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Wow! That’s a big laker for a small piece of water! Where was this?

Where you going? I’m one behind max. Missed one back in college one year and I’ve been regretting it ever since!

I don’t think people have ever sat down to do the math on some of the stuff they put in for. My current draw strategy is trying to work out and work on my mobility and range of motion. No joke. I’ve come to the conclusion that to draw a lot of the tags I started putting in for 10-15 years ago that I figured I’d draw in 20 years are all going to be 30-40 years out. Not because the supply will finally catch up with the demand, but simply because I will have to outlive all of the people in tiers around and above me and still be physically able to go on the hunt. It seems crazy but there will be people that die with 50-60 points for a lot of tags and never see them, myself included (god willing).

I’ve got a bergara premier mountain 2.0 in 6.5 Creedmoor I won in a raffle (the only way I’d ever own a creedmoor!) I’d sell you. I don’t think there’s a gayer caliber out there for true long range hunting like all the bros make it out to be, but I gotta admit it would be a great lightweight deer caliber, or kids elk and deer rifle.

So sorry to hear this. There really are no words for something like this. Stay strong and keep praying.

6.5’s aren’t even legal bro.

Awesome! Always wanted to do that! Killed a few with a muzzle loading rifle but never a shotty! I’ve heard you can make loads that will outdo a regular shotgun.

One is a hunt where you get to take possession of the animal. The other is just killing an animal and walking away. Big difference atleast for me.

What kind of stock is that?

They did something similar up here in ND with the elk on Theodore Roosevelt national park. Except you couldn’t approach them and couldn’t collect any part of them. Just shoot them and walk away. They hired packers with helos and horses to pack them out and donated the meat. I wouldn’t want any part of that. If I got to keep a bison for meat I think I’d be down for something like this. That’s a cool way of doing it. Hope they get someone who is qualified and doesn’t ruin the name for everyone else. 3/5 in 4” at 100 in hardly a “qualified” shooter!

I’ve picked up a few over the years in shooter shape for $350-450. The pre64 bring more money, .243, 284 and 358 bring more money to way way more money respectively. Carbines bring more as well. Cool guns. Dad has killed a pile of critters with his .284 pre 64. It actually shoots about 1.5” at 100 too.

Bob, you need to have teeth left for them to age you.

My dad and I raised whitetails when I was growing up. It was really fun and I learned a ton about deer in those years. Our end market was shooting farms, we didn’t allow it in our place but that’s where they ended up. I don’t hold anything against people that make their living that way or people that want to do that for fun. I shot a red stag in NZ and it was on a high fence (all the stag hunts are if they’re anything bigger then a raghorn, if anyone tells you different they’re full of it) it wasn’t my cup of tea and I won’t do it again, but that’s my opinion only. A lot of the other guys hunting there were amazed by all of the game and had the time of their life. That’s their choice and their experience and that’s none of my business to get involved in.

I thought all vehicle salesmen were required to refer to their customer as “boss” or “bossman”.

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Good luck man.

Sorry just saw this. Thanks for asking! My weird taste stuff is almost all back to normal except I noticed my moms prime rib which is my favorite meal ever smelled like piss over Easter dinner. I didn’t wanna say anything and offend her so I asked my wife on the drive home if the prime rib tasted different to her and she said it was excellent. That sucks as it’s like my second favorite thing to eat! As far as my lungs go they are getting better. I had heard that you can damage lungs and they’ll essentially grow elsewhere to recover so I dunno if that’s what’s happening or what, it’s been slow going but I’ve been riding stationary bike since it’s been cold here up until recently and now hiking our hills behind our house nightly and it’s getting better. I’m getting some asthma like symptoms occasionally that I didn’t have before the rona so I keep an inhaler in my pickup in case that gets worse but so far so good. I’m hoping I can be back to normal by elk season this year and hopefully improve my fitness after that from where I was as I’ve got a NWT trip planned in aug 2022.

My first 4 took a year and a half. Hoping for shorter on my next one since my trust is set up but no idea really.

The only one around our little town in ND has personalized plates that say “DOES185”.

Good to see you back! We’ve got too dam many people in this country and world and it’s boiling down to a supply and demand. The demand is up and the supply is going down. Unfortunately it won’t get any better ever again. We literally have just lived through “the good old days” of hunting in our country and I’m guessing most of us (myself included) were too busy thinking about the earlier “good old days” to notice it.

If you think that glassing allows you to see more animals in a morning or evening of looking you haven’t spent much time in a plane. You can cover infinitely more ground with a plane. No you aren’t going to see every animal, but that is accounted for when they run the numbers. Also if you think your ARE seeing every animal when you are glassing you haven’t glassed very much.

You guys really need to take a statistics class. A lot of of talk of lying on harvest reports here, but it’s in both directions, some of you saying that hunters are gonna lie to say they didn’t kill to push for more tags issued and some saying the opposite. If it’s a real issue and it’s actually happening, then one side of the other needs to be of statistical importance. Also how does a mandatory survey keep you from lying? I take them annually in Utah and NM when I’m lucky enough to draw and you could easily lie on either. To suggest that harvest surveys are the holy grail is missing a massive piece of the puzzle. They also have error in their population surveys, so you account for both errors in your statistics when you crunch the numbers. That’s how it works. The only other option would be to hire 50,000 people do drive every patch of cover while the helicopter hovers over to make sure they count EVERY deer. It’s impossible so you count what you can and you use historical data to calculate your true numbers. Same goes for hunter harvest. If they’re really so worried about this alleged rampant lying then they would have to have mandatory check in, and literally have them on every major road accessing areas. It’s simply not possible. They manage archery OTC opportunity based on rifle success in the unit. So with their current management plan, the success and numbers of OTC hunters is actually statistically unimportant regardless of how much it bunches y’all’s panties. The NR numbers are an obvious concern, and even as a NR I would agree with you guys on that going to draw, even if it’s only symbolic. HOWEVER, everything comes back to the numbers when it comes to wildlife management, and the fact of the matter is the 390 deer the NR OTC archers killed is statistically unimportant when spread across a big of an areas as the OTC units cover.

Can you keep us updated? Big antelope are my fetish.