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    Application burnout

    May gets pretty brutal when you have been swinging and missing since January like happened to me last year when I didn't draw anything until late June. I definitely had a sigh of relief drawing AZ elk in March this spring and getting to skip a few states worth of applications especially those...
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    West goes East????

    I would consider this to be a large part of why I don't like hunting in the East in that people put too much value on whitetail access. On the open market its not uncommon to see $30/acre annual hunting leases. I'm clearly lukewarm on whitetails in general, and I've found the biggest deterrent...
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    West goes East????

    I don't know why anyone from out west would want to go back east to hunt let alone sitting in a treestand waiting for whitetails. After spot and stalk hunting western big game, stand hunting has zero appeal to me. People who are really into eastern whitetail hunting like it because they...
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    Anyone else get their hats handed to them by turkeys this season?

    My turkey seasons typically fluctuate between very hot and very cold on getting into birds especially in years when I don't put in the number of days afield. My last 2 years have been pretty good, but I've definitely had poor streaks as well. I love turkey hunting, but the number of days I get...
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    How to patent an idea?

    I have a patent pending from work that was granted provisional in August 2014 and filed to be a full patent in August 2015 with a typical wait time of around 20-24 months. As mentioned getting a patent isn't as bad as the legal wranglings after the fact. My engineering manager while I was at...
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    Flying vs. driving to Hunt out West from the East any experiences appreciated

    2016 hunts (5 vacation days)Colorado MZ Elk- Full week trip (5) from IL to Colorado driving solo. Left Friday after work, drove 6 hours to Missouri, Teal hunted Saturday morning with my dad then drove straight though to south central CO. Hunted Sunday-Friday Drove back Saturday to MO, teal...
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    Flying vs. driving to Hunt out West from the East any experiences appreciated

    I just booked flights for my AZ elk hunt, doing so for 2 guys was cheaper than the fuel alone to drive 26 hours and it means I can be gone for 7 days and spend 6.5 of them scouting or hunting. I can work until 3 pm and be in the hunting unit by midnight the same day 1600 miles away. Luckily...
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    Flying vs. driving to Hunt out West from the East any experiences appreciated

    More guys to drive will always help with the work and cost. To date I've done have a done 6 trips out west with drives from 12-20 hours with 1-3 people, but this year I'm doing 2 trips flying. It becomes a factor of time and money. Mostly how much vacation you have and how much money you can...
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    Camping Elevations

    Have you experienced altitude before? Everyone seems to react a little differently. My friends and I were discussing our strategy for riding bikes at altitude after flying in from sea level and I know that I'm good the first 24 hours but usually crash hard the second day whereas some of my...
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    First Mule Deer Hunt

    Just for perspective, I really felt that Mule deer hunting above all else was about careful glassing as they blend into their environment extremely well. Mule deer was the first time that I spent 2-3 hours glassing nonstop and after glassing up deer and have some pointed out I was amazed at how...
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    NRA Warns Hunters to Prepare for War

    The NRA is a useless institution harboring some of the most detrimental "hunters" by which the rest of us are judged. Digging deeper into the cultural war trench is not how Conservation, hunting and gun rights will be preserved. When I got American Hunter Magazine (gun club forced...
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    wildlife commission about to change resident license allocation for the worse?

    I hate when residents are inconvenienced by having to drive beyond their backyard to hunt a given species, let alone one that only exists in significant numbers across a few states. CO residents don't have it great, nor have the access to significantly better units than NR's year over year like...
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    wildlife commission about to change resident license allocation for the worse?

    Colorado can't have its cake and eat it too. The state at some point made a decision to make money by maximizing the number of nonresident hunters for $$$$ sake. There would be a lot more "coveted tags" in the state if they scaled back the free for all 2nd and 3rd seasons and nearly statewide...
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    Day Hunt: How much hiking is to much hiking?

    Across half a dozen trips out west over the last few years my average day comes out to be 10 miles per day hiking. The high miles have always come on enthusiastic first trips for a species and was 16 miles on flat antelope country and 13 miles/day above 10K in Colorado. Both hunts I would...
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    My daughters First western Hunt

    Pronghorn is definitely the best first western hunt for anyone young or old and everything in between. Wyoming is generally the best way to go for Antelope but NM has youth only hunts I would be applying for yearly.
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    nebraska merrim turkey

    Because of elevation walking further can be faster if you stay on the spines of the ridges, trails in a heavily burned area and fallen area are faster than bushwacking and in certain areas roads that could otherwise access ground more quickly are private.
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    Extra Money

    Since you are a student, go to school for something that will pay for your hunting expenses without overtime in the future. Generally I like to accumulate gear in the offseason when deals are out there on last year's stuff, then prioritize my gear gaps once the tags are drawn and meter out...
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    WY Unit 47

    I think the idea that quantity or quality of pronghorn in any Wyoming unit varies that much with PP's required/difficult of draw is silly. Hard to draw units just have more public land and are therefore easier to navigate and provide more ground to look over good animals.
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    Relocating

    Illinois is sort of a black hole of this sort of thing. My advice to any hunter relocating to Illinois is plan to hunt out of state or just take the dive into a hunting lease or club though finding that sort of thing is an issue all by itself. Peoria would be more the outdoor-centric town...
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    handgun choice for wilderness wanderings

    Bear spray and a G20 for me with 200 gr XTPs or 220 gr plated bullets.
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