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How about instead of increasing the bag limit, lets try allowing the purchase of the over the counter (left over) tags, to people that were not successful on their previous hunt. The way it is right now, you cant purchase a left over tag if you were drawn for a diffrent hunt, even if the hunt you got drawn for is over and you weren't successful.

It also helps if you have a dedicated freezer that doesn't auto defrost.

The only thing you loose is velocity. Some people might even argue that a shorter barrel is more accurate.

You are allowed three shells in your shot gun for migratory birds. With quail and turkey you can pull the plug.

They recently passed new laws allowing suppressors for hunting along with high capacity magazines. My concern would be when they go into effect.

4A ?

So let’s say that you see a buck the night before 1 mile away. What would be the appropriate way to go after that buck; would it be like golf where you have to drop no closer to the hole? I guess we can now, refer to it as the good old days, the day when you run into a game and fish officer, say hello, have a good conversation and then go on our way. Nowadays, it would probably suit you best to keep your mouth shut until you know the officer’s intentions.

Coach, the standard 1600 will tell you the range and the angle, which is all I use for rifle shooting. It will compensate for the angle, but you have to choose one of their preexisting ballistic curves. It's probably not the best rangefinder for archery.

This is going to be my next tripod with the Jim white pan grand along with the outdoorsman adapter. I'm 6'2" and it appears that it will work for me standing. Archery headquarters has one that you can check out.

You can get a new Leica 1600 for $649 at camera land NY . Best price I found and no tax or shipping. I don't believe this one has the "angle compensation" built in. You have to buy the 1600-B to get that, for $800. The regular 1600 does read angles.

Don't use an arrow. One of the purposes of a pillar is to create a solid platform that won't compress between your action and bottom metal. The goal is to get a consistent torque that doesn't change as much with the conditions. Go to midwayusa or brownells and order your pillars from them, they should have adjustable ones that should be very easy to use. Also, as mentioned above marine tex is a very good bedding compound as well as devcon steel putty.

Why would you want to trade down to a lower quality rifle scope?

I've heard with Barnes you need to have an impact velocity of 1,800 -1,900 fps for the bullet to open correctly. At 800 yards you should be good, but you are getting pretty clost to that velocity. This is one of the reasons that the guys that shoot game a very long range tend to use softer bullets and bullets that expand a lower velocities and Bullets with higher ballistic coefficient that retain their velocity further.

without being a technical guru, you can't use the ipad adapter on your iphone. The ipad works great to view the trail cam pictures, except in direct sunlight.

Accuracy tends to be more important than bullet performance. That being said, if you can figure a way to get the Accubonds to shoot as good as the Barnes, I would use the Accubond hands down. What kind of groups do you get with the Barnes at 400 yards?

The T-TSX is supposed to expand a little bit better than the TSX; however, I haven't seen a side by side comparison.

I can understand making it manditory to report you kills; however I much prefer the system we already have. At least right now, I can schedule a time to hunt without the risk of the hunt shutting down on.

Have you looked to see if your barrel has any copper fouling?

My friends Schneider Barrels arrived on Friday. He turned our order around in 9 weeks and two days. What barrel are you planning on ordering and what are you planning on chambering it in?

They haven't received their barrels yet. I think white mountain has one, maybe he will chime in on his barrel.

The Schneider barrel that I have on my custom 300 RUM (1:11 twist, P5, #5.5 taper) has been incredibly accurate. My best group was 1.5” @ 750 years and I regularly shoots 2” at the same distance. The 100 yard groups are regularly in.13”-.19” @ 100 yards. To give you a fair assessment, I will give you the areas that are not perfect. The barrel does seem to have a couple small spots that seem to gather some copper and the accuracy node is at a lower velocity than I hoped. I’m shooting the 210 grain Berger VLDs @ 3,050 fps. With regards to dealing with Schneider, I’ve heard several people mention that they didn’t get the warm fuzzy feeling when they talked to the guys at Schneider; however, the three times that I’ve called I got lucky and spoke directly to Gary and he has always gone out of his way to explain his barrels. One of the times, we spoke for 30 minutes. The one thing you might want to know is that the delivery time will probably be longer than 6 weeks, I have some friends that are currently in their 10th week of waiting for their barrels. My other buddy as been waiting 13 weeks for his Hart Barrel, which was supposed to be closer to 8 weeks. Another thing to consider is that McMillan uses Schneider P5 barrels in their .308 tactical rifles and their new EOL outdoorsman rifle. Here is a link to a review of the McMillan EOL rifle. http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f17/range-test-mcmillan-eol-outdoorsman-84122/ Hope this helps.

Is that the Whitewater Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico?

That would really cramp my fall time "sick days!" I wish I could afford a Kodiak brown bear hunt and get drawn. Some day hope.

I have no problem with people purchasing the list... At least they don't print the list like Alaska for everyone to see. http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/license/huntlicense/pdfs/2011_fall_kodiak_nr.pdf