Recent content by tim

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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    Thank you, she is a keeper. That is a Kifaru sawtooth under there. I still have the 8 man, it is just a little big for solo trips. The sawtooth works pretty good as a solo taj maja. This last trip it was just easier to rent everything there. The bug gazebo was a good to have. The bugs in...
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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    Idaho elk went ok. Shot a spike and it took a couple of days to get it out. Shit happened at work and it was 4 days later, I peddled back in for my camp. Tent got crushed due to snow load.
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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    That was in July, In september i went back for a moose and grizzly hunt. I did an outfitted hunt, and i have Known the outfitter for a few years or decades. This was the outfitters first season guiding moose in the area. He knows what i am capable of: so i told him to use me as a guienie pig...
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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    All in all a great trip and now I am looking at the Gates of the Artic National Park for our next Alaskan float trip.
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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    We saw roughly 6 bears during the trip. One was when i was taking a leak in the middle of the night. I did not tell her about it until the next day.
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    Floating and Hunting the SW portion of the Last Frontier

    I got lucky and did 2 different trips to sw alaska in 2025. The First one was a 11 day float trip for our 25th wedding anniversary. We got dropped off on Pegati Lake and Floated the Kanetok to the village of Quinhagak. It was roughly 100 mile float. Good times was had by both of us and we...
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    Coffee at Camp Cooking Tips and Uses

    spike camps when time in the morning is important, instant coffee. all other times in the outdoors, perculator coffee.
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    Idaho Nonresident OTC Elk and Deer draw

    just being selfish, i just hope i can buy my second elk tag again this year. It used to be, go shoot a bull and go to the super market and buy another tag. That went away in about 2019, that is when you bought the second tag the day residents could buy left over non resident tags. That...
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    Now it begins..2026 application season

    I will ask, any suggestions on a guided ranch elk hunt in Wyoming for 26?
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    Small Calibers for Big Game Hunting

    No onx? I don't need it, but it is handy.
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    The 2025 Deer Thread

    Whitetail once in a lifetime? for me that sounds wierd since i see whitetails every day of my life.
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    Small Calibers for Big Game Hunting

    I also say i want more time to ride my bike and snowmobile and keep rafting. I need to retire.
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    Small Calibers for Big Game Hunting

    Hornady definately has hit a home run with the prc line of cartridges. and to scotts post, i do believe the prc line is a descendent of the short mag line. I guess the 6.5 creedmoor started the revolution. I somewhat joined the modern age when i put a suppresor on a 20 inch barrel on a new...