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If any of you live in Colorado near Denver/Ft Collins, take a look at a facility called Colorado Youth Outdoors. https://www.coloradoyo.org/ Their Web site is a little rough but the programs are great. In addition to the basic Hunter Safety course you need to get a tag here, they also run 3-wk...

I wasn't sure if your post was asking just about this bag, or about warmer options. I'll share what I use anyway, talk is cheap. :) Hopefully it helps you/someone else. I use an Outdoor Vitals 0° bag in winter, the "Long" one. I'm only 6'0 but I've found it a bit oversized so I imagine it would...

To me this is a highly personal decision largely between the parent and child. Every kid is different, too. My oldest son started at 12 only because that's when he showed interest, but I wouldn't say he's ready to do anything on his own even though he'll be 16 this year. He's interested in the...

For jerky and other dehydrating work, we've had really good luck with the Gourmia GFD1850: This appears to no longer be available, replaced by the GFD1950 but it's a reasonable price for a large dehydrator that gets the job done. I lightly spray the racks with canola oil so things don't...

We've got about a foot here so far and it's still going. Shoveled the driveway twice already just to get ahead of it. But that's a good thing because the OTHER thing I did today was go get my foot X-rayed. I slipped on some loose gravel on my elk trip in October and hit my heel pretty hard...

Speaking of paper maps, if you're going onto BLM/USFS land make sure you get the MVUM for the area you're in. Paper topo maps are "supposed to be" accurate (if yours are recent) but are only printed every few years and mistakes can be made. But the digital MVUMs are considered the legal record...

Yeah, a fence is just a data point, not hard science. I see fences all over on public land. Some mean the boundary of private property. Some are just fencing off grazing leases on BLM land that you can totally hunt (but please close the gate behind you! - often just a loose section of wire you...

We own land in Costilla County and it took a year before our name showed up in the ownership records. OnX didn't show it correctly until a few months ago. I'm basically done with OnX - Basemap has come a long way and has a better price point so I use that. But in their defense OnX works really...

I found them in one of my hunting-gear bags when I was putting stuff away for the winter, if anybody wants a chuckle. I can't even imagine the conversation after they dropped all this...

I can't speak for it myself because it's designed specifically for women and doesn't fit me. But she loves it. The Camilla is marketed at having three specific features for lady shooters: negative-angle butt stock to better fit their shoulder pockets, raised comb, and shorter length of pull. I'm...

I bought my wife a Weatherby Camilla in 7mm-08 rem which I had read about but never tried. It sure is pleasant to shoot, and from what I've read it's taken plenty of game. I thought about getting one for me. I'm not one for fads and I have too many friends that went 6.5cm. I like that I can...

Just have to stay out of the hair.

Everyone has a story about "the one that got away." I have my share. This season I had one get away from pure stupidity. I had a pretty successful year overall, and there's meat in the freezer to prove it. I had a 4th-season (this weekend) buck tag that I meant to back up with a bull tag so I...

Lately I've been trying to stay light. I have several Goal Zero products and they're good but I mostly use them when I'm near my truck. They're almost never the lightest option other times. This is what I use lately. I bought three. They have two features that are important to me. First, they...

Thank you for sharing this. I don't have any plans to hunt Ohio at this point, but details like this are way more valuable than "this outfitter was no good" in some online listing service. I'm sure what you lost in value you just paid to some future hunter avoiding the same trouble, so thank you!

This is always my criteria for any gun. :)

So... not to be a shill for them or anything... but I just wanted to give a shout out to Vortex on their warranty policy. While on an elk hunt in Colorado last month, I found these binoculars lying on the ground. They're clearly more than a year old because they're an older model. They're also...

Good planning and good maps means never having to say "I'm sorry!" Or "don't shoot!" :ROFLMAO:

Yeah I agree. I think everybody that carries this stuff should do the quick test-shot UDAP and others recommend. "The bear is charging me now" is NOT the time to practice and learn how it sprays...

I have the opposite problem most folks do: I run kind of hot and get sweaty in most gloves unless it's SUPER cold. (Maybe it's because I tend to be hiking, not blind- or stand-hunting?) I normally wear a pair of Primos "stretch fit" gloves, which is a really thin, liner-weight style glove. These...