40-year-AZ-hunter

Someone suggested Gunbroker. That is a great idea. I am in Flagstaff but have people up here that do it for $15. I found them thru Gunbroker. They have a search function. Just put in your zip code and you will get lots to chose from. Surely someone close to you will do it for less than some of the prices in this thread. http://www.gunbroker.com/FFL/DealerNetwork.aspx

Weatherby Vanguard .270 Winchester with Weaver bases. Very nice shape with a few very minor scratches in the bluing on the barrel. Shoots MOA with factory ammunition - see factory test target. With all paperwork from new. Don't know exact round count but less than 200. I'm currently in NE Phx.

Nice gun I've had for years and seldom shot. Now has cheap Simmons scope but in high Ruger rings. Tang safety. I'm in NE Phx.

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Ruger M77 in 7mm Remington Mag. Earlier gun with tang safety. Ruger rings. Nice shape with a few dings from hunting trips. Took it in trade. The guy said it had less than 100 rounds fired. I'm currently in NE Phx.

Sorry, NE Phx.

Pretty nice factory stock for Remington 700BDL short action. Original factory finish with a few dings from hunting. Checkering nice and sharp still. I'm currently in NE Phx.

Hi Amanda, I just wondered if you might change the web page motif now that Christmas is long passed? Bruce

Thank you rossislider! I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. You change it yourself at the bottom of the page. select "Change Theme". Page.png

Waaayyy last summer I bought and paid for the the little .22 from Elkaholic1. As he was in Tucson and I was in Flagstaff, it took all this time for me to pick up the little rifle. Thanks so much! Great guy!

Waaayyy last summer I bought a little .22 from Elkaholic1. As he was in Tucson and I was in Flagstaff, it took all this time for me to pick up the little rifle. Thanks so much!

Welcome to the forums. Please hang around a while before trying to change things

Have two new, in the boxes, never fired rifles for sale. First is a Weatherby Vanguard .257 Weatherby Mag. 24" barrel, blued with composite stock. $425 Second is a Winchester M70 30-06 with BOSS system. Pre-64 style action, stainless with composite stock. $525. Both available FTF in North Central Phx. Thanks for looking.

I see you are new to the forums, please check your PMs.

After 51 years of applying, I finally drew a sheep tag. I said I would take my time and enjoy the experience rather than try to kill the biggest ram in the unit on day one. The other 3 tag holders filled in 1 to 5 days with rams in the 160s. All had big camps with helpers. One must have had 20. I'm hunting with my wife who has been a real trooper. We have seen sheep most every day and rams most days. I've taken many pics and wished I had a better photo setup. I've tried to attach some. My big problem seems to be judging them. We have the whole month and am pretty sure we can kill a beautiful ram. I'm told that there are 170-180 rams here and I may well have passed on one or more, I just don't have much confidence judging score. Well, that's a summary of the sheep hunt in 44BN. Bruce

With all due respect, it has not been out of that box since it left the factory.

Thanks for the offer, but I can't use it.

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I posted a picture of the label. Hope that gives you the info you need. I'm not familiar with the difference. It was purchased from Sportsmans about 5 years ago.

I thought I'd wrap this up. My wife and I spent 30 days out in 44BN, 23 days during December. Our main objective was to enjoy this sheep hunt. One fellow said "you're getting your moneys worth out of that tag". We looked at many sheep and took a bunch of pictures (with very limited photo equipment). Just as the hunt started, it ended with us having no idea how to field judge the score of these rams. I really tip my hat to the guys who can do it accurately. On December 25, we decided that it was risky to put off taking one much longer. While we had seen rams on most days, some were out of our capability to reach and successfully retrieve and twice during the season we had gone 3 days without seeing any rams. The weather was turning cold and very windy and the forecast was for more of the same. So on Christmas morning we spotted a group of 6 rams, some of which we had seen before, some not. It seemed like late in the season the rams would enter and leave different groups or wander off on their own. In spite of our limited ability to identify individual rams, we could see that was going on. It was howling wind so we just watched them all morning. About 11:30 we broke it off and went back to camp for lunch and let our 3 pet dogs out for a stroll. About 1:30 we returned and found them not far from where they were in the morning. After watching them for another 30 minutes or so, I decided to make a stalk on the oldest of the group. It was about 3/4 mile away and about 1/3 way up the face of a mountain. The wind was still blowing, altho not as hard so I wanted to get within 200 yards if possible. When I got there, there was too much vegetation in the way so I tried to get to the next small ridge about 125 yards away. When I got there, the two rams I was watching buggered and started running. I found a big rock and laid my coat over it for a rest and when the ram I had selected stopped at about 200 yards I pulled the trigger. He started running, but I knew it was a good hit. He stopped again about 30 yards further out and I was ready to shoot a second time, but he just fell down and expired. It was a good lung shot from the .257 Weatherby with 100gr Nosler Partition. As an aside, the rifle I chose to take hunting was left to me by my long-time hunting partner who passed away this past summer. He will be in the 150s with a bunch of deductions due to chunks out of his horns. I guess I could have killed as good a ram on the first day or many days thereafter, but the real objective after 51 applications was to hunt sheep. We might have stretched it out another few days, but I really did not want to go home with this tag in my pocket, so timing was important as the end of the month got closer. As a footnote, a good friend ( and I mean good, it's times like this when you really find out who your friends are ) from Kingman drove down the next morning with one of his protégées and helped my wife and I haul the ram off the mountain. Thanks so much Don and Laura! I've attached 3 pics, the first is the ram just before the stalk at about 3/4 mile thru the spotting scope. The second is my wife and I with the ram, and the third is Don, Laura and I with the ram. It seems a bit anti-climactic now that it's all over. No more anticipation every year of finally drawing a desert bighorn tag.

Just a quick follow-up ( can't figure out how to edit the original post ). A friend interpreted the post as an "SOS", ie the hunt was not going well. Quite the contrary, the hunt is everything I hoped it would be and I just thought I would share some pics! I just hope when I decide to pull the trigger, I am at least close to correct on the eventual score, whether he is a "book" ram or a pretty ram. Thanks to all for the encouragement and the offers to help! Bruce PS. In case you may have missed it, the pic of the lone ram also has doe deer in the same frame. I just thought that was neat. The ram was at about 40 yards and the pic was taken out the truck window. He could not have cared less that we were there. Thanks again guys for reading the post.

Dont know the answer to your question, but the pivot point where the stud usually goes is used on the Geovids for the rangefinder system. I made a "platform" for my 15x56 Geovids to sit on out of a small piece of plywood, a 3/8x24 nut, and some velcro. Looks a bit ugly, but stable as a rock and cost less than a dollar.

"...prefer these over my Swarovskis" That's heresy on this site :-) ( altho I'm a dedicated Leica fan )