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I purchased this rifle used from Healy Arms in 2016 for $375. Below is the classified link to it. Offering it up for the same price. Its been dead on since I bought it from Healy and never had to do anything to it. Zeroed at 200 yards. Definitely shows some field wear and thats how it was when I got it. Functions perfect and is ready to hunt. This is the model with the 3 position safety. I have taken a few deer and other critters with it and has been a back up gun for the past 5 years or so and needs a new owner. Let me know if you have any questions. I can meet at the Mesa bass pro or Chandler mall area.

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.

Look on the tops and saddles. They don't need to goto water, hunt the Chamberlin trail down by fish creek. Glass glass glass.

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Local grown porterhouse

Bushmen Spartan long curve 62” two piece bow 59#@28” Comes with a few extra strings. I had it custom built so I’m the only owner. 1250 located in Tucson IMG_5709.mov

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Doing a little safe cleaning. Will start from top to bottom.

Just got back from seven days afield with my boys chasing the Grey Ghost and had the best time. The desert was super green and just beautiful ecerywhere. Saw water in places I have not seen since late 90s. It was interesting to observe different behaviors and patterns as a result of decent rain leading up to this hunt. Noticed less browsing on scrub oak and more heads down grazing. Tanks and seeps used less frequently while water is available elsewhere - yet some come in probably out of habit or convenience. Hiked into higher elevation areas but noticed general deer density and bigger bucks at lower elevation. Bugs... dang, once that fireball came up in the sky we were bombed with a constant cloud of pesty little flies / gnats. Once the sun went down, it was like a switch was thrown and they stopped, then sent in the mosquitos to finish the job. Haha. Wildflowers - everywhere! Never seen these flowers out here before in October. Took lots of scenery pics, might have missed a few ghosts passing by while caught up in the beauty of it all. I did not observe cattle munching on prickly pear pads. They seemed pretty content with the green stuff on the ground. What were your observations afield as result of the rains?

Love how you kept the arrow pass through! Looks great.

I’ve got a decent bit I’ll shoot you a pm

Yes that was my understanding, that’s why it doesn’t lose speed as the barrel gets shorter. It’s also surprising what barrel life looks like. Test barrels were up over 2000 rounds and still good.