Dang! Its COLD!

HighPlainsHunter

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Walked down to he store yesterday in shorts and a tee shirt.
71' today...Plus we have giant bull elk...lol!:cool:
Out of curiosity how often to Arizona residents get good elk tags?

I have a friend in Arizona and he is always complaining that he never gets tags, even wanted to come to Wyoming to hunt antelope. I always wondered if that was true. I always figured with 7 million residents and 35k elk it was pretty slim pickings for drawing tags even for residents.

Fore reference Colorado has 6 million residents and 285k elk, Wyoming has less than a million residents and about 93k elk.
 

go_deep

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We grew up logging in the upper Peninsula of Michigan, working in weather like this was great motivation to go to college.
Dairy farm for me.

I remember a time that it was like -40 and we had a dozen cars at church that wouldn't start. Started a couple piles of charcoal on cookie sheets up and slid them under the engine blocks, took a bit but they all fired up.
 

dustin ray

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Yes here in so cal where freezing our balls off tonight where expecting temps around 49deg tomorrow around 78deg

as for people to elk ratio
people 39mil
According to the new state report, however, California now has growing numbers of three species of elk: 5,700 Tule elk, 5,000 to 6,000 Roosevelt elk and about 1,500 Rocky Mountain elk.
 

dirtclod Az.

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Az. tags are far and few even for residents.If you get drawn its a really lucky thing and you better concentrate and get the job done,never know if it will ever happen again.:cool:
 

buckbull

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Wow, can't compete with those temps. Our schools close when windchill hits the minus 25 reading so school is canceled for wednesday here.
 

JimP

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And here I remember when I lived in Black Eagle, Montana way back 59 and had to go to school when my mom would listen to the radio to find out what the lunch menu was to see if she needed to make me a sandwich or not.

I remember one day listening to it when a announcement came across saying for the parents to dress their children extra warm since the boilers were out in the school. I don't remember that day at school but I do remember that they never did cancel school that day or any other day.
 

mallardsx2

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Always amazes me that deer and all the other critters can survive those brutal temperatures.

I remember a few years back I was getting out of the truck to take our dogs on a hot bobcat track in north central PA. It was -27 F (Not including the windchill).

A bit chilly for the bobcat too as it turned out it was underground.
 
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