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    Swaro x5i - anyone setting zero to take advantage of sub zero feature?

    an X5 is an awful lot of scope to be minimalist, your method certainly will work and I have used similar with other scopes. Not knocking your way, it’s just a lot of scope to use that way imho.
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    Swaro x5i - anyone setting zero to take advantage of sub zero feature?

    seems a whole lot easier to set zero at 100 and then just keep it dialed up to whatever distance you want to zero. Makes it easier to have a card with quick references for my brain. I use a kestrel for stuff over 500, and I have never used the sub-zero function. Mine is an X5 3.5x18x50
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    April 8th Eclipse

    I’m just north of San Antonio and I guess I’ll stick my head outside to watch. The schools are closed for the day, “Eclipse Viewing Area” signs popping up everywhere. I’m also shocked by the number of people expected to come to the Texas Hill Country to see the eclipse, something like 1...
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    Hunting Stages?

    I have a 14 & 17 yo, and a wife that have been really into hunting the last 7 or 8 years, so I have become pretty much just their guide and outfitter for dang near a decade. I haven’t seriously hunted for myself in 4 or 5 years but between my family and friends I have facilitated the harvesting...
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    I was never supposed to be a bowler.

    https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/pittsburgh-area-naturists-host-balls-out-bowling-naked-bowling/ Douglas, are you going?
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    Newberg says a $40 elk tag (or whatever it cost) is a $25,000 elk tag for residents.

    Had one try to crawl through the passenger window of the truck at the gas station by the college campus…and we had already started moving. I keep the windows up when passing through Alamosa now.
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    When do WT antlers drop in your area?

    They usually drop right around the end of March for our deer in South Texas. Some hang on until the first week of April.
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    Newberg says a $40 elk tag (or whatever it cost) is a $25,000 elk tag for residents.

    But 22 pages of that is Buzz having a spat with a New Yorker
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    If you could move anywhere?

    Maybe he means quail? Tons of them down here…but in 45 years here I’ve never seen a grouse 🤔
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    4 day school week?

    I must be really backwards…I didn’t even know this was a thing for schools. I have a 17yo & a 14yo in public school here in our large metropolitan area, just regular 5 day/week school for them. 4 day work week in my industry (construction supply) seems totally laughable, we work 5 or 6...
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    Help with MOA and bullet drop

    Whoa now…Mil and MOA are very different measures, one MOA at 100 yards is approx 1”, (1.047” to be exact) 1 mil is 3.6” at 100 yards. Different ways of measuring the same thing. And both are linear measurements so at 1000 yards 1 MOA is 10.47” and one Mil is 36”
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    First and Last Rifle - New Hunter

    A Tikka in .308 will do everything you want, and has tremendous ammo an availability. Of course, in a couple years you’ll want one in a .223, and maybe a 6.5 and a .300 too…
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    What do y’all do when the elk are just too high up?

    “Heart Attack Ridge” is what I’ve heard referred to as, It’s nasty. There is a way to the top, and it sucks too. Great view though. Like I said though, plenty of easier places in the unit to hunt elk.
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    What do y’all do when the elk are just too high up?

    I know that exact ridge and have hunted it from both sides - and the top. That particular location might be impossible to bow hunt. But there’s plenty of elk in that unit in easier areas. I can make it to the top in less than 2 hours and I’m middle aged, pudgy and live at sea level.
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    New Record! Colorado elk…

    Anyone who wants to hunt bad enough can come up with a couple grand every other year for a decent out of state “vacation” elk hunt; frankly if you can’t do that you probably shouldn’t be spending your resources on out of state “vacation” type hunts. Raise the prices to a level that is still...
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    New Record! Colorado elk…

    Do away with NR OTC, cap NR tags at 50% of the last 3 year average. raise NR tags to $2k and Resident to $250…problem solved.
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    New F-350 motor options?

    I have a 2017 6.7 diesel, and while I have never had it in sub zero temps, I do often idle around the ranch in south Texas pulling feed and water trailers all day in temps up to 110. This past Saturday it was 109 and it was running for about 9 hours putting around. It has never got hot and...
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    When do children return to school where you are?

    8/21 for my kids
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    When was your first year hunting OTC Elk in Colorado?

    2008, have hunted otc or 1st rifle in an otc unit almost every year since.
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    What is your household hunting budget?

    Enough to make Dave Ramsey blush…

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