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    Extra Time Off Work

    Fly to NZ and hunt Tahr for a month. Mountain bike Moab, its basically prime season.
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    Pronghorn hunting clothing question???

    One thing for antelope I would say is that because its very active a soft shell DWR jacket tend to be a good outer layer versus a down jacket or goretex hardshell. They will breath a lot better and tend to cut the wind better than a down jacket does. For pants I run Sitka timberlines because...
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    Cubic feet of elk

    The baseline density of meat is the same as water, essentially ~2 lbs/quart. I once managed to fly 86 lbs of boned out frozen meat home in a 48 quart cooler which is a density of 1.79 lbs per quart. If you got 200 lbs of boned out meat it would take 111 quarts of capacity based on that rate...
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    Public land duck suggestions

    Missouri offers excellent public duck hunting with the note that most heavily managed areas require specialized layout boats for the concealment necessary to be consistently successful. You also have to have full parties to be drawing with full odds at many sites and be ready to hunt every other...
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    Any Mountain Bikers here?

    Mountain biking is a long time similar passion to my hunting, I think I mountain biked in 13? states but only hunted 10. I've messed around with XC and short track racing, but mostly I race a ton of cyclocross. I got more into endurance events a few years ago and did the Leadville 100 2 years...
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    Arizona Late Season Rifle

    My experience with AZ late season is that you couldn't get away from people very easily because there were roads everywhere in the unit and despite most of them being "closed" per the MVUM map there were rarely marked as such or just blatantly ignored. You basically have a general unit level of...
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    CO Public Access to Navigable Streambeds - New Court Case

    Would you trade exclusive access to 100' of river for thousands of miles public access in your state or across the country?
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    Kenetrek boots so heavy vs hiking boots

    I've always wondered why hunters used really heavy "stiff" traditional leather boots compared to some like a modern mountaineering or approach boot from Scarpa, La Sportiva or Salewa for instance. In those boots its possible to have more support and stiffness with less weight. Is there anyone...
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    HOW to introduce a new hunter?

    Taking someone hunting on an easy private land hunt for a weekend is about the worst way to create a long term hunter in most cases. Getting a new hunter involved has to be about developing all of the steps from finding a place to go, to scouting, to failing A LOT to butchering game once...
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    Sako A7 vs Tikka T3X

    I have the A7, the beauty of the gun is that it is ready to go out of the box and doesn't need any upgrades. It has great trigger, a good stock and all of the controls of a Sako 85. The only negative I've found is that you can only seat bullets 0.050" over the saami OAL and still fit inside...
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    Archery Elk and the Moon

    I definitely agree with what you are saying. Its the same way that activity can be extended later into the morning on rainy or overcast days compared to a clear sunny day. Add warm weather to a full moon and pressured elk might not be filtering into the open until well after dark.
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    Backpacking help

    Don't skimp on the pack, there are no short cuts around good packs and the cost of them. The best deals right now are on multicam Mystery Ranch packs for 25% off. No Alps/Tenzing/Slumberjack/badlands/eberlestock that seems like a deal is actually one. Those packs are largely sunk costs for...
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    Brand new users asking for unit and draw advice.... conversation -

    1) Wyoming saw a 25% Increase in 2017 Applications so that is as concrete a reason as you will find. 2) While the number of hunters is going down nationally, it seems a lot of the remaining guys are becoming more serious about days afield and traveling. 3) The information is out there and...
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    Renting a 4x4 in Denver

    Renting 4x4's from enterprise is mostly a function of being nice and just asking for one when you get there. If you have an full sized truck, SUV or compact truck rented they seem a little more willing to work with you. You are going to stand around for a few extra minutes waiting, but they...
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    Lease Question

    Its hard to find time to get more bad tattoos and find more synonyms for EXTREME! between my food plots, moving my redneck blinds, naming deer on my hit list and dealing with a lease.
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    how much weight does an ultralight knife really save?

    The point about "ultralight knives" is how many great and inexpensive 3 oz or less options exist, but how many guys may not realize the 6" huntin'/survival knife there are packing weighs 1 lb in a sheath.
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    Public land duck suggestions

    Just because an area has specific rules like daily draws, strict rules about hunting hours doesn't detract from hunt quality in my experience, rather it often improves it until you get into pretty sparsely populated states where it just isn't necessary. Every place is going to have different...
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    20 gauge turkey choke and shell recommendations

    Hevishot plus the Hevishot brand turkey choke is a good place to start. #5 hevishot has long been a favorite of mine but the mixed shot size patterned quite well when I tried it too.
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    Any cow elk only hunters this year?

    I'm putting in for a cow tag only in Wyoming this year because I don't want to risk burning my points in a year where a move and job change is likely with vacation uncertain. I'll use it to scout a unit for a bull tag in the next few years and if I can't manage the hunt the price is a lot...
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    Arizona elk help

    I think the late rifle hunts are best described as a general unit hunts with definite trophy potential rather than fun hunts with constant action. Having done the late rifle hunt, AZ doesn't really have a lot of units where you hike in and spike camp to get away from people especially given the...

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