Red Rabbit

Ron, Congrats on the tag and a nice ram. Great horn character. Ram must have been a very obstinate bully Of course you need to give an autopsy report detailing the Berger VLD performance. Doug

Ron, Actually in Kachina Village. I took a Model 70 SG in 300WSM and had it rebarreled in 6.5 WSM. PacNor 1-9" polygonal. Kirby Allen in MT did the work. A 6.5 RSAUM like you are thinking or 6.5 RCM would be nice also. I would think the 6.5 RCM would be close to the 6.5-284 you already have. Seth out in Parks made a couple of accurrate 6 RSAUMs. Eric at Ruffs has one. Doug~RR

Yeah, for a second I thought you ditched the Conquest for a Leupold

some googling for you: http://www.reloadersnest.com/frontpage.asp?CaliberID=35 http://www.weatherby.dk/forumdisplay.php?f...desc&page=3 http://forums.cabelas.com/showthread.php?t...ghlight=retumbo Looking for suggested load data for Nosler 110 Accubond with Retumbo powder. Only data I have is from the Speer #14 reloading manual, shows the following: 87 gr bullet - 74 - 78c grains retumbo 100 gr bullet - 71 73 grains retumbo 120 gr bullet - 65 - 69 grains retumbo With these guidelines I could probably start out with 68 - 71 grains Retumbo with the 110 accubond.

Jim, The website is looking good. Y'all certainly put some bone on the ground this fall. Good luck with the bowhunt for coues. Doug

Ron, Welcome. One would have to look at ballistic minutia to come up with a better coues cartridge than the 257 WBY. Very flat and very tolerable recoil. Only negative would be having to buy Weatherby factory ammo $$$ if not a handloader. Just as flat and near equal wind drift with bullet of near equal SD, within a couple of inches for all) considering the 257 WBY, 264 WM, 7RUM, 300 RUM. Just that the WBY has em beat in recoil. Sure, one can go lighter in bullets to be flatter, or heavier to get less drift, but I tried to compare apples to apples with equal SD. ( Ballistic Tips in 115gr .257 vs 120gr .264 vs 140gr 7mm vs 165gr .308) But then I went with the 6.5 WSM for coues and antelope Doug~RR

Mike, My neighbor is a fireman and gave me a Nomex jacket after he retired, so just asking to see if the jacket works

Let me get this expected question out of the way before someone asks and doesn't understand the resulting flames: WHAT UNIT?

Jake?

Bill, There is a rifle cow hunt in Unit 27 Oct 15-21. Doug

There was no real change in the number of junior cow elk permits, except to add 15 to unit 1 to help stabilize the population and I think 3 went to the Hopis in 4A

3035 Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2010 Escudilla Hunt Area in Unit 1 Antlerless elk 75 permits 3036 Dec 3 - Dec 9, 2010 1 East Antlerless elk 75 3037 Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2010 1, 2B, and 2C Antlerless elk 300 3010 Nov 26 - Dec 2, 2010 1, 2B, and 2C Bull elk (rifle) 425 3103 Sep 24 - Sep 30, 2010 1, 2B, and 2C Bull elk (muzzleloader) 40

That is what Terry Herndon was saying when he spoke in front of the commission. He thought most would be hunting in 5BS. G&F thought the better bulls were in 5BN, and now more could hunt in the northern part. Sounds like a loss of hunter and herd management to me. Ithought if one wanted to hunt 5BN, they should apply there. Last year there were 775 bull tags, now 831, not counting the Hopi tags. According to G&F, the bull:cow ratio is above mangement guidelines in 5B, so the permit numbers were increased. IIRC, they split 5B into N&S to manage the cow elk better. The cow elk hunts are still split into N&S.

Guess we will just take up fishing and listen to the wolves howl a sad cry that they ate themselves out of house and home.

A unit 1 tag would be nice in that the forest there is beautiful, almost what I envision as classic elk country with firs and aspens. Me, I often put in for that ugly PJ in 9

What is sad in late September is seeing the archery elk in the back of the pick ups heading down I-17 back to Phoenix where it is still 100+degrees . Legs poking up in the air and hide still on . And the hunter probably thinks it tastes bad cuz the processor did a lousy job

Brian, What elk hunt have you been holding out for? Doug

Here's the link. Applications will be due Feb 9, 2010. (Sorry, no online applications yet.) http://www.azgfd.gov/eservices/documents/ElkAntelope.pdf

Since NR are limited to 12% guided and 10% unguided, I can't see how residents would be affected by the number of NR applying.

I think if I lived in Phoenix, I'd have to make a mural of that view to put on the windows.

Next weekend or after Christmas fortune will smile, as the big bucks formerly unseen will come out from "hibernation" with lust on their minds

New Application Fee The new nonrefundable application fee for residents is $10 and $27 for nonresidents. I can understand a difference in Res vs NR permit fees, but NM must be the first western state to charge differently on application fees. This can't be Taulman's scheme, cuz how would it benefit him since he outfits NR? RR

Why the difference between the APPLICATION fees between resident and NR?

Congrats on a good hunt. If you went to NAu HS, they would have canceled finals for you due to the snow .

Thanks for the quick responses! Hopefully I can swing in there on the way down to mearns hunt right after Christmas. Doug