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One of the changes that CO made this year was the allocation of NR tags. The change for bear, elk, deer, and pronghorn are from the previous 65%/35% to only 25% for non-residents. This change can only serve to increase the point creep. Another change that may have some impact but harder to...

Location, location, location. It is generally illegal to transport firewood out of the state or even region due to an attempt to slow "invasive species" spread. It's too late in many cases though well intended.

I had been planning on using my few elk points for a cow tag next year, at least until I saw that CO raised the NR cow tag to $800. Add on my 3 year point costs and a tag will be over $1,100. SHEE-ITE!!! I am more inclined to just find a low point area to apply for a bull tag and then to...

There are quite a few small sawmills in my area of NE Minnesota, and many of them get rid of much of their slabwood by selling them as bundles for campfire wood. Two on my road to town even have an honor system setup that appears to work well enough since they have been out there for the last...

Nope, Nada, Zip. By the time I win anything big, I will be too damn old to use it.

That's a Hamas tunnel...you better run.

We have a lot of poplar in NE MN, and we commonly call it "popple". The proper name is aspen, both bigtooth and quaking. I suspect that your wood is a bit different though. Most of the commercial use is to make paper and OSB. Saw on.

Good to hear from you Zim. He used to post a lot a few years back, and we even had applied jointly for a CO mule deer tag that we had sufficient points to draw. Unfortunately, we were the only group with the same point total to get shut out. We figured that we would be good the following...

That's some nice work Mallard. What is the log on your sawmill?

Me three...life member since 1976..the first thing that I did when I mustered out of the Marine Corps.

Yup, I agree with you Tim. But we got the flip side of that last year with record snowfall in NE MN. Am headed to Island Park in a few weeks, and I too hope for a big dump before we get there. Ride on.

My dad had said that he would "Take a walk in the woods before ending up in a nursing home." Unfortunately, he developed early on-set dementia and did spend his final four years in one.

Lesson learned the hard way. I got a good warning of the old "shit happens" a few years ago when a friend fell off a roof and it took well over a year for him to recover. A neighbor fell in his garage recently and he just returned home after two months in the hospital. He may never fully...

Slugz; I have to complement you on your success, and the vibrant colors on all the photos that you post. What do you use to take the pics?

I'm just finishing up some winter shop projects, and spent the last couple days plowing out from our first signifigant snowfall. My primary exercise/property improvement program has just been approved by the County Forestry : clearing almost 8 acres of budworm killed balsam and spruce trees...

An answer to some of these type actions such as the grizzly permits is for the Fish & Wildlife dept. to issue unlimited licenses with a regional mortality cap. Wyoming does this with mountain lions. $$$ coming in, and the game management goals are generally accomplished.

My hunting partner has enough points for a NR GEN elk tag, but it is likely that we will only be applying for a couple limited (cow/calf) tags. I was fortunate to fill two tags in WY in 2023, and don't know if I will ever have enough points to draw a GEN again. I sure liked it better when we...

Those wolf encounters are much like lion encounters. Even though I live in the middle of NE Minnesota wolf habitat (2,500+++ wolves), I have only seen a handful in the woods, and no real opportunity to shoot one if it was legal and I was inclined to. Most of my sighting were when they were...

It's all good. I miss spell (is that even correct?) all the time. The loose/lose thing just comes back to me all the time because of the official government letter that I received.

Alright guys, it's time for me to be the spelling police. I was once given a 2 day suspension from a security job for "loosing" a key. It worked out for me though because they were short staffed, I was paid OT after my suspension to come in on my regular days off. You can probably guess that...