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Seven men jailed for poaching deer year after year south of Twin Falls About time someone sees jailtime for poaching.

Not much to say about this hunt. We found him 500-600 yards out. Waited for him to bed. Snuck up to 180. He stood up and my father in law knocked him back down again. Tagged out and back to the truck by noon. Here’s a hot take for ya tagging out on opening morning is overrated.

Went out on opening day Friday to look for a bruiser out in Redington to my secret spot 😆. Turned up 16 does and 1 decent 2x, it was 600 yds out, complete opposite direction of truck. He will live another day!!! Saturday had family obligations so I got some good rest for Sunday. Headed out this morning to the front side of Mt Lemmon to my other secret spot😅. The hill was straight up and full of shin daggers…..I absolute hate those things!!!! Found multiple doe right from the get go. Started glassing across this canyon and found 5 bucks right away. Ranged them at just under 800 yds. Where I was positioned on the down slope of this hill I couldn’t use my bipod, so I hurried down hill to a more level spot and a flat rock. They were milling around and ranged them again at 750 yds. As I extend my bipod and position the rifle I keep looking through the big binos and I thought let’s try and see my rifle is up for the challenge. I’ve shot rocks out to 800, but never a deer. 1st shot was just above the deer, I see dirt/dust fly. Reload and send another one. Same spot, more dust. I back the clicks down 2 and send the 3rd round….. bam deer down. As I get some landmarks as to where the deer fell I start walking. 8:10 was shot, I didn’t find the deer till 9:23. The mountain was so steep and so thick of vegetation I couldn’t find the rock formation it fell by. Finally found it…..wheeew. Took some pics and started the long drag out, dropped it off at the butcher and now back at home relaxing. Looking forward to my daughters WT hunt Nov 7.

Thanks! Already ate the tenderloins and some backstrap. Very tasty! If it was my tag he definitely would have gotten a pass which would then lead me to desperately looking for a spike on the last day🤣

I'm sure this will be blamed on global warming...Dont let the Gretas find out we had a late rut....

I’ve been saying it for years. Ban poachers from the forests and wilderness areas.These scum will manipulate whatever system they are a part of for their own benefit. If you act in this manner you can take your scams elsewhere. Being in the hunting community is a privilege and a zero tolerance policy needs to be implemented. If you poach go pound sand and get a different hobby like kicking rocks. Dumb ass3s

$25 each great tickets

Full rutt at my house.

Both calibers

I was wondering if I would know any of them. I grew up there. None of the names were familiar though. I guess that is a good thing.

Very nice looking rifle

Looks great! I have some barrels to thread here this year and will hit you up 👍🏻 GLWS

Glws. Mfernaz is a great guy to deal with.

Scheel's has a bunch. That's as of about 3 PM today.

Christensen Arms 300wm barrel 1-10 twist 50 documented rounds down the barrel. Highest charge was 74.5g of h1000 with a 215 Berger. I realized I do not like shooting or hunting unsurpressed anymore. I had a local gunsmith spin me up a 22” 300prc. so just selling this and the Axis works series 2, 5 port self timing Enabler muzzle brake. $300 for the barrel $100 for the brake. or $350 for both

Congrats on the opening morning buck! Thanks for sharing. Nice to see some dead coues deer on here again.

So have i. Later in the hunt more often than not it gets frustrating, so I'm happy to kill early in the hunt! Give me a decent Buck on day three and I'm happier than you snuggling up to mama bear

Dang, looks like a big flip! Im glad you lowballed me to flip it. Good luck with sale.

He was fortunate

So Max first deer was just a little baby 3 point. So we were going to hold out for anything slightly bigger this year. Hiked in a 1/2 mile and started glassing. It was disappointing, not even a doe. We moved up another 1/2 mile. We were at a high rocky point when I spotted and pretty decent forky. At 686 yards and just rocks and boulders on a steep hill we moved to the next ridge. We moved after he went into a thick of oak trees. This next ridge was a nice sitting bench. While the buck was still in the trees I ranged 5 different areas. The trees were 485 yards, dialed in for that, and set the gun up and put my hunting pack under the stock. I told Max to find a comfortable shooting position and set the gun up on that position. Best part right next to the location of the buck was tree in yellow fall colors. So real easy to find in binos and scope. After we got set up we both jumped on our binos and just tried to pick apart the oaks. After 20 mins some does started coming out. A total of 3 of them. After another 10 min of watching the deer come out, Max says that buck is in that open clearing again. I already knew it was ranged at 535yds so I quickly dialed for it. Max jumped on the 6CM 103 ELD-X. (Springfeild Waypoint, Suppressed) Lance got that round up to 3100 fps shooting less than 1/4 groupings. Ive shot 6" plates at 986yds with this gun. Ive been so impressed with it. The Buck was perfect broad side, and Max controlled his breathing and then shot. A perfect hit! He ran 10ft and tumbled. I said you got him! His excitement was "I got him??" He ended up being a 3x2

on my youth hunt in 37b this year we were trying to spot a 4x4 muley we had seen at dark the day before, it was the last day of the hunt so we stayed out all day but at last light my uncle glassed up this coues at 700 we got closer and i shot him at 550, a coues was not expected but i can’t complain it’s pretty good buck.