Recent content by MTHeifer
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Buy American made?
There are pretty much three types of glass in hunting optics: German glass (Zeiss, Swarovski, Meopta), Japanese glass (Nikon, Leupold, Vortex), and Chinese glass (Anything cheap). The startup cost to mass manufacture glass is just too high for any American company to start. The best you can do... -
Why don't all scope have internal anti cant bubbles?
Addressing the original question about why rifle scopes don't have a built in bubble level inside the scope: it would be too hard to manufacture. In general, the lenses in riflescopes are spherical or slightly aspherical surfaces made with extreme precision grinding. Any significant defect in... -
Deer - lets see em
Graduate school kept me from hunting as much as I wanted this year. I finished my thesis research in September, defended it in October, and spent most of November trying to publish a journal paper. Besides a weekend trip for antelope, Thanksgiving break was the first time I could dedicate to... -
Antelope...Lets See Them!!!
I was only able to spend a weekend hunting antelope his year. I kept hearing about how bad the drought in central Montana was, and I went in with low expectations. The first day was pretty uneventful. The only antelope I saw were running before I noticed them. On the second day, I got a tip from... -
Rookie Mule Deer Hunter Questions
1. Yes 2. I'm not from Utah, but in Montana in October they tend to hang out in the thick timber where they can stay away from hunting pressure until they come out for the rut. I would assume that they will be in the thickest stuff they can find, preferably close to good feed and water that they... -
November Off in MT
Good luck! I'd agree with what Mthuntr had to, theres lots of people laid off or furloughed so the woods are more full than normal. The elk will be where they always are in November: sanctuaries where they can get away from the hunters. They'll either be in remote areas a long ways from the... -
The wood duck of squirrels
From Wikipedia: "The Indian giant squirrel is one of the largest squirrels with a head–and–body length of 25–50 cm (10 in–1 ft 8 in), a tail that is about the same or somewhat longer, and a weight of 1.5–2 kg (3.3–4.4 lb), although rarely up to 3 kg (6.6 lb).[6][7] Average for both sexes is...- MTHeifer
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- Forum: Other Small Game
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Points Schemes
As much as we want to do away with point systems, we can't without screwing over a lot of people that have already bought into the system. I personally would prefer a straight up bonus point system where each bonus point is one extra chance in the draw. The good news is that there are so any...- MTHeifer
- Post #14
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Release Those Trash Fish!
What I'm saying is that we shouldn't haphazardly kill rough fish species. Although we tend to lump damaging invasives like carp and native suckers together in the same group, we should make the distinction between fish that have been in the waters for thousands of years and foreign invaders...- MTHeifer
- Post #11
- Forum: Fishing Hole
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Release Those Trash Fish!
Common Carp are considered a invasive species in Montana, so as far as I'm concerned shoot as many as you want and do whatever you want with them as long as I don't have to smell them.- MTHeifer
- Post #9
- Forum: Fishing Hole
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Release Those Trash Fish!
The terms “trash fish” and “rough fish” are relics from an age of naïve wildlife management, where fishery biology meant culling the undesirables to make room for a bass or a trout. What that meant for the suckers, burbot, gars, and other rough fish species is that they didn’t receive protection...- MTHeifer
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- Forum: Fishing Hole
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Nevada Odds Question for Math People
Right, your odds are better than 1.3% because of that scenario, but since there are so few tags for bighorn sheep and so many applicants, they are just barely above that value... still probably less than 2%. I don't think you could come up with the exact odds unless you had the statistics for...- MTHeifer
- Post #23
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Nevada Odds Question for Math People
Nevada's drawing works by assigning a random number to each point for all hunters. The lowest random numbers get their highest choice with remaining tags. The only way your odds would be higher than 1.3% is if other people in the pool have drawn a tag in a different district so the actual number...- MTHeifer
- Post #15
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Colorado "Governor's Tag" Raffles
Mine went to my spam- MTHeifer
- Post #106
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Montana unit 530 questions
That area has a lot of private, but a lot of it is on the block mamagement program. I would look into that if you haven't already.
