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    Fires 2021

    Fire season has become a year round thing. It's also been going fairly early this year and Idaho is just getting started for this year. Central Idaho is so dry Mackey reservoir will be a mud puddle by August. They've already shut off junior water right irrigators in Challis. Over a month early...
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    Drought for the west

    Idaho: A meteorologist on Tuesday told Republican Gov. Brad Little and other elected officials of the Idaho Land Board the state had its second driest spring in the last 126 years and one of its hottest previous 12 months. Nick Nauslar with the National Interagency Fire Center says nearly 80%...
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    Just Complaining

    Just a couple days back it was 96 for 3 days in central Idaho. Wind? Who needs to move to Wyoming when the wind starts here. Cooled off for a couple days. Thursday morning is suppose to be 34* have to cover the garden tonight if the wind settles down. Come Monday it's suppose to go back to mid...
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    Eastern Montana drought

    Central Idaho is just as bad. We've had 1.03 of rain since the first of the year. Get ready for a hot smoky summer again. High fire danger in the Salmon/Challis forest already.
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    Elberlestock Backpack (sold)

    Elberlestock Main frame with shelf, comes with a zip on backpack bag that can covert to a daypack. It's an older pack 6 or so years old used very little. Did pack out 2 elk last season. Color more of a coyote brown? Asking $225.00 USPS money order or cash.
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    ISO Eberlestock batwings

    Other half found the scabbard its called a Side Scabbard in Mtn. Camo retails for $69.95 would sell for $50 for anyone looking. He also decided to sell his F1 Main Frame with a Zip on Bag. The bag is considered a Daybag with straps for $250.
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    ISO Eberlestock batwings

    Have a set of bat-wings we'd sell. Used last season only. Also have a scabbard don't know if it's a A2LS or A2SS we'd sell.
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    Other hobbies?

    Hobbies? Way to many cut down on a few. Collect rocks. No. Don't know what half of them are just go for color shape size and sometime throwing(the perfect fit) Tool leather (don't do as much as I use to do). Need to get the guitar and banjo back out and start all over with the practice. Have...
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    Elk Caliber for Small-Framed Female

    I started with a pre 64 feather weight Winchester .308 Then purchased a Weatherby Vanguard .270. It has become too heavy for me to pack. Shot a Tikka .243 mainly for deer, did get one elk with it. But knew it is/was too light for elk. Went to a Browning Hells Canyon long range 6.5 creedmore. So...
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    First-hand experiences of women hunters

    Someone said to look at other boots like Danner, Vasque and so forth. Danner's are too narrow from my feet. Can no longer find Vasque and they changed them big time. I now just wear Kenetrek's and Crispi. Also I wear men's XL size shirts. A hair bit big but I can move in them and they will last...
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    First-hand experiences of women hunters

    I can't think of anything of anyone out in the field treating me different. If they were thinking of it they didn't say a thing. But I've had it happen twice at gun counters. You want to see someone get mad don't treat me like a stupid woman. I complained about one guy at a Cabela's store to a...
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    Did partial knee replacement fix your pain for backcountry elk hunting?

    Both knees replaced one 12 or years ago and the left one fall of 2019. Hunted fairly hard and helped pack out 2 elk this past season. By waiting you are doing more damage than you can imagine. Get it done give yourself a good 6months the longer the better. Do the P.T. if you don't you will have...
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    Back to Work

    Lost my mom, dad and brother within a 9 month period. Then lost a close cousin with in a year of them passing. Have lost several friends since then. Got tired of always putting the job and everything else before me. Moved away from where I had lived for over 50 years. One of the best things we...
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    Things you've mistaken for elk/deer

    Way to many years ago. My dad girlfriend and I were elk hunting. Walking into a big flat area started to hear elk bugles. Finally got there still hearing the bugles not out line of animals around. Looked up and this old lodge pole blowing in the wind would scrape along another lodge pole and it...
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    What does your hunting preparation workout routine look like?

    I garden all summer and try to go hike at least one day a week. But finding if I try to get into tip top shape (other than round) I'm over stressing my joints. So I walk a fine line now at my age. I try to ride my bike just about every day if the ankles will let me. Have just enough up hill at...
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    Back to Work

    I could have stayed with my job as it's all mental. But always away from home in the summer with little to no time off. Other half did the same thing and he could have stayed but he didn't. We have everything paid for and live way below our means. Don't travel and really don't want to. So if any...
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    Back to Work

    Retired a year ago. For 40 some odd years it seemed like I was never home except for 4 months out of the year in the spring. Have kept busy exploring the area, getting back into fishing (summers) now Ice fishing(winters). Hunted all fall for deer and elk. Garden full time in the short summer...
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    Whats the best deer cartridge?

    Do you want to take meat home? Taken a lot of deer with the .243. Mule deer aren't tough. Just learn to shoot better and hit what you aim at.
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    What are you looking forward to/hoping for in 2021?

    Unfortunately this will be the new normal. Don't see C-19 ever going away again. Just hoping the world will try harder not to spread it. Just hoping to safely make it through this winter and spring and summer with no major injuries. Already have one bad shoulder and don't know how much longer...
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    Elk gun for wife

    I have the Browning Hells Canyon in 6.5cm. Love the recoil(about like a .243) Took a small buck and a cow elk at 252 yards a few weeks back. Other half bought a Brownings Hells Canyon in .308 then had scope problems and ended up shooting his cow with a CVA in 6.5cm this rifle has a begara barrel...

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