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Some great looking bucks, love that loooong tined coues. Another video, can't wait

Great tips for everyone to follow. I've seen so many bad pics, excessive blood, tongue hanging out, rifle across the rack and my pet peeve, the rifle pointing at the hunter. Hope to see some awesome pics no matter the size of the trophy

I seriously doubt that a regular tag holder has spent the time in the field to repeatedly locate a buck enough to pattern him and then have the auction tag holder shoot him a couple of months before the season. If he was out there enough, he would have bumped into other guides before the season. RR It has happened in other states. I know for a fact. Oh, and there aren't many 200" typicals running around anywhere so I can see that scenario happening to your bud.

Didn't some rich guy, hunting with the MuleyCrazy crew, kill two book nontypicals last year. I believe he killed a 240" buck in Jan. 05 and then bought the same tag and killed a 295" toad in Aug. 05. It ain't right. It shouldn't be all about the money. Noel is right. Imagine drawing a strip tag, you do all your homework and you've got that buck of your dreams patterned. Along comes money bags and shoots the buck that you have spent countless hours and your hard earned money scouting and patterning. And notice I said "shoot", cause in most cases he sure didn't hunt the buck. As you can tell I ain't a big fan of auction tags. Of course this is just my .01, can't afford the other .01

Can someone convience my wife of this motto, I've tried to no avail

What?

Wow the off season is way to long. Now we're looking at mushrooms

Must be way over paid Just kidding ScottyBoy

Good point Doug. I don't use the brass brush either during regular cleaning but was told by the gunsmith not to skip step 6 on initial break-in.

Great buck. Saw a post about this buck on MM. Crappy pic of the head did it no justice. This pic is much better. I think they said it is 42" wide Heck should of let him grow a few more weeks , he might have made 43"

Yotes, badgers and fox oh my. Sweet pics and good predator control

Nice pics, just need the big guy to show up

I didn't know or ever heard of breaking in a barrel years ago and just shot my rifles. They all shot good with the right loads. Then I started having custom rifles built and they have specific barrel break in instructions. It is time consuming and a pain in the *$& but these rifles shoot amazing. Now it could be that it is the top of the line barrel or it could be because of the fine tuned crisp trigger or the perfect bedding or a combination of all of these things but I believe if you want to get the best performance outta your new rig, break the barrel in. And when spending a good chunk of change why not do it right. Here are the instructions that I have; Use a one piece cleaning rod with a snug fitting bore guide and properly fitting patches. Use plain copper jacketed bullets for the break-in and several dozen shots afterwards. (I understand this as no coated bullets.) Use Hoppe's #9, Hoppe's BR, Shooter Choice, Shooters Choice Copper Remover, Butch's Bore Shine, or similar solvents to remove the powder fouling (black or grey in color). Use Sweet's 7.62 Solvent or Barnes CR10 to remove the copper fouling (blue or green in color). The goal of this procedure is to prevent fouling build up, especially copper fouling, in the early life of the barrel. Step 1; Push a hoppes patch through the barrel, letting it fall off before withdrawing the cleaning rod to remove metal dust, chips and dirt. Step 2; Push a clean dry patch through the barrel to remove remaining particles and dry out the hoppes. Step 3; Using "3 in 1" or a similar light oil not containg graphite, moly, silicone or teflon (hoppes #9 works well) push a lightly oiled patch through the barrel insuring that the lands and grooves are completely coated, with no runs or drips left inside the berrel. Dry out the chamber. Step 4; Fire one shot. Step 5; Push a hoppes patch through the barrel letting it fall off as in step 1. Use another hoppes patch to scrub back and forth 5 to 10 strokes. Let the barrel soak about 5 min. Drying patch will be black or gray. Step 6; Using a new or new condition bronze brush, and a dropper or squeeze bottle to wet the brush, never dunk the brush into the solvent, scrub the bore 5 to 10 times and let soak for 5 min. Dry the barrel with a clean dry patch. Never reverse direction with brush inside barrel. Never use a stainless steel brush. Step 7; Using sweets 7.62 or barnes cr10, wet a clean slightly looser fitting patch and scrub the bore back and forth 10-15 times. It is ok if the sweets foams alittle because oxygen helps in the copper removal. Let the barrel soak no longer than 5 min. Remove sweets or barnes with a clean dry patch. If there are any traces of blue color on the dry patch repeat this step until there is no blue found on the drying patch. It may require 4 or 5 seperate treatments. Step 8; Once no blue is found on the sweets or barnes drying patch, oil the barrel as in step 1. Step 9; Fire a second shot. Step 10; Repeat steps 5,6,7 and 8 Step 11; Fire a third shot. Step 12; Repeat steps 5,6,7 and 8 Step 13; Now fire 3 consecutive shots without cleaning between shots. Step 14; Repeat steps 5,6,7 and 8 Step 15; Repeat step 13 Step 16; Repeat steps 5,6,7 and 8 Step 17; Repeat step 13. There should total 12 shots through the barrel now. Step 18; Repeat steps 5,6 and 7. The amount of copper (blue color) removed by the sweets or barnes should be greatly reduced by now. If not go back to shooting singles or triples (step 3 or 13) and continue the break-in until the wet sweets or barnes patches come out of the barrel with a light blue-gray color and the drying patches come out with only faint traces of blue or light gray. Once you can fire 3 to 5 shots and only get a pale blue or gray at the end of the first sweets or barnes treatment, as in step 7, more consecutive shots can be fired between cleanings. It is recommended to not fire more than 20 shots without a thorough cleaning. Steps 5,6 and 7 can be used as a normal cleaning routine. WOW it's a pain but I pick a day when I have plenty of time and invest the time. Most will think this is extreme and it may be for a huntin rig but with the price of the custom guns I've had built I'll keep doing it.

Nice pics, that last buck looks like he should be pretty nice when he's done growin. The bigger bucks sure get a head start and seem to grow faster than the little guys.

WOW Dan, great pickups! Gotta love that coues deer character, heck of a buck

BASS, you da man Now boys and girls get them pics posted for our viewing pleasure

Good lookin pics Dan. Looks like you did ok on the rez with rain fall. Is antler growth good this year or below avg. ?

H4H, you'd be better off with just the Hilton part and forget about Paris. She has taken a vow of celabacy for the next year and you could certainly have a better conversation with yourself, after the Budlight

I'm going to guess....110 2/8

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You guys are DIALED! One things for sure now, you won't be able to blame the guns

Cool vid Good looking muley, nice and wide. Thanks BASS.

Here's one for you Jim, good night

That little buck may grow to be bigger than you think. He's pretty heavy in the beams.

Good looking youngster. Another year or two....