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  1. DawnPatrol

    Four words that ruin an elk hunt

    My wife to me on Oct 10: “we’re chosen to adopt!”
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    Trigger job for air rifle in OR/WA?

    I thought the small game thread would be a good place for this, mods forgive me if I’m wrong… Does anyone know who in OR or WA could do a trigger job or trigger replacement (I don’t even really know what’s possible) for my air rifle? It’s a Benjamin nitro break action. I like the gun pretty...
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    A man, a wolf, and stupid in public

    “One source who spoke to Cowboy State Daily said the worry is that such an act of alleged animal cruelty could turn the tide of nationwide public sentiment against Wyoming’s wolf policy.” —LOL that tide turned a while back now. “When this story gets out, and it will, this is going to...
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    Is he too young?

    Is it OIL? What are the odds? I’m gonna put my son in as soon as he’s old enough, but that’s just because the odds are he’ll never draw, and I figure hunting once when he’s 11 is better than never hunting sheep. If you have a good chance of drawing when he’s a bit older you might wait. But you...
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    What has actually quit on you in the field?

    I had a Ruger m77 .270 win fail to fire on an elk hunt. It was after a 20 yard belly crawl through the snow on a pretty cold day. My guess is snow/ice in the action/trigger?. Haven’t been able to replicate at the range since. I had an action screw come loose on my CZ 550 30.06. I discovered it...
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    9.5 hour hike = 3 deadhead desert rams

    Hopefully not Oregon. J/K. That’s awesome.
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    Chetco unit Oregon blacktail

    Yeah I talked to a couple ODFW people and it sounded like they basically don’t do airplane elk surveys of the wilderness because there are so few elk…they also made it sound like the serpentine soils in the Kalmiopsis don’t support a large amount of high quality forage, making it marginal elk...
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    Chetco unit Oregon blacktail

    I’ve got the same bug. I’m gonna hunt it for elk the next time I can draw the rifle tag. None of the bios I’ve been able to chat with can tell me anything about elk in the burn/middle of the actual wilderness. But I gotta go see that place at some point, and elk hunting seems like a fun way.
  9. DawnPatrol

    renting a handgun Colorado

    If cougars wanted to eat you, you’d have already been eaten.
  10. DawnPatrol

    Oregon Spring Bear - Archery Spot and Stalk

    Good luck! And let us know how it goes. With the caveat that I’m not a bow hunter, I think it can be done. I would spot and stalk just like rifle hunting. Bears trust their nose to tell them what’s going on around them, so if you get the wind right and have a bear that’s relatively stationary...
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    Cheap Stuff that Works

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    Oregon draw results are up

    Floating sounds nice in some ways, but I’m not sure it’s the most efficient way to bear hunt. I think we’ll probably camp somewhere central, and spike out if I have too. I’ve waded across the river that the unit is named after in the fall. Anyone know if the south fork would be wadeable in May?
  13. DawnPatrol

    Oregon draw results are up

    I drew a tag for a NE unit. The one that’s just west of the Grand Ronde river. Looking forward to bear hunting in one of the wilder parts of Oregon.
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    Oregon draw results are up

    I hunted that tag 3 years ago. It was dreamy.
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    For anyone interested in Peacocks

    When I was little someone dumped half a dozen on my folks’ place. We thought they were pretty cool for a couple days. Then they started tearing the heck out of the garden and crapping everywhere. My dad lured them all into the garage with corn, shut the door, caught them one by one with the...
  16. DawnPatrol

    Backcountry elk hunting gear in the late season

    Better yet, have her pack in the hot tent and stove.
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    Backcountry elk hunting gear in the late season

    Eastern Oregon is basically the same weather-wise as Idaho or other western states—maybe a little wetter and not as cold. But still high desert. My main advice is to bring a couple different outfits, even if you gotta buy cheap wool socks, polypro, fleece, and a shell at Goodwill. Once stuff...
  18. DawnPatrol

    Keeping bear meat vs hide only... what do you do?

    That’s because those people know that a lot of those bears spend the fall eating half-dead salmon and the rest of the year patrolling the beach for rotting marine mammals or whatever else they can find. 😀 I can testify that eating a bear like that will make you real unwilling to try bear again...
  19. DawnPatrol

    Swarovski now has AI incorporated in an optic

    I guess that sounds pretty cool. If I had that kinda disposable income I’d spend it on NL Pures, but I’m sure Swaro has done their market research.
  20. DawnPatrol

    Swarovski now has AI incorporated in an optic

    I enjoy birdwatching but I have to question Swaro’s thinking on this one. How many people are simultaneously so into birding that they are going to drop $3k on binos but not into birding enough to know what birds they are looking at?

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