mattys281

Nice work. Great video!

You been down at the bar hoggin again?

Ive been kicking around the idea of doing a barrel myself for my .308, but just havent had the time. If I do, I'd bor it anyway. I hate reamers. Their ok if you are using manual equipment or for very small holes, but with cnc equipment I'd rather bore it. That way I can start small and just keep offsetting the machine .0001" at a time until you hit the exact size you are after. With a reamed hole, you're at the mercy of the tool grinder. Most are very good, but theres a quality difference from brand to brand and they all have tolerance. Unless you have mics to check it before use, you'll never know where your reamer is until after you cut with it. In the long run, its probably cheaper/safer to just pay someone to do it, but I get a kick out of doing things myself. We've recently made a bunch of really awesome prototype machine gun parts at work I wish I could show off some pictures of, but we have nondisclosure agreements. the bolt carrieris the Mona Lisa of my career so far. This thing started as a 27# slug of steel and ended up being a 1.1# geometrical nightmare. I dont think I've ever taken that much material off a part. Really cool looking. We built the carrier, bolt, firing pin, feed tray, round guides, breeches and a bunch of other parts for this chain gun thats supposed to fire a minimum of 500 rounds per minute of .50bmg.

Ever think about trying it yourself? Get a dvd on chambering, by the reamers and gages and come on over, I've got the lathe. But I dont work on weekends without the 'customer' bringing a 24 pack of coronas with them.

Classic! Nice rifle!

Contact speedygoss. He just opened a machine shop. If hes not an ffl than he cannot finish machine a lower for somebody else. You can only do it for your own personal use. We just had some work at our shop get sent to someone else due to this fact.... and they did terrible work. There are jigs available for you to finish it yourself with a hand drill, there was a couple guys selling them at the crossroads gunshow when I went a couple years ago.

didnt see a single hound hunter up top where i was on my hunt. they were everywhere in the low country. got nothing against them, I am just hunting another way. This was 2 years ago so maybe things have changed. Ive never ran in to one up top either. I only hunt it north of the rim.

Ross is a squared away shop, whenever ive been in there the guys are super helpful and pleasant. I sincerely do hope you find the aholes responsible.

Any crime committed against a person trying to earn an honest living is just crappy. there's no good in it. But.... Twice in one week? There's more than a little humor/irony in that. File an insurance claim, beef up your security system & write it off as one of life's crappier lessons. Theses guys are just giving you all a little good natured ribbing. If that's as thick as your skin is, you ladies probably ought to avoid not only internet forums, but also construction sites, machine shops, police stations, fire houses, military bases, bars, sporting event... you know, basically any where that men hang out. Don't go all Lark on us.

Hang ons are pretty easy, just practice a little. The main problem with packing them in is the weight. Treestand + ladder steps + harness.... If your packing in anyway, make sure you take it in & drop it off before your hunt. You could easily end up with an 80+ lb. pack if you take it in at the same time as all your camping gear & hunting stuff. 1-2 mile range isn't terrible for making multiple trips. You don't want to get all sweated up before hanging out in a tree all day and have the wind blow your b.o. all over the place.

Man that sucks. I hope they catch the p.o.s. thats responsible. I just dont get people.... who the heck would steal a hoyt???

I here ya. I always end up carrying other peoples trash back. Just the way it is. The more I deal with people, the more I like ratllesnakes.

If I have a choice in the matter, i like mine positioned so that the deer walks past me and I get a quartering away shot. Easier to draw and not get busted if they're facing the other way. In theory.... that yet to happen. Alll the deer I've shot out of a treestand so far came from the wrong direction. Bit one of these days itll go exactly as planned, and itll be pretty awesome.

If youre looking to pack in, forget the treestand and jump on ebay or archerytalk and find yourself a tree saddle. They can be used in any tree and are 1/4 the weight of any treestand, plus it doubles as your safety harness. I hunted out of these in nebraska last fall and they are the chit when it comes to light weight & mobility. I hear they no longer sell them new, so you'll probably have to find a good used one.

Ive seen a lot of bears in the northern half of that unit. Only ever had one shot at one and I missed, but its a heck of a good unit to hunt them in.

Not a fan of that at all. When I lived in superior and used to drive back and forth to tempe for work every day I saw a couple deer v semi incidents that looked just like that. I like my trophies to remind me of the animal and the thrill of seeing and being close to them, this would make me think of deer pancakes pressed flat by a 50k lb big rig.

I have both. The climber is infinitely essier and faster to setup, not to mention much more comfortable, but the hang on is good for when there are no climber friendly trees around. Im a little rusty with hang on stands now, but back before I bought my climber I got pretty good at throwing them up in trees and could get one setup in about 15-20 minutes depending on the tree. Best tip I can give you on a hang on is they are a nightmare to try to hold in position when you are standing on treesteps 12 ft off the ground held up by a linemans belt. I dang near fell out of a couple trees when I first started. So what you do is take a short length of rope up with you and a carabeaner clip so you can tie the rope around the trunk or a branch or something and then haul up the stand and clip it to the rope so it is hanging and you dont have to support its weight. Then you have both hands free to ratchet strap it and adust it into the position without supporting its weight. Believe me, a fifteen pound treestand may not seem heavy on the ground, but they suddenly become huge, heavy and akward when you're suspended in a tree. Whatever equipment you get, make sure you take it camping with you and practice setting it up and shooting from it before season. You dont want any surprises (like creaks or squeeks) when your buck is standing broadside at 20 yards or less.

If you're going to sit for only a couple hours at a time, you can us just about anything. If your goi g to sit all day, do your butt and back a favor and get something with a hanging hammock style seat. I cant even begin to tell you how much more comfortable they are for long sits. As for using a ladder to get in and out of a climber, thatd be hard to do with the ones I've used as they all had the wrap around bar type upper section. I have unstrapped the upper section from around the tree and reattached it above a branch so I could inch up another foot or two and get some leaf cover around me, but its not very convenient and really not necessary where I normally hunt out of one. I just try to climb at least a good fifteen feet up and if possible climb a tree that has other trees around it to help break up your shape and keep you from being skylined.

I've never done it before, but I hear there are some companies that actually rent high end optics now. If it's not something your going to use very often, save yourself a bunch of cash and just rent a set-up.

I currently have a 20 but have gone without in the past. If you sight in the first pin at 27 itll be good for anything from 30 and under, unless youre shooting incredibly slow. The 27 pin will be 1-2" low at 30 and about 2-3" high at 20. At least thats what ive gotten with it shooting 270ish fps.

Keep your hands off it and try to prevent it from contacting anything. My taxi told me once its damaged/crushed, theres nothing they can do to fix it.

2014 coues from 27 2013 muley Didnt make it over there last year, but hope I have a 2016 pic to go with these in a couple months. These deer were shot out of the same tree. Not at all uncommon to see both types in the same range.

Ticks and fleas maybe. Ive never seen it on a deer, but ive seen pics of dogs that get eaten up by them so bad that they literally scratched their ears off. Nice buck you found!

^^^This^^^^ I'd at least buy a turkey tag to go with the deer. I've had several chances to kill turkeys the last two years that I deer hunted there, but I didn't want to give up a day of deer hunting to mess with a dead turkey so I let them go. I told myself that after I got my deer, I'd come back for a turkey, but I ended up getting my deer the last day of my hunt both times, so ended up taking the turkey tag home. I didn't get over there much last year and in 2014 I was only there a couple times and didn't see any bears, but pretty much every other year I've been there I run into them at least a couple times between scouting & hunting. I've only had one shot at one so far and missed, but there's quite a few blackies in 27.

Ive taken a couple deer out of 27 with my bow. In my opinion you could not pick a better unit for a first try. This unit litterally has everything from wide open rocky/cactus cover desert terrain in the south to high pine country at over 8500 ft. I dont like heat stroke or rattlesnakes so I hunt high using treestands. I think you will see more deer glassing in the open stuff, and if you want big antlers spot and stalk tactics are your friend since scouting will be a problem for you. But if your game is to just fill a couple tags with anything that is legal, bring a treestand and a good book and plant your butt on a deer trail up in the pines. Im a 'its brown its down' guy myself and have very limited scouting time too, so I'm not too picky.