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    Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Rendezvous March 6-8th, 2015

    NIICCEEE. I'm all registered up, and looking forward to this.
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    165 gr. 30-06. Partition or TTSX Do-All Bullet?

    exactly! no reason to ingest lead when you don't have to... I switched the day I bit down on a bullet fragment in ground meat I had butchered, cleaned, and ground myself. And I've been called 'OCD' when it comes to meat handling....
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    Tent stove ?

    I own a 3-dog (non-Ti) stove. Well made, and I get 4+hrs on lodgepole. If I had the skill/material to build a stove, I can't think of anything I would change from the design of the four dogs. My dad was heating a huge garage with his for a while, before he got his wood boiler installed....
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    No Bull !

    I used to live smack in the middle of an elk wintering ground, and would do elk surveys occasionally for my biologist wife. There would be 1000+ animals in several large groups, but nearly all with antler were spike or raghorns, but most were cow/calf. Only time I saw any of the bigger bulls was...
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    165 gr. 30-06. Partition or TTSX Do-All Bullet?

    I have had great luck shooting the TSX, not the tipped version though. We shoot copper/mono in all our rifles. I've shot the last 8 or so WT deer with the TSX and they just don't go anywhere (and I'm not shooting shoulders either). I've shot 2 elk with them as well, with similar results. the...
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    Friday Tunes !

    that was funny! good way to get going. last bit hits home on the work front today...
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    draw or over the counter?

    If you are a resident, no sense in not building points and hunting OTC while you do it. When I lived there I hunted archery OTC and just applied for points while trying to figure out what to use them for. Plenty of elk in CO outside the primo units.... I hunted close to home as I could devote...
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    Responding to Anti-Hunters

    If I had the ear of an anti-hunter or non-hunter who was actually willing to listen, I'd probably show them this video, http://vimeo.com/105686970 It takes a long time to change the attitude of an anti-hunter. Over many years, we were able to change the opinion of ONE of my wife's friends...
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    Nevada shed hunting rules

    As you can see, its easy to find examples of people intentionally harassing game on winter range to get them to shed antlers. This is not restricted to people on foot, as I've heard of horseback and vehicles used to achieve the same effect. Enough of this and you can see why they have to shut...
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    New season on CarbonTV?

    I agree with this. I've purchased a couple of the DVDS, but feel the 20min tv show format is too short. Would love to see extended versions of the hunts, available online for purchase by episode or bundled. Carbon TV is nice, but the resolution is kind of crappy. Meat Eater sells their show by...
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    Christmas Crew Cab

    Its a great do-all bag. I've used it for long backpack trips with a lightweight dry bag, but it really shines as a day hunt bag that can haul out quarters and oddly shaped loads. I've also been tempted by the talk of the new lightweight options from MR, but you'd have to wait for a frame...
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    Shed hunting trip

    late May should give you access to some of the lower elevation NF lands. Check the MVUM (motor vehicle use map) for the Med Bow NF before you go driving around. Sometimes there are seasonal road closures. You can get a map at the district office in Saratoga or the supervisors office in Laramie...
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    Wall Tent or Arctic Oven?

    They are really two different animals. I have a buddy who has an oven. I have a 12x12 spike tent. We run the same stoves in both (Four Dog). If you are planning heavy winter use, go with the oven. Their liner is really sweet, and really seems to hold heat. If you're setting up in relatively low...
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    Shed hunting trip

    Check the regs, but last time I looked shed hunting on the west side of the continental divide was closed until later in spring to protect wintering animals. East side there was no closed season. The divide runs right through the Sierra Madre range. I used to live in Colorado not far from the...
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    Tina's idaho bull

    Dang nice moose! and that's a pretty flashy left-handed rifle she's got as well.
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    advice please

    Sounds like you've got it figured out, but thought I'd throw this in the mix. I started totally 'green', ordered a predator calling pack from primos - came with a distress call, howler, and DVD. Watched the DVD and some others from the net, practiced my calling and went out on some BLM and...
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    artic oven

    I don't think you can do better for a cold weather tent that accepts a stove. I spent a couple nights in one at 12,000' in CO in March. We had that thing like a sauna, and with the liner it actually holds heat for a while after the stove dies out (much longer than a wall tent will). If my wife...
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    Who makes a Synthetic material Wall Tent?

    I have a Montana canvas spike III tent in relite. My dad has the full canvas version. The relite is much lighter weight and easier for one person to setup, but less durable. In my experience, the relite is pretty weather proof but you have to have the fly pitched super tight and it cant...
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    Twin bucks for the twins on Wisconsin opener

    Nice bucks! sounds like an ideal morning for you guys. always a good opening weekend when the meatpole is heavy and the pack wins ;)
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    2014 MT Elk Hunt Video - Critiques Needed

    Great to hear that most of the meat was ok. I went through the same process on my first archery elk - I knew it was a liver shot and there was no blood. I was in a spruce/fir thicket with a lot of blowdown. It was a body search in the pitch dark or wait till daylight.... I waited for daylight...

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