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    Mule Deer Gear List

    Bring all of they gear you think you might need stored in rubbermaids in your vehicle. The first year you will bring 3x as much stuff than you actually need. Your pack will start heavy with gear and you will leave half of it behind after the first day. Write it all down, play with different...
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    Excel/Numbers Spread Sheet

    A Google Doc with state by state hunter ID#'s for myself as well as my dad or anyone in my group I'm managing is what I use the most. I can access it from any of the half dozen internet devices I might be using. I have an embedded spreadsheet in the word document of ID#'s with points by state...
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    Should I Bring my ATV?

    Here is my ATV logic story from Wyoming antelope. The first year we went out there it had rained for 2 days straight before the season opened. We had been scouting for a day and assumed it was too wet to get in there despite having a TRD Tacoma. The first morning we are on foot, trucks come...
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    243 lead-free ammo help

    I have been using the 80 gr TTSX over H4350 for 3 seasons and have taken 3 antelope, a mule deer and a few whitetails with good results. Here are recovered bullets from quartering shots. Antelope buck at 450 yards Whitetail at 200 yards. I would not sweat 80 vs 90 grain mono bullets...
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    Effective Range?

    6mm 80 gr .243 win. recovered from an antelope and whitetail both with quartering shots where they went shoulder to hind quarter. I'll likely be running 145 gr 7mm LRX on elk this fall from a 7mm Mag. The value with the mono bullets is they hold together with fast rounds and add an element...
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    Effective Range?

    The reason they are used in "lighter bullets" is that the density of copper is less than lead. The same shaped mono bullet will end up around 15% lighter than a bimetal bullet. A 150 gr mono has the same volume as a ~172 gr bimetal bullet. Here is a TTSX I recovered with impact at 2700 fps...
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    GPS vs Phone

    My experience is that in the past the phone has burned me while the GPS has not. That said, the apps are getting better as are the phones for GPS usage. So far I've had much better luck with the apps on the IPhone 7 than the 5s and 4's in previous years. The apps have bigger upside with more...
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    Best Budget Rangefinder

    Rangefinders are like spotting scopes, if you don't spend enough money on them you might as well not have them because they are useless. $100 will get you nothing but frustration, $300 is the reasonable entry point for a new one and maybe a little less used.
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    Good grub recommendations in Cheyenne

    The be warned the quality of food too be had in most of Wyoming is pretty low compared to a lot of other states and countries I have been to. That isn't to say that there aren't good places in the state, but chose wisely or stick to chains. You can tell a lot about the expectation for the...
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    What would you do.....

    This is in a way why I'm very particular who I hunt with. Hunt styles really do matter. People get possessive about spots when they are lazy and incapable of figuring out a new honey pot. It would probably help to clear the air since they guy is running on second hand information, but I...
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    Help me understand these loads

    At $25/lb powder at 45 grains/load, 4 cent primers and 70 cent cases getting 10 reloads, it is 27 cents/round before bullet selection. Your reloads will likely cost 60-70 cents versus $1.50-2.00 for premium loaded ammo. You could get the investment back inside of 200-500 rounds. Reloading...
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    Help me understand these loads

    Bergers and Hornady ELD-X loads are finicky bullets that basically require extensive load development with powder ladders followed by tweaking the seating depths They have the potential to be great long range loads hence why precision rifle competition guys overwhelming prefer that type of...
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    Pant Opinions

    I love the timberline pants, the only hold back is that they are too hot above 60 degrees or so or I would wear them for every hunt. I have the Kuiu alpine pant hoping it would be the warm weather equivalent to the timberline, but I ended up using my Sitka ascent pants instead. My timberline...
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    Hunting with a knee injury?

    I killed 2 turkeys one season on a broken foot crutching into the woods. Not exactly the same thing, but similar idea. Motivated people will always work harder in physical therapy and tend to recover more quickly. If you figure out the fine line between hurting and injuring yourself you can...
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    Appalachian tree stand pack.

    Sitka makes a dedicated treestand carrying pack. https://www.sitkagear.com/products/whitetail/packs-bags/tool-bucket I have one and don't really like it that much. I love Sitka clothing, but those guys cannot make a backpack. http://engineeredpursuit.com/sitka-whitetail-tool-bucket-review/...
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    Cooler size for flying?

    If you go with something like this https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Quart-Performance-Cooler-Holds/dp/B0000DH4LT/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497368751&sr=8-1&keywords=48+quart+cooler you have a 7 lb cooler 48 quart cooler available just about anywhere. Meat is roughly the same density of water which...
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    Off-season Training for a Mountain Hunt

    When coming from low elevations to the mountains aerobic (cardio) is going to be the biggest key to being able to function in the mountains from a physiology stand point. Even more specifically power to weight ratios are a big determining factor. You can climb a stair master all you want at...
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    Early Sept. Hunting Clothing

    Last year in southern CO at 9k-11.5k I was wearing 150 weight base layers Sitka Ascent pants Sitka traverse long sleeve Down jacket for glassing Rain jacket for afternoon showers and stopping wind Stocking Cap Baseball cap 1 set of gloves
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    Which jacket or coat would you choose?

    Down jackets and Soft shell jackets do different things. Down is pure lightweight, packable insulation, but doesn't breath well, are typically louder and doesn't stop wind. Soft shells breath well, can be quieter depending on the exterior fabric, deal well with moisture since most have a DWR...
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    Midwest BHA Group??

    I would certainly like to see something like this living in Illinois and already being a BHA member. I do think it would be a regional thing. If you lump together Mark Twain NF, Shawnee NF and Hoosier NF you have a decent belt of public access with a few small wilderness areas too.
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