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    Camo Button Up

    Another plug for duck camp. Poncho outdoors also makes a couple camo options, but they’re more fishing focused.
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    My knife builds

    These hunters are super sexy blades!
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    Northeast Halloween vacation

    Acadia National Park can be nice that weekend, just a little harder to find places that are open. Much of the tourism completely shuts down mid-October after peak foliage. But the park is still gorgeous and mostly empty.
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    Zero trim, minimally processed ,moldy dear meat after thaw in the fridge - best meat I ever ate

    That crust is called the pellicle and is what forms to protect the meat (like a cheese rind). As long as it’s not moldy and doesn’t smell like death (literally) it’s fine to eat. You usually trim it though since it can be pretty tough. Good if you add it to your grind, though, since it has...
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    Zero trim, minimally processed ,moldy dear meat after thaw in the fridge - best meat I ever ate

    Technically wet aging is when you vac seal the meat and let it age in its own natural juices in the fridge — as opposed to dry aging where it’s hung and aged in a cold, low humidity environment. You vac seal so no oxygen gets to the meat, which prevents bacterial growth, and it allows the...
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    Books to read while hunting

    The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark is terrific. Meateater did an audio only book “The Longhunters” which is solid. “American Serengeti” by Dan Flores. Wolf-haters are going to crucify me for it, but “American Wolf” by Nate Blakesley I found fascinating.
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    Garmin instinct 2 tactical vs Fenix

    I’ll plug the Instinct. Solar is terrific, but even without any sunlight the new one gets over a month of battery (without any GPS tracking but still connected to my phone). It’s bombproof for most outdoors tasks and the trackback/return to start feature has come in very handy on more than one...
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    FNG from North NH

    Welcome from MA. I try to get up your way as often as I can in the fall.
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    Has Kryptek fell off the map for clothing?

    as the guys above me said, the sales reset every day. There’s a bunch of Kryptek stuff every couple of weeks, and then one-off sales in single sizes or colors more often. Same with Sitka and a ton of other brands — pretty much anything you can get on Black Ovis’s main website.
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    Has Kryptek fell off the map for clothing?

    Kyptek is on camofire all the time for upwards of 50% off, fyi.
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    Saddle Systems

    100x on the kneepads.
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    Mammoths ....... in Yellowstone?

    The Meateater guys actually did this in conjunction with some archeologists on the North Bridger Bison ranch a year or so ago. Here’s the paper written on it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X24001081 and probably more entertaining, here’s the video:
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    Suburban Deer

    I do a lot of suburban archery hunting in the northeast. Kind of weird being in a tree and hearing cars go by, lawns being mowed — but, there are a lot of deer and a lot of folks are tired of ticks, of their flowers being eaten, of collisions. I’ve found most people I ask, even if they aren’t...
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    Cooking knives

    The ones the knifemakers put out are super sexy, but you’ll probably do just as well with a Victorinox chefs blade as you will with almost anything. Just keep it sharp!
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    FNG from MA

    Cool — I’m mostly deer with the bow, but bagged my first turkey with one last and had a blast. Good luck and welcome.
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    FNG from MA

    Welcome aboard — I’m a little ways down the pike from you. What are you trying to get into? Seeing a bunch of turkeys out your way the last few days!
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    Turkeys not Gobbling

    Roost podcast with Ben O’Brien is great for thinking about this. As others have said, you can either post up on a spot you know that a turkey will be at some point and wait it out, or you can run and gun them. Some people might not want the first experience and would rather be out looking for...
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    Turkey leg recipe?

    Pickle juice is a brine which helps tenderize the meat and gives a little bit of flavor — but that is mostly going to come from whatever seasonings you put in the flour for your batter.
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    Turkey leg recipe?

    Y’all should check out Jesse Griffith’s new book, appropriately titled The Turkey Book. Lots of terrific recipes in there — but for legs, the general concept is low and slow… 8+ hours even.
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    Diving into privatization of the Crazy Mtns (MT)

    Fascinating article, thanks for sharing.

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