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The right doesn't even know what scandal to cover, the left addresses none of them. There is nothing short of catching school kids on fire and throwing them off the top of the white house that would get anyone more involved. The sad part is, nothing will be done and no one will be held accountable. The "most transparent" administration has done exactly what they promised. They "fundamentally transformed" America into an autocracy while the world watched and stood by complacently.

Wow - awesome to hear so many of you are getting "hit". Gotta love it. Looks like we're in for some serious hunting stories this fall. Congrats to all of you drawing tags. I hope you make the most of them.

Very cool - love the Molan Labe Kokopelli. I'm thinkin' blaze orange.

Wow, that's really cool - I love the sheds, the rattler, especially the gila monster. Thanks for sharing

Man, that's a smoking deal. The spot hogg and drop-away are worth close to what you're asking. My middle son is due for an upgrade - I'll see if he's willing to drop some money on a bow more his size.

I live up here, and while I'm all for fire restrictions when it's dry and windy, when we get the kinds of rain we've gotten over the last week, I'm glad to see the restrictions scaled back when it's safe to do so.

I'm currently dealing with them on some similar issues with an M80. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/50086-moultrie-not-a-good-experience/ Suffice it to say, I've bought my last Moultrie camera.

That all looks amazing.

Sweet!

I just wanted to put this out here, I've got a lot of trail cams, Bushnell, DLC Coverts, Moultrie. I bought a Moultrie M80 a couple years back, and it was a really good camera. For some reason, it just stopped taking pictures - it would take video but no stills. It was out of warranty, but I sent it in anyway. I was told it couldn't be fixed, so the only option I had was to buy a refurb for $60 or just call it a loss. So I bought the refurb. When it arrived I put a fresh card in and new batteries. It would go into sleep mode and never wake up. It just went into a "trance" that could only be solved by pulling out the battery compartment and re-inserting it. Sent that one back and they sent me another refurbished M80. I put in 8 fresh batteries and tried it out. It stayed on overnight, so I figured everything was ok and turned it off. A couple weeks later I wanted to put it out but the batteries were dead. I thought that was odd since it only ran one night on fresh batteries and had been turned off since. Since this model can run off 8 or 4 batteries, I put in 4 fresh batteries and put it over our compost pile since I knew it would get some action. The display said I had 209 days of battery life. By morning, there were zero pictures and the batteries were dead. I spent almost an hour on the phone with their Customer Service people, and while they were very polite, they insisted it was something I was doing wrong - the wrong brand of batteries, the wrong SD card (All I run are SanDisk - approved cards). So, my $120 camera goes bad, they can't fix it but can replace it for $60 with a refurb that doesn't work. The replacement for the replacement doesn't work, and according to them it's because I'm not using the right batteries, or the card, although reformatted, may have been used in a different brand of camera. Just wanted to put this out there - buy a DLC or Bushnell or anything else but Moultrie. They have really nice customer service folks, but at the end of the day their cameras don't work as well as others for the same money.

Nice, Lee's Ferry used to be an annual trip for my dad and I. I haven't been there in a while so it's nice to see it keeps on producing those fish in their spawning color modes.

Hey Bob, looks like your prayers were heard. It's been raining here for the last 3 days. The crews have been working hard, but nothing beats steady rain to get a fire under control. Big thanks to everyone keeping a positive tone on this, the guys who are fighting it, and those sending prayers our way. These kinds of situations stir up a lot of emotions and sometimes folks get heated and say dumb things. Hat's off to the cooler heads. We're all in this together.

I'd recommend La Gloria Cubana, Arturo Fuente or Rocky Patel for your first time.

This is a great topic, and lots of really knowledgeable folks here. I certainly don't want to take this in a different direction from the original poster, but I've got a Savage American Classic in .300 WSM, and this gun is an absolute shooter. First off, I love the accu-trigger. It's not quite as crisp as the one on my 25-06 Savage - but really nice. I'm a big fan of the "milder" magnums - anything .WSM vs. the Ultra Mags. Honestly, after years of reloading and experimenting with .300 Wby, .270 STW, my 2 favorite are .300 WSM, and .270 WSM, and given the mild recoil and inherent stability of the .308 round, it's hard even to make a case for the .270 WSM, aside from it just being so fun to shoot. I've never owned a 7mm, but it's reputation is well earned. My .300 wsm savage is by far the best gun I've shot, and it currently has a pretty cheap (Cabela's Alaskan Guide 6-24 x 50mm) scope. It's actually a really nice, clear scope and I can shoot this setup with hand loads at 500 yards with confidence. For a $450 gun and $300 scope, it will definitely outshoot me. I've got some 4-6" groups at 500 yards out of it but I've also got some that wouldn't fit in a basketball - long range shooting takes a lot more than the right gear. There's a lot of practice and technique to make any setup shoot to its full potential. I know this gun and my handloads have the potential to shoot out to 7 - 800 yards. I'm wanting to invest a little more into a really good turret scope, maybe switch over to some bergers and see if I can build a long range platform out of this rifle. I'd love to be able to dial in and hit a balloon at 8 or 9 hundred yards. I know the gun is capable of it, but the skill required will take some time and a lot of practice. With a $4k budget, I'd say it shouldn't be hard at all to achieve what you are looking for. In fact, I think you can get a really accurate setup of under half of that. But I would suggest investing in some reloading equipment so you can get the most out of your rifle. IMO, the rifle is only half of the equation - the loads are the other half, and having full control of the brass, powder, primer, bullet and marrying the right load to a rifle is the only way to get consistent long range performance.

Got a little thunder rolling in tonight. Nothing better than rainy summer nights in the mountains.

It's going to be interesting to see what burned and what didn't. This area is pretty close to home, and I've seen how much thinning has already been done here. Some of my favorite elk, deer and turkey spots are right in the path of this fire. I'm really looking forward to the time when we are allowed back in there to see the impact of this fire.

Here in Lakeside, it's been raining the last few days. I took my family up to the Sunrise shoot today and it was raining pretty much the entire time. I'm wondering if anyone has up-to-date info on how the rains are affecting the San Juan fire in unit 1.

I pulled my card today from a spot I call the "petting zoo" because there's always a ton of activity on this salt lick. I had over 5,000 pictures between April 18 and May 2. Not sure why but the camera just quit and I have nothing from the past 3 weeks. The batteries were good and there was space left on the card. This spot has elk all day, every day so here are some of the non-elk activity. Funny part is, I took my boys here April 18 to set up for turkeys. We didn't get any shots, but if you look at the time stamps, had we just kept hunting this spot, we could have killed toms with a spear, lol. Ended up killing 3 birds for all three boys in a whole different area. This is what comprises most of the pix out of the 5000+ in a couple weeks. Here are some cool turkey highlights. Most of these pix came in the 24 hours after we took down our blind and headed to a different area. Both of these strutting gobblers are less than 10 yards from where our blind was set up. Some deer Nice bear - she's been here for a few years, sometimes with cubs.

Unfortunately, it looks like the petting zoo is now reduced to ashes - a casualty of the San Juan fire. I expect the next time I see it my trail cam will be melted mess of plastic. Bummer, that was a great spot.

Just got back from some fun catfishin' It wasn't super fast action but we ended up with around 15 cats between 3 and 8 pounds. Fish fry tomorrow!

Yeah, the Black is a very special place. I have decades of great memories all over this state and others. Many places I find sacred, but the Black stands out from all of them. There's just something truly amazing about that place that I feel the most at peace when I'm there.

Good ribbin' TJ. I brought my brother-in-law and his girlfriend's son (the young man with glasses). He tried some bass fishing, and there were plenty to be caught but pretty small. I saw a couple really big smallies, but all I brought was catfishing gear. My catfishin' spots and my bassin' spots unfortunately have some distance between them. Here's a taste of the one of the bassin' spots.

I see you're coming up on the big 6K, Snapshot!

Just finished up the fish fry - it was awesome - sorry no pix, and also sorry I'm not tellin' where

While I love the "crews on the ground", this isn't exactly uncharted territory. From memory, the Wallow fire was around 800 acres the first night, then 2500, then 2.5 million acres, in days. Maybe I'm being over simplistic, but shouldn't the first fire raising smoke get a slurry plane and every dozer in the county on it in the first couple hours? I'd rather see a slurry plane paint a whole campsite orange than another million + acres burned. If this $hit can't be contained, we'll see full forest closure from March unit the monsoons hit.