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No way!?! Congrats!! I have a major urge to shoot a black buck. I heard they had some in Hawaii so I have always planned on going there for one to avoid having to go to Texas! Which ranch did you hunt?

I would do it. You waited 11 years for the tag. Thats like $7 a year for the Bo Permit. Youll spend more on gas in the first morning of scouting then you will on the permit.

If you put up a pic of the buck it will help sell it. A mature buck cape is far more desirable then a 2-3yr old. Also if you have measurements that will help as well.

Why dont you just buy beef then? Cheaper and better eating

They credit it back to your card. Not sure how that will work in your situation. Im guessing theyll send you a check or call. I tried to outsmart my cc company one time and spent all my points from my purchases to NM thinking they couldnt take them back if I didnt have them and they made my point balance negative!!! Didnt really work out!

Moose will always be reasonably close to willows. Even in the arid looking stuff they inhabit in Idaho and Wyoming, they arent far from live water with willows around it. They will move up into the sage in the summer to get away from the bugs but they always need willows. I think some of the stuff along the little Colorado up in unit 1 could probably hold moose.

Did you sell the stock with it as well?

Ill take it if youll ship it. Im in ND and can get you my ffl paperwork. Ill cover shipping as well.

I thought coming on asking for a good map to get started was a good way to start. He could have asked for honey holes or places. Instead he asked which map would be the best. You obviously have extremely limited experience hunting new areas if youve never used a map. Some places have privat roads that you will be trespassing if you go on. Antelope also have to drink, so you can use a map to find those places. I can truly say that Ive never hunted a new area without owning or atleast downloading a map of it.

Late rifle or archery? (Not even sure if they have a late archery hunt in 9?)

Get OnX as well. Once you use it you wont be able to go back. You will want a paper map as well for research and to verify.

Bump. Anyone have any info?

This sounds like a fantastic plan. Especially in areas with private land and private roads.

Im in the same boat as you. All the online reviews are either really positive or really negative. Im between a March 2.5-25 and a Schmidt and bender 3-27. I really like the size and the weight of the March. Hopefully someone here has some thoughts on them!

Is this an older one or a new production?

Thanks for the info!! Now youve got me researching this stuff to handload some wicked duck loads with those 9s!!

Test the safety and trigger on any moss berg before you walk out the store with one. We had one growing up and the safety was so dang hard to take on and off it took both hands. Not exactly great for a starter gun! A buddy had one as well and it must have had a 35 pound trigger. When we were kids it took two fingers to pull it. Not exactly safe either!

Yes I could pointguard, but since I had a tag last year there really isnt any reason to. Ahhh. Didnt realize you burned points last year. If youve only got your two permanent points in the ring on it Id go huntin.

Cant you use point guard if you screwed up? Dont you have a bunch of points flatlander?

Pattern it. You might be surprised that it sucks or its awesome. Its an awesome load from the look of it. Small heavy shot is wicked. I shoot 7 shot lead for pheasants and it will go clear through a roosters head at 60 yards. Im confident these hevi shot 7s would do the same to a turkeys head at that range. Dont fall for the big pellet scam. 1 pellet kills a turkey but you need to have a swarm of them to get one in the right place especially at distance.

If will doesnt take this I will.

If youre going to go with an outfitter in CO I would recommend you consider taking the same money and buying landowner tags in NM. Youll have an infinitely higher chance of killing a big bull (any chance is higher then a 0% chance in CO in the flat tops) and you can do things the way you want. Another option if youre leaning towards spending the money on an outfitter is looking into Timberline outfitters from the site here and doing an OTC hunt in AZ. You will have a better chance at a cow or small bull then you will in Colorado and it will be cheaper and closer.

Easiest way to deal with that is to get OnX maps for your phone or GPS. They are fantastic and super affordable. ^ this. I wont hunt a new state without it. I actually forgot my GPS once (before they had the phone app) and went and bought one on the way down to a hunt in NM just to have ONx. Its truly the most important piece of hunting gear I have. I would hunt without binos before I hunted without OnX.

We killed a few bulls out of the San Juan forest years ago. Tough hunting but it is hunting atleast. You will see hunters, everyday and lots of them. If I were you and you were going to camp at a trailhead I would concentrate more on the front country then the back country. You either need to get way way back (horses or backpacking and staying) or work the fringe of the private down low. Anywhere in between will be loaded with hunters. People want to stay in their comfort zones, and that means they may not be willing to offer the physical work needed to get way back, or the mental work needed to work the edge of private. Its far easier to just hunt in between but there wont be many (any) elk.

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