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Elmer Fudd lost his gun this week

Anyone else notice the extra Oct coues hunt in 33? Including youth that’s about 2600 tags...wow.

I was wasted when I put in last night. I don't even know what hunts I picked.

My perspective seems to be different than the majority here. Years ago I bought a used pop-up, and spent several years camping/hunting/fishing out of it. Over time though, I found that the kids and I really spent the vast majority of our time outside of it though (cooking, eating, playing, chilling, whatever....). I found that mainly we just used it up sleep in. Plus it took up space on the side of my house and ate up tires like crazy (Actually had THREE blowouts in a single Utah camping trip once! 🤣). I ended up selling it and buying an Alaknak + quality cots/bags. Cammo-cot bunk cots are great to increase sleeping capacity in a tent!! That was about 10 years ago, and I haven’t looked back. Tent camping (or no tent under stars) all the way, for me!!! Good luck in your choice no matter what, and have fun in our outdoors!!! S.

And this dude had to pay 30k in fines. That's the biggest thing I don't agree with is the punishment. Dudes go blast stuff without tags at all and don't get punishment near as severe. But move there, get the tag, and pay for it and don't live there a few more months to really prove you're a resident let's hang the guy. What a dirty low life scoundrel pulling a stunt like that. funny right there!

Well since it doesn't make any difference to you, Norma or Creedmoor. Might I ask what case you fired in it for your two rounds?

It's a Savage 111, 6.5x284 Norma, not Creedmoor.

I went the opposite direction. I had a popup for years and used it for family camping and hunting. But when I finally decided to get a side by side I had to make a choice. I ended up selling the popup and buying a wall tent. I couldn't tow both. I don't see myself ever getting a toy hauler either. I really like the wall tent. I have much more room than I did in the popup.

There I flagged it! 😂

This needs to be deleted

no need to, they look non-lethal.

I don't have any guns. Gave them to a guy named Joe last year.

I just realized I never posted an update to this thread. Lame!................. My gramps killed his ram at 80 years old with his bow on the 3rd day of the hunt. This was his final animal to give him the AZ Big 10 with a bow. (That makes four of us in the family who have been able to do so!). It was an epic day to say the least.

Ok, Bernie Sanders.

Craig's Custom Rifles is the big name in the Tucson area.

We did a few weeks ago my buddy caught a nice walleye

Yeah that tuff, but beef is delicious. Buy a kids 4H/FFA beef that doesn’t make the sale and your freezer will be stocked. You can always buy a LO cow tag in NM but when it’s all done you will have paid as much as what a beef cost. I like elk and my kid has kept us in elk meat for the last 5 ears with the youth tags, but I LOVE beef

I liked the pop up trailer till I bought a boat, then went to a pop up camper. Then you can tow a boat or quad trailer. Till you build a cabin, then you hunt around the cabin. Problem solved😀

I thought I loved my tent till I got a pop up! I thought I loved my pop up till I got a toy hauler.

I’ve heard 2 hit the dirt today

I saw pics yesterday of some of the early seasons bulls. The bigguns came out this year! A couple looked like they must of run with the wooly mammoths.

I was lucky enough to draw a Wyoming bull bison tag last spring. I’ve put in for WY, AZ, and UT for a decade or so and pulled a AZ tag a few years back and was unsuccessful after sitting in a blind for 158 hours. I was really hoping for another chance as I really couldn’t bring myself to shoot a fenced one on a ranch or reservation (I’m 1hr from the Ft peck rez which has bison hunts but they are fenced). The season runs aug 15-dec31 and then they reopen it from jan1-31 if they haven’t had any buffalo migrate down from the park. They shut the hunt down as soon as they start feeding the elk in Jackson Hole which has traditionally been mid jan. I decided to go as late as I thought was comfortable without getting shut out. Turned out it was still early. These hunts used to be easy, the buffalo would show up in nov or dec and they’d be near 100% success. The last 5 years or so the buffalo just don’t come down. The snow was deep when we got there, so much so we needed horses just to get through it at all. The buffalo unfortunately still hadn’t come down. There was a rumor of one bull on the elk refuge, there were about 15 more on the park about 5 miles off and the rest were all way way off in the park and likely won’t be here before they close the season. Well my luck finally turned on wild bison. We picked up tracks in the river bottom first am and caught up to the lone old bull on horseback. I was able to get into about 125 yards. I tucked a 175 swift a frame into his heart with my 7mm STW, then another. He spun around and started heading out. Couldn’t believe it. I put the next two into his low shoulder to break him, which sort of worked. I had time to reload and put two more in the base of his skull before he finally tipped. All shots where lethal. Can’t believe how tough they are!!! We got him gutted and were able to get horses and a sled to him. They’ve got draft horses here to drag them out, I really didn’t think it was possible but they got him drug about a mile to the nearest retrieval road and loaded whole!!! He weighed 958# carcass weight! That puts him at about 1600-1700# on the hoof. Should make Boone and Crockett and we are gonna have a few years of great eating!! Super stoked to have finally ended this quest. We were able to get done early enough to get in a little skiing and are having him butchered and frozen right away so we can haul him home ready to go in the freezer (freezers!). Edit: Sorry about the sideway pics. They all looked the same on my phone.

When my buddy drew a tag he borrowed my wife's .300wsm. He used 180gr Barnes and it worked great. I don't think you need to worry too much about accuracy since most shots are pretty close.

Took two of my boys out Friday morning in the nasty wind and rain- was pretty chilly glassing at daylight - but we managed to find a group and me and the youngest were able to put two down and an hour latter drummed up another and not to be outdone by his little brother , my other son was able to get one as well . the crazy part was - it had been shot before - we didn’t know until skinning but The right bullet is my sons 243 - the left bullet appears to be a 22, ..... the “22” bullet just went through the skin and mushroomed against the shoulder blade - no telling how long it has been in the pig just under the skin - zero penetration - My sons bullet went through the pig from the opposite side stopped just under the skin before exciting - both bullets were touching and appeared to be one bullet when digging them out . But as we dug them out could see they were actually two bullets . His new and an old one .

My wifes bison hunt from April is up on YouTube on The Mountain Project Page. Check it out and let me know whatcha think! Thanks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K34Vz5e2tSA