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Have a safe and enjoyable hunt this weekend. Take some quality photos to share your experience and hopefully success. Don't forget to post your field photos in the forums and send me a copy with the gross score. Doug~RR

Homer Ocean Charters has a boat on the south end of Kodiak in Olga bay. I believe someone from CW.com is up there right now. Maybe he will report to us. Several in Flagstaff have used Homer Ocean. Have you talked with Tim Neal at Bull Basin Archery in Flag? Kodiak had a winterkill last winter, but was not as bad on the southern end, but I heard a report that the mountain goat population was hurt bad, acccording to G&F air surveys. http://www.homerocean.com/deer_hunting.htm There are boats that go out of Kodiak, and there is an outfit that hunts Larsen Bay Don't know much about SE alaska http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2 Doug~RR

Have used 260, 270, 280, 300. If someone just made a 290 to fill the gap Shots on coues have averaged 250 yards with 450 being the longest and 100 the shortest, so that 260 Remington could have covered the hunts with modest recoil in a light mountain rifle. It worked on a speedgoat at 385 once. Now I have a 6.5 WSM, kinda like a 260 on growth hormones

I started with a Slik U-100 It was light, but had a plastic head that vibrated in the wind and flexed under weight, and the legs did not have angular adjustments. Went to a Velbon Chaser EFL4. Was sturdy and steady, legs adjusted out, but do not care for the PH37 head as it wore and is not as smooth, and seems heavy. Then got a Slik Sprint Pro to save weight, but the legs flex some. Then got the Velbon LuxiF from Cameraland. It is about as light as the Slik Sprint, but the legs are stiffer. Just put the Manfrotto 700RC2 head on it as it is smoother and I think I will like the individual tighteners for pan and tilt. Will try and rig up a rock bag for the tripod. cpugsie talks of the Slik carbon fiber tripods. which are reasonably light and are about $200. the 614CF looks good on paper, but I have not seen one. http://www.thkphoto.com/products/slik/slik-cfs6.html

The article is worth reading twice.

Have not heard of a good bedding job making accuracy worse. How is it shooting now without the bedding? How did it shoot in the old stock before? What kind of stock did you get- SPS? Think I would want more than 2 thread lengths into the receiver.

You can use the same .338 diameter bullets in each cartridge, but the case of the 338 Remington Ultra mag is larger than the Winchester mag. Factory rounds won't interchange. Some may not like the recoil of either for this potent elk round. It is a good round that can be used to kill, skin and quarter your coues in one shot at 800 yards. If you use paper patched bullets, the deer is even freezer wrapped by the time you find it with the electronic gadgetry. Got it on secret word that it is really Lark's go-to choice for the diminutive coues; twice as good as a 243 since it has twice the bore area. Casey is going to try it so he won't have to shoot his 270 so many times at it; just skeers em into a French white flag of surrender at the sound of the blast. I like it cuz there's not much deer left for this ol' man to pack out.

Nice view off the front porch. And the drive to work must be a killer. Flagstaff sure played second fiddle on our Lake Mary. Looking to see a sharptail in a pic soon. Doug~RR

GH, I tried a couple of uploads of pics and they failed also. The photobucket hosted pic of the chainlink camo worked earlier today, though. Photobucket still working with above pic. Doug~RR

Jim, Nice lopes and pics as usual. Better scratch that sheep itch when you are enabled with young legs and lungs. You can always work till you die to pay off the hunts. Or just sell off the daughters like GH

Try photobucket. Also think this might save Amanda some server space versus uploading to the site.

Saw this appropriate camo pattern posted on another site

http://swarovskioptik.com/index.php?l=us&a...38a087.08703306

Do you have a soft recoil pad on the 300 like a Pachmyer Decelerator or Sims to take some of the bite out of the recoil?

Maybe ask the BP agents what they have seen crossing the Sasabe highway at night. Should I Change Seth's name to muleynutjr on the coues contest registration? Doug~RR

I called Outdoorsmans on Monday and got a negative regarding a rumor of a 20x or other by Swaro. Nothing in the news section of the Swaro website either, except the digiscoping ring,

What is the road up 4 Peaks like?

EBB, What Conquest scope and Rapid Z reticle did you get? Do the crosshairs get lost against the trees at dusk moreso than a duplex reticle would? Doug~RR

http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...457&hl=moon http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...c=4414&st=0

Took a fall turkey with a 218Bee and 45gr Sierra SP. Missed a head shot on another a different year with a reduced load from a 7 Rem Mag. Something like a 22 Hornet or 223, would be good, as would a shotgun. Suspect a shotgun or bow may preserve more meat.

and recognition was made that copper ammunition contains trace elements of lead. The Act, on the other hand, requires completely lead-free ammunition, which CURRENTLY DOES NOT EXIST, according to testimony given to the Commission. From http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/a...ed_sen_v97.html 3004.5. (a) Nonlead centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition, as determined by the commission, shall be required when taking big game with rifle or pistol , as defined by Section 350 of the department's mammal hunting regulations, and when taking coyote, within the department's deer hunting zone A South, but excluding Santa Cruz, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, and San Joaquin Counties, areas west of Highway 101 within Santa Clara County, and areas between Highway 5 and Highway 99 within Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern Counties, and within Tulare, and Kern Counties, and within deer hunting zones D7, D8, D9, D10, D11, and D13. ( By January July 1, 2008, the commission shall establish, by regulation, a public process to certify centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition as nonlead ammunition, and shall define, by regulation, nonlead ammunition as including only centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition in which there is no lead content. What trace amounts of lead occur in the Barnes bullets (ie TSX) and Nosler e-tips that would preclude them from being defined as lead-free? Talk is of extending the no-lead to all of Kalifonia and include other ammo like shotshells. I would bet that the Southwest Center will be pressuring the AZ legislation harder and soon for northern AZ protection.

Terry, Did they cut his jaw at a check station to age him (the buck, not the hunter)?

Today is the last day to register!

Yep, should be two good seasons back to back. I will be near Sonoita over Thanksgiving fo Mearns hunting and Coues scouting. Doug~RR