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The Yo Dave spring kit for Tikka work very well, you can get down to 1.5#s, and pretty crisp. Pretty much everthing you will need: Action, barrel, brake, stock, trigger, bottom metal, mag or internal mag box & follower w. spring, rail/rings or one piece rings, scope, anti-cant device (level), caps, throw lever. Some items that people can forget to budget for are: Bedding stock, truing action, Cerakote, timing barrel & brake, contouring brake to barrel diameter (I prefer a brake to blend with barrel contour), dies, shellholders, caliber specific inserts for your comparator, reloading components (new brass, bullets, primers, powder). Axisworks has built me 6 rifles now. If the first one or two were not amazing, no way would I have gone back for 4 more. I have shot more than 30 other Axisworks rifles. All amazing.

Only a parent or grandparent can donate their tag to a minor child. Not a sibling. I am on the opposite side of the fence on this. I say hunt the elk, turn in the 12AW tag. Because maybe I will get lucky and get it when you turn it back in!

Awesome story. Absolutely love seeing kids hunting.

Fifth, I have cash.

2" groups at 1500 yards? Very impressive. .13MOA. I think you might have your numbers flipped. The 180-185 will do fine in 1:11" twist. I have even loaded up to a 190 HVLD in one. The 200+ would shoot better in the 1:8". 210+ would definitely shoot better in the 1:8" over 1:11".

https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/whitetail-deer/the-dumbest-poacher-of-2019 The Dumbest Poacher of 2019 Spencer Neuharth Jun 17, 2020 Earlier this month, Dugan Traversie entered a plea deal with prosecutors for his role in a poaching case that dates back to last fall. Traversie was ordered to pay $9,000 in restitution to Timber Lake Elk Ranch, one-year probation, and one year without hunting. Since the judgement by the U.S. magistrate seems light, I’m tacking one more punishment onto his crime: I’m declaring Traversie the dumbest poacher of 2019. Traversie is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. He held a buck tag for the reservation’s deer season, which started on November 2. But, five days before gun opener, on October 28, Traversie got a head start on the season by poaching a whitetail buck with his rifle. It wasn’t just any buck, though. Traversie shot the deer on the Timber Lake Elk Ranch, a high-fence game farm within the boundaries of the reservation. The property offers 100% success hunts to wealthy clients for everything from pheasants to mule deer to bison. “Located on 8,000 acres of pristine western South Dakota prairie, the Timber Lake Elk Ranch has grown to be one of the largest privately-owned elk, buffalo and deer herds in the world with more than 700 head,” Timber Lake Elk Ranch’s website states. From outside of the property, Traversie shot the 28-point buck through the ranch’s 8-foot fence. He then crawled through the fence, took a picture with the whitetail, cut its head off, tossed the head back over the fence, and left the carcass to rot. Traversie cached the rack under a bridge for a few days with intentions of retrieving it before deer season opened. The buck was already “spoken for” by a client who paid $20,000-plus to hunt the deer. The ranch managers brought in the whitetail on October 18, but late that month they noticed it had gone missing. When they went on a scouting mission to locate the buck on November 1, all they found was its headless body. A picture of the buck from Timber Lake Elk Ranch’s website. Since they didn’t acquire the buck until October, this was likely taken at the deer farm in North Dakota where it was purchased. It didn’t take long for them to figure out who the poacher was, though. On November 3, the day after the Cheyenne Sioux Tribe’s opener, Traversie posted a picture on Facebook of him proudly holding the buck, claiming to have shot it the day before. The image went viral and reached hundreds of thousands of people, with one post getting 1,900 likes, 1,100 shares, and 650 comments. The image was immediately met with praise and skepticism. For every five people lauding this buck of a lifetime and congratulating Traversie on his harvest, someone would comment on the deer’s unnaturally white antlers and elk-like spread. Before law enforcement even got involved, the online hunting community was questioning the legitimacy of this would-be record book whitetail. The debate was short, though. The same day Traversie posted a picture with the buck, photos started circulating of the deer’s headless body at Timber Lake Elk Ranch, along with older photos of the buck in velvet from the ranch’s website. According to the investigation carried out by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Cheyenne Sioux Tribe, Traversie fessed up when law enforcement reached out. Throughout the process he’s cooperated with prosecutors and shown remorse for his actions, which led to a lenient plea bargain—despite the potential for a $250,000 fine and five years in prison based on initial charges. “I am very, truly, truly sorry for poaching the whitetail deer when it wasn’t deer season,” Traversie told U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Moreno. “I just ask for the opportunity to prove to this court that it will never, never happen again.” The $9,000 restitution is the amount that Timber Lake Elk Ranch paid for the buck from a whitetail farm in North Dakota. The case has been filled with moral and legal conundrums, like how the Federal Lacey Act, wanton waste laws, and other game regulations are applied to wildlife that’s raised as livestock. But that doesn’t change the fact that Traversie killed a whitetail out of season, trespassed, wasted a whole deer, and still felt compelled to post that grip-and-grin to social media. Now more than ever, Pat Durkin’s old Wisconsin proverb rings true: “Deer make people stupid.”

I wonder who won the 2017 contest.

I will take it. Free, right? Since you posted absolutely nothing about it....

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Nice conclusion to this story. Buck is now with G&F. Convicted poacher loses license for 10 years. And is currently a felon. 18k in fines. At least 4 other poached trophy bucks, a trophy bear, and a coati brought to light and confiscated by G&F, except one that "the coyotes ate the antlers". Poacher also convicted of fraud. A fellow poacher involved got busted too.

Who was the taxidermist? That is a fast turnaround. That photo on the wall does not do that big beautiful buck justice.

Yes, clean the primer pockets after each FL sizing. If you deburr the flash hole, you only need to do it once at the beginning. I anneal after each firing too.

Magnum fire now at 14,800 acres.

I know you are just stirring the pot to get a rise out of folks for your enjoyment. But dang.

Here are a few photos of some of Blake's poached animals. From an article. Fucking sickening. You have to hand it to Blake though. The guy has a set of huge brass balls. Who else would poach all these trophy animals, and then have the stones to post photos and stories on a bunch of websites and social media of them. Can't wait until the next time he gets caught.

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They said he still owes $16k+.

I actually agree with this 100%. It fIt THAT crime. What about the other 5 counts? 5 years each sounds about right, maybe 10 for the powerline buck. As long as they are served consecutively, not concurrently. Should have added an obstruction count too for the OTHER 4x5 200+" buck he admittedly poached as well, you know, the one that "the coyotes ate".

The old "dog ate my homework" excuse. Sickening.

Apparently, there was YET ANOTHER 4x5 200+" velvet mule deer he poached as well, and admitted to it. Was told to turn over the antlers, but "a coyote ate them" and he never turned them over to G&F. Glad I watched this live, and learned a lot more.

Besides producing very nice and accurate rifles, Todd is also a great person.

This past weekend, my wife had to buy beef (other than some good ribeyes a few times a year). The freezer is almost empty. Just a few packages of deer left. Some sausage, 1 roast, and we ate the last of the backstraps from Taylor's 2019 buck last night. The 2019 pronghorn are long gone. With no elk tags since 2017, and only one deer tag in 2019 (2016 was the last deer before that) and two pronghorn in 2019 (which don't produce a lot of meat anyway), we had to buy beef for the first time in about 8 years. We had a good run of luck with tags since 2012. No elk tags this year to fill the freezer, and only two pronghorn tags on the docket right now, I am really hoping for a deer tag. To be honest, I have forgotten what a beef roast tastes like.

Great find!!! Hilarious knowing who that post came from.....AND THE TIMING OF IT!!!

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