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oct 36b whitey, 7e october cow, unit 8 and 10 turkey

i got first choice lion also! what unit ya gonna be in? maybe we can hook up for a scouting trip!

i hope that lil birdie can fly reeeeeal fast if hes wrong! well heck, i cant hit ch!t with a shot gun unless its a quail from about 3 or 4 feet! so hes ok by me, unless he lands within 300-400 yards, then hes in trouble!

WOW thats awesome! i found a 50 cal round once, hope that wasnt full of gold!!!! it was in a weird place also, almost the very top of a steep butt mother!

this sucks! i am going to vegas this weekend leaving today! it is up to my dad to find out for me so hopefully he will be on the ball and get r done!!! i really really feel like i drew the december 36b tag! man i sure hope i did!

scott, doug, you boys know i am down for any hunting! if we head on over to unit one, the grandparents have a real nice cabin in pinetop lake side that i am sure it would be ok for us to crash there for a few days everyone would have their own room and man can my grandma cook! let me know whats up! Casey

thank you all. it has been a good day! doug, i got my cabelas order today! woohoo!!! now we have some accubonds to load for my wsm! thank you all so much! i hope we all get a chance to whack a good coues with whatever we carry!

hopefully tonight and it will show the best bday present ever! december 36b tag! that would be sweet!

good call bret!

the day pack really did seem like cheatin, those sticks were like you said Doug "last resort" nex time, i will bring the harris bipod then we will be really cheating! dont forget the cross wind there was! i was shooting my 270 wsm with the varmint reticle and the 300 yard cross hair was VERY close to dead on. the scope says to sight in dead on at 200, and we think the load i was shooting was 1 inch low at 100 last time we shot it so with a a estimate or 2.5 inches higher than that we turend it up and the 300 yard marker was about 3 inches low. it was a fun time and we will have to go do that some more!

dad got the december tag few years back, man he messed up bad a few times! got him within 150 of a i swear 90" FORK the thing was huge! guys we were hunting with glassed up 3 110+ together and dad wouldnt go with them cause "they werent our deer" but there were 3 bucks and only 2 tags. then he takes off with them, leaves me watching a 70-80" 3x3, turns around to come get me and right when he says lets go BOOM, BOOM 111 down! and that wasnt even the biggest!!! man that made me mad!

im telling you all, i already know what i have drawn! december 36b whitetail, september unit 1 rifle elk, unit 1 rifle antelope i mean i dont need to wait for the comfirmataion i already know!

k so my questions are: when i sight my rifle in, i usually shoot in flagstaff arizona,(about 7,000 elevation) and hunt south of tucson arizona( approx. 4,000 maybe) my questions are will my rifle shoot the same zero in tucson that it will in flagstaff? will the velocity be close enough to the same so that it doesnt effect my varmint reticle scope? i usually shoot one or two shots from my rifles at say a little rock around 100 yards when i get to the hunting area. is there a problem with sighting in this high and then hunting down that low?? will my loads work the same way? thanks.

i actually have and it is a great program, but last time i down loaded it, i noticed my computer running slower. it might have had nothing to do with that program but i try to download as little as possible!

deerslam, gotta tell ya, not startin out on the right foot, us gentlemen here (and ladies) cordually(sp) respond with what we know to people who ask nice and are not @$$holes to regulars, got it? good.

scott, i like virgil cause i love the movie tombstone! cant wait to get a chance to hunt over him and penny!

wetmule, you couldnt have said it an better. i have hunted with the following people: my dad, best friend, brother (since he was like 4, he walks with us and is acutally really good and really quiet, loves to carry binos)uncles, cousins, three guys i have met on here by the names of Doug, Scott, and Albert,(awesome guys), cousins, uncles, my mom, grandpa and for the last 6-7 years a guy my dad has worked with for ever and hes who we usually hunt with, him and his son. but by far is my dad and my brother even though grandpa is right there with them. my dad has tought me alot and i have tought him a lot (like spending 600 on the docters waws a good thing). i really like hunting with anyone who knows what they are doing. i dont really like hunting by my self cause i am not experienced enough yet and i like sharing all of that with people, that is the best part.

mine would be my first coues for sure. Azpackhorse, really sorry to hear that, no one should loose a hunting partner.

doug, you know i am there! give me the word and i will take the time off work and am willin to miss a few days o school! do i need a nm lion tag to carry my pistol??? ill have to get my stuff up here but easily done!

sales rep at the local home depot, sellin john deeres all day long baby! make a decent w age for someone in school full time.

i have seen a doe and a fawn dang near lay on top of each other. my dad also missed a 90-95" that jumped up a foot in front of him, like shootin a big butt quail!

coues krazy, when replying, try just hitting "add reply" this way there is no quote and you do no have to post twice.

it depends for me, my dad is an old man (nearly 50) with arthritus(sp) in his hips so we cant walk all that far but he still does pretty well. for the most part we let our big glass do the walking for us but we have been known to put 3-4 miles between us and the truck. it also depends where we hunt, in one of our honey holes, the best glassing spot isnt more than 1/4 mile from camp and the area to hunt is not that big. in another one of our spots, we have a TON of ground to cover so we usually lace the boots up nice and tight when we hunt there.

alright, i have a few choices. for coues, i am 100%sure i am taking my new 270 wsm (unless it dont shoot worth a dang!!!) but for elk and/ or antelope if i get drawn what should i shoot? i was thinkin for elk the 30-06 with the 180 grain accubonds it shoots so well, but if i dont get a coues with the new wsm, i want to break it in for sure! then theres also my old 270 i got from my grandpa, and theres my .308 that i killed my first 2 elk with. but antelope if i get drawn is between the 270 wsm and the 270. pretty sure the wsm wins that one, what do you all think i should do??? thanks

deer: 1 elk: 4 or 5? lope:1 basically i have atleast one for everything, took hunters safety course hope to draw a december 36b tag and i really think i will have this guy feeling! heck, maybe im just hungry, which is very possible.