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What does everyone do for hearing protection when you hunt with a muzzle brake? This will be my first hunt with a rifle with a brake. I won't lie, with a normal rifle I let it ride without hearing protection, but this rifle is loud as heck. Harley

1000 available in 100 rd packs. 4.19 a pack.

I have 2000. If you need a few hundred let me know.

Bump. They have 6 bricks in stock.

I have thought about taking the mini dyson to vacuum the tent out before I take it down...

It is a shame that the Krag is drilled, but those are SWEET rifles.

Very nice. To have 2 bulls by age 14 is awesome. Alot of guys will go a lifetime without 2 good bulls on theor wall. Harley

No more scouting, just hunting. Everytime I scout this year something brakes on my truck. I went up again today and gathered more intel. Got some ok intel. On the way out though a lost the carrier bearing in my rear driveshaft 15 miles from Flagstaff. 5 miles of dirt, 10 miles of highway. I called upon the bailing wire gods to get me to flagstaff and they answered. I wired the bearing well enough to do about 50 down the highway into town. With a little help from friends I procured a new bearing and found a shop open on Sunday. He was reluctant to accept a 2.5 hr book job at 230pm on sunday but did. An hour later I was rolling again. 7 Day Auto Repair helped me out big time. I can't thank them enough. Harley

If anyone is headed to 7e this weekend to scout and wants to trade some contact info let me know. I am going to be up there with my 4 year old doing light scouting, but I will be alone otherwise. Harley

Phase 1 is complete for the short term. Phase 1 included the muzzle brake, and putting on a basic scope to start shooting the with. It has a take off redfield 3x9x40 revolution on it now. Now I need to dial in a round for it. Phase 2 is on order. Phase 2 is a Vortex 6x24x50 HSLR scope and Talley lightweight rings. They MAY get here before my elk hunt, but if not I am going to rock phase 1 as it stands. The tare is the first bunch of rounds I shot after site in. They are 208gr ELD-M bullets over H1000. I have berger 210 HVLD's loaded along with more ELD-M for next week's range session.

Sportsman's has the brass on the shelf in avondale.

I had Toyo at's last set. They were good but I switched back bfg at's. They dont ride quite as nice but they have much better ice and snow traction. I like the bfg better all around.

I never thought about carpet in a tent... Seems like a good way to go if you are camping multiple days.

What is the biggest tall tale anyone has ever tried to pass off on you about hunting? The biggest one I have ever heard happened when I was working retail gun sales. 2 guys were in my shop talking and one proceeded to tell me about the cow elk he just harvested with his bow. He made a 120 yard shot on a cow elk with his bow which really raised my eyebrows and got my bullcrap meter cranked up. Then he proceeds to tell me the cow elk was 1200lbs. The bullcrap meter went into overdrive and exploded on the redline. It was hard to not laugh out loud when he dropped this gem on me. Harley

How high up where you?

And old dude i used to work with named Lee swore to me he knew where a grizzly was still alive and well in AZ. This was in about 2002. He wanted to bow hunt it.

208muley is looking for these. PM him, I bet he will bite...

I only found a 1000 last time I saw them, but if you need a couple hundred to tide you over let me know. I can spare couple pack if necessary.

There are some for sale in the for sale section here right now.

I hear you. My cow elk hunt is closing in fast and I have a new rifle I am going to use and I may even change the scope before the season if the new one shows up by then... I have my old reliable dialed in and ready though, just in case. Good luck on your hunt.

I should be up there this weekend scouting. Last year on this hunt there was no snow, and the only place it was muddy was up higher in elevations. I am worried it won't even be real cold this year the way things are looking. Last year the first 3 days barely got above freezing.

let me know if someone backs out on the thunderbolts.

We used to use Ward's for all our equipment repair when I was doing metal buildings. Gas saws, generators, etc. They did chainsaws too.

If I were to buy new I would be looking at 3 options. 1. is a rifle I really liked years ago when. I worked retail gun sales. We had a remington 700 mountain rifle in 7-08 that was sweet. It had been tuned by there custom shop. 2. is probably what i would buy. A CZ 557 or 550 in the caliber of your choice. The cz 527 I picked up recently is AWESOME. the set trigger is sweet as long as your kid has good trigger control. Iron sights at 100 yards on a carbine it will shoot 2 moa. Give me a scope and I bet it would be submoa. 3. tikka in your caliber choice. My choice would be 6.5x55, but I like less common rounds and old school things. The 6.5x55 has been doing everything 6.5cm and 260 Rem have, but it has been doing it for 120 years. If it ain't broke don't fix it... My dad's kimber sporterized mauser in 6.5x55 will be my son's first deer rifle. Sweet gun that shoots well and is light. Harley

Check Sportmans on a regular basis. They have been getting them in from time to time recently.