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    Oops

    I bought a new scope and through the process of sighting it in, I think I may have discovered a problem from the past. As I dialed the scope in I would find the hits close and then scattered. I was just about ready to send the new scope back when I started trying to identify the source of the...
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    Seven weeks till spring

    My old neighbor told me when I moved here that in 1922, it never snowed until the end of Feb. Ten it snowed every day through June. I think this is a repeat. It has been 20 degrees nearly every morning since Dec except when it was substantially colder. Yesterday was forecast to be clear. It...
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    Elk have habits

    When you get tired of stories - let me know and I will go find something else to do. I got out of camp early one morning and started a long sweep in my search for elk. About a mile out of camp I picked up a trail of a herd of 20-30 going north. Being on horseback, I followed them across two...
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    Easiest I ever killed

    I'm not going to count or talk about the few elk we have killed off the front porch or out the front window. I count those as gift elk. Payback for suffering enough hence earning a freebe. In Northwest Montana, the civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) built miles and miles of trails following the...
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    Rifle rack

    Any suggestion for a rack to put the rifle in to work on it?
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    Pre-emptive prep?

    I have been snowed in for about two months and am struggling for things to do. All of my cartidge boxes are full so I really don't want to load more at this time. I'm considering going through my fired cases, resize them and deprime them, run them through the cleaning media and store them in...
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    Progress !

    After being gimped up for a couple months, I filled my porch with firewood today. The significant part is that I got the tractor bucket filled and unloaded without having to take a break. First time since October. The other part for you kids out there - today is is my 73 birthday.
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    Winter 2024

    Just got a text from my neighbor showing a picture of a herd of elk wintering on his place. He followed that up with a nice picture of a mtn lion on his other camera. They just can't get a break.
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    What the cat drug in

    I came home tonight and was greeted by a dead juvenile erman that one of the barn cats had brought in for bragging rights. First one I had seen.
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    Leupold scope

    I just bought a new hd-VX 3HD 4.2 - 16 boone & crockett leupold scope. The instructions say I can remove the lever on the zoom adjustment but was unclear as to there being a plug to fill the hole flush to the top. Have I misread this?
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    Elk Hunting Thrills

    For some reason there always appears to be a bit of excitement in my elk hunts. This year was one of the worst years I have experienced in quite a while but even so we had a brief encounter with heart thumping excitement. Our hunting commonly contains unknowns if for no other reason - we are...
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    Scope caps

    In 1978 I had a set of butler creek scope caps when I came nose to nose to a big bull in a jungle. I had a hard time shooting him because the caps were frozen on. I haven't used them since. I'm upgrading my rifle to a new leupold 3XHD scope. I noticed they also sell scope caps for them (pricey)...
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    Scope change

    I shoot less than a box per year out of my 7RM. I have had my rifle since about 2003. I have a leupold vx-2 4-12 on it. The last few years I have noticed more varience in my groups. This year I when I stepped out from 50 yd to 100 yd, I placed three rounds in very close to the same hole but...
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    Elk torture

    You folks have read a bunch of my posts and I should refain but I can't help myself. I hunted high and got iced out. We hunted creek bottoms to no avail. We tried the regen and blowdowns and found a cow but not enough to fill the two tags we had. I think we visited every hunt site I frequent 2-3...
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    Crap happens

    I am not looking for sympathy or advice. My bad luck and my poor choice. I'm paying for it- painfully. As I have said before, my plan is to ride each drainage to determine where the elk are and their migration path. Last wed my son and I rode out a drainage we have killed many elk in. We sawed...
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    Horse envy?

    Had an interesting experience yesterday. I usually get out later in the morning as I have found the majority of hunters are focused on 2 hrs before daylight to 9:00am. I get there about 9:30 and ride well past their limits. Yesterday on the trip into the area I met a couple on a 4 wheeler...
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    Preseason misery

    Last night I went out on the porch for wood and heard a bull bugle - first this year. I dreamed of a bull with horns too big to pack out. The alarm went off and and I stumbled out to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. As I entered the kitchen I looked out the window and noticed the front field...
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    A memorable day

    Today is my wedding anniversary. Most us have these but probably not under these conditions. We got married in Spokane in the late afternoon as a small gathering. The park had a cute bridge we figured we could get married on. When we got there we discovered the bridge had been torn out from...
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    Hay

    This isn't bragging just amazement. After a summer of endless rain, we got the last of our hay into the barn. Small squares over 1070 in 60# bales . The last three years have been less than 400 and having to buy to get through spring. A whole family endeavor makes things like this possible.
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    The end of bow hunting

    Today I cleaned out my old office in the garage. As I worked my way through the odds and ends that littered the shelves and my sewing machine, I discovered my arrows and archery gear. Things I haven't been able to use since the late 90s. Things that took me back to my Fred Bear recurve days...

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