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  1. Big Fin

    Montana trying to be like Utah?

    There are parcels within Bozeman city limits that have been annexed and are on long-term leases (I think 99 years) that already have commercial development. The process to do that was rather extensive. This seems to be an effort to make selling state lands much easier and far more expansive. Not...
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    Shank it? or Crank it? Only the Billy knows

    Great stuff. Congrats. Thanks for sharing it here in the detail and images you did. Tent even survived the hunt. What a bonus.
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    Podcast - Utah Wants Your Public Lands

    A companion video that touches on the Utah land grab and also expands to discuss the hypocrisy of so many groups raising hell that the Administration has the stupid idea to prohibit shooting on 1.3 million acres of Bears Ear National Monument, a good reason to raise hell when we lose that ground...
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    Podcast - Utah Wants Your Public Lands

    In this podcast I have David Willms of the National Wildlife Federation (and the Your Mountain Podcast) to talk about Utah's effort to lay claim to 18.5 millions acres of BLM lands. A lot of this has been discussed on the threads here on Hunt Talk. This podcast goes into a deep dive of the...
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    Good Neighbor: Elk Management in Montana

    They allow more resident elk hunting than any ranch I’m aware of. Yet, I doubt Mr. Blank is relying on cattle or elk to pay his bills, making it a hard comparison to ranch owners who rely on cattle or elk to pay their bills.
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    Good Neighbor: Elk Management in Montana

    A well done film and good message. I took from his comment that having public hunters come and shoot 2-3 cow elk in a weekend (assuming the public hunter who shows up is capable of that) is not worth the headache of a scared herd of elk knocking down fences when they run off. I can see that...
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    Help finding shooting technique video/trekking poles

    Around the 10-12 minute point in this video.
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    RIP Kris Kristofferson

    This song written by KK and made most popular by the John Denver version came across my music feed today. The number of amazing and complicated songs KK wrote is amazing. Every time I listen to this one it seems to have a slightly different meaning and takes my mind to a different place.
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    The Lonesome Billy

    One of the great old threads. Congrats @Elk Chaser. That's a goat of many lifetimes. I talked to a friend last week, an official B&C scorer, who measured a goat taken not too far from the goats Oak and Elk Chaser shot. The goat brought to him last week scores right at 57". An amazing 12" long...
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    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    Yup. So much for free markets and advocacy for property rights. In other words, you can’t sell or donate to certain groups or buyers without approval of a government entity. I guess communism/socialism is acceptable if it's a certain variety of communism/socialism.
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    Wyoming Hunt before the die off of 2022-23

    Those of you who subscribe to Fresh Tracks+ have already seen the polished version of this Wyoming pronghorn hunt. This is about two months before the intense winter of 2022-23. The number of pronghorn in this video is insane. I talked to hunters who had the tag in 2023. Their reports of...
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    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    Agree. The hyper-partisans need fuel for their fires, so they take every issue, e v e r y single issue, and make it partisan. The public land and access issues has been made political by hyper-partisans from one side. Gun rights have been made political by hyper-partisans from one side...
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    American Prairie - 88,000 acres of access

    I’m all about increased access, whether it’s public or private lands. In this case, it’s an podcast with American Prairie and their enrollment of 88,000 acres in Montana’s Block Management Program, along with allowing access across their deeded lands to any otherwise inaccessible lands. Add to...
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    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    In theory or in practicality? In theory a case can be made that it wouldn’t matter. Yet in practicality and under law, the states can’t leave them as is and make them “public.” All the western states claim their State Trust Lands are NOT public lands. No state land board has any incentive to...
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    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    Yes, they know. But, combining two boogey men is always better.
  16. Big Fin

    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    And before us Montana folks get all self-righteous about the misguided politicians in Utah, I suggest we re-read Page 13 of the Montana Republican Party Platform, adopted June 29, 2024. Link here - https://mtgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024_Party_Platform.pdf Cut and Paste for those not...
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    RIP Kris Kristofferson

    Damn it. I listened to him so much, probably too much, when I was around 10. My parents were getting a divorce and I always seemed to find honesty, sometimes painful honesty, in his lyrics. He wrote this song that I was sure was about my Dad destroying himself as he struggled with alcohol.
  18. Big Fin

    Lionheart - A film by Blood Origins

    Some of you may have seen this film already. It's been part of film premiers in many locations. Robbie Kroger of Blood Origins has been a leading voice in many of the hunting issues most vulnerable to misinformed media efforts. This is likely the most well-done film ever produced about hounds...
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    Utah People, thoughts on this?

    I did a podcast on it that will release on October 6th. Summary - Another poorly disguised effort to get rid of public lands, albeit in a new tactic that's not been tried before. The greatest accumulation of undistributed wealth on the planet is the public lands of the United States. So long...
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    Uncle Larry's Last Elk Hunt

    I told Larry if he shot a bull, I’d do “The Griddy.” He looked at me with a look of bewilderment and let out a string of profanity that in summary was a combined question and comment as to WTF is The Griddy. I wish the camera had been rolling.

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