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This took on a different question than the title. Maybe it should be skin on, skin off, or skin off and bagged? This is more of a meat care and processing question but the cooking thread is in need of some action and lets face it, good deer or elk steaks start with proper care right off the...

I was just watching Discovery and there was an add for a show "KODIAK". I had a flashback to 28 years ago. I was young and stupid and freshly assigned to a ship home-ported in Alameda CA. On my first trip we pulled in to Kodiak and had two days off. I grew up camping and living in the outdoors...

Pretty basic question here, Unfortunately I've never had to worry much about crossing state lines before Taxi work on trophies. Those I do have are all in-state animals. Unless my 2014 tags produce something above my bar for European mount I will need to travel WY to CO then back to WY and...

Last weekend I jacked up the front bumper of my Tundra hitting a doe. I guess I have been really lucky because I live in a really rural area and I drive a lot of miles early in the morning. In fact my wife does too and our last animal strike was 25 years ago. I did everything right and if I had...

As the title says……. I don't particularly like spiders or snakes…. (The rattle snake den video did make me think twice). I'll even go in the pump house with a can of Raid or take on a snake with a shovel or pistol. One of my hunting partners gags every time he opens up an elk or deer. I guess...

Congratulations on the new addition. This is my girl who turned 5 last month and is just now acting almost grown-up.

The awesome photo thread on pack animals has me wondering about disadvantages and advantages of certain animals. When I retire in a couple of years we plan on getting a couple of mules. The photo thread has horses, mules, and llamas. I even remember seeing goats in an article a while back. So...

So I was switching channels last night (while Eastmans Forums was down) and I stumbled upon a show. The show was about the relationship between Joe Hutto and a herd of Mule Deer near Lander WY. I got sucked in quickly by the Mule Deer footage and the fact that I'll be hunting just a few miles...

Sorry if I'm dredging up an old dialog....... The GPS thread got me thinking about other equipment I carry. I found a thread from last year discussing spot and epirbs, but I couldn't find a thread discussing survival related equipment that folks are carrying. Admittedly I am probably overdoing...

The recent thread on bear meat got me thinking about how I keep meat for the long haul. One of the real downsides to hunting out of state is the need to have it processed. I absolutely love to cut and wrap my own meat and we always are twice as satisfied when we do it ourselves. I double wrap...

Looks like plans are rapidly changing for my trip out to Wy / CO for rifle Elk. After Wyoming, which is my tag which I have been waiting on since they went to points, we are heading south. Every other year we hunt 1st season Colorado unit 23. Nothing fancy, hunting out of camp, NF with ok...

I was wondering how each region is holding up weather wise. I will be heading to Wyoming (NW of Rawlings) and Colorado (East of Meeker) in Sep- Oct so I am very interested in the severity of the weather this winter. Can anyone share 1st person perspective? Not that we get many nonresidents...

I am sorry if this has been discussed before. I was wondering if anyone has switched draws R to L or L to R. A few years ago I discovered that I really should have been shooting left handed all along. It only took about 12 years of bow hunting and a fair number of filled tags to realize it. It...

Here is a pic of a happy 12 year old

Oh and this is how I get rid of stress (and earn a paycheck)

Thanks for all the welcome aboards, I live, work and hunt on the Oregon Coast. I routinely hunt Colorado and I regularly apply in WY & NM. I have a lot more pics of trophies with fins than I do with horns. It always seems that tasty meat outweighs potential taxidermy bills. I am about 15...

Washington Black Tail 1999 Maybe this will work better