Red Rabbit

Raven Rock Precision has Norma 270 WSM brass on a Black Friday Special. https://ravenrocksprecision.com/norma-270-wsm-brass-updating/

Have you seen any good Black Friday sales to share? Some pre BFsales at Sportsmans Warehouse and Cabelas, but nothing to garner great attention yet. I noticed that Kryptek has some good discounts. https://kryptek.com/ Kenetrek boots 20-50% off https://kenetrek.com/

My 6.5 WSM has a Bushnell LRHSi 4.5-18 mounted on it.

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions. I am passing them along.

Good friend's son drew a desert bighorn tag. Any recommendations for a taxidermist in the Phoenix area who does good work on desert sheep?

Were you able to swap scopes and retest?

Did anyone catch the aurora last Thursday night? Also, a comet should be visible about 45 minutes after sunset low above the horizon looking west southwest the next few evenings. It should be visible with the naked eye, but binos would help.

Put the original NF back on and recheck groups. My hunch is that it is the used scope.

He is the one named Split 5. He is rumored to have gotten in a fight one night with another large bull with a drop tine. The droptine had his right beam broken and cows stolen.

Thank you Hector. That top bull (same one in the third pic) was impressive.

Since I was recently in Estes Park, Colorado for an art show, a few days before and after the show were spent in Rocky Mountain National Park photographing the rutting elk. Sometimes the elk cooperated and were close, and other times the bulls and their harems were too far away in the middle of Moraine Park. The Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6 adapted to the Fuji GFX 100s was used. Many of the images suffered from often having to use a high ISO of 6400, but the Denoise in ACR did a reasonable job on mitigation. More images may be seen on the website. https://www.plateaulightphotography.com/New-Work/Rocky-Mountain-National-Park

Looks like it has been over a year since I posted any images. So here is a sampling of what has happened on some Arizona photo trips using the Fuji GFX 100s during the past dozen months.

Coconino Nat Forest will be entering Stage 2 Fire Restrictions this Friday June 21. Forest roads around the Peaks, south of Kachina Village and south of Walnut Canyon will be closed. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coconino/news-events/?cid=FSEPRD1181869 https://www.facebook.com/CoconinoNF/posts/pfbid0eepCJHYrAbkYDa5D1ZznEq33QnRjzvwkefQ21PT9gury3xJvQVzWXnYFZwwXu1dKl?__cft__[0]=AZVJMhCLhyKEUkUMd4VlzSPUYuM_lkzVSm4CnxGAv8GASIM4j_7tcfaAl-91eeL8KDk4_OQJpcNZ5D6VQHYElsTofh0EabQgZyMEV5Rm12BkxwIlFUzM4RxHIfDG-xULIG474rG8JzsgnY_zOn5ztjaf4ZrFnLp-TvPHuGqoYqupDIyMyA4PfFPeN5oPQu5PASf7EZYfwYsO17PMTFMZeVKY&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

The bonus point report is out for the 2024 elk and antelope draw. You can check how lucky/unlucky you were in the draw by hunt number, and plan for next year's draw. https://azgfd-portal-wordpress-pantheon.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/28135125/2024-Elk-Pronghorn-Bonus-Point-Report.pdf

good to see that they are the headless variety