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  1. bergie

    Freeze drying velvet North Idaho

    I've read the best thing to do and what taxidermists do is freeze dry them. Access to a freezer dryer is obviously limited but in the article they said if you just leave it in your freezer for a year or so, not wrapped in plastic, it does the same thing as freeze drying. If you have the freezer...
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    Transporting venison in a cooler

    I go with a layer of frozen milk jugs on the bottom of a big cooler, pile up the quarters in between two layers of garbage bags(idk why but I dont like to actually put in bags so the layering system makes me feel better, probably no benefit), then put crushed ice on top. This has worked for...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    I know you made a guess at the number of hunters that leave the state but I wanted to see what % of resident hunters 2000 would be and was shocked to learn that it would have been around 5%, so even at that, thats not all that much. What I was way more surprised to see is just how good elk...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    well...nevermind, got my panties in a bunch over nothing...proceed These are the arguments that resonate with me much more than, 'you don't want to hunt with a guide, therefore you are the same as a bum asking for a handout'
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    @TaperPin You have got to be trolling me at this point, or you are just impossible to have a conversation with. You keep quoting posts that you can keep up your narrative with but ignore mine. If you truly did miss them, go back and read my responses to you and tell me how you can relate that to...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    The argument in reality is something for something. As it stands now WY residents can hunt other wilderness areas for 'nothing' but NR in WY must pay to hunt them? That sounds more like something for nothing than anything I have said.
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    This is a perspective I did not see coming. Wyoming must be nice. And that is coming from a state that I am not sure I would ever want to leave, cuz I think its pretty nice too! I wouldn't say I am trying to be cheap. In fact the reason I wouldn't hire an outfitter to hunt really has nothing to...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    It was brought up in the podcast that states already have reciprocity laws that dictate fishing methods of take, the example being spearing northern pike in North Dakota, so yes they already 'mish mosh' regulations. I agree that not everything needs or should be regulated, and this was not to...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    I agree, but for this discussion I was looking directly at the reciprocity, a legal battle is simply less fun to talk about as it takes so long to come to (only hopefully) a concrete conclusion. Now this is exactly what I was thinking. Is the ban in place because it is popular, or is it for...
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    All western states have discussed this at length? I have never seen it brought up in my state and I feel like I do a pretty good job staying up on all the proposals and commenting on all that I have an opinion on. Please share a link where it has been brought up and shot down in your state.
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    How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

    Listening to a podcast toady and they brought up the idea of states offering reciprocity in reference to hunting laws. The example that caught my attention was the Wyoming ban on non resident hunters to be on federally designated wilderness, alone. What neighboring states like Montana and Idaho...
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    And yet again, another grizzly shot while charging hunter in Idaho

    Just give us a hunting season and it would be amazing to watch the cranky ones reduce in numbers. Maybe not because they are killed directly (some certainly would be) but rather they would not grow up in an environment where humans are seen as merely competition, continuing the evolving you...
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    BRO Breakup

    We can only hope. I hate the influencers as much as the next guy but as I look around this site I am bombarded with hunting related advertisements and there is no way to convince me that all those companies share the same values in regards to wildlife as I do. I understand that everything has...
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    BRO Breakup

    That is a pipe dream to hope that the violations will outweigh the revenue, for validation of that statement see Muley Freak
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    Aron Snyder leaving Kifaru

    you won't regret it
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    The BEST pad for side sleeping???

    I go with thermarest topo luxe, slightly under inflated. I only have experience with that and a klymit static v. The thermarest beats the klymit in every way and doesn't leave me restlessly tossing and turning all night. What I wouldn't give to be a guy who can lie flat on his back and sleep...
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    143 ELD-X blew up on the shoulder?

    In my youth I shot a .22 LR at a coyote that was standing in about 1" of water. The distance was somewhere on the order of 150-200 yards. I had no range finder but even if I did would have not known anything about holdover, so I put the open sights on the dog and pulled the trigger. My buddy...
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    Climber or hang on with sticks for beginner?

    Couldn't agree more. I have the summit viper and where I live it would be hard to not find a good conifer to climb up. I know it's a little heavy and a little bulky but the comfort factor sitting in it all day makes it work the extra effort. Climbing up and down and sitting in the tree I feel...
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    143 ELD-X blew up on the shoulder?

    I was well on the side of 'man some crazy stuff happens' before reading most of this post. I am probably in the camp now of there was a stick (or something) that was struck that began the expansion before impacting the deer. However, I really hope you are comparing a front shoulder of a deer to...
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    What products do you wish companies made for hunting?

    Increased migration corridors, access to landlocked public land, CWD/EHD/BHP cures...really the list is infinite.

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