azslim

I read quite a bit about early Az when I first got here 25 years ago. I also enjoyed reading about the Graham/Tewksberry feud, I was spending a lot of time in that country and wanted to learn a little more. Not a good time to be a stranger just passing through.

Tell your son great job on an 85" buck.

photo shop!!!!!!! I would start looking now for the guy that dropped them, and follow him all winter long until it came time to send some bullets his way next fall.......

Deer are good animals to learn to butcher on. Bone out the front qtrs and grind them up for sausage. Take the backstraps and TL's for steak. Muscle out the hind qtrs for steaks or roasts, cut the steaks at a 90 degree angle to the grain. The tips of the muscles that are too small for steaks are great for stew/chili meat or ground up for clean burger. You can have a coues deer in a cooler in about 1 hour all wrapped and ready for the freezer except for the grind, and a hand crank grinder works fine because there ain't that much to grind but a $100 counter top is better.

Cabeza de Vaca - cow head......? I found the remnants of an elk antler by a cliff dwelling in the Sierra Ancha's, very little of it left but based on where it came from an elk did not hide out there and drop it.

I have ordered several different rifles from Randall's, SE corner of 51st & Olive.

Vortex is changing here real soon. Their Razor class of bino's will be getting HD glass, and the price going up some and they are coming out with the Talon grade, it will have HD glass but in a less expensive package. There was just a write up in Western Hunter about it.

and grizzly bears, I have seen a few petroglyphs of BIG bears next to people, first one that comes to mind is the on the sandstone cliff between Maxwell Trail and Tramway Trail on West Clear Creek..... I like thousand year old graffiti, just wish I could read it. There was some rock art in Dinwoody Canyon on the Wind River Rez in Wyo and an old Shoshone with the last name of Bonatsi could read it. At least the stories he told seemed to connect with the pictures and made sense at the time. This was 40+ years ago and he was in his 80's then. Now that I am old I regret not getting the stories from these old timers, myths, legends and real life events they lived through.

Yep, in Wyoming I was always messing with fireworks. Have had untold number blow up in my hands before I could throw them, used to have bottle rocket and Roman candle fights - you can get pretty accurate with them, stick a firecracker in my cousins back pocket and light it off and pay attention for the next week so he couldn't get even, pitch cherry bombs or m-80's into the fishing hole and collect fish afterwards. No one was seriously hurt, we all have our fingers and while we may not hear as well anymore that is more an age thing. Think of all the adventures the "protected youth" of today won't get to experience.

it's in the last lines of the post........

glad to help out......the book these recipes come from has about 60 different recipes, I've made about 25 and they were all great. I highly recommend getting the book.

all you need is an inner tube, some hot dogs and a couple cases of beer......

supposed to be hunting not playing on the phone.....that'll learn em.....

yep, with the ashes in a plastic bag........ I'm more inclined to think it is a geocache rather than an urn but who knows.

Yea, it's hard on us as we get older to not keep up to the standards we set when we were younger. Now I take long cuts if the walking is easier, the hills I scramble up aren't as high and boy does it take a long time to heal up nowadays. And to add insult to injury my arms are too short to read much anymore - boy did that happen in a hurry.

Have done the same thing with a come-along, used to load beef cattle when my relatives wanted to butcher one. Bill, back up to the bull, lay down 3 planks, hook a winch cable around the head and drag the bull onto the bed.

Lark, if you had done it BEFORE she mopped the floor she probably wouldn't have been as PO'd.......

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Black Mtn, all around it.......

may want to look at Vortex tripods too check camera stores, there are some off brands that are real cheap and do just what you want - used one for 20 years before I upgraded cam lock legs make it nice to pull in tight to you during windy days

Have a BLR Lightening in 06, nice rifle. Put a cat's eye scope on it with detachable mounts and left the open sights in place too, call it my horse-back rifle - horse falls and breaks my scope again I can still hunt. Don't know if Browning is still making them, check Gunbroker and the like.

and you aren't paying a guide only for the time he spends with you, you are also paying him for the time he has in the country scouting, learning the terrain and where the big boys like to hide, etc. Were you to tally up the gas and time the "guide" has in the country you are actually getting a pretty good deal - at least for the majority of guides.

I haven't looked through the Nomad but have looked through the Skyline(or whatever the 20-60x80 non HD is called) and I just picked up the Razor HD and both of them have good, clear resolution. Were it me I would not be in a hurry, save money until next fall and pick up a Razor HD, you will never have to buy another one. But to be honest I have thought about selling my Burris Signature 18-45x60 and picking up the Nomad because it goes to 60 power and is about the same size/weight as my Burris. My Burris doesn't quite give me what I want at the 3 mileish range. This would be my backup/loaner spotter.

170 to 175

Same here, I try to scan the country under my feet first with 8's before setting up the 15's. I tend to look at long distance with the 15's and end up overlooking close stuff, made me cuss a couple of times. And if I am stalking in on something the 8's are handier as the distance closes and you are trying to see through trees and bushes.