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  1. ivorytip

    helathy antelop heards.

    was hunting elk on desert with my brother yesterday and seen massive heards of antelope. i bet we seen near 400 within a 9 mile radius. in one bunch they were in a single file line for hundreds of yards. it was cool to watch.
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    sweet bino deal

    ZEISS CONQUEST 10X40 T* ABK BINOCULARS $669 this may be frowned on but these are on camofire for 669 right now, 6 hours left as of now. pretty sweet deal. thought id pass it on, dont mean to offend anyone or this forum.
  3. ivorytip

    marlin .308 LA

    anyone using this now? ive wanted it last few years just havent buckled down and got it yet. anyone have insight on it? i love lever action guns and with the new hornady leverrev it seems to be a great all around gun. pretty too.
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    Pics of 2012 hunt so far

    k call me dumb but i cant figure out how to get pics on here. attachment thing is outsmarting me.
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    late rut

    anyone else been seeing this late rutting going on? ive hunted elk in middle of oct for many many years and ive seen the post rut goin on with a few bulls but this last week it was no post rut. there was screaming going on everywhere! i was talking to several of the hunters hunting there and...
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    big 2x

    was walking down a ridge helping a buddy with his bull hunt and this buck was standing brodside 150 yards out. fairly wide so i shot. walked up on him and it was a big 2x. ha, biggest 2x ive ever seen. looked like it shoulda been a decent 4x. ill post some pics when im not lazy and take the time...
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    watching deer hunters on opening morning is a hoot!!!

    so my father wanted to go do some deer hunting yesterday morn, the opener in idaho. he cant get around like he used to, no longer a mt goat but one of us boys has to go with him so he doesnt feel like a mt goat and get stranded on the mt 2 thou feet above the tree line sucking on rocks for air...
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    unexpected trophy of a diff kind...

    well, the super tag thing didnt go as i had planned. monday morning i found myself 80 yards from a really heavy bull. trees were thick but open enough, wether was bitterly cold; which was refreshing. elk were going crazy. after watching a bachelor group of small bulls walk by i heard that...
  9. ivorytip

    snow!

    got snowed on last night! didnt stick around to long but ive never welcomed the white stuff so much before, felt great!
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    hunt from hell

    so spent last 6 days down along nevada border chasing bulls, big bulls!! first day spoted 2 hawgs that were pushing 375, later that day passed on a decent 300 bull 20 yrds out, next day tire whent flat.... no spare! 5 hours later and some good friends that was fixed. next morning stalked within...
  11. ivorytip

    40 yrd 5x

    i was up hunting with my extra elk tag and called in a very excited young 5x. at first i thought it was other hunters i knew were up higher and the calls sounded fake so i backed out back to camp to see thier trucks were gone, so i headed straight back up to the same spot and blew on the cow...
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    50 yrd with 20 yrd pin doesnt work

    :rolleyes: ok guys, i allways give buddies crap for using the wrong pin, i just cant see how it can happen. i was holding on a doe at 50 and as soon as i let go i knew i used my 20 yrd pin!!!!! just like that without thinking about it. i guess all that 20yrd spot shooting kind of kicks in some...
  13. ivorytip

    longest august ever!

    headed out the door, gonna do some scouting tonight and tomorrow. hopefully i can get some pics to put up here
  14. ivorytip

    25th aniv mag

    i love this mag but my goodness i had to rip the cover off cuz it bugged the crap out of my fingers
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    sportsmans ethics?

    i whent with my buddy on a speeg goat hunt yesterday, took wheelers back to an isolated alphalfa field where weve seen lots of lopes while scouting for elk.we set up a blind whent the extra mile to make it look like part of the landscape and pulled out the glasses and waited. not an hour later a...
  16. ivorytip

    esbit stove??

    anybody use the esbit stove? ive used the jetboil for sometime and really like it but im allways concerned with something going wrong. ive been looking at the esbit series and think im going to try it out. boil time is a few min longer but its fool proof and really nothing there to go wrong...
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    fire in 54?

    looks like those fires are raising hell in 54. couple of the spots i had picked out are all ash now, just how bad is it down that way??
  18. ivorytip

    large heards allready?

    ok guys i seen something out of the norm yesterday eve while scouting for elk, 200+ elk including at least 3 nice mature bulls and several smaller bulls rag horns and spikes, cows and calves everywhere. this is a place i hunt alot and i know it holds lots of elk but these bulls with the cows? so...
  19. ivorytip

    garmin

    im in the market for a new gps, any tips? i like the new garmin rhino series but good golly i could buy that 308 marlin lever action for the price those boys are gooing for.
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    idaho unit 54

    hello nevada? ive drawn on idahos super hunt ag for elk and plan on archery hunting unit 54 in idaho. any of you boys/gals know this country? ive a few places picked out on my topos but some further info would help out on driving money and scouting time, which is very limited this fall. ill be...