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While out over the weekend, saw way to many coyotes. caught this one chewing on a dead horse. Just put together a new coyote rifle and figured what better time to test It and the new load. Shooting a 75 grain V-Max at around 3350 out of the .243. Worked like a charm!

Just my .02. I dealt with McCains office and staff for nearly 20-25years trying to get help with Phoenix Va healthcare. McCains office always seemed to "investigate" and say things seem in order. Well i think we all know some of the true stories coming out of the Phoenix Va along with recent firing of all podiatry docs and some charges pending on them... Podiatry was 1 of my Va complaints. I know a few other guys on here that have dealt with same beauracratic B.S. from his office for years. I also voted for him for years because i figured we was lesser of 2 evils but that seemed to have got us exactly where we are. Prayers for his family but i'm thinking they may be the sort of family that doean't much care about my prayers anyways. I do hope a more conservative Republican ends up in his seat and 1 that stays that way rather than flipping to the dark side.

13B day 4... I have 2 gas cans and a map for ya. Ed F

I was truley blessed this year...and was lucky to harvest this buck from my tree stand at 19yds. Had 6 bucks come in on my first day in stand. This buck decided to come in as I was preparing to leave for the day. I only had this buck on camera twice... but in 3 weeks from the first picture he must have doubled in size...amazing, and I'm sure he had a little growing left to do as well. We rough scored him at 107 1/8"

Last year was my oldest son's first pronghorn hunt, and this year it was Nick's turn. He's going to Creighton in Omaha, so I drove up to Albuquerque and met him at the airport there on Thursday night. Quick 4 hours of sleep, and we hit I-25 for the 2 1/2 hour drive up to the hunting area (Lancetkenyon and Zeke-BE know where it is... LOL). We rolled into the property right around 7AM and began seeing pronghorn immediately. We glassed for just a bit upon getting there, but then drove on into the ranch headquarters to say hello to the owner and thank her for letting us hunt there. Like last year, she was gracious and we had a nice chat. She mentioned that there seemed not to be as many pronghorn this year as in past years, but after hearing other reports and seeing Lance & Zeke's reports here we were optimistic. We had already seen one nice buck early in the morning upon getting on the property, and he quickly did what basically ALL others had done last year; As soon as we stopped the pick-up, he and his squad ran out to about 3/4 mile. When I got out to glass them with the 15s, they proceeded to run even further! So anyway, with that in mind I had a brought along a secret weapon. A couple of years ago when I had an archery bull elk tag, I had bought one of those fabric pop-up cow elk decoys. (Her name is Miss September! Got a good laugh at that when I bought the decoy....) I decided that I would try holding her up in front of us to try to get closer to some of those spooky bucks. Well, after visiting with the ranch owner we drove off and quickly spotted another nice buck and some does. He did his usual antelope-thingy and was in the next county in short order, but I hadn't had time to break-out the secret weapon yet. We drove up on a large knoll and glassed all around, and I eventually a nice buck popped up at about 1/2-3/4 of a mile out. I broke out Miss September, and held her up in front of me and started walking directly towards the buck with Nicholas walking right behind me. I walked a steady pace, stopping every 50-75 yards or so and the buck never broke his stare. We proceeded along closing the distance, and when we were at about 500 yards I was thinking it was actually going to maybe work. We are not big on super long distance, with about 400 yards generally being our max shot distance. Well, we kept strolling and eventually got to a nice little tuft of grass on a little mound of dirt. I stopped and check the range-finder, and the buck was still staring at us from just about 350 yards. The 30-06 is zeroed for 200 with 180gr. PSPs, and I told Nick to hold just slightly over it's back. He got on the bi-pod in between Miss September's legs and let it rip! The buck bolted for about 50 yards, then stopped and started to look sick. Within about 5 more seconds he was down. 9:30AM on opening day, and it was all over! Went and got the truck and drove right to him (we had met up with a ranch hand just prior to that and he said it was no problem driving across the pasture....). Anyway, two hours later and we were done cutting it up and enjoying a couple of sandwiches. Overall a GREAT hunt!!! Drove back last night so that Nick could spend the weekend with his mom (really, the other way around... lol). A 36 hour round trip for me, with only 4 hours of sleep but lots of great road-hours with my boy! He was nice enough not to nap it all away, and we had a great time the entire way! Getting done early let's me spend a couple of mornings at the dairy shooting doves before I leave for archery deer in Utah on Tuesday morning! I'm blessed! S.

I am admittedly not the biggest fan of game cameras but I do own a few and occasionally use them. Generally I do not leave them on water sources so I typically get them back intact. I had a few posted at some fence crossings in my elk unit. When I went to check them the first camera was spun 45 degrees on the tree. The access panel was hanging open and the batteries were laying on the ground. I pulled it off the tree and looked it over. It seemed intact and the SD card was still in it. I replaced the batteries and it worked fine. Downloading the SD card revealed the vandal. Blurry nighttime photos shot closer then the lens could focus well revealed a long nose, big round eyes and long upright ears. I would love to have seen how that cow elk opened the latch on the access panel and ejected the batteries without damaging the camera.

Military hero.....period. Went to his grave a closet liberal with an agenda against Trump.

This used to be my old hiking around buddy until I found an FDE G20. Now, it mostly just sits in my safe. Has some holster wear and a few minor marks on the frame. Includes Warren 2-dot night sights, steel guide rod, extended slide release and magazine release, a grip plug, and 3.5# connector. Shoots very well. Includes original case and 5 17-round factory magazines (not shown in pictures). Also includes 2 factory replacement guide rods as spares. $375 face-to-face in the West Valley area.

I killed my one and only AZ. Lope on Gov. prarie 12 years ago. Back then was fair amount in there with some in near by woods. Good Luck..........BOB!

I think I'm gonna pull the triger

Awesome buck and story. Way to stay at it.

Great job, congratulations!

Wow way to go

Great buck and spot & stalk. Congratulations.

I know when there is lack of water they head into the trees. Ive seen in unit 1 antelope by wildcat crossing in the trees. They are probably 15 miles away from the large grass fields from big lake. Just a guess though. Why go that far into the trees??

Unit 7 is a massive unit With Antelope spread out from north to south from east to west. Try looking further north and even into 7E. I have not heard of any die off. I know from my experience in the unit, the antelope that stay in the small meadows, often are in the trees right at sun up.

Shot this buck last year went right at 100" with a 3.5" drop.

Headed back to this area in the morning. With my sons antelope tag punched, we are turning our attention to coyote population reduction (with extreme prejudice)!!! Hope to post some more pictures soon.

That's a Forkasauras!

That Beretta is too rich for me but it sure is nice looking

Bump, beautiful guns.

Mountain bike and trailer.

There is lots of land to hunt right behind those locked gates. Just walk in and leave the vehicle at the gate. As long as the gate isnt posted you are just fine. Fain Ranch and Deep Well both typically allow walk in access without even needing to contact them. It will be a great hunt. Good luck!

Besides quail, Rica enjoys a good hunt for grouse, antelope, elk, coues, flowers, rocks or mountains. Flower Child Rock Hunter Quail Hunter Grouse Hunter Antelope Hunter Coues Hunter Elk Hunter Turkey Hunter Trout Hunter General Good Dog She might get the Arizona Big 10 before I do