A 5qt Enameled Dutch oven (Le Creuset), a 12” cast iron skillet, and a cookie sheet covers 98% of what I do in the kitchen.
A 6-egg “poacher” pan and a plain steel sauce pot pretty much chicken Vera the rest.
1st shot put him down, he ran 30-40yards and watched him tip over. He must have moved a little while I went back to get my pack. Because he couldn’t have tipped over where I found him. But not more than another 5 yards.
I ended up putting another shot on him because I could have sworn he moved...
@Still Hunter - I do love this setup very much, I’m a big guy, have a hard time sleeping on the ground, so this fit that bill perfectly. Just looking into some different stuff. I have been keeping this as my lightweight/early season setup.
Been using my tipi/cot setup more often and have...
I like the Bubba Blade fillet knives. I usually end up with the 5" and 7" flex blades while breaking down a deer/elk. Pic above is a rear quarter from my Colorado Bull and the 7" Bubba Blade.
If I'm doing a deer, I can do most of my grinding into a couple large stainless bowls that I have. For...
I would rather make coffee at camp and carry a similar weight Yeti bottle/Thermos than to mess with a stove on the side of a mountain.
Lose the bladder and just take 3 - Smart Water Bottles and save yourself 4 ounces. The water in your drinking tube is going to freeze anyway.
Don't count your...
I'll be trying to stay as close to home as possible next year because I have a big fishing trip in March to Christmas Island (Kiritimati) that I have been planning since 2018. It kept getting pushed due to COVID. That will be almost half of my PTO for next year. Then have to split the rest...
What sort of average point level are you at in western states? Alaska is on my list, but from your photos you have that handled. If you have done most of your hunting in Utah, have you killed a whitetail yet? I.E. Kansas/Nebraska/Canada.
Just thinking a few other things that I have been...
Dang, I thought what I paid for a special antelope tag this year was high. Guess I'll be applying regular every year and hoping for a random tag.
Never going to use the special draw for a general elk tag that is OTC for residents and only costs them $57. Plus likely never going to have enough...
Headache rack and a four-wheeler with a winch is the second best method of loading up a large animal into the bed of a truck. That's how my guide in Canada loaded up the moose I shot. Which barely made sense, because there is no way that the wheeler he was on weighed even half of what that moose...
I've "packed out" two of my 6 antelope. The first was a doe I killed in Utah in 2016. That was about 800-900yards. Put as much in the small day pack as I could fit and carried both front shoulders by hand.
My Wyoming buck from this year was just over 1 mile back to the truck. took an indirect...