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I saw some pics of some of these things recovered out of an oryx after a rodeo trying to get it killed. Complete jacket separation and lead was nowhere to be found. I'm gonna steer clear of them unless the start bonding them or make an all copper version.

Wrong.....I only buy bonus points for bighorn and buffalo and I have a loyalty point. You need to be gettin in on the draw! Unless you're 12 and gonna live to be 100 you'll never get yourself into a position of a guaranteed tag so it's gonna be luck of the draw (slim chance luck no matter how many points you have) until you die. May as well take a crack at them each year!!

It was a funny movie. Sorry if I taught any of your kids the F word.

I would kill to have the 17 points I have in CO for deer and elk in any other western state!!! Yet I still keep plugging along hoping someday to catch a tag to shoot a 310 bull!!

I believe the Big Bo permits are limited so you might wanna get on that asap. It's very inexpensive when you factor in that your dad has been eating a $150 hunting license every year for the last 18 years to draw the tag so if I were in your shoes I'd get that bought asap. Even if you don't hunt the big bo it's worth the small fee to make sure you can ( you probably will).

Good tag! Don't forget that most people in AZ wait 18-22 years to hunt bulls during the rut with the rifle! You've got one of the best elk tags in the country! Yes there is some hassle and yes there could be some heartache if they postpone or cancel your hunt but from the sounds of it you don't have many if any points invested to go make the best of it. You'll be chasing the same elk the 6b guys waited 8-10 years to chase with a bow and 18-20 years to chase with a rifle! The bulls will be where the cows are that time of year and the cows will be in the depot for sure. Listen for bugles and you may be able to catch a heard in the buffer area to chase or if there's a heard in the limited area you can catch them coming out at the fence crossings. I was in there on a October cow hunt with a buddy and the area was tore up with rut activity. They were pretty well blown out of there by his hunt but we did get into one herd and he missed a shot at 130 yards. I wouldn't worry to much about scouting but if you can get in and deer hunt the last couple days of the deer season it won't hurt. Don't plan on seeing much for deer though! Finally, thank you very much for your service!!!!

I'm in the same boat on Colorado deer. I have 17 pts and could probably grab a pretty good tag this year because of all they hype but dunno how bad it really is. My experience with winterkill here in ND is it usually gets the fawns and the sick but the mature and up and coming bucks are ok but it might be different in the mountains.

The drop won't matter. All rifles drop at long range.... a lot... so you have to compensate for that. Yes a 257 weatherby loaded hot will drop significantly less then your 30-06 at 500 yards but you have to adjust for hold over with either one, just a little more on the 06. You could get one of these new ruger bolt guns or a savage for around $300. Both should shoot right around an inch at 100 or better. I bet you could re sell your 7400 for nearly that or more fairly easily as they seem to have a cult following. Maybe it shoots just fine. Get it on a bench and see how it groups at 100 and you'll know if it's worth trying to make it a mid/long range gun.

What kind of groups does it shoot at 100? The 7400's I've been around struggle to stay inside 4" at 100. If you take that out to 500 you're talking a 20" group. Might wanna look into a good bolt action to go with the vortex bdc if you wanna take it that far. The 30-06 end of it will be fine to that distance.

Do they only hunt Russians?

Good lord. He need any new friends??? That triple browtine bull is cool as heck.

Wow!!! I officially eat my words! Now I need to know what happened!!!

What receipt are you guys talking about the receipt I have emailed to me just says the amount I paid, date and other generic info. Every receipt I've ever gotten shows your choices as well You can also go into your account and go back to 2011 and see every app you submitted and every choice you put. I personally print off a sheet after every app that has my hunt codes and conf numbers on it as well. I think what everyone is saying is that the only way the elusive 3rd choice bull tag would be believable is if they'd just take a second and print off their choices from the account or one of their reciepts proving that. Not saying they have to but I for one won't believe it until I see it. Computers don't make mistakes. If they made such a perfect mistake as to juxtapose your first and second choice with your third but still manage to run a draw with 150,000 applications in it without doing it anywhere else I would be shocked. Anyhow, I'll eat my words if I see proof.

You can still withdraw your NM app and re apply for a rifle or muzzy hunt in October so you don't have a conflict.

I'll believe it only if I see an app receipt with choices on it and a tag with the code on it. Until then I stand firm that they screwed up their numbers.

I'm glad you wrote something as I saw the 1lb 7oz thing and thought that was the weight on the tripod and was about to order it. Then saw that you said the aluminum was same weight which got me really fired up to order one.

I think you're looking at the head weight, the cf is 3lb 10oz and the aluminum is 4lb 7 oz.

You always have the coolest stuff.

Truer words have never been spoken, especially from a guy with a giant desert sheep in his avatar picture. How many points did that take again!?!?

You had a lot of points and put in for the cow hunts? I am all about meat hunting but you are more committed than I am. Now I'm curious too! How many points did you burn? I'm assuming if you had more then a couple points you drew 6a cow in the bonus pass?

Not a giant, I mean, I don't know what is big for coues, but I am pretty certain it is a coues.Put up a pic of it next to a beer can or something for reference. It looks pretty big to me! All I had was a 20oz bottle Nice! Looks like with spread that's a high 90's buck! In the original pic it looked huge! Good find! Was this in the gila?

Not a giant, I mean, I don't know what is big for coues, but I am pretty certain it is a coues. Put up a pic of it next to a beer can or something for reference. It looks pretty big to me!

$6000 for a bull elk? Wyoming commissioner tag sells for $10,000 to get to go into that unit to hunt. That's complete BS.

Is that 3rd pic a giant coues?

If you go with the 7-08 or the 7x57 give the 150gr scirocco from swift a hard look. I've killed elk, moose, deer, oryx, and a boat load of smaller stuff with them out of my 7mm STW and all of the recovered bullets could have been in an advertisement they looked so perfect. Anywhere from 15 yards to 1015.