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Spelled Crozier, It is west and slightly south of Hayden and has some antennas on it.

You might want to look at the White Canyon Wilderness. It is basically west of the Ray pit.

I love to hunt by stalking. Anything can be stalked, even a mountain lion. Learn the Coues pattern and their trails. Use their trails to move into areas you know they will likely be. Move very slow and quiet and spend far more time looking than moving. This style is sometimes referred to as still hunting. Basically you are moving into an area you expect game to be and your movement is a slow deliberate stalk, even before you have spotted your prey. It is not exactly spot and stalk because you are already stalking before you have even spotted your prey. It can be a very effective technique. Good luck.

I have spent lots of time in 37B and seen Coues in Gonzales pass, Picketpost mountain, Black Mtn. and the mountains running along 177 from Superior to Hayden. Basically there are scattered groups in the higher elevations but most of the deer you will encounter are muleys. 37B is an any antlered hunt you are not going to pass up a nice muley are you? Got the same tag, maybe we will cross paths on the hunt.

In the same chambering the lighter bullets typically have a higher velocity which would also increase friction generated heat. The lighter bullets are also propelled by more powder than the heavier ones and this would likely lead to more hot gas in the bore which would probably accelerate throat erosion. It would be interesting to see a controlled experiment to see which would produce longer barrel life, heavy or light bullets.

You might check with equipment rental companies like United Rentals or blue line. Some of those guys have East Valley yards. If he is a diesel mechanic with hydraulic experience he could maintain the equipment if he has a CDL he could drive the semis that they used to deliver the equipment.

If I even make it to 80 that is the kind if thing I hope I could still do. Congratulations!

Why not shop some used guns and see what you can find. With a little shopping you should be able to find a better quality rifle / scope combination for the money.

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I think you meant Reymert mine? Only red mountain mine I know of is in mesa I did mean Red Mountain mine. It's east of the Coke Ovens up on the south edge of the white Canyon wilderness.

Picket post is good. The area around the Red Mountain mine is also a good spot. North Butte, Martinez Canyon, plenty of good spots to choose from. My partner had the tag last year. Mid Hunt he had to turn it over to hunts for Heroes because his mother got very sick. I would be happy to share what we learned. Will send you a PM this evening

I saw a fine example of this a few years back. A couple of guys showed up at the range with rifle & scope combos that were in the 7 k to 10 k range and all the gadgets and goodies to go with them. Despite this they had rookie written all over them. They even had the binders that a professional sniper uses to log each individual shot. They got all set up and proceeded to fire 5 MOA groups at 100 yards.

The question to ask is who is producing the brass for Sig. I doubt they are doing the production themselves. Most likely they have contracted a company like Starline to do production runs with the Sig headstamp.

I had a 6A archery bull tag 2 years ago and had 4 cameras out for months. I still have all of them. I will not leave a camera on a water hole and expect it to be there when I come back. I placed mine on 2 wallows that I located and 2 places that I felt were well used grazing areas. You had to hike a ways to get to all of them.

Many higher-end rifle manufacturers like McMillan or HS precision build their rifles with BDL or DM bottom metal. They do not have accuracy problems because of it. Yes an ADL stock with the bottom not cut out would be more rigid. Flexing in this area that leads to Stock and Barrel contact may be something that's an issue on more cheaply constructed stocks.

My partner had a Bell and Carlson. He fell on a hunt last year and broke it in half at the rear of the action. In looking at the failure the construction of that stock was less than impressive. I have to HS stocks and believe it is very likely they could have survived the fall.

I tried 777 and have to agree. That stuff must have some sponge in the family tree and is absolutely miserable to work with if it is humid. I use blackhorn 209.

My 7mm-08 is an Ackley Improved, Is that at least a little closer to being a manly cartridge? I have to agree with Red Rabbit, there is no wrong choice here. I spent days laying in bed with a broken ankle working on a laptop trying to prove either the .260 or 7mm-08 AI would be a better round for my build. In the end I felt like I had just spent several days chasing my tail but it beat sitting on the couch watching Dr. Phil or Jerry Springer.

Is your 7.5 lb weight spec. for a bare rifle or scoped and field ready? A 7.5 lb field ready rifle is a pleasure to carry but not real fun to shoot. When the weight of the rifle drops the ft/lb of recoil energy obviously goes up. There is a second component of recoil, recoil velocity, that also increases substantially with a real light rifle. The combination gives the guns a real "sharp" feel to the recoil that some people really don't like. If you haven't worked with a light rifle before and would like to try shooting one before building one let me know. I live in Chandler and visit my parents in Forest Lakes on some weekends.

Sheep that were in that area had been migrating Downstream along the river for years. Could some have turned around and gone back Upstream after the fire?

About 6 years ago I built myself a lightweight rifle, 7.5 lb scoped, loaded and ready to hunt. My final two choices for chambering wwee .260 Remington and 7 mm - 08, in my case I was looking at the AI version. In the end I chose the 7mm because I may use the rifle for all species up to Elk and felt the heavier bullets would be an advantage there. Had I built the rifle just for deer, goats and sheep I would probably have chosen the .260.

You have to think outside of Arizona.

With a custom rifle everything will be fitted to a much higher standard. Things like blueprinting an action or bedding an action to a stock reduce inconsistency in how the rifle reacts each time it is fired. This generally improves accuracy. As an example of what a factory will let out the door the last Remington action I blueprinted had a 0.050 variance in the bolt locking lugs. When 1 set of lugs was engaged there was a gap between the other set so the bolt head would be twisted sideways each time the rifle was fired.

There seems to be an increasing element who feel hunting is a sport where you can win with the highest score. If you approach hunting with this mentality you lose so much.

if you install a lighter firing pin with a stiffer spring the pain accelerates faster when the trigger is pulled reducing lock time. This reduces the time you have available to wiggle the rifle and screw up a shot.