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I like the forum but then again I use a real computer and monitor. ONE thing that is getting extremely irritating is that there are so many f'n sticky's in campfire that you only get 6 real posts after scrolling all the way down to the bottom .then it goes to the next page. get rid of the stickys or put them in there own forum or even take 99% of them off Campfire. also could length the page so it holds more posts if people really think the "Stickys" are necc.

Desert bull scouting package

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've dealt with Bryan (camofreak) a couple times great to deal with and all around class act. 👍

Thank you Amanda, this change helped.

By the time we got to the spot tonight, we only had about 45 minutes of legal shooting time left. But each boy got at least 2 birds. So I'd call it a success.

I will respectfully decline to rebuttal as to not derail this topic. If you would like to discuss something with me, please send me a PM.

I had a new member use a post I made over two years ago as their own.

Out where ? All I’ve seen is rumers

It's sad that people can't leave a man's work alone. I have walked up on trail cameras set up in some far out and ingenious places. Had my picture taken and left the spot alone in respect to the person who got there first and worked hard. Sad that simple respect is so rare these days.

First off... kudos to you. that's very cool of you to help foster this kids interest with partaking in the lifestyle. I grew up not being exposed to it, but a family friend took me out for the first time and tried to help me out. and the correct approach, with the hunters safety. thats even better. Try to instill the ethics right from the start.

This is the buck.

Nice of you to try and help the kid. In the meantime take him out glassing sometime and i bet you will find some pigs.

ha ha ha... rebel rouser

Good topic. 2lb for my sporting rifles. I recently got two rifles, a 22 mag Cooper and 6.5 creedmoor in Remington 40X that have a 1lb trigger I use for targets and long range. I'm thinking about that for the sporters now.

I'm going up to 7 Friday. I'll let you know if I see anything.

Got my jacket in mail today, great seller and a smooth transaction! Thx again LB02

When human remains are found it belongs to county sheriff, they will come out with a bone bag and collect evidence, take pics and such. Try to determine if it’s an illegal or an American. In both my cases we were able to find Mexican ID and all of their gears were in Spanish. Last time I called in the sheriff got stuck 3 times in his 2wd Chevy. We had a hard time finding him- he eventually had to call in search and rescue and get a ride to the body. He got lucky the 4x4 club was out there- all we had was a puny 500cc ranger!

You are the only person to care about post count

WTF ? Ed give us some facts not attitude. I got about $3000 of his stuff.. Facts please

Nice bucks, seems you've got a good spot there! Uh... you were the second comment on his success post. Not surprising you'd forget seeing as you comment on a new thread 90% of the time, every time... regardless of whether your input has any value (or relevance) whatsoever.

We just got back yesterday again from the white mountains and did awesome. Caught over 50 rainbows, mostly all stockers but kids loved it. At one time we had 4 kids hooked up on fish at the same time. You know you are catching a ton when you have 3 stringers full some doubled up and then have to throw some back because you don’t have any more room.

It's sad how this is happening more and more, this almost happened to me twice this year at Roosy, dang wake board boats not obeying the maritime laws, pass to the right, not rite at the other boats. There dam bough was up so high there was a guy telling the driver what was in front of him. Pay attention so this doesn't happen, I believe the deaths were on the boat that wasn't at fault. Very very sad,

I would have a hard time pouring gasoline on a spot I’ve spent the last 12 years hiking salt to. Maybe he will have a terrible time and be gone in one season.

Long story short it was frustrating and had a couple opportunities at some high 70" bucks but it didn't happen. With just a day and half only to hunt this hunt because of last min work issues I settle for this guy. Overall he is a decent buck and a fun hunt! I just got done telling Lance about my frustration that morning and he was a couple hours out from getting there. 20 minutes later that happens. Funny how fast the hunt can change on you! I pack up quarter him out and met Lance and showed him were some of the big boys were at. Last text he sent me was he had a big stalk on a big guy but it didn't happen. Im sure in the next day he will be sending in his buck.