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I have bought 3 pairs of the Pronghorn over last few years and for the money, they are hard to beat. The sole and and uppers are sewn as opposed to welded (glued). In my experience, other boots that are bonded with just glue don't last. The hot rocks and ground here in AZ makes the glue soft and fail. I've returned about three different pairs of "welded" boots after just one or two outings because of they just come apart at the glued seems. The Danner Pronghorns do need a loop on the back.

Do any of you put cameras out for short durations. like one or two days or do you have to leave it around for a couple of weeks?

Great pic

18b Nov.7-13. I don't know much of anything about the unit, but I like my chances. I'm still glad to take any helpful info if a person was so inclined to help a guy out.

1029 - 18b 11/07-11/13 Overlaps with my cow elk tag for the same area. This state is not easy to get the opportunity so I am feeling very lucky.

Dad, tell Bobby to stop bothering me. He's bothering me and won't leave me alone. How much longer? Ok. Here is a solution. Everybody sing along. One thousand bottles of a beer on a wall, one thousand bottles of beer. Take one down pass it around, nine hundred and ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall..........

Yea, your speed may not be as fast as advertized with Century Link, but it's fast enough and no hassles.

Are we almost there, yet? Suzy is bugging me. How much longer is it going to be? I think I need to use the bathroom. Why is it taking so long?

Maybe I am missing something, but where are the vast ranges of roadless areas in AZ. AZ is not like Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. In those states, the grizz hang out in the high mountain ranges where very few people go. The roadless mountains are a boundary. Here in AZ, I do not see those kind of places.

Heck, why stop with Grizzlies. How about Mastodons and Smilodons? T-Rex, Maybe? How About reintroducing them in the Bay area and the Pugent Sound? These folk are out of control;.

Look anything like this?

You'all hear about Pine Martens? I don't know if they live this far south, but they turn a sort of orange-gold color.

Should slow the heck down, I'd say.

Muley for me in the one of the same units my cow elk tag is in. Woohoo!!!

For those of you that have not been following the going-ons at Remington, they are not the company they used to be and neither are their products. Remington is now owned and operated by an investment group (Cerebus) under the name Freedom Group. Remington, Marlin, Bushmaster, DPMS and other companies have been sucked into the black hole that is Freedom Group. A whole new bunch of bean counters have taken over operations after they fired everybody who knew how to make a friggin rifle. Remington is, now, a company where low wage employees debate whether to work for Remington or McDonalds. Seriously. There is a blog out there of Remington Employees and the revelations do not make me want to buy another rifle from anybody under the Freedom Groups banner. Off center sights, drooping barrels, mis-fitted parts are all common complaints these days. There are some good rifles and some real lemons being made, so if you are shopping, inspect very closely before you lay down your cash. After Sandy Hook, Cerebus took a lot of heat for their Freedom Group holdings, especially since the rifle used was one of theirs. The board of shareholders have asked the CEOs of Cerebus to dump their Freedom Group holdings, but the company has become so large and so burdened with liabilities including a mountain of warrantee work. The company has now moved to another level of consolidation to try and make the Freedom Group easier to sell. The future there is very uncertain to say the least. The old iconic Remington and Marlin are now been reduced to just brands with no soul. The soul left with all the rifle builders and craftsman they dumped on. It's all very sad to me.

For each their own, buy I am anxiously awaiting the moment the online process starts. Before then, I have already made my choices and have them written down, The online process takes me just a couple of minutes for each tag I apply for. I have my entire online applications done within hours of them being started. The only problem for me, is it makes the wait for results longer.

Would this be considered baiting?

I have a thought that I know that buck, but my mouth is shut. I do not have an antelope tag, so it matters not to me, just wont post it here.

Ah, heck. I am guilty of it all including having opinions of how others hunt. Lotsa opinions out there. I remember sitting in a bar up along the Big Hole in Montana, (one of the best hunting locations in the world - Moose, Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Antelope, sheep, goats, bears, cats, wolves, did I forget something) and I was talking with my friends from the area and said to them "I like to make elk hunting sporting". They all exploded with thunderous laughter. Among a dozen or so of us in the bar, I was alone with that sentiment. Their general attitude is wait till the snow drives the elk down to where a person could shoot the elk and then drive right up to it. Otherwise, they wont wast their time. Arizona forces people to be a certain kind of hunter. Some of it is the terrain, but the biggest obstacle is the number of hunters to the number of game. Here, your lucky when you get a tag. Arizona, is an amazing place to hunt, though. The number of amazing views a guy sees in a day, discovering Indian ruins and remote homesteads, and vast wide open spaciousness is very special her in AZ for me..

It appears that nobody has answered your question so I'll speak up. I do not know how much handloading experience you have so I gotta give the generic response. If you are a seasoned loader, then you may not need to keep reading. If you are a nu-b, read on. It sounds like you have the components lined up, but when it comes to "What is an MOA load", well it doesn't quite work that way. You might get an answer from somebody else that may work just as well in your rifle, but you may, get a load that patterns instead of grouping. Generally, you look for a starting/finishing load and look for your rifle's sweet spot in that range. according to Hodgdons 2014 manual - m Oops, I reread your post and saw you have 139 and 154 bullets, I thought I read 162 for some reason. I'd replace what I originally said here with a link to Hodgdons site. http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/ If it were me, I'd work in 1/2 gr increments through that range. I'd load 3 rounds of each and test shoot those rounds looking for a sweet spot. If I find one load that is clearly the best, then I'd load rounds .3 up and .3 down from that load in .1gr increments. It's a lot of loading and shooting, but when you are done, you'll know what works in your rifle. Good luck and have fun

I saw one of the biggest antelope I have ever seen last week in 17B. In an area you wouldn't expect. Crazy the places a guy finds antelope around these hills.

Heck, what does something like that cost? It might be worth it just to get up and take a look at the area from that perspective.

3085 starts 11/07/14 and ends 12/11/14. That is 5 weeks. I hope to draw a deer tag in the same area. The tag is for units 17A, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20A and 20C. It's a large area with a small number of elk. It's an antlerless hunt so it's purely for the meat and the fun. Mostly the fun.

19A is now my neighborhood and I can tell you that there are antelope all over the unit. There are plenty of easy pickings on private land if you get access, but if you are looking to do it on public lands, you'll find yourself surprised at all the places in the juniper/grass hills that contain antelope.

Enjoy AZ hunting while you still can.