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I will at some point. The bino harness is going to be from Santa though, so I can't take him til later. I will probably run over there this week. I recieved a Marsupial harness as a gift, but need the XL chest straps for myself since I am slightly larger than the normal human. 🤣

He also wants all the stuff to fill it. Binos, rangefinder, calls, etc. He is going to be expensive this year. He doesn't know it buy is also getting his first rifle for Xmas. He is Gung ho on hunting though so I can't complain to much.

He saw the guides 3 pouch marsupial gear chest harness on my sandhill hunt and now has to have one. I always use the normal cheap chest straps. My not even 9yr old wants and will probably get better gear than I have!

I paid $55/lb plus tax last time I found H1000 on the shelf a few months ago so you aren't being out of line.

If he is interested in HVAC construction work let me know. I have customers who are always looking for dependable trainable help.

I can't believe this hasn't sold. I wish I needed a cannon, but I just don't.

Mine is still somewhat in the planning stage but right now has this current plan. Savage 110 long action. (Currently a 300WM) Shaw 20" SS fluted barrel heavy mag contour threaded 5/8"x24 for a suppressor. (Ordered) Bell & Carlson stock (may change) Scope, rings, bases (TBD)

That's awesome! What are the details on the build?

I am looking at 1 on Bell & Carlson, but we will see what wlse is out there. I am going to wait a little to pull the trigger on that. The barrel is 12 weeks out so I have a little time.

Well I am committed now. I ordered the barrel from Shaw today because they are 30% off for black Friday. I also found Hornady brass at Bruno's and some bullets too. Now I need a stock for a savage 110 and a non-magnum bolt face.

Shaw Barrels are 30% off for 1 more day.

My son, my best buddy, and I drew sandhill tags for one of the 30a,30b, etc hunt. I am told a guide is a huge help, but I have tried reaching out to several guides, and they are either no guiding anymore, won't call me back, or don't have availability. If I have to go at this DIY, what do I need? A blind and some decoys I assume. What else? Do you have any guide recommendations that are not crazy expensive? I already rented an Air BnB, and will take care of my own food and such. Thoughts?

That makes sense. We kept all the legs. I was going to have my wife braise them or something and slow cook them for soup.

Last weekend my 2 sons and I went turkey hunting for our first fall hunt. We arrived on Thursday evening and setup camp. Friday morning we went to our first spot and someone beat us to it so we decided to go explore some more of the area and went a few miles north. We walked some tanks and glassed some open areas with no success. On the way back to camp we bumped a small group of hens crossing the road. We tried to get out of the truck quietly but they gave us the slip, we were too slow. We continued towards camp and spotted another larger group of turkey that had just crossed the road. We stopped and started sneaking down the road. As we came over a rise I spotted a coyote also putting the sneak on the turkey and he was headed up the road directly at us, but didn't see us yet. I played the gamble of just shoot him and bag a coyote and then try and go for a bird in the chaos, or hope he runs and doesn't bust the turkey. I chose option 2, but if course he freaked and ran right thru the turkey trying to get away and they exploded across the creek and into the trees. No luck. Next day in the AM we got close to some hens but not close enough. Saturday afternoon we went to go setup on a waterhole. On the way we spotted a group of hens walking the road. I stopped the truck and they walked right up to the truck and I told my son's not to move and let them pass. When they pass we will sneak out from behind and see if we can bag them. They literally walked to 5 feet in front of the truck and then walked around it. We slowly got out and I was clear first so I took the shot on a hen and smacked her good for my first turkey! Lincoln ran down the road and in the chaos was able to get 2 shots off at a hen, but missed in the excitement. We grabbed my bird and went on with plan A to the waterhole. My son's and I setup in a ground blind an archery hunter made and waited. About 30 minutes in a Tom comes flying into the tank. Literally flying in the air with another 2 behind him in the air. They landed a d started eating. 2 more Tom's joined them shortly. The 4 walked around on the other side of the water about 80yrds out for about 15 min. Then I whispered to my son's to not move and stay quiet. I heard a turkey behind us in the brush. A 5th Tom strutted out and worked his way over to the group of 4 and started strutting and parading around like a tough guy. Eventually they all calmed and kept eating. 2 birds started for the water cautiously. They were in range but were crossing each other, and my son froze a little and didn't shoot when he could have. The other 3 started working in too, and finally the 3rd bird which I think was the one from behind us walked in and my son smoke him at about 40yrds. 1 clean shot and he was flopping. Unfortunately he flopped right into the waterhole. My son's were both stoked to say the least but I may have been more excited on the inside than both of them. My son's first turkey was a nice Tom. 7.5" beard and once we washed it the fan turned our pretty nice.

No, they were all lessers. A couple of them were 3.5kg when we checked them in. Pearl was great, my younger son was bird dogging with her. I wish we would have seen some greaters.

The trip went well. We had HiLo Outfitters for 2 days and we got all 9 birds. It was a fun trip. I also bagged a duck off a desert waterhole, so I add 2 new species to my list of animals successfully hunted.

Mine are not the high end, but I have 15x50 Viper HDs and they are OK, but not amazing. Zeiss conquest blow them out of the water. I have a couple pair of Diamondbacks for my kids and they are good for them because I am sure i will need to warranty them at some point, because...kids. 😂 My next pair of binos will definitely not be Vortex. Zeiss, Maven, Meopta, something like that.

Good luck. Peterson said they are working to release 257 brass maybe early next year. I haven't seen Norma in awhile. You might find hornady or overpay for weatherby.

PM coming

My son's 7mm08 is shooting 150gr Hornady ELDX pretty well. Fairly easy to find and pricing isn't bad. I like them better than SST personally.

I have a few pounds I can part with if needed. I have probably at least (3) 1lb containers.

We mounted his fan and beard DIY and it turned out pretty well.

Price?

Call them. I completed money 30 years ago and had to have them look mine up and get a new card.

For 308 I like the 150-168gr class bullets. If you are shooting all copper go 130-150gr to help get a little more speed for the bullets to open up well.