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I AM AN OLD SCHOOL GUY AND WHEN SOMEONE ON THIS SITE OR ANY OTHER SITE SAYS THEY ARE SELLING SOMETHING AND YOU CONFIRM IT IS YOURS THEY SHOULDN'T BLOW YOU OFF FOR WEEKS AND THEN SAY THEY ARE JUST GOING TO GIVE IT TO THEIR BROTHER! NOT COOL AT ALL AND KARMA IS A "FEMALE DOG' LAST I HEARD! JUST SAYING...

Great deals!!!! Wish I had the extra cash for the Taurus. Great gun!

I have posted this before but this was basically my introduction to rattlesnakes.......down in the bootheel of New Mexico in what some would consider middle of nowhere nothing! My dad's ditch banks were clean from weeds, our house......clean from weeds all the way around! If you went off the main path you made sure you had a shovel in your hand! Lots of great memories and lots of PTSD memories about growing up there! We have had several encounters out in the boonies with rattlers, walk loud and carry a big stick!!!!

I thought I'd share another project of mine. Mostly done in my garage/wanna be shop. I wanted this to be as cheap as possible so I could keep the boss happy! Remington 700 223 SPS Greyboe stock Tally Rings Leupold VX-R 4-12×50 Here is the beginning. As you can see here the action port was a little long and the butt pad needs to be fitted. Opened up the barrel channel free float the barrel. Bedded and built up the elongated ejection port. While that was curing gave the rifle a good needed cleaning as it was a used rifle. After curing, shaped butt pad, and sanded down action area to match the contour of the stock. Sent stock over to Applied Hydrographics(here locally) and had it dipped in black multi-cam. While waiting for the stock to be finished, I bedded and lapped Talley rings, sorry no photos for that. Mounted scope and put it all together after retrieving the stock. Here is the finnished product! I plan on shooting Hornady 53 grain V-max bullets in front of CFE 223, I have a ladder/velocity/pressure test loaded and will fallow up after the shooting is done, and will share my next step in the load development process. For you expert reloaders out there please chime in as reloading is a never ending learning curve. Thanks for looking and whatever input you can add.

Thank good we're not, Star Valley is way better, we had Ronnie (God rest his sole) you got a jack fxxk,, Payson the suck hole of the world..

This bird out played us yesterday morning. We put him to bed last night and went at it again this morning. He was hot and gobbling. Flew down and few more calls sucked him in to Dylan. 20 yd shot. We have 3 more years with Dylan as a junior hunt. Get your kids out there.

Found one. Thanks

During elk season, we are chasing bulls from daylight to dark in rough western terrain. Many a mountain mile is traveled under heavy load with little rest. Coming into spring, our body has recovered from the long days and unforgiving miles, but we remember the physical struggle of elk seasons past – that feeling of […] The post 30 Days & Stronger: Foundational Strength Training and Combating Inflamation appeared first on Western Hunter. View the full article

Contrary to popular thought, open sights will be much harder to line up on moving game. You not only have to track the animal with a moving rifle but you have two things to line up instead of one with a scope or red dot. I would look into a 2-12 scope or similar if you’re gonna a shoot at running game a lot.

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Easy solution, Amazon.... or looks like Lowe’s

Remington 1100 lt 20ga. Find a extra stock on ebay and cut it down to fit a youth.

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The big old bucks do stop occasionally but not until the are 4 to 6 + hundred yards out but they dont always stop. Those who have never hunted just for older age class mule deer think they are dumb, they will let you walk right by at 10 to 15 yards and sneak out their back trail/door, when tracking them they will circle back and watch their trail for predators. I dont hunt the desert flats but in hard hunted areas the older bucks are a challenge to hunt. Good luck!

I trained for awhile and was on my way to blue belt. Went to a tournament and dislocated my shoulder in the championship match. I was worried I wouldn't be able to pull a bow for hunting season, but healed up and came back to training. I do really like bjj and would really enjoy training again, but ended up making a hard decision to focus more exclusively on hunting as its my first passion. I had to be real with myself that if I kept training I'd probably eventually have an injury that would keep me off the mountain or maybe contribute to cutting hunting years on the backend ( was proving to be a little injury prone ). I'd recommend anyone considering it to train bjj and train hard and smart. Its really fun, and for someone needing to increase fitness levels but doesn't enjoy traditional training methods, its a fantastic option. Classes just fly by but can be a very intense workout. I just made a decision to put all my focus and funds into one thing. I'll probably come back to bjj in time though.

Nice ride! Looks like a 55-57 chevy stepside.

If I have to put my feet where I cant see,, I'm with HuntHarder and wearing the TurtleSkins. I wear them hiking in the dark on early Coues hunts. Sweaty feet beats the heck out of the alternative. Especially in Mojave country.

We run into them all the time. They are no big deal at all. When you get near they rattle and let you know they are around, simply move away from the rattle if you cant see them. General when you first encounter them they will coil and rattle, the second encounter is more likely to provoke a strike. Meaning the first guy walking the trail steps near or on him isn't as likely to get bit as the second guy right behind him. Be in the lead hahaha. August Sept when monsoons hit snake are most active and odds of encounters increase. Humid river bottoms are hot spots for snakes, odd are better to find them. Avoid those kind of places if you can. They shouldn't concern you much just be aware and keep eyes open, they are actually kind of cool to see. I use to kill them all, now I let them be unless they are in a bad spot. I had a big black tail a couple years ago stand his ground on a trail when I was leading a pack string. Middle of now where on a steep hill side and I couldn't get him to slither off so he had to go.

I wear turtle skin gators if the grass is so tall and thick, there is no way I am going to see them. (19a antelope hunting). Some people disagree, but I usually kill the ones I see.

I just don’t worry about them. Come across them all the time too. They usually want less to do with you than you do with them. Most of them get a free pass, but when i come across a hyper aggressive one they usually get taken out of the gene pool.

Congrats to those who drew! All unsuccessful for me... 😔 NZ Tahr and chamois next month it is.

Still praying. Keep us informed. Bumping it up reminds us to keep up the prayers.

Poverty, you guys haven't won a championship since like the 70s

Feel free to reach out to me... I live 20 minutes from the unit and that is my first choice always. I have killed multiple elk in the unit with my bow (so different time of year) I hunt deer in Sycamore. In my experience the elk don't start to move into the area until the beginning of the archery elk season. I have a spot I sit for deer and will never see an elk at that time of year. There are plenty of people that have shot a bull out of sycamore. Not sure how many of the people commenting have hunted this late hunt... but it can be a bitch. The idea that elk are everywhere at that point is a little misleading. Think about it, they have been shot at since September and been getting scouted since April. There are many big canyons in the unit and typically that is where I see the animals pulled from at that time of year. They have been pressured for 6 months. They move to a deep dark whole and hide out until spring. As far as getting it out... its just walking not a race. hang that meat and if it takes 4 days then oh well you will have some finely aged meat. Great unit to hunt snow or no snow. Last few years getting back in there in December has not been a problem at all.