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Despite what the app magazines might say, there’s no “great units” when it comes to coues. Just different terrain, access and things to contend with. I would personally use those for a mule deer tag (archery kaibab) and go to MX and hunt em in the rut with a rifle with no other hunters. You’ll see less deer and less rut with more pressure in December then you saw in Jan during your archery trip. If you do decide to go, six eh would be as good a bet as any unit. Maybe look at twenty three as well. The further you can get from the valley in either one the better. Big muleys are expensive, MX coues are cheaper. I’d use the points to go have a crack at a big muley and then go to MX for coues if it was me.

You got any more pics? Looks like they’re covered in black calculus. Saw a deer like that once but it wasn’t jet black like that.

I keep coming back to this post to look at that pic over and over.

Incredible ram!! WOW!! Love the flare on him! Looks like the scouting pic is more of a Mexicana and yours looks like a Nelsoni? Were you on a boundary unit? The bases are so so so cool on that ram.

There’s a few hardworking whites out there. Let’s just say the ratio isn’t there on whites fellas. I’m in ND, so it’s a different blend here for sure, but all of our crime, all of our welfare cases, are all white dudes. We don’t have many Mexicans up here, but the ones we do all work their rears off, don’t complain, and pay their bills. White guys had their good generations and their over with now in general. This generations Mexican concrete finishers, roofers and landscapers are raising the next generation of contractors, doctors and lawyers. It’s happened with plenty of other ethnic groups in this country, it’s the American way and it’s a dang good one. I love to see hard work pay off for people.

We need to just crank the gates open and let em in. White folks don’t want to work anymore and I don’t know an industry that isn’t in dire need of more help. Don’t quite understand the “they’ll take our jobs” mentality. The only hard workers I know anymore are Mexicans and Central Americans. Bring em in, make sure they aren’t gonna strap bombs on their chests and blow up a building and send ‘em north. We need the help.

I can see 170. Take away a couple inlines, the split beam, and alll the little points and everyone would believe it’s a 135-140 buck. Add them back in and you’ve got 30” or more easily.

I’m not super familiar with these ranches, what percent is deeded and what is check boarded with public? As a private landowner in another state, I’ve always felt that true private ranches in AZ get the shaft by the draw system, but that all goes out the door when it land locks significant public land, especially when they have grazing rights for pennies on the dollar for those public acres. A lot of states, my home state included have non transferable landowner tag systems which I feel are a reasonable compromise. While I have certainly benefited from landowner tags in other states, I do understand the frustration and fear of what transferable landowner tags can do.

Garmin on order?

5 years ago I started keeping score on the archery hunters on our farm and how they do in recovery success on eastern whitetails. It’s WAY lower then you think and way lower then anyone will admit. This is just a cross sectional analysis of random hunters allowed to hunt here. So far they have recovered 6 and lost 5 with archery and are 9 for 9 with rifle. This is just straight up did they hit it and did they find it data. The shots I will definitely say were no better with rifle, they’re just so much more destructive. Anyone who claims archery has a higher recovery rate than rifle is lying, that data has been proven false over and over. Two years ago I made everyone quit hunting with a bow out of an elevated stand as that seemed to heavily influence if they were gonna wound or not and getting everyone on the ground seemed to help some. I’m gonna keep the data going in the future as it’s the only honest hard data I’ve found albeit a small sample size.

It’s gotta be hard to field judge them with that black blob on your face.

I’ve got one around somewhere, I’ll see if I can dig it up for some pics.

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Just cut it up with a scissors so it’s all the same 😂

Can you even get regular 7828 anymore?

The difference is actually in the barrel length. The downfall to a long barrel is OAL of the rifle. Shorter action = longer barrel. Shorter actions are generally stiffer as well. But yes you are correct apples to apples if they both have the same length barrel and all things are same they should be similar.

Shorter action can allow longer barrel length with same OAL of rifle.

Yeah the extensions are great for jump shooting but honestly if it’ll hold 5-6 that’s as many as you can get off accurately on decoying birds. The shots will be far on that hunt most likely as those birds have been pressured hard. I think there’s a lot of blasting into long range flocks on those hunts. Here’s a video to get him pumped up when they do it right. IMG_4809_TRIM.mov

That’s awesome! Did he figure out how to get the magazine plug out of it yet?

This is cool as heck! If he was closer I’d hire him to fab up a bunch of shoot for the farm. Made me feel a little better about the direction our society is headed.

The NW corner of ND is about as good as it gets these days. I have a farm in central ND which is the traditional prairie pothole area. While I love it, the NR pressure has changed things so much. The birds pile up north of the border until it freezes and blow through now. We’ve got some great land to hunt and still can struggle through October. Our opener in September is fantastic as we raise a ton of ducks and our November freeze out is unreal; but in between is rough.

That’s interesting you made that move as I’ve always told people that if I won the lottery and could live in any town in the country (I’d live in the country though) I would live in Payson AZ. When I lived in the valley I always felt like it was the best blend of decent weather, close to desert and the pines and good sized town. Anyhow, I think I’d miss the winter too much though. You’re totally right, when you get it figured out it’s not bad. A heated shop and an auto start on your truck really make it easy. I grew up on a farm and my dad wasn’t a great operator so we had no heated shop and it was miserable when things would break or a car wouldn’t start etc. I still think I have permanent nerve damage jn my fingers from trying to fix stuff barefingered in -25 when the metal literally sticks to your fingers. Now that I have a heated shop it’s no biggie. Just bring it in and deal with it tomorrow in my crocs.

Minot is the third worst place in ND behind Fargo and Grand forks. Gotta get west if there. There’s a line where the sun shines more and humidity is way less. If you go an hour anmd an half east of my house and fish lake sakakawea in early March there’ll be 40” or more of ice on an average year. If you go the same distance west and fish fort peck you’re lucky if there’s even enough ice to drive an ATV on to fish in march (12” or so usually). Huge difference.

Best advice. I’ve had over a dozen beretta autos and Inagree with you on this 100%.

Point them both, they both point much different. I wouldn’t give a half loaf of bread for a SX4 as I can’t shoot them at all but all berettas except the new A400 extreme plus point like a dream for me