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  1. Perlodid

    Montana - Time to Shake it Up?

    I feel like I know the answer, but just out of curiosity - does anybody have recent doe/fawn mortality data for eastern Montana? FWP, university research, anybody? I feel like that would help explain a lot of the habitat variables/range conditions quicker than anything else, at least for the...
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    Tailgate Pics

    Great thread. Surprised how few of my tailgate pics I could find. Have to find some of the old ones sometime.
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    Wolves Have Been Released

    No, I think there is something wrong with the "natural" movements of wild hogs... We (as humans) are the reason wolves were absent from CO in the first place. Their extirpation was anything but natural. Trying to reestablish populations in their native range with released animals + natural...
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    Big tree thread

    Gotta be the biggest sycamore I've ever seen. Glove for scale
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    2024 dreams and plans

    1. SE Oklahoma hogs, probably in March - never hunted them before, and it seems like a fun place to hunt/learn about hogs 2. Idaho spring bear if I can swing it (25% chance at best that I'll have time, but I'd like to believe) 3. BWCA trip in early June for lakers - very excited for this 4...
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    Classic western Lever gun?

    Yeah the criteria of readily available ammo really cuts down a lot of the classic options. I think that's alright though. If I wanted a classic western lever gun in a caliber where I never had to worry about ammo, I would get a pre-1964 Winchester 94 in 30-30, no question. Nothing fits this...
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    Montana deer questions

    Good mule deer buck about as wide as his ears, dark antlers, decent frame. I would probably mention whether or not I would shoot it if given the opportunity. 5x5, I count brows/eyeguards unless otherwise directed by regulations. Maybe that little nub on the right counts, but I doubt it...
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    Did you shoot your first deer with open sights?

    First deer was with a remington 870 (rifled barrel) with open sights. Pretty sure I was 14, so 2011? Michigan youth season. I think it's something definitely worth doing at least once in your life, but I don't feel like it necessarily has to be your first. At the time, I didn't think anything of...
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    I can't believe they can't fill these positions!

    I would be surprised if even 50% of the people who graduated with me with a Fisheries and Wildlife degree are still in this field - in most cases through no fault of their own. They just had no clue what they were signing up for. The sacrifices are significant, and unless you have no other...
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    What was your first big game rifle, and do you still have it?

    I grew up in SE Michigan, which was a shotgun zone. So for all intents and purposes my first deer rifle was a shotgun - a Remington 870 Express. I took my first deer with that, and although it has been retired from deer duty these days I still use it for just about everything else. It was a...
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    Special Report: Where’d the deer go? Hunter frustration grows in Minnesota Northwoods

    I've spent quite a bit of time hunting the Seney refuge and I have never had a more desolate deer hunting experience anywhere - and I've hunted in 8 different counties in the UP in the past 10 years. A shadow of its former self, if you listen to the people who truly knew it in the 90s and...
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    Special Report: Where’d the deer go? Hunter frustration grows in Minnesota Northwoods

    I was curious how the UP stacked up this year, so I did some quick napkin excel math for all UP deer management units. Obviously compliance with mandatory reporting is not perfect (certainly not up there), but pretty interesting to see. I only did firearms season because that's when the majority...
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    Bad Bill Alert - HB 5108 - Michigan legislature: Allowing Commercial harvest of sport fish in the Great Lakes

    The last thing the Great Lakes needs is more commercial fishing. 25% of lake trout, walleye, and perch set aside for commercial harvest? Open commercial fisheries to essentially every species in the lakes besides Pacific salmonids? No thanks. I'll be writing in as well. Thanks for the heads up
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    How steep is too steep?

    Everybody curses vine maple until they're climbing back up out of the hole. I was consistently impressed by how strong sword ferns were too.
  15. Perlodid

    Raffle Win!

    Congrats on the rifle! I'm a left handed shooter who has exclusively used right handed bolt guns my entire life. No issues here. Might just take some time to adjust.
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    Dating advice. Older women?

    I ain't mad, I don't wanna sound mad, I feel marvelous
  17. Perlodid

    Friday Tunes - Hip Hop?

    Just a few favorites. I'll hold off on the lil ugly mane posts given the audience
  18. Perlodid

    Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

    Yeah, I mostly get bow wood from my brother's property and there's hickory all over the place. That's next on the list, but I do still want osage because eventually I'd like to try some pretty aggressive designs that would hold up better with osage I think. Plus I'm already not a fan of how much...
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    Woodworking Hunt Talkers?

    Here's a hackberry self bow I just finished. I'm no woodworker but I've been enjoying this process. About 100 things I wish I could have done better/differently, but it shoots! Now I just need to find somebody who will let me cut some osage and I'll be set
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    Wish I could have focused the shot a bit better but still. Love seeing these guys

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