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sounds like a conversation you should've had with the outfitter before you booked hunt.

All 6 bucks we saw this morning were In velvet

A few thousand to a shoot coues deer? They’re like $50 here.

Hey Guys, Thought I would post this to help my business, CWT and you guys. I own a mobile detailing business here in the Valley. We are only about 6 months old but have had awesome feedback. Figured lots of guys coming back from hunts could take advantage of this. We service pretty much all of the valley. I made a discount code for CWT members and its CWT10. I will match that 10% off and donate it to CWT. If you are going to book, make sure to click the yellow "Enter a coupon code" Tab. We do UTV's, Trailers and RV's as well. PM me with any questions! https://waxymobiledetailing.com/

I know. but surely by now you have learned the election was stolen

Last year Nash got straight A’s the entire year. As a reward we decided to go hunt antelope in WY. We didn’t have a lot of points so we had to hunt a unit with very limited public land and boy were the bucks skittish. Last night after a one mile stalk via an irrigation ditch this buck decided to go on a runabout and stopped at 150 to get a look at us. Nash made an excellent quartering towards us shot and the rest is history.

My buddy has a savage axis in 6.5manbun and topped it with a vortex 4.5-22x50. rings are talleys(low or mid he isn't sure) I took his son out to get it zeroed yesterday and ran into a problem. After a 100yd zero there is only 10 clicks of elevation left. I have never run int this problem before. Is this a known issue with a known solution?

Thanks guys. At 13 she’s really turned into a great hunter and good shot never complains unless she’s unlucky in the draw I did glass this buck first but normally we find an equal number of animals considering I’m using swaros and she using vortex.

Hunting is hunting. If it’s a good buck and you’d be happy with it, shoot it.

Any chance you buff and wax boats?

I consider myself a life-long beginner. VERY slow learner, here...

Dang, that would be such a deal if they provide the ammo and clean the gun afterwards!!!

Rifle found in Nevada. https://www.winchesterguns.com/news/articles/lost-model-1873-visit-winchester-repeating-arms.html

Not sure where to post this, but found a desert tortoise while out scouting for my kids upcoming hunt in 22. I’ve never seen one still in the shell thought I’d share.

Good evening, I'm new here! I was told by a friend of mine that there are some younger folks on here that do euro mounts. If anyone has their info I would much appreciate it. Since I probably won't get this opportunity again, I figured it would be best to have someone mount it that knows what they're doing. This sheep was road killed south of gila bend and I got the salvage tag. First time posting in a forum so forgive me. Thanks in advance!

An moa rail will only mask the issue. if it were mine I’d center the scope. Remove the scope and rings. Re install every thing and torque is properly. If there’s still an issue, try a quality scope.

Nash, stellar character both in the classroom & the field! Next year’s straight A’s negotiation may be worthy of Dad’s tag transfer to Youth!!! Keep up your passion for excellence and time in the field with family.

I have 2020 XP4 going up. Has a full windshield, Razor rack, and some extra lights. PM me if you are interested.

Buy with confidence! Kept his word on price when others offered him more after we made a deal! Stand up guy! Thx again

I can’t leave mine that long, I get too paranoid that they’ll get taken.

We actually have 3 jr tags to fill, my two kiddos (son-has only killed 1 deer and daughter-has killed 5 deer and 1 cow)and my daughters best friend who hadn’t filled any tags yet. So the plan is daughters friend first, followed by my son then my daughter. Like you said, being there and watching them is an absolute blast and memory maker. Reminds me of when I was there age with my dad. Rifles are dialed in out to 500yds, but hoping to get within 100 yds or less. This was my daughters 80yd shot same unit 3 yrs ago.

Sounds like the leupold vx1 that I have sitting around is going on it for now! I was thinking about trying an athlon argos hmr 2-12 x 42 for the extra field of view at low power

I don’t see anything wrong with the 14 shots that were taken? There was an issue with the scope, nothing was wounded, they got it sorted, then drilled a nice buck! Great job

Lots of great information here. A lot of people glass hard early and late, but while they are back at camp eating lunch seems to be one of the best glassing hours - from noon to 1. I've definately seen more deer right around noon getting up from beds, stretching their legs and repositioning than between 8 and 11 or 2 to 4. Bedded bucks can be really hard to pick up, especially the older smarter ones. One year I was looking for a particular buck that seemed to only move into the open stuff at dark, and was already back into thick bedding country by sunup. I got positioned to glass the bedding area on the back side of the mountain early in the afternoon - this was a rut hunt, btw. I picked up only one doe bedded in a relatively open area all afternoon. I just kept watching her, and just as the final 30 minutes of hunting light approached she got up and walked up the hill. Sure enough, the buck I was after stepped out of some really thick nasty oak/scrub brush maybe 30 yards below her and followed her up the hill. Now he's hanging on the wall - Point being, no matter what angle I had, there was no way I could have ever seen him bedded although I had been within 250 yards of him all afternoon. In the rut, glass does. In October, November and early December, well I won't be much help. I can't seem to ever find them on early hunts. Just be meticulous, focus on shadowy areas, and ask yourself where you would be if you were the deer. Slow your glassing down to a snail's pace, and then some. If your glass is moving, you can't catch movement. Sometimes, you'll hold your glass on one spot and be sure there is nothing there, and all of a sudden, something moves, maybe an ear twitch, maybe a rack that looked like branches turns a little... IMO, and I'm by no means a great glasser, the key seems to be patience. When I'm not seeing anything, I try to force myself to work a grid on a single hillside moving the glass just a little bit, overlapping the last area I looked at by at least 20 yards and each time I stop the binocs either counting to 15 slowly, or imagining myself walking over and identifying everything I can see in the binocs - focusing not on what I can see, but where in the picture a deer *could be* that I can't see and watching those hidden areas for any type of movement. 90% of the time I'm not seeing anything, it's because I'm trying to look at too much area, too fast. I'm looking for deer standing out in the open or moving around in the obvious spots. Those are the times, as I'm trying to teach myself, slow down, work a grid, let the optics sit perfectly still and pick apart every rock, blade of grass, limb, shadow, etc. Once I'm sure that little patch has nothing, move the glass just a little bit along the grid I've decided on and repeat. The best glassers I've hunted with are masters of self control and patience, and that's why they end up finding deer that most of us pass over. One more tidbit I've learned that seems to help in glassing situations. If you are glassing and pick up a doe or whatever, watch that deer intently. You'll see that if you watch for maybe 15 minutes, once or twice it's out in the open and clearly visible. The majority of the time, if you didn't already know exactly where it is, you would pan right past it. You can pick out a little bit of a leg, maybe the horizontal line of a back, maybe an ear, or a moving shadow behind a tree. For me, this helps to remember that even if there is a deer in my field of vision, it is probably only obvious around 5% of the time. The rest of the time it is partially or fully obstructed from view. Knowing this helps me to slow down and focus on details. Godspeed, Jason