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  1. PanhandlePilgrim

    2022 Best Mule Deer Hunt Photo Contest, sponsored by Kryptek

    Montana Buck. Shot November 8, 2022
  2. PanhandlePilgrim

    2022 Best Mule Deer Hunt Photo Contest, sponsored by Kryptek

    Idaho Wilderness Buck. Shot November 16th
  3. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    The chest strap actually broke on this trip. I'll watch some videos again and see what I missed. Thanks guys.
  4. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    Yeah thats a bit of a drive. Haha. I believe I have the 26" likely based of the recommendation off the website. I am 6' tall. I can take more photos when I am at home of the configuration and see if maybe that would help giving you a better idea what I did wrong. I appreciate you help.
  5. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    Thats how I felt. And yes the heaviest stuff was high, meat was in between the frame and pack, head and cape were on top/back. I just couldn't seem to get everything situated.
  6. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    I think I bought the large frame, so 26?, I can't remember now, the load lifters in the 2nd photo are as high as they go on the frame without some customization with 550 cord (which was considered.) Is there a way to move the hip belt up?
  7. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    You can kinda see the lifters in this photo but that's about all I have.
  8. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    It was miserable. And yeah it has those, I ended up reconfiguring the pack and that helped but I just couldn't get enough lift out of them. The way they are sewn I couldn't get them any tighter.
  9. PanhandlePilgrim

    Issues with current pack

    First of all, this isn't meant to bash or badmouth or put any kind of shame on this company. Just my experience and I am looking to see if there is something I can do to fix it before I go shopping for another pack system. I have been running a Kifaru Reckoning for about as long as they have...
  10. PanhandlePilgrim

    First long range kill

    Thats a dandy! Especially for that hunt. Congratulations. Man, it was tough this year. Seems every year it's just a little crazier. Those PNWild boys need to quit posting videos its getting way too popular.
  11. PanhandlePilgrim

    Load development technique

    To find seating depth I like to run 2 shots ea per each length and shoot them both in a group that generally tells me everything I need to know about seating depth and doesn't use as many components. I used to start at jam and work my way back .010 at a time but recently watched a Cortina video...
  12. PanhandlePilgrim

    Idaho Unit 27 Elk

    I haven't spent much time in 27 but i have in 26 deer hunting. All the elk were in or around green, living timber with water in the same drainage. While this sounds simple there is a ton of dead, burned out areas and expanses of land with nothing more than grass and rocks. Hopefully that helps...
  13. PanhandlePilgrim

    Leupold Drop Tests

    I get what you are saying with for a sheep rifle, i guess our ideas of a "Mountain" rifle are different. I've never been to Alaska to hunt sheep or goats, but I have spent a lot of time in sheep and goat country I can tell you if I do make it up there my rifle will have a nightforce as the...
  14. PanhandlePilgrim

    Leupold Drop Tests

    Not sure where you're from but most guys that swear by NF spend a lot of time in the mountains, i live in the mountains and spend 20 days under a backpack every year and I can tell you if 10 oz of scope brakes you on a mountain hunt you shouldn't have been on the mountain to begin with.
  15. PanhandlePilgrim

    Leupold Drop Tests

    I was resistant to Nightforce. I tried about every major brand out there including a Mark 5 over the last 10 years and the only scope I haven't replaced with a nightforce so far has been a Tract Toric. The Mark 5 failed and it never saw a hard drop, but it did experience some bumpy atv rides.
  16. PanhandlePilgrim

    Nighforce on Expertvoice Question

    I ordered when I posted this and I got it April 6th. Took about a month.
  17. PanhandlePilgrim

    Idaho Unit 14 Mule Deer

    I hear Slate Creek is good. 😆
  18. PanhandlePilgrim

    “Short” Barrels, why not?

    With the 215 gr I actually used N568, the 225 gr was with R26. .220 Freebore
  19. PanhandlePilgrim

    “Short” Barrels, why not?

    Just got this back from the Smith. 22" Barreled 30 Nosler. I got 2850 with 215 Bergers and 2780 with 225 eldms before sending off to get a Plus P Chamber.
  20. PanhandlePilgrim

    Boots!

    I have a pair of Zamberlans that started leaking on me at the end of last season, only lasted me 3 years, but i get to hunt about 40 days a year. Still in good shape but keeping water out is important to me. I live by the Hoffman's factory so I just picked up a pair of their explorers and I...

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