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Back when Utah introduced the bison to the Book Cliffs I talked to one of the biologiest and he told me that they had approached Colorado's CP&W at the time to see if they would be interested in working with them and the reintroduction. CP&W turned them down flat telling Utah that they had no...

I was up there on a antelope hunt and talking to the deer and elk hunters didn't find one that was complaining. They do put a lot of hunters through their system with a lot of return hunters.

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It is always great to hear one success but two in the same year, you are doing great. You'll love the new mobility with that new knee. My brother in law put it off for years before he had the first one done and then he couldn't wait for the second one.

A friend tried some 175 grain Grand Slams in his 7mm Weatherby mag and gave up on them and went back to 160's. I loaded some 140 Barnes TTSX for my brother in laws 7mm Rem mag and they were not only very accurate but dropped elk.

Most of the time manufacturers will stop with bullet weight with what works. A 180 grain 308 bullet will be shorter than a 7mm 175. Plus rifle manufactures set the rifling in the barrel to stabilize the more common bullets, that 175 may not stabilize out of your rifle, where a 308 may handle the...

Unless you are a hand loader I doubt that you will find any loaded ammo for the 7mm-08 with a 175 grain bullet. 165 grain may be the heaviest that you'll find, if you can find that. I have a nephew who's sons shoot a 7mm-08 and they have taken a number of cow elk with the 140 grain bullets.

There were other hunts going on in the unit but the tag holder was still restricted to only a open sighted weapon.

Utah had one this season, calling it a "restricted" hunt where only iron sights are allowed for rifles and pistols. There were reports of some hunters shooting at game way over the range that they could shoot effectively. The hunts were considered limited entry hunts where if a officer saw a...

I don't believe that they actually had any actual inventory. Quite a bit of what I ordered from them was shipped from elsewhere. They were part of Black Orvis I believe that also closed up shop.

When I found something that I liked on Camo Fire I would always check online to see what other locations were selling it for. Most of the time I could find it cheaper elsewhere. One thing about Camo Fire is that at times they came up with some unique items that unless you knew of the company...

Quite a number of states have no caliber restriction on big game rifles, except it has to be a center fire round. But you also need to figure that when most of these rules were written there were very few animals larger than deer east of the Mississippi River except for moose up north. But I...

I tried a shooting stick when I was up in Wyoming on my antelope hunt and it was better than most. The rest part was a block that was about 2"x3" that you rested your rifle on. Of all the shooting sticks that I have used it was the solidest rest that I have tried. The only problem was I didn't...

You need to see if you can use one when you get proned out. I have a couple but have a problem bending my neck far enough to get a good view through the scope on level ground . One that I use on my 25-06 is tall enough that I can use it in a sitting position.

Here are the two others from Utah. This one is from Antelope Island, only two tags a year are let out. One for a lucky resident and one from a auction. I believe that this one is from the Henry Mountains, but I could be wrong.