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The HoolaBoola Dance celebrating springSaw this guy crossing Turkey Creek

We didn't have a lot of hope this year due to my wife tearing her mcl and ACL 2 weeks before the hunt. After a miss on the first stand, we regrouped and moved about 500yds up the mountain. The box call brought this guy in strutting. He paused at 65yds and she let him have it. We were done before 630am.

I'm looking for a part-time helper. Age not important although maybe an older teen who wants a few hours after school and on weekends would be interested. No special skills or tools needed but should be able to lift a sheet of OSB, use a hammer or shovel, etc. Must have his own transportation (67th Ave.& Camelback), no drugs or booze and able to take direction from a crotchety old man on steroids. There will be quite a few hours involved over the next couple months. Compensation to be discussed. Can start work almost immediately with several relatively easy jobs. In fact, I need someone RIGHT now for about two days of work that has to be done by Fri. It's a bit of 3"X5" trenching and some concrete mixing (w/a mixer) involved. PM if interested or know someone, and I'll provide contact info.

I had a unit 1 tag yesterday. in the morn had a bird roosted thought it would be a sure thing. Got there 1 hour early set up a decoy that I normally don't do, Bird is hollering away on the roost. Comes down and goes other way. . I followed and chased and headed off. We played till 9;30 ,Got a few of his hens to come in but he would stay 100 yards out consistantly. We went up and down hills over a creek zig zag . was an educated bird ,One of the toughest I ever had. Finally he quit talking and game over. He kicked my butt. I was sore mid day.Afternoon got windy I just slept against a tree hoping one would come thru . Nothin. Half our before dark I decided to move and try to roost a bird for next day. Tried about 5 spots ,nothing. Then at the last place I went where I heard one the night before , One blasts off hundred yards out. I thaught thats my play for tommorow as it is getting dark. I got off the road and much to my surprize He's closing distance. I grab the gun ,get set up and sure as heck He keeps coming. At 35 yards boom ,1 shot with # 4 pheasant shot he was down . Still legal shooting lite ,but getting dark I didn't think he would come . It was 7: 10 or 7 :15 PM. So easy and it made up for all the hard work in the morning I did. Talked to 7 guys from 2 other camps and nobody killed. I feel this was a lucky one, but it came from being persistant and not giving up and working till last minute of day. Never give up hang in there. I have allways hunted birds all day. Killed a couple Mid day and as many at nite as in the Morn. But the Morn is the funnest I think. The rest of the day is working it. Pics to come in an hour ,gotta go get more ice rite now. Finally ahunting story from me instead of Bullcrap. LOL..........BOB!

Like title states, I have a Weatherby Accuguard 6.5-300. Literally brand new in the box, just took it out for pictures. I have plenty of rifles and custom guns, so no need for this. Text is fastest way to get ahold of me 602-526-0180. Located in N. Phx, a lot of trips made to flag throughout the summer. $700

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.

I hunted Friday morning off concord rd heard about 10 total , everytime I would move to set my son up there was a hunter, finally got on 2 with no others hunters, got him within 100yrds then here comes a guy walking his dog. I back out for the rest of the weekend, gonna hunt the morning all week. The elk call you heard was probably a hunter trying to get shock gobbles. Good luck out there

Show pics of half eaten fawns, calves, lamb, kids, and house pets. That might even picture game. Also stories from California about dogs and cats being taken from yards.

I picked up a Winchester 70 Featherweight in .308 off from GB a couple of weeks ago, took it to the range with a box of factory ammo, it shot ok. This weekend I put together some 150gr GameKings for it. Three shots at 100, bone stock factory rifle.

"Killing contests" "Blood sports" that is the kind of words the anti hunting/guns crowd are using to describe predator hunting. The game and fish staff is using these same words. They the staff are not proposing the positive benefits to controlled or modified predator hunts, or ways to use the hunts to benefit wildlife and wildlife management. If you are a mind to say who cares it doesnt bother me or I dont like to do them anyway then just remember this is just one step. It is a slippery slope. 😒

Now that how you scout for Giants!! Super cool

It's not an "accidental shooting". Modern guns don't go off when you drop them. He had to have had his finger on the trigger, safety off, a round in the chamber, and pointed at another human being. He was arrested because his NEGLIGENCE almost killed a child. IMHO. Did you catch the part about the other unsecured loaded weapons placed around the house in the reach of a 6-year old?

Is this where you dredge?

Nice profile pic. 👍 very cool looking

Spoke with Daisys older brother. She's continuing to do a little better. Just had a CT scan and her stomach and intestines are in good shape. She's continuing to talk a little bit more. She still doesn't know what happened yet. Hopefully she will be transferred to the Phoenix children's hospital. Please continue to keep her and the brothers in prayer. The boys left Colorado to be with her and have not been working at all. Instate a go fund me account for them. Please help if you can. https://www.gofundme.com/wzjze-please-help-daisy?pc=em_co_shareflow_m&rcid=r01-155623648261-9ef9d9cd692b4f87

There was a thread on Bowsite back in 2018 from a guy that got bit from a timber rattler. He detailed his entire ordeal, complete with pics. Real eye opener that makes you think how you’d handle the situation. $300,000 hospital bill!

Thanks for all the comments, we are still smiling. My cousin in Idaho had this rug done with his turkey from last year. Has anyone had one done like this or know of any taxidermists who do ? Thanks in advance. -Sig Sorry for sideways pics.

Why can't that baby say "The Hoghntr" rather then The Huntress? Super sweet 7-08 my favorite. 👍👍👍 good luck

Nice job with the stock. If you don't have brass that has been fireformed to the chamber, fireform new brass first before working on a load. Is this a factory chamber and do you know barrel twist? Also is this a repeater or a single shot? Repeater or single shot will dictate your seating depth and CBTO. After fireforming uniform primer pockets and flash holes. Use a headspace guage to set up sizing die and bump no more than .002". Make a dummy round and find maximum CBTO for your rifle. Hopefully you have a caliper and a bullet comparator to measure the cartridge base to ogive or CBTO. The best way to find CBTO is to remove the firing pin assembly from your bolt and seat in small increments until you feel just a slight pressure on closing of the bolt. This will be the "touch" measurement or touching the lands. From there you will move either into the rifleing or "jam" or away from the rifleing or "off". Start at .010" off for your ladder test and work your powder load in .3 increments from moderate to max. CFE has a good burn rate for heavier bullets in the 223 so it should do well with the 53gr. Vmax. All this may sound like a lot of work but it will bring the best accuracy out your rifle.

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.

Had a friend finish a rattlesnake off with a pistol. He put it around his neck took some pictures for a few minutes. Put it down back on the ground and the thing coiled back up ready to brawl. Lucky sob

I’m 50 years old. These attacks on our freedoms have commenced less than 10 years ago. This new, younger generation is the catalyst. Unfortunately, it’s your generation that’s ruined hunting. You guys can’t piss in the woods without posting a status update on Instagram! Hunting and the outdoors was so much better before social media. It was shared with only those people that were important to us and not every Tom, Dick and Harry on Instagram or Facebook! We’d go out, kill a few coyotes, sit around the campfire and talk about the fun. And that’d be it! Fast forward to today, and every second of every day HAS to be posted on Facebook or Instagram so you poor snowflakes can get some instant gratification or base your self-worth on others’ opinions. If guys would just go out, kill some coyotes and STFU, this wouldn’t be an issue. Sorry, but that’s the truth. Hunting here was so much better in the 70’s and 80’s and before the addiction to phones and social media that we see today.

This right here is all I ever wanted for Christmas.....every Christmas......

Remington 1903A3 30-06 Sporterized. Made in 1942 and carried through Whiskey Whiskey Deuce (European Theatre). This rifle has Nazi's, deer, and elk under its belt. My latest harvest was a 19A Cow. I used 180gr Remington Core Lokt. Leupold VX-3i 4.5-14x50mm scope.

Very cool, ya the mad cow (Pete's) is now close. There looking for someone to open a restaurant in a old titty bar. Crabs anyone Congrats again