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  1. IDbrushswimmer

    2024 Best Whitetail Photo Contest, sponsored by First Lite

    Super cool picture and great buck! One of my favorite pieces of land to deer hunt just got landlocked by private. The only way to access now is by water. This may be in my future!
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    200 straight rounds of Norma Mag

    My tinnitus flared up just seeing this lol
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    the best 243 win bullet

    We took our third deer this year so far with the 95 gr ballistic tip. These have been great from an accuracy and effectiveness standpoint. The buck taken today made it 30 yds, which is the furthest so far. He did it with the top half of his heart gone, some animals are just plain tough. The...
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    Let them grow?

    It is all personal choice. For me it boils down to time. As my kids get older (I have five of them) and are hunting more themselves, I choose to spend more of my time taking them vs. hunting for myself. I shot a nice 5x6 whitetail the other day. Probably only a 3.5 yr old buck. Two things...
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    Your first deer rifle?

    Mine was a Weatherby vanguard 7mm-08 youth, when they came with two different size stocks. Unfortunately sold it like a dumbass when I turned 18 to buy a .300 win mag. Regret it now that I’ve had to buy youth guns for my kiddos when that would have been great to pass down.
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    What's your favorite caliber?

    This is my first year using a 243. Loaded with 95 gr ballistic tips. Hits deer like lightning, and so much more enjoyable to shoot than the .300s and .338s I was shooting for so long.
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    How do you guys keep track of brass firings?

    I just put a tally with a sharpie on the side of the case
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    2024 OFFICIAL WHITETAIL MEAT POLE

    North ID buck. I actually shot a doe also (extra tag) about an hour before him (hence no game bags for his quarters) and was loading my pack to get her out when I caught movement in the tree line. Him and a buddy came trotting out, and I had just enough time to get a rest and get a shot. Now get...
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    6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

    These are the first deer I’ve killed with anything smaller than a 6.5 Creed. 243 win loaded fairly conservatively with a 95 grain ballistic tip, about 2,850 muzzle velocity. The doe was shot right at 100 yds, she spun in a circle and was down. The buck was somewhere around 275 yds. The shot...
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    2024 OFFICIAL ELK MEAT POLE

    Sweet! Love weird bulls.
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    First Idaho Elk Rifle Season

    Plan on falling on your ass multiple times a day when it rains, and then for 4 days following the rain plan on being wet. Like Ross said, plan for fog. If a spot looks like a hellhole, chances are the elk like it there!
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    Trophy Elk: What's it to YOU

    Definitely a definition that can be different from one guy to the next, like the guys above said. My 4x5 archery bull from a couple years ago that I shot in the shoulder, called back in twenty minutes later ready to fight and killed will be a trophy forever for that reason. My (again) 4x5 bull...
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    2024 OFFICIAL ELK MEAT POLE

    Nice work!
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    Dads of Rokslide

    Biggest advice has already been said a bunch, but that’s for a reason. Enjoy every day with your kids like it’s your last. It feels like it was yesterday that my oldest daughter was one, now she is 14. Another is set expectations for your hunting, and take advantage of chances to make long...
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    North Idaho late rut?

    It is definitely interesting the year to year differences. We’ve been into some crazy action around the October rifle opener after a dead end of September. I did seem to notice that where I was hunting it had more pressure than normal, and bulls did seem more timid. But who knows, you could be...
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    Lesson learned, pointers gladly accepted....

    I’ve just come to accept that sometimes another bull will insert itself into an interaction between me and the bull I’m originally after. Can work in your benefit sometimes but more often than not I seem to end up with them in exactly the spot I don’t want them lol
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    Non Tikka 10 round groups

    Just a cheap savage axis in .243. Technically 9 shots but the 1st was to make sure I hit paper.
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    2024 Bugle Report

    Trust me it’s killing me. I’ve done A tag for the last eight years I think. I will just have to live through my buddy who I am going to call for this weekend. Lol.
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    2024 Bugle Report

    Called in 3 different bulls within 30 yds over the weekend, couldn’t get shots on any. They really started picking up Monday/Tuesday. of course I had to go back to work yesterday, and for the first time in many years did a B tag so will not get another shot until October.
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    How much money after everything is paid for?

    Put it this way, I put away about $1000 less per month than I did 3 yrs ago. Just the other day we were comparing bills to Oct. of 2021. Same bills totaled $1400 dollars per month less. That said, I’m blessed to make enough to have my wife and mom to our 5 kids stay home to home school them. I...

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