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Not hunting, just tagging along as an extra set of eyes and ears.

So after reading the Rattlesnake Bite thread and not wanting to hijack it. Can those of you who use the SPOT and the available services give me a rundown on it? I basically know what it is but not much else. I don't have a smart phone. Should I get one to work with the SPOT?

If I remember they paraded it around town and then found out it was illegal and it mysteriously disappeared.

NIce to see it's still pretty green out there. Thanks for posting, those pictures are nice and sharp. What camera did you use?

Last Jaguar I rember shot was by couple of fellers down Wilcox way, early 90's maybe?

I'm still waiting for the price of the Yeti's to drop, good thing I'm not holding my breath.

Send it back. They should be able to turn it around in a couple of week but do it ASAP. Call them ahead of time.

SHould be headed down on friday afternoon and will be camped not too far from the lake with a few others.

Headed out, probably friday afternoon to meet up with a friend to be an extra set of eyes for him and his daughter to try and get her first deer. Shouldn't be camped too far from the lake so stop in and say hey.

An alarm system for a few hundred or a $50 Club will save you a lot of grief. Hope you get it back.

My guess is you in your late teen or early twenties and something about yor vehicle or the way you presented yourself gave the officer the impression you weren't on the upnup and figured he had better than a 50/50 chance be could bust you for something. Legal smegal. Don't fret it unless you have something to hide. Don't speed and you won't get pulled over.

Don't quite know about that. You should report it because it is the right thing to do not because of what the outcome may or may not be. Especially when a young hunter is involved or how are they going to learn ethics? I went through this with a young hunter on his second deer hunt and he shot a young buck whose antlers had not broken through the hide when he thought he was shooting the spike next to it and jerked the shot. We field dressed the deer and being opening day took it into the Mesa Office. We explained the situation and they laid the deer out in the parking lot on a tarp. They took pictures to use during hunter safety to show what a buck's antlers look like just before they break the hide. They thanked us for reporting it, shook our hands and sent us down the road with the deer.

I hate to see roads shutdown. I also don't like hiking into an area and have the silence disrupted by someone in a loud vehicle driving where they have no business going. It's a double edged sword but not allowing game retrival with the aid of a vehicle in non Wilderness areas isn't right.

Great deer and antelope round. Too much for varmints and if you respect Elk it is way undergunned for them. Stick some 180 in the 30.06 and use that. A 22-250 will kill an Elk under the right conditions but you already have a 30.06 so I'd say look at a 22 caliber for varmints.

they'll be sorry when the coyotes eat the rest of the antelope! look into a wood cutting permit...... maybe able to get away with that??? congrats to you and your grandson! Sorry they have made it into a joke for you! James Won't work. You're either cutting wood or hunting and they aren't going to let that fly and I don't want to be the test case for a percieved loophole. Consequences (loss of game animal, confiscated vehicle, court costs etc) are too high.

Nice looking OBS. I will head down saturday (just to hang out) my hunt isn't until November. Good luck on your hunt where are you going to be?

When I was in Clints Well last month the guy at the Service Station said another road closure map will be out in December and another in the spring.

That is a long ways. I know that young male lions will travel indefinately until they can find a home range.

Fired? I hope you called the cops too. No telling what he had back at his house. If he is low enough to steal from people he is working with he is capable of anything.

Any idea on how big that one is? I know they can get quite a bit bigger than a Mountain Lion and they have always facinated me but I haven't seen one in the wild. They have an incredible bite force and are only out done by the Hyena which explains why they eat turtles and kill deer by sinking their teeth through the skull into the brain rather than through aphixiation. As I understand it a big male can go 350#'s and that is a lot of puddycat.

"the Commission considers bait to include any food-stuff or ingestible material that has been deposited, scattered, piled, or delivered by a passive or active feeder or feed delivery system,,,," Gray area, really? Not sure I understand your post. If this passes I believe 99% of us will comply. Should someone put out bait and I happen to shoot a deer over or near it I have no doubt that a WM will be writing a citation and it will be up to me to show I didn't know it (the smoking gun) was there and didn't put it there. Hunting over bait will be illegal, no matter how it got there. No doubt some will spin it every which way.

All the standards we have for rate of twist were achieved around lead core bullets. Newer bullets of copper and ballistic tips make the bullet longer upsetting the apple cart. Neccissating reinventing the wheel. You're groups are great so go make some memories.

I spent part of the afternoon at Rio with my son re-sighting in for our hunt next month. I usually pick a bullet, (Nosler Partition, Sierra Match King, etc) for a specific task, then work up the load. Accuracy is nice but not always the destination. That, is what I expect of the terminal performance of the bullet. Example, if I'm hunting coyot's. I want a bullet that gives me 2 MOA and dosen't exit because I know I will not be taking shots past 300 yards.

Yucca? AKA Shin Dagger?