Nice stand. I was checking out the AZ Fish and Wildlife site today about hunting big game with my RAW .357. I can hunt pretty much anything except elk and bison. I can hunt whitetail, mule deer, pronghorn, and javelina. Between my Wildcat .25 and my RAW, I'm all set for small game and varmints in Cali and the bigger stuff in AZ!
This is what we use for icehouses and deer stands, this is the one I have, I also have a long hose so I can hook it up to a 20 pound propane tank so I dont have to keep changing those little green bottles from Colman. I'll just hang a oil lamp in a corner for light..If I go yote hunting at night during the winter it can be anywhere from 10 above to 20 below zero which wasn't nothing when I was healthy,just put on my Mad Dog winter hunting jacket and bibs with a couple other layers and I was good for about 3-5 hours, now with the meds and health I don't like cold at all but this stand will get me back out...I got the 4 wall frames built tonight now I just need to do some window framing and hopefully tomorrow afternoon I'll get them up and post a pic.https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Heater-F274830-Indoor-Safe-Portable/dp/B01DD6C4TC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1505011473&sr=8-4&keywords=buddy+heater
A few years ago, I found a couple news articles about black bears being killed by .177 air rifles. Now my friends and I joke about .177 being the only round suitable for bear.
aa_limited sent me this vid (after watching it; I'm not sure I want to hunt black bear with any rifle!):
This is my feeling on the matter as well! I still can't get over being allowed to hunt black bear with a .35 cal. air rifle in AZ. Maybe I misread it; I'll have to look at the AZGFD site again.
Yes, that's right, Imold; javelina, as well! In Arizona, big game hunts you! My apologies to Yakov Smirnoff ;-)
I'll hunt deer with my crossbows but 1st I need to Range find a 35yard area around the stand so I don't shoot past that but I try to keep all shoots under 25yards, been like that my whole time with bow,crossbow I'm the same except I will take a 30 yard shot if it's a nice size deer and getting late in the season, with compound and crossbow I do Practice out to 60 yards but that's it, they say if you can constantly hit at a certain yardage( let's say 50yards) with arrows touching or very close to it your optimum range is half that distance so it would be 25yards..but that is for ethical hunters not the weekend warriors.....
Hahaha not a chance but the Boy Scouts had nothing on us, we had a few big woods/forests out of the city limits but close enough to almost be in, it all depended on the group of kids a person hung around as to what kinda fort we would build,the one by the duck hunting pond was above ground and the one out by the collage was underground. BB guns and the Marlin model 60 is how I rolled,still have my Marlin 60 22lr....
