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Summer orchid distraction
A couple years ago I found an area under some pines, hemlocks and oaks with hundreds of these in simultaneous bloom. It was impressive. Other beautiful and often overlooked native orchids are the rattlesnake plantains. I found this one on a walk a couple weeks ago.- Bullshot
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Summer orchid distraction
Yes your humidity would be very tough on most. I am struggling with 40% indoor air and trying to keep my air conditioner off as much as possible to my wife's discontent. Give Eulophia petersii or Oeceoclades spathulifera a try. They are terrestrial and adapted to dry soils and low humidity.- Bullshot
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Summer orchid distraction
I have an AZ bow tag on my nightstand. But I have barely thought about hunting in a month or two. My ADD has taken over, and summer 2026 has found me obsessed with growing several dozen species of orchids. I am partly a field botanist at my job and have always loved plants, gardening, and...- Bullshot
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Arizona Draw Results 2026
It happens. I just realized I missed two draw/point deadlines this year in different states. I did get my AZ deer app in, but in a panic after waking up well "after" the clock deadline and then realizing I still had a few minutes since I'm on the east coast. I recently just got another state...- Bullshot
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- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Dandelion Neighbors
The young greens make a great salad or salad addition, and more than once I threw on cheeseburgers when I ran out of lettuce. Great food for animals and herbivore pets, you can make wine from the flowers, and the bees make honey.- Bullshot
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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My First Elk Story to my Next Elk Story (Fly In?)
Great story. If I could relive my first bull I would take that over most other hunting experiences. I was 22. 50 now. It was my 2nd elk hunt, having missed a bull the year before on an archery hunt. Walking up to an elk on the ground for the first time is a memory that's hard to top. Got mine... -
WY preference point increase
My point wasn't that anyone needs to prefer fishing over hunting, but just that I am sure that many many people are very vocally frustrated, if only amongst friends. It is not guaranteed that demand will always go up. To think otherwise is ignorance.- Bullshot
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WY preference point increase
series of "normal" conversations, not forum posts, type of which I am having with virtually anyone I know associated with out of state hunting. My comments on the right. Some serious hunter friends I know getting fed up.- Bullshot
- Post #193
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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WY preference point increase
No objection. For my part sorry for fueling any flames. I do think this thread, differs from others, in that the original discussion about increased fees seems to have tapped a nerve about just how gratuitous and untethered this annual rite of passage has become from one state or another. "They...- Bullshot
- Post #178
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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WY preference point increase
Not sure how many resident elk hunters there are in Wyoming, maybe 50,000? If each bought a tag for $400 (a STEAL all day long!) that's an additional 20,000,000 for conservation. Probably 100,000 hunters in Colorado. A cool and easy extra 40 million in funding. Buy land, install tanks...- Bullshot
- Post #172
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WY preference point increase
If I were a forward thinking resident hunter, I'd be a little worried about what happens when the other 80+ percent of non-hunter residents say "I'm tired of paying $10/lb for ground. Or I am opposed to killing wildlife. Or I'd like to see more cougars. And where's my actual financial cut of...- Bullshot
- Post #171
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WY preference point increase
I think the paradigm of residents (only the hunters) being unaffected is no longer very defensible in this age. Everyone pays taxes and lives somewhere. Presumably those taxes and other local contributions of time and engagement are put to good local and national use, regardless of the...- Bullshot
- Post #168
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WY preference point increase
And thats why I started with "I am not pleased" to say anything disparaging about you. You are well researched. And typically polite. But the "factions" developing around out of state opportunities, of which only one aspect is cost, are troubling to many and for good reason. Count me among the...- Bullshot
- Post #166
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WY preference point increase
I'm not pleased to say I can begin to see Treeshark in a former life as a railroad man justifying exterminating the bison, just to prove himself a "logical" man. Or someone trying to figure out how to stuff more passenger pigeons in a barrel to ship out to market. Progress, get with it or get...- Bullshot
- Post #164
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Gratuitous Fish and River Photos
Landlocked dinner prep... life is good.- Bullshot
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- Forum: Fishing Hole
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Cumulative burden of taxes
Finished filing and then I made a mistake today and added up all the taxes (Federal/State/Local) we paid in 2025. It was eye opening and eye watering. It virtually eliminated the point of my wife working, and cost us twice as much in a year as it is costing to pay a year of our daughters private...- Bullshot
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- Forum: Money and Finances
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Average age of the hunt talk crowd.
50 isn't so bad except it robs you of being able to say about yourself that you are "young" without sounding foolish to actual young people. Only much older people will call you young now, which I think is just their wry sense of humor on display. On the plus side, I got my shingles shot...- Bullshot
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- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Average age of the hunt talk crowd.
Have to be to afford any of this!- Bullshot
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Future hunting trips
I plan some good ones but won't be too specific. Mostly I have no idea when any particular hunt will happen but I'm pretty sure all of these could happen if I have good enough health over the next 20 years. Heading to AZ on a rut archery hunt this fall. Probably CO 61, 76, or NW corner elk...- Bullshot
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