I could care less about the trophy. Antlers will probably get cut into dog chews. I’m hunting for the fun, the experience, the memories, and the food. If I feel like shooting it and it’s legal. I’m shooting it. If I don’t feel like it, I don’t.
Update. Just finished a week of elk and chukar hunting. Wore them last night in a pack out that was very heavy and dropped 2k feet in under two miles. They did great.
My only complaint, and I’ll contact Hoffman’s about it is the rand is peeling right at the top of the big toe area. Not much...
I had trouble with my older dog eating purina pro plan sport. I’ve since switched to Inukshuk and they eat that very well. I had very good luck with Victor Hi Pro also.
Is this a hunting dog? Mine are very high performance and I feed them like athletes.
Watched my older dog pull off an absolute mind boggling retrieve today. All of 300 yards down hill and he didn’t actually see the bird hit the deck. He just saw it sailing and falling. He just expanded his search on a line and after 4-5 minutes came back with it, broken wing and very much alive.
No photos today, forgot my phone.
Cow elk. 124 Hammer Hunter, 240ish yards, MV 2500ish?
Hit was much further back than I’d like. She didn’t stip and look back like I expected her to and stepped as I was pressing off the shot. Bullet absolutely destroyed the upper liver and shot to recovery...
Different tools.
Crampons are four wheel drive with v-bar chains.
Microspikes are AWD with cables.
The microspikes are pretty useless in very deep snow, but they work great on ice or frozen soil.
Crampons are beefier, heavier, and are pretty much unstoppable in most conditions.
Actually it’s very reliable. 70k plus miles of ownership and nothing but maintenance items. It has all the tech I want or need with heated seats and a CarPlay head unit.
However, in five years I’ll probably have about 240k miles on it. Not outrageous at all for a Toyota, but I would also...