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What is the max you can adjust the draw length to?

Awesome, congrats and good luck to the both of you.

+1, that short action bell and Carlson in the classified adds is a heck of a stock and he is giving a sweet price.

Well honestly, it's extremely hard to pattern a buck in the early rifle seasons. Reason why is because water is a huge factor and you cannot rely on just one water source. If your going to hunt near water it would be best to find a neutral spot between two or more sources. But hunting pressure is the most heavy effect on deer movement. Bucks will almost seem to disappear or even go nocturnal with just a bit of pressure from other hunters but stay positive and stay behind your glass. Even though it sometimes seems that the bucks have completely disappeared from an area it isn't always the case. Most of the time they are still in the area (i.e. Canyon, bowl, large mountain side) but they are just limiting their movements or even changes their routines. For example if you find a buck while scouting and watch him for a couple days and notice he waters and feeds early in the morning and beds throughout the afternoon and then waters and feeds again at night, and then three days into your hunt and you can't seem to find him anymore maybe start looking for him to only be feeding and watering once during daylight hours instead of twice like you saw before. He may be feeding earlier in the morning before all the other deer or later at night after the sun goes down and you can't see him. And if you find a buck or a few bucks and then during the hunt can't find them again, try and look at the terrain. Like if they have been in a canyon or drainage and then you can't find them, try looking over the ridge, they might have moved into a small bowl or into a high basin that is just on the other side of that ridge but you've never seen it because you never got around to look at it. Coues are tricky little buggers but man they sure are fun to hunt. And as far as other little critters go, there are rattle snakes and black widows that you would want to avoid, that is if you see one. It's not like they are crawling around every where but they are out there. Also if you do see a tarantula, PLEASE DON'T KILL IT! They are cool little creatures so pick one up and/or take a few pictures and let it go on its way. You're going to have a lot of fun on this hunt and see some cool country, good luck bud.

2:52 that is a bad son of a b$$$$! Awesome video.

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Hahahahaha, amazing post!

Just picked up my new rifle from a buddy who does gunsmithing. It's a Remington 700 model in 300 win mag with a Bell and Carlson stock with the action glass bedded and the barrel is free floated. 26 inch barrel with a muzzle break and it's topped with a 6.5 20x50mm leupold mark 4 with mil-dot reticle. The top picture is before and the rest are after pictures.

Oops, forgot to add that one, I also have put a timney trigger in it.

Yes and no, bucks will run together but not like mule deer. You most likely won't be finding 6, 8 or 10 bucks together. You're most likely to see 2 or 3 sometimes 4. But then there are bucks that get smart and run solo. Most likely those bucks you find running solo will be out earlier in the mornings and already going back to bed or back to hiding before all of the others. The weather will probably be warmer than what you will be used to in Idaho so I wouldn't weigh yourself down by packing a lot of cold weather gear. Also try and search the forums here for "glassing for coues deer", there is a ton of good information in posts like those, a lot of good hunters on here. Good luck on your tag and I'm sure you will enjoy hunting the grey ghost.

That was a read and a half, but good information, thanks for that.

Mule deer, either way that's a cool buck.

Does anybody here know of any good pouches or accessory bags that I could put a pair of swarovski 15's in? I'm wanting to sew it onto my eberlestock pack and use it strictly for my binos so I can keep them out of my main pack and create more space.

I have had two boxes on back order for about a month and I call about every week and they keep saying 8 to 10 weeks and with October closing in I'm starting to worry I won't have any for hunting season. I'm looking to buy 30 or 35 bullets to get me in the clear for a few hunts this year. If anyone has any and is willing to let some go please let me know, or if anybody knows of a hole in the wall place where some might be sitting on a shelf, any help would be greatly appreciated. I would also be more than willing to restock anyone who would sell to me once I get my order in.

I've never heard of this before, kind of interesting.

Thank you jeffro and Robert. Yes you are right, it's going to be a Hornady 208gr Amax fueled by Retumbo. All I have to do is wait for them to come in from back order before I can start having fun haha.

I'm gonna have to disagree, respectfully of course, I always look at the tail but in this case you can also look at the face, this doe has the tell tail sign of the white ring around her nose and white underside of the chin. I say coues 100%, my 2 cents anyways.

+1, I was just turned on to these vanes and I haven't heard a bad thing about them.

The black points on the 2x2 is pretty cool, good job.

Sweet ride.

Awesome!

First class act, sorry for your loss.

Cool rifle.

I dunno man, if you guys got the points to draw a 12 archery tag then you probably have the points to draw a dec rifle tag, it could go either way. As for me I didn't get any charges to my card so I'm gonna have to call game and fish and let them know they forgot to charge my sheep tag. I would feel like a thief if I let them give me the tag without charging me! Haha! Good luck on your draw and hope to see some toads posted up after your hunts are all said and done.