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  1. Coach

    Buck down.

    Very cool buck! Congrats to your sister!
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    OnX Maps?

    I can't get my wavepoints to sink.
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    Another NM Muley

    Thx, wish there was more of a story behind the hunt. Wind was howling all day and night, full moon, glassing turned up little. We went to old-school still hunting, walking and looking. It's amazing how these guys have you pegged long before you are in range. A guy in our party shot a coyote, went to check her out, bumped some elk, and that made his buck stand up - and that was it for him. Mine, well, he made poor life decisions and chose to stand when he should have stayed bedded. I was checking out a new spot middle of the day and his cohort, a little forkie, decided to check out the commotion. I had him in my crosshairs thinking, "jerky buck" when this guy stood up. Sometimes it's all about luck, and on this hunt, it was all about luck. Some of the country we hiked in and glassed, the sheer amount of experience and dissecting and falling back on years of experience, didn't pay off. And I'm talking very seasoned glassers in a unit we didn't know much about.
  4. Coach

    Happiness is.....

    Such a tease.
  5. Coach

    27 Mule Deer

    What an awesome buck! I hope we can rotate the pic though, I'm getting vertigo.Huge congrats on an outstanding buck.
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    My 2017 buck

    Awesome buck! Congrats!
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    Draysen's Mule Deer Hunt

    Wow - fantastic shot at that range for anyone! Great job Draysen on an amazing shot and awesome buck. And awesome job to everyone involved.
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    Blocking FS Road !!!

    ^^^LOL. That guy sure has nerve, but like someone posted earlier, it seems you'd be worried all day that someone's going to express their displeasure on that brand new Tundra in creative and/or expensive ways. How do you relax and enjoy the hunt not knowing if that barbed wire gate is going to be laying across your shiny new hood when you get back to it? I sure don't advocate messing with someone's vehicle, but you gotta know you're going to make folks go nuts pulling something like that.
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    Coues Sheds

    I second what Grey Curse said - that's a great indication that there's not a lot of pressure in there. Great luck on your hunt, and let us know how it goes.
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    New Mexico Muley

    Awesome buck - congrats
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    My 11 yr. Old son's first buck

    Man, what an awesome buck! Just WOW! Great job and huge congrats!
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    Long/Shorty Backpack Hunt

    Excellent write-up Houston, and huge congrats to Braedon. Sounds like an amazing hunt and awesome time with your son. Thanks for sharing the story. Braedon sounds like one tough young man!
  13. No, in this case the full-length resizing die would "bottom out" when it hit the shell holder. The only way to get it any further down was to decrease the height of the shell holder so the die could press the shoulder down.
  14. I reload that same brass, also in a Savage action. I had the exact same experience. What I did was sand down my shell holder a few thousands of an inch so when I ran the brass through a full length resizing die it could push the shoulder down just a bit.
  15. I didn't want to derail the the other barrel length thread, so I wanted to ask specifically about barrel length on an AR 10. It seems most of them max out around 18 inches. I've been looking on Gunbroker for a 24 - 26" upper and it seems they are kind of an anomaly on this platform. Am I wrong to think a longer barrel will translate into better performance and accuracy in a .308?
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    No Fish on the Lower Black!!!!!

    She's Crafty!
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    Building an AR-10

    Thanks for all the replies. One of the reasons I brought this up was I was looking for a 24-26" barrel. In the .308, can you get the full benefit from an 20" barrel?
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    No Fish on the Lower Black!!!!!

    It's really sad - I've been fishing the Black for decades. It's one of the reasons I moved out of the valley a long time ago so I could be closer for fun Spring fishing. Not sure where to start - there are a lot of people who keep everything they catch. That doesn't help, but the health of the river has been declining due to the fires. Seems now there's a build-up of sludge all along the river. The smallmouth population is tied directly to the amount of crawfish in the creek/river. I used to carry only a pole and a few hooks, and catch crawdads for bait. With all the muddy sediment now it's hard to even catch a few crawdads. No crawdads, no food supply for the smallies, other than the bugs that fall into the water. That protein-rich, always-available food source is the sole reason the fish grow so fast and always replentish. Then there's the stingy gray/green moss. This is new to me since the wallow fire. The parasites have always been there - not sure why. Years ago I learned that if I was keeping a fish to eat, you had to clean it really well - those little things that look like seeds in the flesh are worm-like parasites. Probably dead after a good frying, but I don't take chances with them.
  19. Because they are "hit and miss". Get a good one, it shoots great. Get a bad one, and with a lot of work and patience and trial-and-error, you'll eventually get it to shoot great. Same could be said of 26 Nosler, or any wildcat/overbored rifle.
  20. This time of year, it seems there's so much going on at work. As I read each of these youth hunter success stories I really want to respond with more than a "great job" reply. These youth hunters are the future of hunting in this state, and let's be honest, this is one of the last places to have so much open public land, so much opportunity. I just want to say a huge congrats to all the youth hunters out there getting their first taste of the hunt, and especially all the dads, moms - families out there getting behind them and making incredible memories that will ultimately play a huge role in shaping the way these kids think about hunting. Good role models teaching ethics-based hunting, is going to give these kids a solid foundation to preserve our sport, our land and our heritage. Thanks to all of you, and again, huge congrats to those young people out there learning and getting ready to carry the torch.
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    Successful youth hunt- Unit 22

    That's awesome - Huge congrats.
  22. Coach

    Tikka 270 WSM

    Sounds good.
  23. Coach

    Tikka 270 WSM

    PM sent - can pick up this weekend in Payson.
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    Tikka 270 WSM

    I'll take it - PM on the way.
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