someone took a shot at him, and ran the herd off, but that’s hunting.
The next morning, I have to turn out the cows I bought, as soon as the trucks get there, I’m suppose to help my neighbors ship calves, and my wife went on a shopping spree in Rapid so I have all 3 boys to take care of. I wake up at 4am, about 2.5 hours before sunup. I’m trying to figure out where that buck could have gone, I’ve already talked my mother into watching the 2 younger boys, I tell her, “I’ll have them there at sunup” believe me I wasn’t a second late on that promise. The little ones are taken care of, I call the trucker he says he is about 45 minutes out. I tell my oldest, “lets go look for that buck”. Sure enough, he was headed right back for his spot by the highway, I’m a little torn because my buddies are coming for Deer Camp and I hate to shoot my deer without them, but this idiot is not going to live another week so I pull out my rifle and step out of the truck, telling JJ to stay and when I call him bring the pickup. Everything worked perfect, dropped him with one shot, took some pictures and had him gutted and loaded before the trucks arrived with my cows.
Look out Jim Shockey
I went to the neighbors and helped them get trucks loaded, then stopped and talked to some buddies, and show off a little. Then hung the deer, fed some cows, got the kids, and finally skinned and deboned the deer, due to the heat. He is 100% on ice now. Not exactly how I would have wrote the story from scratch but this is how it happened, heck I didn’t even cammo up and I have a lot of money spent on cammo. This will give me more time to run the video during Deer Camp next week. Stay tuned for round 2 of our Video Adventures.
November 8th, 2009
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October 29th, 2009
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So here we are 2009, time for the annual Antelope Hunt, decided to try and do some filming since my wife got a Sony Handycam for her birthday last May. I got an old tripod out of the closet and on October 3rd, 2009 I was going to become just like Jim Shockey, with my friends as the hunters and me as the Guide/Producer/Cameraman. Let me just say this, easier in theory than in reality. We had a great hunt, got a doe 3 nice bucks, all 3 were herd bucks of some kind and had some age to them, none were over 16″, but they were all trophies in our minds.
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The top buck was the first one we got down, he had a nice black face, great horns that came forward instead of straight up. The ivory tips were nice too, Courtney made a great shot and dropped him in one.
The 2nd buck was taken on Sunday Morning, we got 2 bucks out of this large group of antelope we had watched and filmed them the day before but they were just over the fence out of our hunting ground, I was sure they would be back in the morning so we came and it was productive. Check out the broken tips on him.
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I've been watching this buck for almost a month, he looked old, walked with a limp, and definately had one horn that looked shorter than the other. He won't score high on the B&C, but he also wouldn't have made it through the winter, so I'm happy I took him, check out the ivory, and the one horn that is really curled back, giving you the illusion that it is shorter. Made a stalk on him on Sunday morning got to within 200yds and took the front shoulder out in one shot, gave him one more to make sure he was down, seconds later Chief let the hammer down on his, we approached from different angles so we would have the escape covered and it worked perfectly.
Ok back to the filming; we failed to get a kill shot on film, we tried and tried but we had such a hard time getting close that getting them shot was about all we could accomplish, however we made our first “SoDakAdventure.com” Production, and as we get better, we will buy better equipment and shoot better video. Don’t be a critic, just enjoy!!
Click on This Link for Video: 2009 Goats, SoDakAdventure.com Productions
October 5th, 2009
Today I was in the grocery store, and ran into a couple of friends, they were talking about finding the “Big One”, with antelope rifle season just over 1 week away, it was easy to understand what they were talking about. I love hunting, and a few years ago I too was obsessed with the “Big One”, but it’s lonely, and somewhat unsuccessful. I spent hours, no days, by myself. I would sit on hilltops with nothing but binoculars and my dog. I would spend countless sunsets with my back to the beauty looking for the glimmer of a huge rack on the shadow side. After 2 years of this selfishness I realized hunting is about more than a tropy, it’s about sharing. What is a huge buck without someone to share the experience with. It’s like the single guy who buys his 5 bedroom dream home, with no wife or kids to fill the rooms. Wouldn’t he be just as happy an apartment? I would love to shoot more trophies, I would love to hold records, but what fun will it be if I don’t share it with my friends? A few of my buddies are coming to hunt antelope next week, and I can’t wait. I’ve found a couple bucks that might be trophys, but I won’t mind if one of these guys get them, as long as they let me tag along. And for you guys out there searching for the “Big One” don’t forget to send your pictures to stories@sodakadventure.com
September 24th, 2009
