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  1. Zim

    Offrange NM Oryx Hunt 2025

    My 2nd & 3rd choices are always off range. Sometimes all three. At 65, if I ever draw, I'll probably mix hunting on foot, and driving around to give my body a break.
  2. Zim

    2025 NM draw results

    Postponing lots of decisions until NM results are posted. Utah & Nevada applications, and possibly changing WY elk unit.
  3. Zim

    2025 NM draw results

    The first year I applied the NR draw odds for VV were 15% and I drew as 1st choice. Much has changed since then. These days I just want the draw to post so I can get my money back. Expecting 5 reds as usual.
  4. Zim

    Maine Moose

    NR with max convoluted points (150?), submitted my one chance early as usual. The one good thing about this system is I don't have to be concerned with overlapping hunts due to the tag swap deal. Anyone know if any more of the NR quota was pissed away to outfitter welfare this year? I don't...
  5. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    No. But this is a first. Farmers are suffering crop damage. At some point some type of population control will be neccesary.
  6. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    I really don’t think so. The species reintroduction results are being recognized as the most successful on the planet. If they continue to multiply at the same rate they have been, the population should exceed 100k by 2030.
  7. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    We don’t do anything “undocumented” nor illegal. Not sure what ur talking about.
  8. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    Forky, Yes they have an iron rice bowl pension system, but welfare, food stamps, unemployment are rare to non-existent. And they certainly don’t have communes nor land redistribution any longer. Those are in the distant 1976 past. Thus, communism is long gone there.
  9. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    Again, I certainly don’t defend their government. Just pointing out a fact about its totalitarianist political system. It’s only communist in name (CCP), not in policy.
  10. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    No that was not me. I did not comment about any freedoms, and certainly don’t defend their actions. Just pointing out a fact about their totalitarianist political system.
  11. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    I don’t hunt them. I’m just telling you what my cousin described. I just know some phrases. But wife is an English teacher, so she is my translator.
  12. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    Map drawn up in the early 70’s. I think most people don’t know how the real world works, because they haven’t been there. I have. Many times over ten years. But did see an interesting news article last week trying to educate viewers on terminology & labels. The term China and Chinese people...
  13. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    Since 2015 visited each year three weeks, except during Covid when not allowed.
  14. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    Based on what I’ve gathered, China doesn’t even have a F&G Dept yet. I have a cousin in Chengdu who belongs to their city archery club. He says the only hunting the club members do is for wild hogs in the mountains. It is not legal, but some members go anyway. I’ll be finding out more now that...
  15. Zim

    China Milu Deer

    I have a new dream hunt. Although there is not yet a season, Milu deer repopulation in China has been an outstanding wildlife success story. From zero to 12,000 in 40 years. I just retired and the wife and I will live in our Sichuan home 4 months/year, Indiana home 8 months/year. Hoping an...
  16. Zim

    Gobble gobble Spring Turkey 2025

    Expecting a trifecta this year as it’s the first time I ever hit my two top public properties in the Illinois lottery. Plus a special Indiana state leased private parcel via lottery, or walk-on at my regular nearby state property. I have had all three of these scouted out for years. But it...
  17. Zim

    2025-26 Season plans?

    I think I also retired from doing live hunt threads. The only one I ever did, last year, was impossible with a full time job. Going forward just want to hunt & take naps. It’s a nice feeling to have 450 points over 8 states saved up for retirement. Don’t need to worry as much if I draw...
  18. Zim

    2025-26 Season plans?

    Believe it or not, I never researched what the average person needs to retire. I just worked long, saved in 401k and paid off our houses. To my surprise, I ran my numbers for the first time last week and we are actually above average by quite a bit. On top of this our expenses will be well...
  19. Zim

    Social security by the numbers

    Since my DOGE layoff last month, the wife and I are now discussing the option of me retiring and living half time in China, half time in US. I'll be full age next year. I don't have a pension, but both our homes are paid off, and the cost of living while there is dirt cheap, like 20% of cost in...
  20. Zim

    2025-26 Season plans?

    I'm losing interest with each year that passes. Quit 3 states already (OR, NH & WY sheep/moose). But I've got too many points everywhere else to exit. I loved my job and worked hard at it. The two bums ahead of me egregiously short cut their job duties. Both had less tenure and were younger...

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