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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...
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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.
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    Best Trail Cam Pictures

    Amazing variety of animals use the den besides the skunk. Bobcat for example.
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    Best Trail Cam Pictures

    I don't think the skunk thought much of my camera.
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    Best Trail Cam Pictures

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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...
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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...
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    I gotta quit drinking.

    Good on you man. I wish you the best. We are pulling for you.
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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.
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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.
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    New stock for an old shotgun?

    Buttstock is cracked down from the grip.
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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...
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    Help my inner Jeremiah Johnson... just got a new muzzleloader

    I have it sighted in and feel pretty good with it out to 50 yards or so. I did not hunt with it during the general season. I thought about taking it on some tree stand sits for whitetails in November but it was raining so took my 30-06 instead. Our muzzleloader season isn't until late December...
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