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I have been shooting my 6.5 PRC on every hunt that I have been associated with this year. Friends and family have harvested 9 big game animals with it since September. However, it just felt "right" to use an open sight 30-30 for pigs..., 30 yard head on shot at this old boar..... I had almost forgotten how much fun it is to get up close and personal..... whitey-->

This build has thirty rounds through it.Shot 75 grain hpbt, 62 grain and 55 grain psp. Shot excellent with all. Barrel is 10.5” 1/7” twist.Chambered in .556. Utg aluminum rear peep assembly. Comes with soft case in pic and three 30 round metal mags. This is a quality build. Red dot is a Sig Romeo 5. Located in East Mesa.Price is $950.00.Everything in pic goes with it. Need this gone.

those notches on the stock are how many Krauts it took out.

meanwhile, at OP's house...

I guess not everyone got the memo not to drink the bong water!

Super cool, Nuker!! Love the story behind it all!! Also, I have that rifle!!! (Though mine is slightly newer, in that the serial number tracks it to 1911...) Story behind mine is that my father was an engineer/geologist at the Ray copper mine (Kearny) for many, many years. In the early 60s (before I was born), they found more copper ore than originally thought at the Ray mine, so they decided to go wide-open with the pit. In order to do so they had to displace the town of Sonora, and hence the town of Kearny was born. While they were moving/demolishing some old warehouses, they came across a case of new/never-used 30-30's. In tracking back the records, they were able to trace the purchase back 1916, when the mine bought the rifles to guard against any possible attack from Pancho Villa. Well, of course the attack never came and the rifles remained in their case in the warehouse. When my dad and some of the other supervisors found the rifles, the controller/accountant didn't really know what to do with them, so they had a raffle and sold them to the employees for $25 just to get them off the books. Dad is long gone now, and the rifle remains as one of my prized possessions. Was cool to see another just like it posted here! 3030 2.jfif

We are simply getting further away from fair chase-------period. Everything is fair game (pun) when it comes to gaining advantage---- I am all for some hunting aides, but come-on.... Complete ballistic calculation systems... 1400 yd rifles 500 yd muzz with scope---nothing primitive about that. 150 yd bow shots Buddy hunting is one thing, TEAM HUNTING is something totally different. I know....runnin off at the mouth..... Lets go with no cellular cams and maybe a season for cameras............like close it Aug 31-Dec 1.... Similar to Nevada

270 WSM built by Mesa Precision Arms with the following components: Bighorn Origin long action, nitrided, bedded, pinned 20 MOA rail Mesa Precision Arms Carbon Altitude stock with Alpine color BSF Carbon barrel, 26", 1:8.75 twist, 5/8x24 thread, .930" muzzle diameter, 40 rounds down the barrel Tuned Remington 700 trigger breaking at about 2.5 lbs Wyatt detachable bottom metal, no magazine included 94 unfired Winchester brass 20 once fired Nosler brass 50 Berger 170 grain EOL bullets Redding full length die set with micrometer seating die and modified case for measuring COAL. $2650 for gun and reloading supplies.

Bought the rifle I wanted to swap for

Got a cool photo of this buck last week. I was 100 yards from him and he had me pinned. Zoom in and you can see he’s pretty unique. He was solo. Hopefully he’s with some does this weekend and is dumber than he was last week. 🙏🏻

Pretty sure it’s a Lee Enfield 303 British missing the magazine

Arizona does not require hunter education for hunters aged 14 & older, that’s why your Hunter Ed card from another state isn’t required or part of the bonus point program here inAZ, EXCEPT, if you are going to take the Nonresident Supplemental Course, the one day course that required Hunter Ed Completion from another state to enroll in the course. The only Team teaching that course is in Region III (conducted in Golden Valley @ the 7 Mile Hill Shooting Range).They do it in January and in April; however, not again until all the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The AZ Permanent Hunter Ed Bonus Point is a reward for taking the AZ Hunter Ed Course (either online or in a classroom) and completing our Field Day. Beginning in July 2021 (assuming no hiccups), there will be a new avenue to earn the Bonus Point in the form of a Conservation Course the state will offer online (for a fee $$$) that will not require travel to Arizona. The Conservation Course is hoped will alleviate some degree of the competition for class and field day seats that are grabbed up by adults keen to obtain the Bonus Point, thus freeing up spots for youngsters and new hunters that need those slots. As of last week Tuesday there were 1743 youth who had completed the AZ Hunter Ed Course online and need the field day, every effort is going to be made to serve those youth first when we get back to holding events. The max fee (a price mandated by federal PRA regs) that can be charged for the classroom course is $8.00 at the present time. Let’s say a classroom of 25 students = $200.00 gross revenue. Costs include .22 LR ammo @ 12 - 15 rounds per student, targets, bottled water for each class, ice, blood trailing supplies (red food dye and Corn Husker Lotion), demonstration supplies and ammo, paper, pencils/pens/markers, money order to submit fees collected back to G&F along with postage. This is a bare-bones of expenses in a typical 16-21 hour 2-3 day class. And doesn’t account for the cost of the manual ($5.00) plus the other printed materials provided by the Dept, nor the firearms, 3D targets, teaching supplies, and host location and utilities used during the events. It’s not uncommon to have 8 different instructors involved over the course timeframe. Divide all that up into $200 & you can see it doesn’t add up to a profitable enterprise. The courses are a public service provided and paid for by federal and department aide and a wee bit of money collected in a fee from the students (far less than they would pay to see a 90 minute motion picture while eating a popcorn and sipping on a soda at a theatre) participating in the class. it is not in the financial cards of the Dept to hire additional staff and pay them to provide Hunter Ed classes all over AZ, there just isn’t the funds available to do that so the program is stuck with us volunteers who do it because we see the need, get to give back to the sport activity and traditional values we love and because we enjoy it. We’ll be back at it soon I am told and we’ll look forward to seeing young and older alike at the events.

It is old and it needs work but selling this gun - $100 text or call 602-525-9988

In order to tip you have to have your bill paid off. I have a monthly payment to my taxidermist and dont see that ending anytime soon.

Outstanding!!!! I picked my little girl up last week! 😍 (Curious to know what breeder? Possibly they're litter mates. I'll PM you on that....) This is my 2nd Vizsla, and I'm super excited! My ex-wife currently has two..... We are a BIG TIME Vizsla family (We're still close, obviously... lol)! Benci is already pointing fly's that have been pestering her while she is eating!! fly point 2.jfif

Excellent work. A 30-30 is my most recent firearm purchase and exactly what I plan to use it for over the coming weeks. Eddie

The man worked his whole life making a name for himself in outdoors but will be remembered for making a losing super bowl prediction. Let that be a lesson, never go all in against TB12

Due to the delay, I would suspect AZGFD would have another opportunity for CC updates first.

How about a trade? 1 lb bottle of Retumbo (once fired) and 200 steel 7.62 cases (rusty and also once fired)

My son Dalton (affectionately called big D) drew an early rifle bull tag for the first time in his seventeen years on this earth. With a bear , cow elk, javelina , and coues buck under his belt he was ready for the big leagues according to him. I was able to get to camp 2 days prior to do some follow up scouting to lock a bull in be it being a limited opportunity hunt. My brother and I found some bulls that would push 310-320 so we sent him the pictures while he was in school and he's reply was dad I would shoot anything one of those. Thursday big d and his 2 cousin's 14-19 years old skipped school to be their early to scout the day and we found the one Thursday morning that he wanted to shoot. With the bull as far as we were concerned tied to a tree we were ready. Thursday evening we stayed out so we didn't bugger anything up in the mean time momma and my twins and one of the girl friends and another of Dalton's buddy showed up to help. That's right I had to figure out how to get this done with count them 7 teenagers um yikes. Opening morning came early for the kids as I rang the bell at 4am but to my surprise they all popped out of bed ready and willing. We all headed into to strategic positions with Dalton and Jacob with me and the rest to glass. My phone vibrates at 6:15 its my brother " I found him" And its a different bull one we hadn't seen before I look back tell the boys it's go time but the bull is on the other side of the fence by couple hundred yards not are unit. Well lets call so we did and brought him to within 10 yards of the fence but the bull I think knew what the fence represented. Finally he just turned around and walked off . According to some other hunters that were watching us they said the bull seen me when a was raking trees and calling. So we called the morning hunt with intentions that we would get him in the evening. Fast forward to the evening hunt my buddy (lionhunter on coues) showed up to help and we all went back to look for him with thousands of dollars worth of optics staring into the country were he was we saw nada and night fell with a long face Dalton was a little bummed. I said the morning hunt will prevail. Saturday morning back to the same spot with again alot of high dollar glass staring into the mountain's nothing. What the heck so Saturday midday during the heat we had some cameras on some water holes 4-5 miles south of the spot so we checked them and that bull was on one of them Friday night. Saturday evening hunt just changed up with relocating everyone into different locations again with lots of glass looking my wife calls and she found him and he was in unhunt able country thick and flat my dad would call it 30-30 hunting. Dalton and Jacob go after him while lionhunter and I stay back and the boys get within 15 yards with no shot so I told them to back out and we would get him in the morning in the meantime Lionhunter has a beautiful 6x6 320ish at 45 yards from him as he slipped off the backside of the hill to glass in which we had some pictures of that bull and Dalton said he would love to shoot that one. So onto Sunday morning everyone set up again we started calling and A bull responded not knowing which bull at this point we didn't care we ran right at him and ended up past him by about 100 yard so we started calling which he responded but I think he caught are wind and be boogied out of their. My phone vibrated and my my wife found him again within 5 minutes so we preceded to chase him around in the flat thick stuff for 2 hours with no luck and ended up calling of the morning hunt so we didn't spread to much scent in their. Sunday evening Lionhunter, the nephews and Trent had to get home for family so its just me and big D with the girls ,wife and brother on the glass for us. Again my phone vibrated and the wife has found the bull again this time he is close the some open country but in the same area. So Dalton and I slipped into the area with the wind in are face and the bull in front of us somewhere we started to call with no response I let out 2 or 3 bugles over a 5 minute span with nothing so switched to cow calls and the bull lit up and he was pretty close so I stayed on the cow call and set Big d up about 75 yards in front of me as the bull came in to are left I noticed that he couldn't see him and with ear protection in I couldn't get my boys attention so I started to chuck a pebble at him when I seen him lift he gun up and reposition it towards the bull. My view was impaired by trees but I could see the bull's legs as I'm watching the bull the gun goes off and the bull just walks off about 20 yards and stops so back to chucking pebbles so he could shoot again as I reared back throw I heard the gun eject and another bullet get loaded and when I looked back over at the bull he just tipped over. Dalton jumped up and threw his hand's in the air and ran for me for the biggest hug that a dad could get. I was so emotional at this point words can't explain. We had did it we hugged again and talked about the shot it only being 100 yards he said with the bipod he felt it was a perfect shot so we walked down the hill to look for the bull and there it was folded up like a lawn chair. He was so friggin excited and me too. So I called the wife and they couldn't' hear the shot and she's answer's "what up" my reply Turn out the light's the party is over. She holler's out he did it and I could hear the girls and my brother hooting and hollering. The best part was once i looked on my map on my phone to see how to get them to us we ended up being about 75 yards off another road so they came right to us. The end result was good family medicine for us spending time in the woods with the kids doing what we love enjoying the outdoors of America. Thanks for the read, Pete

Had a new face show up yesterday, this little forky. Still waiting on the big boys to start cruising the neighborhood, they’re running late this year. Got a couple inches of snow today, maybe the cold snap will bring them in. i texted this video to my brother and he says ‘You should name that one Creepy Joe’ seems appropriate.

I'm 54 years old. I lost my Dad when I was 4. I like the fact that you guys take the time to let people know that you appreciate hving your Dad around. The older I get the more I miss him. shayne