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Congrats on the great deer. Also do you know what the one on the left will score that looks like a great trophy.

.300 win mag all the way. It is the only gun that I will shoot for big game anymore.

I will be leaving on veterans day morning to go get a camp set up and just practice my glassing that afternoon from camp. Then the next morning if we get our camp spot my dad and I will be hiking up the sideo fthe mountain up onto a saddle and watch 2 canyons and on side of a mountain so hopefully it will work out.

I would say an 18 inch spread (inside) and it would score about 105 or so.

That sounds great now I can only hope that I can get my deer this year to enter it.

I wish that I could make it down there. but I have a baseball game and then my homecoming that night. I cannot let my team and my lady down.

This is my first year going after coues, but I have spent enough time in some great coues units and seen enough coues to understand where it is good and where it isn't. Anyway I would have to say either 35a or 36c would have to be the best ones in the state.

This is a very difficult poll question. Because both being quiet and not smelling is important. You can have no smell and be noisy and spook the deer or be absolutely silent and have the wind to your back and it would still spook the deer. In my mind you need both but great question. I chose noise because I personally think that being quiet is just as important.

While coming out from sugar loaf mountain practicing my shootin a 4 foot diamondback came out on the road. So I stopped picked up a good sized rock and killed him with one throw to the back of it's head. I cannot stand rattlers they are posseessed in my mind.

I am surprised to see that nobody shoots a .280. In my mind that is an awesome round that deserves more credit.

Yes I have taking a deer with my .243 and it was my first. It was an antlerless deer in kaibab at about 50 yards and it stopped in its tracks. I just listed the first guns that had came to my mind. I apologize for no .30-06 and other guns that are good for deer.

I don't know if that is a real way of hunting.

I have wounded one animal and found him the next morning, but I still believe that I am a rookie because the other 3 big game animals I have gotten have dropped in there tracks.

I was not on a range. I was just outside of Florence Junction shooting into a water hole berm.

I will be shooting a .300 win. mag and I am going to be out at the range hopoefully every other weekend until the hunt starting next weekend. I am going to be ordering some ammo for it soon and was wondering what the best ammo is for it that is under $30 a box.

I will be out every other weekend shooting probably a box or so just so when I get that shot I will not miss.

Well I got out shooting and I have decided to shoot the Remington 150 grain core likt soft points. I was able to shoot at 300 yards with a 3 inch pattern with 10 shots so hopefully I can get a shot like that this year.

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Congrats that is a nice buck still I would love to get one like that.

I'm sorry about that, but I will be watching for it.

That is a great pic there. I hope that I can get a chance at a lion this year while out for deer.

I am thinking very serious about this and so far I am getting some 165 fail safe, the 150 and 180 rem. core-lokt and hornady sst in 150 just so i can find out what shoots best. Thanks for all the input guys.

That is what I shoot right now, but I would like something that will hold up a little better since the y are soft points.

Treestandman great story. Make sure you post if he got one or not.

35b is full nice couse bucks. My dad found a shed in that unit in some steep canyons while hunting mearns. The shed was a 9 point and had great mass. A couple of the tines have broken off over the last couple of years, but it is still a trophy in my mind.