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    What Arrow weight and speeds are you all getting...future elk setup maybe

    I shoot 658 grains with a grizzly two blade single bevel at 180 fps. Three five inch parabolic lw feathers. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    Moving Animal Shot Placement & Tactics

    I don't consider myself a great shot, just a good shot. I've killed squirrels in the trees, quail on the rise and walking deer. Groundhogs on the run to their hole. I have no qualms about shooting a walking elk. I shoot a recurve instinctively. My elk arrows are 650 grains and travel about 180...
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    Colorado summer vacation ideas and recommendations

    I would skip staying in Durango in favor of Pagosa Springs Lots to see and do between pagosa and Montrose. If you are squimish avoid the million dollar highway. Not for the faint of heart, although northbound isn't that bad. Ice lakes would be a great hike. So would sneffles. You could do a...
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    Better "stock" up boys

    I think we should ban the internet and the media. No audience, no mass killings by any weapon, be it gun, car, fertilizer or poison. There would be no point to the killing without the fame. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    Arrow weight and speed for elk

    Dr Ed Ashby has completed full studies on arrow mechanics and penetration. He even killed an elephant with a longbow. You cannot go wrong following his already proven physics. Broadhead Science and Dr Ed Ashby Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    FNG from Virginia.

    Haha, took me a second. Yes, see you there. May be hosting one soon. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    51 YO Widow Maker survivor where to start?

    I'm 56 with a similar history, but lighter 235. Former body builder, raced motorcycles etc. I go annually after elk with a longbow. Reduce the weight as much as possible, do as much cardio as you can and go! Plan on spending 48 hours before the hunt to acclimatize to altitude. DIY will be a...
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    What's your shelter?

    Warbonnet blackbird xlc hammock, 0 degree underquilt 15 degree top quilt and maccat tarp. 6 lbs of comfort in under 20 liters of space. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    Archery Interests

    Excellent observations and I agree. But regardless of equipment, trad or otherwise you better to be able to put an arrow where it matters most on the first shot. No excuses for trad guys here either, however instinctive shooting does not lend itself to tight groups of many arrows. Gap shooters...
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    Archery Interests

    In 1961, 35 members started the pope and young club as a means to get the states to take archery hunting seriously. Technology has given numbers to that voice so that now bowhunting is acceptable in all 50 states. Today our voice is loud and our dollars sustain people and habitat. The more...
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    Archery Interests

    Hunting is such an individual sport, there really is no wrong way, just different ways. A successful hunt can be defined in many ways. Not all of them end with backstraps on the grill. But those are generally the best! "I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I...
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    OnX App

    Thanks for the response! In case it didn't pop up. Mine is a Samsung s8+. I find myself using your app a lot! I have a phone issue that I am hoping to resolve with this phone in that during tracking it will drop the GPS at times leaving my tracking looking like straight lines. I know it's a...
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    Archery Interests

    Agreed, as I said, we were using satellites for location while carrying a recurve. I carried manufactured cow call while wearing high performance synthetic fabrics that stretch and breath. My broad heads were steel and screwed into carbon arrows. The question that I asked was rhetorical...
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    Archery Interests

    Thanks, I like it. Not that many years ago a bow was good to 50 yds and a black powder gun good to 100 yds. It had stayed that way for several hundred years. Now a compound bow set up and tuned properly can be lethal out to 100 yds and a black powder gun with any work at all is lethal out to...
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    Archery Interests

    I have been carrying the same bow for 29 years. It kills every year without tape...or sights, or an arrow rest. I wish you all the best in your endeavors with your chosen bow and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. I'll stay with the simplicity of my old recurve, a hair popping fixed 2...
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    OnX App

    My experience is that it can be a little glitchy. Give it ample time to load the first time. Just when you think it is loaded, more layers are working to load. It can take a while, particularly if you loaded a large area Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    Wall tent vs Alaknak/Similar tents

    If you don't want nice at night, sleep in a hammock. I have stayed in mine down to 22 degrees so far and very comfortable. Guaranteed mouse proof, a little permeterin on the suspension and it guaranteed bug proof Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    FNG from Virginia.

    Roanoke, South at foot of Bent mt. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    FNG from Virginia.

    Thanks to my neighbor in the highlands! I spend a bit of time in the mountains around Williamsville and Deerfield. Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk
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    FNG from Virginia.

    Thanks all, and have a very merry Christmas Sent from my SM-G955U1 using Tapatalk

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