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    Elkfever’s First Antelope Hunt

    Great trip, great pics and congratulations!
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    Mid October Montana Archery Antelope

    No. You'll be outside which is better than staying home, plus if you get off the road you might not encounter any other hunters. Just my opinion.
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    Mid October Montana Archery Antelope

    Here's an "antelope archery during rifle season" almost-horror story: About 15 years ago I was getting within rifle range of a herd that had a nice buck in the middle of the group of about 20 antelope, and another buck about 50 yards outside the group. I sat up, set up my bipod and put my...
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    Military service late in life

    Understood you made your choice and, as someone with zero minutes of prior service, think you did the right thing. Lots of ways to serve as in previous posts. But what's the end game of the serving? I struggle with this. If Serving is, generally, helping our country and citizens be safe...
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    Solo hunting anxiety

    I hunt solo 90% of the time and regularly get the dreads when I'm at home prepping to go. it's not a good feeling. However, after I get out of the truck, headlamp blazing the terrain in front and get to where I'm going, I'm glad I got outside and the heeby geebies are gone. The feeling of...
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    Blaze orange panel for Exo K4

    Nice, simple solution!
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    Mountain lion encounters

    Have seen 3 in the last few years in SW Montana. One was walking into an old horizontal mine shaft about 50 yards in front of me, saw it for just a few seconds. A few years later saw one chasing a doe about 100 yards away, then it saw me, did a 180 and ran up a hill. That whole encounter was...
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    First backcountry buck

    Congratulations!
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    Moose hunt 2023: A father & son adventure

    Love your stories and pictures and I hope your son knows how fortunate he is to have a close relationship with you! Sounds like a fantastic father/son trip!
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    Moving from east cost VA to WY

    Great place to move to! Congrats and as you know, night and day from VA. Get ready for some wind, then wind and it's often windy, blustery, gale-force-craziness. So much public land in Wyoming you can hunt predators in the off season, good fishing, outdoorsman's paradise. Mostly a dry cold...
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    White Sulphur Springs, Montana

    Last time I was there it was a bit dated, but good place to stay. Since you're going with an outfitter, they should have all the truck/sno-mo/road gear. Just bring clothes for all the way from stupid cold and miserable to 50s and sunny. All around WSS is great elk country, share some pics!
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    2023 Alaska Moose Hunt Success

    Congratulations!
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    South Dakota

    I don't live there but have close friends that do, around Spearfish and Rapid City. According to them, there will be horrific but short term periods of heavy snow and stupid cold. But better overall than Montana, Fargo ND-like areas. Western SD is one of the first places I'd look if I was...
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    Light attachment for bino harness - 3D printed

    Very cool! Taking DIY to the next level for sure on this one: simple/wicked functional
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    Bino harness should be under $100. Change my mind.

    Same here, never had one. Just back/cross strap and lens covers for when it rains. Reason they're spendy are many: cost of domestic labor, relatively low volume production, lots of "make" (features, small pockets, lots of manufacturing steps) and overhead. Some seem a bit over designed IMHO...
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    Montana Breaks Bighorn hunt

    Congratulations!
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    Montana Breaks Bighorn hunt

    Appreciate your honesty and the birds helped me a few years ago on a deer when the exact same thing happened. Sick feeling and hope you keep on looking, they can go a long LONG way after a gut shot.
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    Mapping apps data security

    (strapping on my tinfoil hat tighter than usual) zero data that's on the interwebs is 'safe' unless the company is deep into NIST800-171 and even then...I just don't see all our waypints as being particularly valuable. I don't have OnX yet but will soon, and like 5 Miles Back above my...
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    Montana Breaks Bighorn hunt

    Congratulations!! Tag of a lifetime! Hope you keep posting pics of the hunt, appreciate following along. A friend of mine was hauling furniture up to Winnifred a few years ago and I tagged along. Went into a rancher's house and he showed us pics of rams that wander around his ranch like...
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    What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

    I've found arrowheads, one really cool one, a few very old cartridge cases and a really rusted out trap. Found a few iron wagon wheel 'tires' on the prairie and shovel so old that the metal was almost all rust-colored dirt as I was trying to free it from some frozen dirt. A very small cast...

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