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    Now I just need to practice practice practice and wait for that 370 bull to step out :P

     

    I'd suggest shooting the first mature bull that comes into range. 260 doesn't look bad on the wall - and it looks ALOT better than nothing.

     

    As for broadhead/arrow,

     

    75g Muzzy 3 blade, xforce carbon 300, did these elk in:

     

    60 yards

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    My uncle got bite last night by a snake; and he has not a clue as to what kind it was. I guess by the time he got a flash light that actually worked he couldn't find it. And to top it all off the stupid ARS didn't go to the hospital. I called bull$)(!^ this morning until I saw the holes in his ankle and he told me it felt like a mack truck hit him when it struck. All I know is I would have died on the spot from a heart attack right there or I would have been calling my wife to pick me up in Tucson (from Camp Verde) around midnight because I hadn't stopped running from it yet.

     

     

    Buckhorn

     

    If it was a rattler it is best he gets to the hospital ASAP to have them look at it - here is link to photos of people who didn't go

     

    http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0214503/Fi...ke%20Bites.html

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    Since I bought my longbow I have a new appreciation and loathing for compound bows and their components.

     

    I've been shooting the longbow at 10 yards trying to develop some consistency. I went out the other day and got all the way out to 35 yards - still managed to plop most of my arrows into the vitals on a 3d antelope target.

     

    I then got my compound out, blew off the dust and tried shooting it at 20 yards. My groups were so tight that I now need to replace a couple of vanes on my arrows. I worked all the way back to 70 yards; I found that my accuracy at 60 was about the same as my accuracy with the longbow at 20.

     

    Anyway, my point is that just through working on form at 10 yards without a sight I was able to increase my accuracy at 60 with one.

     

    (My new found appreciation is that compounds are so fricking fast and accurate, my loathing is that I wish I was as good with my longbow).

     

    As for horizontal vs vertical, I like a horizontal multi-pin setup. I haven't purchased a vertical pin site - for the same reason that a few other people have mentioned -adjustability. In the heat of the moment, you've ranged your animal, and now you've got to adjust your single pin to the right distance? All that relies on a human carrying out a bunch of precision actions in fractions of a second. Conditions can change, you can make a mistake, and then you're out of the game.

     

    Personally I like my pins to be as small a diameter as I can get them, the fiber optics to be as short as possible (to avoid too great of glare), the sight to be rock solid, and difficult to adjust (to keep me from messing with it when I'm having a bad day shooting and I think that there is something wrong with the equipment), and for there to be enough pins for me to shoot (I want a new sight that goes out to 100 yards, anybody reccomend one? - no I'm not accurate at 100 (or much past 70 for that matter) - yet!).

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    To be brief,

     

    I call him the Big G2 because his G2's are over 11 inches. I found a matched set of his sheds last year. I thought he might have been the buck I killed in September, but he wasn't. I saw him in February and took some photos. This morning I found one of his sheds from 2 years ago while out searching for this year's rack (which has thus far eluded me).

     

    Last year's rack

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    February

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    This mornings 2 year old shed.

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    Found my first fresh Coues shed this morning!!!!

     

    It is from a buck I found the same side off of last year. Unfortunately, I only found that single side - now I have the same single side from this year!

     

    He is almost identical to last year, except that he put on a couple inches of tine and some more mass, I figure he'd go in the 60's.

     

    Both pedicles still have rings of skin on them - I'll call them 'Angel Halos' cuz thats what they feel like to me!

     

    I'm pretty sure that this was the buck I saw with the buck I killed in September - maybe his 'little' brother.

     

    here are the pics.

     

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    So much for sleeping in every morning (the little shed hunting demon is stirring inside me again), now to find the big boys!

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    I've been hearing about this too.

     

    I think that being able to camp where we want to is one of the greatest privileges that we have on our National Forests. I would be seriously PO'd if I had to camp in a designated campground with a bunch of greenhorn retiree coleman-campers, with babies crying, and teenagers drinking all night and making a ruckus... And the chances of leaving my gear unattended all day while I am gone? NO WAY! I shudder.

     

    I think that the DOI, and USDA FS have to pony up and hire additional seasonal law enforcement if they really want to solve to problem of mis-use. You can say 'these roads are now closed', but if you don't have enough man power to get out there and stop the abuse nothing will change.

     

    Let me know when this comes up for discussion in Tucson, I'll be there and I will drag everyone I can, kicking and screaming, there with me.

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    I finally asked my father-in-law if I could borrow a set of antlers he has from a buck he hunted back in the 90's (or 80's - I wasn't really listening to the story that well - the sheds distracted me).

     

    His story went that he archery hunted this buck for 20 some days one season but couldn't close the deal on him, went out in the summer and found his sheds. The buck was shot by a rifle hunter the next year (I think there might be a photo of it on Reynold's Coue's Connection - but I can't confirm).

     

    This buck had the best mass of any sheds I've ever handled. He was an absolute bruiser! Its no wonder he didn't even chip a point off that year.

     

    They measure at 53/49 inches without a spread

     

    Anyway here are some of the photos.

     

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    Bladed tip

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    The G3 is 9 inches

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    That is the left antler next to a shed of mine that measures 38 inches.

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    I believe that the Bush White House is guilty of using partisan political maneauver to manipulate both the legislature and the press to futher its own goals (everything from the invasion of Iraq, to Valerie Plame, to the Attorney Firings - there are probably half a dozen more things to list).

     

    I would expect a President to use confidentiality and sneakiness to help the United States (see Theodore Roosevelt and his foreign policy). However the Bush administration has proven itself time and again to be completely inept at virtually all foreign policy decisions.

     

    Its time that republicans pull their heads out of the sand and realize that the Bush administration is horrendous, and Bush is probably the worst thing to happen to America since Hoover.

     

    Where are the Theodore Roosevelts, the Dwight Eisenhowers?

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    I envy you Swaro folks,

     

    My damaged 15x60 Zeiss had to be sent to Germany. Zeiss USA never contacted me about them having to send them over seas for repair, nor have they quoted me a price. I contacted them after waiting 3 weeks for a response (it took 3 tries - 2 emails and a phone message). At last contact they told me it would be 10 weeks before I get them back...

     

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