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Lee Enfield No.1 Mk. 4 w/ shortened stock and barrel and recoil pad. Someone had done a pretty nice job on it, especially the front sight, but kept the military 2-stage trigger. Bought at Western Auto in Tempe for $15.00. This would have been about 1967. The flip up rear sight graduated in meters was pretty neat. Wish I still had it. Ditto on the 7x35 Tasco binoculars!

Thanks Kev. I knew you would have something useful. Good info!

No plain old .243 Win.? Hmm. Pronghorns are not difficult to kill. Folks in WY and MT and ID just reach in the broom closet or gun rack and use whatever they have. I suspect much of the time it is an '06, or a .243 Win. with a record of one-shot kills. Of course they chuckle when they see us out of state hunters drive over a thousand miles each way and spend a small fortune to whack a speedy goat. They do like the money though. forepaw

Howdy CWT amigos, I just upgraded my android phone, and am considering keeping the old one strictly for navigation using On-X or something similar. I plan to use the new phone for Avenza maps, and keep the old one just for GPS, since it doesn't have a SIM card, and won't do anything without wifi. But I should be able to put in a memory card and download On-X maps and use as a GPS, since that doesn't require wifi or mobile network, only open sky - or am I missing something? I also have a Garmin GPS, but thought it would be really neat to salvage the old phone for use with On-X. Appreciate help from all the phone and GPS gurus on this forum. forepaw

Nice range! forepaw

This post is an object lesson in good guns ruined through neglect. Most members on here probably don't know what a Model 61 is, or could care less, but that is a pre-war or early post war (I am pretty sure pre-war), in a classic caliber. It was the finest pump-action rimfire ever made in this country, or anywhere It should be worth 4-5x the asking price, but as it sits, is only useful for parts. A shame. forepaw

Be ready for a long wait for anything shipped from the mfg. (Communist China). forepaw

Relayed to friend who lives in Boulder City, about 2 1/2 hrs. away. forepaw

Sorry to hear. Prayers sent. forepaw

App,. period has opened. forepaw

I was at the Kingman gun show about 25 yrs. ago, walked by a table with a garden-variety Python under the glass. I thought it looked pretty good, but a little high, at $1200. I thought mmmm, maybe $800 - $850. Then a guy walked up behind me, saw it, and liked to tore his wallet apart getting out the cash. Those things have a cult following, or close to it. forepaw

Ah, the Jewel Box. I'll bet you remember Del Beavers and Shooter's Haven too. And Larada Gun Shop at Extension and Main (owned by Del's son, Larry) - both excellent gunsmiths by the way. forepaw

Very nice buck - lots of character. I have always liked those dark-antlered desert bucks. And with the winds that swirl around those Kingman hills and canyons, I would say that was more than respectable shooting too! forepaw

PM sent. forepaw

Dogtown? Doubt if they will have full hook-ups in March. They will still be winterized. forepaw

Ha ha, #20, I am with ya brotha. forepaw

Ajera and Deltek. forepaw

Either Duluth Trading Co. or Kennetrek Boots. Both good. forepaw

Have a friend in Pioche, I can see if he would accept them and meet you for the handoff. Be glad to do it myself, but I am 23 mi. SE of Las Vegas. Might be a bit out of your way. forepaw

I use the following loads in both my pre-64 M94 and Marlin 336: 34.2 Varget/150 Barnes TSX H.P. and 32.5/AA2520, same bullet. Seat to cannelure. I mostly use W-W primers, and either R-P, W-W, or Federal brass, depending what I most recently picked up off the desert. forepaw

Very sorry to hear about your daughter. Prayers sent for best possible treatment and recovery. forepaw

Very nice. That would be 5/8" cast off by the way, for us lefties. forepaw

There's some real history in this thread. I worked at A.J. Bayless my Sr. year of H.S., and it was a good job - and good people. Bought my first vehicle, a '56 Ford pickup from one of the produce clerks and drove it for a couple years. It had a 292 that ran like a scalded cat. Did a lot of prowling around the desert in that old pickup Senator Carl Hayden used to come and sit on the bench outside while his family shopped. He was a very ancient guy at that time (1969 - '70). I never worked at Basha's, but they were good too, and I always try to do some shopping there whenever I get back to AZ. forepaw

Well I am anything but an antelope guru, but I had that hunt last year. Since your question is specific to antelope behavior and locations, I will limit my comments. This was my first archery pronghorn hunt, though I have taken a few on various rifle hunts over the years. The best way to describe the antics of the relatively few antelope we saw would be unexplainable. They were the craziest-acting bunch of goats I have ever been around. Squirrelly and flighty doesn't being to describe their behavior. They were hyper wary and crazy. One minute, they would be grazing peacefully, the next they would explode into activity, running helter-skelter for no apparent reason, sometimes for a mile or more, other times stopping to graze again still within sight. This was big time schizo behavior in my opinion (compared to rifle hunting), which I attributed to the rutting urge, and for the few days I hunted, I was unable to put myself in position for a shot. Compounding the difficulty was the overall topographic relief of the area we hunted on the Big Bo. It was flatter than flat. There was almost no vegetation and no gullies, hills, swales or any other feature to offer concealment during a stalk. Nor was there any concentration of animals near water, or apparent use of waterholes (not allowed on the Bo anyway). We found not a single goat using water, which was plentiful, though some appeared to be en route to or from, though taking their time about it. Best advice I can think of, based on a possible single shot opportunity which did not happen, would be to make sure you stay between the does and the herd buck if you can. If the buck moves away from the does for any reason, try to find a way to intercept him on his return route. This may not be fruitful as a buck separating from some does, may be doing so because he has found another more desirable group of does to spend time with. However, there is no way to know this, and they may return to their original group (or may not). As far as spot and stalk (which is about all you can do on the Bo unless you can plan an ambush), be sure and bring a number of decoys if you can. We used two different decoys with no success, but you never know, the right one might allow you to get within shooting range. Probably, a life-size full body type might pay off, but we did not have one, and can't offer any insight. Real gurus will know techniques and strategies, but it is not common knowledge, and not really needed for a rifle hunt. Archery is something else. Be ready for long hikes and long days of hot, dry, windy conditions, blistering sun/mirage, and no shade - unless you bring your own. forepaw

Could you have a capacitor that is retaining a charge? If so, and if a relay or other component has failed or become stuck, that could be a possible source. A capacitor has to be manually discharged using a screwdriver or other conductor across both poles. It sounds like some component is trying to start or run. forepaw