Ed67

Great glass, son has these, I have the 14s. Not a ton of difference

Great write up and hunt! Awesome shot AJ!

I use it with My 6.5 PRC, 60 Grains of VVH 560, WLR primer, Lapua brass, 123 grain Hammer Hunter bullet gives me about 3250 FPS average and very accurate. Two one shot kills on a coues buck and a 300 6A bull.

Yep, no rut and a lot of people are out in the desert. Personally I prefer the earlier combat hunts in November.

I’ve used that press for 40 years. Great press.

Incredible buck! Congratulations

It’s been a great and challenging hunt but these old legs are spent. We are happy to get a buck but 36A you win Big fire, Fireball and football via Starlink , headed home tomorrow. I highly recommend La Siesta RV campground in Arivaca if hunting 36A or B. Great camo host, power water and sewer plus a little pond to fish in. Cheers.

Ok we are hunting 36A which has really been kicking our butts and for only 75 tags it seems everyone else had the same gameplan. Oh well, public land all good. Needless to say the bucks have been few and far between. This past Monday we saw a great buck in an area that takes quite a bit of time to get to so we went back this morning before sunup. Two other pairs of hunters had the same plan, probably looking for the same buck, if he’s still alive. Again, public land all good. We glassed up several deer, one small two point then watched this one bed at about 750 yards around 0900. We decided to make a play for him and moved to abiut 390 where we sat and watched him for the next 3 hours. We could only see eye, nose and antler. Finally he stood and my son dumped him with a Savage 110 Ultralight 6.5 PRC, handloaded with 123 grain Hammer Hunter bullets at 3250. He took a step and was done. Not the biggest with expectations on a late hunt but with work and family calling he’s happy and so am I. Grateful to spend time with him and thinking back to the first deer he shot on a 33 youth hunt at 11 years old 17 years ago. Back at it in the morning.

On another bedded buck. Been on him 2 hours 15 min so far. Hasn’t moved

Tried talking my son into shooting but he refused

Glassing some hills now where I saw a big one last week. So far only two smal 2 points this one is at 494

Just got back down here, waiting on my son to do a quick evening hunt then 3 1/2 more days! It’s definitely 10-15 degrees cooler than last week.

I was standing in a literal sea of shin dagger when I got within shooting range of the big one. He got tired of me trying to find a shooting platform and walked off. I’ll go back

Heading back tomorrow myself. My observations have been no bucks chasing does, nowhere even near them. 50 does for every buck and the bucks I’ve seen were bunched up. from about 1200 yards I saw what I thought was a good buck chasing some does but as I got closer I realized he was chasing off some smaller bucks. sat some water but no bucks better than yearlings were coming during daylight.

Merry Christmas!