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    2024 show your dogs success

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    Barefoot Style Steel Toes

    While I wouldn't consider them barefoot footwear per se the Plasma Dewalts are a near zero drop, plenty wide in the toe box in the "wide" sizes, come with safety toe, and I've found to be comfortable as heck. I pull out the insert that comes with them and put in a Run 619 zero drop insert. My...
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    Stockys recoil pad issue

    Mine has been solid
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    Idaho Backpacking

    Exactly...but more menacing... 😂. Was easy to freak myself out at that age trying to sleep in shadows of He Devil, She Devil, the Ogres, the Goblins, etc.
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    Idaho Backpacking

    Yah, ditto. Traveling thru couple weeks ago and just caught 'em peaking out as I was flying down WB Grade. It was a long poke with the 300mm but pulled over and took a stab at 'em with the camera - a bit outta range: I did the whole loop in my teens with just my bird dog with me...woke up to...
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    Bipod ?

    I have an N=1 for sheep hunting experience but I was set up with a Rokstedi P242 bipod, practiced a ton thru the summer from prone, to kneeling, to seated, to angled sidehills, to steep downhill, to steep uphill. I had my day pack set up with one large batwing that popped right off in two snaps...
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    How many are using a Sport SXS for hunting access, which one and your experience?

    Mine must not have gotten the memo!! 😂 Mine largely does bird dog and pleasure duty but has been bomber on sheep, deer, and elk hunts also. I have really liked it coming from a Polaris Ranger which just felt like a golf cart to me. The Commander is super comfortable, hauls decent load...
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    2024 show your dogs success

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    2024 Best Whitetail Photo Contest, sponsored by First Lite

    11/17 - N. Idaho Whitetail - He gave us just a glimpse in the late morning and a doe got him to slip up at last light! So fun!
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    2024 Best Wild Sheep Hunt Photo Contest, by Stone Glacier

    Awesome captures of some incredible adventures and great rams fellars! I had to go about 80 miles from home for my adventure - I could hunt the mornings and be home for lunch...and it was truly an awesome OIL experience I made the most of!! '24 SE Idaho California Bighorn:
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    Boots: light and fast or heavy and bomb proof?

    I'm surprised you wear the hanwags and Hoffmans at all given how light and flexible your other footwear is...Ive gotten to the point I just can't stand anything that stiff and clunky - they feel like they totally change my gait and restrict the motion where I'm supposed to have motion...
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    Boots: light and fast or heavy and bomb proof?

    I wear the Vasque Torres paired with a tall gaiter.
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    Silver State Nelson Bighorn Tag

    Yaaah man! Things can change fast! I drew my Idaho OIL Cali bighorn this year. The unit was close to home, I was able to go over and scout like a mad man all summer, bothered everyone I thought might know anything about anything, rucked/trained/hauled around 60lb sandbags/shot rifles/the...
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    Puffy Jacket/Pants

    I used to just don the wind/rain pants also for those times I'm sitting/glassing..but I kinda find that to be a PIA with noise and associated body gymnastics. I'm sure I would feel similar to having to pull on puffy pants. Last year I switched to carrying a lightweight/14oz down blanket with a...
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    Boots: light and fast or heavy and bomb proof?

    Light, flexible, as minimal as possible for me...I'd say fast but I'm a month from 60 and built like a sasquatch so who am I kidding... Topo Athletic Terraventures with a scree gaiter have been my go to for the dry - super lightweight and breathable. So breatheable my toes are usually pretty...
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    The Slik Sling... your thoughts?

    Really like mine. 👍
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    '24 OIL Idaho Cali Bighorn

    3186fps with a load I get from Hendershots. Waffled back and forth with Wby factory 129gr Hammers at 3317fps. I just got slightly better groups with the eld-x...not that any of that mattered ultimately. Bullet just shrapnel'd on impact - no exit...maybe a little too speedy and close for...
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    '24 OIL Idaho Cali Bighorn

    @60yds. with 143gr ELD-X out of 6.5-300Wby :
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    '24 OIL Idaho Cali Bighorn

    Tidying up the Ram Files with a few months of scouting photos and vids - captive audience, why not share!?
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    '24 OIL Idaho Cali Bighorn

    Experience of a lifetime for sure! Per FnG biologist "9.5yo for sure, possibly 10.5yo" so really happy to get a mature ram. The outpouring of help and graciousness of other hunters pursuing other game in the area was truly humbling. Thanks to chukar_chaser, TFrazier, and CGilbert for the help...

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