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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    That handguard is decently priced too! I pieced one together for my lightweight gas gun with a 7075 al barrel nut, length of carbon fiber tube from ebay, and an external aluminum clamp for nearly the same price. And that doesn't count my work cutting and drilling the tube and turning the barrel...
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    Brake or suppressor! Go subsonic with the 458 and still shoot out to 150yds. I know people kill moose with .223, but .338 and larger calibers just kill so much more quickly, without having to destroy the shoulders.
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    I did this w/ an 8.6 blackout build. They will not just sell the upper and bcg. If anyone else goes this route, test fire before messing with the parts. Mine was out of spec! There aren't really any other options in the AR 10 platform though. I'd do the solo 300, if I was going AR 15.
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    Ultralight Ultralight Rifles

    This is quite interesting, all but the 223 cal bullets. 375/458 socom would be wild in this application, and you would definitely be chasing far fewer blood trails.
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    Worst spike camp locations

    I plead guilty this season. Killed a bull the year before, a mile and a half from where we camped. Thinking we were tucked into a crappy little spot just off the trail and well away from the action, we had elk running around us all night. And none the next day... until we walked that mile and a...
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    The Low Bar: did Matt Rinella get it wrong?

    I have been hashing out the dilemma of exploding hunter numbers with family and friends for about five years now. Why have the number of hunters in the west blown up all of a sudden? The Matt Rinella / social media thread is 60+ pages by now, with the main thrust of Rinella's argument...
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    Gutless Styles

    The place where I get more hair is up at the rump, where all the good meat is...
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    Gutless Styles

    Might not want to do this if you are hunting in a cwd positive area.
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    Gutless Styles

    This usually results in more hair on the meat vs skin off first, then removing meat, every time I've done it.
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    Hearing Protection

    I've used the passive Otis ear shields with my kids and they work pretty decent. I need not worry about batteries and you sort of still have directional hearing. They are just a bit troublesome to keep taking in and out, if that is your thing. This year we used some inexpensive electronic muffs...
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    Tracking herds

    Lo Look at the tracks. Bulls leave a different print from cows.
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    "Lightweight" backpack hunting is an exercise in frustration. Total weight?

    Tons of good advice in this thread... The only good things I would add would be asking what are you willing to give up and still be able to achieve your objectives? Going ultralight was antithetical to all my gearhead impulses. What are you willing to leave at home? How much risk or suffering...
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    Lightest water bottle that water won’t freeze in

    I just put my plastic bottle or platypus in the sleeping bag with me, if it is going to be that cold. Vacuum bottles are heavy and don't insulate too well after water has frozen in them a few times.
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    Stop the wolf....

    You used to be able to watch the Clearwater herd from the highway all winter. Why? Nowhere else to go. There just isn't any good territory for elk to escape to in that country, once winter hits, all the way from Lolo to Moscow.
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    Stove

    I use a stupid light brs titanium stove most of the time. If it is going to be below freezing during the day, I'll bring my Kovea spider which runs canisters flipped upside down. Way lighter than the whisperlite or dragonfly that I used to drag along.
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