I have been using BaseMaps instead of OnX in the last month when offline and no reception it asks me to upgrade in order to drop pins or track movements. I have emailed several times. I have a paid subscription for heavens sakes! My employees all used basemaps maps and my friends who use OnX...
I have been wondering how many forum members are as invested as me. To give light to my obsession. I struggle to adhere to a career due to the obligation to work in the fall. I once had a career but when I submitted my PTO it was denied and it blew my mind to learn that PTO had to be approved...
Grabbed my 13 yr old from football practice and headed up to go see if we could get us some bears. We arrived at about 11:00 pm to our camp spot and out of exhaustion we just set up cots in the dirt and slept under the open sky.
As the sun started to come up we packed our bags and headed up the...
Has anyone used a barrel fan to circulate air in your rifles between shooting? I am just curious if they speed up your range time in waiting for your barrel to cool.
Chuckwalla's Competition Shooting School Universal Barrel Cooler https://a.co/d/3QUdOCO
Worth the $60?
Has anyone ever found one?
The purpose to this thread is to document samples inspected for bezoar stones. I am on the hunt! Thus far I have inspected 1 yearling buck mule deer and 1, 2.5 yr old bull elk. I checked both stomach contents and intestines. Both samples were checked in Idaho.
To...
Looking at some sub freezing temps and planning on attempting a back country elk hunt. What do you guys do to keep your water for hydration from freezing up? I am planning on using a gravity fed water filter bit frozen hoses are going to be the most likely result.
I am a die hard bolt gun guy. This AR-15 was inherited from my little brother. I would like to convert it into a practical coyote rifle. It currently has a redot hologram thingymajig for sights. Definitely prefer the good ole 3-9x40 but in this case I am happy to go even smaller to 32mm...
I thought I would share this hunt as it was a great time! My son did the research and found high draw odds on a youth pronghorn hunt. He is a master at 12 yrs old at navigating the State website and picking his hunts. This year he put in for 3 different species and got drawn for all 3.
We had...
I bought a badlands Supeday pack back cerca 2006. Just last year (2023) I passed that pack down to my son. (12 yrs) he rode on the back of a motorcycle with the pack strapped down to the rack and smelled a burning fabric. Sure enough the exhaust on the bike had melted the side pouch to the pack...
I went and did it again today. In the late hours of the evening last night I was browsing the internet and I found a deal on a gun that I didn’t need. It came at a price that I just couldn’t pass up and now it sits in my safe and I am obsessing over it.
It’s a Weatherby Mark V chambered in 300...
My wife is due Sept 26th. I went ahead and purchased and elk tag that opens September 15th. I will do my duty to do my best to check in with my Zoleo on a nightly basis to stay in contact. I would love to hear some hunt talkers stories about priorities and hunting to the limit on a due date.
I live in Idaho.
Flying United Airlines to Lubbock, Texas. Have a pig hunt scheduled for the 17th of June.
In the event that I am successful, I will be staying in Lubbock until the 26th. I will have very limited free time for processing (about 2-3 hrs in the late nights) and even more limited...
We got another skunk. One of the craziest oddities on this one is the nails on this one. It must have really been a digger. I am no skunk expert, but of the 10 or so skunks I have gotten none have had claws like this one.
I have been hunting Whitetails in central Idaho and I have heard that Whitetails are non migratory, meaning, they have a home range of about a couple miles. This has me questioning: will they only be at low elevations due to the snow levels in the winter?
Is the whole non migratory thing a...
I have access to hunt 216.3 acres of agricultural land. 100 acres is probably grain corn approximately 7-10 feet tall. 50 acres is un cut Alfa Alfa and 50 acres is cut Alfa Alfa. Am I cheating myself by not walking through the corn to look for sign or trying to kick something out? Do elk go into...
My middle son turned 10 last year and squeezed in a deer and a bear after his birthday in September. He took the online hunter education course solo and when it came to application time, he learned to do his research. He convinced me to put him in for a youth muzzleloader pronghorn tag due to...
I thought I would start a small thread with some age data and skull character. I recently got data back for my 2020 bears.
Side by side the boar on the left is significantly smaller than the one on the right. His top front teeth were all missing minus the canines. You can tell by the calcium...