nateNAU

Says the guy who hasn't shared one thing with this site.

Had a quick hunt this year. Found a pair of feeding in some tall grass. 50 yard shot with my new 375 caliber wildcat.

All the damage was low in the chest so there actually wasn't any meat loss

It was with a 260 gr accubond. He stumbled and went about 5 feet. It's a round that has taken elephant so I knew it was way overkill for javelina but I still wanted to give it a try. And a plus was the bullet skinned half the javi for me.

Vortex viper 20-60 85mm angled for sale. I purchased this about 3 years ago and it has seen little use. $500 Located in flagstaff

One of my favorite fields to coyote hunt in 5bn. I shot one under the big lone juniper on the left last weekend

How about watering times? When do you all seem to find them hitting water?

Mini 14 rifle for sale. Got it as part of a trade and just have no interest in it. Good condition with some handling marks on the stock. Located in flagstaff. $700 Nate 928 607-9588 I will respond quickest to texts

Sold

Back up for sale. No holds.

I will be hunting near port alfred on the eastern cape. Really excited to see some new country and new animals. My last trip was in the northern cape near Kimberly. Before my last trip I was pretty ignorant of south African culture and history. After an awesome trip and meeting some great people I have been really infatuated with the country. I picked up reading H. Rider Haggard and have read just about every novel of his. Really an amazing history.

I absolutely will!

I am headed there in April and an eastern cape kudu is no 1 on my list!

No doubt!

7e is mediocre on a good year, both archery and rifle, and really tough on bad rut/ warm and dry late hunt years. If you have time to hunt the whole hunt plus a good deal of pre season scouting you can land yourself a decent bull. There are Elk all across the unit from waputki nat. Park to the north all the way to twin arrows to the east. With 5 points I would try for something like 5bN. You will have a much better experience. There are some good bulls taken on occasion in 7e though. Here is one that I chased for a couple years. Never could turn him up during hunting season.

I have and use a whites tm808 but I do more cache type metal detecting.

SPF

Correction. Take the 4457 with all the items you are declaring to the CBP. They have too see them and get any serial numbers off the items if applicable

It's a form 4457. You should be able to find it online. Then take it to CPB at sky harbor and the will sign and stamp it and staple it in the back of your passport. It's to prove you owned the items before you left and that you are not smuggling high dollar or regulated items like guns, jewelry, optics, ivory ect.

Just got a 19b rifle leftover.

After a lot of years of contemplating, I finally decided to bite the the bullet and apply for wyoming. I really wanted to hunt this year and decided on unit 102 becuase of the draw odds and a moderate amount of public land access. I only had 5 days total for travel and hunting which equated to about 2 1/2 days to hunt in a unit I have never laid eyes on before. The opener worked out great with my 5 year olds son's fall break so he came with me on the hunt. A big snow storm rolled in a couple days before the opener but I still decided to stick with opening weekend for our hunt. We rented a little air bnb cabin in our unit and our host was very gracious and gave us hunting permission on his aprox. 100 acres which bordered public to the north. Opening morning we decided to access a big chunk of public land along the big horn mountains. After a few miles along a county road road we hit a huge snow drift that was impassable so we had to hoof it the last mile to our acess point. When we got to the access point there were already numerous trucks there that had come along the county road from the north. We got up to a big knob and could see many other hunters who were clearly looking for antelope along with a lot that were making their way up towards timber who were probably deer or elk hunting. As we got to our high spot my son was complaining about his feet hurting so I told him to take his boots off. Sure enough he had big blisters on his feet. It was my fault as I made him wear brand new snow boots as opposed to his normal hiking boots because of the snow. After glassing for a bit and seeing no antelope and only hunters we decided to head back to the truck. I had to carry him 1 mile out of the hills and 1 mile down the county road back to the truck. We ran into town and got bandaids and electrical tape to try and fix his feet up and we switched to his regular hunting boots that were broken in and much tighter. That afternoon we decided to try the public land that was adjacent to where we were staying. Every access point had multiple vehicles parked at them and every little knoll had an orange hat on it. I was checking my onx, scrambling, trying to come up with a game plan. I found a stretch of public land about only 1/2 mile wide and 1 mile long right a long the highway but though it may not be hit as hard as some of the bigger chunks of land. It had a lot of little rolling hills that could hide an antelope. After about a 1/2 mile walk in this section we saw 3 does running and we made a break to try and intercept them. We went able to before they hit the highway and crossed over into another unit but at least we saw antelope on public. We decided to get on a knob in this area the following day because at least we had it to ourselves. The next morning we were kind of slow to get up and as I got up and looked out our window I saw a string of about 50 antelope on the adjacent private to the west. They and just come off public! We got dressed quick and and walked over the the big chuck of public they had just come off of and got up on a little hill where we could see them. They were acting really skidish and had probably already been shot at at day break. They we still on private but as a vehicle drove past them they turned and started headed back toward public. I was set up and ready to take a shot, but when they got within 50 yards of the fence line the mulled around and bedded down. I waited for about an hour but they showed no intention of crossing the fence. I decided to glass to the west and north in the public section to see if I could turn anything up. After a while I glassed up a head of a doe bedded down to the west at what I guessed was about 1500 yards. I kept watch trying to determine if it was within the boundaries of public when I see a big buck stand up and stretch right next to the doe and bed back down. I'm pretty sure the are on public so we make a bee-line towards them and when we get over there we realize the are 15 yards on the wrong side of the fence. They rest of the hunt was pretty much like this. Close calls but just outside of land we could hunt on. We saw probably 500 antelope in our unit but they very much know where they are safe. It was a great trip with my son and one that I will never will forget. We plan on doing it again next year but the key will be to try and line up some private land access as these antelope definatly know where they are safe.

Every ranch hand I have met on the Bo or Redlands seemed like super solid guys. I would put money that a "hunter", not one of them was the culprit.

Grey fox distress for fox. For bobcat any predator call works but they can be slow to come in so you have to wait past the usual 15-30 you do on a coyote stand. My last bobcat came in just shy of the 2 hour mark.

It's really cool you took that pic down the spiral. Little know fact is that if you look down the spiral you can see the eye. A kudu can see up the center and not have a blind spot caused by the horn from ambush above. Zoom in on your pic and you can see the eyeball!

I was blasting doves at sundown last night at had a nice 6x6 walk into about 300 yards. Stood there and watched as I shot a few more times. I packed up and as I started to drive away I saw him walk down to the water. Away from the peaks out in the cedars. Lots of elk down there.