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My daughter shot her bull three years ago this October using her 7mm-08 with Barnes 140gr TTSX handloads. Your son's set up is plenty good for a bull.

Our Northern Arizona Chapter NWTF is hosting an online raffle for a lifetime hunting-fishing combo license. We have 60 tickets left. Get your while you can and support a great group! https://www.naznwtf.org/product-page/az-lifetime-hunting-fishing-combo-raffle

Congratulations to Crystal Schoppmann, from Grand Canyon Village! Crystal won the Northern Arizona NWTF Raffle for the Lifetime Combo License!! Thanks to everyone who bought tickets. Stay tuned for more raffles coming soon. And, no, she did not get drawn for a tag today!

I didn't even think of the irony of drawing a winner today, of all days!

Thanks everyone! We'll get a winner drawn tomorrow night after work. I'll get the name posted after I've contacted the winner. If you have other suggestions for raffles, we're all ears!

We have two tickets left! Someone here get those last two so we can draw a winner tomorrow night! I'm posting here before any of the other social media outlets because you guys are my favs!

As soon as we get the last 7 tickets sold and I get my ducks in a row to be home for more than 10 minutes. To be perfectly honest, though, they are flying squirrels, not ducks. And they're rabid...

Thank you both! 12 left now!

21 tickets left!

I tired to PM you the article I was referencing, but it won't let me send you PMs. https://science.peregrinefund.org/legacy-sites/conference-lead/PDF/0112 Hunt.pdf

Depends on the animal, but generally not deer or elk since my time is limited enough and I don't have the space or money for all of the equipment I used to have access to. I used to help my dad process deer in our basement in Iowa growing up since he was a meat cutter and we had everything to do it right. Worrying about picking out lead particles is not an issue for me anymore, anyway, since we only hunt with Barnes. That's great that you are that thorough when you clean your game, but I'd bet money you are missing lead pieces. and that's not at all a jab at you. The point of that article that I summarized is that quite a bit of the lead particles are almost microscopic to microscopic in size. Very few folks I know have the ability to find lead that small in meat and very few are looking over 12 inches from the point of impact to find lead particles. I'm happy to share the whole article and slew of others on the matter if you are interested. Lead poisoning is cumulative and the toxicity/poisoning builds up over time. To be clear, I'm not trying to start a pissing match and I won't pursue one, only presenting what the data show and I've never seen x-rays lie about finding stuff where it shouldn't be. My intent is to always present the data and let people continue on with their own informed decisions. Next time you're in Flagstaff, coffee is on me.

You're concerns are spot on, buddy. Everyone who thinks they are getting all of the lead out are wrong. Lead fragments have been documented 24 inches from the impact point. I switched to Barnes for that very reason after biting into a chunk of lead the size of my pinky nail. My wife told me she'd never eat meat from an animal harvested with lead-core bullets again. I used that as the impetus to spend the money on setting up my reloading bench and getting Barnes TSX and, eventually TTSX. I've only been loading and hunting with Barnes since 2008, so not as long as others, but I've never had to track an animal more than 60 yards. Most have gone down much sooner. I have a study of lead fragments and processed deer I'm happy to share, but the summary is that 80% of grind from 30 deer (24 deer) had lead fragments. 30% of the 234 grind packages had at least one lead fragment. That means the other 70% had multiple lead fragments. The biggest arguments I hear with nonlead are that 1) the bullets down expand with small-bodied animals and at slower velocities; and 2) they are too expensive compared to lead-core ammo options. To those points: 1) when my son shot his Coues buck this past October at 375 yards with his 7-08 using 140gr TTSX handloads, the exit wound was the size of a tennis ball. When he shot his javelina this youth season (Feb 1), using my M1 Garand and 150gr TTSX VOR-TX ammo at 74yds, the exit wound was softball sized. In both animals, the bullets expanded beautifully. 2) When you compare premium lead-core ammo, which is what I see most hunters use, the price difference is usually less than $2 for a box of loaded lead-core ammo and Barnes VOR-TX or Hornady GMX loaded ammo. Even beyond the condor issue, a100s, if not close to 1000 bald and golden eagles are killed by lead poisoning from scavenging game carcasses and ingesting bullet fragments every year. The isotope analysis has confirmed that its lead from bullets. Losing one or two condors is bad enough when there are only 98 in AZ/UT, but losing that many eagles, not to mention the other raptors that scavenge carcasses is scary.

Please just don't call me. I'm extremely grateful that you've supported our raffles over the years, but I have my limits. That's another option...

30 tickets left! Lets get this sold out!

$325 + shipping. Great scope in great condition

There are less than 40 tickets left!

When's the last time I heard from you? 🤐

Start binge watching "House". You'll love it! Speedy recovery!

Yes, including me! 😜 When we fill out the paperwork, we designate who gets the license.

Haven't logged into CW in several days and just now seeing this. Holy crap was my first reaction, but I'm glad you are doing better and the long-term prognosis is good. I'm guessing your surgery happened today, already. I hope you have a speedy recovery and are back in the saddle soon. Holler if you need anything from the north country. You've always been good to me here, so if I can help, please don't hesitate!

I finally figured out I'm not going to be loading for my BIL in Texas anymore, so I'm clearing out all of my .25-06 stuff. Not looking to recoup much of my investment and want to help someone out. I don't want to split it up because that's too much math for me. I'll ship it, but buyer pays shipping. In Flagstaff and not sure when I'll be in the valley. Asking $60 for everything, but will consider fair offers. Also cross posted and going in tomorrow's (8/10) yard sale. If you're in Flag and interested, stop by (Univ Hts). One bag of 20 pcs of Winchester brass is a mixed bag of 4-5x fired that has some decapped, fully prepped, and some annealed, and some that need annealed and prepped. One bag of Win brass is 1x fired and needs decapped, resized, and prepped. Three boxes of Rem brass (found 3rd box after pic taken) are 2x fired and missing ~5 total pcs. Need resized and prepped. Box of Hornady 100 gr BTSP bullets is about 3/4 full. Barnes 100gr TTSX is about 1/2 full. Barnes 100 gr TSX has 5 bullets. RCBS die just came back from factory after having a stuck case. Hornady modified case in die box. Barnes VOR-TX 100 gr has three fired rounds and 17 unfired rds.

SOLD. Thanks, Eric!

Bump this up. We have 44 tickets left, as of 1354 this afternoon. Lets get this sold out!

I'm dreading replacing my beloved Easton Axis NTs. They've been durable and accurate and cost me less than $100/dozen. I don't envy you and I'm not looking forward to that day. As much as I hate to agree with northAZarcher in public, nothing hunting-related is cheap anymore.

Bump back up. Let's talk...