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I took another look after my post. I had only had 1 cup of coffee this morning when I looked at it. Yes its bigger than what I was thinking

Is that what Banshee's scored? I was thinking high 90's

Right on Banshee. Sweet buck my friend.

I have a love for 7MM. Hard to beat a 7MM Rem Mag for a all around gun. My $.02

Love Ya Pete

Nice story Luke I really enjoyed it. That is a really nice Buck. Now I have a Question Who got hungry and wanted to go back to camp and EAT? You might want to tell your Dad about PBJ's Congratulations on your first big game. Even if you did have to use your Sis's 06

What a cool looking buck thanks for sharing

That was it. 10x swaros, 15x swaros, rangefinder, etc. Thanks for the tip. Does that mean you got it back to the owner? Thats GREAT Hope you got a nice finders fee

I wish

I have a Swarovski adapter like that and it works well. You may want to list if it is for a straight or angled scope.

Bend Over, Hunters...You Asked For It Posted by John Caile on Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:25:00 PM OK, all you naive "sportsmen" who voted for Obama (along with a whole flock of anti-gun Democrats), get ready. Because you're about to get just what you deserve. Trouble is, the rest of us who own guns are going to become your "collateral damage." Now, this goes beyond Democrats and Republicans - a heck of a lot of my gun owning friends are Democrats. It just so happens that at this point in history, the once gun-friendly Democratic Party of my youth is now controlled by the anti-gun, anti-self-defense types like Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer. That's just the reality. And YOU made it possible. Yes, you, the "I'm just a hunter - I don't have to worry about them taking MY guns" types who vote for candidates who pass "assault weapons" bans. Oh, I forgot, YOU don't own an AR-15 or an FN-FAL, so you're willing to throw your fellow gun owners overboard for...what? False promises of "free" health care? A "stimulus" check? Or (my personal favorite) "I'm a union member, so I have to vote Democrat - the union says so." And you, the "country club" gun owners, who proudly announce to your liberal cocktail party friends that you "don't belong to the NRA or anything" and that oh heavens, no, you don't hunt - you just shoot for "sport." But perhaps the worst of all are the rest of you apathetic gun owners who never join a gun rights group, never call, never write, never even e-mail your representatives or senators to protect your gun rights. Because YOU are the reason we will now have an overwhelmingly anti-gun Senate and Congress, along with by far the most anti-gun President in U.S. history. And the attacks have already begun. In 17 states so far, Democrat-led legislatures are proposing the, ahem, "Ammunition Accountability Act" - nothing short of an outrageous demand that ammunition manufacturers engrave a SERIAL NUMBER on EVERY SINGLE bullet they sell! Such a measure will obviously do NOTHING to prevent crime or save a single life. But from a purely practical perspective, do you people have any idea what such a mandate will do to ammo prices? They will skyrocket. Ammunition prices have already gone up 70% in the past 5 years (due to the increased demand for copper and lead by China and India). Oh, sure, they've tried to say that it will cost "only" $2.50 extra per box - but the reality will surely be far worse. Oh, and you reloaders? Well, since you will have no economical way to inscribe a unique serial number on each and every round you load, YOU will become a criminal. Yeah, yeah, I know "they'll never come after me..." Tell that to Randy Weaver... Ah, I know what some of you hunter types are thinking - "Oh, well, I only fire a couple rounds to sight in my gun and then a few more during deer season, so I guess that isn't so bad." Think again. Because that's only the beginning. For example, another tactic that is gaining momentum is the banning of ALL lead bullets for hunting - just such a measure has already been proposed for deer hunting in Minnesota by (you guessed it) a suburban, female, Democrat legislator. And why? Well, it seems that after almost a century of Minnesota hunters eating deer meat (without a single case of "lead poisining" ever recorded), suddenly a few tiny grains of lead that MAY have fragmented from the bullet are a "serious threat" to public health. The "lead phobia" is so out of control that community "food shelf" groups are turning down perfectly good deer meat! Apparently it is better to let the homeless starve than risk their ingesting a few grains of lead (which is almost always removed during processing anyway). Oh, one other reason for banning lead - apparently someone, somewhere found a sick eagle and was oh-so-certain that it became ill by feasting on...deer guts. Ipso facto, it MUST have been due to...lead fragments! Now, those of you who have priced solid copper bullets lately will understand what passage of such mandates will mean. If solid copper ammunition costs around $50 a box now, imagine what it will cost when they are MANDATED. But if Minnesota's 500,000 deer hunters sit silently on their lazy apathetic butts, it WILL happen. But there's more. Taxes. In an economic downturn, state governments are looking for every opportunity to expand their tax base - and gun owners are right in their cross-hairs. Even as I write this, proposals are already being floated to: * Add a huge tax on each new firearm purchased - some states even want to apply a tax to private sales of USED guns. * Require registration of all existing firearms - with a big fee attached of course. * Additional taxes on ammunition (on top of all the other mandates mentioned). * Raising "concealed carry" permit fees to $500 or more - Obama himself has stated he would like to see ALL carry laws repealed (heavily armed personal bodyguards are OK for him and his fellow legislators, but allowing YOU to carry a handgun....oh no...too risky). Some savvy Democrats realize such a drastic measure would cost them in the mid-term elections, but, hey, if they can't repeal them, no problem - just make permits so expensive that most folks won't be able to afford them. * Raising hunting license fees dramatically - remember that the anti-gun types hate ALL hunting, so anything that discourages it is fine with them. * Creating outrageous "special fees" for "military style" firearms (AKA "assault weapons") - Oh, and the definition of "assault weapon" will be expanded to include just about every auto-loading firearm in the nation (another Obama proposal). * Require "state approved" training for all gun owners - at YOUR expense, of course. * Continued attacks on Gun Shows - either outlawing them completely, or slapping huge taxes on both exhibitors and patrons. This obsession with gun shows continues, despite years of studies, by the FBI and others, that prove what gun owners knew all along: thugs, drug dealers, and gangbangers do NOT get their guns from gun shows (or any other legal source, for that matter) - they steal them or buy them from the black market. * Expanding the definition of "unlicensed dealer" to mean ANYONE who transfers a gun, thus requiring a background check and a "transfer tax" - even from a father who gives his own son a gun for Christmas! (We're not making this up). And I haven't even touched on the "Star Trek" proposals that seek to require some sort of magic fingerprint recognition before the gun can be fired. The "thinking" that goes into these proposals goes beyond a lack of engineering realities - it is downright insane. Note that the anti-gun contingent will have all sorts of "nice" sounding language ("keeping guns out of the wrong hands...protecting the children...'common sense regulation'...blah, blah, blah.") to describe these covert assaults on your privacy and your rights, but their real goal has never changed - slowly but surely eliminating the private ownership of firearms, by gradually making it ever more expensive, more complicated, and more time consuming, so that eventually, you just throw in the towel. Don't believe it? Ask yourself this: If Feinstein, Schumer, Pelosi and friends could get away with it, would they ban virtually every gun you own? Unless you're in total psychological denial, you know the answer. Ironically, the same people who wail and wring their hands over the "intrusiveness" of anti-terrorism measures such as the Patriot Act have no problem using the power of government to target innocent gun owners. But then, to these people, an American gun owner is a far greater threat than an Al Qaida terrorist. So, thank you, all you guys (and girls) who made this possible. And when you wake up a year or two from now, and wonder where your rights went, just don't say we didn't warn you. Or...you can join the fight now - better late than never. And your fellow gun owners will welcome you back with open (albeit locked and loaded) arms.

Is dinner served to you yet? hope hubby can take his apron off by 7:00 Pm Just kidding Very Cool to be within 20yds of a live lion. Thanks for sharing with us. You the WOman

Very Cool Amanda. What a great thing to get to see and video. How close did you get to it?

Casey, Take care of that banana foot/clip would ya

Not sure why you want a short mag But I heard Lark has his 270 up for sale. It comes complete with windage and elevation indicators Might want to shot him a PM Sorry for the hijack Good luck on your search

What about blood in his beds where you jumped him or on the trails to or from the beds? I still feel he is not hurt that bad but may be way wrong. I gut shot animal is so sick they just do not want to run and you should see him hunching. Him not running like a bat out of does not concern me either and the fact your dad jump him from a ways away also leads me to not think he's gut shot. I would think he would have stayed put till the last few feet. I don't know Buddy. Good Luck

I don't think they will ever be able to get that passed. Yes jump in there with both feet. If nothing else start buying supplies

Hope you can live up to your user name

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I really do not think he is hurt enough to die today or even tonight if ever. If you push him you may never find him.

Personally I would give him more than a couple hours. If he was gut shot he should have been showing signs of being sick or humping over. Either way I do not think I would go back out till tomorrow. What is the temperature like where you were? I may be all wrong here, hopefully some others will express their thoughts.

COUESAZ, the Deer stood in that spot for 10-15 minutes and then just a spotted blood trail. I agree there is a lot of splatter but once the ground got a small puddle formed it would splatter quite a bit. My $.02

Kinda hard to tell from the pictures and shading but looks to me to be Vascular blood. = shot in the leg. Dout you hit the femoral Artery or there would have been more blood. How much of the arrow was sticking out?

This has nothing to do with the Wardens as most of them are great. This has to do with the Commission wanting to decrease harvest so they can increase opportunity for financial gain. This is a stupid, unenforceable law that I am afraid will turn some honest hunters into law breakers and the ones that already do not respect the law will continue to do it and unfairly have an advantage over the law abiding hunters. How many water sources out there have had salt on them? better yet and easier to answer, haven't? That salt has leached into the ground and will be an attractant for many years to come. When will it be OK to hunt these water sources with out the fear of being ticketed for hunting over an attractant? The Commission still has not figured out that THEY can not recruit hunters only hunters can recruit hunters and by angering hunters they are getting the opposite of what they want.

Seems to me that a Super bowl is a bowl of shrimp or at least chips and salsa Do they still play that game where the players get payed Way to much and get hurt and sit on the bench and make something like a $1000.00 a day I remember something about that back when I lived in PA. there was something about a steel curtain was that like a bullet proof vest or what Hope you can get a good turn out for you BBQ I dont't think I will make it from the rim area and welcome to the site