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    Colorado OTC Advice

    When I killed my first bull, we went to a Colorado OTC unit that my hunting partner had had some success with in the past, but hadn't hunted in several years. To say that hunting pressure had increased would be an understatement. When we got there, we struggled to even find a camping spot...
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    The recovery of Yellowstone Lake

    I will see your emotional warm and fuzzies about feral horses, and raise you domestic house cats. There's much to be done...
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    Behind the decision to allow chain saws in Southwest Colorado wilderness areas

    Perhaps folks worried about slippery slopes, myself included, would be less inclined to think in such a way if there were a real effort to prove that leadership in this country valued big W Wilderness. But Congress has all but stopped, with a few notable exceptions, designating Wilderness. Now...
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    Teal decoys

    Fair enough. Point remains, teal ain't really brain rangers. If you're bushwhacking in, I'd get em as light and cheaply as I could.
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    So here's one for ya...

    Thanks everyone, glad nobody replied, "I BEEN THERE, DON'T DO IT!!" Our plan is to do day hunts from a cabin I secured permission to stay in. But it's a big unit, so we need to be prepared to for some spike camping, even if just from trailheads or areas that are too far to drive to effectively...
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    Teal decoys

    So are these for the early teal season? Or are these supposed to be a spread for other early ducks as well? Because spending the coin it'll take to get into some of the names getting thrown around this thread like Avian X, Higdon, Dakota, etc to fool teal, seems, well, silly. If you told me I...
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    So here's one for ya...

    Not an experienced elk hunter. Been on two bowhunts to OTC units, killed one bull, though did get a shot a bull on that first hunt too. Been saving CO points for a bit, and decided this year we were cashing in (we = old family friend of my dad's who's been into elk hunting for a bit now too) on...
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    CO draw results

    Had a pending charge for an elk tag show up on the credit card last night, but still nothing for the antelope or deer points I applied for. Whatever, get it sorted out soon enough. We goin' hunting!
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    MT residents thoughts on Steve Bullock

    Nah, that's the sort of thing that sorta explains itself; I'm done with it. In the meantime, just sent a donation to Gov. Bullock's campaign in your honor.
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    MT residents thoughts on Steve Bullock

    If you believe that, I doubt anybody here, even with all the objective science in the world differentiating between a road in a national park and a mine, will influence you. But I don't think you believe it. I think you're just on the internet, having a good time.
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    U.S. supreme Court case - Big decision ahead

    What are the chances you'll remember saying this on the internet when the culture of the U.S. takes a decided turn to the urban and the majority think that owning guns and shooting animals is a relic from a bygone age? Who gets to hang on to their culture in the face of a changing world...
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    The Gaslighting of the American Sportsman

    Yep, they'll coexist just fine right up to the minute that they don't. We may all be dead by then. Hell, our kids may be dead by then. But the tailings gotta stay locked up behind that dam forever. Like, forever-ever.
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    Com'on ranchers, stop giving me reason to no support you.

    That much of America caring about what happens to em would be the best thing that ever happened to deer, elk, and antelope.
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    Dog Bit By Moccasin In FL

    My last lab was bitten three times by copperheads. By the third time, we had the drill pretty well figured out; just gave her a Benadryl and didn't bother even calling the vet.
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    Wait for it...Wait....Wait

    Besides Cheney, the other names that pop are McCarthy, Scalise, and Palmer. House minority leadership went 4/4 the wrong way.
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    Meateater Podcast episode #155: Guns - Lead study in ND

    Early steel shot was garbage. But anybody complaining today needs more trigger time. Your average duck hunter doesn't have the shooting chops to even maximize the performance of regular ol' blue box Federals these days. Steel will straight mash em if you put it on em. And yeah, I wonder about...
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    Anxiously awaiting Wyoming Non-Res elk drawing results...

    Was my first year applying in Wyoming, after a couple years of buying points. But, my primary plan for the fall is to cash in my CO points so I swung for the fences in the random. Didn't connect. Oh well.
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    Meateater Podcast episode #155: Guns - Lead study in ND

    But is that what the NSSF guys said? I'd have to re-listen to the podcast, but it seems like they got their facts messed up or flat lied. Either way, folks in urban areas oughta be able to eat game too. I live in a suburb of DC and my pipes likely ain't near as old with lead problems of those...
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    CO Processor recommendations near HWY 133/Raggeds Wilderness/Gunnison National Forest

    Larry at Aspen Leaf Lodge and Game Processing did my bull last year. They did ok. Wasn't too impressed, but it wasn't a bad enough job to really cuss on the internet about the man. Service was good and he has a freezer. He might let you hang without buying his processing services. We weren't...
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    First time Colorado Elk Hunting - 62 or 521 for 1st rifle season?

    I've hunted public land within 50 or 60 miles of major metropolitan areas in the East that were less crowded than 521 was last fall during archery season. Can't speak to first rifle, nor were we on the Wilderness in 521, but if 62 is more crowded, then color me impressed. I shot a bull, but it...

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