I was told by an employee of my local chain sporting goods store that employees got "credit" for each Vortex product sold and eventually an employee, with enough credits, could obtain highly discounted or free Vortex products.
This was the reason Vortex products were pushed so much at that, and...
When hunting (or fishing, trapping, etc.) privileges are revoked in one state the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact (IWVC) comes into play and those privileges are revoked in 49 of the 50 states. Only Hawaii is not a member of the IWVC.
ClearCreek
I was talking to a friend that just returned from a 4th season (five days long) mule deer hunt in Colorado and his comment was, "...we hunted hard every day, my eyes hurt when we got back to camp at night".
He has Vortex Diamondback binos that he uses in eastern Nebraska white-tail hunting...
I have not hunted with TJ and his crew, but I have checked many, many of the antelope taken by Bear Track Outfitters and they take some nice goats.
ClearCreek
I don't think the skull in question is 50,000 years old as the bison that occurred during that period were Bison antiquus. The antiquus variety had a much larger horn core diameter and a much wider horn core tip to tip spread, and went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Ancient bison varieties...
I know you did not have this one on your list, but Maven makes a nice little compact spotter. I had a chance to look through it last week at a rifle sighting-in event and it was very clear and easy to see 243 Win holes in the target at 100 yards.
ClearCreek
I have a friend that believes the difference between those deer that drop and those that run when shot through both lungs is the deer that runs has just inhaled and has lungs full of air and the one that drops has just exhaled and can't inhale after the bullet goes through the lungs. Kinda like...
bob:
I don't think restricting a nonresident to a general elk license within a region would be a big deal as somewhere I saw some data that suggests a high percentage of nonresident elk hunters holding a general license only hunt one general area a season.
Residents may hunt several general...
Why couldn't there be general and limited quota hunt areas within a nonresident elk region? Similar to nonresident deer regions.
In one case that I can think of the entire nonresident elk region could be a general license.
ClearCreek
A vertebrae with a long spinous process such as the one in the photo would suggest a bison thoracic vertebrae.
Google "bison thoracic vertebrae" and you will see it.
I have found several in an area that was a historic bison crossing on the Missouri RIver.
ClearCreek
I am not sure where you are seeing there are "leftover private land tags in WY". I just checked the leftover license list on the Wyoming Game and Fish Department website and all but one area (Hunt Area 43 has one Type 1 license) are sold out.
ClearCreek
My sister-in-law got singles in her eyes within the last month. Her eyes were light sensitive and "itchy", it lasted about a week to ten days.
When she went to the doctor she was told there is an increased occurrence of people getting shingles in their eyes due to getting the covid shot and...
In about three weeks when we will be using a floatplane to transport us from Lake Hood to the fishing lodge we will go to, it is costing us $300 (per passenger) this year for the round trip, about 65 miles each way.
The float plane company allows us to take about 50-60 lbs. per person going up...