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Does he have a rat tail hangin out of the back of that hat?

This plays into my theory that the flatter the brim the bigger the douche.

Very nice! You’re gonna grin the first few times you pass someone on a two lane highway and you go from 65 to 85 in a few seconds when the turbo spools up!

6.5 for me. That’s the main reason I haven’t looked at a tundra. You have to give up bed length or cab space and I’m not comfortable giving up either. If it fits in your garage get the long bed. I have a tool box in mine most of the time for the farm and can still get an elk in there whole. I personally like the balanced look of the long bed as well but I know some people prefer the short bed. If you’re gonna put a gooseneck hitch in it the extra length will help as well. I really like the bigger mirrors that MOST of the max tow package rigs have. Although you’ll have to fold them in for an average garage door so look at auto fold if you need to or just get the small mirrors. They will have less wind noise at high speed (80+) going into a headwind.

Found one a couple days ago in ND!! Sorry not much help for you guys lucky enough to be in AZ!

I’ve had a 2012, 2014 and now a 2017 F150 with 3.5 eco boost. All have been excellent rigs. I’ve taken them all three to 99,000 miles and traded. They’ve all been identical, long bed, crew cab XLT with max tow package, 3.55 rear end, locking rear diff and the 40,20,40 bench in front. I search them out exactly like that. The newest has a 10 speed in it which I do like. They get decent mileage. 20-22 if it’s flat and not windy and you drive under 70. It goes out the window fast if you are pulling, bucking wind, or climbing, but so do most rigs with the exception of diesels. Make sure you get the 36 gallon gas tank. These things pull unlike any gas I’ve ever driven imcluding my dad v10 f250. They do LOVE the gas though when pulling. Mine will pull my 8000 pound corn planter on a 4500# deck over flatbed down the interstate at 75 without hardly shifting on the inclines,but it’ll get about 5-7 mpg doing it. I pull about 5-10% of my miles max, I could easily justify a diesel considering I’m pulling more then a majority of people, but the cost of purchase, ownership, rough ride, smelling up my garage, and cost of diesel keep me from doing it. I absolutely love my exoboosts. I’ve paid between $34k-$37k and gotten $19k-24k on them on trade with 99k miles. That works out to about $0.15 a mile for driving a brand new pickup every two years. I have yet to figure out a cheaper route to go considering the miles I put on. Take the factory rubber off before you leave the lot, the Goodyear wranglers they put on them are absolute garbage.

Also one more thing I’ve learned in my struggle to be a better antelope hunter is to get a good phone scope for your spotter or a decent hyper zoom camera (I have a little image stabilized canon that was like $250 at Walmart that has a 60x optical zoom and it does well for scouting and takes way less time to set up then a phone scope and spotter). Take tons and tons of pics of every “decent” buck you see. Then when you get back to camp at night you can flip through them and compare and contrast the ones you think were big. So often for me I get an initial look at them and it’s burned into my memory how long the prong was, or how tall etc etc and in my mind it gets bigger and bigger. Then I get back and look over the pics and realize it was actually a young buck with light bases and it made the prong look big etc. Sometines the morning light will hit a buck just right and you’d swear he’s 90” and then you get to looking and you were way wrong. Sometimes the opposite happens and you think they aren’t great and you get back and start looking over photos and realize they were a big old mature buck with a big head and it’s actually a smoker and you overlooked it. Anyhow that’s my most important piece of antelope hunting “wisdom”!

Congrats on the tag!! You had a 1/100 chance of pulling it so consider yourself blessed but do those of us who weren’t as lucky a favor and make the most of it!! Buy the Bo permit without a doubt. You’ve got the chance to have an absolute world class antelope hunt and kill a giant. If they auctioned that tag it would probably bring $15,000-20,000 so consider it a lottery win and make the most of it. Spend a few hundred bucks on gas and the $80 or whatever it is to access the Bo. Get up there for a couple weekends leading up to the hunt (more if you’ve got time) and most importantly take off 3-4 days prior to your hunt. Do your hunting before the hunt and kill on opening morning. So many people show up for antelope hunts on opening morning without ever looking around at all then expect to hunt for 3-4 days into the season. The best bucks are gonna go down at daylight on opener. There’s always a chance you can kill one sleeper buck that’s been hiding in the cedars anytime during the season, but I personally would make the “hunt” the few days leading up to opener. It’ll be less stressful, look over a ton of bucks when they aren’t being shot at, pick out “the one”, figure out what he does and be in there opening am and smack him at daybreak. Also post pics!!!

Sweet rifle!! Don’t see to many out there in the good ol 25-06 anymore!

You nailed that steak!!! Man that made my mouth water!!! I’ve taken out a majority of mine on my back. A the rest with side by sides, pickups, horses, even a boat! I’m not gonna let a packout scare me away from chasing a bull but man it sure is nice to see this sight!!! My dad makes a good counterbalance for the steep slopes!!!

The last 4 elk I’ve killed have been shot 4, 3, 2, and 3 times. All were between 120 and 380 yards with a .300 lapua shooting 210gr Berger’s at 3300 or a .280 Nosler shooting 195 Berger’s at 3100. Elk are tough as nails. All 4 of those bulls would have been dead after the first shot, but they tend to dance around for a bit after you shoot them through the lungs, especially if they weren’t spooked when you started shooting. I’ve seen weird stuff happen with bullets hitting big critters so I keep shooting till they are on the ground and suggest you do the same. A high shoulder hit will drop them 95% of the time, but the other 5% it won’t, and it’s not a lethal hit and they’ll be gone. A friend of mine shot a bull with a 30-378 wby at 150 yards this fall through the shoulder and we never found him. He had a decent chance and he didn’t get another one in him. They had it on video and you can plainly see the hair part where the bullet hits. Dead center in the shoulder blade about 8-10” below his backline. Nearest we can figure it was above the lungs and somehow missed the spine. Followed him for about a mile and lost his tracks. No blood at all. The take home I have is that I’d rather get that first bullet through the lungs and rip them up and worry about anchoring them with the second and third shots. And again, keep shooting till they aren’t moving.

I grew up in ND and these guys are some deer/elk draggin sob’s!!! I’ve heard so many stories about guys dragging deer out for literally miles, just to load em in the pickup and then take em home and quarter them. I just don’t get it. Don’t get me wrong, when I shoot a deer on private land and can get him out whole and skin and quarter in the comfort of my heated shop hanging from the tractor loaded I certainly do as I can do a better job, but a hot weather elk hunt where you end up having to quarter it anyway to hang it, it just doesn’t make sense!!

This stuff is really cool. I just ordered a Daniel defense 300 bo with a pinned on suppressor and a 7” barrel (I think). Total barrel length is legal. I probably won’t see it till fall but this is the pipe dream I have for it.

It could be that the throat in your 54 is just worn a little.

Sounds like you missed it by a few days!!! It’s really tough to have good snow goose hunting and live far away. I live right in the middle of it and I would say that I only have a real barn burner once ever couple years. There’s a whole lot of zero and single digit hunts in there for every one you see with a giant pile!!!

I’m on the fence, but I’m in ND!! I’ll buy it if you’ll deliver!!!! If my dang FFL wasn’t $50 for a transfer I’d be all over having you send it up.

Glad you got some. Any day you can kill an adult snow goose is a good day. Big storm rolling through today and tomorrow. That’s the only way to kill adult snows consistently is a blizzard or fog. E callers in the spring make for awesome fog or whiteout hunts! Back when I was in college at ND state I would track the spring blizzards and just skip class and go where the birds and blizzard would meet! Shot 57 adult birds in 2 hours one morning by myself. Woulda had 3-400 if there woulda been a big group of shooters.

Sorry to hear that Bob! 98 is a pretty solid go at it though and from the sound of it he kept pretty active up till the last few years.

Go to the Home Depot parking lot in Glendale and pick up a few “packers” to help out!

Google and learn the gutless method, boned out quarters and get a good pack frame. Anyone who spent 8 hours dragging an elk is not someone you should take hunting advice from. If you have the November hunt it will be cool enough to hang the quarters and you’ll have time to get them out. If not, be careful you don’t shoot one too far in or have lots of friends.

There’s a loooongggg story behind that. That being said, power lines can certainly have good feed and should not be overlooked.

Thanks for clarifying that. I panicked after reading this and went into my account on NMGF worried I had missed buying something and would get booted out of the draw. It’s just the $65+$4 like you said.

I like it so far. If the gun ever failed me I could take the scope off an beat an elk to death with it. Wish they could squeeze 3-27 out of the ultra short. I ordered a 3-27 ps2 first but it was gigantic. The 3-20 is a little heavier then the 2.5-25 March it replaced but its rock solid. The March had a calling on another classic looking 7STW of mine that needed a better scope! How’s your March working out?

I think that’s a perfect use for that cartridge. I would just step back to where you had it and stick with it. 2800fps with a 143 will kill any javelina within a mile. I would think any permanent damage to the rifle would be visible. That’s why they put gas vents on the side of them so if you really overdue it it’ll go that way. That being said I wouldnt try it again. If even drop a little lower in case you have it out when it’s really hot outside. Thank you for not going on forums and claiming elk kills at 800+ yards with it. I have no doubt it will do it under ideal situations, there are just too many keyboard jockies out there running creedmoors with no idea what they are (aren’t) capable of. It sounds like you have a pretty good handle on it though. If she ever draws an elk tag, as much as I hate to say it, it would make a good short range elk gun for her too. I’d just use the 7mm to be safe though!