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Take the Beer Goggles off Bubba. You are replying to a post that is five years old.

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The earth can only absorb water at a given rate then it runs off creating flash floods. The vast majority of the soil is rocky and clay based which is also why we see standing puddles for a couple of days in rutted out dirt roads. When it rains very slowly for a time a lot of the water soaks in but get a couple of heavy downpours during that time and swoosh the excess water ends up in the canyons and washes.

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"I parked my truck well before light on a little tiny two track and it was the only road up into this country." Not trying to start a fight here mc just going by what you posted originally about parking ON the Only road that was going into the area you hunted. You said nothing about parking at the END of the road or that they went cross country and got onto another road.

Please don't block roads, especially on public land and by doing so you could have prevented or impeded a vehicle responding to a search and rescue or a forest fire. Another hunter could also been coming into the area to recover an animal.

Why not just make it easy on yourself and remove all doubt by calling G&F?

Your Welcome at my campfire anytime.

Thanks for posting this. As a non-trapper I had to look up what a castor is. Can you explain why it isn't referred to as beaver?

Well aushunter you have certainly come to the right place so welcome to the site.

I would not do that, especially without going over the other person and talking for a bit. I've had similar situations happen to me in the field and can only surmise that the other person hunts that area year after year and feels they have some ownership to it. A couple of years ago my son and I setup off a road to watch a tank that was a couple of hundred yards across a field a few hours before sunset. A truck drove past us and parked just around the bend. We were about 10 feet off the road in the shade so they could not have seen us as they drove by. They walked past us about 5 minutes later and upon seeing us they walked back in the direction of their truck. We sat there until just before sunset and put on our packs for the mile hike back to camp. I was amazed when we walked past them sitting less than 50 feet away. The guy was definitely not a novice as he and his wife had the latest Swarvo optic's and he had a carbon fiber barrel on his rig.

They only come in Opti Fade

The stock one (which I'd like to keep) is gritty and has some take up (creep) I'd like to eliminate. Looking for a week or less.

Yeah, only Mel Gibson could pull that off.

I don't think we need another forum dedicated to just that as whenever a "trophy sized" rack or one which is unique people either ask or comments are freely offered up. Or maybe I'm just cranky and working too many hours. LOL

Yeah they are. LOL I have a pair of 80's and they are huge. Ask Ernesto. But,,, They do get it done. The cost is the space they take up in my frame pack and the weight.

I have a rifle with a brake like the one Rossislider shows in his first picture. It has been on the rifle for 20 years and does it's job reducing 7 Rem Mag down to about a 7-08. I have never shot it prone, ever in all of the years I have taken game with it so I can't comment on flying dust as I am equally a rifleman as a hunter and have not needed to shoot close to the ground and don't own a bipod and have taken some pretty long shots. The second brake he shows throws the concussion from the round back in a full 360 degree pattern from the muzzle as I experienced when a 'DUDE" had one on an AR (223) at the range and you did not want to be within 15 feet of him when he touched off a round which included standing 10 feet behind him. He liked it because he could use it for 3 Gun, supposedly taking very long shots and not loosing the target in the "recoil". That's what you have spotters for.

I have a tendency to do that also so I set a reminder in my phone.

I have the same rings and bases on my 700 ADl and have had not problems with them in the 20 years they have been on the rifle. This past year I removed the VX11 that has been on there on put on a Conquest. I love the rifle but it is not light. LOL

Understanding terminal ballistics of the round you are going to use and what the limitations are will go a long way in helping you to pick a caliber for the range you intend to shoot game at. Knowing bullet drop and range estimation becomes critical at long range. With a 50 yard zero on average a 150 gr bullet at 2900fps is going to drop about 65" at 500 yards. At 600 it will jump to 100" and at 1000 yards it is about 360". http://www.millettsights.com/downloads/ConsiderTerminalBallistics.pdf

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. You don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry in the world coming down here to hunt them too, do ya?. LOL

No pictures this time. It was an average sized pig. I was about 200 yards from camp when I realized I didn't have my camera and did not want to go back for it. This was just after 6am on Saturday morning. I hiked looking for sign and glassing as I went but did not see anything in the usual places I have see sign in the past two years. I was getting ready to hike into an area that looked promising when I noticed another hunter glassing the area from the ridge above it so I decided to go in a different direction so as not to disturb him. By now I was about 1.5 miles from camp headed off to the edge of a huge canyon where I had also seen pigs last year. I had gone about another 400 yards when I saw one feeding about 75 yards away and shot it from a sitting position. Four others busted out from the brush going in different directions and I made my way over to the pig after putting a couple of more rounds into him to anchor him using Fiocchi 223 with 45gr VMAX. Not a bad round as there was almost no bloodshot meat but next time I will use a 62gr softpoint. When I got to the pig I noticed that one of the others had circled around to the north of me about 150 yards. I could see the other hunter still up on the ridgetop about 900 yards away and he and his companion were now decending down from it. I assumed they were headed out as there was a road about a 1/4 mile from where they were but a few hours later when I was back at camp they drove past and I walked out to chat with them. They actually went after the lone pig but were unable to track him down. We chatted for a bit and the driver commented on my CWT shirt I had on and as it turned out he is also a member here but I'll leave it up to him if he wants to come forward. As it turned out I was 1.68 GPS miles from camp and taking my time it too me 2.5 hours to hike back sticking mostly to the bottoms of the sandy washes and stopping about every 20 minutes to drink some water and rest in the shade. I took two bottles of water with me and each was 50oz's. Back at camp I ate the turkey sandwich I'd made the night before and had left in the cooler. But I had taken other food with me, sardines, an apple, a granola bar and a bag of almonds and jerky. Of which I only ate most of the almonds and jerky and then the apple just before I boned out the pig. The rest of the afternoon in camp was spent washing up and changing into street clothes, chopping wood and cooking dinner. I slept good that night and got up at 7, broke camp and was home around 10:30. I saw very little sign this year and no snakes. However I did kick up a 3x3 MD, the first deer I had seen in this area since I began hunting it. So now I am 2 for 3 on pigs hunting this area but I could have taken one last year a couple of times but I held off trying to get my son a shot but he couldn't seal the deal. Pigs are his nemesis so I continue to do the solo thing which suits my hunting style but it sure is boring back at camp, LOL.

YO! Back where I come from in NYC we call that a Hang'in Offence. What goes around. Comes around. Like Elmer Keith wrote, To Ride. Shoot Straight. And Speak The Truth.

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It turned out great and I'm very happy with it. The creep is all but gone and a lighter set of springs were also put in to reduce the pull from the 7 or 8 pounds down to about 4. It is much nicer to shoot now and I used it on Saturday to bag a Javelina.