Hatchet Jack

Ended up going solo most of the hunt. Really had to work to find the deer. Saw two bigger bucks but without somebody there to call my shots and watch the deer I really wanted to make sure my shot was a slam dunk. Was watching an area I had seen a good buck bed when this guy came over the ridge at about 1 o clock on Wednesday. I decided for my first coues he was good enough and I was sick of the 2 hour hike into my glassing area. 1 shot at 350 and I tagged my first grey ghost. I gained so much respect for these amazing little deer. Such awesome animals. That country they call home will beat you down if you aren't ready. My sagebrush muley hunting friends back home have no idea haha. Already looking forward to next year and a little bigger buck hopefully.

That stuff will dry up and you won't even notice it. Also I like to pop out those ear canal bones and it takes a lot of crap with it

That's a sweet buck so i'll forgive you for calling it an eight pointer haha. I ended up taking a smaller buck on Wednesday by myself. I will post up the pics here a little later. I'll tell you one thing you've got to be hungry for a coues or very very lucky in this unit. Those mountains punched me in the face every single day but I kept punching back till I finally made it happen on my first coues.

I'm with lance. I've compared side x side with most high end 15s including Leica and the swaro neu and the meopta leave nothing to be desired.

Good work. I love wyoming. When the Mrs. decides she wants to move back closer to "home" I think i'll try for wyo instead of Utah.

Love meat eater. A guy that can actually hunt and doesn't need a private ranch or feed plot to do so. Plus no product plugs every 5 seconds

How do you guys combat the bugs while glassing? Not so much mosquitos but those little green or yellow ones crawling in your eyes ears and nose. Will deet keep them off or do you jimmy rig a net to wear while glassing. Never tried a thermocell. Ideas ? The bugs where I've been scouting the past few weeks are relentless.

Rossi I have had that same issue with my manfrotto head. Pop off the small plastic cover piece and tighten down that allen screw. Makes it nice and snug.

I use a manfrotto 290 carbon with the 700rc2 head. The tripod is a little bulky (only 2 extensions, but that makes it sturdy) and heavy if you're backpacking a lot, but I don't mind packing it 6 or 7 miles and it is very solid even if I need to stand up to glass. And I do find when I'm glassing all day that it is nice to stand up and glass every now and then. It's also nice to be able to pull off a road for a while and stand up to glass rather than trying to find a spot in the rocks to sit. I don't mind packing an extra pound or two if it means I can glass more effectively. Also the rc2 head is nice, and it's only about a pound.

I work between Safford and Solomon and we still have a big pile of hailstones sitting in our storm water containment today.

I was on my way back from scouting for my highly coveted leftover tag (saw more bears than bucks) and hit some pretty good rain by the fairgrounds. good thing I was in my truck or I woulda got swallowed in some of those low spots. luckily I didn't run into any of the hail and my house didn't see any either, I'm farther west. sounded like quite a bit of damage, I think a good number of the cotton crop around safford is a loss form what I heard. it sure made for a neat lightning show to watch on my drive home.

I have wondered about this myself. I like to think of it as this... compare it to jumping as high as you can from standing on a concrete slab or jumping while standing on soft sand. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you take away some of the reaction (i.e. your soft shoulder rather than a rigid lead slead) you're going to get slightly different velocities coming out of your barrel. That's just me thinking out loud.

have you guys been to a Scheel's? I went to the one in salt lake, it's a cool store, top of the line stuff and the guys I talked to knew what they were talking about.

the popular units it's not going to make a difference but you can bet if I find a deer honey hole I can hunt with a leftover tag I'm not going to announce it from the rooftops.

From what I understand, yes. The Cabelas Instinct Euro line of optics are Meopta Meostars just rebranded by Cabelas. Only difference is the rubber housing.

only been to Greeley once, didn't seem bad to me. The goose hunting was phenominal. sorry i know that's not much help but you can count it as one point in favor of moving there.

Who out there wears em? Anybody have a snake gaiter they like besides the turtle skins? My budget is getting tighter, looking at the ones sportsmans or cabelas carry.

I can't imagine hunting like this. Competing with multiple other people for a chance to hunt a quarter acre spot.

How much of this traffic makes it into the Dos cabezas?

I have a leupold angle compensating range finder I will personally deliver to you tonight for $1,0000. it's probably worth it by now.

i'll take it if deal falls through

Double crossed shooting sticks. I've now killed my last 2 bulls using these, and they weren't close shots either. Light weight and support both ends of your gun. I got mine off amazon I think they are made by high and heavy outdoors or something like that. I also recently upgraded from a Vortex high country tripod/ball head to a carbon manfrotto tripod w/ a manfrotto fluid head. Makes a night and day difference in glassing and I can also glass standing up which does come in handy.

You couldn't pay me to live in that house in the middle of DC. I'll take my 1500 sq ft house where I can see the mountains and drive a few minutes if I want to see deer.

str8 shot you just made my day. Been way too long since I've listened to that song.

Also try American Buffalo and Meat Eater the book. Pretty good stuff, i like his style.