Recent content by Hitch

The Possum (my daughter) and I are planning a non resident hunting trip to Wyoming 2-3 years out. The plan calls for two weeks and elk are the primary targets but it would be nice to incorporate deer as well . Its hard to imagine better muley country. So at this point we...

Across the road from my grand kids school this evening..... About 40 miles south of Portland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1z45jVlM34

My little homeowner saw gave up the ghost so I saved a while to buy a new Stihl MS291. Used it a few minutes on last weeks trip , worked fine ,started easy, still have the fuel supplied by the shop at purchase. Looking over the manual, since Im less than mechanical, everything seemed...

Good ol bacon and cakes. I fudge my low carb requirments in the field.

Way out in Chesinimnumus, bright warm Fall Thursday, setting up a solo camp. Hunted opening and Sunday way up high didnt see a thing.(Thats a quarter for scale) This might have something to do with it. Found three sets of tracks within about a mile. Headed down hill Sunday afternoon, got...

My daughter ,the Possum, is an avid motorcycle camper. They travel all over the west on dirt bikes. So the search is not so much for weight savings ( This seems like the best forum anyway) but space. Specifically Im looking for a rugged blow up ,not self inflating, camp mattress. One that...

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Restocked some things for the hunt this fall. Came across a good find, here it is only 2016. Strike anywhere matches that actually work. On a rock, a dry limb, edge of an iron frying pan... Couldnt get them to light on my pant leg, but most any and every thing else worked . Cartwright...

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Saw deer by the dozen, including a nice little forked horn who wandered into camp. More than half the days hunting we saw two legal bucks , several within 100'. And a great number of horses, I'd heard there is a problem in Murder's Creek but ...wow. They came into camp on three...

Last week Connie started running a fever. Infection in the same place located by CAT scan. Another drain implant ,two weeks minimum. The anti-biotics dont seem to help. She has to sleep in a recliner , still carrying a mild fever. Naturally she is worried about another batch of...

http://www.larslarson.com/listen-elk-hunter-wants-fulfill-dying-brothers-wish-go-one-hunt/

http://associatedmediacoverage.com/federal-government-changes-minimum-hunting-age-18/ There is little reason to think that maNY faceless trogs employed by this same Federal Gov would shy from closing the vast US forest lands to hunting all together, with every bit as much public input as...

Planning on replacing my old dead portable I kept in the camp box. My truck radio (Explorer) failed long ago and I just want something to check news, a ball game or some such while in the field. Any suggestions ?