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    Help choosing ideal chambering/rifle to shoot lead free projectiles.

    Anyone hunt with the DRT 223 rounds yet? I'd be really interested in that as an option for deer and antelope, might have to get a box and see how it shoots first.
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    Non lead bullets and performance at distance

    Why would they make this so hard to find? You'd think they would want hunters to understand differences in their products, especially if they designed them that way.
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    How many big game tags is too many?

    I've seen a handful of the big hunting shows like this recently. They start off with how they drew a "once or twice in a lifetime" type of tag in some incredible area, but they've only got a few days to hunt it because they've got to get to another tag in another state. Leaves a bad taste in my...
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    Rifle scopes you'd love to see Form test

    100% describes me right there. I just assumed that random zero shifts were either my fault or just a thing that happened to everyone, so every year you have to burn some ammo chasing groups around. I figured the reason some scopes cost 5x my basic 3-9x40 was dialing turrets, more features and...
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    Prana Men's Stretch Zion II Pant - $46.99 - camo

    FYI if you haven't seen these in person, they seem to be lower quality than the earlier Zions. Fabric is much thinner, cut is a little off, and the camo pattern is a lot more blue looking than it appears in the photos. I picked up a pair of these a little while ago and returned them almost...
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    Posting unit #'s

    That may be true, but there's some important differences that don't get discussed. Older relatives of mine that hunted in the 60s-80s mostly went after small game around family farms. A lot of eastern areas didn't have the same big game opportunities we have now, sure, but I think there's been a...
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    Posting unit #'s

    Couldn't agree more. A lot of folks get real offended by this idea, but to me there's a big difference between supporting new hunters and actively recruiting/marketing for them. We don't need to "convince" people to try hunting through social media, TV shows, corporate marketing, online tag draw...
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    Traditional-only archery seasons?

    Oregon has started adding traditional-only hunts for deer and elk in a few areas. I agree there's plenty of people in modern archery seasons that have no business slinging arrows at live animals, so I'm not sure how much impact it'll have in that regard. I think the main goal is to increase...
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    Spot and stalk mountain lion

    I've only seen a few cats in the wild, but this is definitely what I've seen too. They don't stick around and browse like deer or elk, they just cruise through at a steady pace. Pretty hard to make much of a stalk after you spot one, I'd think you pretty much have to be in position to shoot already.
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    E Bikes, the new motorized access scourge?

    Tradition and cultural acceptance has a lot to do with these rules too. If there's a user group with a long history of doing something, it's going to be real hard to regulate that once it's an entrenched practice. For anyone comparing e-bikes to compound bows vs trad, that ship sailed. I...
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    Wanted: Sportsman’s Warehouse code

    You might try making an account with them to register your email, drop the binos in your cart, and then wait. Sometimes they'll email you a 10% code within a week or so to try to get you to complete the purchase.
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    Deer calls for blacktail

    I've rattled in one blacktail mid-November, where I saw him cruising past in thick woods and hit the antlers to bring him back. Turned on a dime from about 100yds and came in to look for us. Done a lot of blind rattling with zero success. I think it all just depends on being in earshot of a...
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    E Bikes, the new motorized access scourge?

    A lot of hunting publications are just glorified advertisements, and I've been seeing articles for at least the last 5 years about how amazing e-bikes are for getting deep quickly and quietly. Hunting media can't seem to exist unless it's pushing something new to sell (rifles, cartridges...
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    Wanted: Sportsman’s Warehouse code

    Did not know that, thanks!
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    Wanted: Sportsman’s Warehouse code

    Anybody got another one? They always seem to send them when I don't need them.
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    Oregon spring bear

    Is 2022 up yet? I'm still seeing 2021 on his page, unless something changed. https://sites.google.com/site/oregontags/home
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    Cougar hunting tips?

    I've had similar run-ins and have tried some fawn in distress calling in good areas with recent sightings... no luck here either. Interested to see if anyone gets after them with any consistency (without dogs). I might try some of rainshadow's lion calls this year, seems like that has better...
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    Thermal for Recovery

    Sorry, I must've missed that in the original post, tracking big game with dogs isn't a thing in my state (OR). If you're talking about licensed trackers who are already operating well outside the standard hunting regulations, then yeah, that makes total sense.
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    Thermal for Recovery

    Yeah, that would be an unenforceable mess. Same reason you usually can't carry a rifle during archery seasons, even if you're "not hunting with it".
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    Thermal for Recovery

    Check your state regulations first, a lot of states have provisions about using thermal for pursuit or recovery of game animals.

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