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Remington Model 700 Mountain 25-06 22" - $1500 $2000 Detachable magazine. This thing is a flat shooting tack driver. Lightweight at 8lbs 3 ounces with rings, scope, sling, and magazine as seen in photos below. This is my first rifle. It has a job to do, and it performs accurately every time. It is not a safe queen. It has seen its share of hiking and slayed many bucks. It could probably use a nice clean. If I touch it too much, I'll talk myself out of selling it because it's just gorgeous. It has some nicks and dings here and there on the stock. It has some scratches here and there on the barrel. The pictures I took aren't show off pictures. I wanted to show any and all blemishes. Leupold VX-3 Scope 4.5-14x40mm scope with scope caps. The rear scope cap button release broke off. still can open and close its just little magnets. The Sling I don't remember much about. It just says Hunter on it with a number: 27-138-2 1524 I'm located in Tucson, AZ This listing is for local/ in-state buyers. Local pickup. Cash only. No shipping to FFL.

I appreciate everyone's interest. Rico has found a new home! Thank you!

I just figured it was because of wives complaining.

I would bet 80-90% of the bulls taken on late rifle hunts are under 300”. I think most guys have a tendency to call any 6 pt bull a 300” bull and are off by 20-40”. I also think most guys don’t care so there’s a higher percent of small bulls shot. I would agree that if you go out, hunt hard, and can pass small 6’s you can kill a 320-340 bull in any late hunt in the state. (Besides Forebee of course). This is what an actual 300” bull looks like I feel like people rarely score those small to mid size 6’s and just classify them based on how they look

What would the right price be?

So I found a cave up on the Rim and had some gear and decided to rap in. First real salamander I have ever seen Took a peek down in a hole Then another hole Found his buddy Once you check in you can never leave (although the Eagles are the most overrated band ever) Mandatory tailgate shot All cleaned up UPDATE- I scored the bigger buck. He came in at 107"

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This happen in Aug and really never got around to it. But since I've been home all day for the holidays here we go! Opening morning we got to our high spot and right away looking down I see a decent buck but with nice cutters. I hmm and haw at him and said out loud there is no way this guy is on the Property. Pulled up OnX and lo and behold he is sitting right in the middle of a 1/4 squal mile island of the property surrounded by State land. I put my gun on him and my hunting partner said wait a second I want to film this. I'm on the gun just waiting and waiting. And of course once he is ready the buck started moving after grunting at us the whole time. He ran a bit and stopped. Only at 450 yards I shoot and right over his back. On video it looked like a few inches over his back. He ran off of his little island and back on state land. I thought that was weird how I missed so bad. My hunting partner finds a nice buck a mile out. Through the spotting scope he looked good. He bedded down, So I stayed on the high ground and guided him into him. He gets into 300 yards and sets up waiting for him stand up. After 15 mins or more he stands up. Watching through his spotter I see dust and then a boom. I couldn't believe he missed that buck, then he radios me and says that's not me!!! The buck runs towards him and stops 150 yards in front of Kyle. He radios and says should I shoot him? And then through the binos I watched the buck fall over and then a boom. He radios back and said thats not me!. Some other hunter 600 yards out just shot him. I guess the hunter bedded the buck last night and he told Kyle he was very grateful for not shooting this buck. I guess something like that happen on a bull elk hunt a couple years ago and they got into it with the other hunter that tried to take his elk that he just killed. Well Kyle stayed on the south side of the valley and I stayed on the north side of the property and just worked the valley. I glassed up a nice buck and took after him. In the mean time that same buck I shot and missed started following me staying about 400 yards out and grunting. Can't do anything about he is still on State. I got set up at 600 yards on this bedded buck waiting for him to stand. Once up I made my shot and missed again! Dude what the! What is going on. I hiked back to the truck and picked up kyle. I found a hill and shot at a cow patty at 500 yards and was about 10 inches high. I have no idea why my zero is off. But we go find a spot and re zero it back. Found a soft ball size rock at 500 yards and smack in the center. Ok ok good to go! We made a couple attempts on some bucks but nothing happen. Now its even time and now we are on the bluff looking over the whole area planning for tomorrow. Sure enough that same buck comes off the bluff 500 yards away grunting at us for 20 mins. He slowly comes down. I told Kyle Im going after this SOB. He said he is on state. Yep and he is heading towards the private property. I was waiting for him to get some distance from us. I run down the hill with my gear and the buck goes over this little 4 ft knoll and now he can no longer see me. So I just walk to that knoll. My spotter radios, he is feeding with some does. The 2 does I asked? Yep! Ok perfect because those does are on the property. I come over the knoll and ranged him at 710 yards and can't get prone due to the high grass. So I extend out the bipods to 36" and grab my second hand held bipod and rest it under the rear stock. Boom and dropped him. My 280AI that Lance did the load development shooting 160TMKs at 3100fps has broken every animals spine which has been 5 animals. It does what bergers do but just more! All hits have been center mass and it still breaks the spine or damages the spine. I really need to do a write up on that bullet. But Sadly we haven't seen any of them for over a year now. The next morning we started about 1/2 mile from day 1. Same thing Kyle finds a buck that looks wide and cool looking. We went back and fourth between 2 bucks to go after. He couldn't decide but the wide one bedded down. I told Kyle Just drive the truck around down in the valley and park it 800 yards out. The buck can't see you due to these 15ft high rolling hills that are about 100 yards long. So he does just that and I watch the whole thing again from a mile out. He gets up to a shooting position. Same thing he's waiting for him to stand up. So after 20-30 mins Im bored and start texting Lance what Kyle is waiting for. Lance is now texting me back with questions marks.........anything? Nope but we have truck coming our way. I radio Kyle and told him a truck is coming. Probably be there in 10 mins. Lance texts back and if you can see his vital and have a good shot take it. So I rely back to Kyle if you have a good shot take it. He radios back and says Im getting ready. At the same time im texting Lance whats going on play by play. He shoots and hits him hard. He gets up from the shot and moves 10 ft and sits back down. Kyle re adjust and shoots again and dumps him. Side note Lance didn't have a tag this year gave it to his daughter and helped another youth hunter. With Kyles buck, my buck and the people that was with Lance that was 6 bucks down in 24hrs!! It was a fun hunt! Kyles buck looks cool and looks big in pics but didn't even score 70inchs

With the early archery dates, gonna be a lot of guys holding points jumping in. Can’t decide my strategy yet.

I just want a 6x6 (young and tender one would be great). I'll have 11 points going into the draw. I'm thinking 1 or 27 is gonna be my best bet. After that I will only go for late rifle or cow hunts.

Don’t waist your time in hunting this unit t

Yup. The table can be found in this link. https://azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/archive/AZ-Hunt-Guidelines-for-Fall-2023-through-Spring-2028-Seasons.pdf

For reference, this is a 260 bull. Still looks great and tasted even better

Happens every 5-6 years due to the calendar changing. All hunts are set to start on specific weeks of the year. Example: late elk to start on the 48th Friday of the year. (No idea if that's the correct week) As the calendar moves around from year to year with a leap year or two eventually the hunts bump back. I think the last time it bumped back like this was 2017.

He is not on social media. yes he hunts the same unit/area every year but he does not shoot the first buck he sees he is pretty certain he saw this buck 3 - 4 years ago The big Dec storm moved in the day after he killed it. The impending storm probably had this buck up and moving around to the hunters knowledge and other hunters he knows in the area, no one else was aware of this bucks existence

My first shotgun was a 37 in 20 gauge

^this if 300” is your goal, I would swing at 8 or either of the 6’s for late rifle. With 8, you can find 30-40” on top of your 300” goal pretty easily.

From last week. Samsung S21 Ultra 20221229_085638.mp4

heck, Ive killed a shoot ton of chickens, my wife did not say I had to go !!

The hunt ended the 8th based on my regs....

Finally harvested one.