An insulated pad is a must. Especially considering your compressing the loft in the bottom of your bag, that cold just seeps through an uninsulated pad and hits you were your the most vulnerable
Honestly the travel headaches and expense of trailering a boat from Montana to Alaska, ferry or no ferry…you will be way ahead of game renting a boat for the duration of you hunt. I don’t recall what our boat rental was but it was negligible.
if you take the same head, same weight and same profile, same materials shot from the same bow on same arrow and the only variation is on is single bevel and the other is a double bevel and go kill a significant number of animals you won’t see any measurable or meaningful difference in the...
Those rotations numbers are bullshit. How do I know? Because the bevel angle changes head to head. They don’t all have the same angle. The rotation that comes is a direct product of the fact that bevels offset that produces the rotation. In one head it may have a 20 degree bevel and another...
I hate Darn tough for an outdoor sock worn for an extended amounts of time. For a daily wear they are fine. However for extended wear they get clammy and the cushion flattens out.
I find Farm to feet are somewhat better especially the non segmented versions.
I started wearing and different...
I recently sold a sxs because I felt what was offered in trade in was to low. I listed it and had about 8 calls the first day. One guy offered me 1500 to cut in the front of the line more than asking when I told him I had someone coming to look at it today and he was most likely buying it.
I do both, I probably grind about 3/4 of the shanks and cross cut the rest for osso buca , if I kept all the shanks I would be eating osso buca every week…
Last year killed one with a 2.0 SevR and the other with an IW wide. They both went about the same distance. I generally prefer a mechanical for bear however for my second bear I grabbed the fixed blade from the quiver because shot was frontal.