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SNL Material right there. Funny as chit.

I counted somewhere around 5 lions that were coming in to this spot and an occasional Tom. It doesn't sound like a lot, however, within a 1 mile radius it is a lot. I had other locations with an equal amount of activity and many larger Toms passing through due to the amount of females hanging around. And where in 6A is this? LOL HAHA, I will tell you this, these lion are no where near 6A, try about 250 miles southeast. I just said that because a couple of years ago I was scouting for Elk in 6A and ran into a couple of guides during the archery hunt who told me that they had seen two sets of different cats in the area over the last few days and I glassed up a female about a mile from where we talked.

Check into having it freeze dried instead of the traditional way of taxidermy.

I counted somewhere around 5 lions that were coming in to this spot and an occasional Tom. It doesn't sound like a lot, however, within a 1 mile radius it is a lot. I had other locations with an equal amount of activity and many larger Toms passing through due to the amount of females hanging around. And where in 6A is this? LOL

I have heard them and come close now twice to actually seeing them and hope to run across them next month in 33 during my hunt.

Best advice on this thread. It's like the never ending broad head debate - which one is best. Bergers are a great bullet, as are several others. They're definitely worth a try anyways. Some bullets are more finicky and everything needs to right. Many years ago when PMC sold components I picked up some 140gr's in 284. Nothing special just some soft points I was going use for Chickens and Pigs in my 7-08 for HP Silhouette as they were about $8 a hundred and it was when MIDWAY still had free shipping. I couldn't get them to group under 2" at 100 yards in a rifle that put darn near everything I tried into one ragged hole. Frustrated I shelved them. A couple of years later I has worked up a load with the original Barnes X Bullet in 120gr for my 700 7Mag and decided to load up some of the PMC 140's for practice. I was pretty shocked, but pleased to have them shoot under 1" just by pushing them 200fps faster. Both rifles had the same twist and barrel length.

You Hoyt him.

But holster your shotgun first. (You'll need both hands).

You did the smart thing by not having a confrontation with the guy. He should have gutted it and taken it out with him and reported it to G&F. They may have gone easy on him. As far as drinking in my opinion if you even had one beer during lunch your not serious about hunting and should not go back out for the rest of the day. You should be 110% on your game when you are out hunting, save the suds for when the sun goes down. When my son was about 12 he shot a button buck by mistake when he was supposed to shoot the spike next to it. He was in tears over it so we tagged and field dressed it. I explained to him why it was not a legal deer and told him we had to report it. So we wrapped it up in a tarp and drove the hour to G&F. We went in and I explained what happened. A guy came out and we took the deer out and he took some pictures saying he would use them in Hunter Safety Classes to show hunters what a button buck looked like as the antlers had not broken through the skin. He then thanked my son for doing the right thing and coming in with the deer and then told him to take it home and enjoy eating it.

My goto rifle has a Leupold VXII that is 4x12 and is about 18 years old. This year I bought a Zeiss with the Rapid Z Reticle. After using their ballistic program I found that the scope needs to be turned up to 11.5 to 15 power to use the reticles. If I had know that before I bought the scope I probably would have gone with a single reticle scope and turrets.

That's awesome Ernesto. Any time we can spend with our kids doing something they like so special for them and us too. This is something you will both cherish forever.

So. Have you made any changes to the way you reload? I just buy one brand of new brass and go from there. I just neck size, trim to spec after three loads and toss them at six. Biggest thing I have come across since I began reloading in the 70's is everyone wants Benchrest accuracy with a factory rifle but even with todays optics and better rifle manufacturing tolerences less than 1/2% of shooters are consistently capable of meeting the mark which is tough to do if you are only shooting 30 rounds from a rifle every three of four months. Not that I'm saying that is you.

My cold weather boots are a pair of Rocky Corn Stalkers I bought a long time ago and have had them resoled once. To me "cold weather" means snow on the ground and all day freezing temps. I bought them because they were available in 4E. EW, which is maybe 2E isn't quite enough for me. Equally important are good socks. I wear Smart Wool. They keep your feet warm and don't get matted down even when wet.

I'll take the shells.

Depends on the shooter's ability. I personally wouldn't go past 300 yards regardless of bullet weight or construction in that caliber.

They're easier to skin with two people.

When you didn't think twice about being two miles from camp as the sun went down way before anyone knew what GPS stood for.

I sure would like to know the PPM levels from a few hundred years ago. In the HVAC world ASHRAE gives us guidelines for Demand Ventilation levels in schools and businesses.

I spoke to G&F yesterday and they said it will be posted sometime next week.

Congrats. 33 is a great unit but is getting a lot of pressure. I hope I can find a spot to camp when I go there in four weeks as there is a hunt going on right up to the day before mine starts.

Lack of deer. The fire hasn't helped any.

Why 10" and not the distance you expect the shot to be?

Beautiful buck. I bet he was stoked.

I usually just go to Gunbot.net

Just go to NAPA's website and search for both then see if it shows a picture?