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No bonus points and drew a tag, 3a 3c first choice, wishful thinking eh! Hit was on capital one card

Got hit for 69.50 Yeah!!!!!

Careful Kidso might show up in a trapping magazine advertising mouth calls!

Pushing a 115 grn nosler ballistic tip 3,150 ft/sec. Still working on a load for it, grouping right at .75" for now

Well we finally did it, details to follow tonight. Edit A very good friend and I left for our trip on Thursday night after telling our wives and kidos good by. We headed up late that evening night trying to find a spot to camp near the area, but as we kept looking all of the roads were closed due to the fires. We finally found a spot and had pitched camped. With a warm night and a hot breeze through the night sleeping on our cots under the stars I hardly slept at all. When the alarms went off 3am I just felt like I had just fallen asleep. After taking down camp we drove to our spot and started hiking in the dark for what seemed like forever. We set up are binos and tripods at 5am and about 7am my buddy spotted a stump which looked like a bear, I also glassed the same stump and thought the same thing. The deal was whoever spotted a bear, got the shot as the other person was the spotter. Being in my buddies spot I was thinking I would let him shoot either way. He has volunteered his time to many of us friends helping out us out on our hunts. He is a very humbled guy and works hard for everything he has. This is a guy that has spotted 6 lions, missed a few and has never seen or nor had a chance to shoot a bear but always wanted to. All the sudden I hear bear, bear, bear, and I turned to look over to the direction of that stump we seen earlier. Sure enough long behold a nice bear about 50 yards below the stump. His skills paid off spotting this nice boar without his binos in the pears chowing down. As I scrambled to get my binos together so he could take the shot I was saying, shoot him, shoot him, and as soon as I got the bear in sight I hear boom! With a perfect shot I see the bear rolling down the steep hill with one big death growl from the bear! I turned and said, "bear down on opening day". We both gave hand shakes and said great job. The hard part has just began. With being well over the 100 degree mark, this was a tough pack out. We had 3 friends show up packs on backs helping pack everything out. We both could hardly move this guy, guessing the weight to be 350+ lbs. We stopped by GF and the bioligist said he was big bear just by the size of his head. Very awesome hunt hands down! Im 250lbs, 6' just to reference. This is me in the pic, I don't have a pic with my buddy with the bear, but when I do I'll post it. Edit Chad and his Bear

Age just came back from G&F, 6 years old What is a average life expectancy of a AZ bear?

Yeah he did. You might want to check his website because he was only available one day a week from like 9am to 11am to take orders because he is so busy. Good guy, and easy to deal with when you do get ahold of him.

Very nice! I have a AR-15 in a 25wssm and it's at the smith getting threaded for a can. I went with a 7.62 TI YHM QD for mine, anxious to try it out. Metau I would recommend DTech custom upper if you can. He does allot of custom rounds.

I believe LEM makes the grinders for Bass Pro and Cabelas, I would look into those as well

Go with LEM, they are a little pricey but after 1-2 trips not going to the butcher and it pays for itself. I had the .35 hp one and just upgraded to the .75 hp which works much smoother, not getting bogged down. Very very good investment!!! Just don't buy anything with plastic gears, you'll have to be easy with something like that and takes up to 10 x's longer to get the job done. My LEM spits it out faster than I I can get it in. My 2 cents On a side note if someone has the kitchen aid attachment I was curious how it holds up.

Very nice Rodin, what kind of can is that in the second pic?

Great jobs, boots on the ground is the only way to get the job done.

Congrats on your bear Big Browns!

Cool pics, I would love to get one on a trail cam.

Awesome bear!!!

It was a cool place but only thing that I remember is that they tried to rip us off on price for some parts. Hope it gets cleaned up!

Sweet is that a swamp cooler on top? Very cool

I want your job!!!

Very nice!!! Lyman lake?

Edit: 110 ha ha

Great truck to haul wood with!

What about emissions?

+1 great job

Insurance? Goggles, winsheild? I don't have a clue what is needed but good post because I'm in the same boat for a quad.

Maybe Amanda did this to stop the spammers! Lol, Or to give the dedicated members a break from all the negative crap the newbies have posted! Jk