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Any sports, 4H, FFA, shooting sports get her involved. 4H and FFA do a excellent job with building leadership skills. Team sports do a great job building confidence

I agree they don’t care. They are all about stirring up emotion from the in educated. I know N.M. has won several law suits and avoided others by the anti’s and liberals. They were able to do it because they had science to back up what they are doing. I’m just hoping your State game and fish is going about it smartly. All this happened in N.M. because a group held a contest then piled all the dead out on BLM where anti/ non hunters found them. Gave hunters a heck of a black eye that ended up costing us.

Just passed a bill to ban coyote contest in NM. Gov will sign, anti dems in charge here. Guess we will have rabbit calling now. Before you bash AZ game and fish think about what a study will do. It will show the calling contest do not harm nor affect the population. They will have science to back them. Best method to fight antis. Don’t know your commission but They might be helping more than you think.

We packed into powers cabin to coues hunt around 2010. We thought we were going to get some great hunting. Well the hunting was not so good, it’s so thick in there you can’t see chit, and hardly any water. Could have shot a medium 8 point but my mules decided to break my stock on the way in. No deer were harmed on that journey. We stayed at the cabin and it was surprisingly in good shape. Very cool trip and the OP should definitely do it. Country is very cool, and the history makes it more interesting. killed my first coues and my first 100+ in Coues In the Galiuros

Yeah we got on board with the money-making game at the expense of non residents. You only have to but the $4 stamp with the license. The $5 one is optional only needed if you are hunting on federal lands, which most of us are. Seems most state are going that direction

Good work, too bad you don't have any of those longer, taller versions in there

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The December hunts in NM are good hunts but I wouldn’t call them great hunts like the late December AZ hunts. They are the 2nd or 3rd Coues deer hunts depending on the unit so the deer have been hunted and pressured from 2 mule deer hunts. They are early December and not close to the rut. They are good because of low number of licenses and the hunts are long.

Glock is sold

Other than some cool points you won’t gain anything from a hunting stand point from the other 7mm you mentioned. All are good and will do well. If you goal is to shoot the heavys fast then 28 Nosler is a great choice. It’s at a bigger cost to load with less barrel life. There is a cost and effect to all choices. But if it weee me I would do the 28 Nosler despite the extra cost, just cuz I like cool points!!

Here's a couple of groups I shot at 100 yards when I was working up the loads to help your decision!! I shot a 2 1/2 3 shot group at 630 yards with the load in the first picture

Bino pictures

Pictures of the Glock

Yeah you can just go buy a private land only license over the counter now. You don't even need to have a ranch to hunt on, you can just buy one and then go ask or pay for access to private. Its going to be a wreck. Big private land ranches will manage there herds just fine, they always have. Its the 500-1000 acre deeded with 10,000 leased public land that are going to be the problem. This is a good year to get an antelope tag because our buck population and quality are going to take a big hit this coming season.

I shoot the 129 gr out of my 6.5-06 and they shoot one ragged hole. I shot a 2 inch group with them at 630 a month or so ago. We killed two cow elk, an antelope, and a Barbary with them all at closer ranges 80-250 yards. Bullets have a performed well. At close ranges they were about 50-60% retention (a couple were 75-80%) with front half on bullet fragments and rear half staying together under off side hide. I really like them. Will be shooting the 168 in my 280AI I'm building this year too.

We were bear hunting below the rim one time, dogs trailed up towards the rim and treed. When I was walking up to the tree I started seeing arrows all over the place. It turned out the dogs treed the bear right where all the missed shots at the arrow tree were going. There was arrows all over the place, Probably just as many that were in the tree. I thought it was pretty cool

yeah I think the democrats are funding the sanction seekers. A wall wont fix anything, However killing drug dealers that are armed crossing our borders will. You down a few of those drug smugglers with an A-10 I guarantee you the problem will be over. We have the means, tech to do it. Why don't we treat this problem like terrorism because it really is. Makes you wonder why we don't fix it? I truly feel politicians fear the shock to the economy if you took all the drug money out

That's a great Idea but it doesn't happen unless its a high profile area. I don't hold it against a rancher to kill critters that art killing their cattle. I agree we don't need, nor do I want wolves. My issue is once a rancher moves his cattle from one pasture to another they shut off waters, hurting the wildlife. They often over graze public to save their private. Not all their fault since Forest services doesn't hold them to anything in grazing allotment agreements. Its nice to see some consequences. But unfortunately the only reason there was consequences was from wolves being high profile.

I'm not a wolf fan but I do like to see some consequences for public land ranchers who violate laws killing wolves, lions, bears or whatever. Ranchers are good folks and do a good service to us hunters but a lot abuse the sh!t out of there leases so maybe this will help some of them shape up a bit.

If you want the best gun in the end rebarrel the Remington 700. Same bolt face for 6.5 creed or 7-08. Your looking at $250-330 for a barrel and $200-300 to get it chambered and put together. I would get a new new trigger too Another option would be to dress up what you have, new trigger, and quality stock will really help accuracy. But if you buy a cheap gun you will want a better one later so my advice is buy something better Rugers. They shoot descent but there is a reason they are priced where they are.

Yes technology has increased harvest on the older class animals. I see it in NM. There are other factors as well. More people are trophy hunting. People like me are passing the little bucks and bulls and hunting for the trophy thus increasing harvest on older age class animals. The increase in The outfitting industry with the technology. The top end optics, planes flying for governors tags, lots of governors tags.and they are good at what they do. Drought was the biggest factor with NM elk quality last season. No winter moisture killed antler growth on elk. In NM the tag #s in our best units have not increased but elk population has increased. Quality has decreased at the same time, which is related to technology. I think drought is the bigger driving factor for quality tho.

Clarity, no stress on eyes, you will spot more 10x42 swaros than you will 15 vipers. The clarity is what catches the small details like a twitch of the ear. It’s stuff to cough up the money I know but you won’t regret it. Vipers don’t compare to swaros, razors are a closer comparison but still not up to swaros level. I’ve used both switching back and it’s a noticeable difference. Swaros are like Toyota’s they hold their value too.

Yes it is money well spent and it’s worth it IMO