If you’re going B2, I’d recommend the 9x45. It’s a stellar optic. I also had the 11x45 briefly and noticed the shallow depth of focus. It’s a non-issue in the 9x model.
The 10x50 B6 is also amazing. I loved that binocular. Optically it’s extremely similar to the B2, but the colors are a bit...
By nature blacktail bucks, and especially older ones, generally do not spend much time in the open during daylight hours after the velvet comes off. Glassing cuts works. Hundreds of grip and grins on iFish can attest to that. But it’s a strategy that relies on the buck doing something out a...
I couldn't buy a mature blacktail buck in a clearcut with all the money in the world. It baffles me every year to see these grip and grins of big bucks in the open.
I love glassing and hate sitting. After a few attempts at trying to make blacktail hunting be like mule deer hunting, last year I...
I work from 900ft above sea level up to about 4000ft and have definitely had to make adjustments with that degree of elevation change.
Assuming air filter is clean, that's where I'd start. If it's new with not much use spark plug and spark arrestor are likely fine.
This.
I shot a cow elk at 205 yards a few years back with the 6.5 143 grain eld-X. Bullet left the muzzle at a blazing 2600 fps and it flattened her. No issues with penetration, massive wound channel, liquified vitals.
If it was starting out at say 3200 fps, I'd have gone with something a...
There's one leftover tag good good for two neighboring units that each have a wilderness area.
Now if by "make sense" you mean "have a good chance of seeing and/or killing a bull," then no, it wouldn't make sense to backpack in. But I'd almost certainly have the place to myself in mid November.
I'm mulling over picking up a leftover rifle tag here in Oregon with mid November season dates. I haven't hunted elk in a couple years and only have early season experience. In September I would be backpacking into any of the areas I'm considering, but the additional weight of late season gear...