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If you hand carry them, it doesn't matter what stripe they have. Red stripe are 2 years old though.

Go buy a Benelli SBE and see how many sight beads it has! All the better shotguns have two beads these days. No excitement, just puzzled me when I didn't have a sight picture as I threw my shotgun up. A single front bead is OK for wing shooting but you will not find a single competitive clays or trap shooter with a single front bead these days. In any event, I don't have a front bead but rather a big fiber optic front sight. I just went to look through my peep and it wasn't there. That split second hesitation was all it took! I was bummed as I had a perfect track record up to that point with my shotgun. My ONLY other miss at a coyote was when I accidentally loaded a slug instead of a shotshell and didn't aim fine enough. That's when I switched to the Truglos. I am going to drill and tap it for a rail so I can put an Aimpoint on it when I get a chance. Went out this morning, took the 17 only. Didn't call anything in but woodpeckers!!

I use that new topic button sometimes, but I prefer to see what's new only in the areas that I might be interested in. Might be better to have a section just for "important stuff" so if someone wants to go back and review stuff they can. I guess when you pinned Gino's rant it really turned me off.

I have never seen a shotgun that doesn't have sights??? What kind of a question is that? Now, there are a lot of shotguns without rear sights but pretty much anything new is going to have a rear bead as well as front bead. I have turkey sights on my gun because it shoots so tight. I have had no problems killing coyotes at 75 yds but this requires better sights than simply a front bead sight. There are myriad shotgun sights for turkey guns these days; red dot, fiber optic, dual beads and regular rifle sights. We'll see how it goes in the morning.

Sorry guys, you can't eat mulies in January and I already have one that size. Gotta be something special before I get excited about them. Now a 105 WT, I all about that!! I passed a couple of nice mulies in August too. I didn't want to end there either- I'm hopeless...

Another season come and gone. I snuck out one last day yesterday and man was it miserable. I did glass up a 180" buck at my first spot and it was an easy stalk but there was no way I was punching my 2011 tag on a carp in January! Didn't see any WTs over 75". Did see any piggies. Cold wind, snow, rain, hail... I can't wait until August! Now I can just concentrate on getting a piggie- have two more weeks!

If it's so important, why are there 3 or 4 of the topics that haven't been added too in 4 months? Sure, I can change the number of threads that i can see, but I can still only see so many on one page, when the pinned topics, that nobody uses, take up more space than the ACTIVE topics it just bothers me. People like to see dynamic things- log on, take a quick peak at what's new and go on.

I cannot view this website with either Chrome or Firefox. Anything Google related says it's an attack site-that some 3rd party has loaded malicicious code. ??? I have never run into this before. I couldn't bypass it either- had to resort to IE and type the name in myself.

My buddy had his full camo on and a Circe call hanging off his neck when we stopped at the credit union on the way home one day. The poor teller asked him what was hanging off his neck and he proceeded to blow a full series of rabbit distress sounds. The teller cried and we were kindly asked to leave the bank! I was totally dumbfounded when he did it! I guess that qualifies as "urban". As for shooting stuff in town, you can't even archery hunt inside city limits unless you have permission from police chief. So pretty much NO.

Are your brothers easy keepers? My brothers really don't like pastures and prefer heated/cooled barns...

I just tried now on Firefox and didn't get a warning. Guess it is cleaned up!

I told you they have 40 pounders!!!

Great to hear that. I have cerakote on another rifle and it is the real deal.

Who in Arizona does Cerakote applications?? Anyone local?

I went out last week or so with my dog to Saguaro lake. We were fishing and 'coon' hunting. She did pretty good!

It's not the law, it's a "policy" that they have in place. HUGE difference.

I am right behind you!

Wow!! I'll bet you are a fisherman too!!

I guess they are "local" thanks

OK, thanks Doug, I am hoping someone in Phx does it. I don't see myself driving to Parks in the near future!

I have seen a buck that had the right package but no antlers! This was during the December hunt so should have been month away from shedding time! My cousin killed a WT buck in unit 1 that had ivories! There is occasionally some weird stuff out there!

A frigid 32 here!

Actually, the Chrome-moly actions are no stiffer than any other action. They have a higher tensile strength and a greater yield strength but until that point is reached, no stiffer. They are easier to properly heat treat and ultimately stronger. That is their benefit. Bob Brackney is well regarded by those who know but no too well known. Too bad he's not in Mesa anymore!

My dad has an old horse that was given him and is really too old to be ridden. Being pragmatic, he wants to get rid of it so he doesn't have to feed. Would make good hound food if anyone is interested. Must be picked up in Mesa. PM me if interested. Dennis

My son tells me that he wants me to take him bear hunting during his fall break. Most of the close areas are closed to we head over to "The Blue". The first day we do some glassing in an area that has been productive in the past and do some calling. We had one fox come in. We climb into another canyon and do some calling. Nothing. We hike out and when we get to the trailhead a pickup is driving in and comes over to us to see what we were hunting. I recognized the guy as a friend I hadn't seen in nearly 10 years. Of course we now have to camp together. I take them to my "secret spot" but when they hear my plans for the next day they balk. I guess dropping into a canyon several miles wasn't in the cards for them. Levi goes right down below camp and calls in a fox- he called a lion in there last year. He sees bear sign so his is excited for the next day. On Tuesday morning we drop into this canyon and work our way towards the river. We make few stands. We are seeing sign that they are in the acorns so we remain vigilant. We have gone in further than I wanted so we start working our way back. About 1/4 mile later we are sneaking along in the oak trees when he spots a bear. We make sure there are no cubbies. I get set up and look through the scope. At the shot, I see the bear cartwheeling in mid air and then crashing down the hill! He made a perfect shot with his 308. We took some photos and then I caped it out and quartered it. We loaded up and started hiking. We had dropped about 1000' so we knew we would have to make that up. About 8pm I couldn't go any further with the pack load. My legs were cramping too much. He was pretty much done too. We dropped the packs and guns and hiked out to the highway. We laid down on the pavement and rested a while. Luckily, it was downhill to camp. We went back and drank some water. We were both badly dehydrated and had only 500 calories the whole day. It is now 9pm. We laid down on our cots to rest. I threw up all the water I drank- twice! It was midnight before we could function again. We broke camp and drove to the trailhead we came out on. We then went back down and found our packs and rifles. Once more, we climbed back up the mountain. We got to the truck at 2:30 AM, 12 hours after he shot the bear. My legs were still cramping but we made it back to town where we crashed at buddy's house until about 7. My wife thinks we do this stuff for fun!! Maybe I should bring her along- once! It was pretty exciting to see my son shoot his first bear and even spot it before me! The 180 grain Norma Oryx is a great bullet. Complete pass through and a dead bear in seconds. I don't think I will shoot one this year! One is enough fun. Two tired hunters!