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    How long did it take for your first elk?

    Interesting how some talk in years, some days and some hours/minutes. Probably most accurate measurement is in full days of hunting. Some of you poor bastards apparently don't get out very much for very long due to a variety of factors. When I was dreaming of arrowing an elk the only way to...
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    Beginner-Mountain Goat Hunting

    G-5 Colorado on my last goat hunt there. The write up is on here somewhere about 3 years ago
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    Beginner-Mountain Goat Hunting

    Any where you can draw a tag is the best place for you to hunt. Dont read up on the draw or you will never bother. Take a decent camera and carry your goats out in much easier fashion and hunt every year if you wish. The country is the adventure the goats are just a reason to be there. But yes...
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    Big tree thread

    Biggest walnut @ 45" dbh A lot of variety here, very interesting stuff. My biggest pecan. My biggest tree, sycamore.. Biggest burr oak Biggest walnut, a beauty @ 45" dbh
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    Wolves Have Been Released

    Local guy is offering to rent out his goats to protect your property and livestock from the woofs... Landa had his way with one last night and he took a trophy home with him. Them woofs is in big trouble.
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    “You have too many”

    Very simple in practice as they are hollow. Take a knife blade with a tang, pour the horn full of epoxy and stand up the blade in the epoxy keeping it from sinking. I'm betting not dishwasher safe even if you put burrs on the tang to help hold it.
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    “You have too many”

    I know a guy who did a knife handle out of an antelope shed, most awkward creation ever, but dogs love them for chewing. In fact the biggest problem is keeping the dog from following along behind and making me a criminal. Sometimes it isn't real obvious whether she is crunching a leg bone or...
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    Horses in elk country

    Stock can make your trip: can make it pleasant or miserable, sometimes its the quality of the stock, and sometimes it is the quality of their handlers. No doubt it can be a combination of the two also. That little donkey is quite adorable BTW. There is a lot of truth to MM's take on the...
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    Remember the walleye cheater?

    Thats what I thought as soon as I saw hermitage in the write up!
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    7 Pack Llama Girls

    Summer project is winding down and these girls need to go as they are driving my boys nuts. ALLLL 7 are 3-5 yrs old, maybe (or not!) pregnant to one of my best packers. Due late May. Halter/lead/tether/trailer/pickup rack/saddle/pannier trained. The most promising 4 have 50-100 miles of trail...
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    Elk Foraging Response to Vegetation Freeze

    Only slightly, they will start grazing under canopy cover after the open grass is frozen. And they will dig to eat the bottom of the bunch grass rather than the upper tips. When things get really tough they eat anything that aint white, and will go as low as they can to be in less white...
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    Mt. Goat fat?

    Goats are tasty but tough, but that's why someone invented grinders and crock pots and cubers. The fat is hardly worth saving but doesn't need excessive trimming either. Sheep is the nasty stuff for dog food if you have a dog you dont really like so much. Coengineer has the wrong conclusion...
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    Law Enforcement on Public Lands

    Well it depends on the day: When I go past a work crew of sweaty "friends of xyzzy wilderness" cutting Beatle kill deadfall off the trail (using a two man buck saw and an axe) with a prim little green uniformed lady (smelling of hair spray and channel #5) chewing their ass for not putting the...
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    Delete

    the genetics are quite remarkable, the longevity is much less so. But am I talking about these units, the DAU, the region, the state, or the Rocky Mountains. Some day people will wise up but that day is far into the future apparently.
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    Colorado Bighorn Sheep 2023

    Those beautiful pics made me realise Ive been doing it all wrong. Ive been chasing in the desert in August and above treeline in October-December. Didn't see too many flowers as I recall. Would be awfully nice to see that many sheep/group too.
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    2023 Wyoming Unit 5 Sheep tag

    Dont get mentally stuck in a rut on where you think you should or have seen sheep. It is hard to find country in there that is devoid of sheep, finding the bachelor rams however can be tougher. Move a lot, if you think you are covering enough ground move more. Those big white rambutts are...
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    Posting Unit #'s to Public Forum

    There should be much more of this. Dont stop at just the unit #... f'n pikers. Guy draws tag asks me for help. I show him a spot, excellent spot for 180" + buck, maybe with a bit of luck a 210"+ buck. He drives but won't let my dog ride...(STRIKE 1, should have cut him loose right then!). I...
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    Elk reacting to being shot with rifle???

    two good reasons to not keep flinging lead, waste of tasty elk meat, and shooting a few additional elk. If neither of these are a concern hammer away. After a few dozen you may care about wasting the elk meat, and this will lead you to be selective on your first shot placement, never a bad...
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    What do you carry when hunting in otter habitat?

    I released one unharmed from a #3 4-coil last year. Fortunately for me he was almost dead from exhaustion cause his eyes said he wanted to tear me up. He was as long as my leg and just as fat only with no cellulite that I could see, so he could have likely done it.
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    tennessee-hunters-sue-game-wardens-trail-cameras

    Got a call from a warden the other day informing me that he was going to address an eagle nest issue vs. logging operations on private. My first question was under what authority or color of authority are you trespassing on my land? This led to some serious badge polishing and implied threats...
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