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The ones that fit you PERFECTLY. I've been through as many pairs of boots as I have backpacks (a lot). They all had tons of great-seeming labels with brand of insulation layers, waterproofing, and other features. Some were as little as $50 and others as much as $400. But at the end of the day I...

I don't know, I feel like you can spend a lot of money on thick, bulky socks and boots that never quite live up to it, but a pair of toe warmers has never failed me... Maybe I'm just a simple minded guy who likes simple solutions...

Answering an earlier question, yes, I know the performance data for my bullets. Some manufacturers these days have taken to putting a simplified ballistics table on their boxes. For any that don't, I use a Sharpie to do this. It saves looking it up every time... I also use the Strelok app which...

That outdoor edge blade slot is super narrow. If you still have trouble with it, I've had good luck with using an old blade deliberately snapped in two. We'd do the same thing rebuilding engines: an old broken ring makes the best scraper for a ring groove. You can also put the knife in a...

Clothing aside, one of the smartest things I ever did was to make sure I always packed BOTH an orange ball cap and orange fleece beanie. I feel like I change hats more than any other article of clothing. You sit long on a windy hill @ 35 in a ball cap and you'll lose your ears to frostbite if...

I can't speak for other states but the weather changes fast in Colorado, and most weather data sources are from weather stations that aren't exactly right next to you (nearby towns). You can't get an accurate forecast if there's no monitoring station in the area at all (wilderness area). I...

My wife's pretty sure you can have too many knives - at least she always says I do! :D Last year I was in love with the Havalon Piranta because of its extremely low weight compared to other replaceable-blade options. But they're admittedly fragile knives (blades are easy to snap) and the blades...

Great point on meat management there RICMIC, especially for elk. Each of the hunters in my group brings 2 large coolers. One trick we've found is to load only ONE cooler to the brim with ice and leave the other empty. The ice lasts longer that way without melting. When we have an elk out, we let...

All great advice. I'd also say for beginning hunters, don't use the "it's a sea of orange" as an excuse to avoid an area. An area packed with hunters isn't by accident, all those guys jockeying to get a shot at a single elk. If you see 45 trucks in a parking lot there's a good reason, and you...

Chuck two cinder blocks in a backpack and go climb the stairs in your house 30 times. Take your time. That's about what it feels like for me. Nowadays I spend as much time "researching" ways in and out of an area I plan to hunt as I do researching the areas themselves. If I find some timber...

4" here at home. 12-14" where my wife and a friend are hunting at the moment. And well below zero every night.

My wife is in NW Colorado right now. It's consistently been -5F to -10F at base camp for several days, a foot of snow, and moderate winds. Chains, air down a bit (not as much as for sand!) to get through heavy snow, carry traction boards (total life savers!) and lots and lots of emergency gear...

So I lied (but not on purpose). Apparently I have one more piece of new gear this year. Last year on an elk hunt I found a shed nobody had collected yet from a spike bull, partial head plate still attached. I wanted to do something fun with it but, didn't have any ideas. My wife did. We...

I just got back from Pawnee, sighting in for Rifle 1. For those not in CO that's about 90 minutes North of Denver, far east of blazes like the one above. It's normally pretty brutal - not a tree around, so zero shade and usually hot and dry. It was so overcast we barely saw the sun. The smoke...

I'm on the "drew the short straw" on the sweat scale, so for me, the warmth of the base layer isn't as much of an advantage. I get cold like anybody else, but the point is I don't want to spend $60-$90 or more on something like that when I know by the end of any given day, if it's remotely "non...

I imagine at least two reasons are that satellite photos are often very low quality - when you see super high fidelity you're probably looking at an aircraft pass, not satellite, and those are often not taken in wilderness areas. And second, they often need to be taken mid-day both because the...

I shot 1000yds with a revolver once... No telling what I hit though! :D

I'd say it could also be a fox. The picture isn't sharp enough to see how "furry" its coat is, but it'd be about the right size.

A little Googling turned up this? https://shwat.com/6mm-arc-vs-6-5-grendel/ Don't know if it's helpful.

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