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great pics Sask & congrats again!! Makes it all good when you see him on the wall. Great turnaround on it too. My cousin got his back last month and it amazes me how people have to wait 3+ years for theirs. I know good things take time and most places are busy, but some guys can do it and the quality is no different. Well done!!!

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Sask

Man Sask your a luckyguy to have an understanding wife. Sure would wish for my better 1/2 to allow me to hang a head or two,now he can stare at ya from any part of the room.LOL Congrats again my freind,that is a remarkable mounting job.
Rocky:D

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REALLY nice mount Saskabush. Nice sheds all.

Whaddya guys think this scores (try scoring it without lookin at the comments below the picture)

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showp...mp;ppuser=1224

cheers

(BTW Skeeter, www.huntingbc.ca is a good site if your interested in following sheep topics - that and www.wildsheepsociety.org)

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Saskabush looks awesome, you made the right choice getting him shoulder mounted. Great deer again and I amhappy Owen did the job to your standards. Never expected anything less but its nice to hearcomments on the finished product to re-firm the referral!;)

Never went on the planned fishing/yote/shed hunting trip, instead I spent the weekend kickinga bugout of my system.[:'(] So no stories or pictures that I'd care to share from my adventure[&:]

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Finally getting out to the range tonight to sight in the .223. I also bought some of those new Barnes MDX (MRX or whatever they are called) for the 7mm, gonna try them out tonight. Funny story, went to the grand opeining of Wholesale yesterday only to be shunned as per the old days. Shame on me! Anyhow, nice store (like a BPS)joke service as usual[:@]so I went to Russels and bought the new Barnes bullets. Found out when I started loading it was $30 for 20 bullets:eek:WTF! So unless they are all in one hole, I might be sticking with my ballistic tips. Off for sheds & gophers tomorrow so pics to come soon!

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JD,

Re: WS......BIG SUPRISE...round and round here as well.[:'(]

30 bucks sound like a good price for the Barnes MRX prices I have seen are around $40/20.Meaning "good" subjectively of course to the MRX only, they are pricey suckers any way you slice it[&:]. I have had good success with the 140 BT TSX, it shoots sub MOA, great elk/moose choicebut IMO and E deer don't require such a bullet.Now I haven't tried the MRX and have heard some raving reviews but as you mention the price is ...WOW! For deer hard to argue with NBT, my personal favorite - always shoots lights out andnever failed me in the field. That said I am planning on trying some bonded polymers this year for something in hopes of getting an antelope tag. 140 Nosler Accubonds will be my first choice but I also have some 154 Hornady Interbonds sitting on the shelf as well.I have used the 160AB, worked just fine on deer, elk and moose.

FYImake sure you seatBarnes .050" off the lands to start with. I made the mistake of thinking .030" would be better and got pressure spikes early, bumped them to .050" pressure went down and accuracy went up!

Enjoy and best of luck.

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Got back from the range. Played around with the .223 and played around with the new 7mm loads. Pics to follow. Skeeter, when you say "lands" WTF is that? Are those the grooves on the bullet or the rifling in the barrel? The first load was spectacular the other 3 not so great. See for yourself.

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3 shots @ 100 yds

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seated out further but results were worse

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4 shots of my regular bullet/load

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my new toy

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the local range

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Time to go home boys (.223 top/7mm Bot.) Hopefully I'll have some pics of tomorrow.

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Re: "lands" the rifling! My results were the same as yours whenI seatedcloser to the "rifling";) groups went to H in basket and iInoticedthe start ofpressure. Barnes appears to likea jump vs jacket bullets.

That is very nice first group. What combo(powder/gr of bullet/primer)produced that result?

Good stuff JD and hve fun tomorrow.

Our range is going to be closed for awhile, still a couple feet of snow on it and once that melts we'll have to pump it and let it dry out for awhile. StillI prep'd 100 brass tonight in anticipation;)!

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66 gr. of R22 & CCI primers (same load as the Noslers) I'm gonna load up the remaing bullets and see the results at 200. If they are as good as the bal. tips I'll probably try them this season. No great pics from the shoot sat. shot a bunch of gophers but the wind was howlin and made for a cold day. Thought the .223 would vaporize the little critters more but not a whole lot more than my .22 Mag or the .22 Hornet. Mind you I was tring 4 different types of heavier bullets, mostly HP's. Gonna start loading some 40 gr. TNT's and BT's to see how they produce results.

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Nice Gopher rig JD! Did you have any lucktracking down somesheds this weekend or were you having too much fun thumping gophers?

I found a few sheds this weekend but nothing spectacular. Still lots of snow on the ground.

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No sheds were found but we did pop 100 or so of them little critters! Here's a pic that was sent to me by e-mail, don't know anything about it though.

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Cool pic jd, seen it floatin around here b4, pretty neat. It is possible a fella here who is a big fur buyer/coyote slayer has a stack of yotes each year than is 6ft high and spans the whole width of the photo no bs. He kills quite a few as well as travels all over sask/manitoba buying them. Ain't seen a yote here for quite a while though i do hear them yippin back in the swamp in the early evenings.Still a bit too much snow here yet to get around with the bike. The fields are fine but the roads to get to the fields as well as fenclines are drifted pretty bad. Yesterday i spent 30 minutes cruisn a field shed huntin then an hour shoveling my bike out when i started breaking through the skidoo trail on an old back road. Got off the bike and was up to my waist in snow, quad was hung up with a foot of space between the tires and the ground, a lot of shoveling and swearing i gotter out. Goin to wait a bit more b4 i try that again. lol. Goin out this afternoon again but to a spot that is a little easier to access.

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With all the snow you folks got (Alberta & Sask), do you think it could have an effect on antler size for the upcoming season?I was wondering if you allhibernated?:eek::D:D:D

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All I know is I'm getting sick of seeing this white stuff[:@]When I want it in Oct. & Nov. it's nowhere to be seen! Don't think it'll have an effect on the antler size though.

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early in, the only way is if they don't make the winter!! If they made it through should be laughing as water and lots of green in the early growth stages will not be a source of concern like in years with less run off or drought. In my area the deer held the antlers longer then I would have ever thought possible,bare in mind we had well over foota snow in Nov, more thenI have seen in my yard with several dumps all winter long and it never went anywhere until last month. To my thinking means they were not too stressed by the conditions. Also they look awesome. If anything fawn mortality maybe up due to the inability to get around and elude predators.

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I agree. I was out biking all day today around our fields lookin for sheds and found 4 kills on one quarter and several other kills scattered around in other areas. Not uncommon to find the odd one on a field but i have never found 4 on one quarter b4. No sheds, got a coon and that was the day. Reaally nice biking right now as the snow has made a crust that will hold the bike up making it more versatile than a skidoo. Was biking over 6 foot drifts and sailing along. Won't last long as itsoftens up the bike will break through again. Also the low spots in the field have filled up theniced over so that makes for some fun with the bike. :D Seems to be alot of deer around as usual, any field you look there is a good 15 or so there anytime of the day andmost look very well off.

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Have a ? I'm traveling thru SK to hunt in the Malta MT area for mullies this Fall. Then I'm heading back SK an on to Ontario to hunt whitetails. Has anybody brought deer from MT to SK? If so was it much of a hassle?
Also how's the road from Weyburn to Cadillac, HY13 I think?

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Spiddle, I can't really answer the first part of your question but the roads in Sask are hit and miss. Sometimes they're allright, sometimes they're terrible. At least in the fall the potholes should have been filled.

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saskabush, thanks for the reply. i was thinking i had said something bad as no replys!! it looks like i will not be able to hunt montana anyway as i didn't get drawn again, maybe next year. i will just stay up in ca for a little while longer next fall. thats if we don't float away here. lots of snow wind an rain here, i guess spring fishing will have to wait till may.

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I know this question might be dum but in sasketchewan are there any turkeys?

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Other than lorne Calvert no.

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There are some turkeys where I hunt. Not many, but they do exist.

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Spiddle, I assume you'd need some sort of permit to transport game. If accompaning the harvest usually it is just your license/tag but a call to Canada Custom's Agency will give you the QT on requirements.

As far as roads they are miss this year where we got blasted by ole man winter but the sw faired much better then Central and Northern areas. Hwy. 13 has been fine in my experience, by saskatchewan standards that is, but it is a major Hwy that is well used and is at least maintained regularily.

I have heard claims of wild turkeys in the moose mountain area in the SE portion of the province (from manitoba). Other then that haven't heard of any other pockets and never seen one either on Sask soil that wasn't contained;).

Sask res. 07' draw and regs are out online and paper.
FYI, Hia2nd week rifle elk is back to either-sex(1st week is status quo - boys only). Some changes to moose as well, 2 week archery, back to a split reg. rifle season for the forest zones and draw numbers up in a few zones like 48 (from50 to 200 tags).

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Giddy up on the elk. Was going to have my dad put in for antlerless draw this year but if this is the case i think i will take him out reg season. Gettin the ol boy into hunting.

K has anyone else heard about the new meat regs coming down as of July 12th? I slaughtered a beef 2 weekends ago and took it in to our local town butcher to cut and wrap as usual and he and his wife were telling my dad and i that as of july 12th they can no longer take meat in to cut from farmers or HUNTERS. If we wanted to slaughter one of our animals it would have to go to stoon to be inspected and slaughtered by other folks and processed. It appears that this shop as well as any meat shop in any small town around here is goin to be tits up. We heard on the news that the new regs were coming down and were going to be stiff but i never expected this. I am not sure if this will actually happen as it will kill alot of business but the gov has done stupider things. I am waitin it out till july 12th and hoping that it doesn't go through, otherwise i am building a big walk in and buying a bunch of meat processing equip.

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hey Dan the man from Chelan.. my phone died.. sorry to bother you here, but if you see this call me man! ..

SKEETER..if you talk to Dan will you tell him to give me a jingle... same # but I lost all my cell data... grrrrrrr thanks Skeet...

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Thanks for calling Dan, nice chatting with you last night. See you in about 4 months!

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I just got back to alberta after spending the last couple of weeks in Sask. Went down thru and spent the night in Anaroid and Assinbole and spent about a week in Willow Bunch. The roads really, really, really sucked unless your on a main hwy like #1. I drove from Willow Bunch up thru moose jaw and regina and left Porcipine Plains last night. The roads coming out of Porcipine plains sucked big time with red flagging along the asphalt,stone, pothole voids. Nasty conditions driving. I drove 12 hours yesterday clinching the steering wheel driveing back thru freezing rain, snow, rain and hail and 80 k gust. It seemed like anything that could come out of the sky did, except a 747. I had to pull off at a ranchers property somewhere between Swift current and Medicine Hat and parked my truck and caught some zzz's after nodding off a few times. There is something to be desired with the roads in Sask, but also there is very little money avaliable from ranchers and farmers to show a profit to generate enough taxes to provide enough taxes to fix roads that aren't used that much.
Shed, if you make up somewhere between montana and alberta, pm me and I'll give ya my cell and we'll do some catch up.

Bobby

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Thanks for the call bobby.:( I am 2 miles out of porcupine plain. And yes the highways are rude. Sooner stick to gravel and backroads. What were u doin up here anyways?

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I been surverying and designing feed lots up to 25,000 head. I did several in southern alberta and some in Sask. near Aneriod/Hazelmore area and just did a 10 day project in Willowbunch. I might be back up to the Porcipine area after they move dirt when things dry out but in the mean time I'm flyin out of Kalispell, Mt. on wed. and visit relatives and do some fishing in fla. and N.C. and be back in July.
If and when I get back to Pockipine prarie we will hook up and suck one or two down.
Take care.

Bobby

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Thought I would pop in and see whats happenin! apparently not much in the past month...

Started scouting and training for sheep hunt this August, besides that I took 6'4'' black a couple weeks ago.

Hope alls well for everyone else!

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Congrats Agaucher

Nice bear bud,how was his coat,any early signs of rubbing on it?
Youngfart

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No, no rubbing. Here in the Okanagan (Mid southern BC) we had an early spout of upper 30's temps. the bears rubbed, then regrew early this year.

I was lucky enough to take this boar once we regrew his summer coat. Althought it is not as long as a winter coat, it is very very full withno rubs at all.

furthermore, I measured his skull to find that he is BC book minimum! One inch short of boone and crockett

Cheers

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Congrats ag, thats a beautiful animal.

Man I miss BC, I moved out here 20yrs ago and everytime I tell someone that I moved east they look at me like I'm insane, then I have to explain that I was 13 at the time and my folks moved the family.
We used to vacation in the Okanagan valley, beautiful place.

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Congrats AG...been a long time for me too. Haven't been out much since summer is here but I finally got my PAL the other day. Got my blood running a little quicker since the season isn't far away. Anyone else hanging around the boards?