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I’m in the same boat. I just ordered 4 suppressors and one of them is .22 to fire specific. I’m between a .17hmr and a .17 hornet. I think my suppressor will handle up to a .22 hornet so either should be fine. I like the look of those threaded cz’s for the money.

I woulda sold it and bought 40 cases of Coors light!!! I’m thankful for the fact that I don’t know nor appreciate expensive wine, liquor or beer!

19 deer and 19 elk points wish I could trade them for AZ points!! Or any other state for that matter!

Sorry to hear about this coach. Don’t be too hard on yourself though. I’ve got friends and family members that have struggled with suicidal depression and one of them once told me something that stuck with me. They said “picture the worst feeling you’ve ever had in your gut, maybe it’s a terrible break up, waking up the morning after drinking too much when you said something stupid and all you can think about was how much of an idiot you were, heck even wounding an elk or deer you can’t find. Now take that feeling and multiply it, and throw it in every morning when you wake up, every evening when you are trying to sleep, forever.” That’s what severe depression feels like I guess. I can’t even imagine having to live with that. We all think that somehow we could talk to someone like that and “snap them out of it” or “talk some sense into them” but fact of the matter is it’s a lot harder then you and I all think. Depression is a legit disease and unfortunately it’s surrounded by so much stigma that it isn’t treated like it should be.

A month or two ago a friend of mine from college emailed me to ask my opinion on the sec of state ruling to turn the arctic national refuge back to state control. The one that the news was sensationalizing to make it sound like it would now be legal for hunters to kill bear cubs out of dens etc. you guys all saw the headlines. I really appreciated her contacting me instead of just believing it the way the news was portraying it. She’s definitely a liberal and a non hunter. The exact kind of person we need to have a positive impact on to keep our passion going. Anyhow I explained to her that gassing wolf dens and killing bears with cubs is not something that is or would be done by hunters and that the media just wanted to sensationalize it and tie it to trump. She understood and was really receptive to the fact that I hunt because I hunt and that I was more then just a hobby and a way to get food for me. Anyhow after that you get two bags of dix like this that have a negative effect on thousands. Someone is always watching us and we always have to remember that.

Whoa!!! Dream tag you’ve got there!! Congrats!!!

My only major complaint about these pickups is the auto start stop on them. Drives me absolutely crazy. I was just dealing with it until I saw this. So simple and takes literally 2 seconds. I have a feeling this is coming on all gas vehicles in the near future to bump up their mileage numbers. I was to the point I was considering trading for a diesel (a thought I didn’t want to entertain in ND winters!) until I saw this video.

It’s a different kind of power, way more like a diesel then a gas pickup. It’s tempting to put along at 65 because you’ll get 21-23mpg with them but man it’s nice to be able to set the cruise at 82 on the interstate and have it rarely shift when climbing hills or bucking wind.

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Does he have a rat tail hangin out of the back of that hat?

This plays into my theory that the flatter the brim the bigger the douche.

Very nice! You’re gonna grin the first few times you pass someone on a two lane highway and you go from 65 to 85 in a few seconds when the turbo spools up!

6.5 for me. That’s the main reason I haven’t looked at a tundra. You have to give up bed length or cab space and I’m not comfortable giving up either. If it fits in your garage get the long bed. I have a tool box in mine most of the time for the farm and can still get an elk in there whole. I personally like the balanced look of the long bed as well but I know some people prefer the short bed. If you’re gonna put a gooseneck hitch in it the extra length will help as well. I really like the bigger mirrors that MOST of the max tow package rigs have. Although you’ll have to fold them in for an average garage door so look at auto fold if you need to or just get the small mirrors. They will have less wind noise at high speed (80+) going into a headwind.

Found one a couple days ago in ND!! Sorry not much help for you guys lucky enough to be in AZ!

I’ve had a 2012, 2014 and now a 2017 F150 with 3.5 eco boost. All have been excellent rigs. I’ve taken them all three to 99,000 miles and traded. They’ve all been identical, long bed, crew cab XLT with max tow package, 3.55 rear end, locking rear diff and the 40,20,40 bench in front. I search them out exactly like that. The newest has a 10 speed in it which I do like. They get decent mileage. 20-22 if it’s flat and not windy and you drive under 70. It goes out the window fast if you are pulling, bucking wind, or climbing, but so do most rigs with the exception of diesels. Make sure you get the 36 gallon gas tank. These things pull unlike any gas I’ve ever driven imcluding my dad v10 f250. They do LOVE the gas though when pulling. Mine will pull my 8000 pound corn planter on a 4500# deck over flatbed down the interstate at 75 without hardly shifting on the inclines,but it’ll get about 5-7 mpg doing it. I pull about 5-10% of my miles max, I could easily justify a diesel considering I’m pulling more then a majority of people, but the cost of purchase, ownership, rough ride, smelling up my garage, and cost of diesel keep me from doing it. I absolutely love my exoboosts. I’ve paid between $34k-$37k and gotten $19k-24k on them on trade with 99k miles. That works out to about $0.15 a mile for driving a brand new pickup every two years. I have yet to figure out a cheaper route to go considering the miles I put on. Take the factory rubber off before you leave the lot, the Goodyear wranglers they put on them are absolute garbage.

Also one more thing I’ve learned in my struggle to be a better antelope hunter is to get a good phone scope for your spotter or a decent hyper zoom camera (I have a little image stabilized canon that was like $250 at Walmart that has a 60x optical zoom and it does well for scouting and takes way less time to set up then a phone scope and spotter). Take tons and tons of pics of every “decent” buck you see. Then when you get back to camp at night you can flip through them and compare and contrast the ones you think were big. So often for me I get an initial look at them and it’s burned into my memory how long the prong was, or how tall etc etc and in my mind it gets bigger and bigger. Then I get back and look over the pics and realize it was actually a young buck with light bases and it made the prong look big etc. Sometines the morning light will hit a buck just right and you’d swear he’s 90” and then you get to looking and you were way wrong. Sometimes the opposite happens and you think they aren’t great and you get back and start looking over photos and realize they were a big old mature buck with a big head and it’s actually a smoker and you overlooked it. Anyhow that’s my most important piece of antelope hunting “wisdom”!

Congrats on the tag!! You had a 1/100 chance of pulling it so consider yourself blessed but do those of us who weren’t as lucky a favor and make the most of it!! Buy the Bo permit without a doubt. You’ve got the chance to have an absolute world class antelope hunt and kill a giant. If they auctioned that tag it would probably bring $15,000-20,000 so consider it a lottery win and make the most of it. Spend a few hundred bucks on gas and the $80 or whatever it is to access the Bo. Get up there for a couple weekends leading up to the hunt (more if you’ve got time) and most importantly take off 3-4 days prior to your hunt. Do your hunting before the hunt and kill on opening morning. So many people show up for antelope hunts on opening morning without ever looking around at all then expect to hunt for 3-4 days into the season. The best bucks are gonna go down at daylight on opener. There’s always a chance you can kill one sleeper buck that’s been hiding in the cedars anytime during the season, but I personally would make the “hunt” the few days leading up to opener. It’ll be less stressful, look over a ton of bucks when they aren’t being shot at, pick out “the one”, figure out what he does and be in there opening am and smack him at daybreak. Also post pics!!!

Sweet rifle!! Don’t see to many out there in the good ol 25-06 anymore!

You nailed that steak!!! Man that made my mouth water!!! I’ve taken out a majority of mine on my back. A the rest with side by sides, pickups, horses, even a boat! I’m not gonna let a packout scare me away from chasing a bull but man it sure is nice to see this sight!!! My dad makes a good counterbalance for the steep slopes!!!

The last 4 elk I’ve killed have been shot 4, 3, 2, and 3 times. All were between 120 and 380 yards with a .300 lapua shooting 210gr Berger’s at 3300 or a .280 Nosler shooting 195 Berger’s at 3100. Elk are tough as nails. All 4 of those bulls would have been dead after the first shot, but they tend to dance around for a bit after you shoot them through the lungs, especially if they weren’t spooked when you started shooting. I’ve seen weird stuff happen with bullets hitting big critters so I keep shooting till they are on the ground and suggest you do the same. A high shoulder hit will drop them 95% of the time, but the other 5% it won’t, and it’s not a lethal hit and they’ll be gone. A friend of mine shot a bull with a 30-378 wby at 150 yards this fall through the shoulder and we never found him. He had a decent chance and he didn’t get another one in him. They had it on video and you can plainly see the hair part where the bullet hits. Dead center in the shoulder blade about 8-10” below his backline. Nearest we can figure it was above the lungs and somehow missed the spine. Followed him for about a mile and lost his tracks. No blood at all. The take home I have is that I’d rather get that first bullet through the lungs and rip them up and worry about anchoring them with the second and third shots. And again, keep shooting till they aren’t moving.

I grew up in ND and these guys are some deer/elk draggin sob’s!!! I’ve heard so many stories about guys dragging deer out for literally miles, just to load em in the pickup and then take em home and quarter them. I just don’t get it. Don’t get me wrong, when I shoot a deer on private land and can get him out whole and skin and quarter in the comfort of my heated shop hanging from the tractor loaded I certainly do as I can do a better job, but a hot weather elk hunt where you end up having to quarter it anyway to hang it, it just doesn’t make sense!!

This stuff is really cool. I just ordered a Daniel defense 300 bo with a pinned on suppressor and a 7” barrel (I think). Total barrel length is legal. I probably won’t see it till fall but this is the pipe dream I have for it.

It could be that the throat in your 54 is just worn a little.

Sounds like you missed it by a few days!!! It’s really tough to have good snow goose hunting and live far away. I live right in the middle of it and I would say that I only have a real barn burner once ever couple years. There’s a whole lot of zero and single digit hunts in there for every one you see with a giant pile!!!

I’m on the fence, but I’m in ND!! I’ll buy it if you’ll deliver!!!! If my dang FFL wasn’t $50 for a transfer I’d be all over having you send it up.