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    WANTED: Your Top 5 Base Camp Tips or Hacks

    Running a woodstove isn’t like setting the temperature on your thermostat at home. I think you should do a trial run in your backyard. Learn how to set your tent up quickly and properly and learn how to run the woodstove. If you don’t, I guarantee you will be too hot to sleep at night. After...
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    I see what you guys are saying

    That’s different! He’s an idiot.
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    2025 Wyoming Elk Draw/Questions

    Correct. There are special licensed drawings, but the license isn’t really special. Just the price tag.
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    I see what you guys are saying

    To be fair? It doesn’t sound like the best piece of elk country. Access is too easy. Assuming he did not know the elk were there yesterday what would make the spot look special? You have to camp somewhere. Often times you have to make a sacrifice as far as the elk go. It wouldn’t bother me if it...
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    Two Lucky young hunters. 24 shots to stop a grizzly attack!

    There are some grizzlies where I hunt. Not enough to worry about. I have intentionally steered clear of areas where the grizzlies are thicker. These two guys from Idaho are lucky they lived to tell about it...
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    Hanging elk quarters while hunting

    Personally I’d make a trip to town for some dry ice after cleaning them up and hanging them until they cooled.
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    Hung up on bino power: 8 vs 10

    It’s elk country…. 10!
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    Cabinet Mountains Elk

    Good luck. You’ll need it. Just like the elk up there, and the Whitetail even, there were always great quality, mature bulls and bucks. But the numbers were never very high. It’s not great habitat up there. Very thick. Not a lot of open areas or an abundance of feed for wintering. A very common...
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    Wyoming Thorofare Elk Questions

    I didn’t read all of the comments here but…. You don’t need an outfit. You just need Horses. You already have a good start. You just need the ability to get further back in. Call Chad from Yellowstone Horses and tell him you’d like to lease two horses. On the way in you can ride one and pack...
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    Do I Need Nicer Glass?

    The comments about using a rifle scope to glass sound like they were made from a weekend mall guard with an inferiority complex. Rental cops power tripping. 🤣Lighten up Francis. If you were sitting there looking at elk that were 1500 yards away with a pair of eight or 10 power binoculars and...
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    Skin on or skin off when field dressing Elk?

    If you have the kahunas, leave the hide on. It is the best game bag on earth. And once the meat does cool down, it will stay cooler because the hide is also the best insulation on the market. It really is worth packing. My hides don’t come off until the quarters are hanging from a tree in base...
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    First elk hunt gear list and questions

    If you don’t mind me asking, how much money do you think you have invested in your first elk hunt?
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    Idaho horse or llama packers question

    This is completely inaccurate. The policy is uniform in every state as long as you are talking about National Forest. It has nothing to do with guiding or hunting. It has to do with offering any commercial services on National Forest for any type of compensation. In order to do that a person...
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    How do you handle windy days?

    I just think like an elk and drop down off of the tops and get out of the wind. Days off are never an option. Plenty to learn in all conditions.
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    E-Scouting; Navigating the back country

    Look at your Tapo map. Now squint your eyes till things get blurry. All the areas that look like they’re just shaded and brown or places you don’t want to attempt hiking. When those contour lines start getting 1/16 of an inch apart, it’s too steep. But make no mistake, somewhere above or below...
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    Early morning wake-up’s

    You would think that living back east having a two hour time difference would make it easy to get up at 4 AM. But getting your ass kicked every day changes all that. Every morning I mumble “I’m gonna need an effing vacation after this vacation“ That being said, do not expect it to arrive back...
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    Identifying elk feeding habitat from satellite

    No trees means food. But there is elk forage wall-to-wall in some areas however, the elk prefer certain areas at certain times of the year. I know areas with great habitat lots of feed and very few elk. I know other areas where feed is kind of sparse but the elk love it there.
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    270wsm eld x or nosler accubond lr

    I have killed around 20 elk with Accubonds. One of them took three steps. The others literally dropped in their tracks.
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    Mock Scrape for Elk

    Forget everything you know about deer hunting.
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    Wyoming Elk Preference Point

    Yes, you only pay for the point until you apply for a license. Yes you need a licensed guide working for an outfitter in a wilderness area. But there is certainly plenty of good hunting outside of designated wilderness areas.

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