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    No Country for Old Men

    In the book the pronghorn runs away packing a leg and Llewelyn knows he blew it.
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    Helle Knives

    I've had a Helle for several years. (It was the orignal premium for being a life member at BHA). I can't remember the model. The steel is great. The wood handle is very nice looking. Very sturdy knife. I ordered it online and when I received it I realized it was larger than i expected and really...
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    Best Trail Cam Pictures

    Always a party when the sun goes down.
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    WFS Winter pac boots size 12

    My dad, at 92, is downloading some of his hunting gear. He's no longer hunting the big snows of northern Idaho. So I am offering for sale his insulated pac boots. Size 12. 10 inch uppers. They have some miles, but many left. Air bob soles are still good, as he mostly worn in the snow. The...
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    US and Israel attack Iran

    Where have I heard this before...
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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...
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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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