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Pete has been at the meetings since early on. I used to go to the range in San Manuel when the Magma/BHP was cranking. That was a nice range, always enjoyed the trails. They also had a moving target setup that was pretty cool.

I will be there as well. Invite all that can make it. Hey all, We are down to the wire on the archery range at Oro Valley. We have worked very long and hard on this proposal since July of 2010 with endless meetings, tours, set ups, rounding up funding etc., and now we are down to a meeting of the Oro Valley Town Council on January 4th at 6PM for approval or not. Recently, the local Audubon Society has been enlisted to oppose this range in the park saying that it will disrupt bird llife, kill saguaros, and adversely affect native vegetation. Interesting statements since this park is about 2/3 former gravel pit and is master planned for ball fields, dog runs, and other urban amenities. They have written several letters in opposition and will no doubt show for the meeting to speak against it. The three of us have done all we can to facilitate this range at our expense. It is now in your hands to help push this thing to fruition. If the Council hears an equal number of supporters, or hopefully even more than equal numbers of archers, the facility will be a go. If not, who knows? So, I hope you will all show, invite your friends and other supporters, pass the word to locals and make this range a reality. It is absolutely critical that we have the room filled with supporters for this meeting. If not, I guess you can find somewhere else to shoot as you can bet the local environmental extremists will be there to stand against it.

sorry for not following this up, this was sold to rckymnthunter back in May

Hello, I have a Savage 116 (SS) chambered in 300 Remington Ultra Mag. I have a developed load (175 grn Berger VLD shooting at 3200 fps, 87.5 grns of H1000) -trigger worked over to 2.5 lbs -Boyd Laminate, bedded stock, lateral dowel added for rigidity -factory selectable muzzle break -Ken Farrell 15 MOA Picatinny scope base bedded to action, rings lapped -Nikon Monarch 5-20 x 44 scope -Limb Saver butt pad -die set included -40 pieces of new remington brass included Asking $1000 thanks, Richard I have this picture below for now but I will add some better detailed pics soon.

Well, had a great hunt with 4 out 7 of us tagging out in 2 days of hunting. I shot this guy on opening morning. Helped my brother in law take his first coues at 515 yards with my rifle. My new Eberlestock Dragonfly really got broken in as I helped pack out 3 of the 4 deer in such a short time. I have shot a few coues with my best scoring 78" and told my self a few years ago to start holding out, when I glassed him up I thought to pass because he was a bit broken but seeing the fourth point and the decent mass I had to shoot, I shot him at 200 yards with my Sendero 7MAG and 168 grain Berger. All 4 deer were taken with Bergers and they all fell in their tracks! I taped him out to 85" What a blast, we had a large camp with a few new to coues deer hunting, one of the guys bought new binos as soon as the hunt was over realizing they were the key to a successful hunt for next year.

Special Notice Proposed Archery Park InOro Valley We need your support OPEN HOUSE When: Monday, September 26, 2011 Time: 5 to 7 PM Where: Oro Valley Council Chambers 11000 North La Cañada Drive Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 Plan on attending. Have questions, want to learn more? For further Information Contact: Hank Adair 349-0463

Special Notice Proposed Archery Park InOro Valley We need your support OPEN HOUSE When: Monday, September 26, 2011 Time: 5 to 7 PM Where: Oro Valley Council Chambers 11000 North La Cañada Drive Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 Plan on attending. Have questions, want to learn more? For further Information Contact: Hank Adair 349-0463

My faith in internet stories has been restored. Finally, some honesty in big buck hunting stories... Here's a picture of the new world record whitetail buck. It was taken by the cousin of a co-worker's sister's, uncle's, best friend's, son-in-law's, niece's hairdresser's, neighbor's ex-boyfriend's oldest nephew. Reportedly it will score 2603-1/8 by B&C standard and was shot in West Texas on a really windy day, 85 degrees downhill, around a curve at 900 yards with a .22 cal. rifle. Supposedly, this deer had killed a Brahma bull, two Land Rovers in the last two weeks alone. They said it was winning a fight with Bigfoot when it was shot. It has also been confirmed that the buck had been seen drinking discharge water from a nuclear power plant. All this has been checked and confirmed on Snopes. Really. Honest!!! Sincerely, Barack H. Obama

I understood it differently, if you look at the perrin ranch it is entirely checkerboard, there is a ton state trust land, which you will not be able to use a firearm on this year because these parcels are within the ranch boundaries. Next year you will have to also stay a 1/4 mile away from these turbines (62 of them) because they are treated as occupied structures, and the addition of 35 miles of roads.

I have been waiting to see this, awesome bull, it was not a comissioner tag, he won the super raffle! That thing is awesome.

From inciweb.org The property damage has been assessed in the community of Greer. In total, 22 homes lost, 5 damaged, 24 out-buildings, and 1 vehicle. Apache County Sheriff's Officials are in the process of notifying the property owners.

The stories about the dead elk and confused animals just kills me.... Here is another informative blog http://firefighterblog.com/ not as informative as wallow.us but stories from the inside.

I know you are excited about the tag but as stated from Finch on the wallow.us sight as they are mopping up areas that have burned there are dead elk everywhere. One way to look at it is that the G&F quota has probably already been met or exceeded in both 1 and 27. I doubt very much there will be any hunting in here for a few years IMO. I shot a bull and turkey in 27 this last season and I feel that I did them a huge favor by sparing the enormous stress of this fire.

I do not want to add to the finger pointing but I heard some news from my buddy in Alpine that a group from the Alpine fire crew were on their way to help fight the fire when it started and they were stopped by the forest service and actually had a confrontation when the forest service said they could not go in because it would "just burn itself out".

Yep, still available, PM me if you are further interested. Here are a few more pics, I have a file for Microsoft Visio so you can make custom turret wraps as well. You'll see the pics of the turrets.

We did well opening weekend. Called one in on Saturday morning and then another Sunday morning. They were not silent, both came in gobblin'

I drew the same tag, never even stepped foot into 10 before. I have been looking at tons of maps, it seems most of the area is checker board private and state trust. Is access pretty good? I need to contact the WM and get his take also. I am excited to learn a new unit. I have heard that this unit has a lot of glassable country, I am use to finding little grey deer at 1000 yards so finding large brown elk should be easy right? LOL

Congrats, lots of great advice already. I drew an archery tag last year. Elk101.com was great. Also pick a few different calls, keep them all in your car and do not listen to your radio until after september. If you have a partner have him practice just as much. After a while you will see that one or two of those calls works better for you. Have ab backup plan if they are not talking. That is what happened to me so I sat a tree stand over water and shot mine. Be patient I ruined a few opportunities by chasing other bugling bulls and not waiting out the one that was already coming in until I stood up LOL. Good luck!

Sweet!! Unit 10 rifle bull!! I have only hunted elk in 1 and 27 so this whole area is new to me. Cannot wait to learn a new unit!!

I gut shot a buck last year due to a Rage blage that was loose from stalking, I recovered the horns but the coyotes ate the rest. Threw those away and tried Muzzy's but those flew like crap and I could not tune them. Finally tried the G5 Strykers and they flew great. Took my first bull elk in september with tthe Stryker and it was devastating, the bull only made it 60 yards.

I load 175gr Berger VLDs for my 300 ultra, I have shot 5 antelope in Wyoming and 1 coues, if you hit them in the vitals you will not loose any meat. I have never had to do any tracking either, Bergers cause huge amount of internal damage, I have been super happy. I now have loads with the 185 grainers but I have been doing well with my bow lately and have not had a chance to use it on game. 36B...ouch bring your kevlar body armor and a sat phone.

we have one 700 that has been "defective" several times and it just sits in the safe now, too scary never took it to a smith. my other 700 has been fine, no problems

Wow, was not expecting this kind of news this fast but.... The organizers have already met with the park and rec board and the board will recommend to the town council to proceed. This could happen by Nov 1st. This is really looking like a go ahead from the town of Oro Valley! Great news!

Special Notice Proposed Archery Park We need your support Oro Valley Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Meeting Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 Time: 6:30 PM Where: Town of Oro Valley Hopi Room 11000 North La Cañada Drive Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 Plan on attending. We need your show of support at this important meeting For further Information Contact: Hank Adair 349-0463

The meeting went well. This was only the first. My observations... -Area is in the existing Naranja Park in Oro Valley -A retired game and fish biologist presented the plan to the board. He did a great job of talking to the board. -Game and Fish willing to put bathrooms in along with other funding. PSE possibly to add funding. Would probably not cost the town of Oro Valley very much. -A site plan was proposed that had a stationary traditional range with stagard targets to 100 yards. There were two walking paths that had 14 targets each useing the natural terrain and vegetation requiring "very little impact to the environment", with a covered picknic area. -One board member replied that the paloverde trees, saguaros, and one unique woodpecker would all eventually get shot -Same board member also stated that with us hiking around in there would increase erosion -We learned later that the master plan for this park 2 years ago included an amphitheater and a ton of other "structures" which would require bulldozing this same area, so this one board members arguement does not stand in my book. The bond for this plan was shot down by voters and now this land is not in use except for the Sonoran Desert Flyers (RC plane club) -Sooooo the town of Oro Valley is looking for stuff like this to occupy the space that is relatively inexpenssive and could be moved somewhere down the road. This course meets that requirement. -and of course we had the one person from the community that disagrees and complains about everything. Please remember that these statements were my observations and opinions. I will keep you posted to further meetings, we had a decent turnout.