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  1. JimP

    Drone Hauls Deer to Butcher

    For what it possibly cost, I'll book another trip to Africa. Or two
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    Coffee at Camp Cooking Tips and Uses

    We have a system worked out to get the coffee ready fairly quickly. We have everything ready before we go to bed, then the first one up fires up the burner and places the pot on it. By the time we get dressed and do any duties that need to be done the coffee is usually ready to go. The only...
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    Coffee at Camp Cooking Tips and Uses

    Percolator all the way, years ago my old aluminum one got all bent up so I picked up a large stainless steel one from Cabela's and it has worked great. In my early years it was cowboy coffee all the way. I just use the same coffee in camp as I use at home, Kirkland brand. It makes it easier...
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    Famous Estes Park Bull Legally Killed

    I've read a number of the post on FB and think that most of them are hilarious. They act like he was a family pet instead of a wild animal. It is interesting in that some actually understand that once he left the protection of the park that he was fair game, but then there are the others that...
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    Utah Wolves

    Looks like some wolves crossed the border into Utah from Wyoming or Idaho https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/dwr-confirms-lethal-removal-of-three-wolves-near-avon/article_3d318aff-fefb-4525-be63-cdc1d424ed59.html
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    No New Wolves for Colorado this Year

    I also wonder if they got a notification from the Colorado State Leglesature that Colorado was broke as far as finances and they didn't want to dump more money into the wolf program for now.
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    Small Calibers for Big Game Hunting

    I know that years ago I got one heck of a deal on a case of Federal 7mm Rem Mag Premium ammo, what I paid for that case of ammo I couldn't even buy brass and bullets for. Out of that case I still have 3 or 4 boxes and numerous loose rounds that I took out of my pockets and or shell carriers, it...
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    Small Calibers for Big Game Hunting

    I doubt that most hunters will ever shoot more than a couple hundred rounds out of their rifles. They buy it and head to the range and perhaps shoot a box of 20, then it goes home and sits in the closet until hunting season shows up. Some will take a couple of sight in shots but most won't...
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    Elk hunt for my Dad, NV, CO, AZ, WY?

    I agree with CC. With a outfitted hunt you can get as much out of it as a DIY one. You can participate just as much as you want or just sit back and enjoy it. On both of my hunts in South Africa I was a active participant as far as finding the game animals that we were after. If the PH was...
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    New Hunting Rig

    A friend in the Moab area uses the 4 wheel deflater/inflaters and loves them. Even with the short time that it takes to connect them up.
  11. JimP

    25 RPM

    I've had a few instances where you either shot at a longer range or you didn't get the animal. Sometimes the cover is so thick or the area is so open that there is just no way to get closer to the animal. My Utah LE hunt for elk was one such instance, it was either take a very long cross...
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    25 RPM

    The idea of a oversize bullet for caliber is the oversized bullets ballistics for longer range. But then everyone has gotten into their heads that you need a bullet, cartridge, and rifle combination that will shoot 1/2 moa out of a hunting rifle instead a rifle that just does the job. They...
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    25 RPM

    If I was 25 or so years younger I believe that I may jump on the bandwagon for it. But I have a 25-06 that works quite well so there is no need for one.
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    CPW Opens Bison Roster for Potential Special Management Hunts

    Back when Utah introduced the bison to the Book Cliffs I talked to one of the biologiest and he told me that they had approached Colorado's CP&W at the time to see if they would be interested in working with them and the reintroduction. CP&W turned them down flat telling Utah that they had no...
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    Now it begins..2026 application season

    I was up there on a antelope hunt and talking to the deer and elk hunters didn't find one that was complaining. They do put a lot of hunters through their system with a lot of return hunters.
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    Now it begins..2026 application season

    Check out Table Mountain Outfitters
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    Gotta get tough this year.

    It is always great to hear one success but two in the same year, you are doing great. You'll love the new mobility with that new knee. My brother in law put it off for years before he had the first one done and then he couldn't wait for the second one.
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    7mm-08 with 175 gr bullet

    A friend tried some 175 grain Grand Slams in his 7mm Weatherby mag and gave up on them and went back to 160's. I loaded some 140 Barnes TTSX for my brother in laws 7mm Rem mag and they were not only very accurate but dropped elk.
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    7mm-08 with 175 gr bullet

    Most of the time manufacturers will stop with bullet weight with what works. A 180 grain 308 bullet will be shorter than a 7mm 175. Plus rifle manufactures set the rifling in the barrel to stabilize the more common bullets, that 175 may not stabilize out of your rifle, where a 308 may handle the...
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    7mm-08 with 175 gr bullet

    Unless you are a hand loader I doubt that you will find any loaded ammo for the 7mm-08 with a 175 grain bullet. 165 grain may be the heaviest that you'll find, if you can find that. I have a nephew who's sons shoot a 7mm-08 and they have taken a number of cow elk with the 140 grain bullets.