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    Archery Hunting CO high country for mulies. Do I HAVE to glass?

    When I said out in the open, that was referring to being exposed enough to locate by glassing - often with sparse brush or krumholtz to hide in, and not necessarily easy to see. Often, what doesn’t seem to hold deer, has a few tucked in there. I have no doubt the deer you’re talking about are...
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    New Hunter Shooting Practice

    It sounds like you are on the right track. The key to getting those positions sorted out is repetition in different real world situations. Eventually you’ll come up with rules of thumb for every situation based on how fast and accurate you are in different positions given the available rests...
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    Technology & efficacy = lost opportunity?

    I heard of a Utah guide who has a herd of sagebrush elk, along with other open area critters. He has a heavy 300 mag well set up for 1000 yard shots and if the client wants he’ll pack it along, get the bipod and rear bag set, range the animal, dial the scope, and all the client has to do is...
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    Your Opinion Needed.

    I’ll bite to help you out. You’re going to get dinged on your grade for putting the cart before the horse. You’ve thrown out a solution to a problem none of us can figure out. The only reason I can think of to have a couple field points is if something popped it’s head up that you didn’t...
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    New Hunter Shooting Practice

    Young me had a hard time sorting out good sources of information - luckily a teacher in high school was a serious shooter and lent me books from the big names in position shooting at that time - it can be confusing with everyone’s example of “correct” form or technique being somewhat different...
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    Is CWD the Imminent Doom for Hunting?

    “Bro science” made me chuckle - whoever said that made my morning. Lol Monitoring CWD is a lot like having a borescope - you can worry yourself to death about what you see or just accept there are a lot of bad things in the world that are ok to know about, but don’t loose sleep over them...
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    Is CWD the Imminent Doom for Hunting?

    There’s an old guy in our family that died 10 years ago from a prion related thing of some kind - his only major risk factor was eating wild game, but who knows if he picked it up from blowing dirt coming off a livestock hauler, or drinking mountain water. At the time nobody knew what to think...
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    Archery Hunting CO high country for mulies. Do I HAVE to glass?

    If you’re still hunting slow enough to find undisturbed bedded deer, you’ll need to weigh the time commitment to this style of hunting, vs finding the deer with binoculars then stalking an individual deer. Either way will find deer, but many of us find more deer glassing. However, about 10%...
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    New Hunter Shooting Practice

    There is value in just throwing lead down range - it builds muscle memory and paper targets let you see where you are at. Keep in mind each position has it’s own set of challenges to master. What seems natural may or may not be helping you score. After you spend a decent amount of time...
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    Reloading pressure sign help? CA 300 wsm

    Case life over multiple reloads and measuring case head expansion is the only reliable way to tell if there is too much pressure. Everyone is just guessing at this point, especially if CA isn’t worried about it after test firing.
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    Buying Land- Site Prep and severe slope- Insight?

    It’s also not limited to out of town lots - one job running new trim on a multimillion dollar McMansion for a trust fund baby and retired professional golfer couple in the ritziest part of the ritziest development had engineers all over it for water issues in the crawlspace - the entire exterior...
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    Buying Land- Site Prep and severe slope- Insight?

    Spent a good part of my life working on vacation homes on lots very similar to that one in different Rocky Mountain states. Be careful trusting engineers, excavators, etc. - many lots with uphill slopes and clay layers in the soil, even thin clay layers that don’t hardly register, will have...
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    Close call today

    That’s too bad - luckily she’s ok.
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    Close call today

    Glad everyone is ok - it’s a good reminder to do what we can to help people make safe choices. The wife’s family is full of candle burners - drives me nuts if they burn them without being in the same room, especially if they have cats. We also need to keep the inside of driers and drier vents...
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    Salmon Region of ID.

    Young me spent a few weeks camped along the salmon and firefighting up higher, but we had a helicopter. During the hunting seasons I’ve gone up many steep remote areas solo and never thought of it as especially dangerous. I do have friends who have poorly developed senses of danger and often...
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