Glad you found the ivories. Mine are in the grass at a campsite in New Mexico, if someone hasn't found them yet, lol. Hopefully I get drawn again one day and I can look for them.
For the guys saying boiling has problems in the long term, do you have any examples? I'm not saying boiling...
I'm not clear on what your talking about, are you trying to remove material left from boiling or trying to whiten the pedicle? I submerge the entire pedicle while boiling, but I don't put any peroxide in the boil. I haven't had the antler fade in boiling water. After its boiled good...
I think if you need picks and scoops you haven't let it go long enough. When I did mine I could shake the brains out.
I don't see any problem with doing it at 180, I used a boiling pot and had it up to a boil. I don't remember how long it went for, but it was several hours. I use dawn...
In NM you can get unit wide landowner tags. I'm thinking about non resident cost, which was $600+, definitely not as much for you, but I'd still never give up opportunity to hunt. We hunted CO this year, got into elk, never saw people and never burned a point...
If you want to hunt elk, I'd have a back up plan, the unit your looking at is only 11% odds last year. It will likely be less this year, especially with multiple threads on the unit on multiple forums. We got lucky and drew NM in 2019, not 52, but even with high odds unit in our choices we...
Why not just buy landowner tags and hunt somewhere less pressured? It doesn't make much sense to me, people advocating for price increases for the general public when they have the funds to find better opportunity. Most people just want an opportunity. I don't think price is a way we should...
Me and the wife are planning on Montana for 2021 as well. I'm thinking of doing a spring bear hunt to learn an area, but haven't set a trip in stone yet. We should have the points to draw the combo deer/elk tag and do an archery hunt in September. I haven't really started diving into the...
electric tape on trek pole
lighter wrapped with duct tape
water tablets
matches and fire starter
Aleve
few select allen wrenches for bow
d-loop string
xtra chapstick
1 or 2 waterproof bandaids
piece of gauze
1.8mm dyneema - 50'
Who's hunting squirrels this spring? We hit some National Forest land here in Mississippi Saturday morning, but only managed to kill one, missed two more and then the wind picked up.
We also forgot to bring any calls. Do you have a go to call in the spring or particular spring strategy?
I...
I was just thinking the same thing about AZ, whether or not to put in together with my wife, but with such poor odds, I figure more chances for a single tag is a better option.
Not exactly wise old advice, but I did my first Elk hunt last year in a quality draw unit with the wife and I filled...
Thanks, That's what I needed to know. I don't mind breaking the quarters down in a few pieces to get it in there. I usually debone my whitetail while cleaning them. I just want to make sure I don't need any more bags. I went ahead and ordered the ones from Ebay so hopefully I'll get to try...
I'm looking for a lightweight set of game bags for boned out Elk. I've seen good reviews on the Tag game bags and I'm looking at the BOMB set at 10 oz., but also found a set on ebay at 8.5 oz and cheaper. Anyone have any experience with the bags on ebay listed as "UL HIKER - Ultra Lite Set 5...