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    Finding Bears And Berries

    The road that I live on is called Bear Canyon for a reason. The lower 2-3 miles of that road is lined with choke cherries. Normally at this time of year the bears hit those bushes pretty hard, breaking branches and leaving piles of poop filled with choke cherry pits. Two weeks ago there was...
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    Caribou Velvet Preservation

    Yeas ago I hunted with the same outfitter that Randy hunted his caribou this year. The caribou bull that I shot was also in full velvet and hadn't started rubbing. The camp crew soaked the velvet antlers with turpentine, pricked the tip of each antler point to allow the blood to drain out...
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    Veteran Wy bull elk opportunity

    I don't know if it was this hunt, but a friend's brother had a hunt like this booked this year. Sadly his brother passed away earlier this summer. My friend offered the hunt to me, but I passed on it because after 47 years of unsuccessfully applying, I finally drew a mountain goat tag in the...
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    The MacKenzies - The Land that Time Forgot

    Congratulations Randy on a great story, as usual, and a couple of great mountain caribou bulls! And yes, that Palmer Lake camp and the mountains around it are a very special place.
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    Are bear fences worth it?

    Back in the '80s I had a favorite elk/moose area near West Yellowstone, MT that I hunted for many years. Some years we would pack a tent camp in 5 or so miles from the end on the road, other years we would just camp at the end of the road and hunt from there. The end of the road site had a...
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    For most of my 65 years of American big game hunting, my favorite shot placement has been broadside, just behind the shoulder and 1/3 up the body . For 20 some years, my favorite elk rifle and bullet was my .30 Gibbs shooting 180 gr Nosler Partitions at 2,900+ fps. Most of the elk that shot...
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    Thanks! Around 2002 when I bought my first computer and started going on various internet forums, I needed an internet name, so I chose the name of my Golden retriever at that time, Buffy Bear, shortened to Buffybr.
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    Thanks, I'm 80 now, and doing my last (DIY) mountain goat hunt this fall.
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    Yes, long time ago...the early '80 in the Montana Unlimited Tag Units. It was also before Montana had the 7 year wait rule where if you draw or buy a bighorn ram license you have to wait 7 years before you can apply or buy another ram tag. All of my Montana sheep, moose, and goat hunts were...
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    What Rifle/Caliber Combinations Have you liked the most and disliked the most and why?

    I was a 5th generation Coloradoan and my Dad and Grandfathers liked the mountains where we camped and fished, but my Dad didn't hunt, so I didn't start hunting until I was in College in Ft Collins. My second year, two of my roommates were from Craig in NW Colorado, and one of them took me on my...
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    Buy a new 357 Magnum (Which would you buy?)

    MY first centerfire pistol was a Ruger Balckhawk 6 1/2" .357 that I bought when I was still in the Army, stationed at Ft Sill, Oklahoma. I also bought a military model 1911 .45 while I was there, as I could draw and shoot a 50 round box of .45s every day at the range there. As an Intelligence...
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    Do you remember your first?

    I bought my first centerfire rifle in 1967. The rifle was a Herter's Model U-9 .30-06 barreled action and a semi-inleted walnut stock from Herter's. I also bought most of my reloading equipment from Herter's. I worked that summer and fall for the US Forset Service in Steamboat Spgs, Colorado...
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    Mackenzie Mountains in July

    Great story, pictures, and rams. Congratulations Pat! And you are right about the 100* temps here at home.
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    Bury Me In The Mackenzie Mountains

    Pat, if you're calling this the real world, you've been away from BozAngeles too long.
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    Like this one?
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    Montana Moose

    I was lucky enough to have drawn 2 Montana moose tags in the '80s. With my 1st tag, I didn't do any scounting, I just camped at the end of a Forest Service road, and hunted the willow parks in the wilderness beyond our camp. Not the first day of hunting, but my hunting partner stumbled...
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    In 50+ years of hunting in Montana (20+ of those years with my horses in the wilderness backcountry) I only encountered 1 grizzly bear. Three of us were camped at the end of a Forest Service road near West Yellowstone. We had the quarters of a bull moose and 2 bull elk hanging in the...
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    Elk bullet in Grizzly country

    I've lived, worked, and hunted in Montana grizzly country since 1975. I've only encountered 2 grizzlies while working in the woods and 1 while hunting. When I moved to Montana in '75 my only hunting rifle was a .30-06. I shot Sierra 180 gr GameKing bullets in it for elk, and 150 gr Hornady...
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    Poll: How many OIL tags have you Drawn in the Last 20 years of Applying

    I only apply for tags in my home state of Montana which doesn't have OIL tags, but with the draw system today, the tags may as well be once in your lifetime, or worse. In the '70s and early '80s I drew a Montana sheep tag and two each Montana moose and goat tags. Since then, I've...
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    The classic magnums - will they see a renaissance?

    I doubt that any of the classic belted magnums will ever make any comeback. I have 3 belted magnum cartridges, 7mm RM, .300 Wby, and a .375 RM. I've used all of them on hunts in Africa and other international hunts, as well as hunts here at home. They do everything that I want from a hunting...
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