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    Need Roomate to split costs of fantastic Apartment

    In the 1980s, I moved in with a woman who had a rent-controlled apartment near UCLA and Santa Monica. I think we paid $600 a month for 2 bedroom with 1 bathroom and 2 parking spots under a canopy. I married her rather than lose out on that bargain. Moved to the NW a few years later and bought a...
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    Hunting Efficiently with RedKettle, give a welcome & win!

    Welcome. I like the design.
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    Didn’t Draw - Glass half full thoughts

    Was the point total you had last year drawing with 96% odds? Or, were you 1 point behind those tag winners?
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    If you could move anywhere?

    Casper, WY as is about to get easier for residents to have another fraction of the tags and have some infrastructure for health and culture. Colorado Springs, CO has a bit more infrastructure than Casper if you like to fly places or need a specialist doctor. CO is not as dependent on one or two...
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    Need Advice: CO High Fence Meat Hunt - Cow Elk vs Buffalo?

    A buddy shot a bison and he lined his truck bed with Styrofoam and put the frozen, packaged meat in his truck. Was about even with the top of the rails. Was a bull bison and not sure of weight on the hoof. A cow bison may yield less meat but the OP may still need a bigger freezer.
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    Anyone here have a pool?

    Have a pool. In ground. Salt water. Heated and cooled. Automatic cover. Love it. Did not install it for ROI. Yes, it costs a lot to build and a lot to maintain. Wife loves it. My knees love it as battle to get in shape. My son and his wife and their two young kids like it. Visitors like it...
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    WY Elk, what does the future tell us?

    I got good at elk hunting when could hunt them a few years in a row or with only a year gap each time without an elk tag. I am not a Westerner so there was a learning curve after being a whitetail hunter for several years over harvested corn fields where you arrive a bit before first light then...
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    Wyoming General Elk Draw Odds - Fair warning to rookies

    My grandfather was a meat hunter. Shooting a big bull elk meant it weighed a lot field-dressed. I never heard him mention inches of bone. He would drive from MO to CO with a buddy or two and each shoot a bull elk then as the sun set on the day the last bull was harvested they would toss the game...
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    Anyone been bit by a rattlesnake in back country?

    Encountered copperheads and timber rattlers along the woods and limestone outcropping on the bluffs of the Missouri River in the Midwest as a kid. Never bit. I do prefer to see them before I get within 10 feet. Snakes on level ground can strike about 1/2 their length and if they do connect with...
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    The Glock 20 is ugly & now pointless 😁

    Time to man up and go full 11mm for your personal carry. The 12mm is the minimum for home defense. 9mm and 10mm are for the ladies.
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    Are we headed for another 2008?

    You are wise and obviously have seen life beyond the county line. If you are born to a single parent home, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than a two parent. If you are born to a teenage parent, your odds of entering the justice system are higher than to a parent 20 or...
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    Looking for Wyoming Outfitter Recommendation

    Likely not one horse if go solo. You likely are not day hunting from the trailhead so need horses from hunt start to hunt end. At some point as plan the hunt you need yet another horse to carry feed for the horses you need for you and gear and food and 300 pounds of downed elk. The time you...
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    Is a $600 backpack worth it??

    I have a brother that goes cheap on gear if is not the gun, scope, binos and spotter. Tripod, boots, pack, sleeping bag, socks, knife, etc are such you would have to pay me a lot to use them on a pack-in hunt. I shot a critter on the Continental Divide and he used my pack for the second trip out...
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    New Mexico Elk Draw 2022

    I 100% oppose special tag allocations whether for youth, seniors, veterans, disabled, LEO, firefighters, teachers, TV show hunters, hunter safety instructors, farmers, doctors, etc. Offer a discount in price to a few groups but cutting to the front of the line for a tag could use up 100% of the...
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    Field judging tall and narrow mule deer

    I am not seeing 160" but one way to know is to harvest that deer and measure. I would also expect a few more inches before the velvet starts to peel. Is a nice buck and I would say half the bucks I have harvested are larger and half are smaller. As for narrow vs wide antlers and estimating...
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    coon population problems?

    I trapped a lot of raccoons when fur was around $30 a stretched pelt in the 1970s. I had a lot of success with a leg hold trap set at a "cave" I made at waterline on creeks using my boot to kick into the bank of the creek. I would use a twig cut so a fork remained and punch the long end of the...
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    Members opinions of the Winchester Mod. 70?

    My first rifle once I moved out West was a .308 featherweight M70 from circa 1961. I think is a very nice looking rifle. But, wood stocks swell and could not bear to tear that gun apart so picked up an old Mauser and had a .338 Win Mag built. Then got a .308 Win built. Then bought a used Best of...
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    Meateater and Ted Nugent

    I show up for jury duty. I vote. None of my mistakes or shortcomings involved intentionally crapping myself and showing up at an induction center during a war. Hard to see how that is less than disgraceful at that moment and until your last breath.
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    Paid load development flop, wwyd?

    Agree. Shoot 5 rounds at 300 yards. If are hitting a pie plate then that is a dead elk. I like tighter groups than a pie plate at 300 yards but I rarely shoot beyond 300 yards while hunting on a first shot which is hopefully the only shot but I do shoot until the critter is on the ground. 99.9%...
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    Turn in your hunting buddy?

    No way am reporting what I feel is an incidental violation. Examples are wearing your pack over your orange vest so temporarily fall short of the required square inch minimum for orange, shot five minutes before or after legal time, took pictures of downed animal before placing tag on the kill...

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