Makes me wonder if California might be a better place if all the Californians who left had instead stayed and tried to fight back. This is an overly simplified example but it makes me wonder; 7 million Californians have fled to other states over the last 30 years. They often state that they...
At the risk of being accused of riding a high horse I'll chime in.
I've never smoked anything except ribs, brisket, bratwurst, etc. Never drank alcohol either.
And to buck the apparent trend, the majority of my friends haven't either.
I have one good friend who drinks. He has enough respect...
Reminds me of when I was driving home from a moose hunt and a couple guys at a gas station came over to congratulate me on my moose. I almost said "Wait, this isn't an elk?"
In past years they have taken tags for hunts that open in August and sold them first come first served as opposed to putting them in the second draw. Not sure why they didn't do it this year.
Anybody who draws a tag in the first drawing has until August 1 to buy the tag or they lose it. Sometimes people forgot to buy the tag in time or they decide not to do the hunt.
I recently saw the worst trash I have seen in Idaho.
2 weeks ago I hiked in several miles to fish a creek. There are a couple well established horse camps in the area. At the first I found 2 bent and broken metal pannier boxes filled with garbage, a broken roll-top table, and 4 pairs of...
I'd go every bit as far for a cow elk as I would for any bull. I'd rather pack a cow out 5 miles alone and not see other hunters than shoot one within sight of a road with everyone else.
I watched videos on youtube. and searched for tutorials online. I also read a lot of posts on taxidermy specific forums. The process is actually very simple, just time consuming.
Everything I read states that the diseased prions reside in the brain and spinal tissue. So states respond by disallowing transportation of those parts out of CWD areas. It seems to me that is not enough. Hunters leave heads and spines in the field where the prions sit and wait for the next...
Politicians be damned; I would counter that the Nez Perce tribe has not done more for Bighorn Sheep conservation than the Idaho Department of Fish and Game or the Rocky Mountain Sheep Foundation. Fact is that the Tribe and IDFG have a long history of collaboration and cooperation. They have...
I don't like the term chosen by IDFG for those of us who did not draw, "Not Selected" seems way too soft like they are trying to let me down easy. I would prefer a heavy handed "Rejected" or "Loser" or some other truly soul crushing term.
I do all my own fleshing and tanning. I did not shave any of the hides; although if I ever find a cheap option I will begin to do this step. For rugs it doesn't matter because they are going to hang flat on the wall. For the shoulder mounts I used a skife knife to shave areas around the face...
I started with bear rugs. I've done 3 and you can tell which one was the first and which one was the last. I did a mtn lion rug that turned out well. I then shoulder mounted a deer for my father which looks good but not great but he's happy with it. A pronghorn buck was next and looks really...
I live in a rural area and keep a cat for controlling mice in the barn. Occasionally I see him out in the meadow on my neighbors property trying to catch ground squirrels, that's when the BB gun comes out. The BB's bounce off and he leaves the squirrels alone for a while. I do the same when I...
In many small rural counties things like this can happen because the landowners are friends with those in the county offices. I know of a couple examples of private landowners in southeastern Idaho who have attempted to and sometimes succeeded to blocked public access.
1. Landowner posted no...