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Delw

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  1. Thanks for the info on the barrel

     

    Thats intesting on the lee crimp die. I heard good stuff on those for pistol ammo bought one for my 45 but havent used it yet.

    Havent crimped a rifle round in forever cause they just gave bad accuracy. now you have me thinking about using the lee crimps. Granted the were old school crimps back then even thought the brass was al uniformed and to the same size neck and oal.

    I dont even crimp them on the m1a1 ammo or the ar-15 ammo but now you got my curiosity.

    Thanks.


  2. I been loading the same brass in 22-250-300 win mag and a ton of stuff in the middle since the early 80's. Safely say my 300 winmag brass has been shot more than 10 times. the 243 22-250 and 220swft brass easy over 10 times.

    when I go through a batch I maybe throw away 5-10 cases of each cal thats it. all the small stuff 22-250-243 I have 2-3k rounds of each. the 300 winmag 800-1k rounds

    never anneled only trimmed and fl resized.

    but the 223 brass which I have 5k rounds of brass for doesnt last very long, probably because most it is new stuff. the PMC stuff lasts for ever and the older brass does, but the newer last 10 years brass of the .223 doesnt last more than 5  reloads

    I think because its out of ar's, lots of stretching. my 308 Springfield Amory M1A1 same deal 5-6 loads but the bolt guns last forever on older brass

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  3. 9 hours ago, Buckskull said:

    Thanks. I am 57 years old and harvested my first deer at the age of 14 in upstate NY with a bow.

    I still have many questions but most are due to the change in location from NY to AZ.

    Nice finds, shed hunting is a blast.

    However in the AZ WE KILL animals not HARVEST them, we save the Harvesting for liberals and Farmers ;)

     

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  4. 16 hours ago, jdown said:

    Don’t see how you just move off of bonus points after 30 years - that won’t cause a stink I’m sure. 

    No not saying stop them now its too freaking late,

    I'm saying if you want a TRUELY Fair system you dont have them.and they should have never been started in the 1st place, let alone adding for this and that over the years as well as point guard.

     


  5. 9 hours ago, 45/70 hunter said:

    Do you fly fish for carp in Arizona?? I always wanted to give that a try!

    I have, only place I ever fished for them purposly.

    canyon and pleasant. I used cigarette butts and foam ear plugs. they will eat anything thrown on the water that floats and reassembles popcorn. There trash fish and just nasty , not to mentio your buddies will give you crap but they fight better than any other fish I have caught including on rod and reel.

    I didnt fly fish that much here in AZ maybe 3-5 times a year

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  6. grew up fly fishing in japan. browns and bows some salmon and lots of saltwater, then in the states every trout species except for the silver, gila apaches. I think Grayling trout and seas run cuts were my favorite. smallies on the yakima river, here I did some LM. but carp fly fishing is an absolute blast. wasnt to keen on fly fishing here in AZ after being in Japan and all the other states.

    I still need to catch a tarpoon on a flyrod and a northern bigger then a hammer handle on a flyrod. caught plenty of decent northerns here just nothing decent on a fly rod yet.

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  7. On 5/29/2021 at 12:41 PM, Jazz said:

    I thought I knew my backyard. Came across this video and can't place it. Somewhere apparently on New River Mesa.

    Any ideas?

    I bet Edge knows. 

     

    The New River Mesa Ruin - YouTube

    those areial views make it look much more pronounced, ground views most of the time you will walk right by them just thinking they are a pile of rocks. was down in unit 32 one year saw some weird rock formations over by that Hat rock or what every they call it. walking up to the top of a cliff doing some lion calling and locked down and it was like WOW so thats what those are. pretty cool.


  8. 6 minutes ago, jdown said:

    I’m thinking we will have to go to min points to enter the draw at some point. 
    something like 2 for javelina and deer, 4 for elk and antelope, 8 for sheep. Something like this to help balance the amount of additional applicants to keep draw odds somewhat obtainable.  

    min point system would do nothing in 2-3 years as everyone would be caught up then its the same old game. I dont understand why people want to keep adding bonus point deals to the draw it makes no sense. Not to mention if people have to wait xx amount of years for a tag why waste it on a crap tag put in for the best units. then your going to need 30-50 points just to draw a decent rim deer tag LOL

    Personally I think they should not give out any bonus points that is TRULY a FAIR system that way, Everyone has an equal chance. tons of people get drawn with little to no points every year.

    As far as where to put in due to low tags. as always I put in for where I want if I get drawn great if not oh well no biggy. if OTC goes all draw would suck but it may happen 3-5 maybe 20 years from now who knows. 20 years ago everyone was saying the same thing its going to goto all draw. hasnt yet.

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  9. So how was it? I am guessing I should have checked it out. kids and I drove past it on our way to do some shooting and they wanted to go on way back as did I. we all got too hot and was beat around 1:30 on the way back this afternoon, they didnt even wanna stop.

    the wickenburg gun shows and the one in williams used to have some nice old guns at decent prices, lots of lever guns,older hunting rifles and shotguns. some handguns mainly wheelguns. and of coarse old wall hangers which were cool.


  10. 5 minutes ago, bigmuleyfan said:

    Still available?

    if there not, and you really need them,

    I should have a few sets ,should be all new or close to new that are NOT carbide. I'll have to look. but carbide are the only way to go.

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