I'll preface this by saying I'm not a good duck hunter at all. I enjoy it, and my older son enjoys it, so we get out occasionally, but we don't do it regularly enough to develop our skills. In fact, for all the times I've been out, I still have yet to kill a greenhead. Shovelers, pintail...
Salmon hatcheries are not unanimously supported in Oregon because some see them as distracting from their ultimate goal of restoring native fish runs, but this hardly seems to fit that sort of narrative.
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I recently purchased a recurve via eBay, a Darton Super Flite Jr. Scout. It's a kid's bow with 25-30# draw weight. The plan is to clean it up, refinish it, polish it up, put a new string on it, and donate it for a youth raffle prize at the Oregon Wild Sheep Foundation banquet. I've done this a...
I don't want all the bears to come out and get shot before I have a chance to make it over. :)
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Edit to add: The Snotel site above our camp shows 52 inches this morning, so we probably do need it to start melting.
I'm late to the party as I finally got a chance to listen to the discussion. The thing I'm curious about is why pro-hunting organizations aren't taking advantage of the same opportunity. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, so to speak. It would probably accelerate some reforms to the EAJA, but...
A group of Montana residents can't even come to a concensus on this thread about how they would calculate draw odds for a resident in Montana. I'm sure you can make some apples-to-apples comparisons with the data provided by the state, but things like the "up to 10%" rule make for some pretty...
I'm speaking way beyond my knowledge here, but I believe this is why GoHunt talks about basing their odds on simulation rather than calculation. You take the original number of applicants, point levels, residency, etc., and then you "run the draw" a million times (or some large number) on a...
I think it's pretty hard to argue that an individual animal's behavior is changed by a lack of hunting. I think it's reasonable to assume that an increasing animal population leads to more frequent encounters with humans out "in the wild" and also leads to more animals moving to live in close...