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    Tipi hot tent total weight. What does your setup weigh?

    I have a Golite Shangri-lá 4. I sewed in a TiGoat stove jack and also sewed on a silnylon sod skirt around the bottom. Total tent weight with stakes, pole and cord is 4.1 lbs. The stove is a TiGoat 6” cylinder stove with pipe. Total weight for stove and pipe is 1.5 lbs. Nice size for two guys...
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    Durston X-Mid 1

    I used a 1P Solid on this years sheep hunt. 14 or 15 days and I was very happy with it. I also a have a Hilleberg Akto that I really like as well. Thought I’d try and shed a little more weight this year and bought this Durston. The final weight difference after adding maximum stakes and cord...
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    Total pack weight for 10 days.

    For 15 day sheep hunt I’m right at 70lbs. This is everything in my pack including solo tent, rifle in a gunbearer, binos in harness on my chest, hiking poles in my hands, 773 spotter and tripod, 8x10 siltarp and a liter of water. The only thing missing for a totally solo hunt is a stove and...
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    Minimus Nutrition, minimized weight

    This sounds similar to me. I’ll add fats, proteins, freeze dried spinach flakes to meals and repackage with food saver. Hydration tablets or powders I’ve found really help with recovery and muscle cramps. It’s taken a lot of years to get where I’m at now with food plan, but I’m at 1.4lbs per day...
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    How long does a repackaged Dehydrated meal last in a ziplock

    I repack mine with a Food Saver vacuum sealer. The packaging is a lot less bulk & weight, and very easy to burn if you decide to burn it during the trip. The other reason I do this is because I always add extra ingredients (protein, fat, etc) to the meals. Some times I repackage from...
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    Did Something Stupid and Dangerous On My Bench Today

    Unfortunately I can top that. When I first started handloading about 25 yrs ago, I bought a partial box of 30 cal 180 gr RN bullets from a local gunsmith. I bought a used 30:06 at the time so that this same gunsmith could rebarrel it to a 35 Gibbs for me. But I was anxious to try it out the...
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    Scope for my sheep hunt

    The adjustment range was really limited. I could correct parallax from roughly 15 yds to 200 yds. After 200 yds the parallax just got worse and no adjustment left. I sent it in to NF and asked if something was wrong, or if that limited range could be moved to cover maybe 200 yds to 400 yds. I...
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    Scope for my sheep hunt

    I’ve owned 4 models of NXS 2.5-10 scopes with different features. Two of them were 42mm and two were 32mm. I definitely preferred the 32mm and I think it’s a great hunting scope if you can find a used one with the features you want. I found the parallax control on the 42mm had very limited...
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    Painless load development (mine)

    Sounds like the brass is getting work hardened. I have had brass get stiff in the resizing die and get tight in the chamber if I don’t anneal often enough. The brass springs back too much after resizing.
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    Mixing lots of powder to make your own “lot”?

    I remember reading in the past that even powder manufacturers blend from lot to lot. Always having a certain percentage of blend from previous lot to new lot.
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    Crispi Thor ll for this years sheep hunt

    I used these boots on this years Stone Sheep hunt and was very happy with them. Over the years I’ve used Meindle, Lowa and Kennetrek. My favorite pair in the past was Lowa Tech Lite Hunter, and I wound up keeping them way past their expiry date because they were no longer being made. Crispi...
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    14 Day Stone Sheep Gear List - Resident DIY, Solo, Early August

    I’ll share my sheep hunt food list for anyone interested. It’s taken a lot of trips to get to this point but I feel like I’ve got it dialed in very well for me. Breakfast: 2 options all the same weight - 1. Mountain House or PeakRefuel granola with berries. I add whey protein powder and...
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    Reliable stone sheep pricing

    I’m a BC resident so I’m lucky enough to do DIY Stone Sheep hunts every year. This year, while we were being dropped off in the mountains by a small commercial bush plane, the pilot told us that it’s very common for guided Stone Sheep hunters to pay the air service to pick them up at big...
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    Nu way stove.. what pipe for vent?

    So far I use standard galvanized pipe with no sealing of joints. Last season I used my dual burner in a Bereg Hot Tent vented straight up. I put a gear clamp on the bottom section to give a little rigidity to the pipe and stove in case of wind. I didn’t seal any joints. Up high on the pipe...
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    Let’s see your Pickup Truck Sleep Setup

    This is exactly what I’ve been doing for many, many years and with a few different trucks. I always have a canopy on my truck for just this reason. I have an old RV furnace (radiant=no power needed) that I use and it draws in and vents outside the canopy window. I open the window and pop in a...
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    Bonding a picatinny rail to an action

    I bonded an EGW rail to my Rem M7 but I didn’t snug the screws down until the epoxy had cured. The top of the receiver and rear bridge are not perfectly machined so tightening it down was twisting the rail. So now it’s bedded and bonded.
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    Kowa's new 66mm with Fluorite is finally here!

    This is what I’m wondering as well. I could sell my 55 and my 77, and just go with the 66 which will be close in performance to the 77 according to comparisons, and be 6-7 oz lighter than the 77. I would be thinking a lot more seriously about it if I thought I would be money ahead in the...
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    Kowa's new 66mm with Fluorite is finally here!

    I feel the same. My first Kowa years ago was a 663 Prominar and it was a great scope. Then eventually switched to my 773 and love it. I also have a 554 Flourite that is very handy. A 66mm Flourite is very tempting. I guess I could sell both scopes and go back to one 66mm. Ahhhhh I hate...
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    What would you do?

    It kind of sounds like you answered your own question. I’m reading that you value the challenge of bow hunting more than the kill. Getting animals can be good, but getting them the way you dream of getting them is so much better.
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    Has anybody hunted sheep with a heavy rifle?

    Ha ha, I had that beat by a smidge. My lightest was a SS model seven that I skeletized the crap out of, with a 22” fluted mountain contour 284 Winchester, and a Wildcat Composite stock with flip flop recoil pad. Had a Leupold 6x36 with LRD reticle and Talley lightweight rings. The total...

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