There is a canyon in southern Utah that has intrigued me for quite some time. …it just doesn’t get much mention by anyone. Which, is probably because getting there and exploring it is difficult… When my friend Alan asked if I was up for giving it a go, I was in!
So, off we went, navigating two tracks to get to the area that had looked promising from a distance. And eventually, we arrived. The Chuck Cathedral…
Problem… Truck was wedged/high centered front and back, stuck in the mud, under the water, absolutely no moving forward or back. Twenty miles to the nearest occupied ranch. Dang…
…drive from the three corners to the four corners. As much of it on dirt as possible. With a slight twist – no route planning ahead of time, just wing it…
… all three kills were nearly identical: a .224″ entrance, Jell-O-lungs, and a modest exit hole…
We hiked a long way on this day, over 15 miles, but the payoff was that we got into a lot of cool stuff…
…With Berger out of the market and no longer providing the required J4 jackets to the custom makers, finding 30’s on J4’s is mostly a game of buying up old stock… So, when I heard from Montana Mize recently that he had worked up a new 30 gr. flat base design, I was definitely interested! I got him on the phone and ordered a couple hundred of them to play with.
This year, I had one day that I called in seven coyotes. But, I went back again to that spot just recently, and got skunked…
Calling has been slow so far this year. The slow calling hasn’t tamped down the fire in my belly to just get out there though!
…for the guys wanting to neck turn for chambers that are not tight necks, be they factory or custom, the question of what thickness to turn to is a bit more muddy. Obviously, you don’t “need” to neck turn at all, for a factory or non-tight neck chamber. And of course, factory chambers are generously proportioned and sloppy of fit to begin with, so there is always concern for making things even sloppier…
