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    Med Kits In The Backcountry?

    I carry a cutting glove - bandaids, butterflies, lrg ace bandage (doubles as a tourniquet), blood stop gauze+sponge+granules, super glue, and some lrg non stick gauze. Used to carry a couple sanitary napkins and tampons - always figured to stick a tampon in each side of an arrow hole and grab...
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    Monster Whitetail Dead Head Found in Ohio

    I always wonder what the antlers look like when there is something to compare em to - in order to see the true size as opposed to this dude holding the rack out at arms length. yes - great buck, he probably never knew existed. The second one is more my style - incredible rack.
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    Masks required on federal land

    Seeing a lot of folks upset that politics is being discussed on hunting forums. Should be just hunting, land access, and what tags you wanna get next year. Good luck. People are worried about the here and now - the draws are coming up so there is some distraction, then once you submit, stuck...
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    Masks required on federal land

    You are forgetting the upstream and downstream activities. The gotta get the oil to and into the pipeline, then they take the oil and distribute it to the users. Pipeline is only part of the actual jobs part of it all. We have a couple pipelines down here in FL, some spills come from the...
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    2020 Whitetail Success Thread

    We had fun but not the best Whitetail season this year - took my 80+ yo dad along. Too hot during archery. Too hot during the week we were gonna go so did a long weekend first cold snap - seen plenty, few bucks - dad shot a 4 pt and I flinch missed a dark buck, never saw his rack just body...
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    Exploring new tech in big game recovery

    Gotta keep a thick skin. The idea of folks using this as a scouting and hunting tool is real. I think its great for finding and recovering deer - lotsa folks lose em and often the dogs just keep running them. So, say you bump the wounded deer, you can find where it is bedded with drone and...
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    NRA Files for Bankruptcy

    I hadn't seen any NRA ads for a while and was wondering. Starting to see them again. Hopefully being out of NY will bring good tidings.
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    Air Rifle recommendations

    I have a $100-ish Gamo Cheetah or something like that - 1250 fps, some weird "suppressor" thing built into the barrel. At 1250 a 177 pellet will punch thru a 3/4 sheet of plywood at 50 feet or a privacy fence and a squirrel that is peaking over it at you = BIG puff of fur there.
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    Stepping my game up

    You sound like you're about as close as you can be without living in the thick of it. What does a guy who succeeds all the time do diff? Makes me think of the gambler song - knows when to hold em, knows when to folk em, blah blah blah. Only way you get there is to be there and know the...
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    2021 Wyoming Antelope help

    We have different "trophy" definitions. mine is any symmetrical antelope taken without some guys messing up my hunt. I really do think the big ones look ungainly. Traveling 30+ hr drive to hunt antelope and being able to do so in peace is it's own trophy. I wouldn't say no to a lesson in the...
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    Region A, Units 1,2 & 3 Mule Deer

    I hunted region A for antelope - saw a lot of muley does and a couple forks and one I'd shoot in a heartbeat - never got a good look at his rack, just his body. Also seen a jumbo WT buck crossing from private to public - NT rack, big boy. Another shoot him in a heartbeat kind of buck. You'l...
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    2021 Wyoming Antelope help

    If the numbers are low, wait another year. Rinse and repeat until it meets your requirements. Some forum had a guy whining about "trophy" bucks but he gave up after 3 days of looking and shot a 14 inch goat - then whined about trophy quality in the unit and how there were none. I think he...
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    Favorite Hunts

    I like the ease of antelope hunting - see plenty of critters, crawl around on the ground, what's not to like?
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    Poaching Rant....

    That's great - daughter is still interested! Congratulations to her.
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    Poaching Rant....

    I knew a few wardens like that in my youth - called one "little hitler" due to his mustache and attitude - guy got to scraping paint off a duck gun of mine looking for the serial number. Dad asked him if he'd like to explain to the judge why he was damaging my shotgun.. Most of em seem...
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    Poaching Rant....

    There was a post on another forum about shooting times - some guy was supposedly a couple minutes off but shot a nice one in the wee minutes of the day - suddenly he's evil and everyone don't like him no more. LOL! Go figure. ANYWAY - how would you feel if that was you, just stalked a big...
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    So...What are your plans for 2021?

    GA whitetail 2021 CO muley 2022 WY antelope 2024 or 2025 - depends on draw
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    Ammunition shortage

    My take on it is that most serious guys would have ammo for their guns, the folks who would buy a box or two every year just for hunting might miss out, others shoot year round and have lots. Right now ammo and reloading components are slim pickings. Some folks have just bought ammo - buddy...
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    What Do You Consider Long Range?

    Jim - The onX program or cell phones allows folks to "drop pins" and get GPS coordinates for them. If you were on a ridge and shot a deer on opposite ridge - you could drop a pin on it and then follow GPS to the deer. It is real handy and no, I haven't purchased the program but may do that for...
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    What Do You Consider Long Range?

    Anything over 300 yards is long range to me.