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Great Buck! You guys did one heck of a job to stay with him and get the shot. Congratulations!!!

Absolutely awesome! Congrats on your new baby. The deer can wait - by the way, very nice write-up. Now go kiss your wife's tummy.

Darn nice gun. The ability to take 3.5" shells and extra chokes makes it one heck of a turkey gun that is also great for ducks, quail, etc. If I were in the market for yet another gun, I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.

Muley Man mentioned on another thread that he does a lot of business with Outdoorsman's. As a sponsor here, I wonder if they find his sense of humor as charming as he does. I think I'll email them a link to this thread so they can see how funny he is.

What a tragedy indeed. My prayers go out to Skylar's family.

I tried one last year and didn't have any pigs come in - only a fox.

This is a nice 1996 Salem Cobra 5th Wheel. It has been a great camper for our family, but we no longer have a pickup so we can't use it anymore. It is very clean inside and everthing works as it should - has a large fridge, A/C, ducted heating and lots of storage. Also has "flipped" axles for higher clearance. It has some minor cosmetic issues - the outer panelling on the front left is rippled where it pulled loose at one point, and the door has been rebuilt. The issues with both have been fixed - the entire front "bedroom" area was completely rebuilt where it had been damaged due to leaking around a swamp-cooler that has since been removed and the area very tightly resealed. The awning is in OK condition - I reinforced the first foot with elastomeric sealant where it was getting weathered by the sun. Asking $4900 OBO. For the asking price I will also include the Reese 5th wheel hitch.

Great job! Congrats to Tanner! What a great way to start!

I suggest having him shoot as many as possible to see what feels best to him. Just about all major brands have some really nice bows these days - just comes down to finding the one that feels right in his hands.

Great looking bucks - nice job. Thanks for sharing the story and pictures. I love that first one - what a great looking buck! Tough country too.

How about some feedback - Are we asking too much? I've seen 5th wheels this size in not nearly as good of condition go for a lot more locally. Just a bad time of year to sell - wassup?

Nice job - I love to see those youth hunters out here with their first harvests. Got a story to go along with that great photo?

Probably already got your answer, but just to toss more fuel on the fire, the Nikon is VERY good for the money. I've never looked through the Leupold, but, my money is on the Nikon for sure.

Nice buck - welcome to the site.

Each season and each hunt is different for me. This year I really wanted to take my first deer with a bow, but I still passed several small coues bucks before taking the one I was fortunate enough to finally tag. First ML coues also came this year, and while I had hoped for something over 100, I opted for the first "mature" 3x3 or better I could find. Going forward, I'll have different goals. I'm starting to get up there in bonus points and would really love to hunt either 12AW or 13B (or a December coues tag in 22, 23 or 24A) but I may still be several years out on those. So to kill in January, I would like to say, it would have to be a coues over 100" or a muley in the 170+ class. But take a look at Standman's post - he's taken lots of great bucks. To call in a buck like that during the rut, and make it happen the way he did, I think we'd all be hard-pressed to hold off because of score alone. That was an awesome, exiting hunt. Sometimes there is a number that sets the goal, sometimes it's something else.

Bump.

SOHCAHTOA - don't you remember your trig? the sine of angle A equals the length of the opposite side devided by the lenght of the hypotneuse: sin(A) = opp/hyp the cosine of angle A equals the length of the adjacent side devided by the length of the hypotneuse: cos(A) = adj/hyp the tangent of angle A equals the length of the opposite side devided by the length of the adjacent side: tan(A) = opp/adj

Oops - cut and pasted from Craigslist - forgot the price. I updated the post above, but asking price is $4900 obo.

I've got a thumbhole stock on my ML and love it. If I were building a gun right now, I'd put a boyd's thumbhole on it.

Nice! That's a great looking buck! Congrats!

Dude - I used to do the sardines and oysters bit - LOL - If you can't eat it at home why eat it on a hill? Very convenient for sure to open up some "sardines in mustard sauce" or canned smoke oysters....Anybody sharing a tent with you has to be dragging you to the edge of camp come midnight.

Welcome to the forum. You've found the right place!

I have to say, the first half - it was anybody's game. Both teams moved the ball incredibly well. Defense was another story - I've got to give props to Show Low's QB and recievers. They were fantastic. A couple of finger-tip defensive plays by the BR secondary were crucial. It would have been a much closer game without some truly outstanding defensive plays deep. The second half, BR got their defense in gear and finally started forcing punts. Show Low could not stop our running game and BR was able to score on pretty much every offensive opportunity. I hate to say it - gotta love ALL the kids that made it that far - but in the second half, Show Low was just looking more "beat up" and less determined. BR is one of those teams that is always close, and usually in the playoffs. We *should* have beaten Payson last year based on the half-time score, but they came out and made the adjustments they needed to come from way behind and win - kudos to them for that. As for "finally having good program again" - not trying to sound defensive, but Blue Ridge has had a very good program for a long, long time. Sure, they've missed a couple of close ones, but the coaching staff here does an AMAZING job. I graduated in '89 and played tight end and defensive end on the team that trounced everyone and then lost to Parker in the semi-finals, who eventually lost to Snowflake - a team we had beaten during regular play. BR is pretty much always the "smaller" team on the field. We don't grow them big here like other schools do. Coach Moro and his staff - Williams, London, Thompson - really know how to put a team together and make the best out of the kids despite their size. For BR it's all about hard-hitting, assignment football, off-season training , speed and discipline - and most of those things come out of the coaching staff when it comes down to it. I've got 3 boys involved in football now (I've been coaching the local, "mountain" leauge too), one in 7th grade, one in 5th and one in 2nd. I can't wait to see what Moro and his staff can do with these kids who have been playing together from 1st grade on up. No doubt about it, there will be some amazing high-school football in small-town Arizona. Gotta love it - this is one of the big reasons I moved out of the valley and back home to the mountains to raise my kids hunting, fishing and playing football and baseball.

CouesAZ, I gotta get one of those Bark River knives. I've been salivating over the Bravo I or Bravo II in ironwood burl with turquoise. Not a better looking knife around. Here's the one I'm after - PM me with cost etc. I've got to sell some stuff first.

Snickers, apples, Cliff bars, mixed nuts (love the salty cashews), jerky or other deer snack sticks. Nothing beats some fried chicken legs or wings about 9 am. Some chocolate for sure. Hershey's Nuggets always pick up the pace after a slow morning of glassing. I take along jolly ranchers too. Helps keep the saliva moving when water is short.