DUG

Most hunting shows don't seem to be "fairchase" to me. Sitting in a blind by a feeder isn't my definition of how I want to take an animal. As far as Wild and Raw goes it can be funny, but some of their "practices" seem to border on illegal and unethical and unsafe.

My swaros do this too. It's pretty annoying when you can only look for a few second before the eyepiece fogs up. I got some anti fog stuff that seems to help now.

From what I can tell, only Glendale and Gilbert allows you to light fireworks. You should of seen our neighborhood in Glendale on New Years Eve. It was nothing but a smokey haze from all the fireworks being set off. Pretty soon they'll have a no boom night similar to the no burn night because of air quality.........

Congrats on a nice buck! At least you still get to go pig hunting some more.....

Saw 19 degrees in Tonto Basin this morning. Shot at a covey of frozen quail and it knocked the ice off of them and they flew away.

Just burned up some gift cards. Got my son some 9mm ammo and got a couple cheap knives.

Congrats on a nice pig.

28 at my house here in Glendale. Anybody know which is colder? -40C or -40F.

Ok, now I got the name with the face. Sucks you had to work today. As you could tell we were heading to Cabelas. It was a mini zoo. Have a Happy New Year!

Congrats on all those elk! Looks like you had a great time.

You should be able to get a CZ452 American for about 400 to 440 depending on who will deal with you. The Varmint is a little more. CZ also has a 513 Basic that will go around 300. You can compare on Gunbroker and maybe find a really good used one in your price range.

Just ordered the 10x42 Back Country for the wife. She complained about not having good binoculars on her elk hunt. Thanks gr8fuldoug!

Way to go man! That's awesome to get your 1st elk all by yourself. You earned that one.

Congrats on a fine ram! Only 29 more years until my tag..... ....

Nice ram! What's the story on that bad boy????????

Nice! Way to go! I'll probably be 70 or dead before I get a sheep tag........

Nice! Looks like he was in some nasty country.

This was our 3rd elk hunt this season. I got a cow in 7W in October.. My wife had tag soup in 6A for bull. LukeDuke shot a cow this morning just after 7 in 7W. He was in a clearcut area and a herd of elk were coming through. They were just over a rise going through and LukeDuke topped the rise and 2 cows were standing there. He shot it about 90 yards off hand and hit it. It bucked and ran just out of sight. I got up there after I heard the shot. He said he hit it and was looking for it. I looked down and was standing on a blood spot and then looked up to my right and saw the elk laying there dead. Luke had walked 50 yards past it. I said "get over here and tag your elk". He couldn't believe he had walked within 20 yards of it and didn't see it. What would he do without Dad? Good job LukeDuke and thanks for a fun hunt! He even let me shoot a coyote on the 1st morning.

If you are using steel shot, I would put in an improved cylinder. Steel doesn't have any "give" to it when it is passing through the choke like lead, so you want a more open choke. Good luck to you (him) on the hunt!

Way to go! Congrats. My 1st bull was a spike in 6A almost 20 years ago. I remember it like yesterday. You will have good memories of your bull.

If it was black it was me. What were you in? Were you hunting elk too?

Looks great, just needs the deer on each end.

We are hauling the whole family up to 6A for my wifes bull hunt. They all want to help Mom get a bull. Hopefully we will be bringing Jeremy an elk to process. Good luck to everyone and be safe.

Here is a good link for load ratings. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/tec...e.jsp?techid=55

Load range D is 8 ply on tread and probably 3 ply on the sidewall.