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  1. charliebravo77

    I-80 is about to become really familiar!

    Welcome to the Chicago area. I'm stuck here too until I can find a job out west.
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    recommended gear (clothing) for an October WY Pronghorn hunt

    I started hunting 4 years ago, and in the west 2 years ago and have gone through a bunch of clothing from cheap to high end and everywhere in-between. I've used Kmart level stuff to First Lite and Sitka. The first year out west I used a combination of Sitka Early Season Whitetail pants and an...
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    Pnuma?

    These guys might have been on to something if First Lite didn't exist, but there's no way I'm going to pay basically the same amount of money as FL gear for unproven stuff. That and I think FL Fusion is a much more versatile pattern than the Pnuma one.
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    Arizona fall draw

    Sigh.
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    WY NonRes Special vs. Trespass Fee?

    I hunted a unit in NE WY with limited public land the past two years and will be returning again this year. Between a friend and myself we've shot 13", 15" and 17" bucks. We've also never spent more than 2 days actively hunting at a time. If you spend the time to look at the OnX/MyTopo/etc...
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    Wyoming WOW!

    The unit I wanted had over 100 tags available. I got two right away, but my cousin trying at the same time got to the payment processing page and had it freeze, by the time he made it back to try again it was sold out. Definitely seems like an increase in applicants this year. This unit isn't...
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    Arizona fall draw

    Nothing yet. I had nothing to do this afternoon but hit refresh on my bank account...
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    What inline to get

    The T/C Impact with Weathershield finish is really hard to beat for the money. It comes with nice fiber iron sights, shoots very well, and is well put together. You can find them for right around $300. https://www.tcarms.com/firearms/muzzleloaders/impact
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    Pack out pack

    Not sure if they have any left, but camofire.com had Mystery Ranch Metcalfs for about the price of a Horn Hunter.
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    New Mexico Backdoor 2016

    Swing and a miss. Haven't drawn a limited entry tag anywhere in the 3 years I've been applying.
  11. charliebravo77

    Clothes and rain gear suggestions for first western hunt

    I haven't compared them side by side but I would guess that the Stormtight and Chugach are a bit more durable than the Precip as they are a few ounces heavier, and available in Fusion, Vias, etc. The Chughach is 4 way stretch and the Stormtight is also stretchable in some direction whereas the...
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    Clothes and rain gear suggestions for first western hunt

    The Kanab/Kanab 2.0 are great pants, so long as you aren't crossing a ton of barbed wire fences. I bought a brand new pair on the way to a hunt last year and they were full of tears and holes by the end of the three day trip. I ended up patching them all with Tenacious Tape and they seem to be...
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    Talk w/ Director of Illinois DNR

    These are the kinds of problems that have Flatland and I worried about IDNR: Just posted today by IDNR on their Facebook page.
  14. charliebravo77

    Got laid off, now what?

    If you can't afford to be out of work for an extended period then treat unemployment itself as a full-time job and commit more than just a few minutes a day polishing your resume, applying to jobs, talking to people in your social network, contact relevant recruiters, etc. I spent 3 years...
  15. charliebravo77

    Bozeman Crowd Please Avoid Map Brewery

    How's that? A bar calls itself "Sportsman's Club," has mounts all over the wall, rustic decor, and someone stumbles into it and is surprised when the staff and patrons have zero interest or knowledge in hunting. To be clear, I'm not the dude who posted the review, though I did visit it just to...
  16. charliebravo77

    Learning from What is Happening in Indiana

    I'm not seeing the point of this statement. If it's to address the fact that Indiana is flat and that real rifle calibers are somehow dangerous, then maybe Kansas, Nebraska, or Wyoming should disallow bottleneck center-fire cartridges since they have areas of wide open plains and prairie as...
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    Bozeman Crowd Please Avoid Map Brewery

    I don't know if it's at all the same kind of situation going on here, but it reminds me of a place I visited here in Chicago called Sportsman's Club. It's got mounts all over the walls, brick, lots of wood. This Yelp review from another confused patron says it all: "As an experienced hunter I...
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    Talk w/ Director of Illinois DNR

    The fact that the DNR is still issuing almost 600,000 permits while harvesting 150,000 deer is just ridiculous. Of that, only 5.4% are site specific public land permits and 25% of those are landowner permits which for residents are free. I'd like to think that most of those 150,000 or so...
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    Learning from What is Happening in Indiana

    Aren't we as hunters and conservationists typically striving to use as effective and efficient a method of take as possible? If the deer herd is in jeopardy why not cut tag numbers and/or increase tag cost instead of relying on hunters using what you're effectively touting as a less effective...
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    Hunter-on-hunter criticism

    It's a bad state of affairs when I can't tell if this is a serious comment or satire. I'm hoping the latter.

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