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  1. RobertD

    Bison Hide Tanning

    It's not necessarily recommended but I've fleshed several black bears with a pressure washer and then salted them and sent them off to Wildlife Gallery in Michigan with great results.
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    Is it safe to shoot squirrels with a .22?

    I went to high school with an idiot who shot himself through the hand with a .22 once. Has little to do with your story but at the same time if he survived that with no real damage, then the terminal velocity of a falling .22 bullet probably isn't going to hurt anyone. Just pick your shots and...
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    CWD - Seeing is Believing

    Makes sense and I did consider that but forgot to add. In that case though it seems like the more likely outcome than total extinction is total saturation of the population (assuming a specific incubation period) which I suppose would mean a younger herd on average and a hard "ceiling" on deer...
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    CWD - Seeing is Believing

    Yet the captive cervid crowd will throw a fit if you allude to their industry being a major player in the prions' spread.
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    CWD - Seeing is Believing

    Another thing that I think factors in is that there is likely some sort of incubation period pre-symptoms, as research indicates there is in the human and cow varieties. Deer breed young and live short lives relative to humans and in theory could've replaced themselves a few times over before...
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    CWD - Seeing is Believing

    I'm a little more optimistic. I think there has to be some sort of biological mechanism at play we're not seeing, or else all the cows in Europe ought to have died by now. I mean that sounds silly when I say it like that, but the prions don't just go away while for some reason the presence of...
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    CWD - Seeing is Believing

    No, you are correct. European cattle slaughtered for human consumption have to be either killed before 30 months of age or ortherwise be tested at point of slaughter. I assume there are still occasiomal positive cases just as there are still occasional positive cases of vCJD (human version).
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    Alabama Deer

    I'm jealous that you guys still have a few weeks of season left. Isn't far for me to slip across the line and could probably find a spot, either public or permission on a logging tract... won't lie and pretend I haven't been scheming up a way to get over there and hunt some. Good luck to you...
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    Talk me into Coyote hunting

    Here is a black one for you coyote heads. I skinned it for someone about a year ago.
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    Talk me into Coyote hunting

    I have never killed a coyote. I would like to but I almost never seen one, especially compared to bobcats. (I see more bobcats in one deer season than I do coyotes and foxes combined over four or five seasons.) Shot at a black one out the truck window about ten years ago, missed him, dammit. I...
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    No WY tag price increase!

    There is enough time between now and the deer and antelope draws for this to get picked back up in the House and have major implications for point creep for those species. I expect it to still be pretty significant across the board, though a slow economy may blunt it some.
  12. RobertD

    Colorado Elk - Unit 71

    No advice but that's a nice buck in your profile picture 👍
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    Unique Western Film - "Dead Man"

    Anyone seen it? It's a Jarmusch film, starring a young Johnny Depp. I've been meaning to watch it for a while and did last night. This isn't one to watch for a typical Western plot structure, though it does have a fairly linear plot that is more or less understandable throughout. The real...
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    Wasted bull and poor choices story

    Wow! Can't believe I only just saw this. For my money, I do think the landowner was wrong to leave the bull to die like that. (IF that's really how it happened.) But the bulk of culpability in this goat rope goes to Joshua. Problem number one: "He was sitting there wounded, suffering,”...
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    On Your Own Adventures

    I really like some of the old OYOA episodes. Especially enjoy the pronghorn hunts.
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    Aging mule deer bucks!

    I'm no mule deer guy but I'm going to guess 4.5 or maybe 5.5. That's just going off of his face and body which look to me to be those of a mature but not necessarily old deer. I don't know enough about antler quality in your area to know how that might factor in to the equation.
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    Let’s see your Trophy Room/Man Cave

    Nick we must have similar tastes in waterfowl because I've got a ringer, a shoveler and a GWT as well. What I don't have is an awesome drake ruddy like that, but definitely a duck I've always wanted to shoot.
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    Does it pay to fly for a hunt

    Anyone use Yeti hopper bags for this or are they not really worth the price? I could see putting a deboned antelope in one and using it as a carry on and would think it would work really well.
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    Ever had pneumonia?

    Hell, we've got terrible existing members that do a pretty good job of it as it is ;)
  20. RobertD

    Let’s see your Trophy Room/Man Cave

    My "trophy room" is my home office that acts as a repository for all my hunting stuff and other miscellaneous items. I've got some smaller euros on the opposite wall and a couple capped off sets of elk antlers in the floor. I need to hang something in the blank space above the desk.
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