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New store? Cool. Congrats to the winner.

Guess I'll just keep loading my Sierra's.

If you are planning on having kids do your research on schools.

Rio Verde?

One of my buddies does that...lol Or just put a sign.

Well Tony I can say that I get up each morning and think about the great times I had in the past and look forward to what the day will bring. Work keeps me busy and doesn't give me much time to dwell on reality. I have always been the provider and darn near the head of the household for my four brothers and sisters by the time I graduated HS. Daughter passed at 18 from a heart condition nine years go just after the wife asked me to leave so she could find herself after 21 years. Feels strange not having people depend on you, kinda takes the whole purpose of life away from you. Guess I know what John the Baptist felt like wandering the desert. LOL

When you bump the shoulder back, start long, and turn the die down ever so slightly, rerun it, and measure the shoulder datum. You want between .001-.003" of shoulder bump back. No more. .001" is a tiny amount to turn the die down, so measure carefully. Even locking the die down tighter or looser in the press can make a .001" difference. I have a mark on my press, and when I get my die set and the lock ring tightened down, I Mark the lock ring to match the mark on the die. Makes it easy next time you spin in the die to make sure you are in the same depth every time. Lance, how do you measure that and what do you use?

Great memories, congrats all around.

Coach I think it's called soul searching and although I have almost 20 years on you I know what you mean. I've been blessed with great health which I give credit to my mothers side of the family. Dad passed at 61 from a stroke and at 87 we lost Mom in January followed by my brothers wife a couple of weeks later, then two months later Moms fiance and then next day my only son. But thanks to some well train staff and Mesa FD they brought him back only to loose him four more times over the next couple of weeks with me by his side three of those times. He is out of the hospital now after being in there for a month and has a permanent defribrilator. He is lucky but his heart is only at 30% and I have to be honest I freak out a little everytime my phone rings, nothing like constantly being on edge. I'm not sure what the future brings and I really try hard to be that person my family and friends can be proud of and look up to but I definitely fall off the good guy wagon once in a while. I think I just get too passionate about things sometimes. One thing I have witnessed is that god is where you find him and sometimes our bodies throw us for a struggle.

Take both and use the 45-70. How far do the feel comfortable shooting it? I have a WT tag in there but have never been there so I can't comment on the terrain but it is probably similar to 36B and I have been there. I think Mulies are easier to get closer to. Plenty of successful archery hunters down there.

I shipped a rifle to a friend in another state and had it all boxed up nice and pretty when I got to UPS. It was then that they told me about the FFL requirement so I went online and found a shop in his city and called them. They sent a copy of their FFL and I took it back to UPS. I may have had to put an AZDL in too but it was a year ago and don't remember. Once they received it he went over and did the transfer and paid whatever the fee was. He had sold it to me 25 years ago and regretted it ever since as it was the first gun he bought when he was in the Navy. He had been hinting around about it so it seemed like the right thing to do since I had a few others. I had my fun letting him squirm for a bit since he couldn't remember how much he sold it to me for which was $100 for an old pristine Model 94. Hopefully one day he will pass it on to his son, lord knows I had a lot of fun with it especially watching my friends father spend a few afternoons shooting it at the range remembering one he had in his youth before the govt in his country all but eliminated gun ownership.

UPS will also want a signed copy of the FFL you send it to.

Right, me too.

Good luck guys.

In the early 80's I bought my first compound bow and would practice in the backyard and eventually started to shoot at longer distances out at the familys cotton farm and eventually bought sites too which helped past 40 yards. Lucky me drew an elk tag and called G&F (no internet back then) and asked them if I could talk to the warden for the area. We he was in the field so I left my number and go a call back a few days later after dinner. I told him where I was going to camp and he asked me what my strategy was going to be. I told him I would hunt on foot from camp and leave camp before light and listen for bugles, then stalk them and try that in the morning then later come back to camp if I was unsuccessful and maybe drive to a different area. We talked some more about tactics and gear then he asked me where my bow would be while I was driving. I told him it would be in the bed of my truck which had a camper shell on it. He said that would be ok as long as it was cased. Problem was I was only making about $7.50 an hour and couldn't afford a case yet. I told him I didn't own one and he said if he stopped me and the bow wasn't cased he would cite me for road hunting. Well I disagreed with him on that and said what about having a gun in the window rack, would he consider that road hunting too? Anyway the bow would be in the camper, he didn't budge on his stance. Well I still couldn't afford a bow case so I made one out of an old dufflebag and went hunting. I never did run into him. 12B probably had the most road hunters I ever saw. My son and I hunted it for three days and we never saw another hunter on foot and we hiked quite a bit each day. Everyone we saw were driving around. We saw a group of deer about 500 yards away across a field on the edge of some trees. We backtracked a bit and found a draw that let us make it across the field out of their sight. When we got close the were gone so we went into the strip of trees and popped out the other side to an equally big field. The was a draw so I told my son that they were probably in there and had him go solo in that direction. It was just after sunrise and as he went down the hill I saw the headlights of a truck slowly come around a bend about 500 yards away headed in our direction. My son bumped the deer and they ran out into the open about 50 yards in from of them. The truck was now about 250 yards close and when they saw the deer they stopped and the drives and passenger jumped out with their rifles. My son took a shot but missed and the passenger who had his rifle shouldered was flagged off by the driver. Sure go a little hairy there for a second but it worked out even though he didn't get another chance at a shot.

Usually the person who has spent the most $$$$. But we do have some pretty knowledgable/experienced people here.

I hope you get it figured out. I've always wanted one in 375H&H.

Good advice, but don't shoot any cactus or you could get a summons. 7-08 is fine and I have probably shot 3000+ rounds when I used to shoot competition and 120gr will work great. Go out and shoot some jackrabbits for practice. Chris

Same here. But I don't drive along at 2 mph with an uncased loaded gun looking for game.

Way to stick with it, good luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blister_beetle

Seems to get worse every year with some people setting up 50 feet away and not so much as a hello or a look your way then proceed to take every shot they can dropping some birds in spots they know they can't be retrieved and then want to stay for hours.

More open than the southern part, which is where i have hunted in the past.

Leaf footed bugs. That subtype you have photos of are also known as Giant Mesquite Bug, Thasus neocalifornicus Cool looking, http://arizonabeetlesbugsbirdsandmore.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-cycle-of-giant-mesquite-bug-thasus.html

It's an older Winchester Model 12, probably 1920's. The action feels like it is sluggish, maybe gummed up. I'd like to have it to have as a backup for new shooters this dove season. I had an old manual that showed how to take it apart and actually did my father-in-laws dads gun about 20 years ago and I seem to remember a wishbone spring in there somewhere.