KoosCrazy

Shooting from boat is Game and Fish website. For Where on the lake I would cal Navajo Lake State Park

Very Nice buck!! Congrats

Yes it is legal to shoot from boat. Boat has to be stationary or not moving from a power of engine. If you look in the rules and refs on their website you can read the exact rule. The whole lake probably isn’t state park only a portion just like Elephant butte. Call the lake to get where you can and can’t.

Congrats beauty of a buck for his first

Congrats to both, your kids first deer is a hunt you both will always remember.Good job dad!!

I get your frustration but it’s public land open for all kinds of recreation. You just have to deal with it. You can always pay big money to hunt on private where that kind of stuff doesn’t happen. Creating conflicts for hunters doesn’t help anything

Beautiful bull. Curious were you able to recover any parts of the bullets? How did the bullets react on the 2nd 3rd and 4th shots?

Congrats on bull, je’s A beauty!!! All long range type bullets will have same problems at close range at RUM velocities. LRAB will be your best since at least core/ base will hold together If your going to change Edlx at Minimum of 212. I’ve had good experiences with both. EDLX have been not as accurate as bergers for me. LRAB seem to be finicky too, all my loads needed .050 jump. In my experience when muzzle velocities exceeed 3100fps you need to start looking at more high retention type bullets for just the occasion you experienced. Under 3100 any of the above bullets will do you if your rifle likes them.

Not much difference between a. 130-140 An experienced shooter could tell a difference doubt a kid would. How the gun is set up will be a bigger difference. I have a 12lb and 8lbs 6.5-06. The lighter one definitely bucks more. For kids light guns aren’t always the best. I bought my kid a light/ short 20 gauge when he started dove hunting. That gun beat the chit out of him, bruised his shoulder, my 12 gauge kicked less. As said above muzzle break solves the recoil problem.

It happens more archery just because archery is more primitive and arrows don’t kill as well as high speed bullets when shots are bad. I hate people saying unethical, everyone has slightly different ethics who’s to say which is right or wrong. Unpracticed hunters are in all types of hunting the equipment has nothing to do with ones hunting/ shooting capabilities. If a guy practices 80 yards with his bow and can hit a pie plate every time or shoots at 800 and can hit a 10 in gong ever-time how are those bad shots! Not to mention chit happens in hunting and we all make a bad shot once in awhile. The real issue is tracking and putting forth the effort to recover game, that is what has been lost in all types of hunting. Hunt responsibly.

I don’t see what’s mid leading, rule looks pretty clear and makes sense. A little over board with having to debone the quarters but not that big of deal in the end. Having to boil your skull before you go home in you want a Europeon would be a pain. There is a good # of AZ outfitters that haul elk back to Az from NM so it’s a worthwhile rule. It would sucks to see CWD show up in the strip because someone thru out a positive elk carcass unknowingly.

Mediums should be best fit

Rifle, you can get as close as you want with a rifle too. But if your hard core bow guy hunt with a bow the first 3 days and then switch to rifle if needed

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Pass for next one, you will find bigger

They are big diggers get ready for it to dig up your yard, that’s how they escape. Guarantee someone is looking for him, put him on Facebook

Half the fun of these kind of tags is the experience. Don’t let the “trophy” get in the way of your experience. Sounds like you are on the right track enjoy and you will get a good deer

Never have regretted letting the little ones walk except on one hunt. It was a mule deer hunt and the first day there was 2 130 class bucks together. My buddy shot one, the other just hung around and I passed on him. We were hunting wilderness horse back and blizzard conditions came and went for the next 4 days. We hunted in it and froze our butts off. Sure wished I had shot that deer so we didn’t have to hunt in that!! haha

Yes the late December hunts are worth it. With the points you have I would keep going for them, draw odds are moving in your favor. They are not a slam dunk that your going to kill a 100in. deer. You got realize there has been 1-4 coues hunts before your hunt depending on the unit. Also hunting pre rut/ rut coues is still tuff, you still have to find them, not as easy as other deer species. The success rates are skewed since some trophy hunt and don’t harvest, some don’t report. I would just look at type of country you want to hunt, deer #s, and units history of quality deer produced, apply, and hope.

15’s and a tripod is all I carry in the field. No need for two sets of bino’s. I use a spotter but it never gets far from the truck, too much junk to haul.

Yes antler restriction did not work in NM and won’t ever work. All they do is increase harvest on middle class deer by forcing everyone to be trophy hunters. In turn less deer will make it to be older. Allowing people to kill smaller bucks actuals leave more of different age class bucks to get older. Othing wrong with folks shooting fork horns if that’s what floats their boat. Look at elk popualtions, no antler restrictions just very limited license. Bulls get old and big. Simple functions low license # = older animals. Same old argument do you want big deer then you have to restrict licenses or would you rather go hunting every year and be happy with younger deer? Antler restrictions don’t solve anything.

Nice catch, you should have skinned him though.

I personally like 8-10lbs rifle, scope, bipod and all. Too light is hard to shoot accurately at distance. Heavy is nice for long shots but a pain to carry. I’ve hunted with 338 to 243 for Coues. My favorites are my 280AI and 6.5-06 both at 9lb fully equipped. I’ve found the longer barrels 26+ are more a pain than an extra lbs or 2. I like 24 in max barrels.

I bought a franchi compact 20 for my kid. It was extremely reliable and light recoil. They are a little spendy at 700-750. Shot the snot out of it for 2 years trap, skeet, doves turkey and sold it for 600. Semi autos aren’t the best for youth but don’t recoil as bad as single shots and over unders. Remember too light in a shotgun is not good for kids. If your just using for turkey hard to beat an Rem 870. Cut the stock down put on good recoil pad and when he is older you can go back to a full size stock

We have killed a couple of cow elk, antelope and Aoudads all with the 142 out of 6.5 (3000fps). Bullets have all performed great at short to medium distances. They are a little softer than the regular accubonds and I have had 60-80% retention. I have had the nose separate and the core stay solid. They shoot great out of my gun. I also found they like a little jump, mine shot best at .050 another friend found the same. If your shooting them at 3200 fps you might see some big fragmentation on a close shot but the shank should stay intact. Don't think you would have any issues with them killing but might destroy some meat a close high fps shots, that would be the only down side. EDLX are the same, all the bullets that are designed to expand at low velocities tend to explode more at close range high FPS shots