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I have a howa 1500 chambered in 7mm-08 I would like to sell. I bough this rifle for my daughter 4 years ago, but she has decided she no longer wants to hunt. So I’m going to free up some space in the safe. It has a sig tango4 4-16x44 sitting in vortex pro rings. The bipod is not for sale. I would like to get 1,100 as it sits or 700 for just the rifle. It shoots factory nosler 140 accubonds 1 inch groups at 100 yards. The rifle has around 100 rounds down the barrel. I’m open to offers also. The bare rifle weighs 6 pounds 4 ounces.

I was lucky enough to have drawn the first hunt in the Picacho Mountains (37A east) six years after the reintroduction of sheep to the area. Because the area is so close to my home I chose to go about the hunt self guided. First call was to AZG&F to figure out what I had gotten myself into. Officer Smallwood, the manager for 37A, kept me on the phone for well over an hour during my first phone call to him. He gave me areas to access the mountains and information on where they had been seeing sheep. This was huge. In all, I spent at least one day almost each weekend from beginning of September until the hunt in the area looking for sheep. I managed to wear out a set of tires on my Jeep on that road. Hunted seven days. It was physically and mentally strenuous. At one point, we found ourselves up on the mountain as the sun was setting. Coming down in the dark with headlamps on, moving from cliff to cliff was no picnic. I vowed that if I was ever in that situation again, I'd sleep on top of the mountain and come down in the daylight. I had several friends help out. I was never alone. My hunting partner, Jeff was with me every day of the hunt. Made two new friends from this website. Luis (Lucafu1) and Patrick (PatrickJr) each accompanied me for a day. Solid guys. Helpful to a fault. In fact Patrick glassed up the Ram that I ended up killing, he prepped the cape/head and hauled the meat off the mountain for me! I hope to repay the favor someday. I am including pics from scouting as I had as much fun looking at lambs as I did looking for mature rams! I did not kill the biggest ram in those mountains, nor the oldest. That said, I am super happy with him and he is going to look great on my wall! G&F determined it to be a 6 year old ram (probably born in the Picachos the year they were introduced) He nets 164 inches. An amazing once in a lifetime experience! I totally understand the fascination and addiction to finding sheep in the mountains. I hope to be a helper on somebody's hunt in the future!

New NL 14x52 asking $3,300 tucson

The 2025 Elk regs are now on the AZGFD website.

Going through the garage cleaning stuff out today 1/1/24. Will add more stuff as I keep cleaning. I have had good luck selling stuff on here, I know it's not all hunting stuff. 7.5 mm ammo Nagant in stripper clips? $30 for both. Now $20 100 pcs of 357 remington Max brass, new. $50 Rush Creek round ball .311 500 ct $25 44 Russian brass $40 45 S&W Schofield brass $40 32 S&W rimmed brass $10 Free Scopes for like a rimfire, only 1 left, Tasco far right in pic. BB Lead shot unopened sack. $30 SPEER 32 CAL PLINKER 98grn 1000 ct $50 45 cal bullets, 500 ct $45 Leupold 34mm rings $40 Atholon 34mm rings $20 Dial Indicator $20 RCBS TRIM PRO 3-WAY .30cal $25 30-30 Marlin rings and base. Pulled these off a lever i bought off here. More of a iron sight person all 4 base screws and rings are there. $25 SPF Savage 22 Hornet 219 B $200.00, I bought this off a CW Member a while back. I accidentally cracked the stock but glued it back. It did not crack all the way through. I have never fired it as i also bought a ruger 77/22 hornet about the same time. I've been shooting that one. The firing pin on this one looks a little different. Looks like it will fire just fine and maybe I'm over thinking it. Anyways, just sitting in my safe. I paid like $350 for it but it's time for a new home. $200 for CW members. SPF ASMOKE SMOKER PORTABLE, the only kicker it runs off AC power only i think. Used a few times, you can also grill with it. $100 2015 Ram air and fuel filters. $50

MDT XRS Chassis - REM 700 LA (FDE) BNIB For Remington 700 / Remington 700 Clones, Long Action, Flat Dark Earth Color, Brand New in Box Will upload photos at some point, but here's a link to MDT's website... https://mdttac.com/xrs-chassis-system/ FTF in Tucson, cash only. Call/text: five two o - eight three four - four four o four

Been out 5 times now. Central units. No rutting here. Small bucks with a few does. Any mature bucks alone still. Maybe just me

Straight grip... but at this point the rifle is SPF.

Great job JJ. Now to get your Rocky.

Fast forward to November, we were able to drive the 16 hrs to Show Low the week of Thanksgiving. The plan was to help my dad’s buddy with a deer tag in 32 and then head up to meet Chris the weekend of November 30th. After an unsuccesful opening day of deer season, AJ and I made the miserable drive up 191. We met up with Chris, who had brought his amazing wife to meet us. The reason Chris was up there a week early, was to drop off his camper so that he could bring up his side by side later in the week( which ended up being an invaluable tool for our hunt. It still amazes me the kindness of this man, whom I had never met, who was willing to make the 5 hr drive twice, so that we would have everything we needed. The days leading up to the hunt we scouted quite a bit and found a few bulls and big herds of cows with spikes and raghorns. At one point we had run into a herd of bighorn, in which AJ didn’t seem to be impressed, but Chris and I enjoyed seeing them. I am a photographer, so got out and snapped some photos with my Nikon.

I first want to thank all those who offered help and support on this hunt. I am sorry I didn’t get to it sooner and I will probably post this in pieces as I type. This hunt, the way we were able to hunt, would not have been possible without Chris(CrazyMonkey). When we found out AJ had drawn the tag I immediately set him and his brother up for their hunter Ed course for spring break in March. And I immediately began to wonder how we would pull this off. I was concerned that he would not pass hunters Ed, since he is intellectually disabled and has cerebral palsy. And I have got to hand it to the game and fish officers and employees involved in Hunter ed in Arizona. Even though he had lots of trouble with different aspects of the course, they were more concerned with making sure he had fun while taking the course and assisted him every step of the way. So Thankyou AZGFD, you guys were amazing! We practiced shooting throughout the summer here in Arkansas, and it quickly became clear to me that he needed a lot of assistance with the rifle. After a conversation with the game and fish officer of his unit, he encouraged us to get his CHAMP permit and do what we could to help make the hunt successful, with one exception, AJ needed to be the one pulling the trigger. So I was able to find a camera that attached to the scope, and we started practicing with me helping him aim and telling him when to pull the trigger. He was getting pretty good, so I felt confident.

My son drew second choice this year, a unit we hunted two years ago. Opening day came and Christian, my pops, Colby and I got to glassing. It was a slower than usual morning, only 5 small bucks. We had an interesting find, saw a pack of 14 maybe 15 dogs cruising the mountains. No collars, all dogs were a different breed of pit, boxer, lab, German Shepard etc and looks like none of them were tracking scent, sure didn’t look like lion dogs. They covered some good country so we decided to hit a different spot for the afternoon. That afternoon we hit up a glassing spot we seen some nice bucks in with some lions in the past. I glassed this buck right at 3:20 getting up from his bed 1030 yards. The boy and I grabbed our gear and spent the next 30 minutes going uphill to get in range. After the shot, it was even more difficult getting to the buck and even worse packing him out. The cat claws were amazingly thick and we enjoyed every moment of it. We know that when we are back in school/work, we would rather be out in the field getting cut up by catclaw.

Honestly I did not receive any solicitation other than a friend of my cousin who is a guide. He was happy to talk about the hunt with me even after I told him that I was going to give it a go unguided.

Thanks for letting me tag along. I wish i didn't have to got back to flagstaff to pick up my elk meat or I would have been there. I can't believe how many hours we watched this guy not move from his spot. It was funny after about 3 hours. Not for you I am sure. Congrats again!

Bacon wrapped goose on the trager.

I say if we can be excited and share the food we eat, we can share our hunting successes too. 🤙🏼

I grew up in a super dysfunctional family. Yes I'm sure everyone is shocked ... My only good friends are from this forum so I got nobody to share with but y'all. I'd be interested.

It's tough to post hunt and kill stories on here. Folks either call it bragging or who knows what else. I'll think about it...

I made the same thing again. If only quail weren’t so hard to hit

Blueberry

Dinner is served

How does he like working there?

I saw more Javelina this year than I’ve seen in a long time…..the short grass probably made it easier to spot.

This month has been hard, wife’s birthday, our anniversary, and 6 month anniversary of her passing was yesterday. I’m getting stronger and more leathery with every passing milestone. Today I decided it’s time to get back to meal prep. I started it last spring and dropped 50lbs by last years elk hunt. Currently I’ve gained that back and then some. Not easy being forced into the single life! Fast food is food and easy when you throw yourself into work to forget. Anyways, today I made lunch for the week... breakfast is oatmeal with dehydrated cranberries, cherries, and blueberries. Topped with cinnamon. Lunch is Frank’s red hot marinated chicken breast with broccoli and sweet potato. Haven’t been eating supper for awhile but I’ll figure that out.