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I have come to the same conclusion. In fact, I took my first yote of the year out of unit 22 this morning. I agree with ThomC, lets help the game and ourselves, who cares about G&F policy. I hope to become proficient and be able to eliminate some lions as well.

Thanks for the responses. The lost beef and elk calf sound like great idea's. I'm already doing rabbit sounds for other predators, who know's maybe I will get lucky.

76 Gr H1000 with 208 Amax has been deadly accurate for me. I have shot that load out to 1100 yards with great results. I have not developed a good elk load, I'm still waiting for that tag I have played with a longer coal but have never tried to shorten it so can't help you there maximus. Kaffer, you are on the right track with accuracy stick with bullets with high bc if you want to go long.

sorry, it is sold.

I have an full or almost full 8# metal can of IMR 4831. I do not no the age of the can, I think less than 20 years but don't remember when or from where I aquired it. This can has been opened but is nearly full, so I don't think much has been used from it. This works out to $15 a pound so this will be a good deal for someone. Since I have a partial can already that I don't use I see no need to keep this one. I am asking $120.00 for this, cash face to face only. If you have an interest please PM me. I will be in the Phoenix area on the morning of the 12th of December and again on the 16th.

So far I have only posted this on CWT. In a couple of day's I'm going to post elsewhere as well. Bump for a nice rifle.

What a cool lookin Muley. Congrats.

Wow, that's awesome. I went out and made 3 stands and got 0.

Great job with the video, and a nice mule deer. Was that unit 23 south?

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Amen to that one brother!!!

Great write up. Congrats on your deer, nothing like spending time with friends and family in the sticks.

By all means go for the full body, after all it's one of a kind.

I know nothing of this situation, but the first thing that comes to mind is what cost for what benefit. How can we possibly expect to make the whole national forest into an un-touched park? Maybe this isn't the right place for it but shouldn't the guy that wants to go tear around on a dirt bike have somewhere they can do it? At least it is getting used for something. And yes I agree with Seldom Drawn, if it involves the forest service it is a dog and pony show with the outcome already pre-determined.

that is awesome. I want one

Congrats Brian. Great job!!

Great job!!

You took some great pictures I would have guessed a lot more than 103 as well. Great job!!!

Thats awesome, I love those drop tines.

Looks like Tight Guy to me

I have spent most of the last half of December hunting whitetail with my friends Dave and Anthony. The hunt started on the 13th, but due to work, weather and my wife having surgery I did not get too involved until just before Christmas. We were fortunate enough to be able to hunt every day after Christmas and we even hunted the morning of Christmas day. On Monday the 30th we were down to the wire and both hunters had lowered their expectations. Anthony was willing to shoot just about anything in order to fill his tag and Dave was willing to look at anything around the 90 to 100 inch mark. I took Anthony and his friend Darrell up one ridge and Dave went up another. About 45 minutes in we spotted a small buck working his way towards some does. While Anthony and Darrell tried to track him I was setting up my custom 300 Win Mag for a long shot. After looking at the situation with the deer at 680 yards and heading over a hill we would not be able to see, we decided to relocate so that we could cut some of the distance off and see the shady side of the hill that he was heading towards....30 minutes later we were setting up on him again from a different hilltop. He did us the favor of standing out in the open on a rige top for 15 minutes and that was all we needed. Anthony was able to drop him with one shot at 621 yards. At this point Anthony and Darrell had work to do and were done hunting. I guided them to the deer and went to work looking for a deer for Dave. About 1 hour later Dave was watching some deer that I was not able to see. He said one of the bucks he would be happy with if he could get a shot, but he wanted help with the shot and watching the deer. It took me about an hour to get to Dave because I had to cross the canyon that was between us. When I arrived where Dave was, sweating and out of breath, he tells me the deer has vanished in the bottom of the canyon in the thick timber and scrub and he has not seen him since. We glassed the area for a couple of hours working on our sun tans in the middle of the day and never did see the buck that he had seen earlier. After a brief intermission for a nap, we both started moving around to look at other areas while still keeping an eye out for the deer in the spot where he had disappeared. I saw a doe grazing up a hill on the far side of the canyon and decided to keep an eye on her. For practice I ranged her and set up my rifle for another long shot just in case a good one showed up. After setting up the rifle for a shot I went back to glassing. In less than 5 minutes I spotted a buck slinking in from the right about 200 yards from her. I relocated the rifle while Dave ranged him. He was at 580 yards. Dave took the shot and the deer rolled. We thought it was over but a short time later the deer got up and walked behind a tree. After a little while he decided he wanted to follow the doe in spite of being hit and Dave was able to put a finishing shot in him. We looked at the sun going down over the ridge and made the difficult decision to leave him overnight and hope the critters didn’t get to him. The next morning we went back with all 4 of us and I was able to talk Dave, Anthony and Darrell right to the deer. Fortunately he was un-touched and we were able to recover all of him. I gross scored this buck at 97 inches, so Dave got to come away with what he was looking for on his second succesful Coues Deer hunt

Thanks guy's I really could have used one a couple of day's ago.

Congrats to the wife. Great shot, great deer. How are you mounting your rifle to the tripod?

Thats pretty cool. A seven year run in this state is saying something. Congrats.

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