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I burned a bunch of points and drew the first season. I’m trying to put together a plan for my wife and I to come down in late April for a few days. I’m sure we can find some turkeys so I’m not too worried about that, but was more interested in ideas on access and places to stay. Was thinking of staying in Sonoita at a VRBO or something so we could do some winery stuff and make more out of it then just blasting a turkey. Curious if the access in on the east side is decent? Looks like Gardner Canyon road goes in and is a public maintained road? I’m gonna assume there’s probably turkeys in most of those drainages. I haven’t spent any time in 34a though. Seem like a reasonable plan or would we be better staying on south end of Tucson and driving down and hunting Madera Canyon? My wife is tough and can backpack etc, but for turkeys, I figured staying in a nice hotel or VRBO and eating some nice dinners would make it fun for her. The weather and food sucks in ND so when we get away we try to maximize both. Thanks in advance for any of your 2 cents.

I’ve been shooting vitahvouri for a few years now pretty much exclusively. The decoppering agents they put in there must work as I feel like I get way less fouling with it. Seems to be right in there with others in my Sherman’s as far as velocity with the exception of RL 26 which is impossible to find so as far as I’m concerned doesn’t exist. I have had really good luck finding Vihtavouri powders at scheels so that’s the main reason I’ve moved over to it and have good supplies of 560,565,568 and 570 and use all of them. ES’s seem really well and temp stability seems pretty good in all of them.

I’m down in the valley right now visiting my sister. Anything from December to march makes me question my sanity for living in ND. That being said, anything from May to October made me question my sanity when I lived down here. Someday I’m gonna get smart enough to follow the ducks.

I’ve lived in ND almost my entire life and I’ve never seen anyone leave their truck run 24-7 🤷🏻‍♂️ Also the average high here in January is about 20 degrees. I can count on two hands the number of days a year the daytime high stays below 0. I’ve maybe seen 5-10 days in the 36 years I’ve lived here where the daytime high stayed below -20.

That was a good deal! I was thinking about selling mine, but won’t be selling them that cheap!

It wouldn’t hurt to put a little stanadyne in it. I think true, pure #2 will start clouding at 18 degrees.

This is so cool!

I’ve had two VX6’s that wouldn’t return to zero. I won’t own another. Euro optic had 3-18 Schmidt and Bender metas on sale then other day for $1999. Best scope on the market and a competitive price to the others. Of the two you listed I’d go Steiner in a heartbeat.

Great shot!! Looks at the beam length on the right side!!

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Is it a floor plate or a DBM? How does it shoot?

What do these have for bottom metal on them?

I wish I was closer, I’d be there.

I’ve got a set. I’d take 15’s over them if weight isn’t an issue. I’d take 12’s if weight is a big issue. I’m underwhelmed

Gorgeous! If it weren’t for the short barrels I’d be all over this!! Fortunately I think most guys prefer short barrels

I got 34a. It had the early season dates this year which work better for my farming schedule. I’m sure we’ll be able to track one down.

Correction. I did get my goulds tag just wasn’t a big enough charge for a text, had to check my app. The bison charger sure as heck was though son of a beach

Welp. Didn’t expect that. No goulds tag with 29 points but drew a bull bison tag with 10 🤦🏻‍♂️

I agree. I’ve spent well over $1000 on high end bipods and I still keep coming back to the Harris S25. In the short mode it’s perfect height for me prone. It’s the only one that when extended is perfect height for me to shoot sitting down. Faster then any other bipod out there to deploy, and if you actually sit down and compare the specs, they’re lighter then the other ones that are comparable lengths. Best of all they’re 1/3-1/4 the cost of the “high end” bipods.

I think they’re two very different Binos. If I had to pick one of the two for the rest of my life I’d pick 12’s over 15’s for general use, but they aren’t really apples to apples. The 14’s are more of a direct competitor to the 15’s, and from what I could see, the only advantage the 14’s have is size and weight. The image on the 15’s was better in my eyes. Definitely more magnification (the whole 14.7 on the 14’s vs 15’s must not be true; either that or the 15’s are 15.9 because there’s definitely more noticeable magnification on the 15’s)

Yeah. Heat waves were brutal, as you know nothing is immune to that. I was hunting a particular buck Eli had found so honestly didn’t glass with them a ton on that hunt since I spent most of the two days it took to kill him wandering around the desert in the blazing sun.

I got some time to sit down side by side with them, 15’s and 12 NL’s. They are good, not earth shattering. The 15’s are better in my opinion, just heavier. I’m gonna keep em all as I feel like they all have their niche, but if someone held a gun to my head and made me sell one pair right now it would be the 14’s.

Gasssssoooooliiine. I use a cheap chest freezer. Run it about 2-3 hours a day depending on how hot it is. Keeps things nice and cold. Then when I kill, I can run it longer if needed.

80 grains by weight of BH209 is a very stout load for mose traditional (non magnum) Muzzleloaders. If it’s a Remington ultimate or one of the Paramounts you can go above that but most of them that’s a pretty heavy load.

777 will shoot fine if you can mimic the same exact sequence in the field that you do at the range. Shoot, run a patch, shoot etc. The problem is, the second you let it ride around in the truck and in and out of camper etc with humidity and temp changes it goes to heck. The fouling takes on moisture from the air and the crud ring it leaves will shred your sabots different then at the range and it’ll shoot different. Blackhorn mitigates a lot of that by being oil rather then water based