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Oldies are fine if you are traveling and end up in BFE without satellite radio or any radio but I don't get listening to stuff we grew up with 60 years ago on purpose all the time. I can deal with it for an hour or so but after that I'd rather roll down the window and listen to nothing.

Renting big glass is the way to go for just one hunt. 1/10th the price of new and you get the latest every year for the hunt.

Not easy but they are there.

Figured that was just common sense. But maybe not.

Well I would recommend going out and actually do something like stalk and shoot cottontails and jack rabbits as many times as you can before your hunt. What the sole on your boots is made of can make them more or less quieter. I have a 6 year old pair of Danner Pronghorns with soft soles that are quieter than my pair of Under Armour boots. Sound carries very far in the dry desert air. If you are on the side of a hill and there are people having a conversation you can hear them at 1000 yards no problem. Practice stalking, even if it is with a camera and if a deer sees you move it will freeze for anywhere from 30 seconds to two minutes until it figures the situation out so you will need to do the same or be prepared to raise your gun, get on target and take the shot. Each situation is different. You may have five seconds to pull it off or much longer, just depends on the individual deer. One thing I think happens more often with Coues is that once they decide to leave they will keep going until they are out of site. It's good that you are asking questions but go out and get some first hand experience and build that confidence.

I used to see a person in a Tacoma size truck on the Beeline towing a triple axle trailer with about a 32' speedboat and wondered how they even got it out of the water.

And then there's these guys. https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef004

I think you'll be fine with the 1800.

They put spiders in there and an egg so when it grows it feeds on the spider. If you have ever seen a small black wasp with a blue hue land on the ground and search all around it is looking for a spider to sting and paralyze.

What's the round count on that 11 pound beast.

South of Florence. East of Payson or east of Camp Verde. Anywhere around Congress or St David. West of Gila Bend all the way to Sentinel.

Since it was a 243 and you are going to 06 is the action able to do both what is typically a short action cartridge to a long action cartridge?

That might be the place Big Browns went a couple of years ago. Do a search on here for it.

You might find some old Leicas for that. The ranch owner in Sonora had a pair this past spring. They were on par with my Sig Kilo.

Chocolate and Jewelry bud.

That is a nice size Ladyfish.

Welcome to CWT. Nothing wrong with having more scope power, you should do fine with the setup you have though.

Hope everything goes ok. Just one of the curves life throws us once in a while.

A few hundred FPS less than the 223.

WHich one, I need all my knives sharpened.

Yup, spoke to them on friday and they were shipping it out UPS. Should arrive tuesday or wednesday. I opted for the 28" barrel and Shadow Grass.

You will need decoys and a blind. Big Browns and I did the shotgun hunt last year.

Welcome to the site. You can camp where ever you want. Trails are where you make them, only hiker use trails and there are a few hiking books with trails but local hunters just go cross country to where ever we want to go. Weather will be 25 to 45 at night and 35 degrees warmer during the day. Maps can be bought from the National Forest Service or some of the online map services. Walking will be like walking in a rock quarry. You can't put your foot down without stepping on rocks, pebbles sand, snakes etc. One of you really should come out to look over the unit and get the lay of the land so to speak and just split that cost so you can see what you'll be up against.

THey are having some struggles, closed a store in Mesa early last year. They want to keep the home town feel but it's hard to compete in some areas on prices. THey definately need a new business model, maybe something like what TOYSRUS just did.

I heard that Bashas owns Food City. I like Bashas, they put stores in towns that had nothing like San Carlos and Springerville. My mom worked for them as a cashier for a few years and one day a customer came up a little short so she covered it. He boss read her the riot act and a few weeks later Eddie Basha stopped by the store and my mom read him the riot act. He just laughed and said he probably would have done the same thing and told her she had a job there for as long as she ever wanted one. Mom passed in 2017 at 87 and always talked about "Eddie" and what a great guy he was.