Traffic can be rough from DT heading north, especially during peak travel hours. There was a noticeable decline in traffic when Covid hit (much like everywhere else) but it is quickly picking back up.
Yes depending on where exactly you’re living and working there are a handful of tolls...
My strategy is to tell everyone that the elk hunting in New Mexico sucks and there is a major drought going on in the area so save your money. I hear ID and CO are fantastic though 😁
I suggest shooting out to as far as you possibly can and be confident out to 60 yds. When you have confidence out to 50, 60, etc., it makes those 20-30yd shots seem like nothing. You will also pay closer attention to mechanics if you focusing on trying to tighten groups out that far.
Does anyone use a band saw at home for cutting shanks, marrow bones, etc.?
I’m thinking about buying a relatively cheap bandsaw at Home Depot for the task rather than continuing to struggle through with a butcher saw. Any reason I shouldn’t use a standard wood band saw rather than one built...
To clarify, the stuff wrapped around the auger at the end of the grind isn’t ground... so throwing it in the tub with the rest of the grind wouldn’t work. I’ll try using ice as some others have noted to clear out the tube at the end. Thanks for the responses.
To make sure I’m tracking—are you saying that you end all of your grinds with just fat at the end to make sure all the meat gets pushed through? I like that idea/hadn’t thought it.
What do you do with the meat at the end of your grind that is wrapped around the auger? I typically have enough meat wrapped around the auger and packed behind the blade that it’s the size of a fist—I typically give it to my dog, curious if y’all do anything different.
I can’t speak to how effective of a tactic that is for shooting a bear.
I also weighed this option but inevitably I decided that I would rather spend all efforts focusing on killing a mature bull and if I tag out quickly without a bear tag on hand, that’s a good problem to have.
I'll let others chime in with better insight than me on this, but I'm not sure how legal hunting over a carcass of an elk you killed would be in New Mexico. It seems to fall in a gray area but I would venture to guess that a Game Warden would tell you that a carcass is "organic material...