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Merry Christmas great friends and acquaintances! Thank you for all of the great memories, fun items, much learning, and wonderful transactions. May happiness, health, peace and prosperity be yours this holiday season and the next year! FREE! Good will to all who desire it!

Check out this AR-15 build great for coyote hunting or Hogs. Shooting

Good buddy of mines father was rewarded for 36 years of volunteer work with Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. This man puts in work.

Stock was bedded by axis works, for Defiance, Ruckus action, will include Hawkin M5 BTM and one 7 round mag(300WSM-6.5PRC), no trades, N PHX, $600, send PM This stock is a variation of our famous A-3 stock but with the addition of an A-5 type butt hook on the bottom of the butt. The flat on the bottom of the hook is about 3/4” wide. This stock is only available with an adjustable integral cheekpiece which gives both vertical and horizontal adjustments and is available with either the standard or thumb wheel elevator system. Adjustable clamp-bar cheek piece. Designed as a drop in fit for Remington 700 short action with Right Hand bolt Badger M5 DBM inlet Fits Sendero and Proof Sendero Lite barrels Flush cups on the left side of the stock, one in front and one in back. Dual front swivel studs on front, one in back Machined in aluminum pillar bedding 1" Pachmayr Decelerator recoil pad Overall length of stock: 31″ Depth of action area: 1.9″ Forearm width: 1.9″ Grip width: 1.8″ Buttstock width: 1.560″ 13.5" LOP 4.35 lbs

I saw a post made on HuntAz’s Instagram page. I am not trying to steal anyone’s thunder and I apologize if the hunter did not want any publicity but I think this is just bad butt that he shot this in a super tough unit and did not allow his disabilities prevent him from getting it done. Congratulations to him.

Nightforce NXS 5.5-22x56 Zero Stop MOAR-T C507, illuminated in great condition, no box. $1450 - located in Phoenix area, east valley

This is a heckuva Educator/Instructor Team. If I had a youngster within driving distance of their event we’d be registering for a seat in their class! Keep up the excellent work all as I am sure you will fill up as the Holiday fog is shaken off. With the increased speed of results getting updated in the system, the students will likely earn their Permanent Hunter Education Bonus Point in time for the elk/antelope draw in February.

Instead of buying a new die set can you remove the stuck case? Get a tap and die set drill it tap it and get a bolt to remove. happened to me recently and father in law had a tap and die set to remove it. mended up getting another stuck case afterwards and removed it again and out more lube on it

AHAAA!!! No wonder I never found the FED. 215 primers!!! Fuack!!

You could always buy another safe (LOL), Merry Christmas

Great deal! I use the same scope on my primary hunting rifle.

Wow, Even before Swarovski’s 7% end of year increase that’s a heck of a deal. good luck.

oops... Forgot to mention. It is a 5.56 barrel.

Cut your 223 brass and run them through your 300 blk out die. Make your own. Thats what we used to do when we had a 300 blk out

So after chasing mule deer in Dec/Jan archery my wife decided she wanted to try her luck on a desert mule deer during the general hunt. We’ve chased these deer only during archery and had decided to keep tabs through the years. We finally felt we had a solid plan so off we went. We got to her u it the afternoon before and set up camp then went out to glass. On our way to our glassing spot we came across a groups of 4 bucks hanging out in the area we were goi g to focus on. We got up early Opening morning and my wife and son got ready and headed to the area we had chosen to be at sunrise. I went to the glassing spot. At about 0611 I glasses up a group of 5 bucks, one of which was a definite shooter. Once they had formulated and approach everything just worked out perfect. I was bummed I couldn’t be with her when she shot but having just had hernia surgery a week earlier I was relegated to glass duty. 312 yard offhand shot with her 300WSM and the rest is history. Super proud of her!

I don't take it as rude at all. It's a valid opinion and I always appreciate constructive feedback. I don't disagree and also don't mean to be rude (I promise no sarcasm intended), but, we set up our classes here in Flagstaff to cater to our local kids (Flagstaff, Williams, Parks, Bellmont) first and foremost. I would expect an instructor team in another town to do the same (cater to local families' schedules and their availability). I took the class with my daughter in 2013 in Pinetop because getting into a class in Flagstaff was impossible at the time. We arranged our schedule to be there when we were supposed to be because she needed the class. That's actually what prompted me to become an instructor; I wanted to provide more opportunities for our local kids. Classroom classes have a 16-hour requirement, including the field day. We've been doing Thurs-Sun classes like this for 9 years with great success. From experience and feedback, the classroom classes that drag on for 2-3 weeks get really long and students forget the material really easily. It's painful for instructors (at least that's our team's perspective) to have classes 2 hours/night 2 nights/week for 3 weeks. Several folks from Camp Verde, Prescott, Prescott Valley, and even Tucson say they prefer our class schedule and are willing to put in the time because they prefer the in-person classes to the online classes. Several of our locals up here are asking for in-person classes for their kids because of the more in-depth coverage of material, quizzing, and testing we provide. You are correct that there is a backlog of online students and we offer several online field days May-October, including some 2/day online classes (morning and afternoon) when the weather is cool enough. At the same time, AGFD is encouraging all instructor teams to get back to in-person classes as much as possible, while still catering to the need for online field days. All of the requests we've had up here for in-person classes is why I was perplexed that nobody had signed up even after we advertised it 3 weeks ago. And, to be perfectly honest, we see much better test scores and material retention from kids who take the in-person class vs those who take the online class. We have much less need to provide test corrections to get kids passing grades in the in-person class compared to the online class. It certainly can be, but we break it up with rotations. between chapters taught. We break all classes up into three groups for Saturday and the field day. We have the AGFD room split with a divider for Saturday and rotate between each side, pulse the lobby so kids aren't sitting in the same seat all day. Throw in plenty of breaks, an hour lunch with a test review, and plenty of jokes, and the day flies by. The kids get plenty of time and opportunities to blow off steam and pent-up silliness and wiggles. On top of that, we rarely, if ever, go until 5 pm. We reserve the conference room for all day just in case there is a kid who needs extra help with their test. We just don't want parents showing up too early to get their kids and I'm personally communicating constantly with parents and students so they know what's happening and what to expect. We've never gotten any negative feedback from kids or parents about the length of the day or how our classes are scheduled. I've even had parents tell me they appreciate the opportunity to have a day to themselves.

This year I drew a 7w Late bull tag for the second year in a row. Last year was my first ever bull hunt, and I was able to shoot a nice little 5x5 opening morning. Fast forward to this year's hunt. I went out scouting the weekend prior to the hunt with a buddy who had the late archery tag and was needing help as he was hunting solo. It was the last few days of his hunt and he'd been on several bulls during the week but just couldn't make it happen. I agreed to go out with him as I needed to get in some time locating bulls for my hunt. We went to a spot that I've hunted cows for the last 5 years and always been successful, and I usually see some smaller bulls in that area this time of year as well. As soon as it started getting light I had several small bulls in my new Swaros. (Just upgraded this year, will never go back what game changers!) They were grouped up with about 15 cows but he now had a spotter so he started in on his stalk. He had about 1500 yards to close to I proceeded to continue glassing some closer ridges and that's when I located 4 shooter bulls for my hunt. I didn't mention them to my buddy at first, as I was walking him in via texting. He was able to finally close the distance to about 50 yards when the two young bulls just decided to up and leave with good pace (not spooked). He was then gridlocked with the large group of cows and the stalk just didn't end up working out. I continued to watch the larger bulls on the closer ridge and they fed until dang near 10am before bedding. My buddy got back up to me and seemed a little defeated. Part of me didn't want to mention the big bulls I had located just 500 yards away from us in fears of them getting blown out by another unsuccessful stalk and me never seeing them again for my hunt the following week. Long story short I did the right thing and let him know about the other bulls I had found, and I was able to walk him into 38 yards before the bulls caught his wind and bolted off to the west. Well, there goes my hunt! My buddy was super grateful and excited about the opportunity to get in that close with such awesome creatures so it was worth it. Fast forward to my hunt. I went out the evening before opener to glass the same area. Never turned up my bulls but did locate a nice one up high on a mountain top about 1.5 miles away. High winds were expected the next day so I figured he'd drop down into the bowl on the south side and hangout there for the night. Went in opening morning and after hiking about 5 miles finally caught a small glimpse of the two bulls from the night before up on a ridge moving through the pines at 295 yards. Was never able to get a shot off and they disappeared into the abyss. The morning of day 2 I went out with my brother in law and decided to go back to where I had found bulls the week before. Right at first light I picked up the same 4 bulls we had bumped out a week prior, feeding down low in the cedars about 1200 yards out. 25 mph winds had them feeding for a short period before getting into the real thick stuff and losing sight of them. I didn't want to get down in there with them that morning with the winds being unpredictable in fear of blowing them out again. This would be the last time I'd see a shootable bull for 2.5 days. And after the weekend ended, I would be hunting elk solo for my first time ever. Monday I was by myself, and bumped out some cows and few spikes hiking into my spot. At this point, the mental games had begun to set it. It was 18 degrees with 30mph winds and only the mule deer and cow elk were up and moving. I glassed all day and never saw another bull. Tuesday morning rolls around and I didn't want to even get out of bed. I had already hiked nearly 45 miles in 5 days, and just felt defeated but something got me out of bed and back out to the same spot I'd been seeing elk consistently. I hiked up to the glassing point very carefully this time, and set up my tripod. As soon as glassing light was available to utilize, I found a lone cow wondering the flats. A quick pan up and down the cut she was feeding in revealed another shiny golden butt facing away feeding in a small old burn area. I patiently waited for this elk to lift its head and to my surprise I could see antlers! A quick scan with my rangefinder revealed a 980 yard shot. Not something I'm comfortable taking without a spotter or in high winds. I pulled up my maps to look for another high point I could get to and there was a another ridge just to my south that may or may not give me a better vantage point. I dropped my pack, and went in light with just my rifle, tripod and binos and hurried down the ridge I was on and over to the next one. I ended up coming to the edge of a rock bluff with a large dead pine tree laying perfectly across the top. I quickly pulled out my binos and scanned quickly to find the bull had actually fed even closer to where I had hiked over too. The rangefinder indicated a 459 yard shot and I quickly got my turrets adjusted and used the dead log as a rest in a seared position. The wind was in my face and sun at my back, so the bull had no idea I was there. I had buck fever like no other plus just having hiked 1/3 mile quickly I was shaking like a leaf on a tree. I called my nerves and waited for the bull to turn broadside and when he did I let one rip. I heard the thump and knew I had hit him, the bull did a 180 and ran about 60 yards before stopping again and giving me another broadside shot at 448 yards. Whack! I watched him take the bullet and the shock of it echo through his large body, but he didn't move and continued to stand there staring back at me. I loaded another round and sent one more down range. Another hit, this time a fatal one. I watched him hunch up his back and take several steps down into a ravine before going out of sight. I took a minute to process everything before calling my wife to let her know i shot one. I decided to give him a little time so I hiked back up to the ridge I glassed him from to retrieve my pack. I marked his last known location to the best of my knowledge and after about 30 minutes decided to creep my way over. The ground was still frozen solid so there were no fresh tracks. I also couldn't find any blood anywhere and I began to doubt myself. I began just making circles larger and larger until I caught a wiff of him. I followed that scent right down to his body where he laid down in a juniper thicket not 15 yards from where my last shot had been taken. I called my brother in law up from Prescott to get help for the pack out and he was on his way in no time. By the time I was able to get my DIY photos and get him caped and quartered my brother in law showed up to help me get him out. After about 2 hours, we finally were able to get him back to the truck and off to the processor and taxidermist. What an awesome and rewarding hunt, just when I felt like throwing in the towel things worked out in my favor and one of the bulls made the mistake i needed so badly. Thankful to our lord and savior for this beautiful harvest that will feed my family for the year to come.

Thank you to every one who gave me info. i was able to take a small 3x3 This morning solo. Had a blast in 35a. Love hunting these deer in that type of country. Coues deer is by far my favorite thing to hunt