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Nice bull. Great write-up.

Steep. You can get one brand new for sub $700.

Congrats!

I found one exactly like that in 5BS last week. I figured someone just cut the antlers off and didn't want the rest.

Yep, top secret.

Whoa! That's sweet.

That's an awesome bull!

Way to go. Nice bull.

I was in 5BS and tagged a nice bull opening day. They were pretty vocal where I was until about 7-8am. Evening was hit and miss. Get out there early (4am) and get in on them before sun up. Monday seemed like it was a little slower in the morning, but otherwise I think it's been pretty good.

you bring a propane lantern in your pack? My thoughts exactly.

I'm looking for a shower solution for elk camp. I've considered the Camp Chef Triton and the Zodi Hot Shower. With the Camp Chef you need an external pump, but the Zodi includes one. Anybody use either of these or have a better idea for elk camp in September?

I'll probably be out there 10 days.

That's cool. I saw one up while archery deer hunting opening weekend.

That's awesome! I can't wait to have that experience with my daughters.

I'm heading up Wednesday evening after work. Im not packed and ready at all. Hopefully in the next two days I'll have it all situated and ready to go.

Yes, lots of windicator.

Awesome! I'm pumped someone on here got it. I'll see you out there!

Awesome buck!

Wow. I'll be out there hunting with whoever ends up getting it. I'm assuming this is a point guard return. Why are you returning it?

Kodiak canvas 10x14 will suit your needs perfectly.

I have a pair of the Zulu 7 binos, and they outperform the Vortex Razor in a side by side comparison in every way.

Awesome rangefinder. I love mine!!

Tikka is great on a budget, Sako A7 Long range it AMAZING. I have a Tikka in 7mm-08 and a Sako A7 Long Range in 6.5 creedmoor. The Sako will shoot 0.3 inch groups at 100 yards with factory ammo. I'm impressed.

Gaia GPS. I use it like crazy.

According to who? Rains have been below average this year so unless they just had a magical season nothing should be above average. Problem is who decides what average is? Every year no matter what there's monsters that get killed. According to him. It's his opinion. However, there are people who believe and I don't know whether this is right or wrong, that moisture during the fall and winter prior to the season provide better winter and spring browse. Better browse means that animals have better overall nutrition/health heading into the growing season. Because they don't need summer nutrition to build fat reserves, they have surplus that ends up becoming antler growth. This does make sense as antlers have little to no water content but instead are made up of calcium which is generated by metabolized food not water. Therefore antler growth is more dependent on browse throughout the fat building months than water during the growing season. However drought conditions during the growing season could impact available browse at that time, so maybe it would slow down growth as fat reserves are burned up to supplement antler growth. I don't know what's right and wrong, I am far from a biologist, but I will say that the elk overall look very healthy to me. Along these same lines, with the cows carrying good amounts of fat and being generally healthy from winter/spring browse, heading into summer and breeding season they should be primed for estrus in a normal cycle. Typically if they're unhealthy and not carrying proper fat leading into September, they won't go into estrus until later, if at all. That can push the rut back or create a very weak rutting period. This means that the rut should be prime this year during that first week of the early archery hunts.