Recent content by Ben Long
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Ford Ranger or Nissan Frontier
My old truck was a Ford F150. It was great but got totaled when a college kid slammed into me on an icy road. Never had a Ranger. I do have a 2016 Frontier. I bought it in 2017 from a guy who fixed it up. It was a rental car and had been in a fender-bender and the rental company dumped it...- Ben Long
- Post #42
- Forum: Hunting Rigs - Truck Talk
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Quickest Hunt
One November Saturday I woke up early to see an owl perched on the power pole next to house, hunting for mice or skunks or housecats I guess. "Good omen," I thought, and got dressed. Drove 30 minutes through thick fog. I hiked a little ways by headlamp and hunkered against the rootwad of a...- Ben Long
- Post #8
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Best Trail Cam Pictures
Very well fed tom. Same den the skunk and bobcat had been using a few weeks before. The datestamp is wrong.- Ben Long
- Post #1,115
- Forum: Cameras - Photo and Video
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Best Trail Cam Pictures
Amazing variety of animals use the den besides the skunk. Bobcat for example.- Ben Long
- Post #1,106
- Forum: Cameras - Photo and Video
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Best Trail Cam Pictures
I don't think the skunk thought much of my camera.- Ben Long
- Post #1,103
- Forum: Cameras - Photo and Video
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Best Trail Cam Pictures
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- Post #1,102
- Forum: Cameras - Photo and Video
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Wolf Toleration
Well there's a good question. I guess I don't see hunting as a competition against nature as much as an opportunity to engage with it. I want to experience all of it, not just parts. I have enormous respect for an animal that is smaller than me, yet can pull down a bull elk with its teeth. I...- Ben Long
- Post #29
- Forum: Other Big Game
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Wolf Toleration
I think this is a good example of how the loudest voices on the ends of the political spectrum can distort the entire discussion. Wolves are here. Wolves need to be managed. I like having them around, like I like having lions and bears around. The place is a bit dull without them. But I do get...- Ben Long
- Post #4
- Forum: Other Big Game
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I gotta quit drinking.
Good on you man. I wish you the best. We are pulling for you.- Ben Long
- Post #16
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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A deer diet question
Deer are primarily browsers, not grazers, and most of the time will take a shrub over grass when given the choice, IME. Elk are about the opposite. Where I live, the whitetails love to mow down young cottonwoods, almost as much as the beavers do. Here in NW MT they depend on fir needles and... -
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.270 or 30-06?
30-06. IMO 270 is on the light side for elk and larger game. It can be done, it has been done, but I like the penetration that comes with a heavier slug.- Ben Long
- Post #14
- Forum: Ammunition and Reloading
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How far do you stay upwind of elk?
I mean, I have smelled a herd of elk a half a mile away when the wind and humidity has been just right. I have no doubt an elk can smell me at a far greater distance. I think it's hard for us to even imagine how an elk perceives the world via scent. I think people emit a particular chemical... -
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Help my inner Jeremiah Johnson... just got a new muzzleloader
Great idea about the club. I'll check in on that. I'm sure there is something. I have not settled on a load yet, in terms of powder load. I am using 54 caliber lead balls. At least for now.- Ben Long
- Post #55
- Forum: Muzzleloaders
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New stock for an old shotgun?
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New stock for an old shotgun?
My dad has a break action single barrel 16 gauge that he still uses to hunt grouse and turkeys. I think it is 75 years old. (He is 91). Maybe its a Stevens or Sears or something. Still works. Very simple, serviceable gun. The stock, well, shows its age. I'm thinking of having it restocked if I...
