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What are you some friggin' Peace Keeper or something? Wading into a perfectly good ridiculing session and trying to stop it is for sissies!

You are probably right.

Sell everything and get a 280AI. It is the only thing that can do the job. Settle for no more than 1/4" groups at 100, and use only armor piercing bullets. If it can't shoot through a mid-80's GM small block, you'll never be able to kill a sheep with it. Sheep and bears were the original inspiration behind kevlar. Make sure to top it with a 4lb scope with at least 20 power and no more than 1" of eye relief, and get one of those rifle slings with the shooting sticks built in. Don't forget your cough silencer, and be sure to get your rifle bore sighted by a professional at Cabelas right before your hunt.

No butt out tool CWH?

He actually had a custom made butt-out tool with a toothbrush on the other end to reduce weight. Says he only brushes his teeth for the first couple days anyway!

"Butt out, tool" is an appropriate response when dealing with Art. And me.

As for the actual device, I'd only consider one for sheep hunting if it was made from Titanium. Or if it was a multi-purpose item. Like Butt-Out tool/Mountain house spork.

Thinking we were both typing there...

Who brushes their teeth on a sheep hunt?

Haha market that SOB!!! Butt out tooth brush but paint camo so it's sneaky and won't scare away the game ;(

Cannot begin to express my fear in having come to the same basic multi-dysfunctional conclusion as Chris!

Sad thing is there would be a market...

I'm as scared as you are, and for the same reasons!

I'm liking the tactical butt-out toothbrush idea, but don't want to discuss it here, for patent infringement reasons.

Also, Luke, don't you owe us a bunch of pictures?

I've got a long handles spoon on the other end of my butt out tool. Works great for mountain house and mre's. I just bring one if those tiny litltle brush ups for my teeth/ morale on day 3. Anyway- think there's any market for that? You each can give me 5$ for the schematic and call it good.

How about I just give you back a shot of your own good whisky?

HAHA...I suppose I should... since I haven't posted anything really from any of my 2014 trips or a lot for 2013 for that matter....but I enjoy seeing other pics just as much and I know what I get so thats not as interesting anyways.

Maybe I will get around to do. The animal count was a bit lower than the 15-20 average I had been batting the previous 4-5 years but its all good just the same. Getting my dad his 2nd goat was likely the cherry on top of the season for me though.

Sides it wouldn't belong in this thread anyways as most animals were shot with a measly .308 and those don't work on grizzlies

Yup, Riley proved you need the extra case capacity of the 25-06 to kill effectively, especially on brown bears.

Exactly..... .308 is too slow and the quarter bore 06 well your son is lucky to be alive!!! Still need to get up with him and go mini boating sometime, rode up the creek he actually killed that bear on this past July....scared a good size boar off one of the gravel bears about 7 miles up that he was taking a good snooze on....good stuff for sure and lots of bear up there no doubt.

As a kid I had an "encounter" on that same river with a sleeping brown bear. It has always been a "sleeper!"

Find out when he gets it fixed and sign on quick! He is hard on it!

Jack said the best ay t kill a Grizzly is to go sheep hunting!

Jack who?

I used a 270 build by redneck setup for 150 mrx's did the job well, also had a grizz tag, river I needed to cross was to high to get to the unit for grizz but felt
Comfortable with my 270 for interior griz.
Great hunt enjoy it all