Blade

You got me interested now. I think its February 15 at the fair grounds.

If I remember correctly coyotes were 25-35, fox were 30-40, and bob cats were all over the place but as high as 700-800.

There is usually a fur sale every year at the fair grounds in globe. I think its in February, I've never been so I don't know much about it. I do know from looking at the sale lists from previous years that bob cats can be high dollar critters.

Any bullet casters out there? If so, I have a few questions.

Just a quick update. I fired some test loads today with bullets (or boolits) that I had cast. The mold was an old lyman semi wadcutter gas check mold. I used hornady gas checks and liquid alox lube. Before loading the bullets weighed in at about 159.5 – 160 grain with my alloy, gas check, and lube. The powder I used was H110. The gun was a marlin 1894 lever action .357 mag with iron sights. The target was at 50 yards with ½ inch squares. My best group was with 12.0 grains. I blame the one flier on me.

A few years ago I got the idea in my head that I really needed to go to Idaho. I asked my dog what he thought and he jumped up like he was ready to go. So I loaded up the truck, pointed it north, and gave it the gas. The first place I stopped was the game and fish office in pocatello. If I remember correctly most if not all the deer and elk hunts were sold over the counter and included your tag and license. I think for deer it was about $300 and elk was about $450. Other species like moose sheep and goats were a draw. All I bought was a small game license. You could check their website or give them a call. The people in the pocatello office were very helpful when I was there.

on the public surpluss site City of Scottsdale is auctioning off some once fired 223 brass. http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/scottsdale,az/browse/cataucs?catid=5 the auction closes in about three days. Im not affiliated with the site or the city in any way just passing on what i saw incase someone on here was needing some brass. if your interested go check out the site. if the link doesnt work let me know.

It is salvage tag and doesn't count towards you one deer per year for actual hunting. I'm sure you can probably get more than one salvage tag per year too but to try and be an ethical auto hunter in going to try not to hit any more deer at least for this year.

I've killed deer before with a rifle but today I was able to take one without using a gun. Its no monster, just a little fork horn, but he's a trophy to me. My question is I see sections for taking deer with a rifle, bow, muzzle loader, pistol but where is the section for taking a deer with a half ton pickup?

Thanks for the laughs guys. Its a little bitter sweet tagging out in January. I was excited to finally get my first deer auto hunting but a little bummed that I won't be able to hunt again until next year. Then I remembered there is still elk, turkey antelope........ things are looking up. Happy hunting to all.

trophy fork horn taken down with one shot from a half ton ford

Hahaha! and a traditional hunter would use a model t

I'm pretty sure it was a poorly executed suicide attack. I was cruising along in the left hand lane, he bolted out of the brush in the right hand lane heading full speed right to left, I hit the brakes, left some stripes on the road, then bam. I hate to brag but the shot was just about perfectly square in the ribs. Most of the meat should be salvageable.

It was a 65 mph zone, fortunately by the time the imminent collision occurred I had slowed substantially. Good news is no one was hurt (except the deer), only minor damage to the truck, and i will get some meat out of it.

"The Campfire" a place to sit around, tell stories, talk about whats on your mind, or make light of a serious situation like getting in a car accident.

I had the privilege of going along on my cousin Molli’s youth elk hunt this weekend. A good time was had by all. During the weeks leading up to the hunt the evenings were spent out at the range practicing shooting. She came to be a good shot with both a rifle and a pistol. As we headed out before daylight Friday morning the hunting party consisted of Molli and four other relatives; Steve, David, Francis, and I. Molli went with Steve and we all split up going to four different hills to glass. As it began to get light enough to see I spotted a bull on a hillside across the canyon. I kept glassing and could make out the hind end of an elk in the brush. I radioed in that I had two elk one bull and the other I couldn’t tell. I kept glassing and spotted a third which was definitely a cow. Francis came over to the hill I was on and spotted three more cows on the same hillside. Where these elk were at was going to be difficult to get to so we watched them for a while hoping they would keep moving out. The elk bedded down so we decided to not disturb them and moved on. Meanwhile, Steve had spotted another cow in a different canyon. We made our way around and spotted the cows again about 600 yards across a canyon and moving; a difficult shot even for a seasoned marksman. We decided to pass and headed back to the house to eat. That evening Molli and I sat in a blind by a tank but didn’t see anything. On the morning of day two David couldn’t go so the hunting party consisted of Molli, Steve, Francis, and I. Steve was on the same hill he was on the day before as was I. Molli went with Francis to a check a new area. Just after Steve and I got set up on our respective hill tops, Molli and Francis spotted a herd of elk feeding in a meadow. They made their way in closer until they got within about 300 yards. Molli got a rest on a fence post, took aim, and fired a well-placed shot hitting the left shoulder and left lung. The elk got up and hobbled into the tree line. Steve came and picked me up, we met up with Molli and Francis and the four of us began following the blood trail. We didn’t expect the elk to go far but after about an hour of tracking the blood trail became faint and we started getting worried. Francis called a friend, who is also named Mike, to help track the elk. After about another hour of tracking Mike started trailing up a steep hill. Mike was higher up the hill and Molli and I were at the bottom of the hill. Just as I was thinking to myself there is no way a three legged elk with one lung is going to climb that hill mike yelled down to us there she is. Molli and I ran up the hill and just on the other side there was the elk barley able to stand. Molli put her down and the celebration began, followed by some hard work getting the elk out.

Tons of interest! Just no money.

I got the zinc cleaned out of my pot yesterday. I also scored about half a five gallon bucket of wheel weights this past week. I was surprised how much the the volume decreases once you melt it down. I also had an idea about powder coating bullets. I did a little research and there are quite a few people already doing it with good results. Has anyone ever tried it on here? I will probably try later on down the road.

Right now I'm casting 38/357 and 44. I need to get something to size them with. The lubrisizer press would probably be better but its more expensive. The Lee dies the screw into my rock chucker with liquid lube are only about $20.

muledeerarea33 helped me out a lot (thanks again). I was able to cast my first few hundred bullets and they came out pretty good. i also had a few mystery ingots. i broke a chunck of one of the mystery ingots off and threw it in my rcbs pot which was about 1/3 full of lead. the mystery ingot started to melt at about 750F. long strory short, after doing some more research, im pretty sure my mystery ingots are zinc. now my pot has a bunch of lead zinc alloy in it and its a mess. any ideas on how to clean it out. my best idea so far is just keep scooping it out then try to unplug the spigot with a wire.

7mm-08 with 160gr Sierra game king over 38.7gr of varget. between my dad and I a fair amount of deer, elk, and bear have been shot using Sierra game kings with good bullet performance but not this time. She made a good shot but the bullet completely came apart on impact. Has anyone else had trouble with these bullets recently? Has Sierras quality gone down? I've been reluctant to switch to hippie bullets ( non lead) but after this I'm considering it.

It might be worth the drive to go check out the crossroads of the west/SAR show this weekend in phoenix. I'm sure there will be plenty of them there.

I'm not familiar with the 284 Winchester but I think it is the parent cartridge to the 6.5x284 so you might be able to make brass from that. If I had to guess I would say factory brass would only be made on seasonal runs. You could try checking at the gun show in Phoenix this weekend. Hope that helps, I'm sure there are other people on here who know more about it than me.

I've never had a p-223 but I'm sure they're good. My neighbor has either the p or m variable power on one of his ar's and he likes it. Personally I would go with a holographic sight over a fixed three power scope. If I wanted a scope I would get a variable power turn it down for cyotes in brushy areas and turn it up for open country. I have a bsa sweet 223 on a bolt action (4-12x I think) and a leupold mark ar on my blackout 3-9x). Both I've been happy with. As far as bang for the buck the bsa wins, I think I paid $50-60 about four years ago for it. My only complaints about the bsa are I wish it had a mil-dot reticle and the three turits it came with don't matchup to the load I shoot.

Do you know what the first number of the serial number is? It would be N and then the first number