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    Snowpack not looking very good :(

    We have a 3 ft drift on the front porch this morning I don't mind the snow as much as the wind. I will have to armor up to shovel my way to the barn this morning and get wood off the porch. Life can be a challenge at times.
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    I suggest you spend a full year in the area before you buy. As I got up this morning with 3ft drifts on the front porch, I was reminded that stuff happens and you need to be prepared for everything that can happen. I moved from the country between Deer Park and Newport 36 years ago. As a native...
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    Montana (and other state) hunter orange laws out dated?

    I have killed so many elk and deer over the years in buffalo plaid shirts and coats that I find camo expensive and needless. It took a while to get use to orange vests but but camo orange made it more acceptable. Wearing them over the years and letting them fade and get dirty made them even more...
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    New Hunter Shooting Practice

    I don't have any prepared instructions but over the years I have learned to practice shots I have made as well as the ones I have missed. Over logs, over rocks, hanging onto a tree, sitting on a bare slope, standing in a surging wind. Try every imaginable situation. Distance teaches you hold...
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    If they haven't been doing it - it is unlikely they will start now.
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    Surface water rights have to be pre- existing from when they were available. The water right is a water use right which forces you to have to use it and keep records. Periodically the are water court hearings that adjudicate those rights. Mineral rights can be important but minerals don't...
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    A seperate note: There wasn't an asbestos mine in Libby. There was a vermiculite mine that had asbestiform minerals in the form of fine grained tremelite minerals. Professionally I think the minerals are related to the syanite porphry stocks that are located northeast and southeast of Libby...
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    Need advice. Land in Lincoln county MT?

    Most areas are closed to filing surface water rights. Those would have to come with the property. Groundwater is open for domestic use (a well) and I think you can file for up to 35 gpm but that depends on the source area. Mineral rights usually come with the property but they can be severed...
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    Funkiest elk sheds

    I stumbled into a bull one time with 3-4 ft spikes. I could have shot him but I was in the middle of crossing a spikey log and was trying to keep from perforating my legs and crotch. The bull stood and watched with a smile on his lips. Just as i cleared the tree he took off. I have never seen...
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    Montana season change proposal

    I guess an issue comes up as wild meat as a preference versus a last choice. I live on wild meat. I don't hunt horns. I'm not a baby killer but given choices I kind of like 2-3 year old animals. The purpose of hunting season is my year's meat. My partners and kids live under the same purpose...
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    Montana season change proposal

    I grew up poor in a small town and the choices were wild meat or maccaroni and cheese. Nearly everyone I went to school with lived on wild meat. I hate maccaroni and cheese. The rules in my world was beef was for sellin - elk was for eatin.
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    Montana season change proposal

    A big increase in prices can be darn tough when you have a bunch of kids and need the meat to feed them.
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    Montana season change proposal

    In my past I think limiting the mechanized access did more for the game in that they could move beyond the masses and have a normal life with a few rather than thousands.
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    Montana season change proposal

    I think I remember that an argument against multiple opening days was the increased pressure that comes with each opening.
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    What do you do with your MT Migratory Bird Stamp?

    Ther isn't a state stamp but you have to buy the form that gives you a place for the fed stamp. That is the state license.
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    Buying Land- Site Prep and severe slope- Insight?

    I would approach it (as an engineer), 1 climate( water saturation seasonally) 2 soil stratification. Dirt on clay makes for slip planes, 3 underlying rock and bedding direction and dip. Without a toe buttress an open slope like that is likely to move given time. A little bit every year or all...
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    Montana season change proposal

    when I was taking a wildlife management class in the 70s, the prof said the only way control populations was to issue tags specifically for every target. Nobody has proposed a target area for trophy mulies. Similar to the Elkhorns, issue a limited draw for MD does in a district and a limited...
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    Montana season change proposal

    A problem I see on kitties is that the number of hunters with dogs is limited in a given area. After they kill a few they lose interest and really are just in it for the chase. On top of that the ones they choose to kill is usually limited to the biggest males. For a program of controlling...
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    Montana season change proposal

    I watch what they post and what their controlling attitude is. I'm not a fan but you knew that. There are possible changes but I have no desire to be in Colorado or Wyoming. If you do - move.
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    Montana season change proposal

    Sorry but I wouldn't trust that bunch of clowns at Hunt Talk to draft the dating rules for a whorehouse.

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