Mr. Natural

I picked this one up in 37B on Monday. Looks to be a couple years old...

Here is a rock I found:

Um, yeah...as you can see, javelina (collared peccary) occur a bit farther south than Mr. Rancher says.

Great buck, congratulations!

Cook an elk or deer roast at 133 degrees for 13 hours. Slice it thin and serve with au jus. I'm just sayin'...

Camp Bird, near Paxton Place?

Miller's Southwest Processing is usually up there.

Don't discount the possibility of filtering/treating water in the field. You can use resources like topo maps, Google Earth, and Habimap to locate potential water sources in the area(s) you plan to hunt. Tanks (what dirt stock ponds are called out west) are pretty easy to spot on GE. But don't count on them actually having water when you get there. The water in many of them can be pretty sketchy looking, but a good filter can handle almost anything. It could save you trips to your vehicle, where you should definitely keep extra water regardless.

Very nice, what is the drone/camera setup?

I clicked on this thread expecting to see pictures. Silly me...

Boy I guess! Nice job...

I have a Remington model 700 ADL with a wood stock. One year I used it on a bear hunt where I was hunting in a steady rain for an entire day. After that hunt I started having a similar issue. After a couple of shots the POI would start wandering pretty drastically. A gunsmith looked at it and determined that the stock warped just enough that the wood of the forestock was in contact with the barrel. He re-floated it by removing some material from the barrel channel and the rifle has been fine ever since. In other words, what 300RUM said...

I finally nailed down the hunting load I will be using with the Subalpine. Here is the final 100 yd sight-in target, squares are .5 inch: The red circle is the first (fouling) shot through the clean bore. The blue circle is shots 2 through 4. The green circle is shot 5, after 6 clicks up to achieve 2.5" high at 100 yd. Specifics of the load: - Nosler .280 AI brass - Barnes 145 gr LRX BT - WLR primers - 51.5 gr IMR 4350, on the low side, but that is what worked best - 3.324" COAL YMMV

Sorry, nothing extraordinary...

Indeed, I have literally seen whitetails on top of Chiricahua Peak, the highest peak in the range at 9,763 ft.

I don't doubt that a bit, considering...

Yep, I have seen plenty of whitetails at 8,000 feet plus. They don't seem to mind it up there at all. This shed was found up high, probably close to 9,000 ft, in the Chiricahuas:

Thousands easily within 100 miles of the US/MX border. The first set of remains I found (it was Feb several years ago), the county deputy that responded said it was the eighth since the previous October just in that area. The second set a few years later was only about 5 miles from the first. And that was just me casually wandering around out there, exploring the area for future hunting...and this is almost 70 miles from the border!

I have found human remains a couple of times. It isn't that unusual if you wander around in the southern AZ deserts long enough. Who knows how many people have perished trying to cross the desert from the border...

Since we're dreaming... Desert bighorn on Isla Tiburón.

Yeah, pretty tall and still growing. There seems to be some decent genetics going on in that area, if a guy could find an older buck.

Nice dog