Fellas...Wholesales/Russels don't carry Nikon, so that option is nul & void. SIR don'thave the model I want[:@]So thats where my desperation is setting in. I'll try the link Skeeter (THX). As for the bushnell Hia, thx but I'm not a fan of their scopes. It'll be either a Nikon or Loopy VXIII (maybea bush elite if all else fails). As for the Cabelas rumors, I've heard them all, including a Bass Pro near Balzac. Still no definate confirmation of where & when either of the big 2 will be coming. Wholesales store is almost done and they will be moving next month. Looks huge!! but probably the same old just a bigger pain in the a$$. E-bay has been iffy lately with scopes, I'm scared of getting screwed out of my $$ if it doesn't get passed the border. Most places are blowing out the old models so there are some great deals out there, just not for us Canucks! Thanks for the info guys!!

I was just kiddin bout that banner jd. It's the biggest hunk of junk i have ever used, got it for a song but i guess you get what you pay for.[&:] Pretty bad when you ain't happy with a scope and all your using it for is poppin beavers. On a different note i guess we had some different vistors at the feeder in the yard this morning. 11 elk were in the yard nibbling at 5am this morning and the last spiker left at 8 so they had some good eats. Won't be so cute once they start hitting the second cut round bales.

My bad Hia...LOL I've never been a fan of Bushnell, I hear good things about the Elite series though. I've made that mistake in the past too. You definately get what you pay for in optics...especially on high magnification. I've e-mailed 3 different companies and no one seems to get back to me. Hopefully theshopSkeeter put me on comes through!
Hia...By the way, are the elk still carrying bone??

Ya i guess there were a few spikers and a gaggle of cows. Usually elk tend to keep thema little longer than deer, have seen them packin bone close to april b4. We still have one buck packin but everyone else has dropped since the begining of January. I have an elite on my 7 and like it quite a bit but i have never looked through anything expensive so i don't know what i am missing, my bank account likes it that way.

JD, what Nikon Model are you looking for? And for what usage??

Elites are decent scopes, still in the good bang for your buck category IMHO. I have owned 3200 and 4200's, never one stitch of problems. Though I doubt I'd pay the extra slop for a 4200 anymore with the prices of Leuy's, Zeiss, etc falling.

JD I mentioned to you in the past reptics from the US.Ithasbeen problem free for me. Other then some slow customs never a hick up. I make sure they'll ship itAirmail USPS or Fedex. I will not buy if they'llonly ship UPS, they are crooks.ThoughI understand your reservations.

YF, I have heard that BPS in TO could give to craps about out of store sales. When I was there over a year agoone of the sales peopletold me they were working ona Canadian Mail Orderbut apparently that was a cock n'bull line. To tell you the truth I wasn't wowed by the prices for the most part no different then wholesale,etc but they did have some selection that we don't normally see.GTO is the centre of the universe so no suprise they did not feel the needto replyto westerner!![:@]

We got 4" of the white stuff last night as well and -29 tonight before the wind.

Hia, baiting already for next years meat in the freezer!

Skeeter, I'm looking for the 5.5-15 or 6-20 Monarch UCC for my new.223. Heard good things about them and saw one at last years gun show. I'm sooo close to buying off E-bay but I keep hearing horror stories and don't want to be out $400+ bucks on account of stupidity. I'm looking at the weaver grand slam too, they sound like they are ok for the price.

Hey guys, looks like sheddin' is shut down for a little bit with all the fresh snow but here's some photos from last weekend's expedition.

I took a buddy from work out with me this time. He's never been sheddin' so I took him to the field where I found the two matched sets the previous week. I was pretty confident there would be more in the area and it was a wide open field so it would not be hard to spot antlers
I Picked up this nice 5pt first. I spotted the base sticking straight out of the snow from about 300yds. It was another one of those "moose turds" that nearly got ignored.

as it lay:



we were heading towards a pile of shredded bales on the far side of the field. As we got closer I glassed the stack and spotted a medium 4pt on the side closest to me, we'd only been walking for about an hour so we stopped to take a photo of the finds.



After taking the picture, my partner stepped back to take a leak and found these two little guys not 3 feet from where we'd walked past the bales to get the other antler ops:



We split up again and not long after I heard Tyler shout that he'd found another. Turns out it was a small moose antler that had not been shed but broken off of the skull (possibly from a wolf kill) . Not long after that we cut several fresh sets of wolf tracks, we could tell they were especially fresh because the dog got pretty squirrely and refused to leave us :lol:
Next it was my turn and I spotted this nice 5pt shed a ways in front of me.

as it lay:



My sidekicks both came over for a look and we decided to split up and keep an eye out for the match. Tyler hadn't made it 100 yards when he found it and another little 4 pt.

matched set:

the rookie with a full pack:


We kept on for another hour or so with myself picking up one more small 4pt. At the end of the day we had a good pile of bone, 9 in total. The only down side is that the rookie beat me 5 - 4:lol:

Myself and hound:

Great pics Sask, and those were some nice sheds. Thatset your buddy got is real nice!

Good job Sask!! I might take you up on that offer to hunt for whiteys this yearseems like there is no shortage of bucks your way. I went for a little jaunt on Sat. only to come up empty (as usual). [:@]

anytime JD. Chin up, you'll find some. It's still early yet.