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$1000 will get you a bare action of this quality and the stock.

Very good glass for a great price.

Consistent snow packs as far as I can recall have been non existent since the mid 90's. The snow pack used to be good enough to justify a ski area in the mountains above Tucson. The ski season in AZ early 70's used to run from DEC-MAR, good luck with that now days. The Sierra Nevada snow packs in 82/83 winter was insane, Great Salt Lake overflowed in early 83. The acorn crop in souther AZ has ben absent since mid 90's. Snow in Utah and Colorado has been spotty, for every good snow year there is a bad snow year with several so so years of snow scattered in-between. Climate change? Yep weather has definitely changed but do we really understand the cause of this dry trend? If this trend is because of CO2 then why the heck are we not building nuclear power plants and building cars/trucks that run on CNG?

"MyRadarPro" is the app I used as a commercial pilot. Now retired but during the 2020 NOV Couse hunt used it to track the approaching rain cell. My buddy and I had time to plan for getting under cover and we could see when it would pass.

I have hunted in 35B forever with a couple hunts in 32. The Santa Teresa Wilderness has always caught my eye.

Consider that a mature jaguar could dominate a territory that would hold say three lions. If the Jaguar were to kill or run off 3 lions from it's territory but only kill and eat 1.4 times as many deer than just one MT lion then that to me is a plus. I do not claim to know exactly how the numbers would work, but the dominant predator will not abide a lesser predator on its hunting grounds. It is much like how we hunters feel about lions and coyotes.

Looking at MyRadarPro app and it is a big storm. It stretches from S of Sierra Vista to Agua Prieta.

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1973 almost on the US/Mexico border south of Ruby AZ. My Dad and Uncle and my Uncles ranching partner had been hunting this area for decades past. 1972 at 50 years old my Dad shot his last buck, I caught up with him in time to help carry it back to camp. 1973 the next year and my second year hunting I was on a flat ridge top watching, mainly keeping an eye on a saddle I expected game to come through. Sure enough a couple does and a small buck came through the saddle and traversed the ridge under me, I could not get a good shot so I backed off the ridge to set an ambush at the point of the ridge. The little buck came around the point maybe 40 yards in front of me and the Sierra 150 grain Spitzer, out of a 1903 Springfield from before WWII topped with a Lyman scope made before I was born, smacked him on the shoulder and DRT.

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Just sold it

I have two partial cans of RL22. Between them it is about 1 1/4 pounds $25 It is older powder and has been stored in cool dry controlled conditions the whole time.

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We as gun owners and 2A supporters need a seat at the table when whatever new laws that are coming will be formulated. We as a nation have a problem and as much as we would like to say "hey we did not create this mess so we do not need to give an inch" is a recipe to get intolerable laws. We now have warped and dangerous 18 year olds that can legally pass a background check and buy weapon that allows them to go on murderous sprees. Could they cause as much damage with a six gun and a bag of speed loaders? Could, but not as likely. A bolt gun? Again without a bag of 3-10 round magazines not as likely to cause near the damage. I see no loss of rights to raise the age for purchasing a semi auto detachable magazine fed handgun or long gun of 9mm Luger power or higher. Also make any private sale of described semi autos be required to go through an FFL background check. Right now I would not sell and AR or a handgun without a background check because of the liability involved. Is it gun owners fault? NO Is it the guns fault? NO Should we give up rights? NO What is required is helping to shape laws that can help slow the school carnage while at the same time insisting that other steps will be required. School need better security because who knows what new and deadly schemes these murderous youngsters will come up with. There is also the whole other issue of "mass shootings" that are purely cold blooded criminal activity that now is growing because Law Enforcement is being undermined. I would want written into any new law that we have the right to be armed and whatever rules that go into place to ensure weapons not get into the wrong hands is not a total cure but a partial piece of the puzzle.

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As was presented in this case a "win" implied that the plaintiffs prevailed in court and received a judgment in their favor that validated their claim. The plaintiffs did not "win" their court case, they took money to go away. Yep they got the $$$ but their claim of culpability was not validated.

The families did not "win" in court. Remington paid up to make the lawsuit go away. Insurance company decided cheaper to pay that go to court.

After 9-11 Airline Pilots had to work like heck to get armed pilot program going. Finally got it and it is very good. Individuals that volunteer to get armed are heavily screened, train for a couple weeks at a Federal facility. A well thought out program that would benefit schools. I am sure there are teachers with military, law enforcement or firearms background that would be eligible. The deterrence factor would be Hugh. Certainly better than any gun laws they could come up with.

Same view here. When my Dad came home from WWII no teenage boy ever thought of going to a hardware store buying an M1 carbine and hi capacity mags and shooting up a school. They could have at 14, no background checks or any of that back when it was a different time. When I was in high school it was no problem to have a gun in the truck and go hunting after school. At around the time of 24 hour TV and MTV it started to shift, whatever society in general started doing from that time forward has not been helpful. To busy, to much tech distraction, not enough healthy engagement for youth etc etc etc.

You got to figure that around the turn of the century (1900) that bears were at a low ebb out west. Why? Because stockmen, sheep or cattle, rode horseback armed and worked the range. Either working cows out of line camps or sheep men with the herds, any bear sighted was shot and no one cared. Stockmen would kill game for the meat because sheep and cows were money. Also market hunters shot the heck out of deer and elk to sell venison to the miners. Back then bears that did not get shot had very few elk or deer to pray on. Once regulated hunting came in and deer elk numbers went up and bear and cougar hunting became controlled their numbers began to grow again. Now a young bear is hard pressed to find his own territory, plenty of mature boars to push youngsters to the fringe of optimal habitats.

I have a Bergara Premier HMR Pro 6.5C that out of the box shoots sub 1/2 MOA and mostly .4 groups. I also have a Seekins Havak Pro Hunter that is as accurate. I will keep the Bergara and sell you the Seekins for a reasonable price.

Hi Crazy; I did something similar with a 6.5C with a goal a bit shorter than yours. My aim was max about 500 yards with a BRUX #4 barrel and Leupold VX6 HD scope, 9 pound 9 oz rifle, a nice balance between cary weight and a stable shooter. For my needs a NightForce is not what I would choose but for your goal of shooting farther I would recommend the NX8 4-32X50. It fits your weight requirements, comes in MOA and FF1 at a not to astronomic a price. My experience with the NX8 in competition has been awesome.

20 years ago I settled on Winchester brass and got decent results. I would uniform the primer pockets and de burr the flash hole and got good enough results. Couple of years ago bought some new Win brass and was disappointed at the quality. Very beat up and some cases not usable. Now shooting a 6.5C and loading both my used Hornady brass, meh and new Lapua. Lapua brass is Sierra Hotel. Just bite the bullet and get Lapua, no need to weigh (cases in a box vary +/- .2 grains) no flash hole fixing or primer pocket work required. Yes I see enough difference in the Lapua brass shooting better than my weight sorted, flash hole-primer pocket fixed Hornady brass.

Of all the like options in the Leupold VX6 HD and Zeiss V4/V6 line the VX6 HD 3-18X44 is the lightest.

I have 3 VX3i LRP scopes. Two of them are on rifles that I used in PRS matches, one was dialed up and down for 910 rounds and the other dialed up and down for 1300 rounds. The third one on a NRL22 match rifle that also gets dialed up and down. Several Leupold scopes on Silhouette rifles that get dialed up and down every monthly match. The final dial up scope is a VX6 HD 3-18 scope that has been on a 270 hunting rifle and now on my silhouette/deer hunting rifle that has about 800 rounds down the tube. One of the most used is a fixed 6X on my 30-06 that has been well used and banged around some, this scope does not get dialed around much but has taken some hard knocks and still good. I also like them for their cost and weight. It is interesting to read on these posts the divergence in experience. One group states they have a number of Leupolds and no problem and the other is, I and my friends have had them all fail and do not trust them anymore. Strange the the stark difference. All my dial up scopes are on 6.5C or 270 Win and get mounted using a torque wrench. Lots of times the dissatisfied customers are using magnums. Makes me wonder ?????