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    This javelina business

    Red, Grafs sells the brass and Hornady sells the dies. :cool:
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    New Mexico Javelina

    Chama, very sorry to hear how rudely the past year has treated you! Hope 2025 is much kinder. The javelina near Oliver Lee seemed to range south along the intersection of the Tularosa Basin floor and the base of the Sacramentos along what is called the Old El Paso Road on some maps. This quickly...
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    This javelina business

    I don't bear a grudge against the charming little toots with their impossibly dainty feet, but would like to hunt them once. I'll do some research and try to find a high-odds, old guy-friendly tag to apply for here in southern New Mexico. I'll put in some study time here...
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    New here, but old forum guy

    I just moved back to New Mexico after two self-inflicted years in Texas. Dear God, what joy to live in a state with abundant public lands again! Spent most of my life in the Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, but I am seeing many familiar names here. Hope to use the New Mexico forum to get...
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    Finally fixed up the little Lund

    Making me hurt all over for a manageable aluminum fishing boat that doesn't cost a fortune -- Lowe, Lund, Valco, Klamath, Gregor, Smoker ... Great looking rig SilentBirdHunter. My last was a Jetcraft with a 60-horse Merc EFI four. Wonderful, versatile motor.
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    2024 College Football 🏈 Season starts tomorrow…. Yee Yee

    To Snag23, I am 71 and a UO grad who remembers those grim Frei/Enright/Read/Brooks years. If anyone had told me 50 years ago that the Ducks would be a Big 10 champion, I'd have asked what they were smoking -- and where I could get some. ;)
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    New Mexico Javelina

    Did you ever score, Chama? We had them at the foot of the Sacramentos at Oliver Lee State Park when I volunteered there.
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    Las Cruces- Things to see

    Hope you had a grand hunt. I would have recommended the Oso Grill in Capitan (Smoky is actually buried across the street) and Sparky's in Hatch as well. Just had another "World Famous" at Sparky's yesterday.
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    Javelina white sands missile range

    I'd reach out to the missile range for guidance, as do the guys who draw oryx tags. Ought to be lots of javelin in the bootheel.
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    Name & fee change coming to NM

    The name change does seem an unnecessary expense, but the changes in how game commission members are selected make sense. I don't trust any governor to make appointments in the public interest. "However, the makeup would be three at-large members with backgrounds in wildlife issues, and four...
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    Oregon Jackrabbit

    You do need to pay attention to the rabbit's health and, wearing gloves, examine the liver for spots. I've always heard it is best to avoid them in summer, but have no data to back this up. An old friend who had a small gun shop in Jacksonville years ago grew up on a ranch in southern Arizona...
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    2024 Pronghorn

    The most important trophies are the ones taken with family -- and the memories are vastly more important than the horns. :cool:
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    Help Me Choose a Twist Rate

    I'm with Turbobrick, preferring the faster twist if given a choice. It may not be ideal for the very lightest-for-caliber varmint-style bullets in a given rifle, but offers some insurance if you ever find a need for the heaviest weights.
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    Finally Own a 270 Winchester…….

    O'Connor got wonderful performance from the cup-and-cores of his day against all many of game up to grizzlies. He would be "greatly pleased" with your rifle, to use a favorite phrase of another legend, Ned Roberts.
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