lancetkenyon

Watermark? What watermark? If you see a watermark, you are looking at the wrong thing in the photo.

How can you not have the serial numbers on file somewhere? What if you get robbed? How will you ever prove the firearms are yours? Unless.......you are playing coy while Big Brother is watching the interweb....

If it is truly a lost gun, the owner would be able to give a serial # to the LEOs for the safe return, if it is truly just a lost firearm. I would also be VERY leery of picking up a gun on the side of a road. While working remodel construction, my helper found a pistol inside a wall we were tearing out. Called the MCSO, as the homeowner claimed it was not theirs. Turns out it was used in a crime 25 years earlier, and the prime suspect was the former homeowner who had passed away.

Devil's Advocate response: You went up as a non-paying client. I get it, I cannot afford $2-10K either. Guide lets you use HIS blinds on HIS salt licks he has tended all year long. Guide moves you when a paying client comes to camp so that hunter can sit your stand that Guide has let you sit for free. You do not stay out all day hunting and return to camp midday, possibly missing an opportunity. You tamper with guides game cameras. Guide cleans up spot of kill of blood, entrails, etc. which might give a better chance of another bison coming in to the stand. You leave the hunt before season ends. And you are mad at the guide?

What a toad! Congrats, and glad persistence paid off.

Smashes the NT & Typ P&Y current world records of 127 1/8" NT, & 130 1/8" Typ. Heck, beats the #2 record in B&C by a landslide!

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/59992-does-anybody-not-buy-scent-free-products-for-archery-hunts/

I don't know who it was. They came after we left on Saturday. HogHunter texted me to ask about it Sunday night. I am sure you saw the mess I was talking about. I would have picked everything up on Sunday morning, but I did not have any trash bags with me, and I really didn't want to throw the loose carcasses in the bed of my truck. But all good now. I even stopped one of the farm hands and talked to him about it briefly yesterday morning.

What was good was my nephew has gone out a couple times with me this year with his Dad present, and been blasting away at birds, shooting something like 125-150 rounds a trip, and only getting about 10 birds. Well, I got to spend some one-on-one time with him on Sunday morning and got him dialed in on shooting the birds. First, he was shooting at birds out there at 50-80 yards. I broke him of that habit first, and that really dropped his shot count. Getting him to wait for birds at 35 yards and in, and then watching his wads, and seeing he was blowing tail feathers off, adjusted his lead a bit. Once we got that settled, his bird to shot ratio climbed from 8-10% to about 50%. He was having a much better time after that.

My wife goes crazy with ours. They (4 of them) sleep on our bedroom floor. I get up at 3:00-3:30 every morning, and as soon as I toss the sheets back, they are ready to go.

Don't take this post wrong. I hate poachers, and people who twist the laws to fit their own needs. Was the Private Property posted correctly? Every 100' or something like that? If he had a CHAMP permit, and the truck was off the shoulder and turned off, that was a legal take notwithstanding the location. Obesity is not a permanent handicap however. Unless he has other issues with mobility from injury, he is twisting the laws to get that CHAMP permit. Lack of respect of private property is not a handicap as well.

GSPs are crazy hyper energy dogs. Just saying.

I have a load for my .223 Rem with the 50gr. NBT too (and V-Max), but they are varmint bullets. 3300 fps from an AR puts a whooping on coyotes. It is ugly on anything smaller. I think it would do similar damage to a javelina as it does to coyotes.

Went out Friday late morning, Saturday, Sunday, Monday mornings. Saturday was crazy busy. But Sunday had some beautiful photo opportunities early. Got a couple of my nephew waiting on the birds coming in. Got my brother ejecting a spent shell from my O/U. And my brother got me ejecting a couple empties from my daughter's O/U. And the obligatory tailgate photo. On a side note, when we left Saturday morning, the area we normally park at was spotless. When we arrived Sunday morning at 5:00AM, there were dove carcasses everywhere, along with over 100 empty shotshell hulls. I doubt the person who left this mess was a member here, but just in case, don't worry, I took some extra trash bags and cleaned up your mess for you. On my way out yesterday, I have a funny feeling that the same scenario is going to have been replayed with at least two groups I passed. Birds laying EVERYWHERE, and one group was not even picking theirs up. Empties all over the place too. This looks really bad on all hunters, and a good way to get farmland and/or private property closed for the future seasons.

I would have sworn I saw a couple cows in the Superstitions above Apache Lake back around 2002-2003, but they were a LONG ways out and back before I had top tier glass. I cannot verify that with 100% certainty.

Great buck! Congrats.

69 Sierra Match King from my .223 REM. Entrance hole Exit hole

My brother and I go high power bunny hunting quite a bit in the winter. Great long range practice.

I saw a photo of my #2 goat on the ground......bummed I didn't draw that tag still.

Coming home from work. I had my daughter with me, so I could use the carpool lane!

I bought her a CZ Redhead Premier w. 26" barrels. Super light, fast swinging, well balanced. LOP is just a touch long still, but not bad. Also picked up a case of 20 Ga. light target loads, and recoil is almost non-existent. I really like it too. Slayed some birds myself with it today.

Eurasians are not counted as part of your limit. Non-native species. No limit, no season restrictions. But after opening day of 31 birds total (6 WW, 6 Mourning, 19 Eurasian), I felt that 15 birds (16 for me, with 13 of them Eurasians) for each of us was enough for that day. My daughter was hot and tired already, and I was picking the Eurasians on purpose for the bigger breasts (I like big breasts). We easily could have stayed until dark being selective and shot 200+ Eurasians if we had that many shells.

Absolutely. 3D deer target and a block for broadheads.

I have a set I use all the time, hiking, hunting, backpacking, etc. for about 5 years now. Trekker brand. Collapsible down to about 24" long, out to about 48" or so? Aluminum and lightweight. Fairly inexpensive.

Went out again yesterday afternoon with my youngest daughter (13). Now she has only shot a shotgun one day (last Sunday at the Sporting Clay range), and using my 12 Ga. O/U got the better of her. I felt so bad, I went out ad bought her a new 20 Ga. O/U Sunday afternoon. So anyway, we went out yesterday for an afternoon hunt. Got out there after work and school about 4:15PM. First shot with the new shotgun, and she popped a Eurasian right out of the sky! At 5:15, we were done. 2 limits (+1), a total of 27 shots of 20 Ga., and 22 shots from my 12 Ga. 31 birds in all. 75% Eurasian.