Recent content by Firedude
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Wyoming Draw Results 2026
I might actually get to shoot a sheep this year... it's a Ewe tag but dang it I'm going sheep hunting!- Firedude
- Post #66
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Idaho MSG Applications - Who's In
Unsuccessful! Huh weird....- Firedude
- Post #72
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Idaho MSG Applications - Who's In
I did to until I got some books on statistics and odds. Then started mathing it out similar to idelkslayer. Definitely changed my strategy for tags. A bit ago I had a buddy over for beers and he's done every tag draw subscription still wondering why he can't draw. He's a resident who put in for...- Firedude
- Post #66
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Idaho MSG Applications - Who's In
I'm pretty aware of the actual odds. I like illustrating it too because most think 1 in 10 random means once in 10 years. Far from the truth. I haven't seen it calculated that way though. Thanks. Depending on which math, statistics, or gambling book you read you can also figure in other things...- Firedude
- Post #63
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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Idaho MSG Applications - Who's In
10th year on a 12% to 15% "RaNdOm" draw.- Firedude
- Post #41
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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New bill about blinds near troughs
Well... I agree with subsidies in certain circumstances. I remember (vividly) being twelve and watching the last bail of 3rd crop I toss off the wagon go up into the hay shed thinking done! Oh no... quickly got told to throw tubes one the hay field. Then about 10 days later pushing cows from... -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
Coming from some of the oldest ranching families in the western U.S. I resent this comment. Many a 4th crop hay is left in tge field for wildlife, troughs fixed so wild critters have water while dumb cows trump (tromp, misstyped but appropriate) springs, layed down fence in a snowstorm so deer... -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
That is a VERY fair point. Given new "archery" equipment I can see that viewpoint. I hunt with a 15 year old compound or a recurve I built myself. My view is sitting on a water through for 5 days in wait might be behind the tech. If I twitch, draw, or smell at all those antelope wander off from... -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
"How it should be" explain that perspective to me. Don't take that offensively I'm curious about that perspective. -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
It would in 2 of the areas I hunt Antelope. It's so dry every single spring is tapped for troughs or made into a pond. Which is fine. Instead of a mud hole it's better for wildlife to use. But blocking it off to hunters would kill hunting those areas. Cattle troughs are not only better for... -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
Well that was fast. I guess they had hundreds of phone calls opposing it in hours. -
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New bill about blinds near troughs
House bill 677 appears to make it illegal to place a blind near water troughs on public property. This would kill archery antelope hunting. I've called Jerald to get some reason why he proposed this. I'll update if he calls back. -
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2026 Idaho Nonresident Deer & Elk
So glad the rest of the world gets to experience Idaho's "RaNdOm" draws. If it was really random the process wouldn't be such a secret. Good luck fellas! -
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Tricks to prevent horn shrinkage
Not to totally resurrect this thread from the dead but, I have some data that might be useful. The first 2 antelope killed around me were my wife's and daughters. Both did well green score and both shrank a surprising amount by scoring day... which is why this thread has always kind of been in... -
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Boots for extra wide feet?
Soooo... one of the boots I referenced in the "best my feet felt was barefoot tossing them in the trash..." was a pair of White's. Second pair was Hawthorns which is their secondary brand. Both were probably the best made pair of high quality boots that ate my feet alive. They are damn high...- Firedude
- Post #24
- Forum: Gear, Gear Deals & Gear Talk
