AzDiamondHeat

Get good gear. Get out in it and find a nice dry tree to sit under. Wait for the breaks in the rain and get on em. My favorite times have been in the rain.

Heading up to 4b to set up camp for my nephew's first trophy cow elk hunt. Lol If anyone up there needs help or just wants a s'more, give me a shout. Actually I dont have any s'mores so please bring me some.

FINALLY. After much running around finding nothing but HUGE trophy class bulls every day( it IS 4b after all), we finally found some cows. Tuesday morning we went to my super secret spot and sat down on the east side of a small meadow. Wind was good, temp was good, light rain off and on. Perfect. I called a little bit and had a young 5x5 bull streak across the meadow straight to us. Played with him for a few minutes when a large 6x6 bull with 8 cows came in from across the meadow. Coaxed them closer and Nephew picked a small cow and put a perfect 20 yd shot into its side quartering away. For his first hunt he did an excellent job. Didn't screw up on anything. lol The damage from the Montec CS braodheads was amazing. Straight up carnage. I have never seen anything like it. I shoot the regular Montecs which have been great, but this was just....awesome. I think it was due to the quartering away angle, but DANG. There was no blood "trail"...it was a blood SLICK. for 60 yds nothing but a red carpet. Young man did a good job hanging in there and getting it done. It was "just a cow", but the hunt was the same. Had he a bull tag we would have been done on day one... figures.

Anybody got one?

My dad is old school and it is what he wants. Going on his 358 win.

I have multiple ARs in several different calibers. After many years and many scope changes most have low magnification scopes. 1x6, 2x7, and one 3x9 for "long range". I have one with an eotech and a 3x magnifier. Pretty much my go to coyote gun for the desert. Covers just about every scenario. Definitely recommend the magnifier on a flip up mount if you go red dot or holographic.

I spend a LOT of days hunting, but I am far from "hard core". In my old age I have grown quite fond of being "comfortable" with my trailer and other modern niceties. The collateral damage to having the comfort is that I "have" to take the kids with me most of the time and I "get" to have the wife go as well. More often than not though she stays at home though. As long as I take one of the kids she doesn't care if I am gone the entire year...... Once I get out in the field I do pride myself on doing things "right". I try to make the hunt enjoyable for everyone. For me, killing an animal is second in importance to enjoying the experience.

I told a story a year or so ago where I helped my buddy track his first elk for just over 6 miles. We were certain he winged it. After found it was confirmed to be a boiler room shot. This was a cow rifle hunt. Conversely, Every bull elk I have been involved in taking has been shot with a bow with the furthest one traveling about a quarter mile. I sometimes wonder if the shock of the bullet/gun gets their adrenaline going a bit more.

no joy on cows this weekend. called in many bulls but couldn't find a single cow. heading back next week.

4b is on FIRE....wait. not this year for once. Worked 3 bulls this morning and one hunter. Bugling was sparse but pretty good for the first couple hours of light once we found the active boys. Unfortunately none of them had cows. The hunter may have but that is a different issue.....

WIIIIIIIINDY! Friends that live up here say it just started today. Of course. Elk are not going crazy around camp, but they are still talking.

Thank you for admitting you are dumb as a box of rocks. Admitting you have a problem is the first step. Atta kid. Now learn how to read and comprehend and you will be half way to being a useful idiot. P.s. please learn the meaning of the word "literally". Actually, please learn ANYTHING. And because you ride the short bus, I will explain this in small words so you won't need help. As others have pointed out, you are STUPID because you are throwing a second grade hissy fit over statements CLEARLY made in jest. You have PROVEN me correct. There, no big words to make you cry from lack of a vocabulary But you are still stuck in your ignorance. Nothing we can do about that We can explain it to you, but we cannot understand it for you.

Good to see your ebt card came in so you could pay your internet bill. You go through so much effort yet accomplish so little. Do us all a favor and Google how to argue effectively. Your outdated and immature "insults"just make you look stupid. Sadly, you are too stupid to know it.

I have titanium. Just not worth packing the extra weight for one shot. Especially when I have plenty of time to put plugs in and I don't need to hear the deer.

I don;t mind it. The only issue I have is the website won;t make it through my server. I have to log on from my phone.

I have used 2. For many years I used the Shooting Chrony Master. The portability was nice. Setup was a little tedious, but not a deal breaker. It has great reviews across the internet but mine seemed to get an exorbitant amount of bad reading or non-readings. Mostly I did like it though, but not enough to buy another one. My biggest complaint was how fragile it was. I only shot it once and it didn't work after that.......lol I am still a novice at putting them in the ground evidently. 4 more to go..... I now have the Caldwell. Sets up quicker and also connects to my cell phone for recording strings. Have not had any bad readings or missed readings YET. Very little range time with it though. So far very happy. I also use it for archery.

Where are you located. Will buy the heater and comping stuff depending on location.

Are you guys using the on chip or the online service?

I have several and they are all super duper cool. What is the purpose of having something if it can't be envied? Right? I don't have any on my big game rifles as it is usually(hopefully) one shot and done and I put plugs in. Plus I have no desire to pack that weight. Out predator hunting though they are pretty indispensable(in my opinion). I hate wearing muffs and I won't shoot without protection. There are also several actual hunting advantages in using them as well (still talking predators). Outside of a few hundred yards nobody and nothing will know you pulled the trigger. You would be hard pressed to find ANYONE who has ever hunted with one that would go back to hunting without them. Still dang hard to swallow the cost and wait time though (I say this as I have another one in ATF jail).

Just send the coordinates to Desert Bull. He will sell it and instantly the place will be ruined for decades......

Ya did good kid. In a few years we'll have to take the girls out together.

signs don;t work either and "road blocks" are only a mild deterrent. The yahoos with the suped up side by sides only look at those as a minor inconvenience. In my opinion the ONLY way to get these people to obey the law is to get boots on the ground and issue citations. I am not a fan of big brother, but I am a HUGE fan of having my forest protected. I am willing to give up a little of my "freedom" to protect the resources so that it is ALL not taken away....

I use the wilson. You can hook a drill up to it. Still not "fast" though.