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    “Glassing” set up for the house?

    We have a great view of the mountain that starts right behind our house. Critters are a 100 yards to a mile away. We see mule deer, California bighorns, black bears, coyotes, chukars, eagles and even one whitetail and a pair of California quail. We have a set of Leica 15x56 HD Geovids on a...
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    Dedicated sporting clays gun

    I prefer my 12 gauge Beretta A400 Xcel Black 30" sporter with a Kick-Off. It is very soft shooting, comes with adjustable stock shims to change the drop and cast to get it to shoot where "you" look. Comes with nice extended chokes and costs only about half or your budget. Mine has been...
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    I don’t like my bow

    I bought a used Prime Rival for a backup bow off AT (Archery Talk) to my Prime Rival I bought new. It came with the factory strings in a package and a set of supposed good quality after-market "custom" strings installed. It was so far out of tune with the after-market strings I just took 'em...
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    Removing eye glasses to use spotter?

    I wear my eye glasses while using my angled Swaro 20-60x65 spotter as well as my straight body Nikon 13-30x50ED. The Nikon has barely adequate eye relief with glasses but I still don't like glassing without eye glasses given I have astigmatism.
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    17HMR Scope Suggestions

    The Burris 3-9 with Ballistic Plex reticules make a great .22LR and .17HMR scope and are fine on a .270. I have used a couple for that application as well on a Remington M7 .260 Remington.
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    Ford 5.0L V8 vs EcoBoost: High mileage experience?

    2015 5.0l with around 100,000 miles is running well. No issues with truck at all except for a leaky front diff that was repaired with a new seal. Still on original brakes. Have put a couple batteries in it.
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    Cool Bot walk in meat cooler, Tips & Tricks appreciated.

    We put 2” blue foam under the concrete…obviously placed before we poured. I’ve thought about adding 2” inside to the floor and putting something over it to walk on and seal it but haven’t done it. Not sure about what kind of a washable cover I’d use…blood is nasty stuff. We put drip pans under...
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    Cool Bot walk in meat cooler, Tips & Tricks appreciated.

    Insulate the heck out of the floor, roof, and walls. R25 sounds good to me. We have a cool bot cold room, 6' x 8' x 7.5" high, poured concrete for the floor, roof, and 3 of the 4 walls, and also one 6" stud wall. Our insulation is 2" of blue foam on the outside of the poured concrete walls...
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    Muskox/ caribou hunt in Nunavut

    I did a couple of archery caribou hunts from town (Baker Lake) without success and with a very minimal amount of caribou spotted back in 2018 and 2019. Hunted out of the tent camp and got a nice caribou in 2021….last critter for my archery super slam. Was a fun hunt with lots of caribou...
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    Slam Completed

    Congratulations! Nice rams!! Feels good doesn’t it!! You have me beat years start to finish, only took me 38 seasons, 1980 to 2017 with the bow to get a grand slam. I didn’t hunt every year but usually helped someone with a tag when I wasn’t hunting. 4 of my 5 rams were DIY (without guides).
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    Black Bear Mechanical Broadhead Setup

    I don’t post photos
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    Black Bear Mechanical Broadhead Setup

    I like 3-blade 1.5” mechanicals (original Spitfires)as I’ve had much better blood trails than with the 1.5” 2-blade Ulmer Edge..forerunner of the Sevr. Had great luck with the Spitfires….475 gr arrows going about 272 fps from my 65# Prime Rival….taken lots of black bears and a large polar bear...
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    Smaller cutting diameter 2-blade mechanicals

    I had the poorest blood trails of any head I ever used in +50 years of Bowhunting everything in NA the two seasons I used Ulmer Edge 1.5” two blade single bevel heads. That said they did fly great and I shot a grizzly, several black bears, elk, whitetails, black-tails and Coues deer with them...
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    Tough moose meat?

    We cube and shish-kabob a lot of steak meat from moose, caribou, elk, deer, sheep. Often let it sit in a marinade or at least seasoned for a few hrs up to a few days. Hot grill, drip melted butter over the top, cook rare or medium rare…do not over cook! Had moose kabobs yesterday…tender and...
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    Kuiu piece you can’t hunt without?

    Favorites: Attack pants, Peloton 240 hooded jacket, Kenai hooded jacket, Chugach NX rain gear, belt, Superdown Ultra zip-off pants, zip-off Peloton 97 long johns, I don’t need any of the noted items but use them a lot and would miss them as they all work well for me!
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    Anyone hunted in Serbia?

    Get up to speed on Denver Nugget center Nikola Jokic too....2 time NBA MVP, last year's NBA finals MVP, etc.
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    Define a ‘DIY’ Hunt

    No guide(s).
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    Leupold 12-40 spotter

    I'd call the Leupold GR 12-40 x 60 HD average optically with great eye relief if you wear glasses. Compact frame for the lens size and has decent armoring. Weight as you mention isn't bad. The 12X feature is great, but with 12X binos, maybe not as useful to you (I used it a lot). 40X top is...
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    Which state has the worst fish and game interface?

    BC's works decently. AZ is a bad.
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    Shout out to MBG Customer Service

    They've taken care of me on a couple modifications I wanted, and the one part failure I've had over the past 17 years that I've used them. Good stuff and an even better company.
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