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The most rattlers I have ever come across was a year working on a ranch between Deming and Lordsburg NM and S of I-10. Man I saw snakes everywhere. You would see them get baled up in the alfalfa, under the clothes line off the back porch heck one time rounding up cows to push em from one range to the other I looked down to see half dozed little 4inchers wiggling around. The part that got my attention was driving down a dirt road one afternoon I saw one crossing the road and stopped to shoot it with a 22 pistol it reared up and came at me, the heck with the 22 I grabbed a shovel from the truck and smacked it. Lots of snakes and luckily no close encounters that year. The closest was when I was about 13 or 14 and quail hunting between Pinnacle Peak and the Verde River. Had a covey in my sights and advancing to get a shot when just as I stepped over a little bush I heard the boy start to buzz. I don't know how I did it but from one foot on the ground and one foot over the bush I levitated up about 10 inches spun around 180 degrees leveled my 12GA and took that suckers heads off and cutout into three pieces with that one shot.

Good price for a nice scope.

Are you in PHX?

A older friend passed and his wife is trying to get his trophies sold. Any ideas out there?

Pack away from base camp for any amount of time? Then maybe a scouting trip or two to stash water.

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Nosler ammo 4 full boxes and 8 in partial box $17 per full box partials to buyer of all Nosler ammo Remington 130 $10 for a box Remington 150 $10 for a box

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N Phoenix area 7th ST and Bell RD

Maybe a little stock bruising blemishes otherwise very clean. A family friend passed and helping his widow sell some rifles. $820

Randy here are the pics of the 243

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ok sent PM. I am in N Phoenix 7th ST & Bell rd

Oh yea the grand slam is getting a lot of research

Helping a family friend whose husband passed. 5 unopened 1 lb cans and one partial can. Stored indoors in cool dry room. $70

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You have me curious, parents are papered but pups wont be able to have papers? how does that work?

Having packed out several elk and as many big mulies you get the hang after couple times. I started with a basic frame much like ALPS Outdoorz Commander Backpack Frame. Decided to get a more robust system with nicer shoulder pads and hip belt. Found the most comfortable external frame backpack and ditched the pack bag. This upgrade made it easier to take a hindquarter and front quarter out in one load (had 2 hours of decent trail back to truck). A cargo platform was not essential, would just lay elk bag on frame put a quarter on it fold cloth over it and lash it down to frame nice and snug. Shoulders fit crossways to frame and hindquarters but down with a couple lashings to support. Good luck makes for quite an adventure.

To quote David E. Petzal "The 6.5 Creedmoor was as shrewdly thought out and designed as any cartridge I can remember". The cartridge got off to a slow steady start as a target round and grew in popularity over time. It was designed and SAAMI spec'd with a faster twist and longer throat to handle heavier bullets than the 260 REM (sounds like failings that doomed the 244 REM). I like the 6.5C for competition shooting but will stick with my 270 WIN for hunting. Oh and by the way Hornady has been brilliant with 140 SST Superformance and 145 ELD-X Precision Hunter ammo for the 270 WIN. I find the two loads to be accurate in my rifles and deadly on Coues. Finally Remington is owned by a money group that's looking to milk the company for profits and Hornady is gun guys doing fun gun stuff with other shooters and that appears to be their priority.

I hunted one year with a recurve then went to black powder roundball. Did a lot of range time with a 55# bare bow and mounted about 3 pins for the hunt. At the time read up on traditional gear and a 2 bladed broached with a 3-1 aspect (length to width) with hefty arrows sounded like the way to go with trad gear.

When I found out UA was paying Noam Chomsky as a professor laureate I emailed my displeasure to the UNIV Pres. I got some mealy mouthed response from an assistant. 6 months latter I get a phone call from a nice young lady asking for money for UA I said not interested not with Chomsky getting UA $$.

Bergara Premier mountain rifle. accurate, sweet trigger and action that runs nice.