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Late ask, the family and I are headed up north to Tonto to cut our Christmas in the AM. Is there any decent fishing right now up there? Is it worth taking our poles? Woodc Canyon, Willow, Tonto Creek? Last year we tried Haigler Creek on our Xmas tree trip and it had nothing of note.

I have one of the Fisker Composite handle axes and it has been great for years. I also bought the intermediate length estwing hatchet and like that as well. A nice are would be nice, but I don't use it enough to justify a big price tag.

I worked at AZ Sportsman's Camelback for a couple stints. Summer of 2001 between high school and college, and again in 01-02ish while they owned shooters world.

There is one in Goodyear too. It is a nice store with alot of your normal hunting and fishing stuff. The staff i talked to was very helpful.

Timney is in North Phoenix. If they offer a new one, just buy a nice replacement. Then you don't need to pay a gunsmith.

I do, I drop it off at your house! 🤣Then it magically gets skinned and ends up pretty and white!

If you will do $50 for the keymo 3 prong I will take it.

It is out there, but is not mine to share.

A mountain goat. They don't live in AZ allegedly, but 1 may have been spotted in the northern Kaibab.

I have 2 one pound containers of Hi-Skor 800x powder that I am going to sell. This powder is discontinued and very hard to find. From what I can find info wise this is one of the best powders to load spicy 10mm with though which is why I bought it originally. Both cans are unopened. $80 per pound OBO.

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Is it the model with legs, or no legs?

My younger son drew the general rifle hunt tag this year as his 1st deer tag. 2 weeks ago my older son was on the youth hunters in the same unit and the big storms really put a damper on that hunt. The weather for this hunt was much better thankfully. Friday morning was a dud, but Friday evening we sat a blind that we setup a few ago. About 445pm 6 deer walked in. 2 spikes and 4 doe. We were teying to get him settled and setup for a shot on a spike and they were moving and feeding. Either stopping in front of other deer, behind other deer, or at bad angles. After about 5-10 min something kinda spooked then and they went into cover and fed away. Bummer. About 530pm a few doe popped out of another area farther away, then came the 2 spikes. It was the same group. We started positioning on them and from the right 4 more deer fed in, this group had a Forkhorn in the mix, so we started to target him. Again. He wouldn't stop moving or stopped in bad positions. Eventually it got to dark and we had to let them go. Saturday was uneventful other than bumping some does here and there. Sunday morning went like Friday morning. Not alot. Sunday afternoon we set the blind again and the 4 does and 2 spikes fed back in around 5pm. We were able to get my son lined up on a shot at about 200yards. He sent a round and you could tell the buck was hurt bad, but he walked about 30yrds and lied down. We gave him some time, but he was still head up so I had my son send another round. He was hit again, walked about 10yrds and lied down again. After awhile we went over and he expired. It wasn't as clean as you pray for, but it was done. He was a pretty happy camper and I was a happy dad. We quarter him out and got him out of there after dark. You always want a trophy, but this will be his first of hopefully many. So this is trophy #1 with room to grow.

I have a 10.5" 556 Nato barrel I am not going to use. It is slightly used i believe. 1/7" twist rate, parkerized finish. I don't know who the manufacturer is, I got it in trade. $50obo

Selling for a friend. Hawke 3x12x56 scope with red/green illuminated center dot. The scope is in good shape. It has been mounted on a rifle, but rarely if ever shot. Illumination works, I just put a new battery in it. 30mm rings are included. They appear to be similar to the entry level vortex 6 screw rings. $225 obo for the scope with rings. The scope new is $320-350 it appears. The rings are $48 on amazon.

SPF, I will update if it doesn't sell

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Maybe a slower powder would yield some more velocity. I know the barrel is short, but I bet with some powder tweaking you could get those numbers pumped up.

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The barrel life figure is what scares me. I don't see how a 7mm Rem Mag is a 1500 round gun, but a 7mm BC at much higher pressure is a 2000 round gun... I shoot on the 7mm BC at first, but I do think it has some merit if the barrel life aspect is reasonable.

Is your load already developed with it, or are you trying to find some to try? It is a good powder, but there are other powders that are good too and are more frequently available. 7828 has been harder to find for awhile. On Brunoshooters.com they show both H1000 and Retumbo in stock that would be in a similar burn rate.

That is a nice big doe!

I didn't get my first deer until I was 35, and still don't have a coues under my belt. He is way ahead of his dad.

I tried to PM you. But it said you can't receive messages. How is $80 shipped.

I think 50 are brand new. 48 or so twice fired. I lost 1 or 2 at the range.