SilentButDeadly
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Everything is sold, pending funds.
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TTT. The Manfrotto tripod is sold pending funds. $225 for the Scope+SLIK tripod
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This is the ideal scope for someone who needs a great spotting scope but doesn't have the cash flow for the big boys. FYI, I've also thrown it up on Tucson's Craigslist, with a couple of tripods to sweeten up the offer. Would be happy to sell it separately to a CW member for lower negotiated price. PM me any offers.
Scope glass is in good condition with no scratches (see photos). The scope has been kept in a case its whole life but there are obvious signs of wear to the exterior paint.
See past solid reviews by Bird Watcher's Digest that put it up there with the top level scopes: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/print.php?id=313
Fujinon Super 80 Fieldscope with 20-60x Zoom. Comes with a Manfrotto aluminum tripod with #128 Panhead and quick release adaptor plate. I also have a Slik tripod available for +$20.00. Everything for $300.00OBO
Fujinon EBC multicoatings applied to every air-to-glass surface.
waterproof and fogproof, is incredibly lightweight.
Oversized BaK-4 porro prism.
Collapsing sunshade.
Optional stylish view-through case.
Magnification 20-60x.
Objective Diameter 80mm.
Angle Of View 20x: 1.7° 60x: 1.1°.
Field Of View at 1000 Yards 20x: 99' (33 m at 1000 m)60x: 57'(19 m at 1000 m).
Minimum Focus Distance 25.0' (7.6 m).
Exit Pupil Diameter 20x: 4.0mm 60x: 1.3mm.
Eye Relief 20x: 12mm 60x: 20mm Relative Brightness 20x: 16.0 60x: 1.8.
Twilight Factor 20x: 40.0 60x: 69.3.
Accepts additional separately purchased bayonet-mounted eyepieces with flat viewing fields and nearly nonexistent distortion & astigmatism.
Fixed tripod mount with 1/4 inch-20 threaded hole.
Spotting scope dimensions 18.7 x 3.7 x 4.6 inches (475 x 94 x 118mm).
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I chased and filmed this buck 5 years ago - no idea what happened to him
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Please take a moment to read and watch this video.
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Esquire Mag has it listed, not as the best Dive Bar, but as The Best Bar in America - http://www.esquire.com/bestbars/
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I'm in awe. Amazing work, never give up.
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Yeah buddy!
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Matt,
That buck is the mirror image of mine from last week! Awesome job. Glad to know you're on CW!
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Awesome buck! But just out of curiosity why did you decide to carry the whole buck out like that? That's a really long ways to carry all that extra hide/bones/hooves etc.. Conrats on a great buck though.
I decided to take him out whole because I knew I could, having done it a few times before with other friend's and family's bucks. The forecast was for 95 degrees and I didn't feel like letting the heat catch up.
All that said, in hindsight it would have been much easier and safer to have boned him out up there on the mountainside.
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After 7 years of chasing game with a only bow I finally put down my quiver for an October Rifle tag. My wife and I had a baby last September and the days for bow hunting just aren't there like they used to be.
My close friends, ones that I've made here on CW.com, know how I've scouted and hunted these little rat deer the last few years. Dozens of sheds, and a couple of less crafty mule deer bucks have landed in my trophy room since I last shot a Coues with an arrow. To be honest I'd started to doubt my ability with a bow, the fact that I've been successful with elk and muleys is a undoubtedly the direct a result of spending so much time focusing on whitetail and learning from mistakes.
This is my first ever big game animal with a rifle, a borrowed 30-06 from my dad (that incidentally I bought as a gift for him from a fellow CW member a few years ago).
I took this buck on the 5th day of the season, Halloween morning, while I was with my father-in-law Ernie Allen. I had been out most of the other days helping others and even got a stalk with my bow at a great buck a few days before in a similar situation as the one I took this buck.
Ernie found this guy with a group of four other bucks right after sunrise. They were feeding along the side of a steep mountain about 3/4 mile away. When they bedded I got up and started to climb the far side of the ridge and planned to pop over and shoot him in his bed at a couple hundred yards. Unfortunately when I got into position I could see them up feeding and headed over the ridge top. I took a deep breath, backed out, and started climbing for the top of the mountain planning to catch them on the backside. When I reached the peak I found that I couldn't climb over; I was cliff-ed out. I took a chance and started to come around below the peak on the same side as the bucks. To my tremendous fortune the buck had hung up on the bench in the shade with another deer. I was able to take my time and made a 135 yard shot while he stood feeding on an acacia along the shadow line.
He's just shy of 18" wide on the inside spread - the widest buck I've ever laid hands on.
It was an odd feeling, getting ready to pull that trigger, after all of the years and all of the missed opportunities at other bucks. There was a euphoria and even an epiphany of sorts in that moment. I think what I realized was that there is more to being a hunter than just calling yourself a 'bow hunter' or a 'rifle hunter'. I've been nothing but a 'shed hunter' the last six years if a method is how you define yourself. But after all of that time and all of those experiences I have to admit that everything I did that morning was automatic; from gearing up at the truck to taking my time coming over the ridge to check on the bedded deer and not spook them I never had to think twice about my next step.
The pack out off the mountain was a monster 2.5 miles back to the trail head with a 1,400 foot elevation drop (thankfully it was down and out). That Eberlestock pack gets an MVP for helping carry the whole deer out.
Special thanks to my mentor Ernie, he was out there fresh from knee surgery and is a grizzled warrior...
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Well done Mike!
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Awesome photos! I've got a soft spot for Jags in AZ - I dream of the day when sportsmen have recovered them and made their hunting legal so I could launch an arrow at one!
I about cried when I watched this episode of Jim Shockey's The Professionals - the jaguar they were looking to green dart killed all six of the guides dogs!
https://184.169.131.151/preview/2042_jim-shockey-s-the-professionals_paraguay-project-jaguar
http://www.jimshockey.com/publisher/jims-blog/2011/5/8/paraguay-jaguar-project-turns-tragic
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Why this proposal is completely ridiculous and has no chance of ever becoming reality:
1) The USFS (Department of Agriculture) is a different branch of Gov't than the BLM (Department of Interior) - USFS would go against acts of Congress (MUSYA 1960) by removing the Kaibab lands from their national system without Congressional/Presidential directive.
2) Additionally, the state trust and private parcels inside the BLM lands would have to change hands.
It would require acts of Congress with Presidential approval to make a monument - subsequently hundreds of lawsuits from every private ranching, logging, and sportsman group north of the ditch would ensuue, and that is just getting the Kaibab out of USFS hands.
Proving that the USFS, BLM, and AZGFD are not doing their jobs being sustainable land and game/fish agencies with ecologically sound management would cost the environmental groups more money than they have ever raised - and ultimately any findings would simply show the facts: the land is being managed to the best of their abilities. The same question could be asked of NPS and their management policies ("Are they working in the best interest of the land?")
If the USFS is ever taken from USDA and put into DOI than this calculus could come out differently.
Personal opinion: there is no momentum within the Fed anywhere to do this.
My suggestion is that sportsman groups pay to buy plane tickets for the CBD and their Wilderness council friends to go abroad and work on the devastation humanity is wrecking on the rest of the planet (maybe they can start in Bangladesh's ship breaker yards, or Somalia's fishing grounds that were wiped out by toxic waste dumping - ever wonder why they became Pirates?) - if those groups want to make a real difference they should be saving the places and people from 3d world overpopulation and toxic pollution, not fighting for endangered species they assume might wink out of existence if somebody sneezes in the woods.
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After seeing all the pics of fresh bone this afternoon, I started thinking about the extinct Merriam's elk and decided to do some library work (I work at The UofA). I Googled an old Mammal's of New Mexico text by Bailey (1931) and headed over to the Science Library to get my hands on it.Took these photos of the text and plates (thanks for cell phone cams huh!) Heavy horns, the text says the main beam was over 65 inches, with 7 3/4 first mass measurements!!
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I was asking $140 for all in a single order... but seeing as nobody bit that I'm willing to sell at $22 a 3-pack shipped...
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I'd like to sell these as a single order, I don't want to do shipping more than once.
7 unopened 3 head packages of Inverter Broadheads.
I bought these for a family member to practice and hunt with, unfortunately he decided he doesn't want to shoot them. I shoot them in my setup (already have a lifetime supply), they fly like darts and group better than any fixed blade.
Please PM me if you're interested.
You can check out their details on Amanda's store: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/bookstore/inverter_broadhead.htm
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I bet that bull scores like 420!
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Helped kill this bull on 10/19 - it was hot that day (over 90 degrees by 9am - the thermometer is showing the meat temperature). If we hadn't been able to drive to him no way would we have recovered all of the meat, even though I drug him into the shade of a juniper and went to work right away. We took these photos to show the importance of keeping the right to recover animals with vehicles
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The 6C is going to be an elk paradise in 3-4 years, I guarantee it. If only the Caldera would run their hunts on the same days as the rest of the public ones - then all the big bulls wouldn't get to play hop-scotch back and forth across the VCNP fence line...
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For anyone who is interested - the research group I am affiliated with has been putting together a Landscape-scale fire management framework for the Coronado National Forest for the last 5 years. The project is called FireScape, and the intention is to move fire management from the scales we are used to seeing on Forests (10-1,000 acre projects) out to landscape scale (100,000-1,000,000 acres).
http://www.azfirescape.org/home - I encourage you all to check it out and give your feedback to the scoping documents posted there.
As with all things Gov't there are many hurdles (NEPA, Environmental Impact Statements, etc) to get over even before you get to possibly go to court against the Environmental groups.
A critical point is that the cost of suppression in still less than the cost of treatment: the Horseshoe 2 has already cost 51 million dollars (before infrastructure repair and BAER treatment), it burned 223,000 acres - that works out to $229.00 an acre, the Wallow $103.3 million / 538,049 acres = $192 acre. Mechanical treatments can cost up to $1000 an acre; Wildfire-Use or Prescribed fires typically cost ~$50 an acre. The trick to getting to landscape scale fire is making local infrastructure bomb-proof so you can let a fire go and do its thing - trying to do this in the Urban Interface makes managing fires for both resource protection (homes) and resource benefit (elk) a wicked problem.
For you guys in the debate about catching running crown fires with airplanes or helicopters - here is a video of the Las Conchas fire (that wiped out WFGin's cabin) less than 4 hours after it started - displaying a horizontal vortex roll (like a Tornado!), it likely released more energy than the A-bombs they build up the street in Los Alamos that afternoon.
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Well done Mike!