lonne

Looks like too much fun! Awesome job.

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Scarpas are awesome. I had a lightweight pair last 5 years, don't remember the "type". I've hiked through 4 miles of knee deep water with them and they held up like water never touched them. Probably could have done that same hike several more times. (Friend of mine took me on a water hike and didn't tell me there was water in advance, nice huh?) I bought a heavyweight Scarpa boot, Scarpa Liskamm GTX, for winter and I've been extremely impressed with it. Took me a long time to break in that boot though, it was a little rough first few hikes out, but after I broke it in, it's been GNARLY! Had that for 5 years now. I've hiked in heavy snow with it. It doesn't breath at all though, but it climbs mountains like a beast. I only use it in December - February in AZ. I couldn't find the same light Scarpa boot, and everyone was talking about Asolos, so I bought a pair of those. I was very disappointed, had numerous problems. Had to replace the sole once because the front tore out (had to mail it in, took weeks), the metal lace holders bent, and now retiring the boot already, after just 2 years. I switched back to Scarpa Kailash. We'll see how it performs but I have high expectations. Scarpa is a great boot. I put my boots through some heavy off trail hiking. Before I owned Scarpa I always had trouble with boots lasting more than a year and it was getting expensive for my hikin/hunting habit. They were hard to justify the cost after wearing out so many pairs of boots but now they've easily paid for themselves for the kind of suffering I put them through, and my feet were always comfortable except for the Liskamm break-in. The European sizes are kind of a pain, and you might read some people recommending larger sizes, etc. By pain I mean you might see a pair that looks close in size for sale with little inventory left. Don't be tempted to buy the wrong size b/c it is on sale. I recommend just finding the exact European size for your US size, nothing larger, and you should be fine. Only buy larger if that is what you usually do with other boots.

How can foot pounds of energy be calculated at the target?

Where do you find the rules on night hunting in the regs for coyotes and lions?

Nice buck!!! Cody is awesome and has helped me a few times, once before he worked at Outdoorsman's...

No negative intended. But my understanding, 300 win mag to 300 is not hard at all. Its one of the flatter trajectories out to 300. Wind is your worst enemy.

You guys rock, thanks...! Great answers. Yep. I guess that's the good thing about long distance shooting. Hard to nail the target, so hitting the chrony shouldn't be too difficult. More difficult shooting above it, and hoping the bullet doesn't drop right into the chrony. LOL...thanks again

Apologies, the question I posed wasn't quite clear. I understand math, physics, ballistics tables, and thank you all as some of your answers are very informative! The question should simply have been: How can foot pounds of energy be measured at the target? I understand the inputs of ballistic coefficient, bullet velocity, wind, altitude, temp, pressure, bullet grain, humidity, etc. But what if the result is higher or lower, as it naturally won't match exactly. Was just curious what the scientific way of measuring the actual foot lbs of energy delivered (without destroying the target, if possible, pun aside)? If there are easy ways to do. Surely there is some way science has verified the data in the charts? It sounds like knowing the actual velocity at the target would be useful. I suppose if one knew the drops at various distances for the same bullet they could plug it into a multiple equations and try to solve for the variable, or even a diff eq of sort. Just curious if folks have found published bullet drops to be exactly accurate, or some marketing hype and not as accurate as touted, or better than advertised. Along with bc's. Again, apologies my question wasn't clear and actually sounded like I was asking for a ballistic table. I guess I was wondering a way to verify the table and/or the drops plus minus that we see. rclouse79, rcdinaz, lancetkenyon and pwrguy, THANKS! Lonne

I guess some silly ways might be, put a chronograph at the target (don't hit it!) and measure the velocity, and then determine foot pounds that way. Or, shoot a watermelon, and if it blows up, a watermelon requires n (say 100) foot pounds to do so, so it's at least >= n (100). Just curious. Probably not any easy way, and not really necessary, but was just wondering if there were any good ways to do this. Maybe doing with the chronograph is actually quite scientific as long as one didn't hit it :-)

Thanks - I'm aware that this number is calculated in ballistics tables. Much like a chronograph measures muzzle velocity of bullet, are there any feasible ways to measure the foot pounds of energy impacted at the target? :-) Thanks, Lonne

This is definitely the way it was. This is definitely how I'll still do if the animal is small enough. Elk I might think twice, but I've known guys that have hung elk too with a little bit of good ole' mechanical advantage. But personally I'd rather bone the elk out. It really helps when skinning and it also cools the meat a bit.

Awesome! That's what I'm talking about !!!

Sweet bears!!! Nice work. I'm jealous!!! Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess I would ultimately say more than 3 of us (including me and many others) need to show up at the meeting to help influence if this is would help make the in best decision. The problem with that in today's world is how realistic is it that we could actually show up with our day jobs and other commitments? Are there other more convenient ways we could help all work together and influence, with our day jobs and family commitments which we are simply overlooking? We often jump on Game and Fish, but at the end of the day, I fear the alternative and they're doing a decent job. Are they perfect? Of course not, but with hunter input from everyone maybe they can get closer. Survey wise. 3 might show up and indicate they agree they saw all bulls and now cows, or exact opposite. Maybe it holds alot of weight, maybe it does not (I'm not sure without an expert or attendee actually filling in here). Or all 800 tag holders might indicate what actually happened by filling out their surveys which Game and Fish sends out. How many actually are filling out actual surveys? Lonne

Hunting down there is amazing. Beautiful country for sure. If it is you hunting down there, and you cross south of the border, and cross back, is anyone watching? The more risk you take crossing south and back north, or the more distance you put into crossing, of course you will encounter trouble. (I haven't done and I definitely don't recommend, just mentioning to highlight the comment about there being "no border"). But the official checkpoints cannot cover that wide range of country. There is some interesting stuff going on. Lance, we appreciate what you do and be careful down there.

They probably ate the growers :-)

Waiting for the novel!!! Need a good story after my unsuccessful hunt. Way to go ADAM !!! Let's hear it bro.

Ditto on all. When get up at 3am, I put my jacket on and get whatever stuff ready that's needed. Before I start my hike, I strip down to nothing but plain cotton pants (fleece lined if it's real cold), and a short or long sleeve cotton t-shirt. And cotton sucks period, but it works ok in Arizona as long as not real humid, real wet and rainy, or don't sweat alot. I hike my butt off some elevation gaining hill, with or without a pack, and immediately when I get to the top of the hill the first thing I do is take off my t-shirt and put on a thermal long sleeve, and a light wool jacket, wool army cap, wool gloves. I notice alot of others wear their heavy stuff climbing up hill, which is a big no no. Not only do they sweat, and when they get to the top the sweat makes them colder, or the sweat catches wind and tips off the animals with the smell. Hike up, generate body heat. Think about it, you're just an engine where your heart is the RPMs redlining up the hill. As soon as you get to the top, put all your warm gear on and insulate (trap) the heat in. You'll be warm for hours. Alot of guys swear on synthetic camo stuff, and it's awesome, but not all of it is great. Underarmour is pretty good. You can' t beat the lightness (low weight) of synthetic gear. But then again I was in a recent hail storm, in wet wool, and I was warm as heck, while buddies of mine were cold. Summary: when you hike period, up or down, strip to minimum lightweight pants and t-shirt, no hat unless something light to block from sun. You'll be cold for 5 minutes but will quickly generate heat and be very warm hiking up but not hot or sweating, in other words you will be comfortable. As soon as you stop moving, put all your warm gear on, or the cold will come on fast, and start glassing like crazy. Good luck. And I know your question was, what beanie can I use I won't sweat in when I hike? But I don't think it exists yet. There are lots of claims out there, but truth is different from marketing hype. Underarmour has some nice beanies. Or go with Army Surplus wool beanies, they're great and only $7. But never hike with them! You don't need to put them on until you quit moving. Lonne

Interesting. I just hunted Unit 10 for the first time. Absolutely beautiful! It was a cow tag hunt. We were following a herd before the hunt and saw them on a few occasions with a herd bull, but they quickly disappeared on the hunt and we couldn't connect. I was thinking cow hunt, should be easy, but wow was suprised how hard of a hunt it was. We spotted several bulls, along with several mule deer bucks and does, and at least two different herds of javelina. I figured typical hunt. You spot everything you're hunting for, and the cow elks know they are being hunted. Spotted some cows bedded down, but realized definitely need to improve my glassing on bedded down animals. (I tell myself that every year!) I was really wishing I had a bull tag. I'm not even a random sample, just one group of four hunters. But seems in line with what we saw in the grand scheme of this recommendation. Of course, much I don't know, so I won't draw conclusions without facts and history, which I'm sure alot more of you guys could offer up. If this is truly the case or not. Despite not filling my tag, which was a huge goal of mine and I didn't think I'd come home empty handed, nor did any of the guys I was with, we had a great time spotting all the game. We worked VERY hard but just weren't lucky. Lonne

Great video. This is it

Sweet buck. Nice photos. I'd love to get one in velvet especially on the Strip.

Same here, let's see the second! Way to go Adam...let's hear a good story :-) I hear the taxidermy cash register adding up ka-ching ka-ching getting Clarence his wings...Will order up more mannequins

Buy a pair. Then count the years you had 'em. Lonne

Dang! I bet that is gonna be a blast! Too bad I got something else going on :-(