Bob, you should always wait for a good broadside shot on a cinder block.

I'm sure they're great, Joey...but I think I'll keep shooting my $4.00 Grizzly 190's

Them ribteks look pretty strong as well for $3.00.

Mike

Thanks Ray I know exactly  what you mean....my $30 RMEF member knife is all the knife I need to skin my upcoming elk.   :D

good for you. How about the knife you make yourself, it will probably cost you less than that?

Fortunately, you won't be THROWING that RMEF knife across a bunch of blowdowns at that elk you are hunting, or you might think twice about it, like you might with a 40 dollar broadhead.

Good point!!  I just hope i see one half as large as yours. Did you kill that with USO Outfitters?..awesome trophy

yep. That was my first elk trip, Joey..I was a greenhorn. Put in for a public land tag, got drawn, and went to their camp in the Gila.

We hunted the 16's if you know where that is, out of Apache Creek, NM.

That area still has some great bulls, but they increased the tags and give landowners in the area lots of depredation permits to shoot elk in their alfalfa -they leave them lay!!!  

I would use someone else if I was going today given the recent issues with USO. However, I think those were more related to their private land operations in other areas...rather than public land hunting situations.

The folks I was with were all very fair chase and doin' it the hard way oriented. They actually were contracted guys..free lancers...and not USO employees.. they seemed to look down their nose at the USO staff working on private land.

I have no personal knowledge about that as I only hunted public ground.

Thanks Ray for the PM...and i would like to speak on the behalf of the rest of Tradgangers....you have GOT to get a bigger Avatar to fit that toad of a Elk on it.