HuntHarder

I was stopped during last years HAM hunt by AZGFD and he loooked at my dead pig and 300 blackout AR handgun. Did not mention anything about it. I try to encourage anyone who builds AR's to just buy an SBA3 brace and then you can essentially build an SBR without the FED hassle. They make great truck guns in the event a coyote shows himself..

But you got to ride a mountain bike in??? #dedication

Fred Cronk was my manager, RIP, he was a good man that went too early. I also worked with Chuck and Bob B as well as Ted Lange, John Flaherty and Terry toward the end. Terry is now my go to at Sportsmans warehouse as he is a wealth of knowledge and also a great coworker.

IMO the deer do not migrate to lower elevations rather they go where the does are. I always find it interesting that on average, the further I hike into oblivian, the number of animals I see goes down. I swear the animals almost like the challenge of eluding us.

Hmm. I think I was there in 03. Is your name Josh? I vaguely remember the Mesa Managers name being Josh. I still see Wes Anderson (used to be our Pentax rep) on occasion. I think he got out of the industry or I see his doppleganger working for an engineering firm.

Cave Creek and Bell, the last 2 years they were open.

Yup, Still remember my days working at Arizona Sportsman when I was in College. Then Came the big box stores like Sportsmans warehouse, Cabelas and BPS and that was the last bullet in that business. It really was a shame to watch, what could have been, a great store get ran so bad. Ole Mr. Links was not a good owner and it really showed itself when new competition came to town. When used Pythons would come into the store I would drool and now wish I would have bought one when I had many chances to.

Funny, guys think these AR handguns are brand new game changers. In reality, the Xp100's and Savage strikers have been around for years and they are really not much different than a rifle. Guys put bipods on them, mount them to tripods and then claim they had a long "handgun" kill.

I personally feel like in the units I hunt, the rut started early this year. Having said that, I killed a buck on New years Eve that was fending off 2 smaller bucks from his hot doe. The rut is going strong still and I anticipate it continuing thru the middle of january.

Glass is half full outlook.. You should draw this year if point creep doesn't get you. 12 points has been 100% draw for the last 5 years, but is slowly trending toward less than 100%.

Last year unit 1 was 8%; 3B was 14%; 27 was 13.5%

I bought mine from Western Honda. Easy to deal with, got an OTD price over the phone/ internet, showed up with the cash and walked out for the EXACT price quoted. I took their OTD price to ridenow and they tried to dick me around for an hour and said if I can buy one for that price, then go do it, but they can't get down that low. Their way of trying to match the price was to discount the accessories and warranty they wanted to sell me. Western Honda is the place to go.

Hahaha, lonely at the top... sounds like woody has been listening to too much rap music. Remember when you used to get all ate up over guys using handymen instead of licensed electricians....

So it is okay to take advantage of the system at a large retail store, but not at a medium retail sized store?

Any available at RCM? It is worth the drive...

Be careful with a 40 MOA base. Sometimes those 1" scopes do not have enough adjustment to get a zero at a reasonable range. Do not forget to put in the 10$ spring in the Tikka trigger. Makes them a pretty nice inexpensive trigger.

Lehigh makes some pretty good ammo. I carried the 140 gr. penetrator while in Alaska for Defense. If I were going to use it for a javelina, I think I would give their 115gr extreme defense load a serious look. Suppose to cause large wound channels and penetrate up to 18". I know their 140gr grouped really well. Honestly, I think just about any HP would do just fine on the little guys. Max distance is strictly based on your shooting ability. I think the round is effective further than 99% of people can accurately shoot. Getting close is the fun part on javelina, so get close and thump him in the head.

They are not a must have, but for 200-300$ more, why not go carbon?

50$?? I'm imagining a chinese pile of turds. Is it? What type of metal is the blade? I've been looking for a nice OTF but also couldn't bring myself to spend 400$ on one.

Soooooo in 2024 we can see your 2019 bull? heck of a drying period you got there bud...

That is a badass looking buck!! Nice work

Nice Buck! He looks like he is in the rut. We found a nice muley (160-170ish) last week that was all swollen up already with 7 does.

Not possible.... If you hit an animal in the foot with a creedmoor they will die instantly

Due to a youth hunt that took way longer than expected this year, I did not make it up to help on a late bull hunt. First time in quite a while I wasn't up there assisting on knocking down some bulls. The guys I know who were up there said it was an absolute shoot show with literally hundreds of pickups stuck, very few roads passable and tons of guys concentrated in the accessible areas. This is in multiple units with the same basic report. Make me wonder if it really is as bad as they are making it sound?

Id pull it earlier than the low range of your desired final temp. If you want 130-135 final, I would pull at 125, wrap in foil, put a hot towel around that and place in an ice chest. As mentioned above, doing it this way, hours later the meat can still be too hot to handle.