Schmitty

You guys have had a fantastic fall! Congrats on a great year! Schmitty

For a good old fashioned breakfast sausage look for the AC Legg old plantation standard breakfast sausage mix #10. Add enough fatty pork to your venison and it's pretty similar to the hot and spicy jimmy dean. The best part is that a packet to do 25 lbs of meat is only $2-3. I've misplaced my favorite italian recipe. For Brats, I use the german sausage blend from zach's spice and add a bit of corn syrup and black pepper to the mix. For smoked, I really like the Dobesh blend w/ a bunch of Jalapeno's mixed in. For Chorizo, I've got a pretty good recipe that I've got written down somewhere, I've never tried a commercial blend. I buy all of my spice mixes from allied-kenco.com. We also make up a bunch of snack sticks and jalapeno cheddar summer sausage each year from a recipe that's on the texas bowhunters website. Good luck, Schmitty

You'll probably need to buy a one piece mount that will mount the scope far enough forward for proper eye relief. The cheapest ones out there are the Burris PEPR or the Rock River mount. I've got the Burris mount and it works quite well, I think it ran $65 or so. good luck! schmitty

That beautiful rig belongs to AZ's newest paramedic, Senor Port of Groom Creek. Unfortunately the NOTCAL sticker took the place of a real gem the "bullriders for Christ" logo that was on the truck when Cap'n Port bought that rig. I was a bit upset when I saw the new change. The CWT sticker is a relatively new edition as Colin associates w/ quite a few CWT'ers and his ugly mug can be seen on a recent fox killing thread. Glad to see the Dodge immortalized on the world wide web! Take care, Schmitty

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I'll take the .223 brass for sure and I'm interested in trading for the 6mm bullets. I've got plenty to trade. I'll have to go check my inventory. I'll send a PM your way. thanks, Schmitty

Great Job Weston and Dad! Thanks for the write up!

the little sporting goods/liquore store in williams will hang your carcass for $10/ day in their trailer.

Looks like some awesome country! Thanks for putting the video together for all of us to see! Schmitty

does it take the standard manfrotto quick release plate? If so I'll take it. Schmitty

Triple 7/Pyrodex -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Sale 1lb new/sealed can of Hodgdon Triple Seven FFG 2 boxes of Hodgdon Triple Seven .50 caliber/50 grain Pellets. 100 pellets each. New/Sealed 3 boxes of Hodgdon Pyrodex Pellets. .50 cal/50 grain 100 pellets per package. new/sealed. $75 takes it all. I live up in Prescott, but can deliver to North/Central PHX or if I hear by tomorrow night I can give it to my Sister who lives down in Tucson. thanks, Schmitty

Gene, Sounds good! You can go ahead and pay her once you have the powder in hand. We will be over at the beach all week and will be returning to Tucson next Sunday. I'll PM you her phone # so that you can get in touch. thanks, Schmitty

do you have to use all 7 nights at one location, or can you break it up at a couple of different locations?

the keyboard is mightier than the sword!

A healthy dose of both I imagine!

The AZGFD keeps talking about opportunity, recruitment and retention and they are about to put big game hunting out of reach for the common folk! A father who wants to enjoy an elk hunt with a couple of his kids? It's almost out of reach at the current tag prices, let alone w/ the current economic state. How much $ has been taken from the AZGFD's budget/surplus to put in the state's general fund over the past few years! If there's enough $ for the state to take from the AZGFD each year, they certainly don't have any business raising tag/license fees in the name of "wildlife management" I don't get it. Schmitty

Looks like a great time. Did you guys have to look high and low for the albacore? Looks like you hammered the yellowtail!, there are some big ones! How far south did you guys go? I take it the big red fish (not the sheepshead or rockfish) is some sort of a pargo? (snapper) thanks for the pics! Schmitty

I've shot a number of deer with my .243. For years I shot the 90 grain Barnes X and it performed very well on numerous mule deer. A few years ago after burning out the throat on the barrel shooting p-dogs w/ the aforementioned 55 gr B-tips my rifle stopped shooting the X bullets well and I've since switched over to the 95 gr Hornady SST. I took the .243/SST combo down to TX a couple of years ago to cull does/pigs with my brother at his buddies ranch and we were very impressed with the results. Complete pass thrus were the norm with typical cup and core damage to the carcasses. good luck! Schmitty

I've got a MZ tag and will most likely shoot 3 777 pellets as this load prints 1.5" groups out of my TC, not to mention the fact that I've got 3 unopened boxes. However, if I was just starting out I'd try this first: http://www.blackhorn209.com/ good luck, Schmitty

Strong work Casey!

I'll take the swaro adapter. send me a pm with an address to send the $ to. thanks Schmitty

Tim, I've got the 65mm HD if you want to try it out some time. just shoot me a pm, Craig

nice job!

One more question if you don't mind, can I get your load info for the TSX? Thanks 51.5 grains of IMR 4350 with the bullet seated .005" off the lands. Be careful and work your way up as this load is a 1/2 grain above the published max load.

The old X bullets used to have a reputation for fouling barrels do to a very long surface bearing area. However, I've found the TSX's to shoot very well and fouling is comparable to any other jacketed bullet. I'd give them a try as the 100 grain TSX was the most accurate bullet out of my 25-06.