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    46 minutes ago, lancetkenyon said:

    Watch.  The next thing will be...no hunting within 1/4 mile of a water source.  

    Works on the Big Bo, so that is my guess.  

    Everyone's posts on here about the tanks getting mobbed are just fuel for the smoldering fire. 

    I haven't hunted on the Big Bo since 2019, but at that time it was no hunting within 100 yards of water.  G+F Commission could implement any setback that they desire.

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    I drew a spring Kaibab Buffalo tag in 2013.  Ammunition and reloading supplies were difficult to find at that time.  The only 308 cal Barnes bullets that I could obtain were the 200 grain long range.  I worked up a load for my 300 WM of 68 grains of RL22 with the 200 grain LR.  I shot my bull the first morning after slipping up to about 75 yards.  I was on a bipod and held for the heart.  At the shot, the bull gave a hop and ran into the trees.  I waited about 5 minutes and moved to where I could see where the buffalo had run.  The buffalo was still up and when he saw me he started running south to the Park.  Left with only the north end of a southbound buffalo, I began shooting.  I got him turned and put several shots behind the shoulder.  I finally had to put a round behind the ear to finish the job.  As we cut the bull up, I was surprised at how little damage the bullets did.  When we got into the body cavity, a friend pulled the heart out and found that there was a finger size hole that went all the way through. I must have hit the low pressure side of the heart. Three bullets were recovered in the animal, they had all lost the petals.  I had essentially shot the buffalo with 308 cal copper wadcutters.  

    I also loaded up some 140 grain Barnes ttsx for my 7mmRM as a backup rifle.  I had heard great things about the ttsx so I used that load later that year on a Colorado elk hunt and it worked great. In 2018 my son drew a spring Kaibab buffalo tag and worked up a load for his 300WM using the 180 grain ttsx.  It worked well.  Based upon my experiences, I would recommend the Barnes ttsx over the Barnes long range for buffalo.

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    1 hour ago, azhunter42 said:

    I honestly did not think that I needed a lawyer to begin with, my mistake. At that point I was not aware it was a class 1 untill I got the paperwork saying so. Now I know differently 

    You should have been cited for 17-309 A4 which is a Class 2.  Why do you think that you were cited for a Class 1?

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    13 hours ago, Non-Typical Solutions said:

    I have been waging war on mice/rats/squirrels out at my shop!

    It seems like I am making headway but I still feel like I’m feeding the little vermin!

     I alternate these two and always have bait out in multiple places inside and outside!

    Anybody have something that works for them?

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    I have used both of these products in outdoor bait stations.  After several weeks, I was using more bait than I was at the beginning. My guess is that the packrats were gaining weight on it.  I switched to a product called Jaguar, I believe that it is made by the same company, but has a different active ingredient. Jaguar has worked great for me. Seasonally I will have 15 bait stations and have found that I have to wire them down in an out of the way place so javelina don't mess with them.  Indoors, I only use snap traps baited with peanut butter.  For rock squirrels I use conibear traps set on the burrow.  The conibear trap makes relocation and release real easy.

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    From the photos, it is hard to tell if your willow has died back or just hasn't leafed out yet. You can check the the branches that haven't leafed out by scratching the bark. If there is green under the bark, you are good. If it isn't green, it is dead and needs to be cut out. Willows like lots of water and respond well to nitrogen. The last few years I have been using calcium nitrate on my trees as it does not drop the pH of the soil. That has been a problem in the past for me when I used urea. You need to give each tree about 0.1 lbs of actual nitrogen per inch diameter of the tree base. I also use 20-20-20 sometimes on a planting of trees if I don't think they are growing well the first year.

     

    Hopefully your trees are just slow coming out. I am running about 2 weeks behind normal for bloom on my apples, peaches and pears in SE AZ.

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    I started hunting whitetails in Arizona in the early 60's and finally killed my first in 1967. Hunting equipment has changed more than music in the last 50 years. In 67, I had a canteen and a buck knife on my hip, an apple and a BP+J in my pocket and a Remington 700 with Weaver K4 on my shoulder. I was good for the day. Fast forward 50 years to the buck that I killed last December. My son and I had 2 sets of 10x binoculars, 2 set of 15x binoculars, 2 tripods, one big spotting scope, 2 laser rangefinders, 2 gps', 2 cell phones one custom Remington 700 with a big old Nightforce scope, several headlamps plus lots of water and groceries. All this stuffed into two state of the art packs with internal frames and we were ready.

     

    While I miss the simplicity of 50 years ago, I sure do enjoy watching deer undisturbed at long distances with modern optics. A side benefit is that it keeps you in shape just packing all your gear around!

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    Nice sheep and a great mount. Chris Harlow did a full mount on my Arizona ram. It looks so good, it looks like it could jump off the rock that it's on and head butt my Nevada ram across the room! I am looking forward to getting last years whitetail back from him in a few months.

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    I have shot a number of elk with a muzzleloader. I use a muzzleloader because of the increased elk hunting opportunity not because I like muzzleloaders. I really like to hunt elk! I have used saboted bullets that varied from 250-300 grains, depending on which one shot best in my newest rifle. The last few have been with barnes bullets and I was very happy with their performance. I have always slowly worked up to the maximum powder charge for my rifle. IMO you need all the help you can get with a muzzleloader, so I try to get all the velocity that I can.

     

    Remember when you are hunting that you are not using a real rifle, only a muzzleloader and take your shot accordingly.

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    I have a friend who drew a sheep tag the year they started giving out bonus points when we were 17. We are 42 now. He started with one less than max. There are still a bunch of hunters with max ahead of him that refuse to change draw preference and he may never draw in the bonus round. That is a reality.

    As I look at the distribution of where max bonus point holders for sheep are applying, if things don't change , in 3-4 years people with max-1 will draw tags in the bonus point round of the draw. There will be the holdouts in the max group that only want a unit 22 tag and that group may take 10-12 years to clear out. Relax, your friend has a chance of drawing in the bonus point pass portion of the draw in just a few years. Maybe he will invite you on the hunt!

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    My son and I had two 300 Win Mags built in 2007. We tried several bullets and the 200 grain Accubond shot the best. We settled on 73 grains of RL 22, which gave us a velocity of 2975fps.

    From 2007 to 2012 we drew 5 late bull tags between us. One bull was only about 150 yards, but the other four were cross canyon shots between 435 and 720 yards. The Accubonds did a good job on all five bulls.

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