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  1. jhm2023

    Charging bear/timed shooting drill

    Perhaps conduct the drill a second time but with an elevated heart rate immediately after high physical activity to simulate responding to a charge mid uphill hike, brush busting, etc.
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    Smaller Bore Match Bullets for Brown Bear or Moose (and other big critters)

    It's always a good idea to do stress shoots and practice under duress. Even better if it's on video so you can see how goofy you look and correct things you didn't realize you were doing.
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    Smaller Bore Match Bullets for Brown Bear or Moose (and other big critters)

    I do dry fire practice a lot using my bear mounts as aiming points. With actual live fire, using an autoloading pistol like 460 Rowland or 10mm, I can generally have 4-5 rounds in the a zone of an ipsc target at 10 yards before the first piece of brass hits the ground. I'm too cheap to buy a...
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    Smaller Bore Match Bullets for Brown Bear or Moose (and other big critters)

    I think an acceptable cartridge for a calm bear is a lot different than what would be acceptable to physically stop a determined and charging bear and save your life or someone else's. Mind you that I've never killed a brown bear but I've killed and seen killed my share of interior grizz and my...
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    What are we sacrificing?

    The short answer: For the true backcountry hunter, you carry a rifle more than you shoot it. Like 50+ miles carried for one shot. For the average person this won't really matter. The longer answer: Weight isn't the only deciding factor of accuracy. If all is equal except weight, the heavier gun...
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    It's Me vs. The Wife... you guys tell me who wins

    My wife and I almost exclusively hunt together and always DIY in Alaska. The hard earned DIY hunts with your spouse is a pretty great "couples retreat", especially looking back on the trip afterwards. It reaffirms a lot of trust in each other being left to your own devices without help and...
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    Quad vs Side by Side

    I've used both standard atv and sxs for personal use and work. For me and the areas I hunt, fish, and generally recreate, the average sxs just isn't making it. I like being off the beaten path and away from everyone and busted my own trails in. There are a lot of large rocks to navigate around...
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    Why cant people accept the fact that some people dont need a drop tested scope?

    The best part of #metoo is that most adults still refer to # as pound.
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    Why cant people accept the fact that some people dont need a drop tested scope?

    My thoughts on the matter, and it's worth exactly what you're about to pay for it I suppose. I've been using various Leupold scopes ever since I could afford to buy my own when I was 19. I really like them and to me the VX-5HD line is just about the perfect hunting scope(if it held zero), and...
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    What’s the coolest thing you found in the back country

    While busting brush along the base of a mountain on a sheep hunt in the pissing rain, I stopped under a big spruce tree in an attempt to get out of the rain and eat a snack. I looked up and saw a 3/4 curl ram skull hanging from a branch like 12 feet up. It looked like a person hung it there and...
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    Recommendations for best hot tent for 2 people plus gear?

    I've done a lot of mountain hunts with my cimmaron and a tigoat wifi stove with two plus gear without issue. Before that, I was using a tigoat vertex 6.5 which is similar in size to the cimmaron. Sure more space would be nice but it isn't "needed" and finding a big enough space in the mountains...
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    Bolt action coating options

    The bolt on the fieldcrafts are already NP3 coated, which is a great coating. Only downside to it is not matching the cerakote you may put on the barreled action. I think my wife's fieldcraft is cerakoted over the NP3, it was the dealer exclusive version that came cerakoted so I'm guessing.
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    Stainless Or Cerekote and why?

    Stainless barrel and action for me since cerakote doesn't go inside the bore. If I'm going for a particular color scheme, then I'll have stuff cerakoted and possibly DLC the bolt body.
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    What is your equipment upgrade strategy?

    I reevaluate my gear at the end of big hunts and after hunting season, then try to make one or two big upgrades per year during the off season. I'm not all that rough on my gear, so I typically upgrade due to desired weight savings, increase efficiency, comfort, or boredom. Other than that, I'm...
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    Gunwerks 6ix+, AB Raptor Eight Stack, CGS Hyperion K, Thunder Beast Dominus

    Finally, I had some time off work and above zero weather happen at the same time. So, I took out my 8 stack and 10 stack AB Raptors to compare. I shot both on a 22" inch 6.5 Creedmoor Fieldcraft and a 21" 6.5 PRC Element. Only direct thread, no reflexes. The 10 stack did have a somewhat...
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    Best wheel gun setup for griz protection?

    While bow hunting for black bears over bait, my wife and I were charged by what I assumed to be a mating pair of grizz in the spring. We were walking into the bait site and heard something on the bait already. I had my wife nock an arrow and get ready thinking it was a black bear and it would...
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    Nu Way stove

    I've never had an issue with any type of stove and pipes coming apart in the wind. That includes wood, diesel, and a nuway stove. The best way to go about it in my experience, if needed, is to install a rain cap to the top and add 3 equally spaced steel cables to the bottom end of the rain cap...
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    Do you shoot factory or load your own ammo?

    99% of the ammo I've shot for the past 10 years and continue to shoot is handloaded. It's kind of a combination of making it exactly how I want it, availability of what I need is usually not good, the enjoyment of the process, and the gratification of using the handloaded ammo.
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    Who else is ready?

    I'm always ready for bear season. My only real goal is to do my best to make sure my 7 year old daughter has a chance at taking a bear and for my wife and I to tag out with 3 bears each. Bear is one of our favorites to eat. We also moose hunt in the same area that we bear hunt, so killing that...
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    Ever Used Your Sidearm While Hunting?

    Time doesn't currently permit writing the story, but I've written about it before on here. A sow and the boar in the picture charged my wife and I one after the other. Was no fun.

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