Damn ... Glad to hear no one was injured.
IMO, your trailer was heavier than your truck. Especially, since you're pulling a "toy hauler" w/ UTV in the back. The combination of a quarter-ton truck pulling a heavy load, the rough road conditions in the area (a lot of dips between MT State line...
I wish Leopold and/or Swarovski (or anyone for that matter) made range finding binoculars that has the display in the left-eye piece. They all make them to display in the right-eye. I had an eye injury when I was younger … legally blind in the right-eye.
It's better to hang it and not have a bear tear into your camp; then to not hang it and the bear tear your camp apart. It will ruin your hunt.
Besides, bears that become habituated to human food end up dead ... do the bears a favor and don't tempt or encourage them to recognize humans/camps...
With Archery and Rifle season(s) coming; What tips for preparing for the upcoming seasons do you have for others?
Boot care/treatment.
With the hot weather ...
I will clean up my boots, remove the laces, apply leather treatment to the boot (generously), set boots outside on the south facing...
I doubt it, but anything is possible. Look at Hezbollah ... "invades" Israel kills and kidnaps X number of innocent people and Israel then "invades" Gaza and kills 100X people. The sophistication of Israel's weapons (actually the U.S.'s weapons) if much better than most of the world. Right...
Cool stuff … right there. I suppose you find the ride on Space Mountain (at Disney) boring. Not too many people can say they did catch and release with a trophy bull elk, mtn. goat, buck mule deer, etc.
Thanks for posting.
In the Grand Scheme of things … humans are a cancer on this earth. Regardless of good intentions or not, humans always screw thing up in regards to our environment.