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    Leupold zero retention poll

    I am not a competitive shooter. I just kill game and have for a lot of years. A year or so ago my go to rifle started getting wierd. I sent my leupold vx-II in for repairs. I got it back but while the verticle adjustment was 1 click equals 1/4 moa at 100 yds the horizontal adjustment was 17...
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    Meals

    This is just a sidenote and not any help. I started my remote life on C- rations, then K- rations, then boil baggies. All on forest fires. After a week of living on food out of a can, it was amazing how things started to all taste the same. The only thing missing was something for the heartburn...
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    Mushy venison problem?

    I'm not an expert at this but over the years have found rare meat to be mushy. Cooked a little more and it tends to firm up. Finding that "just right" cooking level can be a trick. My only visual observation has been to note when the juices coming out of the meat are pinkish. At that point it...
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    Tracking techniques for Rocky Mountains

    Snow isn't as easy as you think. If you shoot high and oblique, it seems to take a while for the chest to fill up with blood and start to blow it out. The difficulty comes when they run back through an area where a herd of elk have tracked the heck out of the area. Especially in milling tracks...
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    Solo Campfire

    I don't think I have lit more than 5 campfires in over 50years. In a stove in a tent- nearly every night. One a functional event -- the other an unnecessary stinky event.
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    How Many 300+ Inch Bulls Have You Killed

    I do the same. I count the miles as tuition to a meatworthy education.
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    Buying a placer claim

    There is a third one. Up until 1955 under pl 167, claims had surface rights. At the separation there were valid existing rights on claims that met the criteria. They still exist but can be a pain to work with the federal agencies- especially the recent young employees.
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    Buying a placer claim

    You can't camp on a mining claim without filing an operating plan and posting a bond. You can camp anywhere for 14 days. A mining claim is for mining. It is unlikely to find cyanide on a placer claim. The gold is usually too coarse to be effectively recovered using solutions.
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    Buying a placer claim

    Test it first. I think the owner has to file a quit claim deed. I think you then file over it. However I just find them and evaluate them. You need to talk to someone in the BLM.
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    MHG, I need you now!

    I drive my truck- she drives her car. We have rules for who closes and opens the gate too.
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    How Many 300+ Inch Bulls Have You Killed

    There are likely more poached on the winter range than are killed during season. Nothing has changed since I moved here 35 years ago.
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    How Many 300+ Inch Bulls Have You Killed

    Sorry but I would starve to death waiting for a 300 bull to show up. They just don't live past 3 in this country.
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    Interesting day

    I reached a point that the longest I could ride a horse was 20 minutes. Then I would have to get off and walk for a while. Two hip replacements later I'm good for an entire day. I just get off and lead my horse downhill to give them a break and save their knees.
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    Interesting day

    I'm in the rebuild years - not dead but some wore out parts. Today I had my upper sinuses reamed out. Not debilitating but certainly memorable. My eyes hurt and every once in a while I get a big bloody slug of mucus. Kind like the aftermath of a 5th grade fist fight. Guess this is scheduled to...
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    Snowpack not looking very good :(

    Normally about this time of the year, the ground is thawed and and my sump pumps are cycling every 20 min or so. We had three times the normal rain last summer. But it froze hard without snow cover last fall. There isn't any water in the sumps and the pumps aren't running. Given that the...
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    I would like to see the results of testing the intrusive that the mine is in. If they were positive then it would change the entire approach and success.
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    I was there many times. I don't remember any dust anytime. Maybe before the last 10 years. There was tremendous control over any dust issues. Just a point of reality.
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    Montana season change proposal

    Not really. I would like to bring attention to the fact that mule deer are nearly extinct in the 3-4 districts I hunt in and have been for nearly 3 decades.
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    Montana season change proposal

    You missed one. Did you see any deer while you were hunting? How many? About how many were bucks? How many points on the average? An increase or decrease from previous years?
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    CWD found in CA

    I question at times that this may represent an issue of undertested vs advancing epidemic.

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