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    Get away from the keyboard and to the range challenge.

    Bill drills to the head for bear practice before I go up archery hunting next week.
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    Gas/Fuel Price and hunting plans

    10 year lifespan is the sad part of those calculations. 10 years old and 150,000 is just getting broken in… If I don’t get 250,000 out of my truck I’ll be disappointed. It’s a possibility I’ll have to go to a 3/4 ton at some point though. Of course that’s not factoring in the rust you guys have...
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    Who’s to say your nonresident friends at chick fil a were paying for hunting access near Billings? There’s more general tag national forest hunting within a 3 hour drive of Billings than I could hunt in a lifetime, and I grew up here hunting it. I killed my best bull on a day hunt from Billings...
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    Budget trekking poles

    They keep dangling the carrot of over the counter with a 4473 and I keep waiting… Hopefully Montana will be on the list after the next legislative session.
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    Budget trekking poles

    Whichever ones you get, they make damn good shooting sticks, especially in tall grass and sagebrush.
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    Budget trekking poles

    I also think the Costco ones are completely fine. I need to get some to replace my old bent black diamonds. I don’t use them all the time, but they’re great for packing meat and they make very handy shooting sticks as well.
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    Landlocked state land on the other side of that fence…
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    Tikka deal

    B&C I had sitting around. Their Tikka stocks I like a lot more than their other ones.
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    Tikka deal

    Paid a $40 difference after the rebate, trade for a snappy pistol I never liked, and a gift card to Scheels. Nice little mountain rifle in .270.
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    Anything that will kill an elk will kill a grizzly just fine. I’d rather have the Accubonds than the Barnes.
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    There’s nothing wrong with the 10mm, and I carry one often. Sometimes I carry a .44 too. Sometimes I carry a 9mm. In areas with a lot of grizzlies. They’ll all do the job.
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    This year it finally changed and they’re not valid on national forest in region 5.
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    Montana Mule Deer Mismanagement

    OTC B tags on public land are a huge issue in region 4 and 5. It’s been a night and day difference here since that started.
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    Alps Mountaineering = No Customer Service

    I don’t know what’s so impressive about that, I did it once in an old Toyota T100 when the transfer case wouldn’t engage. With a couple running starts at it. With chains. Full throttle. Bouncing off a couple trees along the way…
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    I’d have no concerns at all with the right 9mm load. A .40 with Gold Dots will paper punch a big black bear skull, and the 9mm typically out-penetrates the .40 and .45.
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