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    Glock 19 + Hard Cast Experiences

    Just picked up a G19 Gen4 that will sometimes be for my wife to carry in the woods. We live and camp in grizzly country all year but realistically it's as much for protection against 2 legged predators and cats, we have 3 little kids and we see more cats than griz anyways. I run Buffalo Bore...
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    ID Bear Success

    Despite having a controlled hunt tag in my pocket, I decided one morning last week to try for a bear close to home. After putting in 4.5 miles and a lot of elevation to get to a great glassing point, I hadn’t seen much sign and none fresh in the area heading in and no bears out moving after a...
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    Drew ID Unit 32 Spring Bear!

    Now what? Always put in for this hunt when it was combined with 32a but this year they split them and there were a lot more tags for 32 so figured I'd go for it. I'm familiar with 32a but not so much with 32. Put in a couple calls to the biologist over the past month trying to make sure it...
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    AK Spring Bear Spot and Stalk Trip Planning

    Now that my fall hunts are all wrapped up I'm already scheming for next year. I've been wanting to hunt alaska for a number of years and have been building up a ton of miles on my Alaska Airlines CC in anticipation of that. Trouble is chasing mule deer in August and September with my bow is my...
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    Tikka Twist Rates & Copper Bullets

    Looking to see who has experience with Tikka's and copper bullets. Their twist rates have me a little concerned. Curious who's done it in a 300 win mag or 7 rem mag. In case things have changed Tikka's now ship with an 11" on the 300win mag and 9.5" on the 7mm rem mag in the superlite...
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    NV 2018 Recap

    Just got back from my first hunt in Nevada and had a total blast. This was my first year putting in for NV and with knowing I probably wouldn't draw any other August deer tags I focused on easy to draw units. I ended up drawing probably one of the easiest to draw archery hunts in the state and...
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    OnX Waypoint Limit Issue/Warning

    Just a heads up for any of you who get crazy marking up maps while e-scouting like I do. After a few years of using onX maps I've recently run into the roadblock of not being able to create any more waypoints without turning off old ones as there is a limit of 1500 waypoints at any one time...
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    Using the same water source as the deer?

    In scouting for my upcoming Nevada archery deer hunt I've realized the biggest key to my ability to spike out and stay above the deer for days is going to be finding a water source up high. It's going to be a 2500'+ push to get to the ridge I want to work along with most of the water sources...
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    Bow Tuning Questions

    I recently decided to take bow tuning into my own hands after the two closest shops to me closed down and I wanted to be able to instill confidence that my setup was actually set up correctly. A big learning curve but so far I've really enjoyed it. I've got a 2012 Hoyt Carbon Element 60-70#...
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    Rab Alpha Direct Jacket Medium

    Selling my size medium Rab Alpha Direct Jacket. This jacket is an interesting concept in that there is no inner liner, it's 120 g/m alpha insulation with a light breathable shell. Total weight around 17oz I bought this and another non-hooded jacket from the UK and decided for this use I like...
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    Idaho Whitetail Hunt 2017

    Just got back from an amazing 7 days in Idaho. This hunt had it all, easy success, hard success and an amazing time in the mountains. I'd done this hunt 2 years ago and had been hoping to go back. After some fun mule deer and elk hunting last year and a lot of success this winter convinced me...
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    New Ascent Pants to Replace Tiburon pants?

    Well my beloved Tiburon pants are dead, too full of holes and worn off patches to use anymore, the nail in the coffin being a big hole in the crotch. I've loved these pants but they have not been that durable and I can't bring myself to buy another pair. I've never worn any other hunting or...
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    WTB Sitka Contrail Medium

    Anyone looking to get rid of one? Was having my brother in law hold out for a Sitka Flash pullover but I think it'll be too expensive for him to be worth it. Treat yourself, sell me your contrail and upgrade to the Flash when it comes out in a few months.
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    Novice Elk Strategy, Archery Season

    I'm pretty certain on which unit I'm going to hunt this Sept but am questioning myself on the timing of the hunt. I'd like to throw out my thinking and see if it makes sense. I'm going with a group of 3-4 other guys, I'm the only one who's ever archery hunted elk. I'm a novice caller at...
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    Caching Filtered Water

    I have a quick question that has been touched on a bit here in the past. I'm looking to hunt an area that's 5-7 miles in and water is very limited and will probably be very nasty come hunting season. If I'm going in to scout it a few months ahead of time how realistic is it to plan to filter...
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    "Navigable waters" access through private land

    An area I used to hunt when I lived nearby has now had the road access shut down by the owner of a 20,000+ acre ranch that portions of the road travel through. I haven't been around there for a few years and am wanting to go back. Mostly out of spite for the people who gated the road I'm...
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    GAIA Pro Free for Trimble users

    I've seen GAIA mentioned a number of times on here and had played with it a bit in the past and wasn't too impressed by it. But with my beloved Trimble GPS phasing out this month I had to make a change. OnX Maps was way to buggy and limited for any of my uses aside from property owner...
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    Cross Country Ski Basics?

    I'm interested in getting a pair of CC skis to supplement my snowshoes/"slow-shoes" because a lot of the places I waterfowl hunt this time of the year are a mile or two from the nearest road and just for general over snow travel. I've done a bit of digging on the subject but hoped some of you...
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    The Wild Chef on Netflix

    This show became available on Netflix a couple weeks ago I think, I hadn't seen it before and have been thoroughly enjoying it. While it's a whole lot different from Meateater I think anyone who's a fan of that show and also cooking will enjoy this one. It's far from a serious cooking show...
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    Colorblind Rangefinder Help

    I'm colorblind and have been struggling to use my Leupold RX-1000i TBR rangefinder the past 2 years. I have a hard time picking out reds and while I don't think my colorblindness is very severe it's almost unbelievable what a hard time I have with this rangefinder in bright light. In dark...

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